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Inside This Week 24 Hour Fitness Site Sells for $21.25 Million At $7 million per acre, the 3.1 acre site of the 24 Hour Fitness at 1000 E. Broad St. in the City of Falls Church has sold for $21.25 million. See News Briefs, page 9
Groundbreaking for New School Friday
A year and a half after voters in Falls Church City approved a $120 million referendum to build a new high school, the time has arrived to break ground on the project.
Dehghani-Tafti Wins Commonwealth’s Attorney Upset, Saslaw Edges Taeb Both Expected to Downtown Debut Win in November General Election
by Nicholas F. Benton
Falls Church News-Press
and direct the City Manager and his staff to fly the LGBTQ Pride Flag in front of City Hall during the month of June to reflect the City’s spirit of inclusion and to honor LGBTQ Pride Month in the City of Falls Church.” The flag flying reflected actions taken by a number of jurisdictions
Human rights attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti scored an upset over incumbent Theo Stamos in the Democratic primary for the Arlington-Falls Church Commonwealth’s Attorney race, while veteran incumbent State Sen. Dick Saslaw prevailed in his close Democratic primary race against two challengers Tuesday. The two races were on the ballot in the City of Falls Church and both became unusually hotly contested. Dehghani-Tafti’s total was 14,828 votes to Stamos’ 13,220 with all of Arlington County’s 55 precincts reporting, and all four (three plus absentee votes) in Falls Church. For State Senate in the 35th District, with all 46 precincts reporting from Fairfax County and Falls Church, Saslaw prevailed with 7,300 votes to 6,871 for Taeb and 852 for Torrent. In Falls Church, according to the Voter Registrar’s office, 22 percent of active registered voters showed up at the polls, a high number for a usually uncontested primary. For Saslaw, he considered Falls Church critical to his re-election chances, telling the News-Press that he chose to spend the entire election day greeting voters outside the Ward 3 polling place at the Community Center. Taeb, who resides in the ward, also spent time there, but for Saslaw, it was his only site among 46 voting locations for personal contact with voters even though he campaigned vigorously throughout his district for over a year.
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F.C.’s Hockenberry Has Done it All
From her arrival in 1969 to her exit from the Planning Commission this year, Falls Church’s Lindy Hockenberry’s had her hands in a little bit of everything. See story, page 8
Mason Boys, Girls Soccer Fall in State Final For the George Mason High School girls soccer team, an 11-year dynasty came to an end and for the boys, a back-to-back championship bid fell short against a regional rival. See Sports, page 17
THE LITTLE CITY’S NEW, yet-to-be-named downtown park was officially welcomed to Falls Church on Monday with a ribbon cutting ceremony attended by an assortment of City officials and members of the community. The newly-renovated park space created by the Economic Development Authority in the 100 block of West Broad St. is currently known as Downtown Plaza but a new name will be unveiled soon. (Photo: Gary Mester)
‘Stonewall 50’ Rainbow Flag Flies Over F.C. City Hall for Pride Month
by Nicholas F. Benton
Falls Church News-Press
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By a unanimous vote at its meeting Monday, the Falls Church City Council voted to order the flying of the rainbow flag, emblematic of the movement for LGBTQ rights, on the City Hall flagpole during the “Pride Month” of June. This year celebrates the
50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in June 1969, recognized as marking the birth of the modern LGBTQ equality movement. The signing of a Council proclamation recognizing “LGBTQ Pride and Stonewall Rebellion Month” by Mayor David Tarter was followed by a motion from Council member Letty Hardi and unanimous 6-0 vote to “authorize
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across the U.S. to do likewise, most being reported on social media and some occuring in states where the issue of equal rights has been contentious even to now. The reports include cases of defiance by U.S. State Department and other federal government entities that were ordered by President Trump not to do so this month. The Council’s proclamation affirmed “the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all people” as being “the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace,” adding that the City “is proud of the meaningful, long-lasting impacts the LGBTQ community has made and the contributions it has brought to the City’s rich and diverse culture.” It added, “The City of Falls Church remains committed to treating all people with fairness and respect and to creating a community where everyone can live without fear of prejudice, discrimination, violence or hatred based on gender identity or sexual orientation.”
LO CA L Mayor Tarter presented the proclamation on behalf of the entire Council to Falls Church News-Press founder, owner and editor Nicholas Benton, who as an openly LGBTQ resident and businessman serves on statewide LGBTQ rights organizations and is, himself, a pioneer of the modern movement, having co-founded a San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Gay Liberation Front as a graduate seminarian shortly after the Stonewall Uprisings in 1970. He is the author of a book that has been a “Gay Studies” bestseller. Also thanking the Council for its proclamation Monday was School Board member Lawrence Webb, who said it was just a decade ago that he first ran for office in Falls Church and won to become the first openly gay African-American elected official in Virginia history. Webb has served terms on both the City Council and the School Board here. Tarter and member of the Council were invited to present their proclamation at the upcoming celebration of “Stonewall 50,” the anniversary of the uprising, to be held in Falls Church on Sunday, June 23, at the Falls Church
Episcopal Church at 4 p.m., to which everyone is invited. The event is being sponsored by the Falls Church News-Press and the Social Justice Committee of Falls Church and Environs, a group of the Tinner Hill Foundation. The free event will be in the form of an educational seminar on the LGTBQ movement and its progress that will feature a panel including State Del. Danica Roem, the first transgender person elected to state office in Virginia in 2017, the openly LGBTQ assistant pastor at the Falls Church Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Diane Maloney, Benton and two persons who were actually there at the Stonewall riots in 1969, one a current city resident. (The riots were three days of clashes between LGBTQ — mostly youth and street people — with New York police in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. From it came an explosion of political organizing energy to create and develop many LGBTQ rights organizations across the U.S. in the subsequent years.) The panel will be moderated by Lou Chibarro, who has been a staff reporter since the 1970s at the Washington Blade newspaper that
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has served the regional LGBTQ community for 50 years itself. The panel will be followed by a reception at Clare and Don’s Beach Shack later that afternoon, also open to the public. At Monday’s meeting, Benton noted the significance of the historic Falls Church Episcopal Church as the site of the June 23 event. In the previous decade, he noted, the church became the center of a struggle over LGBTQ rights itself for almost a decade, when a large segment of the congregation voted to leave the national Episcopal Church denomination in protest of its election of an openly-gay bishop, the Rev. Gene Robinson. They then proceeded to occupy the property for over a half-dozen years before exhausting all their legal challenges and the courts finally ordered them to vacate the property and return it to the Episcopal diocese. He said the resilience of, and community support (including editorially from the News-Press) for the “continuing Episcopalians” who were invited to hold forth at the Falls Church Presbyterian Church across the street during a seven-year “exile” from their historic property, and their even-
tual return to it and subsequent robust growth and affirmation, themselves, of equality has helped enormously to create a diversityaffirming and welcoming atmosphere throughout the City of Falls Church as reflected in Monday’s proclamation. That welcoming environment in recent years may also be a contributing factor to the fact that the City has seen the fastest growth in the entire region of single-resident occupancies by persons under 65, according to a demographic study that the City is currently incorporating into its Comprehensive Plan. Other Pride Month “Stonewall 50” events are also slated for Falls Church and the region, including a June 25 showing of the Academy Award-winning film, “Milk,” at 6 p.m. at the NoVa Labor Hall, 4636 John Marr Dr. in Annandale, hosted by Nova Pride. On Thursday, June 27, the Fairfax LGBT Democrats will host a film showing of the documentary, “Before Stonewall,” at the Cinema Arts Theater in Fairfax at 6:30 p.m., The second “Love is Love” party at the State Theatre in Falls Church, hosted by Clare and Don’s, will be held on Saturday, July 13 at 9 p.m.
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Saslaw carried the ward by a narrow 356 votes to 345 for Taeb and 30 for Torrent. Saslaw carried all three Falls Church wards, winning Ward 1 (Thomas Jefferson school) with 338 votes to 318 for Taeb and 23 for Torrent, and winning Ward 2 (Falls Church Greens apartments) with 286 votes to 219 for Taeb and 22 for Torrent. Both Saslaw and DehghaniTafti are now overwhelming favorites to win their respective races in November, with little or no serious competition expected then. Normally, this primary is a non-starter, if one happens at all. But this is a big election year in Virginia, with every one of the state delegate and senate seats on the ballot in November and with both houses now having the narrowest of margins for the Republicans. The heated contests belie differences among Democratic voters in the strongest of Democratic strongholds in the state that some party leaders are concerned will lead to ongoing dissention with-
in their ranks that could weaken chances in November. Others see the robust campaigns this time as evidence of the new-found energy in the party ranks that can only help when it comes to November, and the 2020 Presidential election year following it, as well. The unusually-prevalent role of outside money in the races leading to this Tuesday’s election was also cause for concern among some for its potential for sewing division. Progressive Democratic billionaire George Soros, contributing through a Washington, D.C.-based political action committee, the Justice and Public Safety Political Action Committee, poured over $583,237 (as of the May 1 reporting deadline) into DehghaniTafti’s challenge against Stamos, and another $392,000 into the campaign of a challenger in the Commonwealth Attorney race in Fairfax County, Steve Descano, who like Dehghani-Tafti, was successful by a narrow margin in unseating the longtime incumbent Raymond Morogh. For Dehghani-Tafti, the Soros money provided her a substan-
tial $744,000 to $546,000 lead in fundraising over Stamos as of the reporting deadline. But it wasn’t only the money. Dehghani-Tafti enjoyed the endorsements of a wide array of leading Democratic current and former elected officials, including former Governor Terry McAuliffe, former State Sen. Mary Margaret Whipple and current Falls Church State Del. Marcus Simon. Stamos, on the other hand, had the support of all three of Falls Church’s commonwealth officers, Sheriff Steve Bittle, Commissioner of the Revenue Tom Clinton and Treasurer Jody Acosta. Stamos chose a Falls Church location for her election night “watch party,” Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. She told supporters there as the final results came in that she would work to make the transition for her successor as smooth and efficient as possible. A number of other Democratic primary state legislative races were also contested by newcomers against incumbents in the region, and in all cases, as with Saslaw, the incumbents prevailed against
PARISA DEHGHANI-TAFTI (left) scored an upset over Theo Stamos for Commonwealth’s Attorney while Virginia State Sen. Dick Saslaw survived a tough challenge from Yasmine Taeb in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. (Courtesy photos) challengers who’ve never held public office before. In districts adjacent Falls Church, State Senator Barbara Favola defeated challenger Nicole Merlene, 62 percent to 38 percent, in the 31st District, mostly in North Arlington, State Delegate Kaye Kory defeated Andres Jimenez, 62 percent to 38 percent, in the 38th District mostly in the Mason District of Fairfax County, and State Delegate Alfonso Lopez
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The hard-fought victory, if by a narrow margin, of veteran State Senator Dick Saslaw, whose district includes the City of Falls Church, means the veteran lawmakers, as the Democrats’ current leader in that body, will stand an excellent chance of becoming the Senate Majority leader in Richmond, if Democrats statewide can win even just one more seat to obtain a majority there. This will give him enormous clout to provide for his constituents (that’s us) and the state as a whole. His positions articulated during the course of a rough campaign assure us that he will lead as a responsible progressive with the first opportunity in a long time to reform Virginia’s laws with respect to gun safety, women’s rights, education and the needs of the less advantaged, in a powerful way. So the challenge for all Democrats in Virginia now is to come together with the requisite zeal and enthusiasm to give their party, and its values, control of both houses of the legislature to combine with the power of our Democratic governor to bring about some really constructive changes. It is clearly time to clear the air after the Democratic primary campaigns of the recent months that became far more contentious, and in some cases downright nastier, than almost anyone anticipated. We are happy to accept the outcome of the election Tuesday, wishing Saslaw the best in another four year term and the same for our new commonwealth’s attorney, Parisa Dehghani-Tafti. Although she comes to the job lacking experience, the phalanx of supporters among leading and respected Democrats in the region will help to insure that she executes her duties diligently and well. The danger of hotly contested primaries is that they can create frictions and animosities that are hard to overcome, even as they involve persons of the same party and general policy goals. It will be highly unfortunate if such differences harden into divisions in the coming period, and are not quickly overcome by some deft leadership and qualities of grace and wisdom to embrace a wide new coalition of same-minded persons to achieve wider, and very important objectives. Remember, please, that everyone is not of good will in this process. If the Mueller investigation and report into the interference of the Russians in the last presidential election teaches us anything, it is in the manner by which they sought to achieve their desired results, and that had everything to do with sewing division and discord. It also had to do with stepping up their interference in upcoming U.S. elections, and we should all expect to see them deeply involved, yes, even this year in Virginia. If nothing else, those who care about the outcome of elections going forward should read at least the first section of the Mueller Report to get a clear and impactful picture of the “modus operandi” that will be operative in the upcoming races. Know your enemy.
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this kind of rhetoric about someone who uses his money to fight poverty and injustice. If your point is that “outside” money is unacceptable — something that you have not previously complained about vis-à-vis any other candidate over the years — then you need to account for the fact that so many local current and former elected officials, organizations and voters have supported the candidate you attacked so unfairly. Surely they have not fallen under the spell of some “dark” influencer. We expect the News-Press to adhere to ethical standards. You fell far short and did a terrible disservice
both to the candidate and voters. Peg Willingham, Fran Callanan, Pete Davis, Liz Hume, Heather Pickens Keppler Falls Church The Editor replies — The News-Press strives to act in the interests of its public and not of any candidate or faction. When the campaign financing report was made public last week, and it showed $583,237 contribution to a single candidate on the ballot in Falls Church, it was our duty to call that out to our readers, as
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We all recall 2012’s violent “derecho” storm that blasted the region, causing massive power outages for 900,000 Virginians, many who suffered for days in the brutal and stifling summer heat. The derecho should have been a wake-up call to everyone — including our state legislators — that Virginia’s electricity system is far from weather-ready. It seems the alarm didn’t go off. Last month, a sudden storm with 70 mile per hour gusts tested Virginia’s electricity system again, proving it still cannot stand up to severe weather. Some 115,000 customers in Arlington and Fairfax counties lost power for as long as two days. In talking with Northern Virginia voters this election season, I’ve heard countless people express disgust with the unreliability of our monopoly electricity provider, Dominion Power. At a recent League of Women Voters candidate debate, the audience booed at any mention of Dominion. Ratepayers complain of too many outages, as the power fails frequently in weather events with brownouts lasting for days. The costs to Virginians and our economy of not being “weather ready” are considerable and stressful. Just in my neighborhood, one family had to toss significant amounts of spoiled food purchased earlier in the day. Another neighbor had to run three gas generators through the night so his elderly mother could power her hospital bed and
health monitors. A young mother tried to feed and keep her four-month-old comfortable without air conditioning. Schools in session lost power and had to send kids home. Businesses lost operations and cus-
“Don’t be fooled by the ‘Grid Transformation Act’ the Virginia legislature passed last year. It was co-written by Dominion lobbyists and passed by Dominionfunded lawmakers.” tomers and what likely amounts to millions of dollars in revenues. Dominion’s power failures — and failure of Virginia’s lawmakers to hold Dominion accountable — are unacceptable and avoidable when technology is available to ensure we’re weather-ready and resilient. This is especially important as climate change brings even more violent weather. Weather resilience for Virginia means more than simply burying — “undergrounding” — power lines. It also means changing Virginia law to break Dominion’s monopoly grip on our on power supply to allow for
backups to the current grid. These include localized micro-grids, energy storage and roof-top solar, alternatives that lawmakers have allowed Dominion to ignore, control or reject as it pleases. If lawmakers freed Virginians to deploy these backup energy sources, residents and businesses could generate their own local power as needed rather than wait for Dominion to get to our neighborhoods. It also would help relieve pressure on crews who work hard around the clock under tough conditions. Don’t be fooled by the “Grid Transformation Act” the Virginia legislature passed last year. It was co-written by Dominion lobbyists and passed by Dominion-funded lawmakers. No surprise, it’s not transformative in the least. While it undergrounds power lines, the bill defies broad support in Virginia for clean energy modernization and alternatives by failing to mandate any spelled-out renewable energy development. Instead, it creates a vague, carte blanche $10 billion dollar slush fund of ratepayer money for Dominion to invest in whatever it chooses—even old-school, climate-harming natural gas pipelines that it laughingly calls “renewable energy.” Dominion’s self-serving arrogance is a big problem not just for families when storms strike, but for Virginia’s economy and job-creating businesses that need weather-resilient and reliable power as well. Recently in a letter to the State Corporation Commission, Adobe, Apple
and Microsoft, whose data centers here need reliable electricity service 24/7, have complained about Dominion’s power to control the supply of competitively-procured solar energy and its failure to consider energy storage as a cost-effective and beneficial energy resource, instead investing public funds in more natural gas infrastructure. Essentially Dominion Power is telling major companies that launch or locate here they can’t install solar to save energy costs and meet their environmental responsibility goals. Not in Virginia. Not without Dominion’s permission. What can Virginians do? Vote. This election for Virginia’s legislature — from this past Tuesday’s primary to the Nov. 5 general election is the best chance for voters to voice a clear and powerful message to Richmond: Stop letting Dominion dictate our energy choices. Open the market to let families and businesses seek clean and reliable energy alternatives. Demand that Dominion truly modernize and weatherize our power grid as we need to prepare for bigger disasters. Return the power over our public utility to the people. Make the elections a referendum on Dominion. Virginia’s economy, environment and energy future are at stake. Karen E. Torrent is an attorney and long term resident of Falls Church, a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney and staff counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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After 50 Years of Service to F.C. City, Hockenberry Reflects on Her Journey by Matt Delaney
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When selecting the City of Falls Church’s own Mount Rushmore, who would make the cut? Jessie Thackrey, Edwin Henderson, Charles Tinner and perhaps even George Mason, to name a few. But one name that deserves its share of air time in the public comment section is Lindy Hockenberry, who, whether in the classroom or on the dais at City Hall, has done her part to enrich the City’s presence both within its borders and regionally in her 50 years here. From her arrival in 1969 to her exit from the City’s Planning Commission — which will be made official once she gets to participate in one final meeting at the newly renovated City Hall — Hockenberry’s had her hands in a little bit of everything. She’s taught at multiple grades at Falls Church City Public Schools, served two terms as a City Council member, once as vice mayor, and has generally been a recognizable
face and personality that seems to just pop up at any event in Falls Church, big or small. Maybe it’s by design so she can sneak her way onto the Mount Rushmore-concept put forward here (what’s the point of being so active in the City if you can’t slap your name on a few things, right?). But let’s take her at her word that her love for Falls Church jibes with her nature as a caring individual who knows how to connect with people, including those who aren’t her biggest fans. “This senior was going for their internship and asked me, ‘Ms. Hockenberry, what should I do?’ I said, ‘Smile. That’ll get you all the way. Smile,’” Hockenberry said. “I think that’s what gets me along; I smile and say ‘Hi’ to everybody. And some of them I know that might have a little problem with me, I say ‘Hi’ even more often and ask them how they’re doing.” Raised on a farm along Route 20 between Albany, New York and Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Hockenberry lived under a staircase and didn’t have any friends
until she was 13 — seriously. Blame the abundance of cow pastures on her paltry social life. The stairwell room situation, well, let Hockenberry lay that one out for you (spoiler alert: it wasn’t permanent, but yes, it was very Harry Potter-esque). Hockenberry graduated high school in 1957 and went on to attend Gettysburg College where she met her future husband, Bill. She left Gettysburg after two years to start a family with Bill, who joined the military and was assigned to Büdingen, Germany in 1962 with the newly-minted Hockenberry family being one of the first groups to move to the country after the Berlin Wall was erected. Hockenberry brought her young son, Tim, across the Atlantic and had her second child, Beth, overseas before moving back home to Louisville in 1965 where she completed her education at the then-Catherine Spalding College. Given a choice between becoming a nurse or a teacher by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth,
INVOLVED IN A BIT OF EVERYTHING, Lindy Hockenberry (left) is a big supporter of the annual Tinner Hill Music Festival (formerly the Tinner Hill Blues Festival). (Courtesy Photo) who run the now-Spalding University, Hockenberry thought “I’d had enough of the bodily fluids by then with my two kids, so I’ll be a teacher.” For someone who assumed they didn’t like children, Hockenberry would gradually unearth her life’s greatest passion in education. Once she and Bill chose the City of Falls Church as their landing spot in 1969 — with
Bill teaching at George Mason High School and Hockenberry at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School — it didn’t take long for the young couple to start advocating for teacher’s rights and benefits outside of the classroom. Bill took the initiative, though after their marriage broke off, people
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NEWS BRIEFS Groundbreaking for New High School Friday at 2 p.m. A year and a half after voters in Falls Church City approved a $120 million referendum to build a new high school on school-owned land directly behind its current location, following more than 100 board meetings, community engagement workshops and sessions, staff meetings and student engagement activities, the time has arrived to break ground for the new George Mason High School. Falls Church City Public Schools has invited families, staff, students, and the community to celebrate the groundbreaking on June 14, starting at 2 p.m. at the new site, located behind Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School. The ceremonial groundbreaking will feature the Falls Church School Board, City Council, members of the project team and others. Students who will be among the first to attend class in the new building will share in the program, along with remarks from Superintendent Peter Noonan, School Board Chair Erin Gill, Mayor Dave Tarter, and George Mason principal Matt Hills. The high school mascot Mustang Sally will be on hand and the GMHS chorus will perform. Also on site will be representatives of the design builder, Gilbane Building Company, the design and architecture team, Stantec and Quinn Evans, the owner’s representatives Brailsford and Dunleavy and Hanscomb Consulting; as well as district staff, administrators, and members of the Falls Church School Board and City Council. The actual work on the commencement of the construction will begin on Monday, June 17, and the school is slated for completion and occupancy in December 2020.
Final Slates Set F.C. Council, School Board Races On the Nov. 5 general election ballot in Falls Church, three F.C. City Council and three School Board seats will be contested. The deadline for filing to appear on that ballot passed this Tuesday and the following candidates have qualified, according to the City Registrar. For City Council: incumbent Mayor David Tarter, incumbent Phil Duncan, incumbent Letty Hardi, Thomas Cash and Stuart Whittaker. For School Board: incumbent Philip Reitinger, Susan Dimrock, Laura Downs and Douglass Stevens.
24 Hour Fitness Site in F.C. Sells for $21.25 Million The 3.1 acre site of the 24 Hour Fitness at 1000 E. Broad St. in the City of Falls Church has sold for $21.25 million, it was announced last Thursday. KLNB Retail Investment Sales, who represented the seller and procured the buyer, Consolidated-Tomoka Land, purchased the site. “Amazon really turned up the heat on Northern Virginia commercial real estate with the announcement of HQ2,” said Andy Stape of KLNB in a press release. “Buyers are looking for strategic investments with long-term value.” Currently a 46,000 square foot building, for many years until 2012 the site of a Sims Department Store, sits on the 3.087 acre site. The site is currently zoned for four stories and multiple uses including residential. KLNB originally procured 24 Hour Fitness as a tenant in 2012 and there are nine years remaining on the current term, which includes rent escalations.
F.C. Signs Comprehensive Agreement for West End Development At a signing ceremony in City Hall yesterday afternoon, the City of Falls Church and Falls Church Gateway Partners signed a comprehensive agreement for the development of approximately 10 acres of City land in West Falls Church. Falls Church Gateway Partners is a partnership of the firms of EYA, PN Hoffman and Regency Centers, that will jointly develop the site. The subject of intense attention in the last year, the proposed development, on 9.45 acres at the current George Mason High School campus (7124 Leesburg Pike), will feature a broad mix of commercial uses, including a grocery store, restaurants and retail, office space, residences, a hotel and civic spaces. The plan also includes “The Commons,” a public space at the center of the development. The project will help defray the costs of a new high school, which will start construction this summer. “The City has chosen a partner that shares our vision for a vibrant and walkable development that will complement our new high school,” said Mayor David Tarter. “The project is the result of extensive community engagement, and, in keeping with the plan we took to the voters when the school bond referendum was approved, we have signed this agreement before issuing new debt for the high school.” The developer’s Special Exception Entitlement (SEE) Application which establishes building heights, permitted uses, plan layouts, and other project details, is currently under City review, with anticipated action by City Council at its July 8 meeting.
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Tinner Hill Music Fest Gets Groovy in Rebranded Debut
NO LONGER JUST THE BLUES. While the Tinner Hill Music Festival broadened its horizons to include different genres in its headlining acts, the same good vibes, good weather and patterned shirts populated Cherry Hill Park in Falls Church last Saturday. Performers like Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials harkened back to the festival’s blues roots, with new acts such as Convertible Jerk Band and Big Sam’s Funky Nation helping fill out the day’s new-look roster of talent. (Photos: J. Michael Whalen)
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Community News & Notes Spanish Lessons Taught At Lazy Mike’s If any interested residents have been planning to learn or improve their Spanish, and don’t mind doing so while dining at a local deli, then they can do both during four weekly Spanish classes at Lazy Mike’s Delicatessen and Homemade Ice Cream (7049 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church). The one-hour sessions will take place at 5:30 p.m. on four consecutive Tuesdays — June 18, June 25, July 2 and July 9. Cost is $75 for all four sessions. The cost of a meal is not included. Classes are designed for beginning to intermediate learners (who want to learn fast and in an enjoyable way completely different from traditional school classes), but all are welcome. Instructor Jack Hayes recommends bringing a friend or two to enrich the
THE 10TH ANNUAL “Scenes in the City” Plein Air Festival has artists painting outdoors in The Little City. The festival ends with a competition for bragging rights and thousands of dollars in prizes on Saturday, June 15, at the Falls Church Farmers Market from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. The artworks from the weeks long festival will be displayed and all are invited to vote for the “People’s Choice” Award, and to look at the many Plein Air artworks that have been completed for the competition. This year’s juror is Glen Kessler (pictured), an internationally collected and awarded artist as well as the founder of The Compass Atelier in Rockville, Maryland. (Photo: Courtesy Barb Cram)
learning experience. Prospective participants can call or text Hayes at 352-476-3311 to make reservations and payment. (Leave a message if need be.) Credit cards accepted. For more info, call, text or email Hayes (jackhayesteaches@gmail.com).
Mason High Athletic Hall of Fame Announces 2019 Class The George Mason High School Athletic Hall of Fame Committee has elected seven athletes and one team as its 2019 Hall of Fame class. The class, plus one additional athlete who was previously elected and one athlete who will receive a special achievement award, will be honored at ceremonies to be conducted on Oct. 25-26 — the eighth induction ceremonies in the history of the Hall. The class of 2019 includes Anthony Andrianarison, Nick
Smirniotopoulos, Violet Miller, Stephen Lubnow, Leah Roth, Kan Tagami, Stephanie Cheney and the 2011 girls’ soccer team. They join 42 athletes, three coaches/ administrators and four teams that have previously been inducted or elected to the Hall. • Anthony Andrianarison (class of 2009). • Nick Smirniotopoulos (class of 2010). • Violet Miller (class of 2011). • Stephen Lubnow (class of 2012). • Leah Roth (class of 2012). • Kan Tagami (class of 2012). • Stephanie Cheney (class of 2013) The 2011 girls’ soccer team will join the Hall. It finished with a 20-4 record and won district, regional and state championships under legendary head coach Jenn Parsons. Its state championship was the fourth consecutive one for
CHARTER MEMBERS OF SCOUTS BSA Troop 1996 celebrated their first full year since the Troop’s founding with a two-night camping and canoeing trip along the Potomac River. Troop 1996 meets at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School in Falls Church every Monday night at 7:30 p.m. when school is in session. (Photo: Troop 1996)
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Mason in girls’ soccer. • Cal Simmons (class of 1968) will receive a special achievement award. He starred in tennis at Mason during an era when there were no regional or state championships, winning the district title in singles and doubles his senior year, the only year during his career when a district tournament was held. • Byron Mendenhall (class of 2007), a star baseball pitcher and member of the 2016 Hall of Fame class, will also be honored at ceremonies this year.
Falls Church Democratic Committee Meeting June 19 The Falls Church City Democratic Committee’s monthly meeting will take place on Wednesday, June 19, at 7:30 pm, at the Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). For more information, residents are directed to contact fallschurchdems@gmail.com
F.C. Episcopal Celebrates 250 Year Anniversary The Falls Church Episcopal is celebrating 250 years of its iconic historic building in 2019 with a series of observances that begin Sunday, June 16. One of America’s oldest church buildings, the local architectural icon played roles in the American Revolution and Civil War, and still serves as a weekly house of Episcopal worship. On Sunday the church community will kick off of “250 Minutes of Service” and dedicate a commemorative stone that will be blessed during a visit by Bishop Susan Goff of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. The blessing ceremony will occur immediately following 10 a.m. services in the venerated
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building. The commemorative cement stone recently was embedded into the red-brick walkway leading to the front steps of the historic church. It is inscribed with the church’s current motto, “A welcoming community called to be an enduring beacon of faith, hope, and love to all.” It replaces a stone placed earlier by the congregation who voted to separate from The Episcopal Church and who reorganized themselves as The Falls Church Anglican. The Falls Church Episcopal will soon donate that stone to The Falls Church Anglican, to display as they choose at their new sanctuary, which is near completion on Arlington Boulevard. For more information on other tentative 250th anniversary ceremonies planned, such as plaque installations, tours and a sustainability fund, visit thefallschurch. org.
Bailey’s-7 Corners Revitalization Meeting The Bailey’s Crossroads Seven Corners Revitalization Corporation will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mason District Governmental Center (6507 Columbia Pike, Falls Church). The meeting will have presentations on the Sleepy Hollow Road sidewalk project and bicycle and walkability programs in the area. Guest speakers will be Mark Van Zandt, Nicole Wynands and Chris Wells.
F.C.’s William & Mary Grads, Dean’s List Recognized The following students from Falls Church either graduated or were recognized by the College of William & Mary for graduating
INTREPID COMMUNITY REPORTER Bill Stern was on the scene to view the aftermath of scary accident at the intersection of Overhill Road and Ichabod Place over the weekend. According to Stern, who spoke with a postal service supervisor, the driver of the mail truck experienced a sudden tire blowout and slammed against a small tree before parking on the grass. The postal supervisor relayed to Stern that the driver was “very shaken up but will be all right.” (P����: B��� S����) or being honored for making the school’s Dean’s List. Due to the high volume of students from the area, next week’s edition of the News-Press will feature students from McLean. Graduates — Mia Chand, Bachelor of Arts; Brian Connelly, Bachelor of Arts; Nadia Critchley, Bachelor of Science; Micheal Crotty, Bachelor of Science; Matteo D’Agostino, Bachelors of Business Administration; Alicia Devereaux, Bachelor of Arts; Sylvia Greer, Bachelor of Arts; Annemarie Gregoire, Bachelor of Arts; Honora Logsdon,
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Zachary Ellis; Sylvia Greer; Annemarie Gregoire; Lydia Grund; Benjamin Hotchner; Mikayla Huffman; Dean Kim; Aaron Klein; Michael Li; Brigid Lyons; Priscilla Mariam; Lorena Meruvia; Margaret Mitchell; Grace Murray; Dulguun Myagmarsuren; Eric Nubbe; Luke Purcell; Ameer Rezazad; Madeleine Scherer; Campbell Scheuerman; Jessica Sharp; Benjamin Sharrer; Elizabeth Thomas; Theresa Thomas; Alexander Toyryla; Samuel Updike; Eleanor Vaughn; Annemarie Wolf and Karen Wu.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts
News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
Graduation from high school is one of those noteworthy life events that marks a significant transition from one phase of life to the next. Last week’s graduation ceremonies for Annandale, Falls Church, and Justice High Schools celebrated the hard work of nearly 1,500 seniors, many of whom were the first in their family to graduate high school. At Justice High School’s first commencement (since the school’s name was changed last year), 313 of the approximately 434 graduates rose to their feet when principal Maria Eck announced that they were the first in their families to attend college. The Eagle Bank Arena erupted in lengthy cheers at that announcement, and again when she confirmed that the Class of 2019 had received more than five million dollars in scholarship assistance this year. The celebrated diversity of Fairfax County was reflected in the simple announcement of each student’s name as they crossed the stage to receive a diploma from their principal. If “all the world’s a stage,” a la Shakespeare, then last week’s graduations had all the world on the stage. Regardless of background, the graduates still were kids at heart. No backflips this time, but lots of camaraderie and high fives, a little nervousness, and broad smiles were the order of the day. Congratulations to all the graduates, and to their support teams — parents and guardians, families, and teachers alike! Segueing from high school seniors to senior citizens, Goodwin House Bailey’s Crossroads (GHBC) has provided as outstanding range of services for senior citizens in a continuum of care facility that includes independent living, assisted living, and nursing home services. A driving force behind GHBC, and its sister facility, Goodwin House Alexandria, has been the 17-year leadership of Kathleen Anderson as
Chief Executive Officer. Kathleen announced her retirement earlier this year, and will be remembered for her passion for the field of aging services, her grace and good humor, and overseeing the expansion and repositioning of GHBC to continue to serve Northern Virginia residents. Kathleen’s commitment to GHBC residents, its staff, and the entire community is laudable, and she has earned a long and happy retirement. Spotlight by Starlight, the free summer concert program at Mason District Park and Ossian Hall Park, begins this Saturday, June 15, with Taiwan Cultural Heritage Night, featuring dance and music from the Hai Hua Community Center, at Ossian Hall Park, 7900 Heritage Drive in Annandale (adjacent to Annandale High School). The program begins at 7:30 p.m. Bring a blanket or folding chair, and enjoy an hour of live entertainment geared to the whole family. On Sunday night, June 16, the City of Fairfax Band will kick off the season at the Newton Edwards Amphitheatre at Mason District Park, 6621 Columbia Pike in Annandale. Bench seating is provided, but many concertgoers bring folding chairs to sit in the open “loge” area. The Friends of Mason District Park will serve cake and lemonade prior to the opening performance, which begins at 7:30 p.m. Concerts are cancelled in the event of inclement weather. Call 703-324-SHOW (7469) one hour prior to showtime for updates. The full schedule is available at www. fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/performances. See you at the park! Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.
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From the Front Row: Kaye Kory’s
Richmond Report Nick Benton got it exactly right in his editorial in last week’s Falls Church NewsPress. He held up a mirror to the passionate, progressive challengers of Democratic incumbent Commonwealth’s Attorneys Ray Morrugh (Fairfax) and Theo Stamos (Arlington) to question the $1 million infusion from outside of Virginia into the challenger campaigns. Even if Democrats agree that the current pace of criminal justice reform is too slow, I believe we should be deeply skeptical about condoning the impact of great wealth from outside sources on governance in the Commonwealth. Campaign finance reform has been on my agenda since my first term in the House of Delegates. One week after I took the oath of office in 2010, the Supreme Court issued its ruling on the Citizens United case. In essence, the court ruled that corporations and labor unions have the same free speech rights as people and that political spending is a form of protected speech under the first amendment. Therefore banning the use of corporate or labor union funds on political spending is unconstitutional. Like many progressives, I do not accept the basic premises SCOTUS employed in this case. Corporations are not people and money is not speech, but this is the law of the land. Still, common sense regulation of the use of corporate, union or any other interest group’s spending on political campaigns is integral to ensuring that the community’s interests are not overwhelmed by the narrow interests of individual companies or organizations. For this reason, I am pleased to join with Senators Chap Petersen and Jennifer Boysko and Delegate Patrick Hope to introduce legislation in the 2020 General Assembly legislative session to limit excessive campaign contributions from influencing Virginia elections. The limitations we propose will be modeled after SB 1146 (2019) prohibiting individuals and political action committees from making any single contribution, or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $10,000 to any one candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, or the General Assembly or other local office in
any one election cycle, of which no more than $5,000 may be contributed for the primary election or other nominating event for the office the candidate is seeking. This year’s Democratic Party primary presented Fairfax County voters with an unusually broad set of choices in contests for both state and local offices. Undoubtedly, access to funding has been a factor facilitating these races. At the County level, retirements of key members of the Board of Supervisors generated spirited races for the vacant seats, and the longterm incumbent Commonwealth Attorney faced a serious challenge. Several General Assembly incumbents (including myself) have also been held to account by means of a primary challenge. The possibility of challenges to incumbents should drive them to better serve their constituents. This is a good thing. However, to make challenges possible: 1) Our system for campaign funding must be fair to challengers. A statute limiting outside contributions, as described above, would likely have the effect of reenforcing the power of incumbency. Incumbents simply have better access to contributions from organizations doing business with the Commonwealth. Therefore, to offset this advantage, in part, I also believe that Virginia should move towards a campaign finance system that permits some form of public funding. Certainly, such a reform will be difficult to design and enact. Even so, I believe it must be on our agenda. 2) The way we conduct campaigns must not depress the value of the Democratic “brand.” This requires Democrats to adhere to norms for conducting campaigns. Challenges must focus on real policy and governance differences rather than character assassination. Establishing and enforcing such norms is the function of leadership. Democratic leadership has many challenges to meet this year, both in process and in uniting the party after the primary results come in. I look forward to the reforms we will implement. Delegate Kory represents the 38th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. She may be emailed at DelKKory@house. virginia.gov.
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One Nation, Indivisible
The U.S. of A. is called the United States of America for a reason. It has to do with the fundamental reality that succeeding as a democracy in a world filled with power-hungry thugs and evil-minded people requires some real ability to work together; to be united. This is not a new concept in human history. In fact, it involves one of the simplest and most basic strategies used by adversaries of all sizes and shapes, the old notion of “divide and conquer.” The recognition of this by our Founding Fathers is among their most important contributions, including a serious appreciation for the insidious nature of their enemies’ devices for breaking down the solidarity of their foes. FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS Take the Pledge of Allegiance, something we repeat by rote memorization so often that we don’t hear the words coming out of our own mouths: “We pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God*, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” The phrase, “under God,” was added during the height of the McCarthy red scare period in our history in 1954, when right-wing zealots were looking for ways to prove anyone not like themselves was a commie, and bullied Congressmen to add this phrase as proof they weren’t. The term would have been anathema to the Founding Fathers, who held the separation of church and state as a powerful tool to advance the cause of democracy. Technically, the “under God” phrase was found unconstitutional by a circuit court in San Francisco in the 1990s, and that ruling has never been overturned by a higher court. Everybody is still afraid to take on what they now fear must be the Almighty, him (her? Nonbinary?) self. I never utter it when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, but nobody notices. Besides the issue of the separation of church and state, another important reason the phrase “under God” is un-American has to do with where it is placed in the Pledge. It is inserted between the words “one nation” and “indivisible.” Those three words taken together, as originally intended, constitute a powerful affirmation of what the U.S. of A. is all about. “One nation, indivisible!” Trying saying it that way. As a kid, I got a kick out of saying, “Invisible,” from time to time, but I was not happy when we all suddenly had to break the train of thought of the Pledge with the intervention of the phrase, “under God.” I used to stare at the strange way the cursive alphabet posted above the chalk boards around the classroom told us how a “Q” was supposed to look. That’s weird, I thought, and did so for years. So, I tried replacing “under God” with “that’s weird,” at least at first. In fact, this nation would not have succeeded, especially in the years after Yorktown, if the Founders had not convinced the 13 colonies who rebelled that they should form a solid and firm union. The genius of the writers of the Federalist Papers, 85 of them mostly done by Alexander Hamilton but also by James Madison and three by John Jay, and published under the pseudonym “Publius” in various newspapers around the colonies, argued for the ratification of the new U.S. Constitution in 1788. Masters of psychological warfare methods even back then, the British saw their hope in reversing the effect of the American Revolution to take the form of chipping away at the differences between the colonies, different interests, economies and attitudes towards, for example, slavery. Divide and conquer! The more progressive of the Founders knew that bringing to realization the radical vision of the Declaration of Independence, that “All men (everyone) are created equal,” would take a while to realize fully, but that it had to begin with forging a union of states dedicated to democratic principles that could withstand ongoing pressure from their former colonial oppressors. So the Federalist Papers were, at their core, a grand argument for “uniting the states,” and making them “one nation indivisible.” (To be continued) Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.
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Our Man in Arlington By Charlie Clark
Remember phonebooks? They were a must in the 20th century. Arlington had one as early as 1912, back when it was called Alexandria County. I perused such a directory at Central Library’s Center for Local History and pulled facts that help my ongoing portrait of our, then-officially segregated, hometown. The paperback’s business listings and advertisements are introduced with a historical essay by Crandal Mackey, the famous Rosslyn-based commonwealth’s attorney and sin-and-saloon buster who also served on the school board. Here’s his explanation of why our Virginia county “retroceded” from the District of Columbia in 1846. “The county was sparsely settled and almost a wilderness, and the excessive tolls charged on the bridges connecting her with the District of Columbia almost prohibited travel by vehicles and served to isolate the county and retard its growth,” he wrote. After the Civil War, D.C.’s more “lawless characters” began using our turf “as an asylum, and up to the year 1904, the County of Alexandria was covered with gambling houses and her political control in the hands of a lawless element,” wrote the self-congratulatory Mackey. It was Mackey, elected in 1903, who cracked down on riffraff in Rosslyn and Jackson City (near today’s 14th St. Bridge). Arlington’s population then boomed by 61 percent from 1900
to 1910. As of 1912, the county boasted 16 post offices, 80 miles of roads, (“better” than those elsewhere in Virginia) six “great” railways, creditable representatives of all trades, and “the finest school houses of any county in the State of Virginia,” he stated. “The county is free from debt, and pauperism is almost unknown, there being no poorhouse.” The clincher for those in our tobacco state: “The assessment of property is so low that taxation is scarcely felt. There are no smoke laws to annoy and oppress the manufacturer.” In a convention that continued into the 1960s, listings include head of households’ occupation, as in “Hardy, Bentley, farmer, East Falls Church, RFD1.” Or “Harrison, John, car inspector, 1708 Prince St., Alexandria.” Advertisements include a full-pager from the WashingtonVirginia Railway: “The cleanest and quickest way between Washington and Arlington, Fort Myer, Clarendon, Ballston, Falls Church, Vienna and Fairfax, and between Washington and Alexandria and Mount Vernon.” Pharmacist R.L. Bradfield, in Clarendon’s Masonic Temple, touted an indigestion remedy for 25 cents. Our Arlington wouldn’t take its modern name until 1920. In 1912, that name was a district within Alexandria County (now central and south Arlington), distinct from Jefferson (now in Alexandria) and Washington (now north Arlington). Local
government spending in fiscal 2012 was $41,308.95. The tax rate was “50 cents on the $100, the highest levy possible under the laws of Virginia.” Our schools served 2,855 pupils — 813 of them “colored” on 16 properties worth $119,110. The “white” schools included Mt. Vernon, Hume, Ballston, Barcroft, Clarendon, Columbia, Ft. Myer Heights, Glencarlyn, Carne, Cherrydale and Saegmuller. “Colored” schools included Jefferson, Scott, Kemper, St. John’s and Sumner. The cost of tuition per pupil was $13.14 in the Jefferson District, $9.45 in the Arlington District, and $9.06 in the Washington District. Not surprisingly, salaries for 45 total teachers were higher for whites than for “colored.” A white teacher in Jefferson earned $580 annually, versus $366 for blacks; in the Arlington District it was $459 versus $366; in the Washington District whites earned $416, blacks a mere $285. *** One of Arlington’s own has a curious distinction in the District of Columbia. Mary Hall, the 19th-century brothel-keeper whose summer home was on the site now the heart of Marymount University, is buried at Congressional Cemetery. Caretakers tell me that, after the graves of John Philip Souza and J. Edgar Hoover, Hall’s fancily sculptured tombstone is the Southeast cemetery’s most visited. The “entertainer” to Washington’s elite owned more plots there than anyone else.
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Falls Church City School ‘Lifer’ Forced to Leave Her Country Junior Niharika Singhvi has attended Falls Church City Public Schools since 2006. In April of 2018, her parents’ work visas expired, and she was forced to return to India. Four months later, she arrived back at George Mason High School. Singhvi and her family’s experience is a result of recent developments in the increasingly hardline immigration policy. This article previous appeared in GMHS’s The Lasso. BY NIHARIKA SINGHVI
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“Every American who ever lived, with the exception of one group, was either an immigrant himself or a descendant of immigrants.” — John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants It’s a casual Monday afternoon in mid-September. I get off from the bus and begin the short walk to my home. My backpack weighs me down, signifying a busy evening ahead of me. But, I’m more than used to this. I’ve followed this same routine after school for over 11 years of my life and it’s now instinct. However, today is different. When I get home, I’m not comforted by the usual sights of furniture nor of the family photos that decorate the wall. Instead, my view of the room is clogged by huge brown boxes containing our possessions and more importantly, memories that my family and I have collected over the past 12 years. These boxes can signify only one thing — moving. Seeing these boxes makes me nauseous. It’s devastating to see my childhood home being packed away, one box after another, making me feel like a stranger in my own home. For the past couple of months, a cloud of uncertainty and frustration has hovered above my family. It all boils down to one question: Will we get to stay here? I don’t think any conversation has passed without a trace of skepticism about the future. When I talk about any upcoming plans, I want to believe that they will actually happen. But, deep inside, I worry if I will actually get to follow through with them. Will I actually be in the country to spend Homecoming with my friends? Will I even be at school when that assignment is due in a few weeks? A while ago, my family applied for the renewal of our visas assuming only positive results, as we’d been doing this for as long as we’d been here. With our H1B visas, an employment-based visa given for high-skilled jobs, we’d applied for our Green Card in 2008. However, due to our general work category
having low priority to give permanent residency, we wouldn’t get to file for the actual status for years to come. Eventually, after months had passed with no sign of the status of our visas, we knew something was off. In April of this year, the longawaited result came and as we dreaded, it was negative. For the first time since 2006, our visas’ renewal had been rejected. While the justification said nothing about the current policy, I interpreted this as a direct result of the stricter requirements for visas that have been implemented recently. As rightful residents, we immediately filed for an appeal of this decision in April. After all, America is the country of immigrants. It is a nation built on the minds and backs of immigrants from all over the world. In fact, only the Native Americans are purely from this nation, because everyone else immigrated here not even more than 300 years ago. So, don’t we deserve to be here as much as the next family? For the past few days, I’ve had to deal with the difficult task of informing my teachers and peers about my move. The worst part is that when I’m questioned about when I will come back, I have no response, because I truthfully do not know. For now, all I can do is be patient and hope that I will get to spend at least some more time of my high school life in Falls Church, my hometown. *** When my flight landed in India, I felt like my whole life had turned upside down. In a way, it had. We had no home in either country, there was no guarantee I would get admitted to school here, and above all, we had no idea when we’d be able to go back. It could be weeks, months, or years before the return. With these thoughts constantly swirling my mind, I spent the first three weeks in Delhi in despair. I developed a strong distaste for everything, from talking to my family to going out, to doing anything I would’ve loved before this change. When I went to visit an IB school I could possibly be attending, I had a sulky face and
THE VIEW OVER a neighborhood next to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India. (P����: N������� S������) I snapped at the teachers multiple times. And, the worst part was, I didn’t care what they thought of me or if I even got accepted. One day, I woke up to a confrontation from my parents. They convinced me that I was running away from the problem rather than facing it, and luckily, those words hit home. From that point, I decided that I didn’t want to look back at the experience knowing I’d succumbed to and not faced the harsh reality. So, I pushed myself to look past the negativity and conform myself to the situation rather than holding onto what once was. Luckily, I was interviewed again by the IB school after I changed my outlook, so I was able to get in. My whole life, I had always feared change; I had been in the same city, in the same home, and in the same school district for 12 years, so change was a foreign concept. I never would have imagined being a new student in a new country, but life is beyond unpredictable. At school, I had to adjust to being with a new group of people in a school with few resemblances to Mason. We had uniforms, my IB class only had 27 students, and I had to adapt to an entirely new culture. With my shy attitude and lack of confidence, I didn’t think this would turn out to be a fruitful experience at all. However, it turned out that with some unbelievable support from
the teachers and friends I made there, I was able to pull it off. After two months of going to school, good news was sent our way. Our appeal had been approved, which meant the long wait was over. Or, so I thought. My parents explained that we were still in limbo, waiting for my dad’s work papers to come in. The anxiety of rekindling old friendships, making up the work I missed, and getting back into a routine was hard enough to manage without this added uncertainty. But, like everything so far, this process required considerable patience and a long wait, and this time, I was ready for it. After another two months, the papers came, and within three weeks, we were on a flight back to home. *** A week after coming back, I was able to return to school and the initially scary experience quickly became incredible. I chose to surprise everyone at school, and the expressions on my friends’ faces were priceless. The hallways that seemed so dull just a while ago now looked beautiful. Even the crowded classrooms and morning song-playing seemed refreshing. As cheesy as it is, after being away for so long, I’ve renewed my appreciation for the little things in life. And, now, I am beyond ready to take on the challenges of junior year and life as it is.
Before I left, a friend told me that when I get back, I’m going to tear up since I’ll miss the people and experiences I left in India. Although I laughed this off back then, I eventually realized that this had a lot of truth behind it. I’m beyond happy to be here in Falls Church again, but I will forever cherish the friends, memories, experiences, the ups and downs, and everything about living in India. Even though the past five months felt like a bad dream more often than not, I would never have changed them for anything. I would never wish my experience on anyone, even if I eventually overcame the challenges. The feeling of having to leave our home was beyond demeaning and incredibly painful. I still can’t comprehend how anyone can draw the line between legal and illegal immigrants if even documented immigrants have little security about their future in the United States. And while I am grateful for the opportunities for growth I experienced throughout the process, I know that many are not lucky enough to have the vital support mechanisms and resources I had. The right to freedom of movement and a stable home is sacred, and no judge, no government, should have the power to take that away. Losing it can be a crushing blow that not everybody is equipped to recover from. Trust me — I learned from experience.
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Mustangs Fall to Lee, 2-0, Ending Season in State Finals by Matt Delaney
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A year after an epic postseason run to reclaim the Class 2 state title, George Mason High School’s boys soccer team was the final boss in a new champion’s journey as they fell 2-0 to Robert E. Lee High School in the state championship. Mason (21-2-1) and Lee have been dueling in the playoffs for the past three seasons, so it’s only appropriate that the final game both programs shared would be on the state’s biggest stage. Lee upset Mason in the region quarterfinals in 2017 and defeated the Mustangs again in the region championship in 2018. The Mustangs returned the favor by defeating the Leemen in state semifinals that same season en route to their sixth championship in nine years. After Mason’s 1-0 win over Lee 13 days ago in the region championship, the Staunton natives countered with a state championship win of their own — the first boys soccer title in school history. It wasn’t the result the Mustangs wanted, but
they aren’t letting a loss to a quality team jade their view of the season. “I could not be more proud of this team, win or lose,” head coach Frank Spinello said. “I do not want all of the hard work, dedication and sacrifice our team made during the season diminished at all by being State RunnerUp. For any other program that would be an amazing season, and it was for us.” A loosening of the Mason midfield set up Lee’s eventual victory in the championship match. In the region final, the Mustangs hawked the midfield and forced the Leemen to be overly methodical in their ball movement. Last Saturday in the state final, Mason granted Lee a larger cushion to work with, and paid the price. The Leemen were able to generate momentum through the middle of the field rather quickly and had the Mustangs playing catch up to Lee’s attack as a result. The game’s unfavorable flow culminated in a Lee goal in the 35th minute. A sharp shot heading toward the near post was going to be met by senior goalkeeper
SOPHOMORE DEFENDER Hans Abruzzi and the rest of Mason’s back line held strong in the state tournament, despite coming up short in the title game. (Photo: Carol Sly) Ishan Bhalla. But along the way the ball’s line changed and Bhalla lost track of it due to a screen. It allowed the ball to find the back post and sneak in for Lee’s goahead goal. A more aggressive Mason in the second half allowed the team to put some pressure on Lee, but a reluctance to play balls along the wings and into space, combined with some hesitancy to shoot and a stout Leemen back line, nerfed the Mustangs’ advances. A late penalty kick from Lee sealed the
game’s result. Against Martinsville High School last Friday, Mason was more like its usual self. Junior forward Zorhan Boston rifled a pass from senior forward Nick Wells’ past Martinsville’s goalkeeper in the 25th minute for its go-ahead goal. Strong play from the Mustangs’ back line of seniors Miles Lankford and Bryan Villegas as well as sophomore Hans Abruzzi kept the Bulldogs in check, with freshman forward Yasin Shams’ goal from sopho-
more midfielder Jack Brown’s assist in the 78th minute clinching the game for good. Even with the elevated competition next year, Mason isn’t altering its expectations. “We play hard, work hard, play fair and respect the game. That is all a coach can ask for,” Spinello added. “In Class 3 I expect us to maintain those same standards that we have set. I just want us to be the best Mason team we can be every year, and look forward to new challenges.”
Mason Girls’ Soccer Dynasty Ends with 1-0 Loss to Maggie Walker by Matt Delaney
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An 11-year dynasty came to an end last weekend as George Mason High School’s girls soccer team fell 1-0 in the Class 2 state championship game to Maggie Walker Governor’s School. It’s fitting that Mason’s (174-1) departure from the Class 2 ranks for Class 3 next year would be accompanied by the end of a run that spanned more than a decade. But in a way, getting an opportunity to defend its crown was a success in and of itself for the Mustangs. A new head coach in Leah Partridge (Mason’s second head coach in two seasons), a squad of mostly first-time varsity starters and early seasonending injuries to some of the few returning players, such as senior defender Ariana Roco, put Mason on a steep incline from the jump — and yet it was still two goals away from 12 straight state titles. It’s hard to call the season a failure in light of those circumstances. “The girls were obviously
JUNIOR GOALKEEPER Josie Shaw was sharp throughout the postseason, but was on the wrong end of a volley shot in the state championship game. (Photo: Carol Sly) disappointed. They fought for 80 minutes and left everything they had on the field,” Partridge said. “This group of girls worked harder for each other than most of the teams I have had the opportunity to coach. They took our theme ‘United’ and lived it out, on and off the field.” One deft touch was the decisive blow that unseated the Mustangs on Saturday. In the 24th minute, junior goalkeeper Josie Shaw left her line to parry a ball served into the box.
Mason’s back line had Maggie Walker’s forwards covered during the following scrum, but one of the Dragons’ attackers was able to land a clean foot on a volley that counted as the game’s only score. The Mustangs couldn’t equalize for the remainder of the game. Part of it was due to the drain from a physical contest against Radford High School in the state semifinal the day before. The lack of gas in the tank made for a few too many off-
the-mark passes, which pulled Mason’s offense out of position and shrank the Mustangs’ shooting windows from tight to tiny. Coupled with Maggie Walker’s edge in experience (the Dragons had eight returning starters from the previous season), it was too much for Mason to handle. In the rain against Radford on Friday, things looked bleak early. Shaw and junior defender Julia Rosenberger had to be taken out due to injuries. However, both returned and the Mustangs were
able to find their groove from there. Strong midfield play from seniors Maddie Lacroix and Maura Mann helped carry the ball from the defense to the offense, where junior forward Emma Rollins could find the twine. The first came in the 30th minute when freshman midfielder Zoraida Icabalceta set up a Rollins goal, and the second came when Rollins scored a goal off a Radford foul five minutes later. The Bobcats tallied a goal in the final 13 minutes, but Mason held on from there. Now with Class 2 behind them, Mason can reflect on the legacy it leaves behind — one they do with pride. “We built a program that plays with class,” Partridge added. “Many teams in 2 A refer to “Mason soccer” as a style — maintaining possession and working as a team to attack and defend. It is a tall order to maintain, but we will continue to do everything we can to prepare our girls for this level of play.”
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Mustangs Celebrate Final Day As Classmates at Graduation
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EXCITEMENT WAS IN THE AIR at the Class of 2019’s graduation last Wednesday, as memories were shared, diplomas were given out and, of course, caps were tossed with much delight from the now-former Mustangs at DAR Constitution Hall. (Photos: J. Michael Whalen)
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“I LOVE MATH” DAY had a strong showing in its debut at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, with over 20 volunteers dropping by TJ to talk about how math is used in their professions, followed by activities in the afternoon to engage students’ math brains. Appearances included Olympic gold medalist Tom Dolan from the Tom Dolan Swim School in Seven Corners and U.S. Congressman Don Beyer, Jr. (above) (Photo: FCCPS Photo/Carol Sly)
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School News & Notes Groundbreaking at New Mason High On Friday Falls Church City Public Schools invite families, staff, students, and the community to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new George Mason High School on June 14, starting at 2 p.m. at the new site, located behind Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School. Attendees can park in any of the Henderson and Mason parking lots as the schools will have dismissed for the summer earlier that day. The site is a short 5-minute walk from the West Falls Church Metro station. The ceremony will be web-streamed live at fccps. org/live. The ceremonial groundbreaking will include the Falls Church School Board, City Council, members of the project team and others. Students who will be among the first to attend class in the new building will share in the program, along with remarks from Superintendent Peter Noonan, School Board Chair Erin Gill, Mayor Dave Tarter and Mason
principal Matt Hills. Also on site will be leads of the core project team, consisting of the design builder, Gilbane Building Company; the design and architecture team, Stantec and Quinn Evans; the owner’s representatives Brailsford & Dunleavy and Hanscomb Consulting; as well as district staff, administrators Information and updates on the design process and construction timeline for the projects are available at fccps.org/campusproject.
F.C. City Students Need to Pick Up Lost & Found Items In addition to Falls Church City Public Schools parents picking up their children’s medicine before the school year ends this Friday, June 14, the Lost & Found areas at all the schools are bursting at the seams with an array of clothing, lunch boxes, water bottles, shoes and more that are waiting to be reclaimed by students. The last chance for students to collect their missing items is Friday. After the last day of school, FCCPS donates
all things remaining in lost & found.
Haycock Students Earn 2nd Highest Score in World Finals Haycock Elementary’s fifth grade Odyssey of the Mind (OOTM) team received the second highest score in the Spontaneous part of the competition at the OOTM World Finals. Team members also placed in the top third of teams in their problem and division; their space-themed long-term solution pitted the Earth against the sun and planets in her bid for a position as the center of the universe. Team members include Maddie Gruber, Aarushi Kanigcherla, Alexa Krystopolski, Adelaide Thomas, Kathryn Thomas and Annika Ryerson; Caren Krystopolski and Susan Thomas coached the team. The team earned the opportunity to compete at the World Finals by winning first place in Division I (grades 3-5) at the Virginia State Tournament in April.
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From the Classroom to the Council Chambers, Hockenberry’s Done It All Continued from Page 4
started to look at Hockenberry for that same guidance. She took that mantle in stride and represented teachers at school board meetings for the next 20 years. You could say Hockenberry had seen it all in the FCCPS. From a scare about losing the school system when enrollment had dropped to dangerously low numbers to the closing of Madison Elementary School and the one rabble-rousing year she, Harry Shovlin and Tam Bellou teamtaught at Mason Middle School, Hockenberry’s been a part of each generational episode of the City’s schools. It’s helped, from her perspective, to have the culture the school’s created and the students so willing to be a part of it. “We just have such beautiful young people. Our school’s small enough, you sometimes wonder how we have so many talented kids,” Hockenberry added. “I also love the relationship between the students and the administration and teachers. No one’s afraid to talk to anyone or ask for an opinion on anything around here.” Hockenberry’s retirement from
teaching in 2000 segued into a City Council run and victory that same year, where she joined a new crop of members who were progressive toward development. The crew got to work right away, bringing in the Broadway, then the Spectrum and followed by the Byron and Pearson Square in a short span of time. While the Great Recession put the kibosh on other projects, according to Hockenberry, she and her fellow councilmembers tackled a major perception hurdle by showing that the influx of development wasn’t going to overcrowd the schools as some residents originally feared. She lost her re-election campaign in 2008 after spending the previous school year teaching fifth grade at TJ when then-teacher Pete Rose’s death left a vacancy, but Hockenberry continued her service to the City on the Planning Commission for the decade that followed. So, what’s next for Hockenberry? First, it’s remembrance time for the influences that got her this far — such as her father, Lindy Reeves, a long haul truck driver and board of supervisors mem-
ber in Schodack, New York and, Nancy Sprague, the former principal of Mason Middle, who were her personal and teaching heroes, respectively. Hockenberry also cited Shovlin and former English teacher Michael Hoover as great companions who assisted in the maturation of the City. And, of course, she wouldn’t be where she is now without her children Tim and Beth, their six grandchildren and her partner, Ed Christensen. After that, it’s back to keeping the City on its progressive track. The bond referendum passed in 2017 prevented Hockenberry from standing in the middle of Route 7 to advocate for a new high school (commuters everywhere are thankful for that), but now it’s on to pushing for more affordable housing options so the City can continue to bring young professionals into its limits. Upon further review, maybe Mount Rushmore-worthy is a bit of a stretch. But it’s hard to deny that Hockenberry deserves an honorable mention among countless others who’ve taken the City in the right direction and kept the village spirit alive, even as its appearance has changed.
WHETHER STRAIGHT A STUDENTS or hellions that gave her a ton of grief, Hockenberry makes it a point to be there for their graduation day at the end. (Courtesy Photo)
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Local 7-Year-Old’s Story Headlines Album by Patricia Leslie
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VELOCIRAP-STAR BEN BROWN likes to keep his muse close even when he’s not creating new works. (Clockwise, starting from bottom left) Whether it’s posing pleasantly with his newest protagonist, “Yu,” doing his best raptor impersonation with his younger brother Joey, or just finding raptors while traveling the world, the gears are always turning for this young author. (Photos: Bottom left & Top Left — Patricia Lesle/ Top right — Courtesy Sugar mountain PR)
Falls Church’s Ben Brown is only seven years old, but the boy wonder already had his first story featured as the title track on a popular new children’s album. Selected from more than 1,000 entries received every month from around the world by Story Pirates, Brown’s story “Backstroke Raptor” is about the adventures of a swimming dinosaur. The company’s podcasts have been downloaded more than 10 million times, according to its website and co-founder, Lee Overtree, who describes Story Pirates as “a leading advocate for arts education.” Overtree’s writers, musicians and artists took the foundation of Brown’s story and sculpted it into a song with multiple singers and musicians who sound a lot like the B-52s. In an interview at his home (just the second interview of his young life), Brown, wearing a favorite dinosaur shirt, said he watches “Funny videos sometimes and they make me laugh a lot, and I watched one about a dinosaur and that’s how I sorta got the idea.” “I kinda like swimming and I like dinosaurs, and I decided why not make a swimming dinosaur?” And so he did. Brown’s parents credit their sons’ nanny, Laura Huffman, for encouraging and helping Brown submit his story to the podcast, which they hear while riding in the car after school or when they run errands.
Huffman transcribed his dictation on the computer, Brown said. His parents read to him and his brother, Joey, 4, a lot, said Brown and his dad, Stephen, who were seated at the family’s dining room table for the interview. “Sometimes I read to them,” Brown added. He’s already at work on his second submission, this one about “a girl dinosaur named ‘Yu’ [he spelled it] who eats dogs.” Huh? “Raptor Brown is a she, a yee,” Brown said. “She eats a lot of things,” he explained, and the story is titled after her name. He said he chose the title not so much because he’s a “Brown,” but the dinosaur “likes brown nail polish from age one. Technically, she lives in North America. No one really knows.” Dad Stephen smiled and said Brown’s imagination has been soaring for a while now. Stephen, along with his wife and Brown’s mother, Maryam, began saving Brown’s stories when their son began writing “just a few paragraphs” about two years ago. “He was writing and telling stories with an incredible imagination, spinning yarns like, ‘Wow!’ There’s a lot going on there,” said Stephen. Overtree agreed, noting that Brown’s story was selected as the title track of the new album because “It sounds like an album title,” wrote Overtree in an email. “Ben’s creativity and energy are off the charts, and I find him to be very inspiring.”
When Ben is not exploring dinosaurs, he likes to play with Legos, take swimming classes and he and his dad take piano lessons together. The Browns have lots of dinosaur toys and books at home. Brown will soon spend a week at the Smithsonian’s upcoming “dinosaur camp,” where he, most likely, will visit the newest and biggest dinosaur in the museum, the nation’s T. Rex which was just unveiled last weekend. When he grows up, Ben, a student at Basis Independent McLean, has told his parents he wants to be an engineer (like his mom and grandfather), a marine biologist or a paleontologist. “As parents we are trying to understand how we can be advocates for [Ben and Joey] going forward,” Stephen said. The Browns will soon move to Los Angeles for Mrs. Brown’s job but they won’t be far from the Story Pirates’ operation out there. “We should continue to be involved with them somehow,” Stephen Brown said. The Story Pirates’ podcasts are refreshed weekly with a new story and song, all stemming from the imaginations of children. They describe their new album as “the weirdest, wildest collection” they’ve made, and it brings out the laughter in even old kids (aka, “adults”). Gimlet Media will release the album of Ben’s composition and 10 more, all by children, for $9.99 at iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and more outlets than a dinosaur has bones, but not enough to match Brown’s ideas.
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Digital Media Marketing Presentation at Next F.C. Chamber Luncheon Christine Wilson, founder and CEO of MtoM Consulting, will present on digital media marketing for small businesses on Tuesday, June 18 from 11:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. MtoM Consulting is a social media, influencer marketing, digital content, and advertising agency based in Falls Church. Luncheon attendees will learn how to connect, influence, and engage their clients and customers online while networking with fellow business leaders and enjoying lunch. Registration and location information are available at www. FallsChurchChamber.org.
Falls Church’s Senior Workforce Among Tops in Nation The Census’ 2017 American Community Survey report by The Associated PressNORC Center for Public Affairs Research has found that Falls Church is among the nation’s leaders in terms of senior labor force participation, with almost 37 percent of people 65 or older still working, either full or part-time. According to analysts, jobs in metropolitan areas, focused largely in government, finance, law and academia, tend to retain seniors longer. According to the Pew Research Center, the number of Americans over the traditional retirement age of 65, remaining in the labor force, was almost 19 percent in 2016, up from 12 percent from 2000. For more information, visit www.apnews.com. Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@fallschurchchamber.org.
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When Will Oil Production Peak? by Tom Whipple
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Someday we will no longer be able to extract, at affordable costs, the fuels needed to keep our economies growing. That day may be months, years or decades away, but it will come. How well we are prepared for the peaking of first oil, then natural gas, and finally, coal production will determine the disruption and hardships that will face us when the peaks are reached. The three fossil fuels — coal, oil, and natural gas — currently supply some 85 percent of the energy that supports our lifestyles. Despite increasing amounts of non-polluting renewable energy, the use of fossil fuels is still not declining fast enough to slow the deterioration of our climate. Global warming and the availability of affordable energy will be challenges to the survival of our societies in the coming decade or two. For those with an appreciation of the remaining size of the earth’s proven fossil fuel reserves, and the current and future rate of their consumption, know that our oil reserves seem to be the most vulnerable to running short before natural gas or coal. Given that 95+ percent of the world’s transportation uses oil, any economic growth that takes place after oil production peaks will have to be supported by increases in efficiency or other sources of energy. Although there were warnings that we would run out of oil 100 years ago, this was decades before the extent of the earth’s oil resources had been surveyed and new technologies which enabled us to extract oil from deep under the sea, the frigid Arctic wastes, and more recently from geologic formations known as shale. The modern concept of peak oil came in 1956 when a geologist, M. King Hubbert, published a prediction that peak oil would occur around 1970. Although conventional oil production in the U.S. did peak around this time, Hubbert, like his predecessors, was premature as substantial new sources of oil were soon found to be producible from the Arctic and deep under the sea. The next milestone in the peak oil story was the publication of an article in Scientific American
back in 1998 by two respected European geologists, Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrère. They predicted that the peak of global oil production would arrive circa 2007. For a while, this prediction seemed to be reasonable for oil prices took off from less than $20 a barrel until they reached an inflation-adjusted all-time high of $148 in June of 2008. The average U.S. gasoline price hit an all-time high of $4.11 on July 11 that year, and much of the world’s economy went into a tailspin. Most thought the recession that followed was due to irresponsible bank lending, but some believe the price of oil which slowed economic activity played a role too. Four-dollar gasoline was too much for the average consumer so that global oil consumption dropped, sending prices down to $37 a barrel. However, within two years demand for such cheap oil returned the price back over $100 a barrel. At the time, many of us thought we were about to the peak in global oil production, but mother nature had one more trick up her sleeve: shale oil. The technology of drilling and fracturing tight geologic formations had been around for many years but had always been deemed too expensive. With a selling price of oil above $100, many small oil companies rushed to explore shale formations and indeed found an unbelievable amount of oil. The U.S. is now producing some 8.5 million barrels of shale oil per day, and some are predicting that U.S. shale oil production alone will go considerably higher. There is only one sour note in this otherwise happy story — shale oil costs more to produce than it sells for, and currently
only 10 percent of the shale oil drillers are making a profit. In the 10 years America has been producing shale oil, most drillers have lost money every year yet continued to drill ever more shale oil wells on borrowed money. In the last decade, bankrupt shale oil drillers have spent $184 billion more than they earned and cost Wall Street lenders $100 billion in bankruptcies. There is no end in sight to the hemorrhaging of investors and lenders money. Our financial institutions have been mesmerized by ever higher production and ignoring the costs. The shale oil boom will be coming to an end as the reality of endless losses becomes apparent to lenders and investors. To summarize the current situation: Conventional (non-shale oil) production has been mostly flat for the last 10 years with falling output from depleting oil fields offsetting output from the few countries still increasing conventional oil production. U.S. shale oil production, which is now approaching 9 million barrels per day, may be leveling off because Wall Street will no longer lend to losing firms. Only one U.S. shale oil region, the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico, is thought to have good prospects for growth. Major oil companies, such as Exxon and Chevron and Occidental, are moving to take over much of the Permian Basin’s oil production saying the big oil companies are much more efficient than small drillers and can produce shale oil at a profit. Finally, we have climate change, which for the past few years has been tearing the U.S. and many other places apart. To Be Continued...
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FALLS CHURCHCALENDAR COMMUNITYEVENTS THURSDAY, JUNE 13 Tiny Tot. Each program will engage children with hands-on learning and may include a variety of activities like songs, crafts, finger plays and mini-hikes. Adults must remain during the entire program. Ages 1 – 3. $5 fee due upon registration. Long Branch Nature Center at Glencarlyn Park (625 S. Carlin Springs Rd., Arlington). 10 – 10:45 a.m. 703-228-3403.
FRIDAY, JUNE 14 DMV 2 Go Bus. The full-service DMV2Go bus will be in front of City Hall throughout the day. Customers are required to bring all necessary documentation to complete transactions. Find out more about the full-service DMV 2 Go and select-service DMV Connect
at fallschurchva.gov/1359/DMV2-Go-DMV-Connect. City Hall (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
SATURDAY, JUNE 15 Farmers Market. The award-winning, year-round market is filled with fresh, local produce, meat, dairy, flowers & plants, honey, music and much more. City Hall (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). 8 a.m. – noon. 703-248-5034. Dulin United Yard Sale. Dulin United Methodist Church will be holding its annual Yard Sale on this date. Dulin United Methodist Church (513 E. Broad St., Falls Church). 8 a.m. – noon. 703-5328060. Arm Chair Travel: China. Interested attendees can see the world from the comfort of a chair. The group will watch a
video about a different part of the world. No registration required. This program is sponsored by the Falls Church Senior Center & Mary Riley Styles Public Library. Teen Center @ Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). 10 – 11 a.m. Sing Books with Emily. A singing storytime with illustrated songs. Emily’s repertoire includes hundreds of songs to delight audiences of any age, many enhanced by instruments like guitar, glockenspiel, kazoo, foot tambourines and limberjack. Come and join the musical fun with illustrated song! Fun for the whole family! No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 11 – 11:45 a.m. 703-248-5034.
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Park. Interested attendees can participate in a free class with Karma Yoga on today at the new park in downtown Falls Church. Attendees are asked to bring their own mat. Downtown Park (100 block of W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9 – 10 a.m. 703-2485210 (TTY 711).
MONDAY, JUNE 17 ESL Conversation Group. A general conversation group (for adults). Drop in. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 Summer Reading Open House Kick-Off. Residents can register for the Summer Reading Program and enjoy glitter tattoos, balloon animals and crafts. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 1 – 4 p.m. 703-248-5034.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 14 “Grand Hotel.” It is 1928 and Berlin is at the center of a razzledazzle world between two wars. At the bustling Grand Hotel a series of eclectic guests and staff including a fading ballerina, a destitute baron, a wannabe-starlet typist, and an ailing bookkeeper collide in a non-stop musical toast to the high life. Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer reunites the team behind “A Little Night Music” for this musical. Signature Theatre (420 Campbell Ave., Arlington). $87. 8 p.m. sigtheatre.com.
SATURDAY, JUNE 15 “Leaving Iowa.” Called “a comedy with a surprisingly deep soul… simultaneously hilarious and touching,” “Leaving Iowa” portrays Don’s journey to return his father’s ashes to his childhood home, only to discover that Grandma’s house is now a grocery store. This father-and-son road trip shifts smoothly from the present to Don’s memories of the
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annual, torturous vacations of his childhood: the classic American summer vacation, which often meant being trapped in the back seat of a station wagon. Don’s memories bring to life the people of his past and present, weave a tale of reconciling idealism with reality, and ultimately show us what it means to love one’s family. James Lee Community Center (2855 Annandale Rd., Falls Church) $20. 7:30 p.m. providenceplayers.org.
Vocal Colors — Wolf Trap Opera. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $20. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1900.
“The Member of the Wedding.” In 1945 rural Georgia, the long, hot days of summer bring struggle, longing, and opportunity for 12-year-old Frankie Addams and her family’s housekeeper Bernice Sadie Brown. Frankie longs to escape with her newlywed brother on adventures in the Alaskan wilderness. Bernice struggles to balance enduring the deeply entrenched racism of the rural South with her role as surrogate mother to Frankie and her 6-yearold cousin. 1st Stage Theatre (1524 Spring Hill Rd., Tysons) $39. 8 p.m. 1ststagetysons.org.
19th Street Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504.
SUNDAY, JUNE 16 “Beauty and the Beast.” “Beauty and the Beast” tells the story of Belle, a young woman who feels out of place in her provincial French village. When her father is imprisoned in a mysterious castle, Belle’s attempt to rescue him leads to her capture by the Beast, a monster who was long ago trapped in his gruesome form by an enchantress. The only way for the Beast to become human once again is if he learns to love and be loved in return.Creative Cauldron (410 S. Maple Ave., Falls Church) $32. 2 p.m. creativecauldron.org.
LIVEMUSIC THURSDAY, JUNE 13 Randoll Rivers Elvis. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-2419504. Joe Downer. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-237-8333.
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Tony MacAlpine with Jacky Vincent + Arch Echo + Dante Frisiello. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20 – $30. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566. Karaoke. Falls Church Distillers (442 S. Washington Street, Ste A Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-8589186.
FRIDAY, JUNE 14 Dan & Chuck. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-532-9283. David Kitchen & Cathy B. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-2419504. Deanna Bogart Band. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $22. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566.
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SmokeHouse Duo. Falls Church Distillers (442 S. Washington Street, Ste A Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-858-9186.
The Nighthawks + McKinley James. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20. 7 p.m. 703255-1566.
Paul Gilbert. The State Theatre (220 N Washington St., Falls Church). $25. 9 p.m. 703-2370300.
Johnny Mathis: The Voice of Romance Tour. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $30. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900.
Smylin’ Jack. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504.
The Legwarmers — D.C.’s Biggest ‘80s Retro Dance Party. The State Theatre (220 N Washington St., Falls Church). $20. 9:30 p.m. 703237-0300.
Herb & Hanson. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333.
SATURDAY, JUNE 15
Young Relics. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504.
Marty Baumann & Big Joe Maher Show. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504.
Brien : EST. 325 (Album Release Show). Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $20. 10 p.m. 703-255-1566.
Starryville. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703532-9283.
Nomad Live & in Concert. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703237-8333.
SUNDAY, JUNE 16 Bentwood Rockers Bluegrass. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 1 p.m. 703241-9504. Josh Allen. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. Open Mic. Falls Church Distillers (442 S. Washington Street, Ste A Falls Church). 5 p.m. 703-8589186. Sky Music Entertainment: Artist Showcase. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566.
(6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504. Wolf the Quarrelsome, The Hips. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m.
TUESDAY, JUNE 18 Rock of Ages. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $35. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. Mark Wenner & The Blues Warriors. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19
Yes, Selma, Pony Payroll Bones, Tristan Welch. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m.
Clive Carroll & Lily Neill. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $30 – $35. 7:30 p.m. 703-2551566.
MONDAY, JUNE 17
Sol Roots. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.
Wolf’s Blues Jam. JV’s Restaurant
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St. James Named One of 266 ‘Blue Ribbon Schools’ in U.S.
F.C. Mulls Federal Grant Pitch To Become ‘Green Laboratory’
St. James Catholic School in Falls Church has been named a Blue Ribbon School for 1998-99 by the United States Department of Education, ranking it among the top schools in the nation for academic excellence, parental involvement and community support. St. James was one of 266 public and private elementary schools nationwide selected this year for the prestigious award.
A vision of the City of Falls Church as a globally-significant “green learning laboratory” has energized an initiative that the City Council is being asked to approve on short notice at its meeting next Monday. The proposal, derived from deliberations of a local group assembled to figure out how Falls Church might capitalize on federal stimulus funds,suggests a grant application could bring $15 million to the City.
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CRIME REPORT Week of June 3 – 9, 2019 Larceny from Vehicle, 200 blk E Columbia St, June 4, 9:19 AM, sometime overnight unknown suspect(s) took items of value from an unsecured vehicle. Larceny, E Broad and E Fairfax St (bus stop), June 4, 1:45 PM, suspect, described as a white male, approximately 55 YOA, 130 lbs., skinny build, grey hair, wearing a blue sweatshirt with a grey and white shirt underneath, and blue jeans, took an item of value which had been sitting with other items beside the victim. Investigation continues. Hit and Run, 201 N Washington St (Kaiser Permanente parking lot), June
5, 12:41 PM, suspect described as a 60 YOA Asian female and driving a blue Camry backed into another vehicle, apologized and then left the scene. Investigation continues. Hit and Run, 1000 blk W Broad St, June 6, 2 PM, a dump truck headed east hit the mirror on a white box truck and left the scene. Drunk in Public 116-B W Broad St (Unity Club), June 6, 8:44 PM, a male, 67, of no fixed address, was arrested for Drunk in Public. Drug/Narcotic Violation, 300 blk S Maple Ave, June 7, 7:33 PM, a male, 32, of Washington, DC, was issued a sum-
mons for Possession of Marijuana. Driving Under the Influence, 800 blk W Broad St, June 8, 2:08 AM, a male, 29, of Vienna, VA, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence. Destruction of Property, 900 blk Lincoln Ave, June 8, 4:36 PM, a Jeep struck an unoccupied Saturn and damaged a fence. Stalking, 400 blk S Maple Ave, June 8, 11:24 PM, a male, 49, of Falls Church, was arrested for Stalking a Person Protected by a Protective Order. Hit and Run, 100 blk S Virginia Ave, June 9, 8:44 AM, victim reported gray Camry parked on the street overnight had been hit by an unknown vehicle.
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Driving Under the Influence, 1200 blk W Broad St, June 9, 10:24 PM, a male, 31, of the City of Falls Church, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence and issued a summons for Urinating in Public.
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well as to the fact the money was not reported attributable to a person, but a PAC. The term, “Dark Money” means to us cases where the public is kept in the dark about the source of a contribution. Our use of the term involved no intention that it reflect in any manner on the donor, per se. But for the Washington Post, which also reported in a major way on this development at the same time we did, the source of the money being billionaire George Soros would not have been public, but only the name of a PAC. The timing of our coverage was due to the timing of the release of the report, with no intent to favor any candidate, but only to serve the right of our readership to know.
This weekend the Schwengel family celebrated Kaia’s 2nd birthday. They adopted her a little under a year ago after finding her through the German Shepherd Rescue Foundation. Kaia’s favorite past times are rolling around in the yard and walks through the Thomas Jefferson trail.
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