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Inside This Week School Board Mulls Hunter Kimble Case

The Falls Church School Board met for two and a half hours in a closed session Tuesday to deliberate on the case of veteran 23-year school system employee, Assistant Superintendent Hunter Kimble, who has been on administrative leave since May 2. See News Briefs, page 8

GMHS Alum on Ballot In Richmond Tuesday A wave of Democratic party hopefuls have sprouted up across all levels of government, including Richmond’s Virginia 70th district primary candidate and 1996 George Mason High School graduate Alex Mejias.

Public Event Saturday to Lay Out High School Development Options 10 in a Row

But Economic Offset Plan for Pricey Ask Not Yet Available

by Nicholas F. Benton

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cel, has been repositioned away from Lawton Street to its rear and will include a $3.5 million contribution for the establishment of a permanent home for the regionally acclaimed Creative Cauldron arts and education non-profit. The plan would also proposed to provide Falls Church with its

As deadlines are looming large now for placing a school bond referendum on this November’s ballot, the Falls Church City Council and School Board will host a public forum about where plans currently stand for the future of George Mason High School this coming Saturday morning at 9 a.m. in the cafetorium of the Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School that shares the site with the high school. A “first reading” of language for a November referendum should be advanced by the Council on June 26, City Manager Wyatt Shields suggested, with the need for its final form by July 24 to meet the timeline to get on the November ballot. The clock is ticking. The presentation of three preferred school development options – two for an all new school and one for a renovation of the existing school with new wings – will be featured this Saturday. It is a presentation the consultant team of Perkins Eastman has already made twice, once to the School Board, which winnowed down a larger set of options to the three, and at the joint meeting of the School Board and Council last Monday night. Still, Saturday’s forum will not include information on what a different consulting team is devising for optimizing the economic yield from the property, up to 10 acres that can be used for dense economic development to offset the cost of the new school. That information, now being put together by the consulting team of Alvarez and Marcal, will be vital for establishing what the monetary ask will

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Frank Bruni: Donald Trump is Never to Blame

Poor Donald Trump, so late to the lesson that so many plutocrats before him learned: You can’t find good help. See page 16

Press Pass: Mud Morganfield

In preparation for the Tinner Hill Blues Festival set to take place in Falls Church this weekend, Larry “Mud” Morganfield, son of blues legend Muddy Waters, shared some of his time with the NewsPress to enlighten us about the way of the blues. See page 25

GEORGE MASON HIGH SCHOOL’S GIRLS soccer team captured its 10th consecutive regional title last Friday, topping Stuarts Draft, 4-2. The Mustangs will now travel to Radford where they’ll look to bring home their 10th straight Virginia state championship this weekend. (Photo: Carol Sly)

4th Version Lowers, Recedes Broad-Washington Proposal by Nicholas F. Benton

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Editorial..................6 Letters..............6, 10 News & Notes.12–13 Comment........ 14–17 Calendar........20–21

Food & Dining......23 Classified Ads......28 Comics, Sudoku & Crossword...........29 Critter Corner.......30

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first significant Class A office building complex (Class A referring to the newest and highest quality buildings in the market) opened up internally to be more linked to surrounding businesses, including one that helps the block earn the title of “a performing arts section” of the Little City anchored by the State Theatre. “The fact that this will be in downtown Falls Church will be our anchor,” Rick Hauser of Insight told the Council Monday. “We will do all we can to animate and make powerful” this iconic intersection, he said. “We will put feet on the ground with public gathering places, generating a force of energy, activity and animation” around that corner, he said. A statement in the developer’s formal submission said the goal of the plan is to “develop an enduring building that celebrates, showcases and supports the local cultural and community activities that make the City of Falls Church a vibrant, engaging and special place to live.” The impact of the project on the City is expected to generate a net of $417,000 to $963,000 annually to the tax coffers of the City, said F.C. Economic Development specialist Rick Goff, compared to $64,000 that is derived from the location at present. Changes from the earlier plans include the removal of 46,050 square feet of grocery store, an addition from 33,400 to 66,700 square feet of office square footage, a decline from 303 to 289 residential units, an increase in retail from 20,550 to 26,300 square feet. Heights are dropped from 65-to-76 feet to 45-to-65 feet

on the Lawton Street side, from 76-to-91 feet to 65-to-89 feet on the Broad Street side and from 78-to-91 feet on the N. Washington Street side to 74-to-89 feet. The plan includes 5,000 square feet of community theater space for Creative Cauldron as a permanent home. The developer contends that it “complements existing uses in the core entertainment area, including the State Theater, Clare and Don’s Beach Shack and Argia’s while showcasing, supporting and promoting local cultural activities,” it “creates interior and exterior gathering spaces that feel ‘like home’ and are warm and welcoming, and facilitate a sense of community engagement with serendipitous interactions,” it “develops an enduring building that respects the history of Falls Church with timeless, sophisticated spaces that age gracefully,” and architecture that is “a disciplined blend of timetested solutions with a contemporary flair designed to evoke a timeless feeling and not a ‘look.’” It will attract ground floor restaurants along arcade, street retail, and an office entrance and residential entrance that provide “an urban, walkable, pedestrian friendly street edge.” There will be structured parking for all uses, mostly below grade and screened by retail or landscaping and the residential units will be augmented by a pool, courtyards, fitness area and indoor and outdoor gathering places, with “appropriate buffering and screening for adjacent residential property.” The plan is due to come to the City Council for a first reading this Monday, with a final approval set for early October.

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eventually be on the bond referendum, and its report is not due until next Thursday, June 15. Alvarez and Marcal was chosen by the Campus Process Economic Development Working Group last month to work up its projections and recommendations, and in its first meeting before that group was very bullish on the potential for the site, based on its experience in attracting big-time developers to situations such as this. Last Monday night, when the City Council was given the Perkins Eastman options for the school campus, focus was on ways that costs could be shaved off the estimated $110 million price tag for the School Board’s first choice. As per the tasking from the School Board, the consultants included a range of cost-saving measures from reducing the number of classrooms by 10, the size of a performing arts center, reductions in athletic program spaces, which combined could save up to $15 million or so. Council member Letty Hardi said, “These estimates come in well north of where we need to be costwise,” and said that savings need to be found “in the right areas.”

NEW FALLS CHURCH SCHOOL Superintendent Peter Noonan (far right) addressed the City Council as it began to mull the campus improvement project this Monday night. (P����: N���-P����) Council member Karen Oliver stressed, “It is important to consider what the impact on the taxpayer will be.” Vice Mayor Marybeth Connelly established that “back of the envelope estimates” made by Interim Superintendent Dr. Robert Schiller earlier that a plan could be put forth costing $70 to $80 million was not feasible” upon further study. According to Perkins Eastman, that plan would still cost over $100 million. “It would represent a huge risk

to say the high school will cost too much, so let’s not do it,” Connelly said. Councilman Dan Sze said he’s “a little disappointed” at the kinds of estimated costs the various school options have, but noted that when the process began, the initial estimate was a need for $140 million. Councilman Phil Duncan said he’d urge the maximum acreage for economic development to offset the school construction cost, estimates concerning which will not be available to the Council for another week.

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As usual in such lower-profile elections, the outcome of next Tuesday’s primary in Virginia will be determined by turnout, or lack thereof. Virginia is in a very precarious position in this very precarious political era right now. Danger and opportunity are more vivid than ever here. When you take into account the record number of vetoes current Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe has imposed on bad legislation coming from Republican controlled legislature during his tenure, control of the governor’s office, as well as that of the legislature, becomes paramount, something that every Virginian should be seriously concerned about. One of the lessons for Americans of last November’s presidential election is that election outcomes matter, and usually more than the casual observer may concede. That’s why last November’s election outcome is still being questioned at the highest levels of our government, if not the outcome, certainly the process and the terrifying prospect of significant intervention into it by a hostile world power. As McAuliffe must by Virginia law move out of his office next January (Virginia’s unique among U.S. states for its one-term governor rule), will his replacement be as strong as he has been in many ways, but especially in protecting Virginians from very excessive pro-gun and anti-woman legislation? It is out of an abundance of concern that a a good and qualified successor take over for McAuliffe that we endorse Democrat gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam, the current lieutenant governor, in next Tuesday’s primary against an energetic and formidable opponent, former U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello. For many, especially in progressive Northern Virginia, Perriello appears the more attractive candidate because he is postured as more progressive than Northam. But this is not the time for Democrats to be stampeding in that direction, especially in the enormously diverse and politically divided Commonwealth. Democrats have been very successful in Virginia, including McAuliffe and former governors Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, including in each’s advance to the U.S. Senate, by drawing enough of the electorate from both parties toward the political middle. This approach has served Virginia well. That’s the formula for success in statewide elections in Virginia, and it includes Northam’s victory running for lieutenant governor four years ago. In addition, with his background as a medical doctor, as a governor Northam promises to be a profoundly effective high-profile national spokesman for sanity in the issues of national health care and women’s health, two of the most divisive issues that pit rational folks against an irrational, ideologically-based slice of the electorate. In other races Tuesday, we endorse Democrat Justin Fairfax for lieutenant governor, Mark Herring running unopposed for the Democratic nod for attorney general, and on the GOP side, anyone but arch-conservative Corey Stewart for governor.

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F.C. Needs Comprehensive Development Solutions Editor, Falls Church faces a number of significant projects in the near future or just over the horizon. A new high school is slated to be on the ballot this fall. Last fall, voters approved a major library renovation. City Hall renovations are in the works (and quite over budget according to last week’s Council meeting), Mt. Daniel’s renovation and expansion has begun, and we are told that a significant addition

at TJ Elementary will likely be necessary. Each of these projects affects institutions and facilities that are part of the fabric of The Little City. Yet for the most part, the plans for each have been developed separately, rather than as a whole. With budget pressures unlikely to fade anytime fast, isolated projects only exacerbate our lack of an economy of scale due to the City’s relatively small size.

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In order to make these projects better — and make them more affordable — why don’t we take a step back and look at them as connected pieces of a single puzzle, namely the future of The Little City? The puzzle pieces aren’t limited to just these tangible projects, but also involve transportation, sustainability, economic development, community character, and more. I urge our elected officials to seek a comprehensive solution to these and other issues, and to establish citizen commissions to assist exploring every piece of this puzzle using the many talents and wealth of experience amongst our residents. Completing a difficult puzzle is much easier when the

pieces are sorted and the edges are connected first. Erik Pelton Falls Church

News-Press Needs to Stick To Its Platform Editor, Your proudly “progressive” owner/editor has, of course, a perfect right to express his views through his own weekly editorials and by his selection of left-leaning opinion columnists. I note how-

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Fighting for Progressive, Democratic Values B� R���� N������

On June 13, Virginia Democrats will have an important choice to make. With President Trump in the White House threatening our values, Virginia’s next governor needs to be a brick wall on the things we care about most – I’m ready for that fight. I’ve been fighting for progressive, Democratic values for the almost 10 years I’ve spent in elected office and I won’t stop now. I have the experience to hit the ground running in Richmond. I know what it takes to win statewide elections, having earned the most votes of any statewide candidate in Virginia’s history to run in an off-year election. The stakes could not be higher for our future, for our children’s futures – but I’ve never backed down from a tough fight. I won in 2007 in a race people said was unwinnable: against a two-term incumbent in a conservative district. They told me I couldn’t get the smoking ban in restaurants passed back when I was serving in the Senate. But I wasn’t afraid to take on tobacco companies to get it done. And when it didn’t pass the first time, I brought it back the next year and thenGovernor Kaine signed it into law. I stood up on the floor of the state Senate and fought the infamous transvaginal ultrasound mandate. There’s no place for a bunch of legislators, most of whom are

men, to be telling women what they should and shouldn’t do with their own bodies. As a senator and as Lieutenant Governor, I have unwaveringly stood up to not only defend, but also expand women’s access to reproductive health care. I’ve never backed

“These past three and a half years have also shown how critical it is to have a Democratic governor to be a brick wall against the Republican General Assembly.” down from that fight and I never will. In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, I listened to the families and fought alongside them to close the gun show loophole. I’ve never been afraid to stand up to the NRA and I have the F rating to show for it. As governor, I’ll continue fighting for commonsense gun safety reform. I wasn’t afraid to be the first statewide elected official in Virginia to fight against offshore drilling. And, as a native of the

Eastern Shore, I have been a champion for the Chesapeake Bay and a steward of the environment. That concern for our environment is what first motivated me to run for public office 10 years ago. It still motivates me today. Under Governor Terry McAuliffe’s leadership, Virginia’s unemployment rate has gone from 5.4 to 3.8 percent. Together, our administration has brought in 190,000 jobs and $15 billion of investment to the Commonwealth. But that hasn’t reached every corner of Virginia, especially rural Virginia, and I’ll fight as governor to make sure it does. These past three and a half years have also shown how critical it is to have a Democratic governor to be a brick wall against the Republican General Assembly. But Democrats won’t get that brick wall unless they choose a candidate who can make it to the governor’s office. Governor Terry McAuliffe recently vetoed his 120th piece of legislation from the Republican General Assembly – bills that would have become law if not for his pen. But it’s not just about what I’ve done, it’s also about what I’ll do to take Virginia to the next level. Virginians are looking for a leader to make sure that all jobs in Virginia are good jobs. They want our students to be qualified for the industries of the future, like cybersecurity, biotechnology, and data analysis. Virginians want their families to have

access to affordable, quality health care. They want their children going to school in a world-class education system. They want to live in communities that are safe, without guns on every street corner. As a pediatrician, I have held a lot of babies in my arms. When you look into the eyes of a baby, you don’t see the hatred and the bigotry that we so often see in society. You see love, joy and affection. What are these babies going to grow up to be? Are they going to live in communities that are inclusive? Are they going to have access to a world-class education system? Are they going to have access to affordable health care? And are they going to live in an environment where the air and water are clean? Like I said before, I’ve spent a lot of time traveling our Commonwealth. Everywhere I go, the crowds are larger, and I see new faces. That enthusiasm bodes well for Democrats in November. But we are facing a choice on June 13. With my record of progressive leadership and results, I believe I’m the right choice to continue making progress as governor. On June 13, with your vote, this is a vision for the future we will work on together.  Ralph Northam is the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and is running for the Democratic nomination in Virginia’s 2017 gubernatorial election.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF A FILING BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY OF ITS INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN CASE NO. PUR-2017-00051 On May 1, 2017, Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion” or “Company”) filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) the Company’s Integrated Resource Plan (“IRP”) pursuant to § 56-599 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”). An IRP, as defined by § 56-597 of the Code, is “a document developed by an electric utility that provides a forecast of its load obligations and a plan to meet those obligations by supply side and demand side resources over the ensuing 15 years to promote reasonable prices, reliable service, energy independence, and environmental responsibility.” Pursuant to § 56-599 C of the Code, the Commission determines whether an IRP is reasonable and in the public interest. Dominion states that it serves approximately 2.5 million electric customers in Virginia and North Carolina and that the Company’s combined service territory in these two states covers approximately 30,000 square miles. As indicated in its IRP, Dominion is a member of PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (“PJM”), a regional transmission organization in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States. The Company states that the IRP was prepared for its service territories in Virginia and North Carolina, which are both within the PJM region. According to the Company, the IRP encompasses the 15 year planning period from 2018 to 2032 and is based on the Company’s current assumptions regarding load growth, commodity price projections, economic conditions, environmental regulations, construction and equipment costs, demand side management programs, and many other regulatory and market developments that may occur in the future. Dominion states in its filing that the Company’s objective in developing the IRP was to identify the mix of resources necessary to meet future energy and capacity requirements in an efficient and reliable manner at the lowest reasonable cost while considering future uncertainties. Section 56-599 of the Code requires, among other things, that an IRP evaluate: (i) the effect of current and pending environmental regulations upon the continued operation of existing electric generation facilities or options for construction of new electric generation facilities; and (ii) the most cost-effective means of complying with current and pending environmental regulations. With respect to the EPA’s regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from electric generation through the “Clean Power Plan,” the IRP recognizes that the Clean Power Plan is currently stayed by the United States Supreme Court pending judicial review and may be impacted by the recent change in federal administration. Given the uncertainty that remains concerning what, if any, form the Clean Power Plan will ultimately take, the Company’s filing provides discussion and analysis of potential approaches that, according to the Company, are designed to meet the needs of its customers in a future with or without the Clean Power Plan. The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing in this case that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing at 1 p.m. on September 25, 2017, in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive the testimony of public witnesses and the evidence of the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness should appear at the hearing location fifteen (15) minutes before the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff. Copies of the public version of all documents filed in this case are available for interested persons to review in the Commission’s Document Control Center located on the first floor of the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, between the hours of 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Copies of the public version of the Company’s IRP and the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing also may be inspected during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies of these documents also may be obtained, at no charge, by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Jennifer D. Valaika, Esquire, McGuireWoods LLP, Gateway Plaza, 800 East Canal Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means. On or before September 18, 2017, any interested person may file written comments on the IRP with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Interested persons desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before September 18, 2017, by following the instructions found on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00051. Any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing a notice of participation on or before July 14, 2017. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be filed with the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. Any organization, corporation, or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by Rule 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00051. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing. The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding may be obtained from the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY

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NEWS BRIEFS F.C. School Board Mulls Hunter Kimble Case The Falls Church School Board met for two and a half hours in a closed session Tuesday night to deliberate on the case of veteran 23-year school system employee, Assistant Superintendent Hunter Kimble, who has been assigned to an administrative leave since May 2. No decisions were made as a result of this Tuesday’s meeting and Superintendent Dr. Peter Noonan told the News-Press Wednesday that the School Board is slated to take a final action before the end of June. The board met with Kimble, his attorney Steven LONGTIME FALLS CHURCH Public Schools’ chief financial officer Hunter Kimble (second from left), David Stone and others who spoke on his behalf. subject of a lengthy hearing by the School Board Kimble said he wanted the hearing to be open Tuesday night, confers with his attorney Steven to the public, saying he “had nothing to hide,” David Stone (left) prior to the board’s moving into a and a contingent of supporters showed up at the closed session Tuesday night. (Photo: News-Press) beginning of the meeting. But the School Board cited rules on personnel matters requiring confidentiality.

Concerts in the Park Commence June 22 The 25th annual City of Falls Church Concerts in the Park series on Thursdays at 7 p.m. begins this year on June 22. Blankets and picnic dinners are encouraged as the public is welcomed to enjoy free performances by local musicians. The concerts are held at Cherry Hill Park, 312 Park Ave., and are open to the public. In the event of rain, concerts will be held inside the Falls Church Community Center, 223 Little Falls St. The concerts are hosted by the City of Falls Church Recreation and Parks and the Village Preservation and Improvement Society. The scheduled concert line-up is as follows: June 22 – Falls Church Concert Band, June 29—Flashback (variety music from the 1960s to today), July 6—Shenandoah Run (folk), July 13 – Mars Rodeo (rock and roll), July 20 – Alte Kumpel, July 27 – Andrew Acosta Band (roots music), August 3 – Bushmaster (blues rock).

Pierrello Election Night Party at State Theater The election night party for Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Tuesday’s primary will be held at the State Theater in Falls Church, it was announced this week.The event will begin shortly after the polls close at 7 p.m. The election night party for his primary opponent, Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam will also be in Northern Virginia, at the Highline XRX, 2010 Crystal Dr. in Arlington.

Del. Simon on FCNP This Week TV Show Virginia State Delegate Marcus Simon, who represents the 53rd district which includes the City of Falls Church, will be the special guest on the next episode of the Falls Church News-Press “This Week” TV show on the Falls Church Cable TV channel airing tonight at 5:30 p.m., Sunday at 8:30 p.m. and next Wednesday at 4 p.m.

Senior Olympics Seek Volunteers, Patrons The Northern Virginia Senior Olympics is seeking patrons and volunteers for its 35th anniversary games scheduled to take place Sept. 9-20. The Northern Virginia Senior Olympics, or NVSO, patron program offers a variety of donor levels (bronze, silver and gold) as well as corporate recognition opportunities at one of the largest annual events held for seniors in Northern Virginia. The NVSO features over 50 events that exercise the mind as well as the body. The 2016 games included more than 900 registered participants. “The patron program allows the NVSO to keep entry fees low so more folks can participate,” said event chairman Jim Mackenzie. All donations are tax deductible. The NVSO’s only sources of financial support are competitors’ fees and patron donations. One-hundred -percent of all contributions are used for promoting, coordinating and implementing the NVSO according to event organizers. The NVSO is a joint project of the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church and of the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, and Prince William.

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RICK STEELE of Maryland-based blues band Southbound Steel performs street-side next to festival organizer Nikki Graves Henderson and former Falls Church Vice Mayor Lindy Hockenberry as a part of the Nothing But The Blues juried art show last Friday, June 2. Steel will be playing Saturday morning at the Falls Church Farmer’s Market. (P����: O���� K������)

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The 24th annual Tinner Hill Blues Festival kicks off this Friday for a three-day celebration headlined by some of the nation’s top blues musicians including Muddy Waters’ son, Mud Morganfield, and Beverly “Guitar” Watkins. The biggest change of this year’s festival comes on Friday where the main performances will be moved from the State Theatre to Mad Fox Brewing Company with a “blues” crawl afterwards. According to the festival’s organizer Nikki Graves Henderson, the change in venue was partially to save money but also out a need to try out of a new format. “We’ve been recreating ourselves for the last several years,” Graves Henderson said. The festival is run by the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation in coordination with the City of Falls Church and the help of local sponsors. It started out in 1994 as a street festival by Nikki’s husband, Edwin Henderson, in the Tinner Hill neighborhood in collaboration with Jim Edmonds of Foxes Music Company. Over the years, the festival has evolved in terms of musical genre and location (it was held for several years at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School) before a revamping in 2008 led to a focusing on the blues, a move to Cherry Hill Park and an expansion to three days. This is the second year where

the festival will return to the Tinner Hill Historic Site on Sunday with performances by gospel groups such as the Carter Singers and Barbour Travelers with special guest Susan Carter. “This is about bringing attention to the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation,” Henderson said. “It’s a nice and fun thing to do, but we mix in the history and we bring back to Tinner Hill which helps people understand that there is an ongoing preservation effort to preserve the civil rights and social justice efforts in this community.” Henderson is the executive director and founder of the foundation which honors the site of the first rural chapter of the NAACP in American history. It was cofounded by his grandfather, E.B. Henderson, with grandmother Mary Ellen Henderson playing a key role in the city. He originally did a lot of work organizing the festival but concedes that it’s now more of a group effort. “There’s a lot of people organizing. It takes more than one person leading this effort,” he said noting that it was former City Council member Lindy Hockenberry who came up with the idea to move the festival to Cherry Hill Park. Graves Henderson notes that a lot of the festival’s recent decisions have been precipitated by a need to make the festival more of a community-wide thing. “People love that it’s big blues

LO CA L with a small-town feel,” said Graves Henderson. As the acts have increased in stature, many of the visitors now come from as far away as New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia to attend. On Friday, featured artists are Karl Stoll & the Danger Zone along with Bushmaster Blues Featuring Gary Brown at Market Plaza hosted by Mad Fox. On Saturday, the festival features its biggest headliners at Cherry Hill Park. These acts include Mud Morganfield, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Tas Cru and his band of Tortured Souls, local artist “Lil’ Maceo” Kareem Walkes with Slam Allen, the Nighthawks, and Linwood Taylor. Festival staffer Mary Knieser notes that with the revival of interest in Muddy Waters since his 100th birthday celebration in 2015, the festival will be very popular, featuring many connections to the blues legend. In addition to Morganfield, the Nighthawks regularly toured with Waters and Slam Allan played under the tutelage of Waters contemporary John Cotton. Knieser says 78-year-old studio legend Beverly Watkins is another act to look forward to with her Hendrixinfluenced stylings. “With all this talent, I have a feeling that something magical is going to happen,” she said. On Saturday morning, Tas Cru, who has been active in the “Blues in the Schools” program, will hold a music workshop for young and old alike at the Falls Church Community Center. There will also be blues-oriented programing at the Mary Riley Styles Library and a blues show accompanying the farmer’s market. “It’s people who love the music, people who really care about the artists, and they care about the people that come out,” said Rick Steele, who’s performing at the Falls Church Farmer’s Market Saturday morning. “That’s why it’s so successful, probably my fourth or fifth year, it’s a closeknit musical community in the area” JV’s Restaurant (which is hosting the after-party Saturday), Ireland’s Four Provinces, Dogwood Tavern, Argia’s and Clare and Don’s Beach Shack will all be hosting the blues/pub crawl and could also host other performances on Wednesday. The schedule is still being finalized. Tickets to the festival’s main event on Saturday at Cherry Hill are $20 in advance, $25 at the gate, with children 12 and under free with a paying adult. More information can be found at TinnerHill.org.

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TO LETTERS THE EDITOR Continued from Page 6 ever, that the third bullet point of your newspaper’s “Platform, “ appearing in each issue, proclaims “Do not let the news columns reflect editorial comment.” So how do you explain the June 1–7 news item re the Falls Church Episcopal church, written by your owner/editor, reporting that the church’s current occupants have stood for the last five years “against the reactionary policies of the contrarians who opposed LGBT rights and the ordination of women.” While I happen to strongly support the policy positions advanced by the Rev. Ohmer and the “current occupants,” I would also strongly prefer that the News-Press stick to its “Platform,” and present a more straightforward news account on such matters, thus allowing me to make up my own mind on their merits. Gerald Kamens Falls Church

If Progressives Are Serious, They Need To Walk the Walk Editor, The June 2 edition of the NewsPress had some great progressive ideas, although one has to question how serious they were. There were three examples: Rev. John Ohmer preached that we should “Jam a stick into the wheel of injustice” and call for welcoming refugees in his guest commentary. However, I saw no mention of how much land Falls Church Episcopal or land owned by his parishioners was being donated to this cause. Don Beyer blasted President Trump’s Paris Treaty withdraw as a “triumph of ignorance, nativism, and political pandering,” while ignoring my previous plea that he immediately shut down the carbon-spewing Don Beyer Auto dealerships, liquidate all assets, and invest the proceeds in green

technology. And finally, Nicholas Benton’s flagship editorial warned us about an “assault on truth and reason”. Several paragraphs later we were treated to Russian conspiracy theories and a misunderstanding of the Supreme Court’s role half a year after a presidential election. While it’s hard to argue against the basics behind each of these ideas (compassion, environmental stewardship, and truth), the arguments would be far more persuasive if their advocates walked the walk. Jeff Walyus Arlington

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FORMER CITY OF FALLS CHURCH resident Alex Mejias (left), a 1996 graduate of George Mason High School, is challenging Virginia State Del. Delores McQuinn in the 70th district Democratic primary next Tuesday. Mejias lives with his wife, Ashley, and their three children in Richmond. (Photo: courtesy Alex Mejias)

George Mason High Alum Alex Mejias on Richmond Primary Ballot Next Tuesday by Matt Delaney

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Last fall’s presidential election left the country sharply divided between feelings of jubilation and dread. In its wake, a wave of Democratic party hopefuls have sprouted up across all levels of government, including Richmond’s Virginia 70th district primary candidate and local product, Alex Mejias. Mejias isn’t allowing his inaugural foray into the political world temper his agenda. After officially beginning his campaign on March 1, the 1996 George Mason

High School graduate has made his rounds throughout a district that extends from the eastern sector of Richmond’s inner city to the suburbs that go beyond its beltway. On the trail, Mejias has learned what’s important to prospective constituents and detects their yearning for change. “There’s a new wind of leadership coming down through Richmond,” Mejias said in a phone interview with the NewsPress in April. “And I sensed that the people would be excited to have a new delegate here.” The three main components of state government Mejias looks to

reform if elected are the criminal justice system, redistricting and immigration policies. In regards to the criminal justice system, Mejias wants to see the consequences levied against felons reduced. For example, Mejias cites a felony larceny statute that can classify a perpetrator as a felon if their crime exceeds $200. To most that’s a nice pair of shoes. It doesn’t equate to felonious behavior in Mejias’ eyes, who believes the low dollar threshold — established in 1980 and left unchanged despite multiple states elevating their own standard — should be raised to $1,000.

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Tackling the erratic redistricting is Mejias’ attempt to stop the “erosion of enfranchisement” that has subverted populations in Richmond. The practice of gerrymandering is rampant in Virginia, with districts resembling amoebas more than the cookie-cutter counties they fall in. Abiding by more traditional boundaries would deny politicians from cherry picking voters and, according to Mejias, would empower the state’s progressive majority. Mejias also believes that aggressive immigration policies have fostered distrust between the community and the local government. While campaigning, he’s learned that residents are apprehensive about calling the police or visiting the hospital in fear of being identified as a potential target of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. This fear is all the more palpable during visits to a former safe zone in the Chesterfield Court House, where defendants have arrived to pay off a traffic ticket and left in the custody of ICE. Enforcing efforts to stimulate public education top off Mejias’ plan of action and hope to set him apart from his chief competitor, incumbent and fellow Democrat, State Del. Delores McQuinn. “People are really waking up and [noticing] that there’s something broken in the system and in the institutions that need to be reformed and renewed, and I’m one of those people,” Mejias said. “There are these core issues that pertain to fundamental and basic rights that people have to economic opportunity and access and a voice in the political system.” McQuinn has held the 70th district since January 2009, and has been serving Richmond’s public interest since 1992 when she became a member of the city’s school board. That’s stiff competition for a newcomer like

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Mejias, but he too has dedicated much of his professional and personal life to assisting those in need. As a former attorney, his legal career has taken him to the Legal Aid Justice Center, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and the National Senior Citizens Law Center. For his community, Mejias organized a forum about issues of race and policing between Richmond City police and black business leaders, titled “Businesses for Black Lives,” which led to the formation of the more policy-oriented “Business Coalition for Justice.” “Working in the nonprofit, business, legal and private practice sector...you learn to get things done,” Mejias added. “I’m passionate about bringing together diverse groups people to fix community problems. You need the faith, business, legal and activist community to have a seat at the table in order for change to happen. When folks in the General Assembly see a [unified] community is behind something, that speaks volumes.” The campaign reaches its apex next Tuesday when statewide primaries for both parties are held. A victory next week would signal an uncontested run for the 70th district and a chance to enact the reforms Mejias has laid out. It would also give the father of three and full-time business strategist at web development agency Foster Made an opportunity to test his digital outreach, which along with quarterly town halls, will let constituents air concerns on their terms. But even a loss won’t be taken as a true defeat to Mejias. His family is happily settled and his career is on the rise. And whether it is him or McQuinn who will represent their district in the legislature, he knows it won’t stall the inertia the Democratic party feels is essential for the near future.

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NOVA Annandale Campus To Host Session For Adults

The Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington and head of the Catholic Diocese of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointments that will take effect immediately on Wednesday, June 28. Reverend Brian G. Bashista will be moving on from serving as Parochial Vicar at Saint James Parish in Falls Church to Pastor of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in Lake Ridge. Reverend Matthew H. Zuberbueler will be moving from Pastor of Saint Louis Parish in Alexandria to become the Pastor of Saint Anthony of Padua Parish in Falls Church.

Northern Virginia Community College’s (NOVA) Annandale Campus will host a Success through Early Preparation Session (STEP) session, a new student information event, 6 – 8 p.m on Monday, June 12 in the Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center located at the Annandale Campus (8333 Little River Turnpike, Annandale). STEP is an information session organized specifically for adult learners 25 years of age and older and is a part of NOVA’s many initiatives to welcome adult learners to its campuses and prepare them for the upcoming academic year. During STEP,

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students will receive assistance with declaring a major and choosing and scheduling classes. They’ll also receive advice and tips about college survival for students with children, managing college and work, transferring to a four-year college or university and various types of classroom accommodations. STEP will also give students the opportunity to speak with academic division representatives. New students are welcome to attend this information session to learn about everything they need before starting classes at NOVA in fall 2017. To be eligible to attend this information session, students must take the English and math placement tests and bring their test results

to this session. Faculty and staff will lead a number of workshops to assist students and answer questions about degree requirements, curriculum, financial aid and other services and resources NOVA provides its students. Registration for this information session will begin at 5 p.m. the day of the event. Participants can also register for the session online. For additional information about STEP, contact Liaison for Specialized Degree Programs Dr. Joann Credle at 703-3233205 or jcredle@nvcc.edu.

Annual Pops For Pets Concert Set For June 25 The Fourth Annual Pops for Pets Concert benefits both the

Arlington Philharmonic and the Animal Welfare League of Arlington (AWLA) and takes place on Sunday, June 25 at the Lubber Run Amphitheater (200 N Columbus St., Arlington) starting at 6 p.m. The much anticipated community event invites the public to pack a picnic and bring family friends and well-behaved pups for an evening of popular music at this outdoor concert. Performances will feature patriotic-themed music, with tunes by Aaron Copland, John Williams and Strauss waltzes. The aim of the concert is to celebrate the AWLA and the Arlington Philharmonic, with Arlington County Board Chair Jay Fissette and and his dog, Cassie, co-chairing the event.

CUBMOBILES once again graced the streets of Falls Church as over 30 scouts from the Webelos, Bear and Wolf ranks came out for the 22nd annual Cub Scout Pack Cubmobile races on the Oak Street hill in front of Thomas Jefferson Elementary School on Sunday, June 4. Special thanks were extended to the Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department EMT’s who kept the scouts safe and injury-free throughout the event. (Photo: Emily Draper)

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Rain Barrel Distribution Taking Place On June 17 The City of Falls Church will host a pre-made rain barrel distribution on Saturday, June 17 from 1 – 4 p.m. at the Property Yard (7100 Gordon Rd. Falls Church). Each barrel costs $65 and must be purchased in advance via credit card or PayPal on the Fairfax County website. There are no residency restrictions on this sale. Rain barrels can be placed under your downspouts to capture rainwater from your roof. The rain barrels hold approximately 50 gallons. They are 23 inches wide and range from

41.25 inches to 43.75 inches tall. By installing a rain barrel at your home you will provide your plants with water while saving money and water and will help efforts to protect the Chesapeake Bay. Build-Your-Own Rain Barrel Workshops are another option on June 10 at the Fairlington Community Center (3308 S Stafford St., Arlington) and on August 19 at the Mount Vernon Government Center (2511 Parkers Ln., Alexandria). Registration and a $55 fee are required; register on the Fairfax County website. The event is sponsored by Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District in cooperation with the City of Falls Church. Questions about the event or requests for special accommodations can be directed to the conservation district

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Educational Course About Animal Dads Learn about the dads in the animal kingdom in honor of Father’s Day. Recommended for ages 3 – 5 years. Program is hosted at the Long Branch Nature Center (625 S Carlin Springs Rd., Arlington) on Tuesday, June 13 from 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. The theme for preschool programs is repeated during the month, so please register for only one session at each nature center per month. Parents are invited to stay and observe. Those attending with younger siblings may visit the rest of the building during the program. Parents must remain on-site. $5 admission. Registration required. Resident registration began at 8 a.m. on

The Village Preservation and Improvement Society (VPIS) Spring Meeting will feature a panel discussion on the latest information on the Mason Campus redevelopment project, including panelists: Mayor David Tarter; Phil Reitinger, School Board; Russell Wodiska, Planning Commission and Dr. Peter Noonan, School Superintendent. Also updates on the City Hall Renovation and Library Projects. A Social mixer will follow. The meeting will take place at the American Legion (400 N. Oak Street, Falls Church) at 3 p.m.

NAACP Stands Together To Change School Name Join the Fairfax County Branch of the NAACP at the Fairfax County School Board Meeting on Thursday, June 8 at Luther Jackson Middle School at 7 p.m. to demonstrate support for changing the name of J.E.B. Stuart High School. NAACP supporters have eight of the 10 Citizen Participation Speaking slots, which means that the organization, including Branch President, Kofi Annan, are scheduled to speak. For the past two years, the Branch has led a coalition of students, parents and community organizations in support of changing the name of J.E.B. Stuart to end the celebration of Confederate and segregationist values at the educational institution since its naming in 1959. The Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) School Board will be voting on the renaming at

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the June 22, 2017 School Board Meeting. If you are unable to make June 8 demonstration, there will also be a School Board work session on June 12 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. at Luther Jackson Middle School. Any further questions or inquiries for more information should be directed toward George Alber at georgealber76@ yahoo.com.

Fundraising For Children At Paddy Barry’s Enjoy an Irish meal at Paddy Barry’s Irish Pub and Restaurant (8150 Leesburg Pike, Tysons), from 5 – 9 p.m. on Tuesday, June 13 and 10 percent of your dining tab will be contributed to Falls Church-McLean Children’s Center, the year-round preschool program that serves lowand moderate-income families. . Falls Church-McLean Children’s Center was established in 1968 to provide an affordable, full-time, high-quality, early childhood education program to prepare the young children of low and moderateincome working families to be ready for kindergarten. The Center is located in Lemon Road Elementary School (7230 Idylwood Road, Falls Church). Details about the program are at fcmlcc.org.

Doodlehopper 4 Kids Helps With INOVA Toy Drive Doodlehopper 4 Kids (228 W. Broad St., Falls Church) is teaming up with INOVA Children’s Hospital to help with INOVA’s annual toy drive. A donation box will be found at the Doodlehopper 4 Kids from Sunday, June 4 – Saturday, June 10, where donations will be gladly received by the Doodlehopper staff. Visit inova.org/supportchildlife for more information.

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News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross

Justin Fairfax, a Mason District resident, is making his second try for statewide office, having run for the Attorney General nomination four years ago. I’ve been impressed with Justin’s passion for public service, and his clear understanding of the importance of hard work to reach goals. Justin was born in Pittsburgh, moved to Washington, D.C. with his single mom to live with his grandmother in a difficult neighborhood. With strong family role models, Justin and his siblings all graduated from college, and earned additional professional degrees. Their success from humble beginnings has been remarkable, and Justin pays it forward by inspiring others to reach seemingly insurmountable goals. Let’s help Justin reach the next goal by voting for him in the Democratic primary on Tuesday. For some free fun this weekend, you can join in celebrating Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week at Mason Neck State Park, along the Potomac River south of Mount Vernon. The event will feature information displays about the Bay, games, interactive exhibits, and a ceremonial “Back to the Bay” community turnaround. We literally will turn our backs to the Bay to recognize that humankind’s activities on the land have a significant impact on the health of the Bay. Summertime offers more opportunities for Bay experiences, one of the goals of the Chesapeake 2000 agreement among the Bay states. It’ll be fun, and it looks like the weather will cooperate!

Tuesday, June 13, is Primary Election Day for all of Virginia, as candidates from both major parties vie for nomination for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Your local polling place will be open from 6 a.m. – 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Under Virginia law, you must present a valid photo ID to vote. Voters also will be asked to designate whether they want to vote on a Democratic ballot or a Republican ballot (there are separate ballots for each party). Fairfax County residents may vote absentee-in-person this Saturday, June 10, at the Mason District Governmental Center, 6507 Columbia Pike in Annandale, from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Dr. Ralph Northam, Virginia’s current Lt. Governor, is running for the top spot, and deserves the Democratic nomination. I did not know Ralph prior to his current position; Ralph previously served in the Virginia State Senate, representing Tidewater and the Eastern Shore. He was reared on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, where sea level rise and subsidence, and efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay, are of special significance. Ralph is a doctor and a veteran, who has seen the trauma that weapons of war can wreak on the human body, as well as clearly understanding, and advocating for, health care needs. And that includes the right of every woman to control her own healthcare decisions. Virginia needs the thoughtful, yet fierce, commitment of Ralph Northam to lead our Commonwealth in the next gubernatorial term. I hope you will join me in supporting, and voting for, Ralph Northam on Tuesday. Three Democratic candidates are running for the Lieutenant Governor nomination on Tuesday.

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The Village Society Spring Meeting will feature a panel discussion on the latest information on the GMHS Campus redevelopment project, including panelists: Mayor David Tarter, Phil Reitinger -School Board, Russell Wodiska - Planning Commission, and Dr. Peter Noonan- School Superintendent. Also updates on the City Hall Renovation and Library Projects. Questions to panelist are welcomed. All welcome - a social mixer will follow.

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The Civil War continues to reverberate around Arlington, known during that conflict as Alexandria County. Though our resident ancestors hosted no battles, Arlington was a vital strategic defense line and thoroughfare to epic points south. There was no shortage of local drama in the 1860s. This May 20, the county attracted 250 enthusiasts to a “Civil War Camp Day” at the Walter Reed Community Center, at which uniformed reenactors pitched tents and explained training and military drills done at Arlington’s string of federal forts that protected the nation’s capital. Lots of period music was recreated. Longtime local historian Kathryn Holt Springston continues her regular Smithsonian Resident Associate tours of Arlington during the Civil War. She reports that Arlington’s population of 1,500 tolerated the arrival over four years of 150,000 Union encamped troops. And she points out sites where General McClellan and troops marched through and where John Singleton Mosby once lived. I just finished reading an evocative, Arlington-centric novel set during the War Between the States. Two Hills: A Story of Survival between the Lines was published by Arlingtonian George Axiotis, a defense consultant. Its elegiac narration by a 15-year-old girl describes how she and her father navigate the “enemies of Virginia or the Federals” while

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Minor’s Hill.” Axiotis brings alive the era’s economy – “People commuted to the district just like today,” he told me. His bibliography reflects exhaustive research in local libraries, the National Archives, and Arlington Historical Society sources. Last month I heard a personalized tale of the havoc the Civil War imposed on a single family, the Marceys, whose farmhouse stood near today’s Potomac Overlook Regional Park. Jessica Kaplan, an archivist, spoke to the Arlington Historical Society about years of research into wartime clashes that unfolded on her property on the 2600 block of N. Richmond St. She tracked the lives of brothers James and Lewis Marcey, farmers who “endured waves of invasions and disruption,” she said. The family ownership of the land Kaplan traced to 1800, and the Marceys’ original cabin to 1843. Before the war, they cultivated corn, oats, rye, cabbage and potatoes, profiting also from an apple orchard, pigs and milk cows for markets in the district and what we call Old Town Alexandria. In the referendum of 1861, the Marceys joined the majority in rural Arlington in opposing slavery. Armed pro-secessionist vigilantes tried to intimidate them when they voted at Ball’s Crossroads (Ballston). But their against-the-grain sympathies did not impress the

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customer rode off with a bicycle he was being shown. Suspect described as a black male, 5`10 height, 180 pounds, black hair, brown eyes, short hair, wearing white t-shirt, khaki pants, and black shoes. Hit and Run, 132 W Broad St (Dogwood Tavern), between 6:45 and 7 PM, June 1, a parked car was struck by a Jeep which left the scene. Larceny – Theft from Building, 400 blk E Columbia St, sometime between May 22 and 25, a leaf blower was taken from a shed.

union troops bent on defending Washington, who confiscated their crops and eventually cut down some 17,000 trees. “They unleashed pandemonium to the Marcey farm, and overnight they became paupers,” Kaplan reported. The deforestation was deemed vital for the construction of forts Ethan Allen and C.F. Smith. According to the obituary of a Marcey descendant who died in 1959 at 101, New York troops gave the Marceys coffee but “mean” troops from Massachusetts stole their hens. “The chaos,” Kaplan said, brought camp followers – women, children, prostitutes, runaway blacks. The tree cutting was done to build the corduroy roadway still called Military Road, accomplished in three days. Like many Arlington property owners, the Marceys in the 1870s took their demands for federal restitution to the Southern Claims Commission: Having asked for $5,272, they were awarded $1,047. *** The online Black Heritage Museum of Arlington climbed another rung on history’s ladder last Saturday at a dual-purpose reception celebrating the birthday and legacy of founder Evelyn Reid Syphax (1926-2000). Arlington County and school board and historical society members joined Syphax’s sons, fellow educators, church mates, sorority sisters and Arlingtonians she inspired to sing praises at Goodwin House located at Bailey’s Crossroads. Syphax, a former school board member and founder of the county’s first African American preschool, has an Arlington education center named for her. Driving Under the Influence, 306 Hillwood Ave (Lesly Restaurant Bar and Grill), June 3, a male, 34, of Falls Church, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, 2nd offense in 5 years. Recovered Stolen Auto, 200 blk Noland St, June 3, during a routine patrol, officer recovered a vehicle which had been reported stolen by Arlington. Littering, 804 S Washington St (7-11), June 4, while conducting an area check, officer observed an individual throw trash on the ground on two separate occasions. A male, 32, of Falls Church, was issued a summons for littering. Tampering with Auto, 300 blk S West St, June 4, valve cap was removed and a tire was deflated on a parked vehicle. Vandalism to Private Property, 1000 blk Fowler St, June 4, a fence was defaced with graffiti. OTHER ARRESTS A male, 31, of Glen Burnie, MD was arrested in Farmville, VA, on a Capias from Falls Church. The underlying charge was Driving While Intoxicated, 2nd offense.

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Make Ignorance Great Again Donald Trump just took us out of the Paris climate accord for no good reason. I don’t mean that his decision was wrong. I mean, literally, that he didn’t offer any substantive justification for that decision. Oh, he threw around a few numbers about supposed job losses, but nobody believes that he knows or cares where those numbers came from. It was just what he felt like doing. And here’s the thing: What just happened on climate isn’t an unusual case – and Trump isn’t especially unusual for a modern Republican. For today’s GOP doesn’t do substance; it doesn’t assemble evidence, or do analysis to formulate or even to justify its policy positions. Facts and hard thinking aren’t wanted, and anyone who tries to bring such things into the discussion is the enemy. Consider another huge policy area, NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE health care. How was Trumpcare put together? Did the administration and its allies consult with experts, study previous experience with health reform, and try to devise a plan that made sense? Of course not. In fact, House leaders made a point of ramming a bill through before the Congressional Budget Office, or for that matter anyone else, could assess its likely impact. When the budget office did weigh in, its conclusions were what you might expect: If you make huge cuts in Medicaid and reduce subsidies for private insurance – all so you can cut taxes on the wealthy – a lot of people are going to lose coverage. Is 23 million a good estimate of those losses? Yes – it might be 18 million, or it might be 28 million, but surely it would be in that range. So how did the administration respond? By trying to shoot the messenger. Mick Mulvaney, the White House budget director, attacked the CBO, declaring that it did a “miserable” job of forecasting the effects of Obamacare. (It got some things wrong, but overall did pretty well.) He also accused the office – headed by a former Bush administration economist chosen by Republicans – of political bias, and smeared its top health expert in particular. So, Mulvaney, where’s your assessment of Trumpcare? You had plenty of resources to do your own study before trying to pass a bill. What did you find? (Actually, the White House did do an internal analysis of an earlier version of Trumpcare, which was leaked to Politico. Its predictions were even more dire than those from the CBO.) But Mulvaney and his party don’t study issues, they just decide, and attack the motives of anyone who questions their decisions. Which brings us back to climate policy. On climate change, influential conservatives have for years clung to what is basically a crazy conspiracy theory – that the overwhelming scientific consensus that the earth is warming due to greenhouse-gas emissions is a hoax, somehow coordinated by thousands of researchers around the world. And at this point this is effectively the mainstream Republican position. Do GOP leaders really think this conspiracy theory is true? The answer, surely, is that they don’t care. Truth, as something that exists apart from and in possible opposition to political convenience, is no longer part of their philosophical universe. The same goes for claims that trying to rein in emissions will do terrible economic damage and destroy millions of jobs. Such claims are, if you think about it, completely inconsistent with everything Republicans supposedly believe about economics. After all, they insist that the private sector is infinitely flexible and innovative; the magic of the marketplace can solve all problems. But then they claim that these magical markets would roll over and die if we put a modest price on carbon emissions, which is basically what climate policy would do. This doesn’t make any sense – but it’s not supposed to. Republicans want to keep burning coal, and they’ll say whatever helps produce that outcome. And as health care and climate go, so goes everything else. Can you think of any major policy area where the GOP hasn’t gone post-truth? Take budgeting, where leaders like Paul Ryan have always justified tax cuts for the rich by claiming the ability to conjure up trillions in extra revenue and savings in some unspecified way. The Trump-Mulvaney budget, which not only pulls $2 trillion out of thin air but counts it twice, takes the game to a new level, but it’s not that much of a departure. But does any of it matter? The president, backed by his party, is talking nonsense, destroying American credibility day by day. But hey, stocks are up, so what’s the problem? Well, bear in mind that so far Trump hasn’t faced a single crisis not of his own making. As George Orwell noted many years ago in his essay “In Front of Your Nose,” people can indeed talk nonsense for a very long time, without paying an obvious price. But “sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.” Now there’s a happy thought.

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Donald Trump Is Never to Blame Poor Donald Trump, so late to the lesson that so many plutocrats before him learned: You can’t find good help. Jeff Sessions? What a bust. True, he was never the nimblest newt in the swamp and had all that racial muck in his past. But he mirrored his master’s irreverence and atavism, with slighter dimensions and a Southern accent: Donald in a Dixie cup. Surely Sessions and his Justice Department could be expected to accomplish something as straightforward as keeping the Muslims at bay. Hah. More than four months since the inauguration, there’s meager, flickering hope for the travel ban that wasn’t a travel ban until it became a travel ban again. The fault for that cannot possibly lie with its founNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE dation of bigotry, its shoddy conception or the president’s own sloppy and shifting characterizations of it over time. No, there must be a fall guy with less shimmering tresses. The buck stops anywhere but hair. So does the pound, the euro and every last bit of spare change and pocket lint. If Trump is feuding with the London mayor, it’s the mayor who should be abashed. If Trump is at odds with Angela Merkel, she must have something to apologize for. Never mind his baseless tweets and boundless pique. He’s the American president, they’re not, and global hegemony means never having to say you’re sorry. But back to the Potomac and his principal aides, unprincipled underlings and princeling of a son-in-law, each more incompetent than the next. The buck stops with Sean Spicer, who kept wandering from the script like a toddler into traffic. All he had to do was stick to his lines: The president’s proposals are the wisest. The president’s ethics are the purest. The president’s crowds are the biggest. The president’s detractors fall into three camps: illegals, commies and Samantha Bee. He couldn’t manage that much, or rather that little, and so Sarah Huckabee Sanders is claiming ever more podium time. She won’t last. No one will. The relevant sinkhole isn’t the one that opened up just outside Mar-a-Loco last month. It’s the one beneath the feet of anyone dippy, delusional or daring enough to think that Trumplandia is terrain on which to make a positive difference, let alone a career. The buck stops with Jared Kushner, never mind that his grandiosity and shortcuts were emulations of

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dear old dad-in-law. He has lumbered onto investigators’ radar and thus teetered ever so slightly from favor – that’s Steve Bannon chortling in the background – though he reportedly tasted Trump’s rancor before, when he hid in Aspen during the health care debacle, skiing while Washington churned. Where will the buck stop next? With the tiniest Trump, Barron? He has some nerve doing homework while tax reform is still being hammered out and infrastructure is just coming together. Trump’s quickness to deflect blame, readiness to designate scapegoats, unpredictable tirades and stinginess with the loyalty that he demands from others aren’t just character flaws. They’re serious and quite possibly insurmountable obstacles to governing. Those who serve him are forever fearful of being undercut, perpetually having to defend behavior from him that’s indefensible, and demoralized as a result. Consider Defense Secretary James Mattis, whose torments were summarized by James Hohmann this week in The Washington Post. How can the country get the best from him when he’s getting the worst from Trump? Many of the country’s diplomats are in a funk, as my Times colleague Mark Landler just recounted, and the ludicrously large number of unfilled positions throughout the administration partly reflects the limited appeal of such a gloomy club. There was never any overflow of top-tier applicants, given how many Republicans swore off Trump and how many others were spurned by him for not being obsequious enough. But now that the terms of working for him – ridicule by tweet, potentially stratospheric legal bills – are clear, the pool of available talent is a puddle too shallow to keep a newt afloat. Mike Allen reported in Axios on Tuesday morning that the creation of Trump’s “war room” – a battalion of lawyers and such who would do damage control during the Russia probe – is on hold, because he can’t find the soldiers to staff it. By many accounts, the atmosphere in the White House is one part high school cafeteria, two parts “Lord of the Flies.” Aides who are jockeying for position and trying to safeguard their reputations ask operatives on the outside to whisper to the media that they’re up while their rivals are down, and so we’re subjected to a daily Dow Jones on the stock of various players, with special note of who has Oval Office “walk-in privileges.” I suspect that the Trump era will flip that phrase, and the people walking out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will be seen as – and be – the privileged ones.

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Was the Election Result Altered?

While the focus of official Washington and the major media is now entirely on former FBI director James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee today, and to what extent his testimony will effectively indict Trump on “obstruction of justice” charges, there’s the bigger picture that cannot be lost in this. It all traces back to the original concern, which is the incredible level to which the Russians, serious adversaries of the U.S., acted to interfere, and were successful in that effort, in the 2016 presidential election. It can be argued that the issue of Trump’s involvement in that, which is what most of the investigations and discourse on this matter are now focused on, is secondary to the primary fact that this nation wound up with a president it did not prefer, even as measured by the FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS most sterilized objective data-centered standard. This goes beyond the fact that Trump received three million fewer popular votes than Hillary Clinton. It goes to the fact that the Russians’ openly-preferred candidate won, and that his victory was entirely and almost universally unexpected by all the campaigns, pundits and pollsters. Were the Russians successful at hacking into and altering the way voting machine software tabulated votes in some key states in that election? There is the latest top-secret report leaked to The Intercept that contends the Russians did attempt to hack into top election and voting machine officials in the days before the November election. It will be fascinating to see where this line of investigation leads. Certainly, our elections have been made amazingly vulnerable due to the growing dependency of election day voting on hackable computer software. Money saving reasons have always been given for this, even to the point that in many cases, there is no backup “paper trail” that can be accessed to confirm the election results. In the aftermath of the highly disputed suspect election outcome in 2000, when the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-5 to stop a ballot recount in Florida that produced the technical victory of George W. Bush, again with fewer popular votes, over Al Gore, there were numerous visible problems with the voting machines and how they counted that came to light. As they should have, honest election officials in Florida, for example, began hand re-counting by careful visual means the ballots to determine whether thousands that were thrown out because of the infamous “hanging chads,” punched out tags of the ballot that did not break free from the ballot resulting in a disqualified vote in most cases. That was before the actions were taken to suppress that process. Democrats, including the Democratic-majority Florida Supreme Court, ruled the recount process should continue, and Bush’s attorneys went to the U.S. Supreme Court to seek a very anti-Republican action against states rights that ultimately prevailed. In the lengthy investigations and reviews that followed that debacle, all the many different types of voting machines were reviewed and recommendations were made. The final word was that the most reliably accurate voting machine was the “optical scanner.” Lo and behold, it was not more than six months later than the powers that be in the jurisdiction where I lived moved to change the voting machines from the “optical scanners” they had been using to some other entirely-computer dependent system. If I was interested in tampering with electoral outcomes, whether as a hostile foreign power or just a local crook, messing with the election voting machine process itself would be a good start. I’m sure that there will be a lot of blow back from the voting machine industry concerning the very suggestion their systems are anything less than totally secure. But then again, who knew of the hacking and intercept capabilities being issued forth from the mountainous regions of the Balkans before this past year? Just how important are our elections, anyway? Well, with Trump in the White House we’re getting a wake up call on that one. Maybe conclusive proof can be found that thousands of votes were lost to hacking last November, and not Trump votes. At least, attention to this should make sure nothing akin to this happens again.

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 Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.

Trump’s Incredible Shrinking America My whole life I have taken for granted America’s leadership in the world. America’s might and majesty were cornerstones of international relations, cooperation and diplomacy. We were a beacon and balance to the world. America has been imperfect — sometimes disastrously so — but it always seemed to me bent toward the belief that America and the world could be made more perfect. Well, that time has come to a close. America is exiting the world stage. Donald Trump is drawing the curtains. On Trump’s first full weekday in office, he, and thus America, abandoned the Trans-Pacific Partnership. As The New York Times reported it: “President Trump NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE upended America’s traditional, bipartisan trade policy on Monday as he formally abandoned the ambitious, 12-nation TransPacific Partnership brokered by his predecessor and declared an end to the era of multinational trade agreements that defined global economics for decades.” Trump has had, and continues to have, an unhealthy and inexplicable admiration for the world’s strongmen, dictators and authoritarian regimes — Russia and Vladimir Putin stand out among the rest — while simultaneously chiding and chastising America’s traditional allies and those countries’ leaders. From the way Trump has treated America’s neighbors — Mexico about immigrants and the financing of his ridiculous wall, Canada over trade practices on energy, lumber and dairy — to the way he has treated our friends in Europe, Trump is single-handedly ushering in a new era of American decline. Last month in Europe, Trump was as boorish and belligerent as it was possible to be, lashing out at our NATO allies about their military spending just after having been gracious and magnanimous to leaders in the Middle East. Then last week Trump thumbed his nose at the world and the planet by announcing that he would pull America out of the Paris climate accord, even though a Yale survey found the agreement was popular and a majority of Americans in every state wanted the United States to stay in the agreement. But even beyond whether or not it was popular, staying in was right. More than 190 countries — most of the countries on the planet — are signatories to the agreement. We have one planet. It is in trouble. The world must band together to save it. How does it look for the world’s last remaining superpower to simply walk away?

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This is not putting America first, this is putting America on a path of regression and isolationism. This is putting our future and the future of the planet in peril. This is dumb, hazardous and shortsighted. Trump justified his move using faulty information, citing issues that are not even in the agreement and flatout lying. What else is new? Perhaps his most memorable line from his speech about the withdrawal was: “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris. I promised I would exit or renegotiate any deal which fails to serve America’s interests.” The problem is that, as PolitiFact pointed out: “Clinton won almost 60 percent of the vote in Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh. The percentage was even higher in many precincts within the city of Pittsburgh itself.” Indeed, the mayor of Pittsburgh, Bill Peduto, told CNN after the speech: “The city of Pittsburgh voted for Hillary Clinton with nearly 80 percent of the vote.” Later on CNN, Peduto was asked if he had a message for Trump. Peduto responded: “What you did was not only bad for the economy of this country, but also weakened America in this world.” In fact, mayors, governors and business leaders across the country were quick to rebuke Trump’s horrendous decision and to dedicate themselves to the spirit of the agreement. Then, for me, the icing on the cake was Trump’s absolute lack of grace and tact in his response to the London terror attacks over the weekend. His first response was not to express his horror and extend America’s condolences and offer American assistance. No, that would have required that he possess a shred of empathy and common decency. Instead, his first instinct was to use the attacks as political fodder to advance his own failed domestic agenda to impose a “travel ban.” Shortly after the attacks, while people were still trying to get their minds around what exactly had happened in London, Trump tweeted: “We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!” (Note that Trump again calls it a “ban,” although White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who retweeted this message, scolded the media in January for calling Trump’s ban a ban, saying: “This is not a Muslim ban, it’s not a travel ban, it’s a vetting system to keep America safe.” Trump is killing himself in the courts with his own words.) Trump is pulling America back and pulling America down. We are now witnessing the incredible shrinking America, and it’s a sad sight to behold.

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Public Meeting Tuesday, June 13, 2017, 6-8 p.m. Yorktown High School 5200 Yorktown Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22207 The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) will host an open house to present lighting alternatives, based on input received during a planning workshop held on April 5, 2017 and a public meeting held on May 2, 2017 for the W&OD Trail Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge over U.S. Route 29 (Lee Highway). Stop by between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. to learn more about the project, view displays and discuss your questions with VDOT staff. Provide written comments at the meeting or submit them by June 29, 2017 to Ms. Amanda J. Baxter, Special Projects Development Manager, VDOT Northern Virginia District Office, 4975 Alliance Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030. You may also e-mail comments to Transform66@VDOT.Virginia.gov. Please reference “W&OD Trail Bridge” in the subject line. For more information please visit www.Transform66.org. VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need more information or special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact VDOT’s Civil Rights at 703-259-1775 or TTY/TDD 711.

S����� N��� � N���� Eat To The Beat: Jazz Performance At Argia’s As a follow up to the Tinner Hills Blues Festival in Falls Church this weekend, George Mason High School’s Jazz Ensemble and Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School’s Jazz Band will be performing at Argia’s on Sunday from 5 – 7:30 p.m. Argia’s will contribute 15 percent of food sales to the Band Boosters. There is an Event Brite site: no tickets required but the Event Brite ticket feature enables guests to make a donation. Anyone planning to attend should make a reservation as the restaurant accommodates about 80 patrons at a seating.

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Volunteers are needed to help ensure a fun and safe night for George Mason High School’s newest graduates, the night of their graduation. This is typically a “lift” for parents in the junior class in a “pay it forward” way, so next year when guests from out of town visit, there are capable volunteers running your senior’s AllNight Grad Celebration. Anyone is welcome to sign up for tasks such as “entertainment,” “prizes”

and the all important “security.” Help is essential for the positions required by the Fire Marshal – the event won’t happen without you. Please look at the sign up sheet to see how you can help. The AllNight Grad Celebration runs from 11 p.m. on Wednesday, June 21 to 5 a.m. the following morning.

FCCPS Retirement Celebration Set For June 14 Everyone in the community is invited to join in celebrating the contributions of these long-time employees of the Falls Church City Public School system on Wednesday, June 14 at 4:30 p.m. It’s an ideal time to wish these staff and faculty members well as they move on to their next phase in life: John Ballou Teacher, George Mason High School; Syda Chansombat Custodian, Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School; Gabe Fernandez Maintenance Specialist, George Mason High School; Diana Fredenburg Paraprofessional, Mt. Daniel School; Amy Kurjanowicz Director of Counseling, George Mason High School; Janice Nette Administrative Assistant to Asst. Principals, George Mason High School; Jamie Scharff Teacher, George Mason High School;

Lynn Varshneya Teacher, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School; Diane Zang Technology Coordinator, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School.

Mount Daniel Construction Update The Falls Church City Public Schools will begin its next phase of renovation at the Mount Daniel School when construction teams start to move trailers onto the school’s property on Thursday, June 8 in preparation for the expansion renovation set to take place over the summer and into next school year. Crews of construction workers have already cut trenches and started to lay the plumbing and electrical wiring to accommodate the trailers’ arrival.

George Mason HS Summer Academy Is In Full Swing George Mason High School’s Summer Academy orientation kicked off on Tuesday, June 6 in preparation for a summer of academic advancement. As opposed to remedial summer schools, Mason’s Summer Academy is an opportunity used by students to get ahead of schedule in their curriculum for the next school year.

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George Mason High School’s varsity girls soccer team braved a gauntlet over the past week with a season-saving, sudden-death overtime win against Maggie Walker Governor's School last Wednesday serving as the lead-in for last Friday’s 4-2 victory over Stuarts Draft High School. The two victories helped the Mustangs earn their 10th consecutive 2A East region title and now look to replicate that feat at the state level this weekend. It’s safe to say neither game was easy. Prior to last Wednesday’s 3-2 win against Maggie Walker, Mason (21-1) had posted 26 goals in the playoffs while keeping opponents scoreless in that same stretch. Last week’s action saw the Mustangs narrowly pull out a victory in Richmond only to follow that up with a championship game where some second-half heroics provided the jolt Mason needed to prepare for this weekend’s state tournament. “When you don’t put your head down, even when you feel you might not win, anything can happen,” Mason head coach Allison Klink remarked. Against Maggie Walker, the Mustangs had to overcome a fierce regional rival in a win-or-go-home game, with the cherry on top being Mason had to do it on the Dragons’ turf. Early into the first half the Mustangs took a 1-0 lead when a Maggie Walker defender was too aggressive in guarding sophomore midfielder Maura Mann inside the box and fouled her, leading to Mann’s converted penalty kick. The two teams traded surges for the rest of the first and most of the second half as Mason clung to a 1-0 advantage. Eventually, Maggie Walker broke through and got a shot past junior goalkeeper Laura Whitaker to knot the score at one apiece and send the game into overtime. The intensity was escalating even as fatigue was setting in during the extended game. At the end of the first of two five-minute overtime periods, neither team was able to tilt the score in their favor. Maggie Walker didn’t wait long into the second OT, however, when they earned the go-ahead goal just 90 seconds in. Mason didn’t flinch and kept up the pressure, but the equalizer eluded them. With 40 seconds separating them from a fruitless season, the

SOPHOMORE MADDIE LACROIX boxes out her Stuarts Draft opponent to maintain possession. (P����: C���� S��) Mustangs finally netted the tying goal after the ball was pinged between juniors Izzy Armstrong and Victoria Rund before finding freshman midfielder Fiona Howard who sank her shot and forced a sudden-death overtime period. Mann proved to be the woman of the match by snagging a loose ball at midfield, snaking her way through the the Dragons defense and inadvertently causing a collision between the Maggie Walker goalkeeper and defender while opening up the net for the decisive goal. “That game showed us that nothing’s given anymore,” senior midfielder Rebecca Crouch said. “We learned how to finish strong, and saw that other teams are going to stick it to the end and we need to match that, since that’s the only way we’ll end up winning.” Last Friday’s regional championship game versus Stuarts Draft provided another batch of excitement (both good and bad) for the Mustangs. By the 13th minute Mason took the lead on a left-footed rip by Crouch that went just low enough to clear the crossbar and connect with the nylon. Not to be outdone, Stuarts Draft answered 10 minutes later when a Cougar midfielder chip-shotted a ball that took an awkward bounce and caused Whitaker to misread it, allowing the shot to roll into the goal. Mason was reeling from that point on in the first half. Stuarts Draft wasn’t granting the Mustangs defense any clears and hounded defenders deep in their third of the field. Anytime Mason was able to earn a stop and find

an open lane to move the ball through, the pass was errant or poorly touched, keeping Stuarts Draft in position to maintain possession.The Mustangs just barely squeezed by the Cougars’ advances and made it to halftime with the 1-1 tie intact. “Coming into the game we didn’t realize how physical and strong [Stuarts Draft] was going to come out,” Crouch continued. “At the half we focused on picking up the energy, passing the ball around and maintaining possession.” From there, Mason regained its footing. Eight minutes into the second half Armstrong sent a pass Crouch’s way that she knocked past Stuarts Drafts’ goalkeeper to give the Mustangs a 2-1 lead. Crouch returned the favor less than 10 minutes later when she hooked up with Armstrong for her first goal of the game and boosted Mason’s advantage to 3-1. The Cougars weren’t finished as they cut the Mustangs' lead in half with a quick shot with 5:23 remaining in the game. Stuarts Draft continued to press and moments later a Cougar forward stole a ball at midfield and had a one-on-one breakaway with only Whitaker standing in the way to prevent the tie. Whitaker hesitated, then charged the forward and rattled her just enough to cause the shot to miss wide left. In the game’s final minute, sophomore midfielder Maddie Lacroix iced the game with another goal and ensured the Mustangs top-seeded berth at the 2A State Tournament. Mason will face Graham High School in the opening round of the tournament at Radford University this Friday at 11 a.m.

GOING DEEP during the Boys' shot-put event at the 2A state track meet at East Rockingham High School last weekend was senior Patrick Lin, who �inished the event in 10th, which was the highest placing for Mason in the shot-put since the early 2000s. Overall the Girls team

placed sixth and had six All-State �inishers including the 4x800m, 4x400m and 4x100m relays as well as sophomores Danielle Welch and Charlotte Crum along with senior Korinne Wills in their individual events. This is now the 12th year in a row that the Girls team has placed in the top 10 at the state level. The Boys team earned 14th place and had All-State �inishes in the 4x800m and 4x400m relays with individual placers in seniors C.T. Dodge, Timothy Gilmour and Ryan Henderson. (P����: C���� S��)

STARTING THE BREAK after securing a groundball was junior defender Claire Trundle in Mason's 4A East regional semifinal game against last year's state champions, Woodgrove High School on Tuesday, May 30. The Mustangs defeated Woodgrove 17-8 to advance to the regional finals against Riverside High School, but fell short to the Purcellville natives with an 18-6 loss last Friday, June 2. Making it to the regional final granted Mason entry into the 4A state tournament, where they defeated Salem High School 17-8 down in Salem on Tuesday night in the semifinal round to earn a chance at the state championship for the second year in a row. The Mustangs are looking to reverse their fortunes from a year ago, where a narrow defeat to Woodgrove in the regional championship segued into a blowout loss in the state title match. The championship game will be Saturday, June 10. (P����: C���� S��)

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FALLS CHURCHCALENDAR COMMUNITYEVENTS THURSDAY, JUNE 8 City Hall Project Community Meeting. The Community Meeting to discuss changes and renovations to City Hall is scheduled for Thursday, June 8 at 7:30 in the Dogwood Room of City Hall (300 Park Ave., G Level). A presentation will be followed by an opportunity for questions from attendees. There is no RSVP necessary. Dogwood Room of City Hall (300 Park Ave., G Level, Falls Church). 7:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, JUNE 9 DMV 2 Go Bus. The full-service DMV 2 Go bus is an accessible mobile office that provides all DMV transactions including, applying for and renewing licenses, road and knowledge tests and obtaining certified copies of Virginia vital records including birth, marriage, divorce and

death certificates. Customers should be prepared with the required documents to complete transactions. City Hall (330 Park Ave., Falls Church). 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

SATURDAY, JUNE 10 High School Campus Project Community Meeting. The community meeting for the High School Campus Project where school officials will give an update on the Feasibility Study and the City Government staff will give an update on the Small Area Plan. Attendees can RSVP via SurveyMonkey, or add their name to a list for updates. Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School (7130 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church) 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Lorenzo the Great! Falls Church resident magician Lorenzo the Great! will perform a free magic show. This will be the third engagement for Lorenzo the Great! who also performed at the library last

year. Over the years, Lorenzo has also performed at Mount Daniel Elementary School and Thomas Jefferson Elementary School as well as two White House Easter Egg Hunts. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 11 – 11:45 a.m. 703-2485034

SUNDAY, JUNE 11 Buoni Amici String Ensemble Concert. An evening of chamber music courtesy of the Buoni Amici String Ensemble, performing Franz Schubert’s Quintet in C Major. There will be a brief discussion about the piece prior to the performance, followed by a wine and cheese reception. The Falls Church Episcopal (115 E Fairfax St., Falls Church). 5 – 7 p.m. Tinner Hill Blues Festival. Final day of weekend-long 24th Annual Tinner Hill Blues Festival. Sunday’s festivities include the Gospel Fest & Old Fashioned Picnic at the Tinner Hill historic

site. Check out tinnerhill.org/ blues-festival for more details on other festival events. Tinner Hill historic site (106 Tinner Hill Rd., Falls Church). 2 – 5 p.m. 703241-4109.

TUESDAY, JUNE 13 Great Books Discussion. This week’s book is “The Wife of Martin Guere,” by Janet Lewis. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 7 – 9 p.m. For more information, e-mail jamesreid842@yahoo.com.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14 8 Arlington Committee of 100 Monthly Dinner Meeting. Attendees at the June meeting will hear columnist and local historian Charlie Clark host an interactive discussion on vanishing businesses in Arlington, going back to the 20th century. Marymount University (2807 N. Glebe Rd., Dining room, Gerard Phelan Hall, Arlington). 8 p.m.

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leading a voice class, and while she both cajoles and terrorizes to get the best out of her students, she muses on her past glories and many heartbreaks. D.C. favorite Ilona Dulaski stars in this production. MetroStage Alexandria (1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria). 8 p.m. $60. metrostage.org. “The Wizard of Oz.” Bring your imagination and get swept away to the wonderful Land of Oz as Creative Cauldron tackles one of the most iconic musicals of all time. All your favorite characters, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and Cowardly Lion, will be brought to life by talented local professionals. They will be joined by an ensemble cast drawn from our new Professional Musical Theater Workshop. Enjoy all of those memorable songs from the MGM classic (Over the Rainbow, If I Only Had a Brain/A Heart/The Nerve and We’re Off to See The Wizard) that have made this show an American treasure. Creative Cauldron (410 S Maple Ave., Falls Church) 7:30 p.m. $30. creativecauldron.org.

SUNDAY, JUNE 11 “Jesus Christ Superstar.” The icon. His traitor. The most famous story ever told. Experience Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s stunning award-winning rock opera in a sleek, modern, environmental production. With the legendary songs “What’s the Buzz,” “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,” “Everything’s Alright” and the title song, Joe Calarco (Gypsy) directs this dazzling and fiery epic of celebrity, passion, guilt and salvation. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington). $74. 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. sigtheatre.org.

LIVEMUSIC THURSDAY, FEBRUARY THURSDAY, JUNE 8 2 Andrew O’Day. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-532-9283. Griffin House, Vanessa Peters. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20 – $25. 7:30 p.m. 703255-1566. 19th Street Band. JV’s Restaurant

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(6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504. Blues, Brews and BBQ Block Party. Mad Fox Brewing Company (444 Broad St., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-942-6840. Hayley Fahey. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. Wilco, Kacy & Clayton. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd., Vienna). $38 – $75. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. The Fabulous Dialtones Rockin’ Party (with special acoustic set to open the night). Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 – $25. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566. Annie Stokes – CD Release Show. Iota Club & Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. Pandora’s Box: The Ultimate Aerosmith Tribute. The State Theatre (220 N Washington St., Falls Church). $12 – $15. 9 p.m. 703-237-0300. Hambone Wilson Show with Dave Chappell. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. Blues on Broad. Multiple venues (visit tinnerhill.org/blues-festival for more information). 9 p.m. 703-241-4109.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY SATURDAY, JUNE 104 Early Bird Blues at Farmer’s Market: Southbound Steel. City Hall (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). 8 a.m. 703-241-4109. Wolf Trap Pop-Up Show at Union Market. Union Market (1309 5th St. NE, Washington, D.C.). 12 p.m. – 2 p.m. 703-255-1900 Tinner Hill Blues Festival. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). 1 p.m. 703-241-4109. McLean High School and Longfellow Middle School Big Band Jam. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $12. 1:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.

KAREEM WALKES will be at JV’s Restaurant in Falls Church this Saturday. (Photo: ArtSpace Herndon) Bob Perilla Bluegrass Show. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-2419504.

Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504.

Big Tow. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 7 p.m. 703-5329283.

Dixieland Direct. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 1:15 p.m. 703-241-9504.

Iota Jam. Iota Club & Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). 8 p.m. 703-522-8340.

Gospel Fest. Tinner Hill Historic Site (106 Tinner Hill Rd., Falls Church). 2 p.m. 703-241-4109.

An Evening with Cracker Unplugged. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $25 – $30. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.

Joe Jackson, Mavis Staples. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $30 – $85. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. Christine Najm. Iota Club & Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. Jeremy Enigk, Tomo Nakayama. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $18 – $25. 8:30 p.m. 703-255-1566 OTEP with The Convalescence and Brand of Julez. The State Theatre (220 N Washington St., Falls Church). $20 – $23. 9 p.m. 703-237-0300. After Party with Kareem Walkes & Slam Allen. JV’s Restaurant (6666

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CP Blues. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 5 p.m. 703-5329283.

Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.

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The B-52’s, The Romantics. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $30 – $60. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900.

All Good Music Entertainment presents: Nattali Rize + Jah Works + FeelFree. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 – $25. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566

Johnnie Artis Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504.

Open Mic Night with Bob Hume and Martha Capone. JV’s Restaurant (666 Arlington Blvd., Arlington) 8 p.m. 703-522-8340.

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Open Mic Night hosted by Alex Perez. Iota Club & Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). 8 p.m. 703-522-8340.

Wolf Blues Jam Weekly Show. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington

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B������� N��� � N���� F.C.’s Trotter Joins TTR Sotheby’s Local real estate agent Ken Trotter has joined TTR Sotheby’s International Realty. Trotter, a former litigating attorney, most recently worked as an agent with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. Trotter’s listings have been featured in The Washington Post, Washington Business Journal, Curbed DS, DC Magazine, and the Falls Church News-Press. For more information, visit www.sothebysrealty.com.

Local Businesses Sponsoring Tinner Hill Blues Festival Events Rock Star Realty and Mad Fox Brewing Company are sponsoring the Tinner Hill Blues Festival this weekend and partnering on two festival events. On Friday, June 9, Mad Fox Brewing and Rock Star Realty are hosting “Tinner Hill Blues, Brews & BBQ Block Party” in the Market Square (between Mad Fox and Panera) with live music from Karl Stoll & the Danger Zone and Bushmaster Blues from 4 – 10 p.m. On Saturday, June 10, Rock Star Realty will be serving Mad Fox beer in the beer garden at the Tinner Hill Blues Festival in Cherry Hill Park from noon – 8 p.m. For more information, visit ToriRocksRealEstate.com, madfoxbrewing.com or tinnerhill.org.

Tysons Chamber Hosting Panel on Corporate Social Responsibility The Tysons Regional Chamber of Commerce is hosting a breakfast panel on corporate social responsibility on June 13 from 8 – 9:30 a.m. at the Angelika Film Center Mosaic. Panelists, which include Cox public relations manager Jessica Dawley, EagleBank VP Martha Wilson, and Leidos manager corporate responsibility Ginger Bristow, will share best practices and working examples of how philanthropy can impact the bottom line and employees and customers, as well as the community. For more information, visit www.tysonschamber.org.

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The first thing you notice when walking into the new Black Squirrel in Merrifield is the ceiling. It’s impossible to miss. Countless lamp shades hang from above like multicolored stalactites, coming together to form the centerpiece of Dunn Loring’s eclectic new gastropub. “I put those up first,” says Amy Bowman, admiring the shade menagerie overhead which took her five trips back-and-forth

to Ikea and Walmart to create. “I designed everything around that.” That ceiling — along with everything else in her new restaurant — she’s had a long time to think about. After four years of planning, Bowman is set to open the second edition of her Washington, D.C. gastropub next week at the corner of Gallows Road and Avenir Place. With a prime spot in the four-year-old Modera Avenir Place development, she couldn’t have asked for a better location, facing the busy commuter thor-

oughfare and next door to the Dunn Loring Metro station. Up until now, The Black Squirrel has been strictly a neighborhood affair, serving the Adams Morgan crowd on 18th Street for the past 10 years. But when it came time for expansion, Bowman had no trouble picking her next destination. “The Northern Virginia location was a no-brainer,” she says. “There’s only half a million people in D.C. Virginia is unlimited.” So much so, that while Merrifield was her pick for restau-

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rant number two, Bowman says the third and maybe even fourth Black Squirrel will also be on this side of the Potomac. She has plans to open a restaurant in Reston Town Center next year and then possibly another one in Falls Church off Route 50 in Seven Corners after that. But for now, all her attention is focused on Dunn Loring. The new Merrifield version of The Black Squirrel will follow much of the same blueprint as its sibling in the District, meaning loads of beer, wine and liquor and a menu filled with things like wings, poutine, five-cheese mac and cheese and burgers spiked with duck fat (more on those later) to soak it all up. But while there’s lots of carryover from the Adams Morgan lineup, Bowman brought in veteran chef Thomas Crenshaw to tweak the menu and put his own spin on things. “There’s nothing like [The Black Squirrel] right here,” Crenshaw says of Merrifield. “Yeah, there’s small plates and craft beer, but not the full package.” That full package includes a true farm-totable operation with a menu and changing dishes throughout the week reflecting the availability of seasonal items from local suppliers like Breezy Meadow Farms in Lovettsville and Snider’s Sprouts in Springfield. A regularly-updated chalkboard will detail the sources of ingredients on any given day. Crenshaw says he intentionally limited the sandwich and entree selections because he wants to bring more specials into the mix — up to seven a week — using in-season fruits, vegetables and cheeses. “It’s a little ambitious,” he admits. A veteran of Arlington’s Willow Restaurant and D.C. kitchens J. Paul’s and Chef Geoff’s among others, Crenshaw is originally from the midwest so it’s practically a given he’s a meat guy, and with a stint in Seattle, he’s big on seafood, too. That’s why on the tentative opening menu you should expect to find

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dishes like pastrami-spiced lamb and a New York strip steak next to Arctic char and mussels from Prince Edward Island. And about those burgers... Bowman’s crowd-favorite patties make the trek to Merrifield with only a slight change. While the beef will still get hit with the duck fat on the grill (“It gives the burger that umami,” says Bowman), the burger grind will now be a mix of chuck, brisket and short rib. “When we opened 10 years ago, we were some of the first to do upscale burgers,” she says. “Now it’s time to up my game.” And it wouldn’t be The Black Squirrel without a massive lineup of craft beer. Though Dunn Loring won’t feature 57 taps like Bowman once had in Adams Morgan, the 26 draft lines planned — with an emphasis on Virginia breweries — should be plenty for most any beer aficionado (for the first few weeks, Bowman says she’s also planning on having some rarer beers on tap). The Commonwealth will also be well-represented on the wine and liquor front, too, with booze from places like Purcellville’s Catoctin Creek and Richmond’s Belle Isle Craft Spirits and, for the green fairy fans, absinthe by Mt. Defiance Distillery in Middleburg. The Black Squirrel Dunn Loring is smaller than the Adams Morgan location (3,500 square feet vs. 5,000) but will feature a large patio with outdoor seating. And from the start, the restaurant will serve lunch and dinner daily along with weekend brunch on both Saturday and Sunday. With only a few inspections remaining, Bowman says she’s aiming to debut her new restaurant next Wednesday. “As soon as we get our permits approved, we’re opening,” she avows. After four years, you can bet she’s ready. The Black Squirrel 2670 Avenir Place | Vienna facebook.com/BlackSquirrelVA

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In preparation for the 24th annual Tinner Hill Blues Festival set to take place in venues all across Falls Church this weekend, Larry “Mud” Morganfield, son of blues legend Muddy Waters, shared some of his time with the News-Press to enlighten us about the way of the blues. Everyone’s got some blues in them, according to Morganfield. They come from the hardship a person faces in their life and the lessons they learn about themselves while dwelling in those dark moments. Growing up on Chicago’s west side in the 1960s, Morganfield accrued his blues by witnessing murders, aggressive policing and the riots that followed Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination. Of course having the blues is the key ingredient, but being able to channel that pain into each performance and form a bond between the artist and audience is what truly sets apart established blues musicians from hopeful aspirants. “It’s one thing to play the blues. You can play the blues ‘til the sun falls out of the sky. But it’s another thing to have some blues and to sing it from your heart and to sing it from experience,” Morganfield said. “Anyone can learn how to play like somebody and come out and say ‘look at me, I’m a blues man,’ but until you go through something, man, you really can’t say you got the blues.” The journey to get his blues picked up steam following the death of his father in 1983. Only 29 at the time, Morganfield had music in his veins since he toe-tapped his way out of the womb. Still, he hadn’t decided to make a living out of it until mention of his mother, Mildred Williams, was left out of a blues tribute television program that followed Muddy’s passing. From then on, Morganfield promised her that the world would know her name and left his job as a truck driver to become a musician. Mud wouldn’t release his first album, Fall

MUD MORGANFIELD. (P����: S���� T�� D����) Waters Fall, until 2008, representing a 25 year gap from when he first dove into the music industry. The lengthy delay was necessary as Morganfield felt his talent, and more so, his ability to express his blues weren’t up to par with the tremendous responsibility of being the first son of Muddy Waters. Though little did he know, it was him in all along, he just had to believe. “I always knew I had it, but I didn’t know how to get it,” Morganfield continued. “I didn’t know all I had to do was step up to the mic. Until I took that leap of faith, got in front of the mic and sung from my heart, and from there everything else is history, man.” The past 10 years have seen Mud’s star rise rapidly. With the release of his second studio album in 2012, Son of a Seventh Son, and his album dedicated to Muddy in 2014, For Pops: A Tribute to Muddy Waters, Morganfield has frequented locales nationwide while also making trips abroad on a regular basis. He’s refined

his vocals and also trusted his intuition when it comes to a blues singer’s secondary role as a conductor, where Mud keys in different members of his band for their solos during live shows. All of this has led Morganfield back to the start, with his father. The two didn’t have much of a relationship, but Mud says he senses his father’s presence on stage and can feel his affirmation when he’s steering the music just right. It’s that spiritual connection shared between a boy and his father that keeps Morganfield engaged with his career, and most of all, enamoured with the blues. “I wish I could’ve been in college, getting degrees, but then I wouldn’t have been true to the blues,” Morganfield added. “I got so much blues, man, it’s gonna last me ‘til the day I take my last breath.” For more information on Mud Morganfield, visit mudmorganfieldblues.com

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1. English professor's deg. 5. Items checked at the airport 9. 2013 Robert Redford film "____ Lost" 14. "Scratch a lover and find ____": Dorothy Parker 15. Bushels 16. Take for one's own 17. Um ... this clue was originally "1973 Robert De Niro film" but two letters went missing in the answer and the clue was fixed to read "Take one's time hitting TV's Oz or Phil?" 20. First-stringers 21. Barbershop sound 22. ____ folder 23. "Sideways" Oscar nominee Virginia 25. ____ empty stomach 27. DiFranco who created Righteous Babe Records 28. ____-ray Disc 29. "Just kidding!" 31. Tombstone material 33. High point of a European ski trip? 34. Part of a certain cage 36. Fusses 37. Uh ... this clue was originally "Boxing great" but two letters went missing in the answer and the clue was fixed to read "What Italians called a Spanish Surrealist's mother?" 41. Datebook data: Abbr. 44. Pointer, e.g. 45. Inside-the-Beltway sort 48. Feinstein and Wiest 51. "I'm With ____" (2016 presi-

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dential campaign slogan) 53. Prefix with lateral 54. Two of nine? 55. Georges 57. Tone down 59. Free throw avgs., e.g. 61. Galifianakis of "The Hangover" 63. "That's ____ I'm willing to take!" 64. Er ... this clue was originally "Aviation pioneers" but two letters went missing in the answer and the clue was fixed to read "Aviation pioneers' soups?" 67. Parisian girlfriends 68. Buckshot and such 69. ____ suit 70. "It is better to give than to receive," e.g. 71. She "drank champagne and danced all night," in song 72. Inner: Prefix

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With construction well underway of the largest mixes-used project yet approved for the City of Falls Church, the developer approached the City Counil Monday asking for permission to convert all of its 230 residential units from condos to rentals.

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