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Inside This Week Fellows Property Re-Designation Mulled
The Falls Church City Council studied the method for a changing in the City’s Comprehensive Plan designation of the 1.9-acre Fellows tract which it is slated to vote on this coming Monday night. See News Briefs, page 9
F.C. Council Votes Monday on Plan To ‘Decouple’ Campus Land Project Farewell to the Buschows
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David Brooks: Let’s Have A Better Culture War
KATHY AND BARRY BUSCHOW (left and second to left), for decades prominent lights in the City of Falls Church, were honored at a reception last Friday night as they prepare their departure to their next chapter in Culpepper, Virginia. Barry has been a leading member of the Village Preservation Society, the Rec and Parks Advisory Board and the Friends of the W&OD Trail, and Kathy served for years at the City’s official clerk. (Photo: Gary Mester)
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The Kensington Assisted Living facility will be opening the doors of its information center at 1212 W. Broad St. (former location of the ABC store) next Thursday, June 16, with a by-invitation-only reception that night, the City of Falls Church’s Economic Development Office reported Tuesday. The Kensington building going up at the former site of the Burger King
After fans kept coming at shows and saying how they really loved hearing them live, the indie rock band Boy & Bear attempted to achieve that same sound on its latest album.
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in the 700 block of W. Broad is expected to be ready for moving in early 2017. The other big news coming from the Economic Development Office Tuesday, is the target date for the opening of the flagship Harris Teeter supermarket in downtown Falls Church, which is July 27. The store, as its signs are already touting, will be open 24 hours a day. According to the EDO, the store will hire 76 full-time employees and 98 part-time employees, and
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over 40 percent of the apartments above that store were already leased as of May 26. Construction of the new restaurant coming to the 200 block of Park Avenue (the former Blue and Grey building) less than a block from City Hall is due to commence later this month, and plans for the exterior renovation of the vacant Southgate Shopping Center on Fairfax St. across from the historic Falls Church Episcopal
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After a lengthy discussion Tuesday night, the Falls Church School Board deadlocked, 3-3, in a vote on whether to discontinue the current Public-Private Education Partnership approach to developing the 36-acres of West End school campus property. The matter will now come before the Falls Church City Council for a vote on Monday night, and as Tom Horn, the legal counsel to the School Board, stated Tuesday, if either body — the City or the Schools — votes to terminate the partnership process, then it is terminated. The alternative, the termination of the current process and a “de-coupling” of the educational facilities development from the 10 acres that have been designated for commercial development, was strongly advocated Tuesday night by School Board members Erin Gill, who made the motion, and her colleagues Phil Reitinger and Lawrence Webb. On the other side of the vote were School Board chair Justin Castillo, vice chair John Lawrence and Margaret Ward. Michael Ankuma was absent. Lawrence conceded that he felt the decoupling option would be inevitable, however. The action Tuesday was the first official meeting following a special joint work session of the School Board and Council Thursday morning, when the first consideration of a significant departure from the process to develop the 36-acre parcel was discussed in an open, public session.
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The laws commanding where transgender people go to the bathroom show how the culture war has devolved into an overpoliticized set of gestures designed to push people’s emotional hot buttons.
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Council Votes Monday on Plan To Decouple Campus Process Continued from Page 1
Since annexing the land from Fairfax County as part of the deal to sell the Falls Church water system, the Council and School Board have proceeded on a path to develop the land to include a new high school and expanded middle school, and up to 10 acres of commercial development, with a public-private educational partnership (PPEA) approach that seeks the coordinated development of the schools and the commercial component. However, at today’s meeting, the two bodies face the need to decide to formally proceed further with two developers who responded to initial overtures to take on the project. So, an alternative approach, the prospect of a change of direction, namely, to “decouple” the school development from the commercial development components, became the subject of a lengthy discussion. But whichever way the enti-
ties go, they are faced with a tight schedule, based on the needs for a new high school to be completed by September 2020 (already set back a full year from earlier plans), and the requirement for a public referendum to authorize what has been projected as a $112 million cost for the school construction. While there is risk with either approach, it was conceded Thursday, the prospect of mitigating the risk and the burden of the new debt (assuming the voters of Falls Church approve a referendum now being proposed for March 2017) will enter into the decision to decouple the components of the project, or not. Under the current PPEA arrangement, the school development would be complemented by the sale or lease of the commercial component of the project, with the latter aimed at reducing the cost to taxpayers of the new school. So, a major factor is what the 10 acres that would be set apart for commercial development would
bring in the market place. Under the decoupling plan, the land would be delineated as a portion of the total land later this year, and put out for sale or long term lease. Falls Church Planning Director Jim Snyder said that allowing considerable density on the land (from 2.5 to 4.5 “floor to area” ratios) and locating the commercial component closer to the Haycock Road and Route 7 intersection would probably be the preferred approach (although there are some who insist that placing that land closer to the West Falls Church Metro station would be preferable.) Timing of the two components, if decoupled, would also be key. For the school construction, Falls Church School Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones said that the schools would be able to seek a developer with major qualifications and experience on building schools, instead of relying on one of the two current bidders on the project who will be responsible for both the school construction and the
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commercial development. She said that “instructional quality and student safety” are the two key requirements of school construction, adding that the schools’ HVAC systems are all already at their “end of life” stages. The impact on taxpayers of the cost of the school construction and the mitigation of that cost by commercial development was the subject of much of last Thursday morning’s discussion. An important element of that is timing: when the bonds are sold and when funds from the commercial property sale come in. In order for the school to be built by September 2020, when Dr. Jones said it is absolutely required, the bonds would need to be sold to allow for construction to begin next year. Falls Church City Manager Wyatt Shields said that it would be possible for the sale price of the commercial component to be established by next February, prior to the bond referendum, so that citizens would have an idea of how much mitigation that price would relieve the cost of the debt. Under ideal conditions, Shields suggested, the overall impact of the new debt could be held to five cents on the real estate tax rate,
notwithstanding what the market value of the commercial land would be by next February. He said that would include the fact that the debt would be incurred in two major parts. Former City Council and School Board member Kieran Sharpe told the School Board Tuesday that he favored delaying further action under the present PPEA arrangement on grounds of affordability and confidentiality issues. Gill and Reitinger said they voted in favor of decoupling Tuesday because they didn’t want to leave that decision to the City Council this Monday. “We need to take the first vote. We need to own this decision because it is about building a school,” Gill said. “We should not just kick this can down the road,” Reitinger added. He said that one weakness in the present process was that only two companies replied to the proposal, adding “I’m not certain about this, but I am 99 percent certain the current process is wrong. We ought to own our decision.” Gill said the community needs to move to a more open process aimed at winning a broad base of support for passing a bond referendum for the new school.
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former site of the Nourish Market in the West End Plaza, will be the new home for Value Vet, providing “affordable veterinary care,” and in the Northgate building at 450 N. Washington St., build-out plans are pending City approval for the Better Homes and Gardens Realty there. In a related development, the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce has reported that the Hampton Inn and Suites in the Seven Corners area of Falls Church has opened at 6430 Arlington Boulevard. The Chamber reports that the new hotel
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From a number of standpoints, we see both the inevitability and the benefit of hitting the “restart” button on the West End Campus Development Project in Falls Church. The proposal to abandon the current approach and to treat the two component parts – the educational and commercial – of the 36-acre parcel separately comes none too soon and we hope the F.C. City Council will vote to do just this Monday night. The current “Public Private Educational Partnership” approach seemed almost doomed from the start when, after an informational meeting heavily attended by developers last August, only two bidders responded to the initial “request for proposal” to compete for the building contract last October. Since then, almost all of the meetings by the City Council and School Board, working jointly on the project, have been behind closed doors to avoid revealing information that could compromise the negotiations process. It was a good idea to start, but it has proven to not work, especially in a process that will require a public bond referendum that all voters in Falls Church will be asked to weigh in on. Citizens of Falls Church have approved virtually every bond referendum associated with the school system in the past, but only with a lot of transparency, study and deliberation. The same is needed desperately for the prospect of a new high school that could cost $112 million. Then on the commercial development component, parts of the current deliberation that did become public exhibited a breathtaking lack of creativity or, for that matter, proper gravitas. By gravitas we mean a sensuous appreciation of just how important and enormous, in terms of potential, 10 acres adjacent the West Falls Church Metro station, the land is. The thinking so far has been woefully small about this. The City and Schools have total control over this land, and there is no significant residential neighborhood that would be impacted by traffic or other factors to worry about. Come on, people, think big, even grandiose! One idea that has begun to gain traction, it seems, is to use a portion of the project designated for educational use (by the terms of the land sale) for such purposes that will have a wider potential appeal and profitable application, such as a sports complex that could attract regional tournaments and a larger musical and theater arts venue that currently contemplated. This would involve compressing the footprint of the high school to make room, or to build some sports facilities, for example, above others. If ever there was the right time to invite the Falls Church public to weigh in on all this, it is now. There is so much expertise in our welleducated community that is capable of thinking “outside the box” on plans such as these. The right approach is to view these 36 acres as game-changers for the entire region that will pay for the best education around.
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Editor, Does the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce really think by making I-66 a toll road that it will reduce traffic congestion in the area? What it will do, of course, is add more money to the city’s’ coffers. We have gone down this road before (no pun intended). One of the factors that adds to vehicle traffic is the constant construction of new housing develop-
ments and office buildings. Every time a new structure is erected the person or persons occupying that home or office in most cases will own some kind of vehicle, this adds additional traffic on our roads. Now we are faced with an additional problem: the deteriorating Metro system and repairs which will be a headache for many especially throughout our area in coming months. Whether we like it or not, as
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residents or commuters, we have put ourselves in a catch-22 situation. Doug Goodgion Falls Church
No Net Gain For City of F.C. With I-66 Tolls Editor, I rate the story reported in the June 2-8 edition of the News-Press somewhere between “ridiculous” and “You’ve Got to be Kidding.” The article’s headline “Tolls Coming on I-66 Will Go to Ease Area Congestion ...” suggests that,
according to a representative of the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, the proposed I-66 toll-HOV system will somehow benefit Falls Church City-area residents. One shouldn’t leave this article or these discussions believing that the proposed I-66 toll system will be a net gain for the City residents. It is both obvious and certain that the City will suffer from a significant increase in traffic volume from those who (1) seek to avoid the tolls or (2) have insufficient passenger count to qualify for HOV treatment. These opportunists will surely seek alterna-
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Most Falls Church residents have observed groups of day laborers outside the U-Haul facility on Broad Street and across the street at the Staples shopping center. Undoubtedly there are different reactions to this, ranging from sympathy to anger. Seeking a solution that is responsive to multiple viewpoints, I offer an approach that addresses the broad range of concerns: an organized non-profit, non-government Day Labor Center. It can work – one has operated effectively in Centreville for five years now. But making it work is not assured as the failed effort 10 years ago in Herndon demonstrated. I propose creating a Day Labor Center in Falls Church, with the following goals: • Reduce, and possibly eliminate, the groups of men that loiter around U-Haul and Staples seeking work, by offering them a better alternative. • Obtain better opportunities for day laborers; I begrudge nobody for being born, being poor, and seeking work. • Provide a comfortable off-the-street location where laborers can wait for daily job opportunities. • Provide a hassle-free way for citizens of Falls Church to inquire about hiring day laborers, and an easy mechanism for them to hire them if they choose. • Support the Center entirely through voluntary donations.
• Ensure that 100 percent of the cost of hiring a day laborer goes to the laborer, with no administrative fee. • Keep the operation apolitical. I do not seek politically motivated endorsement;
“The Centreville Center is supported through individual, corporate, faith-community, and charitable foundation donations – not the taxpayers.” likewise, I hope not to receive politically motivated opposition. Administratively, the first step in pursuing this concept is to establish a non-profit (501(c)3) organization for the purpose, or finding an existing organization under which it could be done. Socially, however, the first step is to gauge the degree of acceptance of the Falls Church community, and that is the purpose for this article. I have used the word “I” in this discussion, because I intend to do much of the legwork to make it happen, if local citizens support it. I will do it without monetary compensation as my “post-retirement career.”
(In the 1990s I was Scoutmaster of a Boy Scout Troop in Falls Church and community service still appeals to me.) That does not, however, imply that the center could be run at no cost. There almost certainly would be a full-time (paid) center director, and there would also be operating and capital costs (e.g., facility rent and office equipment). Having observed and discussed this with the Centreville Center, I have a basic understanding of the funding that is required. So, where would the center be located? I don’t yet know. Identifying an affordable location that is acceptable to everyone – citizens, workers, and employers – would be one of the challenges. That should be part of a community discussion. Why did such an endeavor fail in Herndon? The root cause was that it depended primarily on township (i.e., taxpayer) funding. I understand that many residents would oppose a center under those conditions. However, the Centreville Center is supported through individual, corporate, faith-community, and charitable foundation donations – not the taxpayers. Has the day laborer loitering in Centreville disappeared? No, although it is reduced. Nonetheless, day laborers still loiter along the street, but as reported in a Washington Post article last year (February, 16 2015), that is caused mostly by supply and demand. If workers have a better chance of getting a job by loitering at the curb, that’s where they’ll hang out. My perspective is that Falls
Church citizens have a say in the supply and demand dynamics. Local citizens (and 65 percent of the Centreville Center employers are homeowners) could preferentially use the Falls Church Day Labor Center; and when they hire contractors, they could request that any contractor-supplied day laborers come from the center. Would a successful Day Labor Center in Falls Church encourage more immigrants seeking work to come here? Maybe, but I’ve seen no evidence to suggest that it would. It is intuitive that if there were more demand for day laborers than the current supply of workers, new workers would come here. But that’s true whether there is a Day Labor Center, or just the current U-Haul/Staples arrangement. My belief is that this, too, is within the control of the Falls Church citizenry. Ultimately, it would be up to citizens (and contractors that they use): to hire day laborers or not, and if they hire them, do it from the Day Labor Center or from U-Haul/Staples. To continue this discussion, I will arrange an open meeting in the near future at the Falls Church Community Center to discuss this concept further and answer questions. Please watch for notice of the meeting, then come, ask your questions, and share your thoughts. In the meantime, you may contact me at daylabor22046@gmail.com. Greg Cox has been a Falls Church homeowner since 1989.
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TO LETTERS THE EDITOR Continued from Page 6 tive routes through Falls Church further choking not only major traffic arteries such as Broad Street, Washington Street, and Arlington Boulevard but also highly impact real or imagined “possible shortcuts” connecting through neighborhood streets. Pass-through commuters are likely to search and find these previously obscure and infrequently used routes through the City by using current “apps” such as Waze to guide them in the search for the “perfect commute.” The anticipated “benefit” to the City will ostensibly appear in the form of funding a bike sharing program. Who in their right mind will ride a bike in and among the slow-moving stop-and-go traffic traveling through the City? So just as Jack traded to get his magic beans, F.C. has traded to get $850,000 worth of new bicycles. Commuters in cars crawling through Falls Church streets will envy the quality of life in Falls
Church City as they jealously drive past the racks of new, but seldom used, bike-share bikes. . G T Bowman Falls Church
Why Not Rename School to StuartSedgwick High? Editor, I’d like to suggest a compromise in the debate over changing the name of J.E.B. Stuart High School. Stuart was more than “a Civil War general,” as a News-Press editorial recently described him. When he was killed in the Battle of Yellow Tavern in 1864, his friend, Union general John Sedgwick, called him “the greatest cavalry officer ever foaled in America.” Sedgwick himself was killed at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House the same year – the highest ranking Union officer killed during the war.
Why not rename the school Stuart-Sedgwick High? Sedgwick, from Connecticut, has had towns and streets named after him, but apparently only one school – in Washington State. Stuart’s and Sedgwick’s friendship can be compared to the betterknown, anguished one between Union General Winfield Scott Hancock and the Confederacy’s Lewis Armistead, who was mortally wounded at Gettysburg while fighting Hancock’s forces. Pairing Stuart and Sedgwick in a single name would remind us of the tragic division of loyalties among families and friends in a nation that was morally and economically conflicted in its embrace of slavery. Stuart’s father-in-law in fact chose to remain in the Union army when Virginia seceded. The new name would focus a new generation of students on personal dimensions in the war – as well as the cruelties of the institution leading up to it in which slave families were often sold and divided. It also would symbolize renewal of a union. It’s appropriate to debate how the Civil War should be memorialized. Hundreds of thousands of individuals died on both sides. But instead of dividing communi-
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ties, it would be a better result if dialogue today can find common ground and bring us closer together. Bob Carolla Arlington
Meal Tax Push By Fairfax Board Is Shameful Editor, Even in the most liberal circles it is rare to find hard working people who say “Yes, please tax me more” or “Yes, Mr. and Ms. Government official, please spend more of my money.” This being said, I believe it is safe to say that when local politicians need to push a new tax or even achieve the harder feat of getting everyone to vote yes on a referendum that imposes the tax, like the meal tax, it is imperative that they find some constituency to help push the new revenue agenda. One of the most overused pathetic excuses for new tax revenue is the old standby “it’s for the children.” Well, our Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has now also maliciously cultivated a downtrodden constituency needing the help of a new tax by
denying pay raises for the Fairfax County school employees. This denial is taking place while at the same time the board is blaming the no-raise situation on the fiscal shortfall that they themselves have created. This is a pathetic and lowdown way of getting support for a new tax. The Board should be ashamed of themselves, using hard working folks in a noble profession to push an agenda but they know that that is the only way to find enough support to get it passed. Pathetic! Michael Natoli Falls Church
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NEWS BRIEFS Fellows Property Re-Designation Mulled At Monday night’s Falls Church City Council work session, the Council studied the method for a changing in the City’s Comprehensive Plan designation of the 1.9-acre Fellows tract at 604 S. Oak adjacent the Thomas Jefferson Elementary, which it is slated to vote on this coming Monday night. The change would make easier the City’s plan to acquire the property for an expansion of T.J Elementary if necessary later this year, which may or may not be “taken” in the form of an “eminent domain” action. In the course of the discussion, Council member Phil Duncan noted that there are other residential properties in immediate proximity to the elementary school that may be considered future prospects for similar actions, including four lots adjacent the school on Seaton Lane and other three residential tracts across Fellows Court from the Fellows tract. The action on the redesignation of the Fellows tract is expected to be heard by the Planning Commission and other City policy making bodies before coming back to the Council for a final vote in August.
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Snyder & Columbia Baptist Reveal Plans The family of long-time Falls Church City Councilman David Snyder, owners of the land at the corner of Great Falls and Maple, and the Columbia Baptist Church, owners of adjacent properties, came before the Falls Church City Council work session Monday to float their idea of rezoning and subdividing their combined properties to enable the construction of one new home on the Snyder land, and parking lot development on the church part. Councilman Snyder, Mayor David Tarter and Councilman Dan Sze all recused themselves from consideration of the matter. Three historic homes on Maple would be retained, and Councilman Phil Duncan said he’d like to see some commercial frontage on the N. Washington component of the church’s property. No action was sought or taken.
53-Year-Old Fatally Struck in F.C. Car Accident A 53-year-old man was fatally struck by a pickup truck while crossing Graham Road near Arlington Boulevard in Falls Church last Saturday evening of Saturday, according to Fairfax County Police Department. Police say at around 10:18 p.m. on June 4, two men were crossing in the crosswalk on Graham Road when a 2006 Ford F250 traveling southbound struck one of the men. The man was transported to Inova Fairfax Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. The driver of the pickup, a 46-year-old man, remained on scene at the crash location. Police said that neither speed nor alcohol appear to be factors with regard to the driver. The identity of the man who was killed will be disclosed upon next of kin notification. The investigation continues to determine whether charges are appropriate.
Kaine Calls for End to Deportation Raids Virginia U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined 25 of his Senate colleagues calling for an end to deportation raids targeting families and unaccompanied minors who have fled the rampant violence in Central America’s Northern Triangle. In a letter to President Obama, Kaine and the other Senators also urged the administration to designate Guatemala and re-designate El Salvador and Honduras for temporary protected status, allowing individuals from those countries to legally remain in the United States. “The solution to this regional humanitarian crisis is to address its root causes. Deploying immigration raids upon this vulnerable population for the purpose of deterrence is an ineffective and unacceptable strategy,” the senators wrote. “Immigration raids create fear and insecurity among immigrant communities in the United States. They will deter students from attending school and parents from seeking medical care, but they will not deter terrified mothers and children from fleeing life-threatening violence in their homelands.”
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Community News & Notes Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Hosts Movie Nights Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, located at 3022 Woodlawn Ave., Falls Church, is hosting free movie nights every other Sunday at 6:30 p.m. throughout the summer, starting with a screening of “Frozen” on June 12. The films will be screened in the church’s upper parking lot, so attendees are welcome to bring their lawn chairs and blankets. Attendees are also welcome to bring their own snacks. For more information, visit holytrinityfallschurch.org, call 703-5326617 or email office@holytrinityfallschurch.org.
Local Chrysanthemum Society Hosts Mum Tutorial The Old Dominion Chrysanthemum Society will present a short mum-growing
tutorial on Sunday, June 12 at 2:30 p.m. at the Falls Church Community Center at 223 Little Falls Street, which will be followed by instruction on how to control when chrysanthemums bloom by using shading to extend the hours of darkness. David Eigenbrode, winner of the Sweepstakes Award at the 2015 National Chrysanthemum Society Show, will lead the discussions. The tutorial is free and there will be refreshments at the meeting. For more information, call Jim Dunne at 703-560-8776.
Community Forum on F.C. Schools Slated for June 9 A group that was recently formed, called The Falls Church Way, is sponsoring a community forum regarding the future of Falls Church City Public Schools on Thursday, June 9 from 7 – 9 p.m.
at American Legion Post 130 at 400 N. Oak Street. Residents can learn about and participate in discussions on restoring transparency, accountability and meaningful input by all stakeholders to Falls Church City public schools at the forum. The community forum is free. For more information, visit TheFallsChurchWay.com.
F.C. Artist Wins Second Place In Bethesda Painting Awards Richard Levine of Falls Church won second place in the Bethesda Painting Awards from the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District on Wednesday, June 1 at the exhibition’s at Gallery B. Levine won $2,000 along with the recognition. A public opening for the show will be held on Friday, June 10 from 6 – 9 p.m. in conjunction with the Bethesda Art Walk. Gallery B is
MORE THAN 150 VOLUNTEERS – some as young as 4 years old – helped make 20,000 meals to alleviate hunger during Falls Church Feeds the World event hosted by Christ Crossman United Methodist Church on Sunday, June 5 in partnership with nonprofit Stop Hunger Now. In addition, the event featured a childrens festival with games and activities that taught children about food insecurity locally and globally. (Photo Courtesy of Mary Cottrell)
located at 7700 Wisconsin Ave. suite E in Bethesda. The work of the eight finalists in the awards contest, including Levine’s will be on display through June 27. Gallery B’s hours are Wednesday – Saturday from noon – 6 p.m. For more information, visit bethesda.org.
Local Summer Reading Program Starts June 27 The Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s 2016 Summer Reading Program starts on June 27. This year’s theme is health and fitness to encourage readers of all ages to exercise their minds. Starting June 27, children, teens and adults can read and record books for the Summer Reading Program, which will go toward prizes. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Summer Reading Program will kick off on Wednesday, June 29 from 1 – 4
p.m. with glitter tattoos, balloon animals and crafts. Additionally, there will be programs, events and challenges, such as “On the Ball” with Spinny Johnson on July 13 and “Dance with Your Baby” on Fridays from July 8 – August 19. Participants can share or read a specified number of books within their age category. In the Readto-Me category, children ages from birth to age 4 can share a minimum of 30 books to receive a new paperback or board book at the end of the program. In the Independent Readers category, children ages 5 – 11 can read a minimum of five books to receive a new paperback and a coupon book at the end of the program. The library also offers a Challenge Game for strong readers with an additional prize if completed. For more information and a listing of all of the categories, visit fallschurchva.gov/ SummerReadingProgram.
ELEVEN GEORGE MASON HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES were celebrated at the Mason Athletic Booster and Athletic Department’s first ever college commitment ceremony in May. The Mason sports represented by the college recruits run the gamut, with at least one recruit from a sport in each of the school’s seasons, from soccer and swimming to softball and volleyball. The athletes are (front row, l to r) Erin McFall, Melissa Johnson, Mariam Salakaia, Julia Ferris (back row, l to r) Vicky Marie Addo-Ashong, Raheem Lawal, Samsu Sallah, Miller Surette, Corinne Carson, D’Montae Noble and Logan Nesson. (Photo: Carol Sly)
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Tinner Hill Blues Festival Scheduled for June 11
The 23rd Annual Tinner Hill Blues Festival will be held from Friday, June 10 – Sunday, June 12 all around Falls Church with the main event taking place Saturday, June 11 from 1 – 9:30 p.m. at Cherry Hill Park at 312 Park Avenue. Gates for the Saturday portion of the festival open at noon. On Friday, June 10, The Blues in Paris, a juried art show hosted at Art and Frame of Falls Church at 205 W. Jefferson Street, will be on display. The State Theatre will have a Blues & Soul Divas show starting at 8 p.m. that features Mable John, Trudy Lynn and Gaye Adegbalola with the Wild Rutz. The lineup of performers for Saturday portion of the festival includes Victor Wainwright & The WildRoots, Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues, The Andy Poxon Band, Charlie Sayles & The Blues Disciples featuring Tony Fazio and Carly Harvey with Kiss & Ride. There will also be craft beer, BBQ, vendors, film screenings, discussions and kids’ programs at the Saturday portion of the festival. On Sunday, June 12, there will be a free Old-Fashion Blues Gospel Concert & Picnic from 2 – 5 p.m. at the Tinner Hill Historic Site at 108 Tinner Hill Street. For more information about these events and more, visit tinnerhill.org/blues-festival.
Falls Church Man Receives Second Assistance Dog Canine Companions for Independence – a national nonprofit organization that provides assistance dogs for children and adults with disabilities – recently announced that Falls Church resident Matt Trott has recently received his second assistance dog, named Fame, from the group.
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Fame is a two-year-old lab/ golden retriever who has been trained to respond to over 40 advanced commands. Trott’s first Canine Companions assistance dog Claren passed away last year after 11 years of service. His new dog Fame is aptly filling the void Claren left behind. Fame can turn light switches on and off, open and close doors and retrieve dropped objects. However, a press release from Canine Companions said, one of her most important jobs will be to provide constant companionship for Trott. For more information, visit cci.org.
Emily G. Features at Mary Riley Styles Public Library Mary Riley Styles Public Library is hosting Emily G. for a Sing Books event on Saturday, June 11 at 11 a.m. as part of the Tinner Hill Blues Festival. At the event, Emily G. will present blues-inspired illustrated songs. The event does not require registration and is free. For more information, visit fallschurchva. gov/Library.
McLean Community Players To Get ‘Footloose’ in July The McLean Community Players are putting on a production of “Footloose,” which premiers on Friday, July 8 and runs on weekends at The Alden, located at 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean, through Saturday, July 24. Based on the hit movie musical of the same name, “Footloose” was adapted for the stage by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie and features a Tony-nominated score by Tom Snow with lyrics by Pitchford. “‘Footloose’ is an exciting show that makes some of us hearken back to the 1980s. I wanted to direct and choreograph ‘Footloose’ because it is just so much fun to work on,” said Shaun Moe, the director of the McLean Community Players’ production of the show.
RISING FALLS CHURCH artist Nick Gatz (center) got a strong reception to his works on display at the annual Herndon Festival, billed as Northern Virginia’s largest free event, in downtown Herndon last weekend. Gatz is shown here with his parents, Don and Connie Gatz. (P����: N���-P����) “It has the traditional conventions of American teenage rebellion, young love, comic relief and high-energy songs and dances. It’s the sort of show that leaves you singing as you head to the exits.” Performances will be presented on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. during the run of the show. Tickets for the show cost $23 – $25. For more information, visit mcleanplayers. org.
Gallery Underground Hosts ‘View From Within’ in June Gallery Underground, located at 2100 Crystal Dr., Arlington, is exhibiting View from Within,” a solo show by local painter Anna Schalk through Saturday, June 25. The exhibition, which had its opening reception in the venue’s Focus Gallery on Friday, June 3, explores the artist’s experience when interacting with another person. “The complexity of each subject brings a challenge and an excitement that I want to celebrate with
paint. Texture, color and shapes define my response to what I see and feel in our painting relationship,” Schalk said. “Sometimes those responses allow for abstraction and other times, not. However each work becomes my celebration of that Being, that life.” In addition to the solo show, Gallery Underground’s Main Gallery will feature the work of contemporary realist painter Dennis Crayon, who is based in Washington, D.C., in addition to work of the members of the Arlington Artists Alliance. Gallery Underground’s hours are 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Monday – Friday and 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Saturday. For more information, visit galleryunderground.org.
McLean Community Center Holds Board Elections Five McLean tax district residents, three adults and two teens, won seats on the McLean Community Center’s 2016-2017 Governing Board at the board’s
elections, which were held on Saturday, May 21 at McLean Day 2015, the McLean Community Center announced last week. The three adults who won in the elections are Paul Kohlenberger, who was reelected, Kat Kehoe and Desi Woltman. The two teens, who represent Langley High School and McLean High School during one-year terms, respectively, are Quentin Levin, who was reelected, and Sam Gollob. The League of Women Voters acted as tellers. McLean Community Center Governing Board Elections & Nominations Committee Chair Chad Quinn certified the results to Dranesville District Supervisor John W. Foust, who has been asked to present the successful candidates’ names to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors at its next meeting on Tuesday, June 7. The winning candidates will take their seats on the McLean Community Center’s Governing Board at its meeting on Wednesday, June 8. For more information, visit mcleancenter.org.
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A Better Culture War
The recent fight over transgender bathrooms represents the reductio ad absurdum of the culture war. We argue about cultural and moral matters in the first place because we care about our characters and the characters of our children. We understand that a free society requires individuals who are capable of handling that freedom – people who can be counted on to play their social roles as caring parents, responsible workers and dependable neighbors. Further, we know that this sort of character formation can’t be done just individually. It’s carried out in families, schools and communities. It depends on some common assumptions about what’s right and wrong, admired and not admired – a common moral ecosystem. So we care intensely about the health of that ecosystem and we argue about NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE how to improve it. The laws commanding where transgender people go to the bathroom, on the other hand, show how the culture war has devolved into an overpoliticized set of gestures designed to push people’s emotional hot buttons. These laws are in response to a problem that doesn’t seem to exist. They are in response to a threat of sexual predators that has no relation to the existence of transgender people. They are about legislating a group, not about what constitutes good behavior. They are an attempt to erect crude barriers when a little local consideration and accommodation could get the job done. For some reason, some defenders of traditional values are addicted to sideshows that end with the whiff of intolerance. At the same time, the larger culture itself has become morally empty, and therefore marked by fragmentation, distrust and powermongering. The larger culture itself needs to be revived in four distinct ways: We need to be more communal in an age that’s overly individualistic; we need to be more morally minded in an age that’s overly utilitarian; we need to be more spiritually literate in an age that’s overly materialistic; and we need to be more emotionally intelligent in an age that is overly cognitive. Rather than fighting endless losing battles over sexual identity, we need a better culture war. We need a new traditionalism. A tradition, whether it’s Thanksgiving dinner, an annual family reunion or a burial ceremony, takes a physical activity and infuses it with enchantment. There’s a warmth to our traditions and rituals that is fueled by love and contact with the transcendent. That has to be the opening assertion of a new traditionalism – that we’re not primarily physical creatures. There’s a ghost in the machine. We have souls or consciousness or whatever you want to call it. The first step of a new traditionalism would be to put the spiritual and moral implications of everyday life front and center. If public life were truly infused with the sense that people have souls, we would educate young people to have vocations and not just careers. We would comfortably tell them that sex is a fusion of loving souls and not just a physical act. We’d celebrate marriage as a covenantal bond. We’d understand that citizenship is a covenant, too, and we have a duty to feel connected to those who disagree with us. We’d see cloning and the death penalty as reckless acts that tamper with something mysterious. When we talked about foreign policy we’d talk not just about our material interests but also about what purpose we’ve been called to play in history. If we talked as if people had souls, then we’d have a thick view of what is at stake in everyday activities. The soul can be elevated and degraded at every second, even when you’re alone not hurting anybody. Each thought or act etches a new line into the core piece of oneself. The awareness of that constant process of elevation and degradation adds urgency to a bunch of questions. For example, what are we doing to a prisoner’s soul when we throw him in solitary? Can we really tolerate having so many people falling out of the labor force and unable to realize the dignity that comes with steady work? In what ways do our phones lead to attachment or isolation? When is shopping fun and when is it degrading? We’d also need a new political science. The old one was based on the model that we’re utility-maximizing individuals, seeking power. That’s true, but love is the elemental desire of the spirit. People are desperately motivated to love something well, and be loved. A core task of communities is to arouse and educate the loves, to widen and deepen the opportunities for love and to appraise people by how well and what they love. Our culture is overpoliticized and undermoralized. This new traditionalism would shift the debate and involve a thicker way of seeing and talking about public life. The debates that would follow would not be divided along the conventional lines.
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A Pause That Distresses Friday’s employment report was a major disappointment: only 38,000 jobs added, a big step down from the more than 200,000 a month average since January 2013. Special factors, notably the Verizon strike, explain part of the bad news, and in any case job growth is a noisy series, so you shouldn’t make too much of one month’s data. Still, all the evidence points to slowing growth. It’s not a recession, at least not yet, but it is definitely a pause in the economy’s progress. Should this pause worry you? Yes. Because if it does turn into a recession, or even if it goes on for a long time, it’s very hard to envision an effective policy response. First things first: Why is the economy NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE slowing? The usual suspects wasted no time blaming President Barack Obama. But you need to remember that these same people have been warning of imminent disaster ever since Obama was elected, and have been wrong every step of the way. They predicted soaring interest rates and soaring inflation; neither happened. They declared that the Affordable Care Act would be a huge job-killer; the years after the act went into full effect were marked by the best private-sector job creation since the 1990s. And despite this disappointing report, we should remember that private job growth under Obama has vastly exceeded George W. Bush’s record, even if you leave out the economic collapse of 2008. So what is causing the economy to slow? My guess is that the biggest factor is the recent sharp rise in the dollar, which has made U.S. goods less competitive on world markets. The dollar’s rise, in turn, largely reflected misguided talk by the Federal Reserve about the need to raise interest rates. In a way, however, it hardly matters why the economy is losing steam. After all, stuff always happens. America has been experiencing major economic downturns at irregular intervals at least since the 1870s, for a variety of reasons. Whatever the cause of a downturn, the economy can recover quickly if policymakers can and do take useful action. For example, both the 1974-5 recession and the 1981-2 recession were followed by rapid, “V-shaped” recoveries because the Fed drastically loosened monetary policy and slashed interest rates. But that won’t – in fact, can’t – happen this time. Short-term interest rates, which the Fed more or less
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controls, are still very low despite the small rate hike last December. We now know that it’s possible for rates to go slightly below zero, but there still isn’t much room for a rate cut. That said, there are other policies that could easily reverse an economic downturn. And if Hillary Clinton wins the election, the U.S. government will understand perfectly well what the options are. (The likely response of a Trump administration doesn’t bear thinking about. Maybe a series of insult Twitter posts aimed at China and Mexico?) The problem is politics. For the simplest, most effective answer to a downturn would be fiscal stimulus – preferably government spending on much-needed infrastructure, but maybe also temporary tax cuts for lower- and middleincome households, who would spend the money. Infrastructure spending makes especially good sense given the federal government’s incredibly low borrowing costs: The interest rate on inflation-protected bonds is barely above zero. But unless the coming election delivers Democratic control of the House, which is unlikely, Republicans would almost surely block anything along those lines. Partly, this would reflect ideology: although right-wing economic predictions have been utterly wrong, there’s little indication that anyone in that camp has learned from the experience. It would also reflect an unwillingness to do anything that might help a Democrat in the White House. Remember, every Republican in the House voted against a stimulus even during the darkest days of the slump, when Obama was at the peak of his popularity. If not fiscal stimulus, then what? For much of the past six years the Fed, unable to cut interest rates further, has tried to boost the economy through largescale purchases of things like long-term government debt and mortgage-backed securities. But it’s unclear how much difference that made – and meanwhile, this policy faced constant attacks and vilification from the right, with claims that it was debasing the dollar and/or illegitimately bailing out a fiscally irresponsible president. We can guess that the Fed will be very reluctant to resume the program and face accusations that it’s in the pocket of “corrupt Hillary.” So the evidence of a U.S. slowdown should worry you. I don’t see anything like the 2008 crisis on the horizon (he says with fingers crossed behind his back), but even a smaller negative shock could turn into very bad news, given our political gridlock.
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These Best & Worst of Times
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.” Attesting to the former, it takes some reflection, perhaps, to appreciate the significance of the presumptive nomination of a woman as the presidential candidate of a major U.S. political party. In the heat of the political fight this year, with many of the more progressive voices competing against her, Hillary Clinton’s success in locking up the Democratic Party nomination this week has been underappreciated. Attesting to the latter, the remarkable rise of a White Male Chauvinist Pig as now the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party marks these times as rivaling “age of foolishness” that the FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS descent of the French Revolution into anarchist Jacobin madness became. Now, the joy of the nomination of a woman to compete to become the next Commander in Chief of the most powerful nation in the world has been tainted by all the ugliness that too much of politics have become, but still that makes the victory that much sweeter. Clinton has not coasted as on a pile of soft princess pillows to her current position. She is bruised, soiled and battle tested, still standing, prevailing and proud. Doing what she has done through her career has left her open for criticism, both legitimate and as the spears of misogynist haters, but the notion is that, should she get elected, the best is yet ahead. Nobody knew what to expect from President Obama when he was first elected, and he’s become one of the strongest presidents in U.S. history, all the more for being so stubbornly blocked by the Republican Congress in every way possible. Obama’s influence, and that of Senator Sanders’ candidacy, have made Clinton’s party and the possible, both, even better. Now, for Clinton, the question is not the past but the future. Those among feminists, like myself, who’ve always held that the world on balance will be a better place where women, and not men, are in charge, are charged with reasonable hope. But light is rivaled everywhere in this universe of ours by a commensurate anti-light, or so it seems. The better one does, the stiffer the attacks. The more the powers of reason, intelligent lives, proliferate in the cosmos, the more black holes advance threatening to gobble them up. We often see in the infinitely small the great wars being fought out at magnitudes and distances that so far elude our imaginations. So we have Trump, rising like the giant inflated plastic porker who emerged at the end of Pink Floyd concerts, grunting, snorting and defecating, angrily pointing fingers. My guess is that so much about Trump’s dealings in the past is being held back by his rivals so far, until he’s been locked in as the GOP nominee, only to be rolled out during the general election process in the fall. I’ll be interested to see, for example, what impact Harry Hurt’s 1993 book, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, will have. But it would be very wrong to assume anything. The fact that Trump has gotten this far toward the White House is very unsettling indeed. If there is anything we need to learn about politics, it’s to never underestimate anything. I for one am far more concerned about Trump’s chances of winning in November even as improbable as that may seem. He’s been alienating everyone but people just like himself. But that could change as the powers-that-be in the land decide to subject him to the kind of makeover that would be needed to capture the White House. Cleaned up to look and posture like a Mitt Romney, but with the bravado, volume and political unpredictability of King Kong, Trump could surprise. One curious reminder about this universe of ours: it is open-ended and billions of stars and their planets can be incinerated in a black hole, but it just goes on. I personally believe it bends toward justice and the good, but who knows how long that may take? This is our moment, however, to be big-hearted, fair-minded and to make good happen now.
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Nicholas F. Benton
Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.
The Madness of America The candidacy of Donald Trump, the fervor of those who support it, and the fierce opposition of those who don’t is making America mad – both angry and insane, as the dual definitions of the word imply. One of the most disturbing displays of this madness is the violence Trump has incited in his supporters, and the violent ways in which opposition forces have responded, like the exchange we saw last week in San Jose, California. Both forms of violence are unequivocally wrong, but speak to a base level of hostility that hovers around the man like the stench from rotting flesh. What is particularly disturbing is to see antiTrump forces lashing out at Trump’s supporters, seemingly provoked simply by a difference in political position. This cannot be. It’s self-defeating and narrows the space between the thing you despise and the thing you become. Listen, I understand how unsettling this man is for many. I understand that he NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE is elevating and normalizing a particular stance of racism and sexism that many view as a spiritual attack, a kind of psychic violence from which they cannot escape. Furthermore, the election cycle promises at least five more months of this, until Election Day, and even more if by some tragic twist of fate Trump is actually elected. And, if elected, the threat could move from the rhetoric to the real, wreaking havoc on millions of lives. I understand the frightful, mind-numbing, hairraising disbelief that can descend when one realizes that this is indeed plausible. Recent polls have only added to this anxiety as some have shown an increasingly tight race between him and Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee; some even have him beating her. I understand that Trump represents a clear and present danger, and having a passionate response that encompasses rage and fear is reasonable. It is understandable to want to make one’s displeasure known. But there is a line one dares not cross, and that is the one of responding to violent rhetoric with violent actions. As I have said before, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said it best in his 1967 book Where Do We
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Go From Here: Chaos or Community? and he is worthy of quoting here at length: “The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” You may feel activated by the cause of righteousness, but violence is most often a poor instrument for its implementation. Indeed, violence corrodes righteousness. It robs it of its essence. The best way to direct passions is not only with the bullhorn, but also at the ballot box. In a democracy, the vote is the voice. The best way to reduce the threat Trump poses is to register and motivate people who share your view of the threat. It is easy to look at the throngs who support and exalt this man and be discouraged, but don’t be. It is easy to look at Republicans like Paul Ryan abandoning their principles and selling their souls to fall in line behind this man and be discouraged, but don’t be. It is easy to see the media fail miserably to counter Trump and his surrogates’ Gish-gallop and be discouraged, but don’t be. These are the moments in which the nation’s mettle – and ideals – are tested. I have a fundamental belief that although America was born and grew by violence and racial subjugation, that although it has often stumbled and even regressed, that its ultimate bearing is toward the better. Folks must be reminded that one demagogue cannot lead to a detour or a dismantling. There is an elevated plane of truth that floats a mile above Trump’s trough of putrescence. Trump and his millions of minions have replaced what they call “political correctness” with “ambient viciousness.” This won’t “make America great again,” because the “again” they imagine harkens back to America’s darkness. We are the new America – more diverse, more inclusive, more than our ancestors could ever have imagined. Don’t invalidate that by allowing yourselves to be baited into brutishness.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts
News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
A meals tax is one of the few additional revenue sources available to localities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Code of Virginia, 58.1-3833, defines a meals tax as a “tax on food and beverages sold, for human consumption, by a restaurant…not to exceed four percent of the amount charged for such food and beverages.” The Code notes a number of exceptions, including church picnics, schools, hospitals, etc. Grocery stores and convenience stores selling prepared foods would charge the extra tax on those items. While some jurisdictions can impose a meals tax by simple majority vote of the governing body, counties must put meals tax proposals to referendum, asking the voters whether they support a meals tax. In 1992, the last time a meals tax proposal was on the ballot in Fairfax County, the special election referendum failed, 58 to 42 percent. At its meeting on Tuesday, following a lengthy debate, the Board of Supervisors voted, 8 (Bulova, Cook, Foust, Gross, Hudgins, McKay, Kathy Smith, Storck) to 2 (Herrity, Linda Smyth), to send a resolution to the Circuit Court, asking that the court order a referendum for consideration on the November 8 ballot this year. The referendum language submitted by the Board states: “For the purpose of reducing dependence on real estate taxes, shall the Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County, Virginia, be authorized to levy a tax on prepared food and beverages, otherwise known as a meals tax, as allowed by Virginia Code 58.1-
3833, at a rate not to exceed four percent (4%) of the amount charged for prepared food and beverages (which based upon state law, is applicable only to sales outside of the town of Clifton, and towns of Herndon and Vienna that have already implemented a meals tax)? The revenues generated shall be dedicated to the following purposes: 1. 70 percent of the net revenues to Fairfax County Public Schools 2. 30 percent of the net revenues to County services, capital improvements, and property tax relief. Estimates indicate that a four percent meals tax could generate as much as $90 million in additional revenue per year for Fairfax County. Many school proponents see meals tax revenue as a boon to increased funding for K-12 education. Others wonder about the effect on senior citizens’ ability to enjoy eating out, and imposing an extra tax on a specific industry. If correspondence to my office is any indication, emotions, on all sides, are running high. Whether one agrees with the proposal or not, asking the voters to decide is the appropriate course of action. If the referendum is approved, the Board of Supervisors must adopt an ordinance, via public hearing, to establish a meals tax in 2017. If the referendum fails, the meals tax effort fails. Whatever happens, it’s up to the voters!. Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.
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From the Front Row: Kaye Kory’s
Richmond Report One of the more rewarding compensations of arriving at late-middle age is an increased appreciation of the inevitability of certain historical trends. I’m not talking cosmic, here, or millennia, but certainly decades, even centuries. Say, from the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In this case, the trend I’m thinking about is the erosion of political dominance and economic hegemony of old white men, or OWM, in western civilization. While this topic often seems as stale and tired as the cohort it addresses, in the way it unfolds and in its multi-faceted details this transition offers many engaging narratives. Some of the more colorful episodes involve varieties of disenfranchisement, including: denying the right to vote, making it difficult to vote and limiting the impact of votes that are cast. America’s OWM protectors have for many years mobilized to fight the rising tide of non-white voters. Which brings me to the Supreme Court, itself a crumbling bastion of the privilege which it is increasingly called on to undermine. Recent SCOTUS decisions to trash key sanctions of the Civil Rights Act of 1965 have encouraged mostly red states to pursue strategies to intimidate, harass and discourage voters with increasing ID requirements, absentee ballot limitations and voting place time and location restrictions, etc. But, there is apparently potential good news on the horizon. We learned on Monday that the SCOTUS will be reviewing the complaint against Virginia funded by the National Democratic Redistricting Trust. The suit alleges that Virginia’s 2011 House of Delegate Redistricting Plan represented unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. Just two weeks ago this same Court declined to review a lower court finding that Virginia’s 2011 redistricting plan for its ten congressional districts constituted racial gerrymandering. I was a member of the House of Delegates in 2011 and clearly recall the “deliberations.” However, as a first termer among 39 Democrats and 61 Republicans – with a decided lack of testosterone – my information from the back rooms was largely second-hand. Still, I am confident that what went on in those rooms was, effec-
tively, a bunch of old white men scheming to retain their hold on Virginia’s reins of power, while trying their best to stay within the bounds of legal gerrymandering. I support the complaint by the Trust, as a means to achieve fairer redistricting. But, whether the gerrymanderers were racially motivated or not, to me is an open question, though this view may provoke the ire of many progressive allies. However, my original point, though, was OWM’s hold on power. In this context, the gerrymandering that matters most is the “legal” kind. The roots of gerrymandering go back to 1812 and Elias Gerry, the Governor of Massachusetts. In Virginia, Patrick Henry tried to gerrymander James Madison out of his seat in Congress. History finally caught up with the process in 1986, when six members of SCOTUS said that “partisan” gerrymandering is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection clause. Unfortunately, the addition of several new faces on the bench disrupted the trend, as the Court’s subsequent partisan gerrymandering cases declared a “Yes, but…” out clause: it is virtually impossible to prove. I disagree. The 2011 Virginia Congressional District map was a partisan gerrymandering work of art. In 2008 Virginia had six Democrats and five Republicans. In 2010 the rage of the electorate (no need to speculate on the source) transformed the delegation to eight Republicans and three Democrats, with Democrats only securing 41 percent of the votes for Congress. Post redistricting, in the 2012 elections Democrats received 50 percent of the vote, but not a single seat changed. In 2011 the redrawn House of Delegates map ended the legislative careers of eight Democratic delegates, including then Democratic Minority Leader Ward Armstrong. In reality partisan gerrymandering is certainly not restricted to one party. But, it is an antidemocratic abuse of power, no matter what the race of the perpetrators. Our Democracy will be enlarged and enriched when the SCOTUS comes to its senses and addresses this problem. Delegate Kory represents the 38th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. She may be emailed at DelKKory@house.virginia.gov.
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The Tinner Hill Festival began in 1994. It was created to highlight African American history as well as the businesses along the S. Washington St. corridor. The first festival was held near where the Tinner Hill Historic Site is today. In 2007 THHF engaged a consultant to complete an organizational study and a new vision for the event emerged. Then city councilwoman Lindy Hockenberry suggested an all blues format for the festival. THHF partnered with the City of Falls Church as co-sponsor. In 2008 the blues festival was held in the beautiful, tree lined Cherry Hill Park. It has expanded to three days and is the only weekend long event in the Little City. The goals of the festival are to share our unique local and African American history; pay tribute to the late John Jackson, a Piedmont blues icon and Smithsonian National Heritage Fellow who lived and worked in the area; attract visitors to the city’s businesses; and share outstanding regional, local and national performers! For more information please visit our Facebook page or website at www. tinnerhill.org.
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Like many parents whose kids have moved beyond the school system, I have faded in recent years from the PTA and school policy activism in which I once reveled. So I was pleased to get my feet wet again last month when I was asked to help judge college scholarship applications for high school seniors who had attended Thomas Jefferson Middle School. The Dunbar Holland scholarship, named for two deceased TJ teachers, drew 16 applications. They were judged on community contributions, leadership and writing. Five of us collegially reviewed the essays and recommendation letters, but couldn’t decide between two amazing finalists for the $1,000 prize. Lo and behold, we broke the tie when the PTA came up with an extra $500. That was matched by a fellow judge, a community activist who’s been at it much longer than I. So both kids ended up with a cool $1,000 toward in-state college expenses. That cherry on top of the school year’s end landed as a new book appeared from a former Arlington school superintendent analyzing, among other things, the work of current Superintendent Patrick Murphy. “Striving for Equity: District Leadership for Narrowing Opportunity and Achievement Gaps” (Harvard Education Press), by Robert Smith (who led Arlington’s Ed Central from 19972009), is in turn dedicated to a
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third Arlington superintendent, Larry Cuban, who ran our schools from 1974-81. All three focus on improving minority success nationwide in diverse school systems with competing agendas. Murphy comes off pretty well in a narrative that avoids jargon, though is a bit cautious in tone. The scholars broach “undiscussables” such as racism and the feeling among parents of higher-achieving kids that focusing on underachievers shortchanges their own. Smith, who now teaches at George Mason University, has long shared with me his work in minority achievement nationwide in communities that value both justice and college-bound competitiveness. He was attracted to Arlington because the first issue he tackled was a federal district court’s overturning of affirmative action at two Arlington choice schools – “the kind of fight that he and the board that hired him were willing to pursue.” He aggressively recruited black and Latino students to take more AP and IB classes, doubling the rate without a decline in scores, he said. “Arlington teachers were initially resistant,” but when they understood there was no lowering of standards and plenty of support, their talk changed to sharing information. Smith and co-author S. David Brazer praise incumbent Murphy for continuing teacher training in cultural competence using outside facilitators. The state supe of the year in 2015, Murphy “views himself as addressing opportunity globally,”
Public Drunkenness, 900 block Ellison St. (Fields of Falls Church) On May 30, a male, 31, no fixed address, was arrested for Public Drunkenness and Trespassing. Driving Under the Influence, 900 block W. Broad St. On May 31, an officer responded to the area for a report of a motor vehicle crash. After an investigation, a male, 52, of Falls Church was arrested for Driving Under the Influence. Larceny from Vehicle, 200 block Gibson St. On May 31, police received a report that personal items were sto-
len from the victim’s vehicle. Trespass, 6757 Wilson Bld. Suite 15 (H2O Café) On May 31, a male, 59, no fixed address, was arrested and released on summons for Trespassing. Trespass, 6757 Wilson Bld. Suite 17 (Hoa Vien Quan) On May 31, a male, 39, of Falls Church, was arrested and released on summons for Trespassing. Destruction of Property, 420 S. Maple Ave. (Aurora House) On June 1, a juvenile damaged a door and was later arrested. Larceny from Motor Vehicle, 6763 Wilson Blvd. #R1 On June 1, a wallet
JUNE 9 - 15, 2016 | PAGE 19 the authors write. “He is equally concerned about helping families understand how to finance college as he is about ensuring that all students have access to challenging course work and curricula.” Murphy says during discussions of mission “some of our community gets a little annoyed.” They tell him, “You’re pushing kids. You’re just worried about the numbers.” He tells them “those are my responsibilities in my role… At the end of the day, your decision making will always trump my decision making.” But Murphy has added his own stamp to the Arlington agenda. “The plan we have today,” he says, “has eliminating the achievement gap as our second goal. The first goal is making sure that all children have challenging and engaging learning experiences.” *** Arlington developer-philanthropist Preston Caruthers made a rare public appearance June 4 to personally announce more financial support for Arlington Outdoor Lab. That enduring favorite of Arlington school-age nature lovers in Fauquier County kicked off its 50th anniversary celebration with a Saturday dinner-dance at a Ballston conference center. Some normally staid school and county board members joined your twinkle-toes columnist in dancing to fine classic rock from the Westover band Still Standing. The fund-raisers beat their $50,000 goal by attracting pledges for $84,000, on top of event costs donated by Caruthers – who made a crucial first loan to the lab back in the late 1960s. was stolen from an unsecured vehicle. Defrauding an Innkeeper, 6757 Wilson Blvd. Suite 15 (H2O Café) On June 2, an unknown person left the restaurant without paying for a bill. Urinating In Public, 306 Hillwood Ave. (Lesly’s Restaurant) On June 3, a male, 45, of Falls Church, was arrested and released on summons for Urinating In Public. Trespass, 6757 Wilson Bld. Suite 15 (H2O Café) On June 3, a male, 59, no fixed address, was arrested and released on summons for Trespassing. Trespass, 6757 Wilson Blvd. On June 4, a male, no fixed address, was arrested and released on summons for Trespassing. Public Drunkenness, 130 N. Washington St. (Clare and Don’s Restaurant) On June 5, a female, 29, of Alexandria, was arrested for Public Drunkenness.
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Mason Girls Track & Field Team Finishes Third at State Meet by Drew Costley
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George Mason High School’s varsity track and field team excelled at the Virginia High School League’s 2A state championships over the weekend, with the girls team placing third in the state and the boys placing 22nd in the state, which is five places higher than they placed in 2015 when they came in 27th. The girls team finished a point shy of coming in second in the state with their best performance since moving to region 2A. Several of the individuals and teams achieved personal and season best and a few broke Mason records in their events. Senior Vicky Addo-Ashong placed in third and fourth in the triple jump and the 100-meter hurdles, respectively, achieving new school records in the both events. Addo-Ashong placed fourth in the long jump and eighth in the high jump.
The girls 4 x 800-meter team of Blaise Sevier, Jackie Baartz, Aisha Rupert and Logan Funk placed second in their event and achieved a new school record. The girls 4 x 400-meter team of Baartz, Sevier, Charlotte Crum and Danielle Welch placed second in their event while achieving their season best. Crum placed second in the 400-meter dash while achieving a personal record. Welch placed fourth in the 400-meter dash while reaching a personal best. Sevier placed third in the 800meter dash. Korinne Willis placed sixth in the 300-meter hurdles while reaching a personal best and Funk placed seventh in the 3200meter run. The boys 4 x 800 team of Matt Mineo, James Schneider, Bill Comstock and Ryan Henderson placed third in their event while achieving their season best. Henderson placed sixth in the 1600-meter run while reaching a personal best and Mineo placed sixth in the 800-meter dash.
SOME OF MASON’S DISTANCE RUNNERS pose for a picture with Mason’s head track and field coach Jeff Buck at the Virginia High School League’s 2A state championship meet, where the girls track and field team placed third and the boys track and field team placed 22nd. The girls team finished a point shy of coming in second place in the state. (Photo: FCCPS Photo/Jeff Buck)
Mustang Girls Soccer Team Wins GMHS Girls Lax Heads Region 2A East, Head to States To VHSL Championship by Matt Delaney
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Claiming the 2A East region’s top seed for this weekend’s Virginia High School League’s state tournament after moving past Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School 4-1 in the region semifinal and Goochland High School 9-1 in the region final, George Mason’s varsity girls soccer team eyes a ninth consecutive state title. But not long ago this tradition of excellence appeared in jeopardy. An early season tie with Warren County High School and a loss to Clarke County High School just before the postseason were pockmarks on an 18-2-1 record. However, the fear of one blunderful game ruining their storied state title run drove Mason to get creative leading up to the “win or go home” regional showdown against longtime rival Maggie Walker. “We made a special video to pump us up [and] watched World Cup highlights of the [United
On Tuesday, George Mason High School’s varsity girls lacrosse team defeated Western Albemarle High School 12-7 and are headed to the Virginia High School League’s 4A state championship match, where they will face Woodgrove High School for the fourth time this season. As the game began it did not appear the three-hour drive had affected play as Mason won the opening draw and took the ball down the field. Mason’s first scoring chance was rejected and the Western Albemarle Warriors took the ball back down the field and scored. On the ensuing draw, Mason once again took control and Claire Hiscott scored 37 seconds later. The Warriors scored again and with 21:29 left in the half it was 2-1 for Western Ablemarle. The Mustangs, though, would not be held in check for long and Amy Roche scored at the 16:26 minute mark, Sarah
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THE SENIORS ON MASON’S GIRLS soccer team walk off the field after receiving the Region 2A trophy upon defeating Goochland High School in regional championship. (Photo: Carol Sly)
States’] women’s team,” senior midfielder Corinne Carson said. “We just really tried to focus on how much we put into the season and how we could do it as long as we work together.”
It appeared the national team’s winning ways rubbed off on Mason. Both teams made the their opponents uncomfortable with viable
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Lubnow joined Roche by scoring 18 seconds later to give Mason a lead they would not relinquish. Later, Hannah Hiscott scored on an assist from her sister Claire at 11:42 and Mason was on the move. Lubnow scored her second of the night three minutes later; the Warriors responded, but Selwyn Heminway scored 1:38 later to bring the score 6-3 Mason. The Warriors would score once more before the end of the half, but Lubnow responded with her second at the 1:33 mark and the half ended 7-4 Mason. The second half began and the Mason girls continued their ball control against the Warriors. Lubnow scored her third goal of the night assisted by Roche at the 21:15 mark. Roche scored her second 1:10 later to increase the Mason lead to five, which is the closest the score was for the rest of the match. The Mustangs will face Woodgrove in Lynchburg on Saturday, June 11 for the Virginia High School League’s 4A varsity girls lacrosse state crown.
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MASON JUNIOR LYDIA GOMPPER takes center stage for a solo during the George Mason High School Spring Choral Concert, which was presented on Thursday, June 2 at the school. (Photo: Carol Sly)
2 Falls Church Residents Win National Merit Scholarships Two Falls Church residents were announced as recipients of National Merit Scholarships on Wednesday, June 1. Chantal Iosso, a graduating senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, received the National Merit Washington and Lee University Scholarship. Her probable career field, according to the National Merit Corporation, is economics. John H. Balch, a graduating senior at George C. Marshall High School, received the National Merit University of Chicago Scholarship. Balch’s probable career field, according to the National Merit Corporation, is activism. For more information about the National Merit Scholarship Program, visit nationalmerit.org.
F.C. Residents Earn Academic Honors Across the Nation Several Falls Church residents recently earned academic honors from colleges, universities and other academic institutions across the nation. Paige Blackford, a parks, recreation and facilities management major at Paul Smith’s College, was named to the dean’s list at the school, where students must earn at least a 3.3 grade point average to receive the distinction.
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A FIFTH GRADER AT THOMAS JEFFERSON Elementary School gets ready to launch one of the styrofoam planes he built during one of many STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) activities that have been recently taking place at the school. Building rubber band racers with KNEX and lightbulb creation were other activities. (Photo: FCCPS Photos/Nicholas Bajis) Susanna Sewall, a sophomore studying nursing at Eastern Mennonite University, was named to the dean’s list at the school, where students must earn at least a 3.75 grade point average while completing 12 semester hours of credit. Evan John Harvey graduated from Clemson University with a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering. Altinay K. Karasapan, who majored in environmental policy, graduated from Colby College. Connor Kenyon
graduated from Benedictine College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in management and was also named to the school’s dean list. Alexander Valentino graduated from Lehigh University with a Bachelor of Science degree in finance. Laura Watson graduated from Grove City College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Pre-K-4 elementary education and also made the dean’s list with high distinction at the school.
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY’S REQUEST TO REVISE ITS FUEL FACTOR CASE NO. PUE-2016-00047 On May 4, 2016, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Virginia Power (“Dominion Virginia Power” or “Company”) filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) its application (“Application”) pursuant to § 56-249.6 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”) seeking a decrease in its fuel factor from 2.406 cents per kilowatt-hour (“¢/kWh”) to 1.971¢/kWh, effective for usage on and after July 1, 2016, on an interim basis. The Company’s proposed fuel factor, reflected in Fuel Charge Rider A, consists of both a current and prior period factor. The Company’s proposed current period factor for Fuel Charge Rider A of 2.115¢/kWh is designed to recover the Company’s estimated Virginia jurisdictional fuel expenses, including purchased power expenses, of approximately $1.4 billion for the period July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2017. The Company’s proposed prior period factor for Fuel Charge Rider A of (0.144¢/kWh) is designed to return the approximately $95 million overcollection, which represents the net of two projected June 30, 2016 fuel deferral balances. In total, Dominion Virginia Power’s proposed fuel factor represents a 0.435¢/kWh decrease from the fuel factor rate presently in effect of 2.406¢/kWh, which was approved in Case No. PUE-2015-00022. According to the Company, this proposal would result in an annual fuel revenue decrease of approximately $286.2 million between July 1, 2016, and June 30, 2017. The total proposed fuel factor would decrease the average weighted monthly bill of a typical residential customer using 1,000 kWh of electricity by $4.35, or by approximately 3.8%. The Commission entered an Order Establishing 2016-2017 Fuel Factor Proceeding (“Order”) that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing to be held on September 14, 2016, at 10 a.m. in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear 15 minutes before the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff. Individuals with disabilities who require an accommodation to participate in the hearing should contact the Commission at least seven (7) days before the scheduled hearing at 1-800-552-7945. In its Order, the Commission also allowed the Company to place its proposed fuel factor of 1.971¢/kWh into effect on an interim basis for usage on and after July 1, 2016. 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. The public version of the Company’s Application, pre-filed testimony, and exhibits are available for public inspection during regular business hours at all of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. A copy of the public version of the Company’s Application also may be obtained, at no cost, by written request to counsel for Dominion Virginia Power, William H. Baxter II, Esquire, Dominion Resources Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Riverside 2, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means. On or before August 30, 2016, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application shall file written comments with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before August 30, 2016, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUE-2016-00047. Any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing a notice of participation on or before June 29, 2016. 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 counsel’s address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-2016-00047. Interested persons should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for further details on participation as a respondent. On or before July 13, 2016, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. In all filings, respondents shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE 2016-00047. The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at the Commission’s website: http:// www.virginia.scc.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order Establishing Fuel Factor Proceeding 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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Business News & Notes F.C. Police Partnering with Gun Dude for Security Seminars The Gun Dude is partnering with Falls Church City Police and others to host a series of free security seminars for the Falls Church business community. The purpose of the series is to raise awareness in the community and reduce the opportunity for crime. The first seminar will take place Sunday, June 12 from 7 – 8 p.m. and address the current threat assessment and actual crimes in Falls Church. Future seminars will include Awareness as a Practice, Physical Security, Response, and Planning & Training. These seminars are free but donations will be accepted. The Gun Dude, which recently received special commendation from the Falls Church City Police Department, is located at 412 W. Broad Street, Suite A (upstairs) in Falls Church. Coffee and tea will be available. For more information, visit www.thegundude.com.
Hampton Inn Now Open in Seven Corners The Hampton Inn & Suites Falls Church/Seven Corners has opened at 6430 Arlington Boulevard. The new hotel offers a state of the art fitness center, an indoor pool, 900 square feet of meeting space (accommodating approximately 70 people), complimentary coffee and tea 24 hours a day, free hot breakfast every day, free WiFi, underground parking, complimentary shuttle service to West Falls Church Metro. The 159 guest rooms and suites include large desks, flat-screen LCD TVs, coffee makers, microwaves and mini-refrigerators. For more information, call 703-538-1000 or visit www.hamptoninn3.hilton.com.
F.C.’s Perrino Receives NOVA College Award of Excellence Dr. Ralph Perrino, director of Northern Virginia Tutoring Service and chairman of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce from 2008 to 2010, received the Jean C. Netherton Award of Excellence at a ceremony on the Alexandria campus of the Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) on April 29. An adjunct associate professor of Behavioral Science at NOVA, Dr. Perrino has taught sociology, political science, and business management there since 1984. The award is named for Dr. Jean C. Netherton, Provost of the Alexandria campus from 1976 to 1992, and recognizes NOVA employees for outstanding service or exemplary long-term contributions to the Alexandria campus community. Dr. Perrino is the author of Issues, Strategies and Concerns in Education Today: A Collection of Essays, as well as several articles in professional journals and magazines. For more information, visit www.nvtutoring.com. .
Bailey’s Crossroads Office Building Sold for $3.1 Million Stewart Commercial Realty Services, LLC announced the recent sale of a 28,000-square-foot office building at 5881 Leesburg Pike in Falls Church. The five-story office building sold for $3,100,000 in an off-market transaction. Terrell Marsh of Stewart Commercial represented the seller (Lee Building, LLC; an affiliate of E. G. Reinsch Companies). The property is located in Bailey’s Crossroads and was purchased by Daff, LLC. The buyer is a local investor who intends to own the rental property for investment purposes. Stewart Commercial is a full-service commercial real estate company based in McLean, Virginia that operates throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. For more information, visit www.stewartcrs.com.
Foxcraft Design Raises $2K for Tinner Hills Blues Fest The team at Foxcraft Design Build is once again sponsoring the Tinner Hill Blues Festival in Fall Church June 10-12. As part of its support for the event, Foxcraft raised more than $2,000 for the three-day event through a fundraising concert by singer and instrumentalist Deanna Bogart at in the home of company president Chandler Fox. For more information about Foxcraft Design or the Tinner Hill Blues Festival, scheduled for Friday, June 11 – The in-home concert by Deanna Bogart raised Sunday, June 13, visit www.foxcraftdesign.com $2,000 for the Tinner Hills Blues Festival. or www.tinnerhill.org. (Photo: Courtesy of Foxcraft Design) Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@fallschurchchamber.org.
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Caboose Brewing Announces Plans for Merrifield Location The Falls Church area is truly becoming a beer lover’s paradise. There’s the award-winning Mad Fox Brewing Company in the heart of the Little City. Two miles to the east is Dogfish Head Alehouse and on the opposite side, breweries Gordon Biersch and Sweetwater Tavern are less than five miles away. Not to mention, the stellar draft and bottle lineup at Spacebar, Dogwood Tavern and others. And soon, there will be yet another reason to come to the area and sidle up to the bar. Caboose Brewing Company, the Vienna brewery which just celebrated its oneyear anniversary last month, has announced plans to bring a 6,000-square foot brewery to the Mosaic District in Merrifield. The Mosaic Caboose will be located at the southwest corner of Lee Highway and Eskridge Road and, pending approval from Fairfax County, may offer public tastings and a beer garden, according to a press release. Construction on Caboose Brewing
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Chipotle Opening in Bailey’s Crossroads This Month Weeks after Longhorn Steakhouse made its Falls Church debut, Crossroads Place announced that Chipotle will open in the same shopping center this month. A press release says the restaurant will open in mid-June. This will be the fourth Chipotle in F.C., joining stores in Broaddale Shopping Center, Seven Corners and Merrifield. Chipotle Mexican Grill 3556B Jefferson Street | Falls Church
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Drummer Tim Hart of the indie rock-folk band Boy & Bear said that the group’s fans kept coming up to them at shows and saying how they really loved hearing them live, sometimes better than their albums. That led the group to attempt to achieve a live sound on their latest album, Limit of Love, which they released in October 2015. Now they are bringing that live energy from their album and their acclaimed stage performance to North America with a tour this summer, which stops at The Birchmere on June 15. To achieve that live feel, Boy & Bear recorded Limit of Love straight to tape with minimal overdubs and worked with veteran producer Ethan Johns. Hart said that capturing the band’s live sound on tape was the one thing that was missing from their first two albums. “The thing we wanted to achieve coming BOY & BEAR. (P����: L��� K�����) from our second album Harlequin Dream into Limit of Love is we wanted to capture the live album Harlequin Dream, which went gold and sound of the band,” Hart said. “And we sort of reached number one in Australia. Whereas the talked about asking a whole lot of producers to songs on Moonfire were solidly in the folk, work with us and in the end [we chose] Ethan acoustic canon and Harlequin Dream saw the Johns….We really didn’t know that we were group bucking that tendency a bit with a more going to be working to tape, but we got in the rock-folk sound, Limit of Love is groove heavy. studio and there was no computers there and he Hart said that sound was influenced by the said ‘You know, guys this is the way I work, I group listening to a lot of 70s pop music going hope you’re okay with that.’ We were kind of into the creation and recording of the album. “We were really enjoying...the simple song thrown in the deep end there. “But actually it’s quite a liberating experience structures and the groove-based elements and because when you’re working with ProTools or that’s the stuff we wanted to listen to, so that’s Logic or whatever you can go back later and the stuff we wanted to play,” Hart said. “And that’s how the songs ended up writing change things and shift things, but when you’re working to tape you have to make decisions themselves in many ways. It wasn’t something at the time and stick with those parts that you conscious for us…. I think that on Harlequin Dream we were moving toward that, but we play….It was a really enjoyable experience.” The creative decisions that Boy & Bear made went further on Limit of Love and I love listenon Limit of Love set the album apart from their ing to it because you can hear the progression earlier offerings, their 2011 debut Moonfire, and that’s kind of a cool thing.” Despite going in a different creative direction which went platinum twice and reached number two in Australia, and their 2013 sophomore than their first and second albums, Boy & Bear’s
latest album went number one in Australia. Although they have enjoyed success in Australia, that same level of success has yet to translate to the U.S. and, if Hart’s comments on their chart success is any indication, the group is conscious of that. Hart said that it was a “bit of a surprise” for the band to go number one again. “You never expect that sort of thing, unless you’re Jay Z,” Hart said. “It’s one of those things that you don’t expect. You work hard at writing songs and you put it out and you don’t know if your fans are still going to be there or if they’re going to like the new stuff with what they heard before. “But we’ve been really fortunate, especially in Australia, people are staying quite loyal…. It’s something you think is never really going to happen. As a kid you dream about it, but you don’t really think it’s going to happen, so for it to happen twice is pretty special.” • For more information about Boy & Bear, visit boyandbear.com.
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Community Events
THURSDAY, JUNE 9
Teen Advisory Board. Volunteers in grades 7 – 12 can participate in the Teen Advisory Board, which meets bimonthly during the school year to give teens a voice in the operation of Mary Riley Styles Public Library. Teens who participate can earn volunteer hours. Registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 7 – 8 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/672/TeenVolunteers. Community Forum Regarding the Future of Falls Church City Public Schools. Residents can learn about and participate in discussions on restoring transparency, accountability and meaningful input by all stakeholders to Falls Church’s public schools. American Legion Post 130 (400 N. Oak St., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 9 p.m. TheFallsChurchWay.com. Public Meeting by the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission: Rapid Transit for Route 7. Residents can learn about and comment on the proposed route for a bus rapid transit route along Route 7. Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School (7130 Leesburg
Pike, Falls Church). 7 – 9 p.m. EnvisionRoute7.com.
FRIDAY, JUNE 10
DMV2Go. The handicappedaccessible, full-service office provides all DMV transactions. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Prices vary. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/ DMV2Go. 1-on-1 Computer Tutoring. Receive personalized assistance using computers, Internet and e-books. Registration required. To schedule an appointment, stop by the reference desk or call 703-2485035. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 2 – 4 p.m. 703-248-5035.
SATURDAY, JUNE 11
F.C. Farmers’ Market. Vendors offer fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables, cheeses, meats, baked goods, plants, and wine. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 8 a.m. – noon. 703248-5077. Sing Books with Emily G. As part of the Tinner Hill Blues Festival, Emily G. will present bluesinspired illustrated songs. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 a.m. fallschurchva.gov/Library.
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Tinner Hill Blues Fest: Blues, Brews & BBQ. The Tinner Hill Blues Festival, in its 23rd year, returns with music, food and drink, films and children’s programs. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park AVe., Falls Church). $20 – $30. 1 – 9:30 p.m. tinnerhill.org/blues-festival.
SUNDAY, JUNE 12
Old Dominion Chrysanthemum Society Meeting. The Old Dominion Chrysanthemum Society will present a short mum growing tutorial followed by instruction on how to control when chrysanthemums bloom by using shading to extend the hours of darkness. David Eigenbrode, winner of the Sweepstakes Award at the 2015 National Chrysanthemum Society Show, will lead the discussions. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free. 2:30 p.m. 703-560-8776. Movie Night. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church is hosting movie night every other Sunday this summer. The first movie of the summer is “Frozen.” Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (3022 Woodlawn Ave., Falls Church). Free. 6:30 p.m. holytrinityfallschurch.org.
MONDAY, JUNE 13
ESL Conversation Group. An English as a second language
conversation group focusing on English Language and American culture. No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 8:30 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Library.
TUESDAY, JUNE 14
Choralis Sing-Along. Attendees can join Choralis in a sing-along of Brahms’ “Ein deutches Requiem,” directed by Gretchen Kuhrmann with Todd Fickley on keyboard. Participants can bring their own score or rent one for $5. The Falls Church Episcopal (115 E. Fairfax St., Falls Church). $15. 7 p.m. choralis.org. Author Talk and Book Signing. J. Todd Scott will discuss and sign The Far Empty. One More Page Books (2200 N. Westmoreland St. #101, Arlington). Free. 7 p.m. onemorepagebooks.com.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15
Pet Visit with Zoe. People 55 and up can meet Zoe the therapy dog. She’s smart and does tricks, but best of all she loves to visit with everyone. Chuck Toftoy will share information on Yorkies and what it takes to train a therapy dog. Arlington Mill Community & Senior Center (909 S. Dinwiddie St., Arlington). Free. 11:15 a.m. – noon. 703-228-7369.
Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, JUNE 9
“An Octoroon.” A plantation on the brink of foreclosure. A young gentleman falling for the part-black daughter of the estate’s owner. An evil swindler plotting to buy her for himself. Meanwhile, the slaves are trying to keep things drama-free, because everybody else is acting crazy. Part period satire, part meta-theatrical middle �inger, it’s a provocative challenge to America’s lasting legacy of slavery and the racial pigeonholing of 1859 – and today. Through June 26. Wooly Mammoth Theatre (641 D St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 – $60. woolymammoth.net.
FRIDAY, JUNE 10
“Red Herring.” Three love stories, a murder mystery and a nuclear espionage plot converge in this noir comedy about marriage and other
explosive devices. It’s 1952: America’s on the verge of the H-bomb, Dwight Eisenhower’s on the campaign trail, and I Love Lucy’s on Monday nights. Meanwhile, Senator Joe McCarthy’s daughter just got engaged to a soviet spy, and a Boston detective has to �ind out who dumped the dead guy in the Harbor. This is the opening night of this production. Through June 18. James Lee Community Center (2855 Annandale Road, Falls Church). $17 – $20. 7:30 p.m. providenceplayers.org.
“The Wind in the Willows.” Generations of children have roamed the English countryside in the company of Rat, Mole, Toad, and Badger, the immortal animal friends of The Wind in the Willows. Now Creative Cauldron’s Learning Theater Ensemble brings these timeless tales of friendship to life. This production is adapted and directed by Ellen Selby and Denise Perrino
with music and choreograpgy from Matt Conner and lyrics by Stephen Gregory Smith. Through June 19. ArtSpace Falls Church (400 S. Maple St., Falls Church). $14 – $16. 7:30 p.m. creativecauldron.org.
SATURDAY, JUNE 11
“La Cage Aux Folles.” The twenty year relationship between Georges, a club-owner, and Albin, the head drag performer, faces a test when their son announces his engagement to the daughter of ultra-conservative political parents. To please their son, Georges and Albin agree to hide their lifestyle and play it straight for a dinner with the potential in-laws. However, Albin‘s different de�inition of “normal” threatens to upend the entire supper with hilarious results. Through July 10. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Falls Church). $40 – $72. 7:30 p.m. sigtheatre.org.
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T�� T����� H��� B���� F��������� �������� B���� � S��� D����. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $24 in advance; $29 day of the show. 7 p.m. 703237-0300. COMMUNION ��������� M��� M����� ���� J����� P��� ��� C�� S����. Jammin’ Java (227
Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $13 – $18 in advance; $15 – $18 day of the show. 7 p.m. 703-255-1566 T�� R��� �� L�������. The Barns at Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $32 – $88. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1900. R������: T�� M������. Wolf Trap’s Filene Center (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $22 – $80. 8 p.m. 703-2551900. M�������� S������. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. B���� R�� P���� P����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 (Both Stages). 9 p.m. 202667-7960. B���� S������. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333.
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M�L��� H��� S����� ��� L��������� M����� S����� B�� B��� J��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10. 12:30 p.m. 703255-1566 S���� H����� ���� J��� W�����. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. H������ M�� ���� N������ Y��� ��� C��� M�������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20. 5:30 p.m. 703-255-1566 A���� S����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. M������� ���� L����� C���� B��� ��� C�������� L����. The State
Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $15 in advance; $17 day of the show. 7 p.m. 703-237-0300. R������: T�� M������. Wolf Trap’s Filene Center (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $22 – $80. 8 p.m. 703-2551900. F��� E���� ��� ��� S��������. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. F������ DC ��������� W. J����� ��� T��� P��������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12 (Mainstage). 9:30 p.m. 202-6677960. B�������! ���� O���� W���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $18 – $25. 9:30 p.m. 703255-1566 P�������� M��. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. MIXTAPE P���� P���� ���� DJ� S��� V�� H��� � M��� B�����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15. 11 p.m. 202-265-0930.
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D��� H������. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. B���� ���� B�����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. R������������ ���� B�� S����� ��� C����/D�����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-6677960.
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M��� C���� ���� O��������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. F����� �� ��� C�������� ���� A�� B�����. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $35 – $65. 8 p.m. 703-2551900. W���’� B���� J��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.
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A���� G������ ���� J���� T����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566 J������ B�����. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $35 – $60. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. S���� Y����� S���. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.
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J�����’ J��� L���� S����: HTC ���� S���� A�� R������� ��� B��� �� U�. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $18 in advance; $13 – $18 day of the show. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566 B�������� L����� ���� OMD ��� H����� J����. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $37 – $57. 7 p.m. 703-255-1900. T�� R��� �� L�������. The Barns at Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $32 – $88. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1900.
P������� A����... Saturday, June 18 – Community Workshop: Vision for the City. City residents are invited to a presentation and workshop to help update the City’s vision. The
Falls Church (115 E. Fairfax St., Falls Church). Free. 8:45 a.m. – noon. 703-248-5041.
Wednesday, June 29 – Summer Reading Open House Kick-Off at the Library. Those interested in participating in the library’s Summer Reading Program can
register at this event featuring glitter tattoos, balloon animals and crafts. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 1 – 4 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Library.
Thursday, June 30 – Teen Time: Minecraft Moods with Shannyn Snyder. Children who are in grades 6 – 12 who are fans of the popular game Minecraft will enjoy this
craft twist on the program. Using pixels, dots, beads, mosaic, geometry and shapes, they can create unique projects that require you to see the bigger picture. Registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 3 – 4:30 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/1687/Teen-Time-at-MRSPL.
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Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA The City of Falls Church Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Monday, June 20, 2016 at 7:30 PM in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 300 Park Avenue, to consider the proposed subdivision of a lot at 604 S. Oak Street, zoned R1-A, Low Density Residential with total land area of 1.95 acres or 85,965 square feet. The
purpose of the subdivision is to create six (6) additional new buildable lots from an existing lot, which will result in seven (7) lots in total, with the following individual lot sizes: 14,593, 12,000, 12,049, 11,308, 11,560, 11,425, and 12,030 square feet. The application materials can be viewed at the Development Services Counter located at 300 Park Avenue, Room 300W, Falls Church, VA., Monday through Friday (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.). You may contact the Planning Division at 703-248-5040 with any questions or concerns. This location is fully accessible to persons with physical disabilities and special services or assistance may be requested in advance. (TTY 711)
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA The ordinance referenced below was given first reading on May 23, 2016; second reading and public hearing are scheduled for Monday, June 13, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard. (TO16-10) ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 15, “FEES,” ARTICLE II, “DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES” AND ARTICLE III, “DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS” OF THE CITY CODE, TO UPDATE AND REVISE FEES FOR CERTAIN PERMITS EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2016.
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neering and urban forestry and inspection for stormwater, erosion and sediment control, VSMP permits, WQIA, first SMRT meeting, and bond management): grading plan single family lot grading less than ½ acre disturbed area-$1,600; same for ½ acre or more-$2,800; agreement in lieu of plan-$1,600; commercial/multi-family less than ½ acre disturbed area-$5,000; same for ½ acre or more disturbed area-$10,000; site plan amendment-$500.00. Resubmittal development plan, after first resubmittal (free)-50% of initial fee. Traffic Impact Analysis: actual cost up to $7,000. Right of Way Vacations: $600. Urban Forestry: Tree removal (where DRF not paid): commercial/ multi-family-$50; single family in RPA-$25; specimen tree-no charge. Modifications to site plan for landscaping (after site occupied): up to 4 trees or less than ½ acre modified- $100; 5 or more trees or ½ acre or more modified-$200; resubmittals after first: 50% of initial fee. Urban forestry violations: Damage to public trees-$250 per inch of tree diameter; Damage to public landscaping/irrigation-$300 plus cost of repair; Tree removal without permit-$1,000; Violations of landscape plan: first offense (plus mitigation or replacement)-$500; second offense-$1,000; additional offenses-$2,500; Destruction of tree designated for preservation-$100 per inch of tree diameter. In addition, the amendment would include one of two options for technology/administrative fees: Option 1: A twenty percent technology/ administrative surcharge on each fee for Development Services and a twenty percent technology/administrative surcharge on each fee for Public Works, excluding Certificates of Occupancy; or Option 2: A ten percent technology surcharge on each fee for Development Services and each fee for Public Works, excluding Certificates of Occupancy, and a ten percent administrative surcharge on each fee for Development Services and each fee for Public Works, excluding Certificates of Occupancy. All public hearings will be held in the Council Chambers, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church, Virginia. For copies of legislation, contact the City Clerk’s office at (703-248-5014) or cityclerk@fallschurchva.gov. The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, call 703-2485014 (TTY 711). CELESTE HEATH CITY CLERK
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Council May Go Behind Closed Doors to Make Decision on New Mayor There is a substantial new development in the fast-wielding and complex machinations among current and incoming Falls Church City Council members to decide who they will pick to become the next mayor and vice-mayor when they vote on matters July 1. In a surprise move this week, new City Attorney Roy Thorpe, elected by the Council only one week ago, ruled that the City Council here may debate its decision....
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scoring chances in a contested opening fifteen minutes, until the Mustangs finally got ahead when junior midfielder Rebecca Crouch fed Carson’s only goal. Maggie Walker was unfazed by the deficit and kept pestering Mason with occasional charges into their zone. A defensive foul set up a Maggie Walker free kick from roughly 25 yards out, which was rifled past sophomore goalkeeper Laura Whitaker to even the tally just before halftime.
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Sophomore forward Izzy Armstrong gave Mason the lead back when she footed a Crouch corner kick out of mid air early in the second half. Later on Armstrong displayed her playmaking abilities when she got behind Maggie Walker’s defense and sent a shallow cross to sophomore midfielder Victoria Rund, who put the Mustangs up 3-1. In the 66th minute Armstrong iced the game when she arced a pretty shot over Maggie Walker’s goalkeeper and under the crossbar. “It was a great game for her, and it has been a really good
tournament for her [too].” head coach Allison Klink said. “Izzy, just throughout the season, has continued to get better.” The excitement found in the regional semifinal against Maggie Walker was lost in the final against Goochland. The game was stopped for an hour rain delay barely 15 minutes in and Mason already held a 2-0 lead. After the delay ended, the Mustangs never gave up the lead. Mason will face Richlands High School in the state semifinal on Friday, June 10 at Salem High School.
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Beyer Volvo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237-5000 Koons Used Car Outlet . . . . . . . . . . 533-3363
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Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Co. . . 519-1634 BB&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241-3505 TD Bank/www.TDBank.com . . . . . . . 237-2051
BOOK BINDING
BCR Binders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534-9181
3 months - $150 6 months - $270 1 year - $450
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CLEANING SERVICES
Maid Brigade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823-1922 Acclaimed Carpet Cleaning . . . . . . . . 978-2270 A Cleaning Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892-8648
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DENTISTS
Family Dentistry, Nimisha V Patel . . . 533-1733 Dr. William Dougherty . . . . . . . . . . . . 532-3300
Jazzercise Falls Church . . . . . . . . . . 622-2152 FC Heating & Air Service . . . . . . . . . 534-0630 Joseph Home Improvement . . . . . . . 507-5005 Picture Perfect Home Improvements 590-3187 One Time Home Improvement . . . . . 577-9825
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INSURANCE
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MASSAGE
Falls Church Florist, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 533-1333
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MEDICAL
Art & Frame of Falls Church . . . . . . . 534-4202
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MUSIC
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OPTOMETRIST
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PET SERVICES
EQUIPMENT RENTAL/SALE
VA Outdoor Power Equipment . . . . . 207-2000
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FRAMES
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HANDYMAN
Point of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237-6500
www.healthybyintention.com. . . . . . . 534-1321
Academy of Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 938-8054 Foxes Music Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533-7393 Dr. Alison Sinyai, Family Eye Care . 533-3937 Apex Pet Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532-8012 Feline Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 920-8665
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- Dunkin Donuts • 101 E. Annandale Rd.
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Allstate Home Auto Life Ins. . . . . . . . 241-8100 State Farm Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . 237-5105
Dr Gordon Theisz, Family Medicine . 533-7555
Stifel & Capra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407-0770 Doug’s Handyman Service . . . . . . . . 556-4276 Barb & Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571-246-2091 Your Handyman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571-243-6726 Bob’s Handyman Service . . . . . 571-214-2507
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PHARMACY
Broad Street Pharmacy . . . . . . . . . . . 533-9013
PHOTOGRAPHY
Gary Mester, Event, Portraits . . . . . . 481-0128 Mary Sandoval Photography . . . . 334-803-1742
REAL ESTATE
Merelyn Kaye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .790-9090x218 www.helpfulmortgage.us . . . . . . . . . . 237-0222 Casey O’Neal - ReMax . . . . . . . . . . . 824-4196 Rosemary Hayes Jones . . . . . . . . . . .790-1990 The Young Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .356-8800 Tori McKinney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867-8674 Shaun Murphy, Realtor . . . . . . . . . . 868-5999
TAILOR
Tailor Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534-8886
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