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Fou n d ed 1991 • Vol. X X V I No. 15
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Inside This Week
Thousands Attend F.C. Memorial Day Festival It was another memorable Falls Church Memorial Day as thousands attended the City’s annual parade and festival this past Monday.
Tolls Coming on I-66 Will Go to Ease Area Congestion, F.C. Chamber Told City of F.C. Will Get Funds to Help With Bike Sharing
by Nicholas F. Benton
Falls Church News-Press
See photos, pages 18-19
Fresh Market Out at Tinner Hill Project?
A City of Falls Church spokesperson confirmed the existence of “unconfirmed reports” of a change in the long-standing plans for Fresh Market to open a store in the mixed-use project now under construction on S. Maple St. See News Briefs, page 9
David Brooks: Big & Little Loves
The distinction between the beautiful and the sublime is the distinction between the intimate and the transcendent. This sort of distinction doesn’t just happen in aesthetics but in life in general. See page 12
Press Pass with The Record Company
The Record Company have been touring nearly nonstop since releasing their debut album Give It Back to You in February. See page 22
Index
Editorial..................6 Letters..............6, 30 News & Notes.12-13 Comment......... 14-17 Calendar.........20-21 Food & Dining......23
Sports..................24 Business News....26 Classified Ads .....28 Comics, Sudoku & Crossword...........29 Critter Corner.......30
MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY surrounding J.E.B. Stuart High School talk about the pros and cons of changing the name of the school in one of the breakout sessions during the Fairfax County School Board’s community meeting about the issue. (Photo: Drew Costley/News-Press)
Opposition to J.E.B. Stuart Name Change Gains Steam
by Drew Costley
Falls Church News-Press
Opposition to the effort to change the name of J.E.B. Stuart High School is growing and organizing, as was evident at a recent community meeting held about the issue at the high school on Monday, May 23. The community meeting, paired with a survey from the Fairfax County School Board to gauge public opinion on the possibility of changing the school’s name, is the beginning of the school board’s public engagement process about the name change.
At the meeting, which was hosted by school board vice chair and Mason District representative Sandy Evans in tandem with the Fairfax County Public Schools, community members gathered around large sheets of paper to discuss the pros and cons of a name change as a designated recorder wrote down the group’s thoughts. Some of the group discussions were heated because they featured members of the community on opposite sides of the issue, while others were more calm because the majority of the group agreed on the issue one way or the other.
There were few exchanges observed during the breakout session part of the meeting that were both contentious and calm, setting the stage for what could be a messy battle in the community and at the school, which was named after a general in the Confederate Army during America’s Civil War. The push for the name change began in 2015 when five students at the school – Anna Rowan, Lidia Amanuel, Cassie Marcotty, Abby Conde and Marley Finley – started organizing and lobbying for
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The City of Falls Church will benefit from revenues generated by the planned introduction of tolls on Interstate 66 next year in the form of $854,000 for the installation and operation of bike sharing, a planner for the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission told the monthly luncheon of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce last week. Dan Goldfarb, a veteran 24-year planner and program manager with the NVTC, assured the audience of local business owners and leaders that the toll program, which will be introduced during peak hours in each direction on I-66 about a year from now, will benefit a wide range of regional projects in addition to the one slated for Falls Church, with the longterm overall effect of “benefiting the toll payer” by moving more people and reducing congestion. Among the major goals of the programs that will receive toll revenues will be “diversion mitigation,” he said, which is a big issue for communities like Falls Church who fear that the tolls will drive people to look for alternatives, such as cut-throughs through the residential neighborhoods of Falls Church. The toll program will be an advantage for those seeking to use I-66 during peak hours when now they are faced with “High Occupancy Vehicle” (HOV-2) restrictions. Anyone will be eligible to ride on the interstate who can pay the toll, even as a solo driver, he said. On the other hand, for the non-toll use of the road, the minimum of two passengers will be upped to three by 2020.
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In an effort to further address concerns raised by some citizens during the past months’ budget deliberations about “transparency” issues, the Falls Church School Board received a report from its chief financial officer Hunter Kimble at its meeting Tuesday night that detailed how independent audits of the Schools’, the City’s and the F.C. Economic Development Authority’s (EDA) accounts are conducted on an annual basis by the outside auditing firm of Brown, Edwards. The audits are performed under the guidelines of a Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) governed by Virginia’s Governing Accounting Standards Board. During the recent contentious School Board budget deliberations, when the board was tasked with finding almost $1 million in cuts below the request it had made to the City Council, some citizens assailed what they termed a “lack of transparency” on budget matters by the board,
even including the allegations by some that the schools are hiding from the public a $1.5 million “slush fund.” There were many calls for an “independent audit.” But such independent audits are a matter of routine policy for the schools and the City government, alike, it turns out, as Kimble’s report this week detailed. According to Kimble’s report, the Independent Auditor’s Report, as found on Page One of the CAFR, includes the following passage: “An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements (of the City, the Schools and the EDA – ed.). The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment...The auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances.” Citing Brown, Edwards, the Kimble report quoted, “Some procedures that we perform during our audit include: confirm cash and investment accounts and
debt balances, determine appropriateness of accounts receivable, accounts payable and other accounts, test significant capital asset additions and depreciation, perform analytical review of various accounts, including revenues and expenditures (analytical procedures consist of comparing current year expenditures to prior year and budget expenditures and obtaining explanations for variances over a pre-established threshold, and communicate with legal counsel.” Kimble explained to the School Board Tuesday that the independent auditors are “on site” in Falls Church twice a year, and will come this month for preliminary audit work that includes a review of all School Board, City Council and EDA minutes. They return in the fall once “the books have been closed out for the fiscal year” (which in Falls Church runs from July 1 to June 30). “When they come they really put us through our paces,” Kimble said. “It is a rigorous process that keeps us on our toes.” But far from how it used to be, he said, now when the auditors come they are viewed by School staff not with trepidation, but “as a great resource for us” offering an assessment “on how we are doing our job and helping us to improve.” The auditors apply the same process to the City and the EDA, he said, going back and forth between the entities when they are here. School Board member Phil Reitinger suggested that suggestions for action included in the auditor reports be made available to the School Board, and acting School Board chair John Lawrence noted that all the audit reports are public, available on the City’s financial matters section of its general government website, including all CAFR reports going back to when they were first introduced. Brown, Edwards noted, as Kimble included in his report, that they provide a “management letter” in addition to the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and submits “agreed upon procedures reports on the Comparative Report Transmittal forms,” along with a letter to “those charged with governance,” and a certification of the Data Collection form for federal awards.
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Plan for Tolls on I-66 is To Reduce Congestion Continued from Page 1
Currently, Goldfarb said, only 60 percent of those who drive on I-66 during HOV-2 restrictive hours are actually multi-passenger bearing cars. The rest are headed for the airport and hybrids, both exempt, bus or service vehicles or cheaters. Money taken in fines derived from cheaters go to traditional destinations by way of the judicial system, and are of no special benefit for mitigating congestion. Among the benefits of the revenues from the toll program are “real time information” screens, including 50 in Arlington and 17 in Alexandria, that will also be made available in a smart-phone application. There will be bus stop consolidations along major bus routes in the area, with fewer stops being the result, while there will be more information provided at the bus shelters. On the Arlington Regional Transit lines, the frequency will be doubled in Rosslyn to East Falls Church Metro corridor, and WMATA 2A bus
service will be expanded between the Dunn Loring and East Falls Church Metro stations. The Fairfax Connector bus service will be expanded linking Centerville to the Foggy Bottom Metro station in D.C. along I-66, and there will be new buses linking the Pentagon to the Mark Center in Alexandria. In Loudoun County, a park and ride will be developed linking Aldie to the McPherson Square Metro station in D.C., and in Prince William County a commuter bus will be added to link Gainesville to the Pentagon. A total of 19 new projects at $42 million a year will be introduced. “Slugging,” the practice of persons showing up at a designated stop to grab a ride from any stranger’s car pooling to a destination, called “dynamic car pooling,” will also be encouraged. The NVTC is also advancing plans to introduce “bus rapid transit” on Route 7, or Broad Street, running through Falls Church from the Spring Hill Metro station in Tysons Corner to the Mark Center in Alexandria, consisting of an
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DAN GOLDFARB, a veteran planner with the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, spoke about plans for introducing tolls on I-66 inside the beltway next year to the monthly luncheon of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce last week. (C������� P����: B����� S������ P����������) 11-mile run along Route 7, mostly in dedicated lanes, leaving Route 7 briefly in Falls Church to connect to the East Falls Church Metro station. This recommended mode followed studies of alternative options including light rail and enhanced bus service. A Route 7 Corridor Study found that construction and operating costs for
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A determination of prejudice and bigotry can never be subject to a popular vote, as the entire history of the civil rights movement attests. To argue that the name change of J.E.B. Stuart High School should be subject to a popular vote is flawed for just this reason. The same goes for the lamentable name associated with the Washington professional football team. It should be changed because it is wrong, not because some conjured majority thinks so or not. Sadly, tyranny too often enjoys majority support, as long as it is deft enough to chose an isolated minority to persecute. As long as Jews were the target of Hitler’s tyranny, everyone else in Germany could feel free to support him, even though the same tyranny was also repressing their freedoms, most significantly the freedom of the press, of assembly, or of the right to oppose him. Frankly, it is shameful in this day and age that anyone would actually step up to defend the name of a Confederate general at a local high school. His whole identity and purpose was tied up with the perpetuation of slavery. That’s what the Civil War was about. There are those who contend that it was about “states rights” and not slavery, per se, but then, the “rights” they were fighting to defend for their “states” were the right to the practice of slavery. There can be no denying this. Like in the 1950s, when descendants of the Old South, many of whom grew up in households that were still fuming about the loss of the Civil War, faced the demand made by the U.S. Supreme Court to integrate the schools, still today there is a strong current of racism in our culture. It has fueled a lot of the irrational opposition to the first AfricanAmerican president despite his very considerable contributions to the well-being of every American through his steady and mature leadership. There is no doubt that the rise of Donald Trump to become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee this summer is the consequence of a virulent racism that still inflames a lot in the country, especially among white males. It has been his unrepentant anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim diatribes that have sparked the grassroots of his support from day one. So, the “push back” against the morally-driven movement to remove Confederate flags and other remnant symbols of the pro-slavery Confederacy that arose following the wanton murders of nine by a single person in Charleston, South Carolina, last year is not surprising. Good old white boys appeasing and enabling good old white boys, and even if some are not of that ethnicity, the matter is one of right and wrong, not the whim of anyone’s personal opinion. One hopes in promoting movements to advance our culture beyond the Confederacy to find encouragement in the notion that we are moving toward greater multicultural appreciation and respect. But there’s no guaranteeing that.
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Democratic Party Trying To Create ‘Gaytheism’
Editor, I find Nicholas F. Benton’s use of capitalization in his column, “Preventing the Slide into Fascism” very interesting. Benton accuses Trump of “disrespecting the democratic culture” and later he refers to the “Democratic Enlightenment.” The Enlightenment was not the product of the Democratic Party, so it should have a lower case “d,” and the culture that Trump and
so many others disrespect is not democratic, but the Democratic culture pushed on the country by the Democratic party and its media minions, so it should have a capital “D.” In spite of the Democratic party avowing the separation of church and state, they are trying to create a state religion enforced by law that I refer to as “Gaytheism.” You don’t have to believe in God, but any demand by the LGBT com-
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Roberts Park Should Have Lights For Night Use
Editor, My name is Robert Griggs and I am a Boy Scout living in Falls Church. I like to play in Roberts Park all through the year. However, I wish the park had lights for use at night. I recommend the City consider buying solar panel-powered lights for use
at Roberts Park at night. My dad says kids should have an adult present if kids are playing. Robert Griggs Falls Church
Help Volunteer For ‘Falls Church Feeds the World’ Editor, Every time I finish a meal and have food left over, I know I am fortunate. Falls Church and Fairfax County are among the wealthiest parts of our nation.
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Falls Church citizen Paul Allen, founder of Ancestry.com, recalled “As a boy, I watched ‘Roots’ on TV and was moved by that story. Alex Haley powerfully captured in his stories what he called the ‘hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage. We started Ancestry.com with the hope that every person in the world could more easily find their ancestors and discover their heritage.” Ancestry.com launched in 1997. Now almost 20 years later, a new national family history effort will connect African Americans with their Civil War-era ancestors through the release of 1.5 million digitized images containing four million names from the Freedmen’s Bureau. “For many of the freed slaves freedom was almost as perilous as bondage. They often had no job, money or shelter. They didn’t have proper training or education, and bigotry was almost ubiquitous. For some, the situation was so desperate that they were forced to continue working for their former masters — an indignity compounded by their lack of access to basic public services.” Sherri Camp, a genealogy librarian in Topeka, Kansas said in a recent editorial in the Topeka Capital Journal. Seeing the problem, Congress created the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands (often referred to as the Freedmen’s Bureau). The Freedmen’s Bureau – which operated from 1865 to
1872 – assisted newly freed slaves in 15 states and the District of Columbia. The federal government – especially the military and Dept. of Treasury – made major efforts to provide property, schooling, jobs, and
“The Freedmen’s Bureau records contribute greatly to existing data for anyone with enslaved ancestors who were emancipated in 1863.” opportunities for millions of freed men, women and children, and to reconnect families where possible. This effort continued for several years after war. The bureau’s services also included offering food, medical care, clothing, housing, legal counsel, employment assistance and many other forms of support to former slaves. In the process it gathered priceless handwritten, personal information including marriage and family information, military service, banking, school, hospital and property records of potentially millions of African Americans. Much of this information was preserved in the National Archives. FamilySearch.org, a nonprofit organiza-
tion, sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, with project partners The National Museum of African American History and Culture, the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States and the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, announced the Freedmen’s Bureau Project at a news conference held at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles on “Juneteenth” 2015 – the celebration of Emancipation Day. These collaborating organizations called for volunteers to index the digitized records of the Freedmen’s Bureau. “specifically those that have ties to these records, the African American community, to get involved with this to help us break down this brick wall to help us overcome these barriers in genealogical research and making these family connections,” said Thom Reed, product manager at FamilySearch. Reed has his own connection to the records. “I hit this brick wall in 1870 when the first census was taken that included African Americans as citizens. If you try to go back before then, the records are scanty at best.” The Freedmen’s Bureau Project now has over 18,000 volunteers who are working to make these records available and accessible by taking the raw records, extracting the information and indexing them to make them easily searchable online. Once indexed, finding an ancestor may be as easy as going to FamilySearch.org, entering a name and, with the touch of a button, dis-
covering your family member. Anyone who would like to volunteer may participate. Volunteers simply log on, pull up as many scanned documents as they like, and enter the names and dates into the fields provided. Once published, information for millions of African Americans will be accessible, allowing families to build their family trees and connect with their ancestors. The Freedmen’s Bureau records contribute greatly to existing data for anyone with enslaved ancestors who were emancipated in 1863. Thanks to the Freedmen’s Bureau Project, they have been digitized, are being indexed, and will soon be freely available to all when the work is completed (projected to be sometime this summer). These records, correspondence, and stories are priceless for discovering ancestors from that period for the first time. Volunteers have completed 84 percent of the work. If you would like to do just a little bit of “stepping back in history,” sign up at discoverfreedmen.org. Local volunteers will be at The Tinner Hill Blues Festival Saturday, June 11, Cherry Hill Park, with information and video illustrating the history and the current indexing effort and help visitors learn how use FamilySearch to discover ancestors; their own unique history. Volunteers will also be available on Sunday, June 12 from 2 – 5 p.m. at the Old Fashioned Blues and Gospel Concert & Picnic at The Tinner Hill Historic Site at 108 Tinner Street, Falls Church.
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Large Turnout for F.C. Memorial Day Festival More than 10,000 people came out for the City of Falls Church’s 2016 Memorial Day Festival and Parade on Monday. Mark Q. Rhoads, a former Illinois State Senator (R-Cook County) who served six years in the 86th U.S. Army Reserve Command in Chicago, served as the keynote speaker for the Veteran’s Ceremony at the festival. “The City sends a special thank you to members of the Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department who were on hand to provide first aid to anyone in need,” said Chris Madison, event manager, in a press release. “We also could not have had such a memorable event without Grand Marshal Kathleen Halayko, ceremony and parade participants, parade judges, vendors, sponsors and everyone who attended.” The parade winners were: Best Emergency Vehicle: Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department; Best Float: NOVA Parks and Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation; Best High School Marching Band: George C. Marshall Marching Band; Best Professional Marching Band: Washington Scottish Pipe Band; Best Vehicles: KENA 500; Best Walking Group: South Lakes High School Junior Reserve Officer’s Training Corps; Best Youth Group: Tinkus Tiataco; Best Military Group: Greater Falls Church Veteran’s Council. Falls Church Community Television recorded the parade and will make it available via YouTube soon. It will also be broadcast on Falls Church City Television. The schedule of airings will be determined at a later date.
Many Wear Orange to Protest Gun Violence Today To protest gun violence, many people across the country and in Falls Church were slated to wear orange today, June 2, in a show of support for anti-violence efforts. Last week Falls Church citizens came before the Falls Church City Council to underscore a proclamation Mayor David Tarter issued encouraging everyone to participate. Orange is the color that was chosen by friends to honor the life of Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old high school student from the south side of Chicago who was shot and killed in January 2013. On June 2, 2015, what would have been Hadiya’s 18th birthday, a group of her friends chose to wear orange to remember her life.
Unconfirmed Report Fresh Market is Out at Tinner Hill Project A spokesman at the City of Falls Church confirmed to the News-Press Wednesday the existence of “unconfirmed reports” that there has been a change in the long-standing plans for the Fresh Market chain to open a store in the Lincoln at Tinner Hill mixed-use project now under construction on S. Maple St. Becky Witsman of the City’s Economic Development Office noted that Fresh Markets had been sold as a company to Apollo Global Management in April, but that a lease had been signed to move into the Tinner Hill location.
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Simon Chosen as Beyer District Office Director U.S. Rep. Donald S. Beyer, Jr., who represents the 8th district of Northern Virginia that includes the City of Falls Church, has chosen former Arlington School Board member Noah Simon as his District Office Director. Simon was elected as an Arlington School Board member in 2012 and served only two years before resigning to focus on his children after the passing of his wife, Kedron, who’d battled intestinal cancer for 15 months. Simon will be taking over for Susie Warner, who was district director for former Rep. Jim Moran (and then for Beyer) since 1990. Warner was due to retire June 1. “We really looked hard for someone who was deeply embedded in the community,” said Beyer in a statement. “It’s tough to bring in someone who doesn’t know too much about the community, so finding Noah was like a godsend.”
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Debate Over School Name Change Continues Continued from Page 1
the change after learning about the source of the school’s name in a history class at the school. Initially, there was a groundswell of support for the name change from teachers, fellow students, alumni from all across the country and members of the Sleepy Hollow community surrounding the school. A Change. org petition circulated around the web and received over 1,000 signatures. Then a petition on the same website opposing the name change idea received over 2,000 signatures, but the opposition seemed to be expressing itself online exclusively. Finally, two of Stuart’s most famous alumni, Academy Award-winning actress Julianne Moore and Academy Award-winning producer Bruce Cohen, circulated a Change.org petition which received nearly 35,000 signatures, though most of those came from people across the country, weighing in on a decision that will ultimately be decided locally. Still, momentum seemed to be on the side of those who wanted a name change. In December 2015 the Fairfax County School Board voted to revise the board’s naming policy to include the ability to change a school or facility’s name in the case of a compelling need. But the most recent developments show that there is an active opposition to the name change among residents in the area. Out of the 3,414 surveyed in the school board’s poll of community members on the name change, 56 percent of respondents said they don’t support changing the name of the school. And at the May 23 community meeting at the school, there were several representatives present from The Concerned Citizens of Fairfax, an organization that formed in early May to oppose the name change effort. “I’m opposed to the name change right now, not necessarily in the future,” said Fairfax County resident Andre Billeaudeaux, who
is a member of The Concerned Citizens of Fairfax and a parent of a student at Stuart. “The process has played out where the proname change folks have had over a year to push the change agenda, whereas those of us who want to make sure it’s done right have only been [acquainted] with this issue for about three weeks.” According to Billeaudeaux, those pushing for the school board to change Stuart’s name have not provided sufficient evidence to support their claim that the school was named after a Confederate general in order to discourage students of color from coming to the school despite desegregation efforts taking place during the time of the school’s opening in 1959. “A year ago, the [students] who started this campaign and made a video and posted it on YouTube, there were two teachers involved in the video and in the video they claimed that J.E.B. Stuart killed slaves, he was a racist and he hated black people and that the name was part of a white southern resistance issue,” Billeaudeaux said. “All right, what we would like to know is [if] that’s true because if he is known to killed or slaughtered slaves, then hell yeah, change the name. It’d be nice to see if the people who brought this video to the public’s attention have anything more substantive than an opinion.” Another person who opposes the name change, Nicholas Menacho, a junior at Stuart who is Latino, has different reasons for opposing the name change. He said that he feels the name of the school, even if the reasons some claim it was given to the school when it opened are true, doesn’t hold the same meaning that it did in 1959. “I feel the name of the school doesn’t have value anymore,” Menacho said. “I’ve asked several African-American students and they have all told me that it doesn’t offend [them] and when I ask other minorities, because
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FABIO ZULUAGA, REGIONAL ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT for Fairfax County Public Schools, speaks to Fairfax County residents at the beginning of the school board’s community meeting on Monday, May 23. He said the purpose of the meeting was to gather more feedback from members of the community. (Photo: Drew Costley/News-Press) the name was especially against minorities, it’s just kind of lost its value. “I don’t feel offended when I come in here. Most of the minorities do not feel offended when they come in here. And it seems like most of the people who are for the name change are white people.” He said that he feels society has overcome racism as the past and Stuart, which is one of the more racially diverse high schools in Northern Virginia, is an example of that. Linda Green, a 1962 graduate of Stuart, has a different perspective on how the racism of the past impacts today’s society and is in favor of the name change. “There’s always been the history of oppressed peoples fighting against oppression,” Green said. “In the modern period we see Black Lives Matter and opposition to police brutality and there
is one thing that does connect these eras and that’s the number of African-Americans killed by police is larger than the number hanged under slavery and those kinds of numbers would be worth drawing out.” Two of the students who started the movement to change Stuart’s name, Abby Rowan and Lidia Amanuel, were at the May 23 meeting. Despite the opposition to the name change, both were resolute in their support for a name change. They both said they think the survey wasn’t distributed as well as they would have liked and would like to see a detailed breakdown of who voted in the survey. “I would like to see the survey preferably done again and give people a little more time and have it done in a way that’s easier to get to everyone,” Rowan said. “Another thing, I believe it was on the alumni survey, there wasn’t
an option to make a comment, so it didn’t seem exactly consistent.” Cohen, who lives in New York City, travelled to Stuart for the May 23 meeting. He echoed statements by Amanuel, who said that just because a majority of the people are opposed to something it doesn’t make it right to go with the opposition. “Unfortunately, it doesn’t surprise me. As Martin Luther King, Jr. said ‘The arc of history is long but bends toward justice.’ Social justice and social change is never easy in the United States. It’s always a difficult fight anytime you’re fighting for the rights of African-Americans, of women, of LGBT people and so sadly I sort of expected the opposition and, for me, that is why this is so important. “A public high school in today’s age should not be named after a Confederate general. It should not be linked to a mascot of the days of the Confederate flag. It’s just wrong….One of the things we’re all talking about is to keep in mind that this can not be majority rule. This is not a majority vote. If minorities were waiting for the majority to give them their rights in this country, minorities would never get their rights…So we’re saying to the school board that you need to make this change because it’s the right thing to do, not because 51 percent of the people support it.”
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Opens Tomorrow Night On Stage In Falls Church
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Community News & Notes Feltman Takes Over As Board President at FCCTV Ken Feltman was recently elected interim president of the Falls Church City Television Access Board after Bob LofturThun, the former board president, stepped down from the board to focus on family health issues. “Over the past 15 months, the board facilitated the reactivation of the FCC-TV governance Steering Committee with our partners, the Falls Church City Public Schools and the City Government; modernized FCC-TV studio and field equipment; reached out to the community to recruit new program producers; added eight new public access programs and started new production classes,” Feltman said. “The board looks forward to working with our FCC-TV partners to have FCC-TV reflect and promote our unique community.” Since stepping down, Loftur-
Thun reported that the family health issues he stepped down to focus on are much improved for one of his daughters and his second daughter was at Sloane Kettering in New York last week for testing. For more information about Falls Church City Television, visit fcctv.org.
F.C. Chamber Hosts Health & Wellness Event The Falls Church Chamber of Commerce is hosting a health and wellness event called Spring Into Wellness on Saturday, June 4 from 7:30 a.m. – 7 p.m. at various businesses and locations around the City of Falls Church. Spring Into Wellness is a day of free classes, seminars, events and tastings to highlight the many health and wellness focused businesses in Falls Church and to educate the community about all aspects of
health and wellness. Among the businesses and organizations that are participating in Spring Into Wellness are Dancing Mind Yoga, the Falls Church Community Center, Bonita Woods Wellness Institute and Body Dynamics. For more information or to sign up to host an event, visit fallschurchchamber.org/events/details/ spring-into-wellness-health-wellness-initiative-7073.
Falls Church Arts to Open Location in The Kensington The Kensington recently announced that Falls Church Arts will be one of the first tenants of the assisted living community’s ground-floor retail space. The Kensington plans to feature the artists in Falls Church Arts’ 2016 Plein Air Festival during the opening of the community’s information center at 1212 W.
RYAN BEHRENS, a student at St. James School, presents a thank you card to Ken Feltman of Hillwood Avenue on his retirement as president of the Falls Church City Republican Committee on May 19 at American Legion Post 130. Also joining the presentation (l to r) are committee members Matt Kahn, the new president, Ryan’s mother Dawn Behrens, Harry Shovlin, Sue Green, Hilel Weinberg and Jim Evans. (Photo: Courtesy of Mark Rhoads)
Broad Street on Thursday, June 16 from 7 – 9 p.m. After the Plein Air artist feature, the space will feature new artists every 30 – 45 days. The Kensington will also celebrate the Plein Air artists at the Falls Church Arts Plein Air festival on Saturday, June 18 from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Falls Church Farmers’ Market. Once The Kensington officially opens the assisted living facility at 700 W. Broad Street in 2017, Falls Church Arts will display interchangeable art installations on the ground floor of the building. For more information, visit thekensingtonfallschurch.com.
Health Dept. Door-to-Door Survey Slated for June 4 & 5 The Fairfax County Health Department will be conducting a survey called the Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response in a rep-
resentative sampling of neighborhoods, including the City of Falls Church, on Saturday, June 4 and Sunday, June 5. Health department staff and volunteers will be going door-todoor, asking residents to participate in the anonymous survey. In the City, survey volunteers will be in the area of Lincoln Avenue and West Street. Just outside the City limits, the volunteers will be in the area of Falls Reach Drive. Neighborhoods and households will be selected at random using validated sampling methodology. Participation in the survey is voluntary and confidential. Respondents will not be asked to identify themselves and their address will not be included in the results. For a full list of the 45 areas to be surveyed and more information, visit fairfaxcounty.gov/hd/ hdnews/2016hdnews/2016-may26-casper-emergency-preparedness-survey.htm.
THE FALLS CHURCH CITY COUNCIL issued a proclamation at the regular council meeting on Monday, May 23 naming May 2016 Brain Tumor Awareness Month in the City. The proclamation urged all Falls Church citizens to recognize the importance of the observance of Brain Tumor Awareness Month, participate in events to raise funds to find a cure and offer support to members of the community who are dealing with a brain tumor diagnosis. Jimmy Alverson, a seventh grader at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School, holds the proclamation. (Photo: News-Press)
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Street Sweeping in Falls Church Set for June 13-17
The City of Falls Church government asked residents in a recent press release to move vehicles off the streets for street sweeping, which is scheduled for June 13 – 17. Vehicle owners only need to move their vehicles off of the streets on the day their area is scheduled for street sweeping between 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. Doing so helps crews do a more efficient and effective job of preventing 200-250 tons of debris from entering our local waterways. The June street sweeping, which is scheduled to change in the case of inclement weather, is as follows: residential areas south of Broad Street on Monday, June 13 and Tuesday, June 14; commercial areas and municipal parking areas on Wednesday, June 15; residential areas north of Broad Street on Thursday, June 16 and Friday, June 17. Street sweeping reduces the volume of pollutants entering local streams through the City’s 900 storm drain openings. Each cycle of street sweeping collects between 40 and 50 tons of debris from City streets and keeps it out of our streams. The materials intercepted include heavy metals, trash and general sediment. For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/ Sweep.
DMV 2 Go Slated for June 10 at F.C. City Hall The Department of Motor Vehicles mobile customer service center, DMV 2 Go, will be in the parking lot of City Hall at 300 Park Avenue on Friday, June 10, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.The special event is co-hosted by the Commissioner of the Revenue and the Virginia DMV. This event is open to all Virginia residents. No appointments are necessary.
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The handicapped-accessible, full-service office provides all DMV transactions including applying for and renewing driver’s licenses; obtaining ID cards (including photos) and Virginia’s veterans ID cards; taking road and knowledge tests; obtaining copies of driving records; obtaining vehicle titles, license plates, decals, and transcripts; ordering disabled parking placards or plates; updating an address after a move for DMV and voter registration; and more. Customers should be prepared with the required identification. On the last scheduled DMV 2 Go day, Friday, May 13, 214 transactions were processed at the mobile DMV site in the parking lot of City Hall For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/ dmv2go.
City of Falls Church Acquires Electric Police Vehicle The City of Falls Church Police Department’s Office of Emergency Management has a new electric vehicle that debuted during the Memorial Day Parade and Festival on Monday, May 30. The transport utility vehicle comes with an emergency response package with a flatbed. The vehicle is 100 percent environmentally friendly and was funded through an Emergency Management Performance Grant as well as assets seized by the police. For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/162/Police.
NoVA Lights Chorale Presents ‘A Touch of Jazz’ The NoVA Lights Chorale is presenting “A Touch of Jazz,” a concert featuring the music of Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, George Gershwin and others, on Sunday, June 5 at 4 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, located at 3439 Payne St., Falls Church.
FALLS CHURCH GIRL SCOUT TROOP 4438 recently held a donation drive for the Animal Welfare League of Arlington in order to earn the Bronze Award. Troop members (l to r) Casey Sloan, Caroline Doyle and Nora Rice stand among the donations they collected for the Animal Welfare League of Arlington. (P����: C������� �� K������ F���������) The concert is free and a reception will follow the performance. There will be free parking and the venue is wheelchair-accessible. For more information, visit novalightschorale.jigsy.com.
Arlington Remembers John H. Langston Elementary The Hall’s Hill/High View Park community in Arlington will continue its 150th Anniversary Celebration on Saturday, June 4 from 11 a.m. – 11 p.m. at the Langston-Brown Community Center with Remembering John H. Langston Elementary School. Remembering John H. Langston Elementary School is a day-long event featuring a round table discussion from 2 – 4 p.m. with former faculty, staff and students from the original Langston School, which
was open from 1926-1966. An inter-generational oral history workshop conducted by Dr. Lauranett Lee, former curator of African-American history at the Virginia Historical Society, will immediately follow the round table discussion. There will also be a moon bounce, face painting, balloon animals, exhibits on local history, video screenings, retro games, a vintage car show, Fire Station #8 Engine on display, health screenings and a scavenger hunt of Historic Neighborhood Sites. To close out the night there will be a sock hop dance beginning at 8 p.m. featuring 1950s best dressed and hand dancing contests with music from WPFW’s Capt. Fly. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit highviewpark.com.
NoVa Community College Offers Summer STEM Courses From robotics to rocketry, summer STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) camps offered by Northern Virginia Community College’s SySTEMic Solutions will take place at multiple locations across the region. SySTEMic Solutions’ camps have been steadily expanding each year as demand has grown across Northern Virginia. This summer, camps will operate at the following locations across Northern Virginia, including at Edison High School, South Lakes High School and Marshall High School. To register for one of the STEM classes, visit nvcc.edu/ systemic. For more information, call 703-530-2894 or email systemic@nvcc.edu.
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Ever since the days of ancient Greece, philosophers have distinguished between the beautiful and the sublime. Beauty is what you experience when you look at a flower or a lovely face. It is contained, pleasurable, intimate and romantic. Sublime is what you feel when you look at a mountain range or a tornado. It involves awe, veneration, maybe even a touch of fear. A sublime thing, like space or mathematics, over-awes the natural human dimensions and reminds you that you are a small thing in a vast cosmos. Recently neuroscientists have shown that the experiences of beauty and awe activate different parts of the brain. The distinction between the beautiful and the sublime is the distinction between the intimate and the transcendent. This sort of distinction doesn’t just happen in aesthetics but in life in general. NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE We have big and little loves. The soldiers whom we honored on Memorial Day were animated by a big love – serving their country – and by a little one – protecting their buddies. Religious people experience a love of God that is both big and little. Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik wrote that God is in one guise majestic and infinite, the author of the universe. But when Soloveitchik’s wife lay on her deathbed, God did not appear that way. Instead, he appeared as a “close friend, brother, father. … I felt His warm hand, as it were, on my shoulder, I hugged His knees, as it were. He was with me in the narrow confines of a small room, taking up no space at all.” In daily life we have big and little loves, too. The little loves, like for one’s children, one’s neighborhood or one’s garden, animate nurture, compassion and care. The big loves, like for America or the cause of global human rights, inspire courage and greatness. A little love is a shepherd protecting his flock. A great love is Martin Luther King Jr. leading his people. The small attachments serve as the foundation of our emotional lives, but when you have a big love for your country or a cause, you are loving something that transcends a lifetime. You are pursuing some universal ideal and seeking excellence. A big love involves using power well, seeking honor and glory and being worthy of them. The amount of big love in a society can rise and fall. Alexis de Tocqueville wondered if democracy would dampen Americans’ big love. “What worries me most,” he wrote, “is the danger that, amid all the constant trivial preoccupations of private life, ambition may lose both its force and its greatness, that human passions may grow gentler and at the same time baser, with the result that the progress of the body social may become daily quieter and less aspiring.” I’d say that in America today some of the little loves are fraying, and big love is almost a foreign language. Almost nobody speaks about the American project in the same ardent tones that were once routine. Big love is hopeful, but today pessimism is in vogue. Big love involves a confidence that one can use power well, but today Americans are suspicious of power, have lost faith in leaders and big institutions and feel a sense of impotence in the face of big problems. Big love involves thinking in sweeping historical terms. But today the sense that America is pursuing a noble mission in the world has been humbled by failures and passivity. The country feels more divided than unified around common purpose. Big love involves politics, and thus compromise, competition and messiness. Americans today are less likely to discern the noble within the grittiness of reality. The very words that the founders used to describe their big love for their country sound archaic: glory, magnanimity, sacred honor and greatness. There is, in sum, less animating desire in the country at the moment, and therefore less energy and daring. The share of Americans moving across state lines in search of opportunity has fallen by more than half since the 1970s. The rate of new business creation is down. Productivity is falling for the first time in three decades. Economic growth is anemic. There’s a spiritual and cultural element behind these trends. So I write today in defense of big love, the love not only of your little platoon but of the grand historical project this country represents. Young people now want to join startups or NGOs, or eat locally grown foods, but I’m writing in defense of the big love that once inspired big projects, like NASA, the national railroads and the creation and maintenance of the postwar, U.S.-led world order, with the free movement of people, goods and ideas. Before the country can achieve great things it has to relearn the ability to desire big things. It has to be willing to love again, even amid disappointments – to love things that are awesome, heroic and sublime.
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Feel the Math This is my fifth presidential campaign as a New York Times columnist, so I’ve watched a lot of election coverage, and I came into this cycle prepared for the worst. Or so I thought. But I was wrong. So far, election commentary has been even worse than I imagined it would be. It’s not just the focus on the horse race at the expense of substance; much of the horse-race coverage has been bangyour-head-on-the-desk awful, too. I know this isn’t scientific, but based on conversations I’ve had recently, many people – smart people, who read newspapers and try to keep track of events – have been given a fundamentally wrong impression of the current state of play. NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE And when I say a “wrong impression,” I don’t mean that I disagree with other people’s takes. I mean that people aren’t being properly informed about the basic arithmetic of the situation. Now, I’m not a political scientist or polling expert, nor do I even try to play one on TV. But I am fairly numerate, and I assiduously follow real experts like The Times’ Nate Cohn. And they’ve taught me some basic rules that I keep seeing violated. First, at a certain point you have to stop reporting about the race for a party’s nomination as if it’s mainly about narrative and “momentum.” That may be true at an early stage, when candidates are competing for credibility and dollars. Eventually, however, it all becomes a simple, concrete matter of delegate counts. That’s why Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee; she locked it up more than a month ago with her big Mid-Atlantic wins, leaving Bernie Sanders no way to overtake her without gigantic, implausible landslides – winning two-thirds of the vote! – in states with large nonwhite populations, which have supported Clinton by huge margins throughout the campaign. And no, saying that the race is effectively over isn’t somehow aiding a nefarious plot to shut it down by prematurely declaring victory. Nate Silver recently summed it up: “Clinton ‘strategy’ is to persuade more ‘people’ to ‘vote’ for her, hence producing ‘majority’ of ‘delegates.’” You may think those people chose the wrong candidate, but choose her they did. Second, polls can be really helpful at assessing the state of a race, but only if you fight the temptation to cherry-pick, to only cite polls telling the story
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you want to hear. Recent hyperventilating over the California primary is a classic example. Most polls show Clinton with a solid lead, but one recent poll shows a very close race. So, has her lead “evaporated,” as some reports suggest? Probably not: Another poll, taken at the very same time, showed an 18-point lead. What the polling experts keep telling us to do is rely on averages of polls rather than highlighting any one poll in particular. This does double duty: it prevents cherry-picking, and it also helps smooth out the random fluctuations that are an inherent part of polling, but can all too easily be mistaken for real movement. And the polling average for California has, in fact, been pretty stable, with a solid Clinton lead. Polls can, of course, be wrong, and have been a number of times this cycle. But they’ve worked better than many people think. Most notably, Donald Trump’s rise didn’t defy the polls – on the contrary, he was solidly leading the polls by September. Pundits who dismissed his chances were overruling what the surveys were trying to tell them. Which brings us to the general election. Here’s what you should know, but may not be hearing clearly in the political reporting: Clinton is clearly ahead, both in general election polls and in Electoral College projections based on state polls. It’s true that her lead isn’t as big as it was before Trump clinched the GOP nomination, largely because Republicans have consolidated around their presumptive nominee, while many Sanders supporters are still balking at saying that they’ll vote for her. But that probably won’t last; many Clinton supporters said similar things about Barack Obama in 2008, but eventually rallied around the nominee. So unless Bernie Sanders refuses to concede and insinuates that the nomination was somehow stolen by the candidate who won more votes, Clinton is a clear favorite to win the White House. Now, obviously things can and will change over the course of the general election campaign. Every one of the presidential elections I’ve covered at The Times felt at some point like a nail-biter. But the current state of the race should not be a source of dispute or confusion. Barring the equivalent of a meteor strike, Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee; despite the reluctance of Sanders supporters to concede that reality, she’s ahead of Donald Trump. That’s what the math says, and anyone who says it doesn’t is misleading you.
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The Obama Antidote To Trump’s Poison
This Tuesday, May 31, marked a distinct turning point in the 2016 race for the U.S. presidency. A big red-faced behemoth was shown on live national TV having been hit with grave slings and arrows bellowing like a wild-eyed elk in heat. Donald Trump was dealt serious blows by the media, at long last. Kudos to those at the press conference Tuesday who did not back down in fear, who did not cower at the angry, roaring foul-mouthed protestations as this massively inflated ego began to show signs of deflating. Even Trump’s most loyal minions had to step back and look at what they saw yesterday with a sense of awe. Their hero was reduced to a howling, stammering mess. FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS Donald Trump’s very limited vocabulary was taxed, driving him to his fall-back use of slurs against the reporters present as “losers,” “liars” and “sleaze,” and promising that just as distasteful as he’d been in that conference, he would be no different if he got into the White House. He’s crude. He’s a thug. Now, the disclosures about his Trump University scam are showing him to be a con man of the first order, too. His promises to “Make America Great Again” we can now see better were effective because they were laced with racist overtones that too many Americans have been eager to embrace ever since President Barack Obama was first sworn into the White House. It is instructive that as vulgar and crude as Trump was so easily incited to become on Tuesday, the man who many signed on with Trump to vanquish, our sitting president, has taken the lead to offer Americans a markedly different course. President Obama has used the last few months, and I trust he will the next as well, to offer the tone and inspiration that increasingly are becoming polar opposite of Trump. He did it in his commencement speech to the 2016 graduating class of Washington, D.C.’s Howard University, and more recently, he outdid himself once again in memorable remarks delivered at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Japan May 27. Becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit this site where 71 years ago, as he put it, “On a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world changed. A flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself.” He came there to make an appeal to humanity, he said, to choose a different course. “In the image of a mushroom cloud that rose into these skies, we are most starkly reminded of humanity’s core contradiction; how the very spark that marks us as a species – our thoughts, our imagination, our language, our tool-making, our ability to set ourselves apart from nature and to bend it to our will – those very things also give us the capacity for unmatched destruction,” he said. Now, he intoned, “We come to this place. We stand here, in the middle of this city, and force ourselves to imagine the moment the bomb fell. We force ourselves to feel the dread of children confused by what they see. “We listen to their silent cry. We remember all the innocents killed across the arc of that terrible war, and the wars that came before and the wars that would follow.” In facing down this reality, he said, humanity must recognize that “we have a shared responsibility to look directly into the eye of history and ask what we must do differently to curb such suffering again.” Since 1945, “We have made choices that give us hope,” he said, but added, “Our work is never done...We must change our mindset about war itself...and perhaps above all, we must reimagine our connection to one another as members of one human race. For this, too, is what makes our species unique. We’re not bound by genetic code to repeat the mistakes of the past.” How better to frame the present circumstances of American politics. Simply put, Trump would have us revisit the coarsest mistakes of the past.
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Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.
The Ghosts of Old Sex Scandals We are now being forced to relive the decadesold sex scandals of Bill Clinton, as Donald Trump tries desperately to shield and inoculate himself from well-earned charges of misogyny. I say, if we must go there, let’s go all the way. Let’s do this dirty laundry, as Kelly Rowland, former Destiny’s Child member, once crooned. First, multiple women have accused Clinton of things ranging from sexual misconduct to rape. Paula Jones famously brought a sexual harassment case against Clinton. The case was dismissed, but on appeal, faced with the prospect of having to testify under oath, Clinton settled the case out of court. Clinton has maintained that he had inappropriate sexual relationships with only two women: Gennifer Flowers, a model and actress, and Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern and was impeached on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with his affair with Lewinsky. Let’s just say this: Clinton was as wrong as the day is long for his affairs. There is no NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE way around that. But the problem was that many of the men condemning Clinton had their own extramarital issues. Newt Gingrich, who was so incredibly disliked that he stepped down not only from his speakership in the House of Representatives, but also from Congress altogether, later admitted cheating on his first wife and on his second. Into the void created by Gingrich’s departure stepped speaker-to-be Robert L. Livingston of Louisiana. But, as The Chicago Tribune reported at the time: “On the eve of the House debate to impeach President Clinton for lying about sex with Monica Lewinsky, House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston told his Republican colleagues Thursday night that he had strayed from his marriage and had adulterous affairs. Only a few hours after Livingston decided to proceed with the impeachment debate despite U.S. forces being engaged in hostilities in Iraq, he admitted in a GOP caucus that he had ‘on occasion’ committed infidelity and in ‘doing so nearly cost me my marriage and family.’” And Livingston wasn’t the only Republican moving to impeach Clinton for lying about a sexual affair who would be forced out of the shadows for his own sexual scandals. Dennis Hastert, who became speaker in 1999, pleaded guilty last year to illegally structuring bank withdrawals in order to pay what prosecutors
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contend was hush money to a man Hastert had sexually abused as a child. Indeed, as The Times reported in April, federal prosecutors asserted that Hastert “molested at least four boys, as young as 14, when he worked as a high school wrestling coach decades ago,” before the Clinton impeachment hearings. Henry Hyde, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who The Times reported had raised “the specter of the Watergate era” when discussing Clinton, admitted to a journalist during the proceedings that he’d had a five-year affair with a married woman decades earlier. Dan Burton, House Government Reform and Oversight Committee chairman, who The Washington Post described as “one of President Clinton’s most persistent and combative critics,” was forced to admit that he had a secret love child. And, just last week, The Times reported: “Kenneth W. Starr, the former independent counsel who delivered a report that served as the basis for President Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998, was removed as president of Baylor University on Thursday after an investigation found the university mishandled accusations of sexual assault against football players.” The sweep of karma and the level of hypocrisy is just staggering. No wonder nearly two-thirds of Americans opposed Clinton’s impeachment, and he emerged from the impeachment with record-high approval ratings. Now, Trump wants to dip into this muck again, even though he has had his own extramarital affair. Indeed Trump seemed to support Clinton and find kinship, saying, “Paula Jones is a loser, but the fact is that she may be responsible for bringing down a president indirectly.” Trump also mused on the prospect of his own run for public office, saying, “Can you imagine how controversial that’d be? You think about him with the women. How about me with the women? Can you imagine …” I can, actually. Last week, when Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was confronted on CNN with Trump’s defenses of Clinton during the sex scandals, Cohen responded that at the time Trump was simply trying to “protect a friend.” And yet, this is the same camp lambasting Hillary Clinton as an “enabler” for trying to protect a husband? It’s all incredibly distasteful, yes, but it also doesn’t jibe. And, aside from the unshakable feeling that there is something tragically off about using a husband’s philandering as a weapon against a betrayed wife, I also doubt the public will have much stomach for these stories, just as it didn’t in the 1990s. Dirty laundry, done.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts
Senator Dick Saslaw’s
News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
Fairfax County’s land use process relies on two documents, the Comprehensive Plan and the Zoning Ordinance, as the basis for determining all land uses in the county. The Plan is a guide for decision-making, and anticipates change over a 20-year period. The Ordinance contains specific regulations to implement the Plan. Interestingly, the Commonwealth of Virginia mandates that every county have a Comprehensive Plan, but there are no similar requirements for counties to have a Zoning Ordinance. The Plan can make recommendations for types of land use, and for transportation, parks, and similar amenities, but the Ordinance is the mechanism for actual development. In order to foster recent amendments to the Plan, especially in revitalization areas, Tysons, and Reston, the Ordinance must be amended. Under consideration since 2005 are amendments to increase FAR, or Floor Area Ratio, in certain districts. Floor Area Ratio is calculated by the floor area of a building, divided by the land area it sits on; thus, a 50,000 square foot building on 100,000 square feet of land would have a .5 FAR. The building could be configured as a one or two-story, or higher, but the FAR would be the same. The typical shopping center built in the 20th century could contain a million square feet of development splayed across acres of asphalt parking lot to accommodate the automobile. Today’s designs can put that same million square feet on a fraction of the same acreage by building taller structures – office, residential, and retail -- wrapped around parking garages, and still leave room for green open space. That design, however, would require a change to the Ordinance. Focusing such development in certain areas – not everywhere – can result in more walkable
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neighborhoods, open space and urban parks, and less asphalt. But it’s hard getting there. Proposed amendments to the Ordinance in areas designated PDC (Planned Development Commercial) and PRM (Planned Development Residential Mixed Use) would permit a higher FAR in certain limited circumstances, require the inclusion of cellar space in FAR calculations with certain exceptions (currently, cellar area is not counted), and clarify existing parking provisions and expand to include residential uses in Commercial Revitalization Districts. Higher FAR would not be applied automatically to any property; a rezoning application always is required, and that also includes a robust public process. Trends indicate that younger residents, especially, will be looking for a more urban living environment during the next decades, and the amendments would help move future development in that direction. Past generations moved from rural land use patterns to villages and towns, and then to cities. In mid-century, the suburban concept took hold and remains strong today. In most areas, stable suburban neighborhoods are anticipated to remain suburban, but the commercial centers will have residential amenities, too. Bringing people closer to where they live, work, and play, where they can walk, bike, or use public transportation, rather than a single occupant vehicle, is important for the future, not only of Fairfax County, but for any jurisdiction that values smart growth principles, and translates them to action.
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Last month I spent some time in this column discussing K-12 education and new pathways to college and careers for our Commonwealth’s high school students. This month we turn our focus to higher education. There are many challenges across the higher education landscape, but three stand out as having adverse effects not just on student success but also Virginia’s economy. First, there is a large percentage of graduating high school seniors who are not college-ready in the basic disciplines as well as STEM. In 2012, nationwide only 25 percent of students who took the ACT test met college readiness benchmarks in English, reading, math, and science. Lack of college readiness greatly reduces the chance a student has of eventually earning a degree. Those who do succeed often find themselves facing the second problem – possessing a degree or skillset that is not competitive in today’s high-tech, global economy. While finishing college remains an important milestone, the simple truth is that structural economic changes over the last 25 years have dramatically reduced the demand for some majors and increased the demand for others. Finally, the skyrocketing cost of college and associated high debt loans often saddle graduates for years and serve as a drag on economic output. Just last month the Wall Street Journal reported that the class of 2016 is the most debt-burdened class in history, with the average college graduate carrying $37,173 in student debt. Nationwide, 40 million Americans collectively now owe $1.2 trillion in student debt, forcing them to postpone buying a home, getting married, or having children. What lessons can be learned from these three challenges? K-12 and college counselors and administrators should take care to inform students of the job and career potential associated with various educational pathways. Furthermore, while four-year universities are a good choice for some right out of high school, often community colleges, with career and technical education pathways and low tuition rates, are a superior option. Nursing, sonography, electrical repair, and communication equipment operation are all examples of fields with median pay over $65,000 that only require an associate’s degree or industry credential.
I’m excited to add that this year the General Assembly provided $12+ million in new funding for a pioneering industry credential incentive program at Virginia’s community colleges. For those wishing to eventually transfer to a four-year institution, the value in the Virginia Community College System’s tuition rates is hard to beat. Thus, a student might conceivably save thousands of dollars by earning a transferable associate’s degree at a community college and then completing the additional 60 credits needed for a bachelor’s at a four-year institution. There are many gold-standard public universities and colleges in the Commonwealth. It’s vital that these universities and colleges remain accessible to all Virginians. So I’m proud that the General Assembly increased funding for public higher education in the new biennial budget. This increased funding will help keep tuition affordable for families. Additionally, a new multibillion dollar bond package will ensure that the Commonwealth’s educational facilities remain at a world class level. Last month, I stressed that every high school student in the Commonwealth should have a pathway to learn the skills necessary to compete and thrive in a 21st century global economy. Higher education, be it in the form of a bachelor’s degree from a fouryear institution, or an industry credential from a community college, is a vital part of any student’s pathway to success. It’s also a vital part of the economic vitality of the Commonwealth. Countless studies demonstrate the link between educational attainment and higher productivity and wages. A skilled, educated workforce attracts new business. And high-wage workers contribute more in taxes during their professional careers. On July 1, Virginia starts a new fiscal year. At that time, most new laws passed by the General Assembly and signed by the Governor will be enacted in the Code. The media will be highlighting the bulk of those new measures. I will also post links on www.dicksaslaw.com to help you become familiar with the new laws. Senator Saslaw represents the 35th District in the Virginia State Senate. He may be emailed at district35@senate.virginia.gov.
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Jennifer Soles. A National Park Service commisBy Charlie Clark sion on outdoor recreation had This month we mark the 50th recommended collaborations by anniversary of one of Arlington’s local, state and federal governnoblest out-of-the-limelight insti- ments. Arlington’s planners incortutions – the Gulf Branch Nature porated open space in a land-use plan. Center. The 1960 elections brought I’ve long maintained a personal relationship with that con- Tom Richards to the county board. templative haven near my boy- An Air Force intelligence carhood home. But for thousands, tographer and hiking enthusiast, Gulf Branch embodies Arlington’s Richards recalled that his camvisionary environmental progres- paign tapped into a “consensus sivism – a movement that today that community planning was not finds parks competing for land being well done.” In 1963, the board began applyagainst schools, affordable housing for federal matching funds to ing and fire stations. The nature center’s image as a acquire dozens of acres around “jewel of smart growth” is a rea- Gulf Branch. That came as Interior 7:00 ΑΜ son it will be celebrated at June 2 Secretary Stewart Udall was creatsymposium at the Central Library ing open space and trails along the 9-28-2010 3:57 PM Last ModifiedproPotomac, the G.W. Parkway and put on by our county’s parks Colors In-Use User Printer 12 OutputMile Date Four Run. tectors, followed by a June ma-jsforza2 (3) 9s-exp260 titan 9-28-2010 3:57 PM Cyan Boy, did Gulf Branch pay off. outdoor party onsite in the woods Magenta Mechd By: TBD RTVd By: None Yellow The center grew to offer 290 prooff Military Road. Black Among the impresarios is grams for children and the public Duke Banks, vice president of the in 2015, says Soles. Sights for kids Friends of Gulf Branch Nature ages 1-92 include the caged Ms. Center. “Gulf Branch established Owl, the indoor-outdoor beehive, a precedent of finding a cottage a pond surrounded by labeled along a stream,” he says. “It was flora, the blacksmith shed with birthed in the 1960s” when the skilled volunteer craftsman, and county sought green space to off- the Robert Walker house showing set coming commercial develop- rustic domesticity in 19th-century ment of the Rosslyn-Ballston cor- Arlington. In February 2009, during the ridor. My Gulf Branch memories Great Recession, County Manager include pulling tadpole eggs from Ron Carlee proposed a budget the creek and hiding in the woods with $23 million in cuts. Gulf to smoke. As a 12-year-old, I Branch would have closed, which delivered The Washington Post is why Friends of the Gulf Branch to the cottage’s last private owner Nature Center formed. Looking back, county board before the county in June 1964 member Jay Fisette says, “The bought it for $135,000. The larger stage for the center’s county manager proposed many creation was set by the incipi- creative and controversial cuts ent environmental movement of and consolidations. I think this the early 1960s, says naturalist was meant as a serious proposBY SIGNING YOUR INITIALS ABOVE, YOU ARE STATING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND APPRO VED THIS WORK.
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CRIME REPORT Week of May 23 - 29, 2016 Driving Under the Influence. 300 block W. Broad St. On May 23, an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a male, 21, of Leesburg, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence. Driving Under the Influence, 100 block S. West St. On May 23, officers responded the area for a report of a motor vehicle crash. After an investigation, a male, 58, of Falls Church was arrested for Driving Under the Influence.
Graffiti, 223 Little Falls St. (Falls Church Community Center) On May 24, graffiti were found on an air conditioning unit. Larceny from Building, 416 S. Washington St. (Foxes Music) On May 24, merchandise was reported stolen. Public Drunkenness, 370 W. Broad St. On May 24, a male, 31, no fixed address, was arrested for Public Drunkenness. Public Drunkenness, 930 W. Broad St. (Taco Bell) On May 24, a male, 18, of Fairfax, was arrested for Public Drunkenness.
JUNE 2 - 8, 2016 | PAGE 17 al during difficult budget times. Ultimately, while dozens of staff positions were eliminated overall, the county board continued to fund Gulf Branch at a somewhat reduced level. Residents strongly advocated for it and committed to generate private funds to assist with future operating and capital costs.” Retired homeowner Karl Liewer, whose Military Road house is surrounded by nature center land, donated his easement to the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust – to protect against development in perpetuity. “It’s been here long enough that people who came as kids now bring their grandchildren,” says naturalist Soles, “Some things haven’t changed in Arlington, and it’s nice to have places you can connect to your personal history.” *** Congressman Don Beyer wowed the Arlington Historical Society at its May 13 banquet with tales from his illustrious family history. Citing a love of history since his days at Williams College, the Democrat described his greatgreat-grandfather as an Estonian count who in the 1860s or ‘70s tried to assassinate the Russian Czar. Beyers’ stateside ancestors included grandmother Clara Mortensen, an economist, consumer and labor activist who knew Justice Louis Brandeis and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. She would lead the Labor Department’s Children’s Bureau and launch its Bureau of Labor Standards in the 1930s before becoming a foreign aid advocate. She remained, until her death in 1990 at 98, Beyer made clear, an avid Democrat. Narcotic Violation and Driving Under the Influence, 400 block N. Washington St. On May 25, an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a male, 53, of Arlington, was arrested for Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance and Driving Under the Influence. Larceny from Building, 6623 Wilson Blvd. (Shell Gas) On May 25, gasoline was reported stolen from the station. Shoplifting, 100 Hillwood Ave. (Aalans Service) On May 26, merchandise was reported stolen. Public Drunkenness and Urinating in Public, 300 block Hillwood Ave. On May 29, a male, 27, of Falls Church, was arrested for Public Drunkenness and Urinating In Public.
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2016 FCNP Wacky Hat Showdown!
CHILDREN DOMINATED THE FIELD for this year’s Wacky Hat crown, taking �irst and second place. Anna Stoner mastered the showdown universe this year with her celestial-themed hat, while perrenial contender Ciara Theisz came in second place with a colorful lid covered in even more colorful balloons. There was a couple cap entry from the Jungs and a couple of other duo entries this year, both of which were patriotic. Check all of the entries out below. (P�����: N���-P����)
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ANNA STONER
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CIARA THEISZ
MADDIE KESSMAN & JOHN STEYN
PAIGE KESSMAN & KATHERINE STEYN
YVONNE & JIMMY JUNG
THE CLOUDS PASSED THROUGH, BUT THE RAIN STAYED AWAY during the 2016 Memorial Day Festival and Parade on Monday, May 30 in the City of Falls Church. Grand Marshal Kathy Halayko and Memorial Day King and Queen, Zach Ellis and Mary Catherine Donovan, led off the parade down Park Avenue. (P�����: C�������� B����/N���-P����)
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Community Events
THURSDAY, JUNE 2
Preschool Storytime. Stories, finger plays and songs for children ages 2 – 5 on Monday and Thursday every week. This is the last Preschool Storytime until the library starts Summer Storytime on June 27. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 – 11 a.m. 703-248-5034. Teen Volunteer Orientation. For children ages 12 – 18 interested in volunteering at Mary Riley Styles Public Library this summer. Registration and volunteer application required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 6 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Library.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3
Wine Tasting. One More Page Books hosts a wine tasting featuring summer wines. One More Page Books (2200 N. Westmoreland St. #101, Arlington). Free. 6:30 p.m. onemorepagebooks.com.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4
Spring Into Wellness. The Falls Church Chamber of Commerce is hosting this health and wellness initiative at several locations throughout the City in
a day of free classes, seminars, events and tastings. Several locations. Free. 7:30 a.m. – 7 p.m. fallschurchchamber.org. Yard Sale. Clothes, baked goods, household, toys, electronics, furniture sporting goods, books and more will be for sale at Dulin United Methodist Church. The Dulin Grill will be selling hamburgers, hot dogs, drinks and snacks. Dulin Church (513 E. Broad St., Falls Church). Prices vary. 8 a.m. – noon. 703-532-8060. F.C. Farmers’ Market. Vendors offer fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables, cheeses, meats, baked goods, plants, and wine. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 8 a.m. – noon. 703248-5077. Veggie and Fruit Planting with Shannyn Snyder at the Library. In this art for tiny artists program, children ages 3 – 6 will examine the cross-sectional world of fruits and vegetables (and even a fish) to compare seeds and stones, as well as the texture difference in various rinds. Students will further explore the differences in shapes using these foods for printing. In this “it’s okay to be messy” workshop, play clothes are recommended (dyes and paints may stain). Registration
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required and participation is limited to 15 children. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 2 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Library.
SUNDAY, JUNE 5
Falls Church Feeds the World. Volunteers are needed to assemble 20,000 healthy meals to send to developing countries all over the world. Volunteer shifts are 1 – 2 hours. Registration required. Christ Crossman UMC (384 N. Washington St., Falls Church). Free. 1 – 5 p.m. christcrossman.org. 703-5324026. A Touch of Jazz. NoVA Lights Chorale presents A Touch of Jazz featuring the music of Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, George Gershwin and others. A reception will follow the concert. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (3439 Payne St., Falls Church). Free. 4 p.m. stpaulsbxr.org.
MONDAY, JUNE 6
Book Reading. Senior political columnist for National Journal Ron Fournier shares from his memoir Love That Boy: What Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips, and My Son Taught Me About a Parent’s Expectations. There will also be wine tasting at this event. One More Page
Books (2200 N. Westmoreland St. #101, Arlington). Free. 7 p.m. onemorepagebooks.com.
TUESDAY, JUNE 7
Choralis Sing-Along. Attendees can join Choralis in a sing-along of Fauré’s “Requiem” and Duruflé’s “Requiem,” driected by Gretchen Kuhrmann with Todd Fickley on keyboard. Participants can bring their own score or rent one for $5. The Falls Church Episcopal (115 E. Fairfax St., Falls Church). $15. 7 p.m. choralis.org. Launch Party. One More Page Books hosts a launch party for David Swinson and his new book The Second Girl, the first book in a series featuring a retired police-detective-turned-drugaddict who is thrust back in the limelight. One More Page Books (2200 N. Westmoreland St. #101, Arlington). Free. 7 p.m. onemorepagebooks.com.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8
Early Release Wednesdays: Gardening for Kids. Children in grades K – 5 can learn to build their own garden with Saxon Henderson. Registration is required and participation is limited to 15 children. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 3 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Library.
Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, JUNE 2
“An Octoroon.” A plantation on the brink of foreclosure. A young gentleman falling for the part-black daughter of the estate’s owner. An evil swindler plotting to buy her for himself. Meanwhile, the slaves are trying to keep things drama-free, because everybody else is acting crazy. Part period satire, part meta-theatrical middle �inger, it’s a provocative challenge to America’s lasting legacy of slavery and the racial pigeonholing of 1859 – and today. Through June 26. Wooly Mammoth Theatre (641 D St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 – $60. woolymammoth. net.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3
“Red Herring.” Three love stories, a murder mystery and a nuclear espionage plot converge
in this noir comedy about marriage and other explosive devices. It’s 1952: America’s on the verge of the H-bomb, Dwight Eisenhower’s on the campaign trail,and I Love Lucy’s on Monday nights. Meanwhile, Senator Joe McCarthy’s daughter just got engaged to a soviet spy, and a Boston detective has to �ind out who dumped the dead guy in the Harbor. This is the opening night of this production. Through June 18. James Lee Community Center (2855 Annandale Road, Falls Church). $17 – $20. 7:30 p.m. providence players.org.
“Hedda Gabler.” Hedda Tesman returns from her honeymoon to the brutal banality of domestic life: an antagonizingly bland husband; a living room full of dying �lowers; and a house that is too large, too cluttered, too bourgeois for the once unstoppable Hedda Gabler. Both tormented and merciless, she is caught between
her appetite for sensation and acute awareness of public perception. Through June 19. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $59 – $75. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4
“La Cage Aux Folles.” The twenty year relationship between Georges, a club-owner, and Albin, the head drag performer, faces a test when their son announces his engagement to the daughter of ultra-conservative political parents. To please their son, Georges and Albin agree to hide their lifestyle and play it straight for a dinner with the potential in-laws. However, Albin‘s different de�inition of “normal” threatens to upend the entire supper with hilarious results. Through July 10. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Falls Church). $40 – $72. 7:30 p.m. sigtheatre.org.
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A� E������ ���� E��� B���� � P���� C�����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 6 p.m. 703-2551566. A����� O’D��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-532-9283. R������� 2016. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $20. 7 p.m. 703-549-7500. J��� P���� ���� P���� G������. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $25 – $75. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. A������ M����� V��. 1 – T�� A������C�� B�������� S����������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 in advance; $25 day of the show (Mainstage). 9 p.m. 202-667-7960.
P������� ���� F������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 (Backstage). 9 p.m. 202-667-7960. I������������ ���� J���� ��� P���� ��� U������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $20 in advance; $13 – $20 day of the show. 10 p.m. 703-255-1566.
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M� � D���� ��������� D�� D����, P�������� H����� ��� R�� L���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 in advance; $20 day of the show. 5 p.m. 703-255-1566. OUT/SPOKEN: QUEER, QUESTIONING, BOLD � PROUD. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 6 p.m. 202265-0930. R������� 2016. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $20. 7 p.m. 703-549-7500. SOJA ���� W��� ��� A���� S����. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $35 – $55. 7 p.m. 703-255-1900. S���� B����� ��� T�� B����� S������. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. G������� N�������� ���� U� A�� N����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $18 – $25. 8:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. A������ S��...A�� T�� C��� ��������� N������ W���, M������ O’M�����, A���� F�����, B���� H��������, E��� H��������� ��� A���� B�����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 (Mainstage). 9 p.m. 202-667-7960.
CMPVTR_CLVB. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $7 (Backstage). 9 p.m. 202-667-7960. B��� �� R��� B����� �� ��� B����. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $5. 9:30 p.m. 703-237-0300. 2�� A����� P���� N���� ���� S������. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-532-9283. W��’� B��: T�� W����’� # M������ J������ T������ B���. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 10 p.m. 202-265-0930.
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W���������� ���� A������ C����������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 (Mainstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. L����. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.) $20. 8 p.m. 202-337-4141. H��������� – A P����� T������ ���� T������ B������ ��������� ������� �� Z����, S���� C���, G������ G��� ��� M��� ���� W�� �� W����. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8 p.m. 703-522-8340. T�� M����� ���� T������ W����. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m. 703-525-8646.
M���� ���� M�������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10. 1:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. T�� S��������� C����� �� D����� ���� L���� J�����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20. 5:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. F��� S��������: D��������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). Free (Backstage). 6 p.m. 202667-7960. D���� F���. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $15. 8 p.m. 703-522-8340.
F������� A����� ���� M����� M��D�����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $18. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. L��� H���� ���� N�������� R������� � T�� N���� S����� ��� O� P��!. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $25 – $45. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1900. R�� H�������. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.) $40 – $45. 8 p.m. 202-3374141.
J��� S������ ���� E������� M���� ��� A��� T�����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. M��������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $104.50. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930.
E�������� ���� A���� S������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $12 – $20. 6 p.m. 703-2551566. P����� R��� ���� L���� A��������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $30. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930.
MONDAY, JUNE 6
TUESDAY, JUNE 7
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P������� A����... Thursday, June 9 – Public Meeting by the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission: Rapid Transit for Route 7. Residents can learn about and comment
on the proposed route for a bus rapid transit route along Route 7. Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School (7130 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church). 7 – 9 p.m. EnvisionRoute7.com.
Saturday, June 11 – Tinner Hill Blues Fest: Blues, Brews & BBQ. The Tinner Hill Blues Festival, in its 23rd year, returns with music, food and drink, films and
children’s programs. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park AVe., Falls Church). $20 – $30. 1 – 9:30 p.m. tinnerhill.org/blues-festival.
Saturday, June 18 – Community Workshop: Vision for the City. City residents are invited to a presentation and workshop to help update the City’s vision. The
workshop will focus on community character, commercial redevelopment, transportation and financial stability. The Falls Church (115 E. Fairfax St., Falls Church). Free. 8:45 a.m. – noon. 703-248-5041.
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BY DREW COSTLEY
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The Record Company have been touring nearly nonstop since releasing their debut album Give It Back to You with Concord Records in February. That included an April 30 date at The Birchmere and includes two upcoming shows in the region – a show at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis on Monday, June 6, which is sold out, and another at Baltimore Soundstage on Saturday, July 30. The album is a collection of songs showcasing the group’s love for the first decade of rock n’ roll, Blues, punk and even, if you listen closely, hip-hop. While all music and art is derivative of what came before it to some degree, The Record Company seems to have hopped in a time machine and traveled to the 30s and 40s for the boogie-woogie blues, then to the 50s and 60s for the origins of rock n’ roll and came back to share what they’ve gleaned from some of their favorite artists. “Just on a gut level we enjoy [those] eras,” said Chris Vos, the group’s lead singer. “There’s just a rawness and a beauty and an honesty and an authenticity implicit in all the music of those times, be it the beginning of the electric blues and electric music, spanning all the way back to the late 40s...that’s all amazing.” Admiration seems to be the only reason Vos could give for why he and his bandmates, Alex Stiff and Marc Cazorla, make the sounds that they do. “It’s just what called out to us,” Vos said. “Early punk rock, I mean like Stooges, and, we love great songs. The [Rolling] Stones, their entire catalog...we love all of The Stones records. I don’t know why. It’s what we loved when the three of us would get into a room, that’s what we would listen to. “But we also love modern music. It might not sound like it, but we’re all heavily influenced by like the Beastie Boys in some weird ways because their music was so brave and
THE RECORD COMPANY. (P����: J���� B�����������) they’re three guys, we’re three guys. Obviously we’re not emcees, but they could also play every instrument.” The members of The Record Company all have overlap in terms of what instruments they are listed as playing in the group. They all do vocals, Stiff and Cazorla are listed as piano players and Vos and Stiff are listed as guitars, so the Beastie Boys comparison is apt in that respect. Give It Back to You has a lot of what Vos said the group admires in artists of the past – honesty, rawness, beauty and authenticity, the last of which is hard to pull off given how noticeably influenced they are by music of the past. Perhaps that’s because the group created their debut album in a living room in Los Angeles, where they all live. Vos said that when Concord Records heard the album, they only wanted to have it properly mastered, but changed little else about the record.
Vos said that one of the things that’s characteristic of most of the music they are influenced by is that it always came out of the beginnings of that genre. “That’s why you listen to any piece of music that pops out of a piece of time that you can say that was the beginning of something is always fantastic,” Vos said. “Because it had to be born, it had to exist. A group of people got together who were inspired and collectively and individually made it exist. That’s why if you listen to anything at beginning of [a genre]...I don’t care what it is. At the beginning, even if it’s not your cup of tea, it’s amazing….That’s why we tap into those eras and anyone of those eras is an influence on all musicians, but it’s something we as a band spend a lot of time getting educated on.” • For more information about The Record Company, visit therecordcompany.net.
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FO O D &D I NI NG Plum Swirl Pops With Basil
squeezing the herbs over the pan to extract all the juice.
• 1 pound fresh red plums (3 to 4 large plums or 8 to 9 small ones), halved and pitted • 2/3 cup sugar
5. Transfer the pureed plums to a two-cup measuring cup with a spout. Stir in the simple syrup and lemon juice to combine. Taste the mixture and adjust if necessary. It should taste pretty sweet, as any sweetness dulls after the pops are frozen. Gently swirl in almost all of the yogurt, being careful not to mix too much for a stronger contrast in color. (A sweeter vanilla yogurt helps ensure the pops are sweet enough.)
• 2/3 cup water • 2 to 3 sprigs fresh basil • 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice • ½ cup vanilla yogurt
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Place plums cut side down on a cookie sheet and roast until skins and flesh are slumped and softened, 20 to 40 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool. 2. Meanwhile, make the simple syrup. Combine sugar and water in a small saucepan. Simmer over medium heat and stir until the sugar dissolves. Add basil and simmer gently for 5 to 10 minutes. Let the herbs steep in the simple syrup while the mixture cools.
THAT SWIRL IN PLUM SWIRL POPS With Basil comes courtesy of vanilla yogurt. (P����: I����� M������ V��������)
Recipe: Plum Swirl Pops With Basil
BY ILEANA MORALES VALENTINE TAMPA BAY TIMES
Peaches seem to get picked more often than plums this time of year, but with plum season starting this month, it’s time to consider the underrated stone fruit.
Throughout the summer, plums are great sliced and tossed into big dinner salads. Every year since I first came across a famous plum torte from New York Times food columnist Marian Burros, I’ve baked the simple but wonderful cake topped with halved plums. (Find that recipe at tbtim.es/plum-
3. Transfer fruit (and all its syrup released onto the baking sheet) to the bowl of a food processor. Pulse until combined and smooth. The whipped-up plums will become frothy. 4. Strain the basil out of the infused simple syrup,
torte.) Plums also make for excellent sorbet, and ice pops, too. As summer descends upon us, I’ll be making plenty more Plum Swirl Pops With Basil. Red plums (with red skins and flesh) are my go-to pick for these pretty, swirly pops, but most varieties will do. Look for plums that yield to gentle pressure and are slightly soft at their tips. Plop them onto a baking sheet and roast until the fruit slumps and the sheet
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6. Pour mixture into ice pop molds, leaving a bit of room at the top for mixture to expand as it freezes, and stopping to swirl in a bit more yogurt here and there for more color contrast in the pops. Insert sticks now if your mold has a top to hold them in place (if not, do so after about an hour or two) and freeze until pops are solid, at least 4 to 5 hours. Release pops by submerging the plastic mold part in warm water. Serve immediately or place individual pops in plastic bags and store in freezer.
Makes 10 pops. Source: Recipe adapted from People’s Pops by Nathalie Jordi, David Carrell and Joel Horowitz
is streaked with red syrup. Nearly every time I make this recipe, I’m surprised by how much flavor comes from the roasted plums. During roasting, a lot of water is removed from the fruit, which leaves them tasting even more like themselves. The “swirl” comes from yogurt, and you can control how much you’d like to swirl the plum mixture with the yogurt. A basilinfused simple syrup provides another layer of flavor. The syrup
comes together quickly while the plums do their thing in the oven. The People’s Pops recipe I riffed on calls for aniselike tarragon, but basil conjures up summer more strongly for me. The syrup becomes incredibly fragrant and heady with the herb. The pop pros in New York City say this is one of their top 10 flavors ever, and I can see why. I made and loved their raspberry and cream pop, but this one is more complex.
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Mustangs Boys Soccer Win Conference 35 Title
by Matt Delaney
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With the Conference 35 crown safely in-hand after a 7-0 victory over Central High School last Thursday, George Mason’s varsity boys soccer team stormed into the 2A East Regional quarterfinal with a 9-1 win against Stuarts Draft High School on Memorial Day. Squaring off with Stuarts Draft was the first step in the most arduous stretch of the season for Mason, and though the Cougars entered with a 14-1-1 record and plenty of talent, they were taken out of sorts early and succumbed to the same fate most of the Mustangs’ opponents had. “We were playing some of our best football,” senior midfielder Samsudeen Sallah said. “Just playing one touch everywhere and breaking them down that way because they couldn’t keep up with the movement. We found that next level that we knew we can get to.” Both teams traded possessions for the first five minutes, giving the impression the game would be neck and neck throughout. But when junior midfielder Olo Sembera Baracco’s corner kick found senior midfielder Grant Goodwin’s foot for Mason’s first
goal, and moments later Goodwin assisted senior forward Donal Reyes de Leon’s for the Mustangs’ second, the game changed. The two goal deficit took the wind out of the Cougars’ sails. From then on Stuarts Draft struggled offensively and was relegated to their own defensive zone. Conversely, Mason began to turn up the heat around the Cougars’ net. A four-goal spree midway through the first half started with scores from sophomore forward Kevin Valle, Goodwin and two from Reyes de Leon, putting the game away by halftime with a 6-0 lead. The last goal in that spurt came on a crafty passing chain between Mercado, Sallah and Goodwin before finally being lobbed into Reyes del Leon for the finisher. While the crowd were wowed over Mason’s play, the Mustangs could be heard exclaiming “That’s how we play” from the field as they embraced each other. “That’s exactly what we try and do,” head coach Frank Spinello said. “Get it off our feet quickly and hit space. Seems like we get in trouble when we take three, four or five touches, but when we get it off in one or two touches that’s when we’re deadly.” Central proved worthy of sparring with Mason, but ultimately
MASON’S GRANT GOODWIN GETS READY to charge down the field during the Mustangs’ win over Strasburg High School in the Conference 35 semifinal. Goodwin, who has played a key role in the Mustangs’ success this season, was recently named Bull Run District Player of the Year. (Photo: Carol Sly) they couldn’t endure 80 minutes against Mason’s offense. An initial burst from senior forward Elliot Mercado notched two goals for the Mustangs in the opening four minutes, but Mason went cold until near the end of the
first half when senior midfielder Samsudeen Sallah added Mason’s third on an assist from junior midfielder Olo Sembera Baracco. The offense was more steady in the second half as senior Grant Goodwin and junior forward Riley
Marcus tallied goals along with Mercado and Sallah. Mason hosted Maggie Walker Governor’s School for the regional semifinal on Wednesday, June 1, but results of the match were not available at press time.
Mason Girls Soccer Takes On Maggie Walker in Region Semis by Matt Delaney
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A competitive 2-1 win over Clarke County High School in the Conference 35 championship set up George Mason’s varsity girls soccer team’s 3-0 victory against Staunton-based Robert E. Lee High School in the 2A East Regional quarterfinal on Memorial Day. Seeking redemption for a 4-3 loss to Clarke County to end the regular season was paramount for Mason heading into their rematch last Thursday. The loss, which ended a 12-game winning streak, reminded the Mustangs that they couldn’t afford to check out against any team, especially as they get deeper into the postseason. With a chance to right their wrongs less than a week later at home and in a more meaningful game, Mason came up big and proved that their earlier defeat was a fluke.
“It was important for us to have that win against Clarke [County] because it just gave us that extra momentum moving forward,” head coach Allison Klink said. “We knew that we had to come out as a different team from the one that went to [Clarke County].” On the field both Mason and Clarke County were fairly even. The Mustangs had a lion’s share of the possessions and shot opportunities while capably cutting off any of the Eagles advances. However, Mason failed to find the back of net for the entire first half and kept Clarke County’s hopes alive as both teams began the second. That was until a shot from senior midfielder Corinne Carson rolled along the goal line and in a flurry of feet before junior midfielder Rebecca Crouch poked it in for Mason’s first goal. Five minutes later sophomore forward
Izzy Armstrong kicked a knuckle ball past Clarke County’s goalkeeper that put Mason ahead 2-0 and in full control until the game’s conclusion. Robert E. Lee was a feisty opponent that worked hard to take away Mason’s strengths. Unfortunately for Lee, the Mustangs are as dynamic as they are skilled, which allows Mason to operate efficiently both inside and outside of their comfort zone. “One of our big [areas of] emphasis has been to look at what’s going on on the field [and] adjust,” Klink said. “You don’t have to score six goals to be in control a game, so I think we did that really well tonight as far as movement of the ball and knowing when we could push to score and when we had to work it around.” Mason’s success came in areas they don’t often find it in, namely set pieces and isolation plays. Two Crouch corner kicks
THE MUSTANGS’ IZZY ARMSTRONG gears up to launch a strike during a Mason victory against Madison County High School. She scored a goal in the Mustangs’ conference championship victory over Clarke County High School. (Photo: Carol Sly) found Armstrong for the first and third goals of the game, while Armstrong had a nice individual play when she danced her way though Lee’s defense and finished
up close for Mason’s second. The Mustangs will host Maggie Walker Governor’s School for the Regional semifinal on June 1.
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F.C. Residents Earn Academic Honors Across the Nation Several Falls Church residents recently earned academic honors from colleges, universities and other academic institutions across the nation. Christopher Earman, Kate Highnam and Matthew Irvine all graduated from the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science with Bachelors of Science degrees in computer engineering. Anna Caroline Grishaw graduated magna cum laude from the University of the South with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. Thuy Phan graduated from Manchester University with Doctor of Pharmacy degree. Matthew William Abel, Anna Elizabeth Ayre, Christian Alexander Ledwin Bean, Jacquelyn Colette Borman, Amelia Lauren Carolus-Hager, Mia Rani Chand, Matteo Koji D’Agostino, Timothy Allen Donis, Natalie Grace Frye, Thomas Grant Gittins, Sofia GoyonagaCalatayud, Rebekah Elizabeth Koch, Peter Kress, Grace Ellen Murray, Ivie Sophia Dorothy Orobaton, Camila Prock, Robert Hugh Rank, Erica Marien Schneider, Hannah B. Shenouda, Mary Katherine Winebrenner and Karen Wu made the dean’s list at the College of William & Mary, where students must earn at least a 3.6 quality point average while
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The Falls Church Chamber of Commerce’s Spring into Wellness day will take place Saturday, June 4. Seventeen businesses will be offering more than 50 events including 23 fitness classes and 13 health seminars/workshops as well as services, tastings, and child-focused events for free throughout the day. Participating businesses include 9 Round Kickboxing, June Beyer and the Beyer Automotive Group, Blue Nectar Yoga, Body Dynamics, Bonita Woods Wellness Institute, Center for Spiritual Enlightenment, Chesterbrook Residences, Dancing Mind, Dominion Hospital, Epiphany Pilates, Functional Fitness, Moira Lethbridge, NOVAScriptsCentral, Quality Chiropractic, Sunstone Counseling, and The Local Market. For a full listing of events, visit the Health & Wellness or the Calendar of Events at www.FallsChurchChamber.org.
Creative Cauldron’s ‘Wind in the Willows’ Starts Friday 2e Consults is sponsoring Creative Cauldron’s Learning Theater Production of “The Wind in the Willows,” which will begin its run at ArtSpace Falls Church on Friday, June 3. The performance based on the book by Kenneth Grahame and adapted and directed by Ellen Selby and Denise Perrino, with music and choreography by Matt Conner and lyrics by Stephen Gregory Smith, will be performed weekends through June 19. General Admission tickets are $16 while Students/Seniors/Military tickets are $14, and groups of 10 or more are $11. Based in Reston, 2e Consults (www.the2e.com) provides test translation, talent support, coaching and parent education. For more information, visit www. creativecauldron.org.
Burke & Herbert in F.C. Unveils Renovations with Ribbon Cutting Burke & Herbert Bank recently held a ribbon cutting for their newly renovated Falls Church branch. Attending the ribbon cutting were Mayor David Tarter, Vice Mayor Marybeth Connelly, City Council members Phil Duncan, Letty Hardi, Karen Oliver, and Dan Sze as well as Commissioner of the Revenue Tom Clinton, City Manager Wyatt Shields, City Business Development Manager Becky Witsman, and Chamber representatives Chairman Joe Wetzel, past Chairman Gary LaPorta, Board member Shelia Newman, and director Sally Cole. Representing the bank were Branch Manager Marina Lubbers, Assistant Branch Manager Elizabeth Ray, Director of Branch and Business Banking & Senior Vice President Joseph F. Collum and branch employees Samuel Dittmar, Aldo Fiallega, Padmaja Parvatam, Helen Beraki, Emily Amaranto, Ali Orokzai and Mauricio Perea.
Pancake House Owners Receive Honors from F.C. Chamber, Schools Jane and Jeff Bulman, owners of the Original Pancake House, recently received honors from the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce and the Falls Church City Schools. Unable to attend the Falls Church Chamber Gala or the City Schools Recognition Reception, Chamber Chairman Joe Wetzel and Falls Church City Schools’ Business in Education Partnership Director and Vice Mayor Marybeth Connelly presented the Bulmans with the Chamber’s Carroll V. Shreve Award for Humanitarianism and the schools’ certificate of appreciation recognizing the Bulman’s monthly fundraising activities for local nonprofits and their annual Christmas breakfast for those in need in the greater Falls Church community. The Original Pancake House is located at 7395 Lee Highway.
Vantage Fitness Closes & Advantage Trainers Opens Vantage Fitness, the more than 10-year-old boutique gym in Falls Church, closed its doors for the last time on Tuesday, May 31. Vantage personal trainer Eliot Corwin, an ACSM certified trainer who worked for Vantage Fitness, has opened Advantage Trainers (www.advantagetrainers.com) at 450 W. Broad St., where he and Jessamyn Modrak, an NASM certified trainer who also worked at Vantage, will continue to offer personal training services. Jumping Joey’s will be moving into the space following renovations to the space. Jumping Joey’s is a kid’s “gym” that offers kids ages 2 to 13 access to inflatables, a rock wall, and a fun atmosphere for individual or family visits, birthday parties and fundraisers. This will be a second location for owner Georgia Peddie who also owns Jumping Joey’s at 1425 N. Quincy Street in Arlington. For more information, visit www.jjbounce.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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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA The ordinance referenced below was given first reading on May 23, 2016; second reading and public hearing are scheduled for Monday, June 13, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard. (TO16-10) ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 15, “FEES,” ARTICLE II, “DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES” AND ARTICLE III, “DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS” OF THE CITY CODE, TO UPDATE AND REVISE FEES FOR CERTAIN PERMITS EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2016. This ordinance amendment will increase fees for (1) building permits and (2) development review by the City’s Department of Public Works, and will reorganize the code. Building permits (per square foot): new single family homes-$0.65; new multi-family/commercial and sheeting/ shoring and retaining walls and swimming pools-$0.75. Stormwater management permits: less than ½ acre-$400; ½ acre or more-$800. Stormwater Management Review Team Meeting: first meeting-$150; additional meeting-$100. Stormwater system connection permit: per connection-$200; geothermal well- $200; resubmittals-50% of initial fee. Stormwater management violations: illicit discharge/private residents-$500/day; contractors/commercial property-$1,000 per day. Erosion and Sediment Control violations: $500 per day, up to $10,000 maximum. Right of Way (ROW) permit: standard-$250; lane closure only-$125; PODS or dumpsters-$125; resubmittals-50% of initial fee. ROW violations: work without permit-$600; condition violation, first offense-$300, second offense-$600, additional offense-$1,000. Development review fees (includes engineering and urban forestry and inspection for stormwater, erosion and sediment control, VSMP permits, WQIA, first SMRT meeting, and bond management): grading plan single family lot grading less than ½ acre disturbed area-$1,600; same for ½ acre or more-$2,800; agreement in lieu of plan-$1,600; commercial/multi-family less than ½ acre disturbed area-$5,000; same for ½ acre or more disturbed area-$10,000; site plan amendment-$500.00. Resubmittal development plan, after first resubmittal
(free)-50% of initial fee. Traffic Impact Analysis: actual cost up to $7,000. Right of Way Vacations: $600. Urban Forestry: Tree removal (where DRF not paid): commercial/ multi-family-$50; single family in RPA-$25; specimen tree-no charge. Modifications to site plan for landscaping (after site occupied): up to 4 trees or less than ½ acre modified- $100; 5 or more trees or ½ acre or more modified-$200; resubmittals after first: 50% of initial fee. Urban forestry violations: Damage to public trees-$250 per inch of tree diameter; Damage to public landscaping/irrigation-$300 plus cost of repair; Tree removal without permit-$1,000; Violations of landscape plan: first offense (plus mitigation or replacement)-$500; second offense-$1,000; additional offenses-$2,500; Destruction of tree designated for preservation-$100 per inch of tree diameter. In addition, the amendment would include one of two options for technology/adminis Option 1: A twenty percent technology/ administrative surcharge on each fee for Development Services and a twenty percent technology/administrative surcharge on each fee for Public Works, excluding Certificates of Occupancy; or Option 2: A ten percent technology surcharge on each fee for Development Services and each fee for Public Works, excluding Certificates of Occupancy, and a ten percent administrative surcharge on each fee for Development Services and each fee for Public Works, excluding Certificates of Occupancy. All public hearings will be held in the Council Chambers, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church, Virginia. For copies of legislation, contact the City Clerk’s office at (703-248-5014) or cityclerk@fallschurchva.gov. The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, call 703-2485014 (TTY 711). CELESTE HEATH CITY CLERK
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA The following public hearing is scheduled for Monday, June 13, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard. The City Council will hold a public hearing to consider the following: (TR16-26) RESOLUTION DESIGNATING SPECIMEN TREES In accordance with City Code Section 44-90, the Tree Commission has recommended, upon the advice of the City Arborist, that the following trees be designated by the City Council as Specimen trees. 43” American Elm (Ulmus Americana) at
716 East Broad Street 49” American Elm (Ulmus Americana) at 335 Little Falls Street 56” Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) at 702 Poplar Drive 45” Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) at 203 South Oak Street 36” Pecan (Carya illinoensis) at 118 Tollgate Way 33” Cucumber Magnolia (Magnolia acuminata) at Cherry Hill Park All six property owners, one of which is the City of Falls Church (for the tree in Cherry Hill Park), have agreed to accept the Specimen Tree designation for the trees on their property. All public hearings will be held in the Council Chambers, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church, Virginia. For copies of legislation, contact the City Clerk’s office at (703-248-5014) or cityclerk@fallschurchva.gov. The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, call 703-2485014 (TTY 711). CELESTE HEATH CITY CLERK
PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA VOLUNTEERS who live in the City of Falls Church are needed to serve on the boards and commissions listed below. Contact the City Clerk’s Office (703-248-5014, cityclerk@fallschurchva.gov, or www.fallschurchva.gov/BC) for an application form or more information. Requests for reappointment must be made through the City Clerk. Applications are accepted until the end of the month. Vacancies advertised for more than one month may be filled during each subsequent month before month’s end. Board of Equalization Economic Development Authority Falls Church Cable Access Corporation Board Historic Architectural Review Board Historical Commission Human Services Advisory Council Recreation and Parks Advisory Board Regional Boards/Commissions: Fairfax Area Disability Services Board Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board Health Systems Agency of Northern Virginia Long Term Care Coordinating Council
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA The Board of Zoning Appeals of the City of Falls Church, Virginia will hold a public
hearing on June 16, 2016 at 7:30 PM in the Council Chambers, 300 Park Avenue, for consideration of the following subjects: New Business Item Variance application V1581-16 by Corey Joseph Poole, owner and applicant, for a variance to Section 48-238(3)(a) to allow a front yard setback of twenty one point four (21.4) feet instead of thirty (30) feet along the Ann Street frontage for the purpose of constructing an addition on premises known as 605 Jackson Street, RPC #52-601-016 of the Falls Church Real Property Records, zoned R-1A Low Density Residential. Variance application V1580-16 by Pizzeria Orso, for a variance to Section 48-1265(2) (b)to allow placement of a projecting sign above the lower sill line of the second floor windows, on premises known as 400 South Maple Avenue, RPC #52-309-416 of the Falls Church Real Property Records, zoned B-3, General Business. Information on the above applications is available for review at: Zoning Office 300 Park Avenue, Suite 300W Falls Church, VA. 703-248-5015 (option 1) zoning@fallschurchva.gov This location is fully accessible to persons with physical disabilities and special services or assistance may be requested in advance. (TTY 711)
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Falls Church News-Press Vol. XVI, No. 13 • June 1, 2006
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Council Tables Hasty Plan to Sell Parkland
F.C. Council ‘Racing Against Time’ to Beat Feared Residential ‘Land Rush’
The Falls Church City Council was diverted for nearly three hours of its meeting Monday onto the Proctor House issue once again, and the net result was a lot of talk but no action. A motion to give first reading to a hastily-drawn ordinance authorizing the sale of a quarter-acre of the City’s Frady Park to permit the relocation to that site of the so-called historic Proctor House, currently boarded up at 200 E. Broad St....
The Falls Church City Council declared itself in a race for time against a potential “land rush” this Tuesday as it put proposed legislation on a fast track to eliminate the ability of up to 125 residential property owners to subdivide their lots for development purposes. The proposal would go after residential lots that are combinations of two or more so-called “sub-standard lots” created in the 1940s as small 3,000 square feet.
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TO LETTERS THE EDITOR Continued from Page 6 Even though poverty and misfortune certainly exist here, it is not common for people here in the U.S. to die of starvation. This is not to the case in many third, fourth, and fifth world nations. Around the globe, nearly 795 million people lack adequate food, one in nine people go to bed hungry every night, and hunger kills more people each year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined, according to The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015. Hunger and inadequate nutrition are particularly difficult for children who are developing mentally and physically. More than 3 million children die from hunger each year. For those who survive, hunger and poor nutrition can stunt growth and impede learning. With so much time being spent simply surviving, many people don’t ever the opportunity to thrive. That’s why my congregation joined forces with Stop Hunger Now to host a meal packaging event called “Falls Church Feeds the World.” Stop Hunger Now is a respected nonprofit that distributes meals through feeding programs in developing countries to promote education, improve students’ health and nutrition, stimulate economic growth, and more. For the June 5 event, we need volunteers from throughout the community to help us create 20,000 meals in one afternoon at our church that will be packed and shipped worldwide. The event enables adults and even kids four and up a chance to participate. Everyone has a role as
we make and package nutritiously sound meals, made from dehydrated rice and soy and fortified with 23 essential vitamins and nutrients. Hunger is a serious issue and this volunteer event will engage our community in a meaningful event to help end hunger. By opening our doors to the whole community, Falls Church Feeds the World can make a difference for the global community simply by feeding a fellow family. To learn more about volunteering, visit www.FallschurchFeedsTheWorld. org or call 703-532-4026. Mochel Morris Pastor, Christ Crossman United Methodist Church
May Was Not a Merry Month for Falls Church or Me Editor, May was anything but a merry month for the city of Falls Church and most of its residents, especially me. There were the never-ending battles over public school funding, renovating and expanding Mt. Daniel Elementary School or selling the property to a developer, the scale and type of development of the West Broad street commercially-zoned six-block strip, the proposed eminent domain taking of the Fellows property across from Thomas Jefferson School, the relocation of the Mary Riley Styles Public Library, traffic congestion due to construction of two major residential projects in the middle of the city and numerous
street repair projects. But that’s not why the past month has been a disaster for me. First was the decision by Vantage Fitness to close at the end of the month. Conveniently located at 402 West Broad Street, close by my PNC bank branch and Panera, Vantage and its physical trainers helped keep me in reasonably good shape since it opened seven years ago. Hundreds of others, many middle aged or elderly like me, have used its facilities and enjoyed its Zumba and dance classes, but apparently there were not enough members to keep it open, and I’m looking for a new and less convenient health club, probably at Seven Corners or Merrifield. From Vantage’s second floor window, I watched the traffic on Broad Street and noted that an average of three of ten drivers were distracted, using their cellphone. I also could see my favorite floral shop, Falls Church Florist, which is closing after 66 years. Another great loss for the Little City. Then on May 17, I received word of the death of Susan Tolchin, whose husband Marty and I helped start The Hill in 1994, and on the same day, I learned that one of my five cousins in Iowa had just been buried. But the worst day of the month for me came two days later, when Moira, my beloved wife of nearly 54 years, died at Virginia Hospital Center. She was 77 and had been ill for several years, in and out of hospitals and rehab centers. She died of heart failure with me and her daughters Kitty and Anne at her side. We are still learning to accept her death but are comforted by the prayers and love of her family and many friends. And while I’m glad that May is behind us, I’m not exactly looking forward to June 28, when I turn 80. Albert Eisele Falls Church
ON THURSDAY, MAY 26, News-Press founder, owner and editor Nicholas F. Benton posted this photo on his Facebook page with the following comment: “My sweet precious ‘White as the Driven Snow Princess Kitty Mimi’ got her wings this morning. She was 20 1/2 and I was so lucky to have her around bossing but mostly loving me for her last 15 1/2 years.” He expressed deep thanks and appreciation for the many people who replied by offering their good thoughts and condolences. Just because you’re not famous doesn’t mean your pet can’t be! Send in your Critter Corner submissions to crittercorner@fcnp.com.
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