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City, School Officials Mull ‘Eminent Domain’ Taking of Fellows Property 1.8-Acre Tract May New Mt. Daniel Principal Be Deemed Critical
For Educational Use
by Nicholas F. Benton
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include a $39.6 million transfer from the City. The School Board held numerous work sessions, and open hearings for public input, to figure out where the $912,600 in cuts from its original budget crafted in February would come. Enrollment increases, increased health insurance and other cost increases beyond the district’s
The City of Falls Church’s government, including its City Hall management, the elected City Council and the elected School Board, are in private talks to impose “eminent domain” on the 1.8-acre property at 604 S. Oak Street for purposes of acquiring the land, which is adjacent the Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, for educational purposes, the News-Press has learned. In the latest step, the School Board, at its meeting Tuesday night, went into a closed session with the stated, explicit purpose of discussing acquisition of the property, known as the Fellows Tract. The tract’s owner, the Fellows Living Trust composed of members of the family led by the elderly woman who was raised and lived her whole life on the wooded tract in the middle of the section of residential Falls Church known as the “Virginia Forest,” had just won a preliminary approval for a sub-division of the property into seven parcels for residential development at the F.C. Planning Commission last week. It has been mentioned in public sessions that the occupant of the land, Ms. Fellows, has been adamant about not wanting to sell her land to the City. On the other hand, the City does retain the legal right to “condemn,” or invoke “eminent domain” on, her land for a government purpose, and the News-Press learned that this has been under discussion in closed meetings for some time. The potential move is motivated by growth pressures on the
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Reception for New TJ Principal Next Week
Paul Swanson, an elementary principal in Indiana, has accepted the position as new principal of Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. The TJ selection committee is hosting a welcome reception for the community next Wednesday. See News Briefs, page 8
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NEW MT. DANIEL PRINCIPAL ERIN KELLY (center) is shown flanked by Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones (left), Falls Church School Board chair Justin Castillo and School Board member John Lawrence. The School Board emerged from a closed session Tuesday night to announce the nomination of Kelly, the current assistant principal at Mt. Daniel Elementary, as the new principal of the school. See News Briefs, page 8. (Photo: News-Press)
F.C. School Board Settles on $912,600 in New Budget Cuts by Nicholas F. Benton
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After yet another lengthy work session Tuesday night, the Falls Church School Board settled on how it will handle $912,600 it was mandated to cut from its coming fiscal year budget request by the F.C. City Council last month. Salvaged from original proposals on the chopping block were the
assistant principal position at Mt. Daniel School, an International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program coordinator, two elementary school teacher positions, a half-time specialist for gifted students and other personnel positions. The board will meet at 7 a.m. Friday to formally vote on a final version of its $47.7 million budget for the coming year that will
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Dear Fellow Falls Church City Friends and Neighbors, We are a group of parents and citizens who cherish our small community and its schools. We choose to raise our children here because of this city’s longstanding community-based approach to education, known as: The Falls Church Way.
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PEOPLE FIRST TRUST in our teachers RESPECT for differing views TRANSPARENCY in all operations DEMOCRACY in decision making
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We believe in the power of personal relationships and that our schools and our community are first and foremost about people. Children and teachers matter more than programs, technology, or certificates. A child is more than a test score and a school is more than its ranking.
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We empower and trust our teachers to make important educational decisions. We empower and trust our principals in decisions affecting their schools.
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We create a culture in our schools promoting open, honest communication and respect between all members of the school community. Questions and diverse opinions are welcomed, solicited, and encouraged from all stakeholders.
Transparency We believe that transparency in the budget and throughout the school administration is vital to maintain trust and to allow us to spend our limited resources judiciously. We spend our money first with the community priorities of high quality teachers and small class sizes.
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We value the democratic process of decision-making, consensus-building, and collaboration from the ground up. We believe teachers and parents are vital participants in this process.
We are concerned about developments in recent years which indicate that our school district leadership is headed away from these values. The Falls Church Way seeks BETTER LEADERSHIP - leadership that is transparent and accountable, and that encourages and welcomes community involvement and collaboration. To find out why we are concerned and what we propose, visit us at: www.TheFallsChurchWay.com, or email us at info@TheFallsChurchWay.com https://groups.yahoo.com/TheFallsChurchWay, or email TheFallsChurchWay-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Join us on facebook Join us on Twitter@fallschurchway
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F.C. School Board Finalizes Cuts In Its New Budget, Votes Friday Continued from Page 1
control, diminished help from the state, and efforts to continue the effort to become more competitive in teachers’ salary rates to the system’s neighbors, drove the original request for a 5.4 percent increase in the transfer from the City, but the Council voted 5-4 on April 25 to cut that requested increase to 3.1 percent in order to achieve an overall budget with no real estate tax rate increase. So, as of Tuesday night, the School Board hammered out final parameters of cuts to achieve a balanced budget. They included the following: • A reduction in staff pay and salary improvements by $215,800, including a reduction in teacher salary improvements by 20 percent for $110,000. • A reduction of $266,800 in staffing, including the elimination of a high school computer science teacher ($106,800), a systemwide project assistant ($53,200)
allocations of $54,300, including $20,000 to reduce substitute usage. • Reduction in other items of $123,500, including a $46,000 reduction in its contingency reserve and $10,000 reduction in its annual donation to the Falls Church Education Foundation. Increases in fees for parking, facilities rentals, athletic participation and summer computer use added $25,000. It was pointed out at the end of the work session Tuesday that programs “saved” from inclu-
and one elementary school teacher ($106,800). • A reduction in supplies and services of $158,500, including reductions in classroom materials and supplies ($27,500), textbook adoptions and replacements ($25,000), office supplies at all sites ($15,000) and a three percent cushion in projected utilities costs ($30,000). • A reduction in capital items of $68,700, including the elimination of the lease-purchase of two buses ($40,000). • A reduction in program
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sion on original cut lists by these choices included saving one paraprofessional day, two elementary school teachers to handle enrollment growth, an International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program coordinator, a part-time gifted student teacher for enrollment growth, a half-time paraprofessional for enrollment growth, and an assistant principal position at Mt. Daniel. During the public hearing portions of the post-Council vote School Board sessions, large turnouts of mostly parents included substantial criticisms of what were characterized as a lack of transparency and trust by the School Board and school leadership, including charges that there is a hidden $1.5 million “slush fund” that no one is being told
about, and calls for an independent audit. However, it was clarified at the City Council meeting this Monday that a detailed line item version of the School Board budget is posted on its website, and soon the City government’s budget line item detailed version (which were provided in paper form to all Council members in March) will be available to the public on the City’s website. It was also noted that both the Schools’ and the City’s budgets have been annually audited by an outside entity as part of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report process in December of every year since 2003, governed by the state’s Governing Accounting Standards Board.
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school system, but made more acute by the fact that the Falls Church City Schools have been unable to date to win approval from adjacent Fairfax County for the expansion and renovation of its Mt. Daniel Elementary School that is a few blocks outside the City limits in the county. While the petition for approval of the Mt. Daniel project is still before the county’s Planning Commission, no date is yet certain for that to be acted upon, and the McLean Citizens Association, the county group with the most political clout on the matter, remains opposed to the project. So, the acquisition of the Fellows tract could be a “Plan B” if the Mt. Daniel plan is rejected by the county. The Mt. Daniel plan having been stalled for almost a year now, the City is sitting on cash from an $11.4 million bond sale approved by voters and on which it pays $950,000 in annual debt service. According to City Manager
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Wyatt Shields, in an interview with the News-Press this week, while the bond referendum and the bond sale both specified the funds were to be used for the Mt. Daniel School, it is not clear that they specified the location of the school, such that if the school itself were relocated, the money could be used for it at a new site. Such a scenario would create a potential conundrum for Fairfax County, as it would pose the prospect that the City’s schools, in moving Mt. Daniel, would put the land where the school now site up for sale in a prized residential neighborhood of the county, something that could cause some considerable heartburn for current residents of that neighborhood. According to News-Press sources, the City has already had the Fellows tract formally appraised for its market value. In the event the City Council were to vote to invoke “eminent domain,” it would have to provide “fair market value” to the Fellows Living Trust in exchange for tak-
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ing control of the property. Were this to become the course of action, the F.C. City Council would have to vote in public session to invoke “eminent domain” on the property, and then would also have to approve, contingent upon a favorable F.C. Planning Commission recommendation, the terms of the sale of the land. The negotiations and terms of the sale could be subject to legal challenges, although the right of the City to “take” the land in this way is clearly allowed for by state law. The F.C. Planning Commission, in granting preliminary “by right” approval for the subdivision of the Fellows tract last week, expressed many reservations about subdividing the land for seven residential tracts and thus made its approval only preliminary pending more work on the concerns of the neighbors and other factors that arose about such a subdivision. The acting chair of the Planning Commission, Russ Wodiska, said at that meeting he did not favor the proposed use applied for by the family trust, but that under the circumstances, there was little anyone could do. Invoking “eminent domain” would change that.
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Moira Eisele Dies at 77 Moira Conway Eisele, 77, longtine resident of Falls Church, died Thursday, May 19, of heart failure after a long illness, at the Virginia Hospital Center, with her husband Albert and two daughters, Catherine (Kitty) Eisele, and Anne Eisele Seitz, at her side. Moira was born on Jan. 29, 1939 in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisc. to Judge Byron B. and Evelyn M. Conway. She earned her B.A. at the College of St. Catherine’s in St. Paul where she met her future husband at a school dance. She studied at the University of Vienna in Austria, with the Institute of International Education, and earned an M.A. in counseling from the University of Virginia. After teaching elementary school in St. Paul, she gave birth to her first daughter. Her husband’s newspaper career brought her to Washington in 1965, where a second daughter was born the following year. The Eisele family has resided on Seaton Circle in Falls Church since 1967.
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They say the only way to effectively negotiate for something is to actually internalize your willingness to walk away. That may be the only thing that will bring the Fairfax County’s Planning Commission to its senses to OK the renovation and expansion of Falls Church’s Mt. Daniel Elementary School campus on county land just outside the City. Residents in the section of Fairfax where the Mt. Daniel campus is located stand to fare far worse if the City just walks away from that location and puts it up for sale to a mega-residential real estate developer. The devil you know is always better than the one you don’t (another wise saying!) and residents of that area have helped to make sure that the elementary school there has a minimal impact on their ‘hood, even with the expansion and renovation plans. They will not know, however, what could be in store for them if that land is sold. It is very prime real estate, and Falls Church would make a killing from the land sale especially if it was to an entity that wanted to put multiple residential units there. So, the move by City and school officials here to possibly acquire the 1.8-acre Fellows Tract next to the Thomas Jefferson Elementary School helps to up the ante for the City’s negotiating position. There may be some minor inconveniences, but moving the Mt. Daniel campus to that location will certainly end the county’s ability to interfere with the City’s needs to accommodate its rapidly-increasing school enrollment growth. In fact, the obstructionism at the Fairfax County Planning Commission level comes as more like political nay-saying from the “McLean Way” members of the McLean Citizens Association than from technical objections to the plan, and the City Schools were blindsided by this unexpected roadblock last year. The Schools thought they had done their homework by winning favor from the neighbors to the site and did not realize that just before the matter was to come before the Fairfax Planning Commission last summer that the citizens group would weigh in. Their influence is considerable in the Dranesville District of the county, and the appointee of Supervisor John Foust there could put Foust’s political fortunes in limbo if he bucked the wishes of the citizens group. So there you have it. No one counselled the City Schools that they might run up against a politically puffed up group like the citizens association. No one saw that coming or told the Schools to expect it. In the final analysis then, it may be more up to how well or not the neighbors to the Mt. Daniel site can prevail on their community organization leadership to allow the City’s Mt. Daniel plan to be approved. In the meantime, though, Falls Church needs to go ahead with its Plan B, and get cracking on serious plans to put a new Mt. Daniel on S. Oak Street. And mean it.
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Editor, First, we had Ms. Twiford’s Falls Church News-Press guest commentary several weeks ago arguing for greater residential density in the City, and now we have the Planning Commission approving the largest single family residential development in years. I understand from news reports that the Fellows development is “by-right,” but it should be clear
to everyone that increasing density in our residential areas is the absolutely worst, most expensive, thing we could do. As the area continues to urbanize, there will be growing pressure to change rules and allow more property owners to subdivide, cash-out and leave the economic wreckage behind. I can only hope that our elected officials will have the fortitude to focus density on commercial
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Barbara Johns – Honoring a Young Virginia Hero B� K�� L��������
Led by several students at J.E.B. Stuart High School, “Students for Change,” a consensus is developing in our community that J.E.B. Stuart was not and is not an appropriate name for a school. Many residents of the Stuart Community feel that the Fairfax County School Board should rename J.E. B. Stuart High School in honor of Barbara Rose Johns, a sixteen year old Virginia hero, and young woman of color,who played an essential role in ending racial segregation in America. In 1950, Barbara Johns, unwilling to continue attending a dilapidated, segregated high school in Prince Edward County,Virginia, led a walkout that culminated in a lawsuit against segregated education in Prince Edward County. This suit, bundled with Brown v. Topeka and other school integration suits, led to the 1954 Supreme Court decision that racially segregated schools were inherently unequal and unconstitutional. All of this happened before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery. The successful outcome of the school integration suits depended on the NAACP, its talented and dedicated attorneys, including Thurgood Marshall, Spottswood Robinson and others, and the courage and integrity of students like Barbara Johns. Five years later, during Virginia’s massive resistance to school integration, the Fairfax County School Board, in a gesture
of defiance, named the new high school built to serve the Seven Corners, Baileys Crossroads, Lincolnia, Lake Barcroft and Sleepy Hollow communities after J.E.B. Stuart, an officer in the U.S. Army who
“There are 26 high schools in Fairfax County. Not one is named after a female, a person of color or a young person.” resigned his commission and took up arms against the United States. This gesture should be repudiated. There are additional reasons for naming our high school after Barbara Johns: There are 26 high schools in Fairfax County. Not one is named after a female, a person of color, or a young person. Many unsung heroes of the civil rights era were school girls and women. Naming our high school after a female student would be a tribute not only to Barbara Johns but to other young heroes including first grader Ruby Bridges of New Orleans, 17-year-old Elizabeth Eckford of the “Little Rock Nine” and many more who showed great courage
and resolve in the face of prejudice and violence. Courageous young people inspire us. Beyond the American South, Anne Frank of Amsterdam, Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Zlata Filipovic of Sarajevo,were young adults who inspired others to resist oppression and commit themselves to freedom, equality, justice and human rights. Barbara Johns of Virginia was such a young person. Barbara Johns’ leadership has been recognized. Books by Taylor Branch and others record Johns’ role in integrating America’s schools. In 2008, Governor Tim Kaine unveiled The Civil Rights Memorial in Richmond that includes Johns’ statue. In 2010, Governor McDonnell unveiled her portrait at the Capitol in Richmond. The contributions of this Virginia hero should be better understood and celebrated here in Northern Virginia. The primary purposes of public schools are to provide knowledge, skills and civic values and to inspire young people to achieve and to serve. Re-dedicating our local high school provides an excellent opportunity for the School Board to take a decision that would inspire young people – especially young women – to respond creatively and nonviolently to the many challenges that face our community and country. Some have proposed that our high school be renamed after Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, a native of
Baltimore, whose contributions to America are widely known and celebrated. In addition to the BWI Thurgood Marshall airport, there are institutions, scholarships and schools named after Mr. Marshall all over America, including in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. There is another consideration: renaming our high school after Justice Marshal would cause confusion since Fairfax County already has a high school named after General George Marshall. High schools named after Justice Marshall and General Marshall would both have Falls Church addresses. We have other civil rights heroes we should recognize. Some members of our community who oppose a name change cite costs, others charge that advocates of a name change are trying to erase or rewrite history. History cannot be erased. J.E.B. Stuart’s place in American history will remain available in books, libraries, and museums. Instead, this is an effort to rename our high school after a Virginian who deserves to be honored and remembered for her positive contributions that elevated all Americans. In the final analysis, however, the School Board’s decision will not be determined by costs but by our values. The School Board has begun soliciting the views of the residents of the Stuart Community on renaming J.E.B. Stuart. We urge eligible residents to support “The Barbara Johns High School.”
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL OF A RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE PURSUANT TO § 56-585.1 A 4 OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA CASE NO. PUE-2016-00046 On May 4, 2016, Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion Virginia Power” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 4 (“Subsection A 4”) of the Code of Virginia, submitted an application (“Application”) with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) for approval of a rate adjustment clause designated as Rider T1. In this proceeding, Dominion Virginia Power seeks approval of a revenue requirement for the rate year September 1, 2016, through August 31, 2017 (“Rate Year”). This revenue requirement, if approved, would be recovered through a combination of base rates and a revised increment/decrement Rider T1. Rider T1 is designed to recover the increment/decrement between the revenues produced from the transmission component of base rates and the new revenue requirement developed from the Company’s total transmission costs for the Rate Year. The total revenue requirement to be recovered over the Rate Year is $638,782,866, comprising an increment Rider T1 of $178,931,394 and forecast collections of $459,851,472 through the transmission component of base rates. This total revenue requirement represents an increase of $1,255,818 over the revenues projected to be produced during the Rate Year by the combination of the base rate component of Subsection A 4 (the Company’s former Rider T) and the Rider T1 rates currently in effect. Implementation of the proposed Rider T1 on September 1, 2016, would increase the average weighted monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours per month by $0.30. The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on July 1, 2016, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear in the Commission’s courtroom 15 minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff. The Company’s Application and the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing are available for public inspection during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies also may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Lisa S. Booth, Esquire, Dominion Resources Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means. Copies of the public version of all documents filed in this case also are available for interested persons to review in the Commission’s Document Control Center, located on the first floor of the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, between the hours of 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing a notice of participation on or before June 13, 2016. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 232182118. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), any notice of participation shall set forth (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-2016-00046. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing. On or before June 13, 2016, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. Respondents also shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. Respondents shall refer in all of their filed papers to Case No. PUE-2016-00046. On or before June 24, 2016, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application may file written comments on the Application with the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before June 24, 2016, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUE2016-00046. The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding may be obtained from the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY d/b/a DOMINION VIRGINIA POWER
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NEWS BRIEFS Kelly Named New Mt. Daniel Principal
The Falls Church School Board emerged from a closed session Tuesday night to announce the nomination of Erin Kelly, the current assistant principal at Mt. Daniel Elementary School, as the new principal of the school, becoming the replacement for Kathy Halayko. When her name was announced, a large cheer arose from the sizable audience of mostly parents and teachers, many of whom were there to express criticism of the system. The vote of the board was 6-0 (with Erin Gill absent). Kelly will assume her new post on July 1. “She is a childfocused, positive and collaborative leader,” said Mt. Daniel kindergarten teacher Nan Hof, a member of the principal selection committee, said. “She understands our community and I am excited that she will continue to foster the warm and loving atmosphere that is the hallmark of Mt. Daniel,” said parent and selection committee member Elizabeth Meade. Before arriving in Falls Church two years ago, Kelly taught in Hamilton, Ohio, where she later was appointed Dean of Students and served a time as Acting Principal of Highland Elementary. Kelly has a bachelor’s degree in education from Ashland University and a master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of Cincinnati.
Reception for New TJ Principal June 8 Paul Swanson, an elementary principal in Indiana, has accepted the position as new principal of Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. The Thomas Jefferson Selection Committee is hosting a welcome reception for the community on Wednesday, June 8, at 6:30 p.m. in the Thomas Jefferson cafeteria. “Mr. Swanson’s strong belief that education ‘is a people business’ really struck a chord with me,” said TJ 3rd grade teacher and principal selection committee member Christopher Barnes. “I believe he understands the importance of involving all stakeholders, and I’m very excited about working under his guidance to help Thomas Jefferson transition to the next stage of its development.”
George Mason Principal Search Underway The search for George Mason High School’s 15th principal will follow the same, inclusive process that has been utilized for many years involving teachers, administrators and PTSA leadership serving on a selection panel, the schools announced this week. The first step is a survey of the George Mason and Falls Church community allowing an opportunity to let the committee know what qualities are most important to the community. The survey can be accessed on the schools’ website.
Reception for 11 Departing School Employees Set The Falls Church School System is bidding farewell to 11 long-time employees at the end of this school year. A reception to honor them will be held Monday, June 13,at 4:30 p.m. at the Henderson Middle School cafetorium. Those departing are: Kathi Bakin, reading specialist, Mt. Daniel; Judy Bracken, college and career counselor, George Mason; Elizabeth Cate, finance specialist, Central Office; Jennie Ehrenzeller, librarian, Thomas Jefferson; Marie Harbison, music teacher, Thomas Jeffersonl; Kathy Halayko, principal, Mt. Daniel; Denise O’Neil, speech therapist, Thomas Jefferson; Barbara Piscopo, theatre teacher, Henderson; Robert Ronco, bus driver; Debbi Spring, math specialist, Thomas Jefferson; and Pam Wilkie, gifted specialist, Henderson.
Gross Honored by Smart Growth Coalition The Washington Area Smart Growth Coalition this week awarded Mason District Supervisor Penny Gross and Hunter Mill District Supervisor Cathy Hudgins the 2016 Frederick and Diana Prince Livable Communities Award. Supervisor Gross was selected for her work on the Seven Corners comp plan, Route 7 transit-way, and other items; and Supervisor Hudgins was selected for her work on the Silver Line, affordable housing, and other efforts.
City of F.C. Closures & Reduced Hours for Memorial Day Weekend This Memorial Day weekend, several City of Falls Church facilities will be closed for the holiday. On Sunday, May 29, Mary Riley Styles Public Library will be closed and on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, City Hall and all governement offices, the courts, court clerk, Mary Riley Styles Library and the permit counter will also be closed. There will be reduced hours for the F.C. Community Center on Monday, as well; it will be opened from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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Community News & Notes 1908 Playground Project Rescheduled for June 4
Choralis Hosts Sing-Alongs At The Falls Church
Grace Lutheran School’s Golf Tourney Slated for June 11
F.C.-Based Parkinson’s Foundation Holds Banquet
The Chi Beta Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc.’s 2nd Annual 1908 Playground Project, originally scheduled for Saturday, May 21, has been rescheduled for Saturday, June 4 due to inclement weather. The event, an effort to clean up and restore Big Chimneys Park at 212 W. Annandale Road, will take place at the same time, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Event organizers ask that those who registered for the original event register again. Park restoration activities will include cleaning playground equipment and applying leaf mulch. Event organizers ask that those who participate wear gardening attire. Tools, gloves and supplies and water and snacks will be provided. For more information or to register for the event, visit chibetaomega-aka.com.
Choralis is hosting a pair of sing-alongs at The Falls Church Episcopal at 115 E. Fairfax Street, starting on Tuesday, May 31. Choralis, under direction from Gretchen Kuhrmann with Todd Fickley on the keyboard, will lead a sing-along of excerpts from Handel’s “Messiah” on May 31 at 7 p.m. On Tuesday, June 7 at 7 p.m. Choralis will lead a sing-along of Fauré’s “Requiem” and Duruflé’s “Requiem” at The Falls Church Episcopal. Kurhmann will direct Choralis and Fickley will play keyboard for that sing-along as well. Admission to the sing-alongs is $15 and scores of the pieces being sung can be rented for $5. There will be free parking at each of the event. For more information, visit choralis.org or call 703-237-2499.
Grace Lutheran School, located at 3233 Annandale Road, Falls Church, is hosting the Peter Fenske Memorial Golf Tournament fundraiser on Saturday, June 11 from 12:15 – 8 p.m. at Penderbrook Golf Course, located at 3700 Golf Trail Lane, Fairfax. Fenske served as the chairman of Grace’s board of Christian education before he died of cancer last year. Proceeds from this benefit will be used for the school’s tuition assistance program as well as the Fenske Children Future Education Fund. Registration for the golf tournament costs $100 – $800. Sponsorship opportunities are available. There will be a putting contest at the event with a $5,000 grand prize. To register to play, visit gracels.org. For more information, call Patrick Hurley at 703-5345517.
The Falls Church-based Parkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area honored those living with Parkinson’s disease on Tuesday, May 17 at the Defiance Luncheon awards ceremony and banquet at Fox Hill retirement community in Bethesda. Sixty six recipients were recognized and received a special gold coin at the Defiance Luncheon in front of more than 130 guests in attendance. The occasion marked the first time the awards event was held at Fox Hill. The recipients of the special gold coin at the ceremony attended 50 or more Parkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area program sessions in 2015. “Parkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area’s Defiance Luncheon is about celebrating courage in the face of adversity and taking steps to live well facing
AT THE OPENING OF LONGHORN STEAKHOUSE, Frank Vasquez, managing partner of the restaurant’s Falls Church location at 3562 S. Jefferson Street, cuts the ribbon on the restaurant, surrounded by Falls Church dignitaries such as Falls Church City Mayor David Tarter, chairman of the board of directors of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce Joe Wetzel and Falls Church City Vice Mayor Marybeth Connelly. (Photo: Courtesy of Vanessa Toates)
Parkinson’s disease,” said Jared D. Cohen, president and chief executive officer of the Parkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area. For more information, visit parkinsonfoundation.org.
Book Sale Held to Benefit Tysons-Pimmit Library Friends of the Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library are sponsoring a book sale to benefit the TysonsPimmit Regional Library, located at 7700 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, from Thursday, June 2 – Saturday, June 4 at the library. There will be a large variety of books and media for all ages at the book sale. On June 2 the book sale will be open from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., on June 3 the sale will be open from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. and June 4 the sale will be open from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. For more information, email TysonsLibraryFriends@gmail. com or call 703-338-3307.
AT A RECEPTION MARKING the opening of the 301 W. Broad Apartments in Falls Church last week, Falls Church Planning Commissioner and former Vice Mayor Lindy Hockenberry (left) chats with Falls Church City Planning Department Chief Jim Snyder (center) and Stefan Gassner of Rushmark Properties, a developer of the project that includes a mother ship Harris Teeter, slated to open next month. (Photo: News-Press)
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F.C. Tuition Theft Victim Receives $10,000 Scholarship
Course Hero, an online crowdsourced learning platform, recently gave a $10,000 scholarship to Lili Ferrufino of the Esteves family, who had tuition money stolen from them in a theft that took place in February at the Dunkin Donuts at 6138 Arlington Boulevard. Ferrufino’s mother had her purse, which had tuition money for Ferrufino to go to Penn State University, stolen at the Dunkin Donuts. When Course Hero heard of the theft, they decided to give Ferrufino a one-time scholarship to replace the lost funds. Course Hero provides a monthly scholarship program for student users of their software, which can be found at coursehero.com/scholarships, and is currently offering other programs like their $1 million tutor giveaway at coursehero.com/million to help support students achieve their academic goals. For more information, visit coursehero.com.
Falls Church Run for Freedom 5K Raises $100,000 International Justice Mission and Aegis, a McLean-based government contractor, partnered to put on the 2016 Run for Freedom 5K at Trinity School at Meadow View in Falls Church on Saturday, May 14 and raised $100,000 to fight human trafficking in the process. The funds raised will go directly toward International Justice Mission’s efforts in combating human trafficking and forced labor worldwide. Formed by former U.S. Attorney Gary Haugen, International Justice Mission is based in Washington, D.C. and has a team of lawyers, investigators, social workers and community activists who advocate for a wide range of underprivileged groups around the world.
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“Aegis is proud to partner with IJM to help organize and participate in raising such a substantial amount of funding – and our employees who participated had a great experience,” said Jim Winner, chief legal officer at Aegis. “As a company that employs staff from the U.S. and abroad, addressing the global issues on which IJM focuses is in close alignment with our company’s values.” For more information, visit ijm.org.
F.C. Community Workshop Scheduled for June 18 The City of Falls Church is hosting a Community Workshop for residents, City officials and staff and guest speakers to help update the vision for the City’s future on Saturday, June 18 from 8:45 a.m. – noon at The Falls Church at 115 E. Fairfax Street. There will be an open house from 8:45 – 9 a.m. and the workshop will take place from 9 a.m. – noon. The workshop will focus on community character, commercial development, transportation and financial stability. Input generated at the workshop will go into updating the City’s vision which part of chapter 1 of the City’s Comprehensive Plan. Light refreshments will be served in the morning. RSVP is requested, but not required for attendance. Those who RSVP will receive updates about the event. To RSVP, visit surveymonkey.com/r/Q239P6B. For more information about the City’s Comprehensive Plan, visit fallschurchva.gov/CompPlan.
Arlington Philharmonic and Rachel Franklin Play Concert Internationally acclaimed Rachel Franklin and the Arlington Philharmonic played for an audience of over 300 during a Mother’s Day concert on
AMONG THE REVELERS at the annual gala of the Falls Church Education Foundation at the Washington Country Club in Arlington last Friday night were these four, (left to right) Jacob Radcliff, Archi Pyati, Allison Stevens and John Kueul. It was wall-to-wall people at this popular fundraiser to support the work of the foundation supporting the Falls Church City Schools. (P����: N���-P����) Sunday, May 8 at WashingtonLee High School in Arlington. Celebrating the orchestra’s 10th anniversary season, Maestro A. Scott Wood led the musicians in a concert themed “Inspired by…,” an ambitious program of music by Jaques Ibert, Maurice Ravel and Paul Hindemith. In each of the works, the composers drew on musical elements from other genres, the Ibert titled “Hommage a Mozart,” and the “Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes” by Carl Maria von Weber. Former 49th District Delegate and Arlington community leader Karen Darner attended the concert and gave opening remarks. The Arlington Philharmonic will present two more concerts this season. On Sunday, June 5 at 4 p.m. Crescendo, the Arlington Philharmonic’s youth chamber ensemble, will present its final concert, Russian Romance, at Barcroft
Community House, located at 800 S. Buchanan St., Arlington. Then, on Sunday, June 26, the Arlington Philharmonic, in collaboration with the Animal Welfare League of Arlington, will present the third annual Pops for Pets at Lubber Run Amphitheater, located at 200 N. Columbus St., Arlington. For more information, visit arlingtonphilharmonic.org.
American Legion Post 270 Holds Memorial Day Service The McLean-based American Legion Post 270 will conduct its annual Memorial Day Service on Monday, May 30 at 11 a.m. at the organization’s Memorial Garden at McLean High School, located at 1633 Davidson Road, McLean. Members of Post 270 who fought in all wars, from World War II to the present day War in Afghanistan, will be present at the event. Also, local police officers,
firemen and elected officials will attend and participate in the event. The service will be followed by an open house at American Legion Post 270, located at 1355 Balls Hill Road, McLean. For more information, visit mcleanpost270.org.
Shepherd’s Center Support Group Meets on June 2 The Shepherd’s Center of Oakton-Vienna Caregiver Support Group, open to caregivers of any kind to those of any age, meets twice a month, on the first and third Thursdays at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax, located at 2709 Hunter Mill Road, Oakton. The next meetings of the support group are Thursday, June 2 and Thursday, June 16 from 10 a.m. – noon. For more information, call the group facilitator Jack Tarr at 703-821-6838.
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Why is Clinton Disliked?
I understand why Donald Trump is so unpopular. He earned it the old-fashioned way, by being obnoxious, insulting and offensive. But why is Hillary Clinton so unpopular? She is, at the moment, just as unpopular as Trump. In the last three major national polls she had unfavorability ratings in the same ballpark as Trump’s. In the Washington Post/ABC News poll, they are both at 57 percent disapproval. In the New York Times/CBS News poll, 60 percent of respondents said Clinton does not share their values. Sixty-four percent said she is not honest or trustworthy. Clinton has plummeted so completely down to Trump’s level that she is now statistically tied with him in some of the presidential horse race polls. There are two paradoxes to her unpopularity. First, she was popular not long NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE ago. As secretary of state she had a 66 percent approval rating. Even as recently as March 2015 her approval rating was at 50 and her disapproval rating was at 39. It’s only since she launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to impress the American people that she has made herself so strongly disliked. The second paradox is that, agree with her or not, she’s dedicated herself to public service. From advocate for children to senator, she has pursued her vocation tirelessly. It’s not the “what” that explains her unpopularity; it’s the “how” – the manner in which she has done it. But what exactly do so many have against her? I would begin my explanation with this question: Can you tell me what Hillary Clinton does for fun? We know what Obama does for fun – golf, basketball, etc. We know, unfortunately, what Trump does for fun. But when people talk about Clinton, they tend to talk of her exclusively in professional terms. For example, on Nov. 16, Peter D. Hart conducted a focus group on Clinton. Nearly every assessment had to do with on-the-job performance. She was “multitask-oriented” or “organized” or “deceptive.” Clinton’s career appears, from the outside, to be all consuming. Her husband is her co-politician. Her daughter works at the Clinton Foundation. Her friendships appear to have been formed at networking gatherings reserved for the extremely successful. People who work closely with her adore her and say she is warm and caring. But it’s hard from the outside to think of any non-career or precareer aspect to her life. Except for a few grandma references, she presents herself as a resume and policy brief. For example, her campaign recently released a biographical video called “Fighter.” It’s filled with charming and quirky old photos of her fighting for various causes. But then when the video cuts to a current interview with Clinton herself, the lighting is perfect, the setting is perfect, her costume is perfect. She looks less like a human being and more like an avatar from some corporate brand. Clinton’s unpopularity is akin to the unpopularity of a workaholic. Workaholism is a form of emotional self-estrangement. Workaholics are so consumed by their professional activities that their feelings don’t inform their most fundamental decisions. The professional role comes to dominate the personality and encroaches on the normal intimacies of the soul. As Martyn Lloyd-Jones once put it, whole cemeteries could be filled with the sad tombstone: “Born a man, died a doctor.” At least in her public persona, Clinton gives off an exclusively professional vibe: industrious, calculated, goal-oriented, distrustful. It’s hard from the outside to have a sense of her as a person; she is a role. This formal, career-oriented persona puts her in direct contrast with the mores of the social media age, which is intimate, personalist, revealing, trusting and vulnerable. It puts her in conflict with most people’s lived experience. Most Americans feel more vivid and alive outside the work experience than within. So of course to many she seems Machiavellian, crafty, power-oriented, untrustworthy. There’s a larger lesson here, especially for people who have found a career and vocation that feels fulfilling. Even a socially good vocation can swallow you up and make you lose a sense of your own voice. Maybe it’s doubly important that people with fulfilling vocations develop, and be seen to develop, sanctuaries outside them: in play, solitude, family, faith, hobbies and leisure. Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote that the Sabbath is “a palace in time which we build.” It’s not a day of rest before work; you work in order to experience this day of elevation. Josef Pieper wrote that leisure is not an activity, it’s an attitude of mind. It’s stepping outside strenuous effort and creating enough stillness so that it becomes possible to contemplate and enjoy things as they are. Even successful lives need these sanctuaries – in order to be a real person instead of just a productive one. It appears that we don’t really trust candidates who do not show us theirs.
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Rememberance of Booms Past If Hillary Clinton wins in November, Bill Clinton will occupy a doubly unique role in U.S. political history – not just as the first First Husband, but also as the first First Spouse who used to be president. Obviously he won’t spend his time baking cookies. So what will he do? Last week Hillary Clinton stirred up a flurry of comments by suggesting that Bill Clinton would be “in charge of revitalizing the economy.” You can see why she might want to say that, since people still remember the good times that prevailed when he was in office. How his role might be defined in practice is much less clear. But never mind. NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE What I want to do right now is talk about the lessons the Clinton I boom actually holds for a potential Clinton II administration. First of all, it really was a very impressive boom, and in a way it’s odd that Democrats don’t talk about it more. After all, Republicans constantly invoke the miracles of Saint Reagan to justify their faith in supply-side economics. Yet the Clinton-era expansion surpassed the Reagan economy in every dimension. Bill Clinton not only presided over more job creation and faster economic growth, his time in office was also marked by something notably lacking in the Reagan era: a significant rise in the real wages of ordinary workers. But why was the Clinton economy so good? It wasn’t because Clinton had a magic touch, although he did do a good job of responding to crises. Mostly, he had the good luck to hold office when good things were happening for reasons unrelated to politics. Specifically, the 1990s were the decade in which American business finally figured out what to do with computers – the decade in which offices became networked, in which retailers like Wal-Mart learned to use information technology to manage inventories and coordinate with suppliers. This led to a surge in productivity, which had grown only sluggishly for the previous two decades. The technology takeoff also helped fuel a surge in business investment, which in turn produced job creation at a pace that, by the late 1990s, brought America truly full employment. And full employment was the force behind the rising wages of the 1990s. Oh, and yes, there was a technology bubble at the end of the decade, but that was a fairly minor part
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of the overall story – and because there wasn’t a big rise in private debt, the damage done when the tech bubble burst was much less than the wreckage left behind by the Bush-era housing bubble. But back to the boom: What was Bill Clinton’s role? Actually, it was fairly limited, since he didn’t cause the technology takeoff. On the other hand, his policies obviously didn’t get in the way of prosperity. And it’s worth remembering that in 1993, when Clinton raised taxes on the wealthy, Republicans uniformly predicted disaster. It will “kill the recovery and put us back in a recession,” predicted Newt Gingrich. It will put the economy “in the gutter,” declared John Kasich. None of that happened, which didn’t stop the same people from making the same predictions when President Barack Obama raised taxes in 2013 – a move followed by the best job growth since the 1990s. One big lesson of the Clinton boom, then, is that the conclusion conservatives want you to draw from their incessant Reaganolatry – that lavishing tax cuts on the rich is the key to prosperity, and that any rise in top tax rates will bring retribution from the invisible hand – is utterly false. Hillary Clinton is proposing roughly a trillion dollars in additional taxes on the top 1 percent, to pay for new programs. If she takes office, and tries to implement that policy, the usual suspects will issue the usual dire warnings, but there is absolutely no reason to believe that her agenda would hurt the economy. The other big lesson from the Clinton I boom is that while there are many ways policymakers can and should try to raise wages, the single most important thing they can do to help workers is aim for full employment. Unfortunately, we can’t count on another spontaneous surge in technology-driven private investment to drive job creation. But some kinds of private investment might grow rapidly if we take longoverdue steps to address climate change. And in any case, not all productive investment is private. We desperately need to repair and upgrade our infrastructure; meanwhile, the federal government can borrow money incredibly cheaply. So there’s an overwhelming case for a surge in public investment – and one side benefit of such a surge would be full employment, which would help produce another era of rising wages. So, will Bill Clinton play an important role if Hillary Clinton wins? I have no idea, and don’t much care. But it will be important to remember what went right and why on Bill’s watch.
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Preventing the 2016 Slide Into Fascism
Agreeing with the common premises of two recent op-eds by Robert Kagan in the Washington Post, “How Democracies Die” and “How Fascism Comes to America,” both focused on the rise of Donald Trump, the question begged by them is how to prevent the process from reaching its ultimate end, an authoritarian police state where essential democratic freedoms are suspended. Kagan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, attributes the rise of Trump to his ability to offer “an attitude, an aura of crude strength and machismo, a boasting disrespect for the niceties of the democratic culture that he claims, and his followers believe, has produced national weakness and incompetence. “What he has tapped into is what the founders most feared when they estabFALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS lished the democratic republic, the popular passions unleashed, the ‘mobocracy,’” Kagan went on. Namely, “The other threat to liberty that Alexis de Tocqueville and the ancient philosophers warned about: that the people in a democracy, excited, angry and unconstrained, might run roughshod over even the institutions created to preserve their freedoms....The unleashing of popular passions (that) would lead not to greater democracy but to the arrival of a tyrant, riding to power on the shoulders of the people.” Indeed, that was the scenario that Plato warned about in The Republic. Pure democracy, or “mob rule,” is a form of “might makes right” that feeds right into tyranny. That informed the Founding Fathers, who carefully crafted a division of powers in the U.S. Constitution to elevate Plato’s notion of a representative republic above that of the mere allegedly-democratic, impulsive “will of the people.” The Constitution, therefore, sought to lift the power of reason above the brute power of passion, just as Plato advised. Our earliest heroes, like Washington, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, Quincy Adams, Clay and Lincoln understood this issue well. They shaped policies, such as the development of a universal, science-based public education and a free press, to counter major influences grounded in demagoguery, deceit, superstition and fear, to educate the nation’s youth against the proverbial snake oil salesman. It is Joshua Israel of Princeton University, author of a number of major scholarly works on the Enlightenment that provided the context for the American revolution, such as Democratic Enlightenment, who has exposed the rise of modern relativism, so-called Postmodernism, for undermining of our nation’s most important cornerstones of sustainability, universalism and the primacy of reason. He faulted the late Postmodernist philosopher Michael Foucault for accusing the Enlightenment’s “insistence on the primacy of reason” as being “ultimately just a mask for the exercise of power,” and substituting “moral relativism and the indeterminacy of truth.” But the Enlightenment, Israel argued, and the U.S. republic and Constitution to which it gave rise were the products of a process that was “concerned with the central place of reason and of experience and experiment in understanding and improving human society.” Such aspirations rejected “anything based on blind authority,” or “blindly accepted from habit and custom,” such as irrational religious dogma. So, the rebellion against authority for its own sake is what’s at work in an angry public turned mob that will color rage with anti-liberal, anticompassionate prejudices. It is the egomaniac Trump who has learned how to tap into this and to turn the predominantly white male mob against everything the last eight years in Washington, under the leadership of an African-American president, has meant for them. How is this countered? How can America resist the conversion from democracy to fascism in 2016 and beyond? It is hard to even suggest a glib answer, but it is found in the notion of the “power of reason.” It cannot be done by trying to match one Postmodern obscenity with another that advocates a different candidate. No, the style of the opposition to fascism has to be very different. It has to appeal to sanity and reason, to thinking through the consequences of following a pied piper over the abyss, the chimera of the promised freedoms and the reasoned alternatives that all must help shape. It must focus fiery passion against the subversion of our nation by tyranny.
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Election from Hell Sometimes people are surprised, or even unsettled, by how sanguine I can be about the coming election. I sometimes say that it’s not that I have some magic foresight about the outcome, but it is rather that I have been here before. One of the first elections I ever voted in had candidates who were even more flawed and was even more of a circus. Hard to believe, I know, but it’s true. And there are eerie similarities that I can’t shake. The Democrat, who had occupied the whitecolumned home of the executive during an earlier period of prosperity, had testified more than 15 times before grand jury investigations and had twice been tried, but never convicted, on felony charges. The Republican, a divorcé, was a well-known racist and demagogue who tried to disavow his past and who once said his plan to deal with illegal immigration was to heavily fortify the Mexican-American border and round up and deport all illegal aliens. As Bill Turque wrote in Newsweek at the time, the Republican was “attempting to run from his past by NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE repackaging himself as a populist. His affable, game-show-host looks and just-folks manner have been insidiously successful in blunting the impact of a past pocked with racism, Jewhating and revisionisms.” Turque wrote that for thousands of “whites angry with hard times and high taxes, his is the ultimate ‘no bull’ campaign. His coded distillations of white economic and racial resentment are by now the most thoroughly decoded in American politics.” The New York Times reported at the time that the Republican’s “evolution from a lifetime at the fringes of racial politics to a new life as an aspiring national politician is largely the result of his symbiotic relationship with broadcast journalism.” A Democratic leader complained about the media’s role in the Republican’s ascendance: “The media have made him a legitimate candidate.” The venerable Ted Koppel said at the time that television and the Republican candidate “were made for each other.” A former newspaper editor called the Republican’s support “impenetrable,” cautioning that the Democrat depended on winning over members of his own party who had recently despised him. Some in the polling and pundit class even worried about a “hidden vote” for the Republican, which would come from a group
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who wouldn’t publicly say they supported him, but would vote for him on Election Day. There were lingering questions about the sincerity of the Republican’s recently professed Christianity. Writing about one of the Republican’s previous races, the author Tyler Bridges said that at his rallies supporters “were angry” and “they thrust their fists in the air, stomped their feet, and chanted his name over and over.” Bridges wrote that the rallies had an “us-versus-them atmosphere” in which “supporters frequently heckled reporters.” One of the most memorable bumper stickers from the campaign was for the Democrat and read, “Vote for the crook. It’s important.” The year was 1991. I was a college student in my home state of Louisiana. And the race was a gubernatorial runoff between the Democrat Edwin Edwards (who reportedly once counseled Bill Clinton on how to deal with the Gennifer Flowers scandal) and the Republican David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (who this year endorsed Donald Trump). It was the first gubernatorial election in which I voted. Indeed, Edwards was such a brazen, unrepentant skirt chaser that he joked to a reporter during that campaign about similarities between him and Duke: “The only thing we have in common is we’re both wizards under the sheets.” People called it the “election from hell” or the “race from hell,” depending on the person and the conversation. Voters had to choose the lesser of two evils. Some people were nervous and scared. I’m recalling it now because the current race is reminiscent of it and because I think the outcome and lasting legacy of the Louisiana race may be instructive. In the end, Edwards won with a coalition of blacks and affluent, “business-oriented conservatives” in a record turnout for a state gubernatorial general election, but Duke did win the majority of the white vote. Though he didn’t win, Duke’s imprint on the state was real. As The Times reported in 2014: “Two decades later, much of his campaign has merged with the political mainstream here, and rather than a bad memory from the past, Mr. Duke remains a window into some of the murkier currents in the state’s politics, where Republicans have sought and eventually won Mr. Duke’s voters, while turning their back on him.” Whether or not Trump loses in November to “crooked Hillary,” as he has dubbed her, he may well be an important part of the future of his party. He has given his Republican supporters permission to vocalize their anti-otherness rage, and that will not easily be undone.
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News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
Recent weather notwithstanding, Memorial Day weekend signals the start of summer in our community. Mason District Park’s free summer concert series, Spotlight by Starlight, begins on Wednesday, June 1, with an American Roots concert by Lindsay Lou and the Flatbellys. The concerts at the park, 6621 Columbia Pike in Annandale, begin at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays. The Ossian Hall Park international concerts begin on Saturday, June 4, with Korean Cultural Night, also at 7:30 p.m. Ossian Hall Park is located across from Annandale High School, at 7900 Heritage Drive. More information about these concerts, as well as concerts at other parks, may be found at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/ parks/performances. Memorial Day, observed this year on Monday, May 30, was created after the Civil War to commemorate those soldiers, on both sides, who died during that troubled time in our nation’s history. Originally called Decoration Day, it provided an opportunity for survivors, friends, and family members to gather at cemeteries and “decorate” graves with flowers in remembrance of their service. Interestingly, this year’s observance falls on the traditional date for Decoration Day. The date was changed to the last Monday in May in the late 1960s by order of Congress. When I was a child, I visited cemeteries with my grandmother, who decorated graves for relatives and kin who lived far away from where their loved ones were buried. It was a thoughtful and respectful exercise, one that I remember with reverence and warmth. This long weekend will be a perfect time to “tip and toss” outdoor containers that may have col-
lected water, and now can serve as incubators for mosquitos. The Fairfax County Health Department recommends some simple steps to “Fight the Bite” that can carry West Nile virus, the Zika virus, and other diseases. Eliminate standing water in your outdoor environment. You will have to do this repeatedly, depending on the amount of rain this summer. Common offenders are water collecting in old tires, in the saucers of flowerpots, and in the folds of tarps and patio furniture covers. Check your gutters and downspouts to be sure they are free flowing. You can treat hard-to-reach standing water with larvacide, too. Protect yourself while outside by wearing long sleeves and long pants, and try to avoid being outside at dawn and dusk when mosquitos are most active. Mosquitos can’t fly very far; if your home is plagued by mosquitos, chances are they are incubating somewhere very close to you or your neighbors. Loehmann’s Plaza has long been a popular shopping destination for area residents. With the Loehmann’s retail brand now out of business, the center was renamed Graham Park Plaza, and the property owners are contemplating redevelopment of a portion of the center. A public information meeting to learn more about the proposal is planned for Tuesday, May 31, at 7:30 p.m., at Westlawn Elementary School, 3200 Westley Road in Falls Church. I look forward to seeing you there. Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.
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The Threat of Climate Change By Donald S. Beyer
You know the headlines on climate change: Last year was the hottest year ever recorded. Since 2001, we have experienced fifteen of the 16 warmest years on record. Each of the past 12 months was the hottest on record. The sea level is rising, wild storms are more frequent, and the warnings seem more ominous each month. We know we face a potentially cataclysmic threat from climate change. And that we must adapt, innovate, and be disciplined to turn it around. We will. But it will be a step forward, then a step or two backward, for the foreseeable future. The morning news brings hopeful news of renewable energy, and the next day a new study gives us the next dire chapter in the devolution of the planet. I have vowed to do what I can in the House of Representatives to work for change. One impor-
tant part of this is my work with Rep. Chris Van Hollen on his legislation to put a cap on carbon emissions, sell the permits for those emissions, and return the dividends to everyone with a valid Social Security number. The bill is unlikely to pass this Congress or next, but we lay the groundwork and we continue to push for progress against a hostile Congress. A step forward. As part of our push forward, I hope to continue the conversation we began at last fall’s forum on climate change. With experts from various fields, we heard of the health effects of climate change, of political activism in the face of it, and of the science and government regulation around it. Every week this year, I am sending an email titled “Just the Facts” in this vein – 14 so far. Some weeks we will note a recent academic paper or
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Welcome to the City of Falls Church’s Annual Memorial Day Parade and Fes tival. We are delighted that you can join us on this special day. Since 1868, communities, towns and villages throughout America have com e together to place flowers and flags on the graves of those who have given their lives for our country. Despite this long tradition, it is eas y to forget what Memorial Day is rea lly about. To paraphrase Franklin Roosevelt, after having long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy, we forget in time those who have died to win them. For this reason, I invite you all to pau se, remember, and honor these brave heroes, men and women of the Air Force, Navy, Arm y and Marines, who made the ultima te sacrifice defending and supporting our great cou ntry, its interests and its ideals. Reflect on the proud history of service of our own Little Cit y, as demonstrated by the names of nat ive sons and daughters displayed on the plaque at the Community Center. Please join us at 11 a.m. at the Vetera ns Memorial outside the Community Center to honor those brave men and women and to recognize those who continue to ser ve. Following that, the parade will begin at 2 p.m. with retiring Mr. Daniel Elementary School principal Kathleen Halayko serving as Grand Marshal. Thank you for choosing to spend this
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Ellis & Donovan Set for Reign as King & Queen BY MATT DELANEY
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The 16th annual Mr. and Mrs. Mason pageant/competition has come and gone with this year’s winners being an outgoing pair of seniors, Mary Catherine Donovan and Zach Ellis. Mr. and Mrs. Mason contestants are judged in four different categories: a prepared bio followed by the talent portion, and for the finalists, formal wear and a questionnaire to finish. This year’s judges had a taste for the obscure as both Donovan and Ellis won the competition and the King and Queen’s crown for Falls Church’s annual Memorial Day parade in an unconventional manner. Donovan was a last minute entry who infatuated the crowd with her bubbly persona, while Ellis’ wit smoothed over his frictional start to the competition. The two took some time to chat with the News-Press about the Mr. and Mrs. Mason competition, their postgrad plans, and to reflect on their experience at Mason. News-Press: How did you two become Mr. and Mrs. Mason? Donovan: Originally, I was really hesitant in participating because I had a lot going on with IB. But Mr. [Peter] Laub, the coordinator, convinced me to do it because it really was an honor to be nominated. I wrote a parody of Adele’s “Hello” to IB a few days before the actual performance and I was pretty unprepared for the rest of it. I didn’t have an escort. I pulled my dad out of the audience to walk me across the stage. I was wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt and fuzzy slippers because I was not expecting to make it to the formal wear portions. I sang my song and the crowd loved it. I really did not expect to win at all.
Ellis: Last year Mr. Laub wanted me to make the video for the candidates, so I did, and after [that] I complained about how I was not a candidate. I think some teachers must’ve heard me and nominated me. Once I was nominated I knew that I had complained too much to not win. N-P: Graduation’s coming up. What’re your summer and college plans after the big day? Ellis: I’m gonna go to William & Mary and I wanna study film or writing. For summer vacation, me and my friends are gonna go on a road trip. Donovan: I’m going to the University of Dayton in Ohio. No clue what I want to study or anything, but I’m looking forward to it. This summer I’m working at Creative Cauldron which is a local theater company as a camp counselor for a few weeks and I’m going to a lake with my friends. N-P: Do either of you have an ideal career in mind? Ellis: I want to direct movies – but I’m sure that’s what anyone who wants to do something involving movies says. My goal is to direct the best “Spiderman” movie ever. The Andrew Garfield ones were terrible, which is good because it made it easier for me, but tough because [Spiderman] was really good in “Captain America: Civil War.” But I think I can do it. Donovan: I definitely want to do something with music and singing in the future, but I don’t really know. N-P: You both know how unique Mason is compared to Fairfax County schools. How was your own experience? Ellis: I like Mason a lot. I moved here in fifth grade [and] it was a lot smaller than all the [other] schools I went to, but I liked that because everyone knew everyone. I wasn’t just some
MARY CATHERINE DONOVAN (LEFT) AND ZACH ELLIS, seen here speaking with the News-Press, won the reigns of Memorial Day King & Queen by winning the 16th annual Mr. and Mrs. Mason competition in late February. (P����: N���-P����) weird kid, I was Zach, that weird kid everyone knows. Donovan: I’m a lifer here in Falls Church. I’ve been here since Mount Daniel [Elementary School]. I do think it’s really good because like [Zach] said you know everybody and it’s nice to have so many friendly faces around the school. N-P: Anything challenging about going to such a small school? Ellis: It could be tough. I do the announcements and one time I called out my [Theory of Knowledge] teacher. He called me out in his class, so for a while it was awkward to have [class] with him. Donovan: Sometimes it’s difficult because you’re with the same group of friends since kindergarten. When we grow up we realize we’re different people. Even now I’m not that close with the people
I was the past few years, but I get along great with everyone, so I think it’s a positive experience rather than a negative one. N-P: Is there anything you wish you would’ve done differently in high school? Ellis: I wish I would’ve gotten involved in more things earlier, but I guess everyone wishes that. I also wish I had put more thought into college. I decided I didn’t want to go to [BYU] last minute, but William & Mary’s a great school so I don’t have anything to complain about. Donovan: Because I played volleyball I was never able to do a musical or a school play, which I kind of regret, and I know my theater teacher was bummed about it, too. I’m also sad that I never got a detention because my math teacher is Mr. [Erik] Healey and
[also] the Dean of Students and he makes fun of me for it. N-P: What’s one thing you’d tell your freshman self now, if you could? Donovan: Don’t be afraid to branch out and meet new people. Like I said, we go to Mason and it’s small so a lot of the people are friends since elementary school. Sometimes that just doesn’t work out, so I say branch out and be confident and go for stuff. I also wish I started singing in the eighth grade, instead of waiting until last year. Ellis: I would tell myself that you are going to be awesome, even more than you are now. I’d tell him to stay motivated and to continue making videos for his YouTube channel [and] would write a list down of things that I wish had gone differently so we’d both be better off.
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American Legion Post to Be Converted into Restaurant by Drew Costley
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A dedication stone honoring fallen soldiers sits on the lot of 205 Park Avenue, the site of the old Blue and Gray American Legion Post 225 building, covered in weeds, with an infantry of insects guarding against anyone who comes near. The majority of the writing on a plaque attached to the stone is covered in the weeds, but it was installed by members of that American Legion post on November 11, 1997, dedicating the site of the building to the members’ bygone comrades. The plaque is barely visible from the sidewalk on Park Avenue and could easily be passed up by anyone walking up to the main entrance of the building. It’s actually a fitting symbol for the building, which is in a state of disrepair, and is one of two traces – the other is a mailbox that reads “American Legion Auxiliary Unit 225” on the side – of the American Legion post that used to occupy the building. Beyond that, there is a tattered American Legion sticker on the window of one of the doors to the building and an American flag, with its red, white and blue washed out from weathering, hanging in front of another one of the doors. The rest of the property looks like an ordinary abandoned lot, with weeds, vines and other plants growing into the building’s structure and broken windows scattered throughout the building’s facades. But the old Blue and Gray
building – also known as the Old Cloverdale House, the oldest surviving house in the City, which was built in 1797 on W. Broad and later moved to its present location on Park Avenue – has a makeover in its future. The ownership group that owns Liberty Tavern, Lyon Hall, LeoNora and Northside Social in Arlington has purchased the building and is converting it into a second location of Northside Social. The owners, Stephen and Mark Fedorchak and Brian Normile, hope to begin restoration and construction on the Blue and Gray building in June and finish and open the new Northside Social location in mid to late fall. The new owners of the property have a knack for restoring old buildings, like the ones housing their present businesses in Arlington, and opening restaurants in the new digs. They plan to do the same with the old Blue and Gray building and are nearing completion of the permitting process with the City’s Historic Commission and Historic Architectural Advisory Board. Mark Fedorchak, who also owns Galleria Florist in Falls Church, said that the new owners of 205 Park Avenue “appreciate historic buildings and the aesthetic cues that the history gives them.” “It gives us a starting point for our design process that we find valuable,” Fedorchak said. According to City records, the group has plans on demolishing part of the building, but renovating and adding onto historic seg-
THE OLD BLUE AND GRAY BUILDING, one of the City’s oldest, is being converted to a second location of the Arlington restaurant Northside Social. The owners expect the project to be complete and the restaurant to open in mid to late fall. (Photo: News-Press) ments of the remaining structure. “What we’re doing is keeping the historic facades of the building and over the years there had been some additions that had been put in the building that really are pretty decrepit,” Normile said. “We’re basically demolishing the additions that were made in the mid to late 20th century and putting on an addition that I would say is contemporary in design. It should really be an interesting contrast
A DEDICATION STONE INSTALLED BY MEMBERS of what was then American Legion Post 225 sits in front of the building and is now nearly covered in weeds. The owners of the coming Northside Social restaurant said that the stone, dedicated to fallen American soldiers on November 11, 1997, will remain on the property, but will be moved so that it’s closer to Park Avenue. (Photo: News-Press)
between the historic facades that are there currently.” Normile said that integrity of the original facades will be maintained, but that the interior of the building is going to undergo a “full restoration” in order to get it up to code. “The interior of this building is in particularly rough condition,” he said. “It hasn’t had any improvements for probably the better part of 40 – 50 years.” Another challenge for the Fedorchaks and Normile is that the building was not built to be compliant with commercial building codes today. “I’ve got to get this building compliant with commercial code for the level of occupancy, which is going to be coffee shop, cafe and wine bar,” said Normile, who is handling the construction and renovation of the building. “As it relates to that, it’s basically going to entail structural work to solidify the integrity of what’s there.” Despite the need to fully restore the interior of the building, Mark Fedorchak said that they will take their design cues for the interior of the building from the historic nature of the structure. The group is considering incorporating some of the existing building materials on the inside, Normile said. These considerations, and the ones that pertain to the facades of the building, have not been taken lightly by the ownership group converting the old Blue and Gray building into a new Northside Social.
The months-long process of working with the City to ensure the integrity of the historic structure is the fruition of the responsibility both Fedorchak and Normile claimed for maintaining the building’s historic nature. Normile, who has been the point person working with the City on behalf of the group, said that he has heard enthusiasm from longtime City residents about the restoration and use of the building. “One of the things our group likes to do, and I think it shows in projects in Arlington, is historic renovation and restoration projects, so we’ve got pretty significant experience in that,” Normile said. “And that was really what ultimately attracted us to restoring this building and this project. It gave us a chance to bring back to life a building that had historic significance in Falls Church and it really was located in a place where we felt we could create a community center.” In addition to the restoration and renovation of the interiors and facades of the building, Falls Church’s Northside Social will have lots of patio seating, according to Fedorchak, and “two porches stacked on top of each other,” Normile said. So there will be plenty outdoor seating. And Normile ensured that the dedication stone, now obscured from view, will remain on the property. In fact, it will be moved closer to Park Avenue, so it will be much harder to miss.
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Memorial Day 2016 Veterans Ceremony Monday, May 30, at 11 a.m. City of Falls Church Veterans Memorial, 223 Little Falls St., Falls Church, VA 22046 Master of Ceremonies Harry Shovlin Posting of Colors Honor Guard from the American Legion Post 130 Remembrance for POW/MIAs Commander Bob Smith, VFW Post 9274 National Anthem City of Falls Church Concert Band Under the direction of Robert Little Vocals by Lisa Gullickson Invocation Rev. Kevin Wattles Grace Evangelical Lutheran Chuch
Welcoming David Tarter Mayor, City of Falls Church Remarks Bob Smith Chairman, Greater Falls Church Veterans Council Keynote Address Mark Q. Rhoads Former Illinois State Senator (R-Cook County) God Bless America City of Falls Church Concert Band Under the direction of Robert Little Vocals by Lisa Gullickson
Presentations & Announcements Harry Shovlin Prayer for the Departed Veterans Rev. Kevin Wattles Grace Evangelical Lutheran Chuch Taps Master Gunnery Sgt. John Abbracciamento, U.S. Marine Corps Band Retiring of POW/MIA Flag Commander Bob Smith, VFW Post 9274 Retiring of Colors Honor Guard from the American Legion Post 130
Presentation of Wreath in Memory of Departed Veterans Jenny Inskeep, Falls Church Chapter, National Daughters of the American Revolution
This program was prepared by representatives of American Legion Post 130, American Legion Post 225, American Legion Post 124, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Martin Leppert Sipes Post 9274, Catholic War Veterans Paul and Jacques Martin Post 1652, Falls Church Daughters of the American Revolution, Northern Virginia WWII Veterans, the Veterans Memorial Committee, and dedicated volunteers under the coordination of the City of Falls Church Recreation and Parks Division. Citizen participation is encouraged. The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability call 703-248-5077 (TTY 711).
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Mt. Daniel Principal Halayko Serves as Grand Marshal by Patricia Leslie
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To say that Kathleen Halayko is giving up her job to lead the 2016 Falls Church Memorial Day Parade would be a stretch, but it’s no coincidence that the two events are happening close to the same time. June 30 will end her reign at Mt. Daniel Elementary School where she has been principal for 18 years, and on May 30 she will serve as the Memorial Day Parade Grand Marshal. “I was very honored” to be selected Grand Marshal, she said in an interview at her school office. When she got the call about her Grand Marshal nomination and selection by the city’s Parks and Recreation Board, “I was amazed” and “more touched” to be included in the group of past marshals, once she saw the list. “I hope it’ll be a lot of fun since I know a lot of children come” to the parade, she said. The suggestion that she might lead the parade on a horse or elephant brought a guffaw. “And I’m not going to be on a camel either!” she laughed. “No, I’ll be in a car.” Halayko is retiring after 28 years at Mt. Daniel where she worked as a speech and language pathologist for 10 years before she was named principal. Prior to Mt. Daniel, she was coordinator of the speech and language program for Prince William County schools for five years. And she took off time to raise three children, two of whom attended Mt. Daniel, and all of whom still live in the area with Halayko’s five grandchildren. Sitting in her office with windows which look out upon the lush green outdoors which surround Mt. Daniel, Halayko reminisced briefly about her long tenure at the school. She said repeatedly that working there has been a joy, topped by the children and the staff who have made it all worthwhile. “I have loved the job” she said more than once. “I am retiring with great, great memories,” and she has no regrets, but had a few recommendations for her replacement, who was named before Halayko spoke to the News-Press. First, the person must “be a very good listener and encourage collaboration with the staff and parents to be problem solvers together as much as possible. “Enjoy the students because you will. It’s the best part of the job. The children make the job.
MOUNT DANIEL SCHOOL’S KATHLEEN HALAYKO sits in her office with a plush of the school’s mascot, Danny the Hippo, in the photo above. Halayko was chosen by Falls Church City’s Recreation and Parks board as the Grand Marshal of this year’s Memorial Day Parade. In the photo to the right, Halayko stands outside of the Mount Daniel School, where she has worked for 28 years, serving as the school’s principal for the last 18 years. Halayko is retiring from the school on June 30. She said that she was “amazed” to be selected as this year’s Grand Marshal in an interview with the News-Press. (Photos: News-Press/Patricia Leslie) The teachers do as well. And so do the families. They come to the city because they are seeking a wonderful education for their children, and they work hard to become part of the fabric of the community.” Her biggest challenge as principal has been “the school size” and accommodating the vast growth in student population over the last 28 years. “We’ve been using every conceivable space,” she said. The school was designed for a maximum of 260 pupils which it has exceeded for a long time. Right now Mt. Daniel “is way over capacity with 380. It’s very, very full, and one year we had 20 classroom sections.” Now, Mt. Daniel has 17 sections, and the music and Spanish teachers do not have to push around their carts from classroom to classroom as they have been forced to do in the past.
It’s been “uncomfortable” at times in the squeezed space, and Halayko praised the staff who has “worked hard and creatively to meet the goal of building an environment of a good educational experience for the children.” Although Falls Church taxpayers approved a bond referendum in 2014 for school improvements, it’s not happening yet. “We are supposed to be in construction right now, and I’ve stayed to help with it. Now they don’t know when it will happen.” She rejected the notion that the lack of physical improvements to Mt. Daniel is a factor in her retirement. As principal Halayko has had no time for hobbies. “This is a very demanding job” which doesn’t offer much free time, but she hopes to pick up tennis again (after an almost 30-year lapse) and will continue with a
favorite pastime, reading. She’s a member of three book clubs (“they are fun” and “ways I keep in touch with friends and neighbors”) and tops on her list are historical fiction, biographies, and mysteries which “I’m just beginning to get into.” Right now she is reading The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. Halayko was born in Troy, New York, and her mother and sister are special educators, too. Her husband’s job at the Pentagon brought Halayko to the area in 1971. Would she consider substi-
tute teaching in retirement? That brought a quick “no,” but filling in for a principal is a possibility, but she is not seeking a position. Then why is she retiring? “I guess it’s just time,” she said a little wistfully but perked up at the prospect of traveling with her husband who retired 18 months ago. Their first trip is to France this fall. And, “I want to enjoy my children.” On June 13 Principal Halayko will be honored with other retirees at a celebration at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School.
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‘85 George Mason High Grad Named New Commanding Officer of U.S. Aircraft Carrier
Captain Gregory Clarke Huffman of the United States Navy, son of Commander Kenneth and Melanie Huffman (U.S. Navy ret.) took command of the aircraft carrier, USS John C. Stennis in February of 2016. Capt. Huffman and his family moved into the City of Falls Church in 1980 where he was an International Baccalaureate diploma recipient, graduating from George Mason High School in 1985. Winning an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy was the beginning of his career in the Navy, graduating from the academy in 1989. The IB program at Mason provided him with the necessary challenges he needed to be successful in the academy. At flight school, Huffman logged over 2,800 hours in the cockpit of 24 different types of aircraft. Huffman and his wife, Judy, are now stationed in Bremerton, Wash., homeport of the USS John C. Stennis. The Huffmans are the proud parents of three children: Matt, is a naval aviator in training and graduate of the Naval Academy; Lauren is a St. John’s
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Your Official 2016 City of Falls Church Memorial Day Parade Lineup 1. American Legion Post 130 Color Guard 1a. Boy Scout Troop 349 2. Falls Church Sheriff’s Department 3. City of Falls Church Police Honor Guard 4. Memorial Day Grand Marshal Kathleen Halayko 5. Falls Church City Council 6. Falls Church City Public Schools 7. Memorial Day King & Queen 8. Greater Falls Church Veteran’s Council 8a. VFW Post 9274 9. Operation Earth Watch 10. Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department 11. Mary Riley Styles Public Library 12. Falls Church Recreation and Parks Department 12a. Fairfax VA Chapter Harley Owner’s Group 13. Cub Scout Pack 681 14. TJ Safety Patrols 15. Falls Church Kiwanis Little League 16. Cub Scout Pack 657 17. Falls Church Youth Lacrosse Club 18. Lucious Lime 19. Washington Scottish Pipe Band 20. South Lakes HS JROTC 21. Concerned Citizens Against Gun Violence 22. NOVA Parks & Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation 23. Dunn Loring Volunteer Fire Department 24. Tinkus Cochabama VA USA 25. Scott Wardinski ‘89 Cadillac Brougham 26. Mosquito Shield
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they did when George Washington bought here.” We arrived at our destination – Arlington soil where we know GW once trod. It’s a hundred yards north of where Washington’s property began and extended through Shirlington. (It would later include the Columbia Pike mill for Arlington House built by George Washington Parke Custis.) What you see is a pockmarked pillar – to which passersby are oblivious – marking the site of the survey tree. There is no plaque, Vincent says. The text he once wrote disappeared. *** Gospel music permeated the conference center in Ballston Saturday at the gathering of the Halls Hill/High View Park community and Arlington officials. The commemoration honored the 14 first paid African-American firefighters who spent decades punctuating boredom with terror at Firestation No. 8. The event comes as a task force has recommended spending more money to rebuild the station in place rather than shut it down and build a new one on Old Dominion Drive at Glebe, which is what the county planned to reduce response times. Singer Sherri Clarke thrilled with “The Wind Beneath My Wings” and “You’ve Got a Friend,” adjusting the lyrics for Firestation No. 8. After proclamations from President Obama and Gov. Terry McAuliffe, several eighty-somethings traded war stories about how they functioned as firefighters. Said Carl Cooper, “I’m happy no longer to be called a Negro – we’ve graduated.” Washington St. (Kaiser Permanente) On May 18, a wallet was reported stolen from a vehicle sometime on Apr. 29. Vandalism to Vehicle, 600 block Laura Dr. On May 20, eggs were thrown at five vehicles sometime during the day. Public Drunkenness, 800 block W. Broad St. On May 21, a male, 31, no fixed address, was arrested for Public Drunkenness. Narcotics Violation, 300 block W. Broad St. On May 22, a male, 37, of Leesburg, was arrested and released on summons for Possession of Marijuana.
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Haycock Elementary School Celebrates 60th Anniversary
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The Haycock Elementary School Parent Teacher Association is sponsoring a celebration in honor of the school’s 60th anniversary on Saturday, June 4 from 6 – 9 p.m. at the school, located at 6616 Haycock Road, Falls Church. Since the school opened in 1955, the celebration will be sock hop-themed, complete with danceoffs and hula hoop contests. There will also be pizza, shake shop treats and commemorative t-shirts will be available for purchase at the event. 1950s-style attire is encouraged, but not required. Prizes will be awarded for best dressed. For more information, visit haycockpta.org/60th-anniversary-celebration-642016.html.
Henderson MS 8th Graders Earn Limo Ride Home
THIS GROUP OF HENDERSON STUDENTS rode home in style, after a stop at Mike’s Deli, on Friday, May 20 after one of the students earned the trip due to completing their algebra homework in the third quarter. (P����: C������� �� M������� C�������/FCCPS)
A group of 8th graders at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School didn’t take the bus home on Friday, May 20. They earned a limo ride by completing their algebra homework in the third quarter. Every student who completed all homework and maintained or improved their grades was induct-
ed into the Ro Pa Sci fraternity. All Ro Pa Sci members participated in a Rock Paper Scissors tournament and the winner invited friends to join them for a limo ride home from school. Murphy’s Funeral Home donated the limo and a driver from Always a Pleasure Limousine drove the students home after a stop at Mike’s Deli.
Mason HS Students Win ‘Green Difference’ Award A group of students from George Mason High School recently won a 2016 Green Difference Award from Green Schools, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that provides a number of environmental programs and resources to best develop the next generation of green students and schools. Mason students Ian Leach, Eric Lowery, Matthew Zampella, Jacob Brady, Andrew Pishner, Jacob Brown, Adrian Kamel and Bikash Shahi won an Outstanding Commitment to Green-o-vation award from the nonprofit. The award will be presented to the students at the Massachusetts State House in Boston on Friday, May 27. For more information, visit projectgreenschools.org.
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Those at the Dulles Conference finals on Monday evening witnessed history as the George Mason girls varsity lacrosse team became the Dulles Conference champions, beating number one conference ranked and current 4A State lacrosse champs Woodgrove High School Wolverines 12-11. It appeared head coach Courtney Gibbons and assistant coaches Bree Galloway and Jessamyn Modrak had the girls prepared for the contest as they won the first draw of the game and proceeded down the field. As in previous games, both teams started slow, methodically, getting the feel of the other team’s defense and their strengths and weaknesses. Mason’s Amy Roche opened the scoring for both teams five minutes into the contest but Woodgrove quickly responded 35 seconds later with a goal of their own to tie it at one. Sarah Lubnow assisted by Lizzie Dodge followed four minutes later to put Mason on top but Woodgrove responded three times in five minutes to take the lead 4-2. This was to be Mason’s night and they would not give up so easily, and on the ensuing draw Mason gained possession and brought the ball back into the offensive zone. Slow measured play followed and Roche once again found the back of the net, this time assisted by Sarah Lubnow. Lubnow followed a minute later with her own
goal assisted by Claire Hiscott to draw the score to 4-4. Seventy seconds later Claire scored her first goal of the night, Sarah followed 22 seconds later, and Claire scored her second goal two minutes later to make it a 7-4 Mason lead with time running down in the half. The spectators witnessed goaltender Annette Schlitt carrying on from the previous Woodgrove game and saving every ball thrown at her. Mason’s defensive squad consisting of Anna Dubro, Claire Trundle, Lydia Gorman, Alex Biggs, Meredith Johnson, Maeve Donnelly, Caroline Duffett and Rae Mondragon slowed the attack of Woodgrove to maintain the Mason lead. The Wolverines scored again at the 1:41 minute mark to pull ahead to 7-5 at halftime. The opening draw of the second half found Mason with the ball and 35 seconds later Hannah Hiscott scored her first of the night assisted by Johnson to increase Mason’s lead. Not to be silenced, Hannah scored again 39 seconds later and Sarah put another behind the Wolverines goalie 2.5 minutes later to make it a 10-5 game. Suddenly the Woodgrove cowbells and tom-toms were lacking, a state the Wolverine fans were not accustomed to, but the State Champs, who recorded an undefeated season in conference, were not going to roll over in defeat so easily. The Wolverines scored twice more to cut the Mason lead to three. Dodge scored at the 13:53 mark of the second half, assist-
ed by Claire Hiscott to increase Mason’s lead back to four, but Woodgrove responded 30 seconds later to bring the Mason lead back to three. Hannah scored again with 12:41 left in the game, assisted by Sarah to make it a Mason 12-8 game, but on the ensuing draw Roche accidentally brushed Lubnow in the face with her stick during a scrum and was assessed a yellow card, 2-minute non-releasable penalty, for dangerous stick follow through. During the penalty “man down” time Woodgrove got three past Annette to close the score at 12-11. Now the game was to become interesting with ten minutes left. Numerous times the Wolverines came down field only to be thwarted by Annette and the Mason defense. This time though, Mason, in turn, would carry the ball to the Woodgrove side of the field, but slowly work the ball around the perimeter, maintaining possession, and also eating time of the game clock. This process continued until the final nine seconds of the game when Mason was called for a foul and relinquished the ball to Woodgrove, but with limited time left, Woodgrove could not get the ball down the field and at the final horn the Mason girls converged at the 20-yard line to celebrate their win. With the win the Lady Mustangs continue their drive to a state championship with a home game Tuesday, May 31 against John Champe High School.
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For her latest album Charlene, R&B singer Tweet decided she would not follow a specific blueprint for how it would sound. It was a risky choice for an artist who ostensibly knew a thing or two about hit records – her 2002 debut Southern Hummingbird reached #3 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and featured the Top 10 single “Oops (Oh My)” – but it was a choice that paid off. Charlene, titled with Tweet’s given name, has been getting positive reviews from sources ranging from Amazon.com customers to Spin, the latter calling her vocals “startlingly unique” and “rapturous.” And HipHopDX called her songwriting “profound,” which is not surprising, considering the lyrics’ inspiration. “Each song was inspired by pages out of my diary,” Tweet said of the album, which is made up largely of songs chronicling romance – the ups (“Magic,” in which she says, “you are the best thing since ice cream”), the downs (“Somebody Else Will,” a Timbaland-produced track featuring Missy Elliott), and even the unrequited (“Won’t Hurt Me”). Tweet’s musical origins served as her muse, as well. “I had to go back to the basics,” she said. “To when I was Charlene, when I first fell in love with music, before the nickname Tweet, before I was an artist.” Those inspirations include Al Green, Marvin Gaye, and gospel music, and are evident in everything from Charlene’s instrumentation to its cadences. Tweet’s journey since her first involvement with the music industry has had fluctuations, not unlike those in a romantic relationship. In 1994, she joined Sugah, a trio put together by DeVante Swing of the acclaimed R&B group Jodeci. But after years of recording and performing, their album was never released. Then Tweet was offered a contract with Elektra, and got to work with her friends and fellow onetime DeVante Swing protégés Missy Elliott and Timbaland.
TWEET. (P����: B���� D��������) The product, Southern Hummingbird, achieved great critical and commercial success. When her next album, 2005’s It’s Me Again, did not reach similar levels of success, Tweet found herself in the throes of depression. “The record company wasn’t giving me the support that I needed after compromising for them; I was kinda left out in the cold,” Tweet said. “I was in a relationship that I know now wasn’t the right relationship. At that time, my life really hit the fan. I’d had a case of depression when working with DeVante in the beginning, but at that point, in 2005, 2006, I was just pretty much over it. I felt like it was too much to battle with.” Tweet credits her faith as being the main thing that helped her become healthy. “Growing up in the church, I always knew that God was the force of everything,” she said. “So when I hit that point in my life, I knew what was exactly what I needed to do…. There was an incident where I was watching the BET [“Celebration of Gospel”] and Tonéx (now
known as B.Slade) was singing “Lord Make Me Over”…. I was sitting there drunk, smoking cigarette after cigarette, and when I heard that song it just hit me like a ton of bricks and it was really speaking my life. So I kind of hit the floor and just surrendered right there....I went full-fledged into getting my spiritual life where it was supposed to be. “And then as I did that, God started bringing opportunities, and then every opportunity led to this moment right here….I think everyone in life has to hit that [rock bottom] in order to get clear on their direction and where they need to be or where they need to go. That was mine.” Since taking time to refocus, Tweet has rebounded. Charlene has reached #3 on the Billboard R&B and #4 on the Billboard Independent album charts, respectively. Tweet is scheduled to perform at the Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, May 28. • For more information about Tweet, visit iamtweet.net.
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Naked Lunch’s All Vegetarian & Vegan Eats Are All Good BY DREW COSTLEY
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MOM’s Organic Market is one of my favorite homespun businesses in the entire region. Like one of my other favorites, Five Guys, it’s got humble beginnings. A 22-year-old Scott Nash started the business as a home delivery service out of his mother’s garage with an initial investment of $100.
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8298 Glass Alley Fairfax 703-663-8810 Hours: Monday – Sunday: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. Nowadays, Nash’s business, which is now a grocery store chain specializing in organic foods, has 14 locations throughout the DMV, with another in Bryn Mawr, Penn. One of the main reasons why it became my favorite was that in my fledgling days as a vegan, MOM’s was the only grocery store I could go to if I wanted more variety
than Tofurky and produce. There are other reasons, which I’ll come back to those later, but what could make one of my favorites even better? An addition in recent years of an all vegetarian and vegan eatery called Naked Lunch. MOM’s Organic Market seems to be placing Naked Lunch’s at their new locations for the most part – the Merrifield, Arlington and Washington, D.C. locations, for example, have all opened within the past decade and have Naked Lunch additions. The other Naked Lunch locations are in Baltimore, Bryn Mawr, Herndon and Rockville. For those who disobey the advice not to go grocery shopping on an empty stomach, this is vital information. Merrifield’s Naked Lunch location has a bar near the entrance of the store where shoppers and diners can enjoy a meal. Most of the offerings on Naked Lunch’s menu are of the bowl variety, which is a dining trend from over the past decade that I’m frankly ambivalent about. A few of the more interesting items on the menu are the Confetti Bowl, Sushi Bowl and Crowder Bowl, all of which are priced at $8.75.
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The Crowder Bowl, for example, comes with brown rice, spinach, bell peppers, caramelized onions, shredded carrots, tofu, cashews, and scallions, tossed with coconut curry dressing and topped with cilantro and lime juice. For the vegetarians, the Confetti Bowl comes with brown rice and black beans with parmesan cheese, mixed peppers, olives, tomatoes, corn, garnished with cilantro and jalapenos with limejalapeno dressing. If you aren’t in the mood for a bowl, Naked Lunch has three other options, two of which I’ve tried. The Black Bean Burger ($8.75) doesn’t rank very high on the list of veggie burgers that I’ve had. It had a load of tasty ingredients – turtle black beans, brown rice, sweet potato, green onion and cabbage on a spelt bun with melted cheddar and guacamole – but it’s just kind of bland. Perhaps that’s because I ordered it without cheese, but alas. The other of those three options that I had on a recent visit to Naked Lunch, the Cauliflower Steak ($8.75), was absolutely delicious. It is a head of cauliflower flattened out to look like a steak that’s
NAKED LUNCH’S Cauli�lower Steak is among the best lunch meals in the area. (P����: D��� C������/N���-P����) marinated in lemon juice, dill, olive oil and garlic and served on a bed of brown rice, fresh spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms and chimichurri dressing. It’s engaging in terms of taste and was hearty while remaining light. The dish is definitely on my list of favorite lunch meals in the Falls Church area. Naked Lunch also serves freshly made juices with names like Pink Lady and The Chill, both $5.25 for a 12 oz./$6.50 for a 16 oz., but I haven’t tried any of them, so I’ll withhold comment. Diners
can also make their own juice with either a carrot, apple or orange base and add-ins like beet, kale, cucumber and spinach. Back to some more reasons why MOM’s is one of my favorite local businesses. For starters, MOM’s pays a $12 minimum wage. Also, they prefer employees who “wish for the demise of Exxon, Monsanto and the coal industry,” as it says on their jobs page on their website. And now I can add Naked Lunch, MOM’s simple but wonderful eatery to the list.
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The results of a long-term Swedish study suggest that help for our aging brains might be as close as the vitamin aisle in the drugstore. Vitamin B-12 was shown to slow the rate of brain aging ... probably. Homocysteine, a non-protein amino acid, is the culprit in increasing the rate of brain aging, and vitamin B-12 slows that rate. Between 2001 and 2009, some 500 participants over age 60 were examined and assessed, including medical history, cognitive function and B-12 levels. Brain volume was measured during the study. Higher levels of B-12 seemed to help lower the rate of homocystein. Not all researchers are sold on the conclusions, however. Maybe it’s another lifestyle health factor that’s involved. They do think that trials are warranted, with more in-
depth looks at the levels of homocysteine and B-12. At the same time, they point to a previous study with basically the same results, this time with participants over age 70 who already had mild cognitive impairment and received a few vitamins, not just B-12. There was less brain volume loss in those who took the vitamins. In yet another study, B-12 deficiency was associated with cognitive ability difficulty on tests. So where does that leave us? Still unsure about the actual mechanism of vitamin B-12 as it pertains to counteracting loss of brain volume, at least until researchers satisfy their need for longer-term trials with every parameter and detail to their liking. Meanwhile, unless we get the all-clear from our doctor to take a vitamin B-12 tablet every day, there are a few additions to our diet that might help, if the study results are true. Sardines and beef liver
have more than enough B-12. Even milk and salmon have enough for the daily requirement, as do Swiss cheese and eggs. *** There’s a movement afoot that, if it gains traction and becomes law, could affect many of us. Researchers have once again studied the ramifications of increasing the age of Medicare eligibility to 67. The purpose, of course, would be to save the government money. Here are a few of the things the study discovered from the records of more than 200,000 seniors: • Overall medical spending dropped by a third when seniors switched to Medicare because the government pays providers less than private insurers. • While the government will save money, actual health-care spending will go up. A previous 2011 study concluded that while the government would save $5.7 billion (in 2014), seniors age 65 and 66 would have increased costs out of pocket of $4.5 billion. The current study agrees. • A Congressional Budget Office looked at the potential government
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savings in 2013, and concluded that the government could save $19 billion between 2016 and 2023. • Seniors generally would stay with the same health-care providers, who will get less money for the same services, probably 30 percent less. Those providers will continue to see existing patients because they’ll be dealing with volume in the number of patients. So what does this mean to us? Seniors would need to spend two more years on private insurance. To keep employer-provided insurance, we’d need to stay employed for two more years.
If we were planning to retire and have Social Security as all (or at least part) of our income, we’re not likely to be able to afford the high cost of medical insurance, as it seems to go up each year as we get older. Bottom line: This topic isn’t going away. It’s one to keep an eye on. Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@gmail.com.
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FRIDAY, MAY 27
Early Literacy Center. Explore educational and manipulative items to teach early literacy through play on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday every week. This program is for ages birth to 5 years. No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 a.m. – noon.703-248-5034. Movie Night at the Library. Members of the communty will gather to watch “Big Hero 6.” Woodrow Wilson Library (6101 Knollwood Dr., Falls Church). Free. 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Teen Knitting Club. Children in grades 5 – 12 can gather to knit, crochet and work on other needle arts. In January, the club started a group hat project. Registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 8 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Library. Author Talk and Book Signing. Peter J. Daly and John F. Myslinski will discuss and sign Strange Goods: A Novel about Faith, Murder, Sin and Redemption. One More Page Books (2200 N. Westmoreland St. #101, Arlington). Free. 7 p.m. onemorepagebooks.com.
1-on-1 Computer Tutoring. Receive personalized assistance using computers, Internet and e-books. Registration required. To schedule an appointment, stop by the reference desk or call 703-2485035. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – noon. 703-248-5035. Comedy Club. People ages 55 and up can relive the bygone days of classic comedy. Enjoy video and audio selections of the “Honeymooners,” “I Love Lucy,” Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Bill Dana, Bob and Ray, and Andy Griffith – just to name a few! Laugh together and share your own funny stories with Mike Bloom, comedy book author and former Disney writer. Aurora Hill Community & Senior Center (735 S. 18th St., Arlington). Free. 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. 703-228-5722.
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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. Invasive Plant Removal. Join community volunteers in
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protecting the local environment from invasive plant species. This is a ongoing project that occurs the fourth Saturday of every month to reclaim the natural area at Benjamin Banneker Park. Benjamin Banneker Park (6620 N. 18th St., Arlington). Free. 10 a.m. – noon. 703-228-1862.
SUNDAY, MAY 29
Memorial Day Weekend/Rolling Thunder Pig Roast. American Legion Post 130 is hosting a pig roast. The Post opens at noon. American Legion Post 130 (400 N. Oak St., Falls Church). $5. 2 p.m. post130.org.
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.
TUESDAY, MAY 31
Preschool Storytime. Songs, movement, and stories for ages 1836 months. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. 703-248-5034. Kids’ Chess Club. Children between the ages 7 – 14 can learn to play chess. All skill levels are welcome.
Thomas Jefferson Library (7415 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). Free. 4:45 – 5:45 p.m. 703-573-1060. Choralis Sing-Along. Attendees can sing excerpts of Handel’s “Messiah” with Choralis, direceted by Gretchen Kuhrmann with Todd Fickley on keyboard. The Falls Church Episcopal (115 E. Fairfax St., Falls Church). $5 to rent a score; $15 for admission. 7 p.m. choralis.org.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1
Time for Twos. Children ages 2 – 3 meet for early literacy storytime with songs, stories and activities. Registration required. Thomas Jefferson Library (7415 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 10:30 – 11 a.m. 703-573-1060. Kids’ Chess Club. Children between the ages 7 – 15 can learn to play chess. All skill levels are welcome. Woodrow Wilson Library (6101 Knollwood Dr., Falls Church). Free. 4 – 5 p.m. 703-820-8774. Summer Pruning Demonstration. Arlington County Virginia Cooperative Extension’s Kristen Conrad Buhls will demonstrate techniques for summer pruning of shrubs and perennials. Advance registration requested. Demonstration Site (1724 Hollinwood Dr., Alexandria). Free. 7 – 8 p.m. mgnv.org.
Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, MAY 26
“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 27
“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.
“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.
TUESDAY, MAY 31
“La Cage Aux Folles.” The twenty year relationship between Georges, a club-owner, and Albin, the head drag performer, faces a test when their son announces his engagement to the daughter of ultra-conservative political parents. To please their son, Georges and Albin agree to hide their lifestyle and play it straight for a dinner with the potential inlaws. However, Albin‘s different de�inition of “normal” threatens to upend the entire supper with hilarious results. Through July 10. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Falls Church). $40 – $72. 7:30 p.m. sigtheatre.org.
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M������ A����� B���� ���� D�������, N�������, S������, B���� ��� M������ M����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20 – $30. 5:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. D���� 45’�. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283.
A�������� E������� ���� P���� C���. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $35. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. A P������ H��� C�������� ���� G������� K������ ��� ������� ������ C���� T����, H������ M���� ��� V���� G������� ��� T�� N���������. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $30 – $80. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. M���� M������ ���� S������� A�����. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $10. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. K��� L������ ���� C������ C������� ��� P������ S�����������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 in advance; $12 day of the show (Mainstage). 9 p.m. 202-667-7960. R�� H�������� D��. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. C���� B – L���!. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 – $40. 11 p.m. 202-265-0930.
N���������. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $30 – $80. 5:45 p.m. 703-255-1900. T��� � T������. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. F������ J������. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $45. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. S���� A�� F����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 (Mainstage). 9 p.m. 202-667-7960. H�� �� H����: 2000� D���� P����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $16. 9 p.m. 202-265-0930. R�� E������ ���� A����� M��������. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $15. 9 p.m. 703522-8340. C���������� P��� S�������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 9 p.m. 703-255-1566. T�� D���. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703237-8333.
F��� L��� S��� �� T�� B������: S���� �� ��� B������ I���� ���� S����� B���� � W��� T��� O���� S�������. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $46. 3 p.m. 703-255-1900. B����� S��� T��� D���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 5 p.m. 703-255-1566. A P������ H��� C�������� ���� G������� K������ ��� ������� ������ C���� T����, H������ M���� ��� V���� G������� ��� T��
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T�� D���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $15. 5:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.
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J���� M������ H��� S����� J��� B���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $15. 6 p.m. 703255-1566. C�������� ��� ��� Q�����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930.
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T�� L������� P������. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna).Free. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1900. M������ C����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 – $25. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. N��� S��� ���� B�� T���� ��� B��� �� Y����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $27. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. P���� W��� ���� T�� M������� T��������. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $29.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500.
P������� A����... 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.
Saturday, June 11 – Tinner Hill Blues Fest: Blues, Brews & BBQ. The Tinner Hill Blues Festival, in its 23rd year, returns with music, food and drink, films and
children’s programs. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park AVe., Falls Church). $20 – $30. 1 – 9:30 p.m. tinnerhill.org/blues-festival.
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4th Annual Food Drive to Begin At Memorial Day Parade Monday Monday’s Memorial Day Parade and Festivities in Falls Church will mark the launching of the 4th Annual Food Drive co sponsored by the Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce and the NewsPress. Donations of non-perishable foods brought to the Chamber or News-Press booths at Monday’s festival around City Hall will go to Food For Others, Inc., a Merrifield-based site for the gathering and distribution of food for the region’s homeless and hungry.
Falls Church News-Press Vol. XVI, No. 12 • May 25, 2006
It is no the timw e for g o all o cows d to go to the aid of the pa stu ir re. *** **
10 Year s Ago
Thr ow it up. Pour it up It now is the time for all go od cows to go the to aid
Tragic Cycle Deaths Two employees of the City of Falls Church, a husband and wife, were killed last Saturday night when the motorcycle they were riding hit a car that turned left in front of it on Lee Highway at Meadow View Road. Timothy Hohner, 47, and Cynthia Hohner, 47, died shortly after the 8:20 p.m. collision at the Fairfax Inova Hospital, according to official reports.
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Business News & Notes Stoneroom Concert at Bikenetic This Sunday Bikenetic, the locally owned and operated full-service bicycle shop, will host a Stoneroom concert featuring the BelleRegards on Sunday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m. (doors will open at 7 p.m.) The BelleRegards are a four-piece folk band out of Toronto. Advance tickets and information about the group can be found at www. belleregards.com. Bikenetic is located at 201 W. Jefferson Street in Falls Church. For more information about Bikenetic, visit www.bikenetic.com.
Re/Max West End Hosting Grand Opening on Memorial Day RE/MAX West End is hosting a grand opening celebration on Monday, May 30 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at its new location at 710 W. Broad Street. Live music, face painting and other family friendly activities, as well as tours of the new office space will be provided. Owned by Louise Molton, RE/MAX West End is a sponsor of the Falls Church Memorial Day Parade. For more information, call 571-282-3732.
Asian American Chamber Holding Bimonthly Breakfast Series June 8 The Asian American Chamber of Commerce is hosting Pearls of Wisdom, a Regional Women’s Circle of Influence, on Wednesday, June 8 from 8 – 10 a.m. The event will take place at the Cushman & Wakefield Conference Center located at 8300 Boone Boulevard in Tysons. The Regional Women’s Circle is a bimonthly breakfast program of the Asian-American, Falls Church, Greater McLean, and Regional Tysons Chambers of Commerce and the Merrifield and Vienna Business Associations. For more information, visit www.asianamericanchamber.org.
Congressional School Now Fully Accredited by VAIS Congressional School has earned full accreditation from the Virginia Association of Independent Schools, the leader for promoting educational, ethical and professional excellence for Virginia’s best independent schools. Its accreditation program is one of a select few recognized at the national level through the National Association of Independent School’s Commission on Accreditation and is also recognized and approved by the Virginia Board of Education through the Virginia Council for Private Education. Founded in 1939, Congressional School is a co-ed independent school for infants and students through Grade 8 with 350 students and 2000 campers annually through its academic and summer programs. The school is now dual accredited through VAIS and AdvancEd. For more information, visit www.congressionalschools.org. 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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