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been his practice of taking out large loans, drawing in investors, developing real estate and then declaring bankruptcy, walking away with enormous sums for himself while leaving other investors and construction contractors, and their workers, holding the bag. Trump, for his part, visited Virginia Beach this Monday to deliver a speech on veterans reforms in which he declared him-
It’s been a month since the decision was made to decouple the school and economic development components of the 36-acre West End Campus Redevelopment Project. But with the clock ticking for needed action on a new or renovated high school and the necessity of a public referendum to OK it, there has been no substantial action taken by either the F.C. City Council or School Board, and these two main players cannot yet figure out how to meet together until well into next month. At its meeting this Monday night, the Council and City Manager Wyatt Shields agreed that the first step of the new decoupled process will need to be a joint meeting of the Council and School Board, but in now the dog days of summer, available dates are slim. Shields announced that the School Board will not be available for a meeting between July 23 and August 7, and with its important meeting with the Fairfax Planning Commission on the fate of the Mt. Daniel School renovation coming on July 21, it was, he said, unlikely they could meet until after August 7. The School Board had nothing new to suggest at its meeting Tuesday, and the date of a joint meeting still has yet to be set. But as Council member David Snyder pointed out Monday, “until there can be some serious economic development rain-making that we’ve not been able to get so far, we’re not going to have an idea of what we can get out of the property to offset the cost of a new or renovated school.”
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A Falls Church man, seeking to provide a safer, more reliable solution for day laborers in the city, has proposed a new, nonprofit center for W. Broad St. SEE PAGE 11
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P���� P��� ���� J��� � A����� P����� Amanda Palmer and her father, Jack, have spent more than a year working on an album called You Got Me Singing, set to be released this Friday. A day later, the Palmer father-daughter duo are playing their first show in a run of performances to support the album at the 9:30 Club. SEE PAGE 25
PERFECT SUMMER WEATHER has graced the Falls Church Concerts in the Park so far this season, a summer tradition hosted by Dr. Gordon Theisz on behalf of the Village Preservation and Improvement Society. Last week’s concert featured the Andrew Acosta band. (P����: N���-P����)
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Citing his family’s Falls Church-based automotive business as his prime example, U.S. Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr., a Democrat representing the 8th District of Virginia that includes Falls Church, last week assailed the bankruptcy and lawsuit-driven business practices of presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump in a telephone press confer-
ence for journalists from throughout Virginia. His comments followed on the remarks of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton the day before in front of bankrupted Trump casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Clinton is bringing her campaign to Northern Virginia today with a rally at the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College. Clinton hammered Trump for what she claimed has
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He added that serious efforts to get the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and the Northern Virginia Graduate Center into the conversation are also key to that. WMATA owns 36 acres that butts up against the City-owned land that it has considered developing, and the Grad Center is also contiguous and could play a critical role in the timing of the high school construction or renovation if its classrooms could be brought into play. But on this score, a spokesman for WMATA told the News-Press this week that nothing has been submitted to them from the City and could offer no clear indication that there have been any conversations between the two entities in the past year. Instead, in a statement forwarded to the News-Press, WMATA spokesman Richard Jordan said, “WMATA consis-
tently seeks market opportunities for advancing transit-oriented development at its Metro stations. WMATA does not currently have active plans to issue a solicitation to develop the West Falls Church Metro Station.” Jordan told the News-Press that although it is most common for WMATA to take the initiative to solicit proposals for development of its real estate, it is open to receiving unsolicited proposals in accordance with guidelines that are spelled out on its website. He said nothing precludes a developer with a big idea from walking through the door with a proposal. So far, nothing has come WMATA’s way. At Monday’s meeting, F.C. Councilman Dan Sze said he concurred with Snyder, saying development at the parcel “can’t be episodic.” He noted that of the best efforts of the best people at arranging mergers and acquisitions in the business world, they
are lucky to succeed four or five times out of 100, so it is not an easy job. “It is immensely complex,” he said. Councilman Karen Oliver also underscored that point. “The schools can’t go forward with what they want before we determine if we can afford it. We need to know what that number is.” Snyder reiterated, “The fundamental question is what the land is worth, what it will yield.” Shields said earlier that the yield from the commercial component of the property could have a huge impact on what City taxpayers may or may not have to pay for a new or renovated school, and that they’d need to authorize through a bond referendum some time next year. If that is put off too much longer, the deteriorating conditions at the George Mason High School now, especially in the face of continuing enrollment growth, will only be exacerbated.
FALLS CHURCH CITY Manager Wyatt Shields (right) talks about the Campus Redevelopment project with members of the F.C. City Council Monday. The seventh Council member Phil Duncan was off-site, but plugged into the meeting by phone. (P����: N���-P����) Shields recommended retaining an outside consulting group to take over the management of the project, taking it out of the hands of F.C. School Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones and himself as the effective project managers now. Vice Mayor Marybeth Connelly agreed, saying, “Looking at this overall project, it is overwhelming. We need help with this.” Shields said that “a team (of
consultants) from outside the City can bring fresh ideas and concentrate for longer periods.” He said that one big advantage of ending the earlier process, which involved two developer entities competing for the job, is that the issues of financing, including options for tax abatements and so forth, can now be discussed openly with the public, and not kept secret behind closed doors.
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U.S. REP DON BEYER, shown here at a press conference held at the National Press Club last September, spoke on the phone with members of the Virginia press last week. (P����: N���-P����) tion process will continue after Clinton’s rally in Annandale this afternoon. The Falls Church City Democratic Committee has reserved the State Theatre in Falls Church for a July 28 Democratic convention watch party the night that Clinton is expected to receive the party’s formal nomination and deliver a major speech. In Beyer’s press conference last Thursday, he echoed Clinton’s Atlantic City claims about Trump’s business practice model. He said Trump has been about “not what he could build, but about what he could take,” acquiring “intentional debt” and then using bankruptcy to avoid financial obligations. His practices have resulted in four bankruptcies and 3,500 lawsuits being filed against him, most by small contractors trying to get the money they’re owed to be able to pay their workers. Trump “endangers economies, he must not be allowed to endanger the economy of Virginia or the U.S.,” Beyer said. Beyer contrasted the Trump model to his own family’s successful business of 42 years, originated and still headquartered in Falls Church, Beyer Automotive. “Our business practice has always been to pay the little guy first,” he said. Beyer started out as a local business leader in Falls Church, being president of the F.C. Chamber of Commerce in the mid-1980s, and honored with the Chamber’s Pillar of the Community award before entering the political arena. He noted that Clinton is proposing new Small Business Administration policy that would
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We can hope that private developers will not sit on their hands waiting for the Falls Church City government and School Board to give them the cue to step forward and propose an ambitious project by the West Falls Church Metro station that would merge 10 acres of the City’s land with as much of its 36 acres of land that WMATA may be willing to combine for something that huge. It will be a very important project for both the City and its schools and for WMATA, which is sorely in need of cash, as its board chair Jack Evans told the F.C. City Council on June 27. Ironically, WMATA may need the money even more than the City of Falls Church, which at least funds its pension fund. Evans told of billions in shortfalls for the aging Metro system, including $2.5 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. At the June 27 meeting Evans said he’d be eager to collaborate with Falls Church on a joint effort to develop that highly-valued land. But follow up contact with WMATA has found no evidence there has been any concrete effort in that direction (see story, elsewhere this edition). Falls Church is at a standstill on this right now because having expended nine months working with two competing development entities before realizing that approach was not cutting it, it is now unsure what to do next. It has to balance the interest in a new or renovated high school with some idea of an ability to pay for it from the commercial development of a portion of its land, and then get City voters to go along in a referendum. Since the cost of a new high school is projected at $112 million or so, officials are not confident that voters will approve a bond referendum for such an amount, especially with needs for City Hall and library renovations also pressing. So, who will be able to say authoritatively how much the commercial development can bring? Clearly, if a project were to include some of the WMATA land, it could be much greater, and more profitable, in scale. The undeveloped land by the West Falls Church Metro, in that condition because unlike the District, Arlington and Maryland, Fairfax County frowned upon Metro station commercial development for many years, has been called “the most valuable real estate on the entire eastern seaboard.” Indeed, it may be, but the question is whether or not its maximum potential can be realized, and how. So, let this editorial serve as an appeal to big time developers to swoop in here and break this current impasse with some major vision, resources and clout. What, after all, could go on 45 acres right by the Metro station? A Disneyland? A new Empire State building? A new stadium for the Washington professional football team? Another Mosaic? This is a unique opportunity whose window will be closing fast. A mediocre alternative will simply not suffice.
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Editor, Thank you very much for the article highlighting the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce’s Guide for Displaced Businesses in the July 7 – 13 edition of the Falls Church News-Press. We are very pleased to be able to make the guide available to businesses that become displaced, plan to expand, or otherwise find themselves in need of a new location. We were concerned, however,
with the implication that the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce does not address the needs of the small business community when reviewing development projects. In its capacity as the voice for business in the community, the Chamber has advocated successfully for improvements to City processes, against higher taxes, etc. While the Chamber does typically support new development, it does so because its board of direc-
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What does it mean to be humane? In this maddened world, is it enough to vote to enact and strengthen laws that help us reach and protect the American right to happiness or should we also dedicate at least a few hours a week to help solve problems and bring good to fruition? If you raise a child, is that a sufficient gift to the future or should you and your child volunteer to participate in a charitable project or two each month? If you aren’t a parent, should you assist a parent and take on charities that need funding and grit? If you can’t afford charitable donations, should you dedicate, at least, to giving a dollar a day? Can you commit to at least one act of kindness per day? Is giving, truly, receiving? We can’t always make sense out of the web of madness, but we can implant a system and, step by step, we can see through the maze. I took an oath last night to uphold the Constitution as part of my responsibilities for a Falls Church City advisory council and I wondered as I mouthed each word: Whose interpretation of the Constitution? Yet I knew what they needed to know: Be law-abiding which equates to being ethical which equates to being American. As I returned to my seat in our City
Hall where portraits of our nation’s leaders from its founding years stare down, I wondered if they could see us if they’d wonder if the world had gone berserk. At least they would remark about the speed
“As a member of the Falls Church City Human Services Advisory Council, I will use what I’ve got to help others and improve and enhance our Little City.” of communicating and learning via little gadgets we stare at while we attempt to listen to people talk. And they’d be thrilled after the initial shock, in learning we elected a black-skinned person as president and might soon elect a woman for that role. I know they’d be proud to see how we fiercely protect the 1st Amendment as evidenced by protests streaming across the country, many peaceful amidst the mayhem.
I was asked then if I’d write about why volunteering for the City is important, why the committee I was appointed to mattered, and what this meant to me. This was after I shook my head for the nth time that day, that week, the month, over shootings, barbarism, hatred, and fear. I stopped crying because, like most of us, it’s more practical to go numb. But I cried, thank goodness, because, like most of us, I am determined to remain humane. I would rather be cut down than let a person be destroyed because he or she is of an unappreciated race, religion, country, sexual or gender preference, old age, or is financially challenged, or of different intelligence or physical capabilities. And as a member of the Falls Church City Human Services Advisory Council, I will use what I’ve got to help others and improve and enhance our Little City. On a basic level, that means affordable housing and other services toward formulating a holistic lifestyle with opportunities for our residents, workers, and visitors. To many, that means securing a level of equality. To some it means money spent for others’ use. They see these tax dollars as charity. Yet, it is these “others” who widen our lens and expand our views – they lead us into new journeys, exciting experiences, cultural adventures through food,
gardens, music, philosophies, and perspectives, and toward uncharted dreams, merging patchworks of people, fabricating new creations, seeing and realizing prospects, such as through business. These ventures give back to us. These forays enlarge and swell our hearts and soon we understand that these other people aren’t others: They are ourselves. You and I: We are unique, similar, freaky to some, cherished by many, reaching out, connecting amid the madness. So I jumped on the Metro this morning and I again saw an unwelcoming person I thought about maneuvering by, a person who appeared to be male, teenage, his skin dark, partly hidden under a hoody, slumped over. I was a bit annoyed because he was leaning over the seat next to him, taking two places and I wanted to thump down. I started to pine to go back home to my sensible Little City where many know my name and hug me even when I act foolishly. I wanted to lie at the pool. I had been yearning to complete a painting that I think someone else will like. I needed to study for my next Advisory Council meeting. No one hovered near this person. I sat down. And he sat up and smiled. Debra Z. Roth is a City of Falls Church resident and an activist who works professionally promoting social justice and economic opportunities.
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NEWS BRIEFS Hills Named New Mason High Principal The Falls Church School Board appointed Matt Hills as the next principal of George Mason High School at its meeting Tuesday night, effective immediately. He replaced Tyrone Byrd, who left last month for a position in Arlington. Hills served as assistant principal at GMHS for the last three years, as well as holding the duties of principal of the George Mason Summer Academy and coordinator for the Hybrid Learning Academy and the Dual Enrollment Program. “What I particularly like about him is that he sees the educational process as a joint venture of the student, the teachers, and the parents,” said parent Toni Matheny, a member of the principal selection committee. “He is focused on what is in the best New GMHS principal Matt interest of the student.” Before joining the “Mason Nation” in 2013, Hills. (Photo: FCCPS Schools) Hills served for three years as assistant principal for Charlottesville City Schools, and four years as Special Education teacher at J.E.B Stuart High School. Hills has a bachelor’s degree in communications from East Carolina University, a Master’s Degree in Special Education from Marymount University, and received his Administration and Supervision certification from the University of Virginia. In addition Tuesday night, the School Board appointed Jeremy Ferrara as the assistant principal at Mt. Daniel Elementary.
Fairfax Planning Staff Recommends Mt. Daniel OK The latest report from the Fairfax County Planning and Zoning Division staff to its Planning Commission has recommended the commission find the application by the Falls Church City School Board to renovate and expand the Mt. Daniel Elementary School to be “substantially in accord with provisions of the adopted Comprehensive Plan.” The report will be front and center at the county Planning Commission this month. It will be before the Planning Commission for a public hearing on Thursday, July 21 at 8:15 p.m., followed by a vote the following week. That’s when the commission will provide the final word on whether a downsized version of the Mt. Daniel expansion project will be approved. The project remains opposed by the McLean Citizens Association, which updated its disapproval at its meeting last week with 44 “whereas” clauses leading up to its conclusion. “But we’re hopeful this time,” F.C. School Board Vice Chair John Lawrence told the News-Press this week, noting the favorable staff report following the downward revision of the project that includes six fewer classrooms and a projected maximum enrollment of 660 instead of 704 students. Lawrence stressed the project’s storm water improvements will be a major benefit to everyone in the neighborhood with a 450-gallon cistern able to collect all the runoff water for a 10-year storm in addition to more green space.
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The Push for Day Labor Center in Falls Church by Drew Costley
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Falls Church resident Greg Cox has proposed a center for day laborers who congregate on the 1100 block of W. Broad Street in between the Staples and U-Haul that are on opposite sides of the street. Cox said that he has observed as many as 14 or 15 day laborers – people who often do home improvement or contract work as temporary employees – waiting around on that block of Falls Church’s main strip, looking for someone in need of hired hands. “I think [Falls Church] needs it for a couple of reasons. There is the homeowner-business perspective. The day laborers, for anyone who has driven by, there are reasonably large numbers at the U-Haul and Staples...and they intimidate or frighten some people and they are a distraction. So that’s from one end of the spectrum,” Cox said. “I don’t know the day laborers personally. I’m just now becoming familiar with them, but they are decent, reasonable people and they are trying to make an honest living and it’s hard for them and I would like to make life easier, better and improved for them. So that approaches it from the other direction.” In order to help mitigate these problems and try to provide a safer, more reliable alternative for the day laborers, Cox wants to start a nonprofit day labor center located in or near the 1100 block of W. Broad Street. He said that he prefers a nonprofit rather than a city-backed day labor center in an attempt to keep the center apolitical.
In 2007, the Town of Herndon shut down its day labor center, which was only open for 21 months, amid backlash from Herndon residents, many of whom were resentful of the center and said the center was abetting illegal immigration. The gross majority of those seeking day labor work are undocumented Latino immigrants. Cox hosted a meeting to test his idea for a day labor center at the Falls Church Community Center on Tuesday, July 12, which was attended by seven people, including Falls Church city councilmember Marybeth Connelly and an officer with the Falls Church Police Department. Also in attendance was Alice Foltz, chairman of the board of directors for the Centreville Labor Resource Center, which has been successfully operating since 2011. Some of the problems that Cox and other supporters of the burgeoning concept hope to solve are potential threats to public safety posed by the day laborers congregating near a busy street, complaints by businesses in the area of the day laborers loitering in front of and around the businesses and wage theft issues. At the meeting Cox expressed concern about the day laborers, who usually wait for business on the north side of W. Broad Street where there is a brick wall to sit on and trees to provide shade in front of the Staples, running across the busy corridor when they see potential clients on the south side of W. Broad Street where the U-Haul is located. He said that from his observations the day laborers get the
FALLS CHURCH RESIDENT GREG COX gives a presentation of his proposal for a center for day laborers in Falls Church on Tuesday, July 12 at the Falls Church Community Center. He aims to open a nonprofit center by June 2017. (Photo: News-Press)
A GROUP OF DAY LABORERS gather near one of the entrances to the parking lot of the Falls Plaza East shopping center. Falls Church resident Greg Cox said that as many 14 or 15 day laborers gather there looking for temporary work. (Photo: News-Press) majority of their work from U-Haul customers. The officer present at the meeting said that while the Falls Church Police Department has received several calls for service in 2014 and 2015 in the area where the day laborers congregate, they have only received one call for service in 2016. He said that increased police presence in the area may have something to do with the decrease in calls for service. But the most pressing issue raised at the meeting seemed to be that of wage theft, which is when employers don’t compensate workers for their labor. Several people at the meeting hadn’t heard what wage theft was, but Foltz said that it is a pervasive problem in Centreville for the laborers and employers who don’t use the Centreville Labor Resource Center. She said that there haven’t been any instances of wage theft for workers and employers who use the Centreville Labor Resource Center, but that approximately $89,000 of wages haven’t been paid out to 20 day laborers who have gotten work outside of the center in the last nine months. This is a problem that is being tackled by the Centreville Immigration Forum, of which the Centreville
Labor Resource Center is a part, which is helping the laborers take their claims to small claims court. The oversight leading to a lack of wage theft from day laborers who use the Centreville center is just one way that a day labor center could benefit day laborers in Falls Church. Another way is that it could protect homeowners who hire day laborers through the center from theft. Cox said that the Falls Church center would follow the model of the Centreville center by holding the day laborers to a code of conduct and penalizing anyone who violates the code. “I think it could work It could be a good idea,” said one of the day laborers who didn’t want to be identified because he is an undocumented immigrant. “We could be more organized and maybe it would be easier to find work.” Foltz said that the laborers in the Centreville center tend to selfselect based on those who want to follow the code of conduct and cooperate with the center’s first come-first serve lottery for assigning laborers to jobs everyday. She said that the laborers at the Centreville center created the code of conduct themselves. It took the Centreville Labor Resource Center four years to open after its unofficial incep-
tion, but Cox has a much more aggressive timeline for creating a day labor center in Falls Church. He wants to formally become a 501(c)3 by September 2016, find a place for the center by February 2017, hire staff and volunteers in March and April 2017 and open the center in June 2017. Cox said that he has already reached out to several churches and one synagogue in the area and several of the businesses in the area. He said that his next step is to start a dialogue with the day laborers in Falls Church and he needs a volunteer who speaks Spanish in order to do that. “I think my experience with [the Centreville] project has been wonderful. I have learned so much and benefitted so much from working with both the volunteers and the day laborers,” Foltz said. “One of the real big plusses of doing this work has been that we have about a 100 volunteers who get to know the day laborers, so when they go to the grocery store or if they are out on the street they see people they know because they’ve gotten to know them. And that means the workers themselves are not nameless and faceless anymore. They are seen as human beings and that in itself I think creates a stronger, healthier community.”
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Community News & Notes American Legion Hosts 6th Annual Axe Throwing Contest
F.C. Rotary Club Gathers at Cherry Hill Park Concert
A bunch of axes flying through the air at a contest named for a woman acquitted for the murder of her father and stepmother over 100 years ago? It may sound dangerous, but it’s actually a contest that’s been happening in Falls Church since 2011. American Legion Post 130 at 400 N. Oak Street is hosting its 6th Annual Lizzie Borden Axe Throwing Contest on Saturday, Aug. 6. Registration for the contest starts at 11:30 a.m. and costs $20. The axe throwing begins at 1 p.m. There will prizes for the top three competitors and commemorative t-shirts and glasses. The Josh Allen Band, which plays classic rock, southern rock, country, oldies and more, will perform at the event from 4 – 8 p.m. For more information, visit post130. org.
The Falls Church Rotary Club will be gathering at Cherry Hill Park at 312 Park Avenue on Thursday, July 14 during the City’s Concerts in the Park series, which will feature Irish Breakfast Band. The club asks that anyone who attends bring food to share or $5 so that the club can purchase food for everyone in attendance. In addition to food and live music, there will be a Rotary Club banner exchange. There will be water and soda provided, but not alcohol since the gathering is happening in a public venue. Also, the Rotary Club will be selling tickets to their August 6 trip to the Washington Nationals Family of Rotary Baseball Game, which will go to benefit Rotary’s End Polio Now initiative.
Anyone who buys a ticket to the game will have their $5 for the July 14 gathering waived. The club asks that anyone who plans to attend RSVP by Wednesday, July 13 at noon. For more information, visit FallsChurchRotary.org.
City of F.C. Accepts Donations For W. Va. Flood Victims The City of Falls Church has begun accepting donations to benefit the victims of floods in West Virginia, according to a press release from the City. Donations can be dropped off at the Falls Church Community Center at 223 Little Falls Street. The White Sulphur Springs Police Department in West Virginia has asked for the following new and packaged items: Pedialyte or other electrolyte solution for infants and children; Ensure, Glucerna or other protein and nutrition drinks for
JULY’S FIRSTFRIDAY OF FALLS CHURCH event at Art and Frame of Falls Church featured the exhibit “Colors of Cuba” along with musicians Fred Koch (far left) and Dave Erickson (third from left), featured artist Kathleen Conklin (second from left), Mayor David Tarter, councilman Phil Duncan and contributing artist Maria Kinnane (far right). The “Colors of Cuba” exhibit will be on display through July. (Photo: Courtesy of Tom Gittins)
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One More Page Announces July & August Schedule One More Page Books, located at 2200 N. Westmoreland St. #101, Arlington, recently announced its summer schedule, which includes an author discussion and book signing with a New York Times best selling author, a pair of authors sharing from their short story collections and an award-winning author sharing from his latest release. On Friday, July 15 New York Times best selling author Beatriz Williams will discuss and sign her newest novel, A Certain Age, at an event beginning at 7 p.m. The event will be accompanied by a wine tasting.
A week later, on Friday, July 22, Tara Laskowski, author of Bystanders, and Jen Conley, author of Cannibals: Stories from the Edge of the Pine Barrens, will share from their short story collections. The reading will begin at 7 p.m. Award-winning author Robert P. Watson will share from his latest release The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II on Thursday, Aug. 4 at 7 p.m. Rounding out what’s available of One More Page Books’ summer schedule is an event with journalists Deborah Kalb. Kalb will be sharing from George Washington and the Magic Hat, the first book in her The President and Me series, in which fifth grade students go back in time to interact with a president while also coping with a presentday dilemma. For more information, visit onemorepagebooks.com.
ON SUNDAY, JULY 10, Falls Church’s venerable Lou Olom (center, seated) celebrated his 99th birthday. A long-time community activist, Olom is credited as the father of the International Baccalaureate (IB program) in the Falls Church City Schools long before that program gained wider recognition. With Olom in his photo from the July 4 readings at City Hall are German Vargas, Craig Day, David Snyder and Keith Thurston. (Photo: News-Press)
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AirPhotosLIVE Contributes To WETA ‘Neighborhoods’ Series
AirPhotosLIVE, a service provided by the Falls Church-based Digital Design & Imaging Service, Inc., recently contributed to the newest episode of the WETA documentary series “Neighborhoods,” which premiered on Tuesday, July 5. Digital Design & Imaging Service, Inc. hosted a viewing party for “Neighborhoods” on July 5 at Moby Dick’s House of Kabob in Falls Church. AirPhotosLIVE captured birds eye aerial views of various Georgetown, Capital Hill and Anacostia neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. for WETA and Black Dot Films, the company that produces the series. These video segments explore the fascinating people, places and history of neighborhoods in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. According to an email to the News-Press about the premier of the episode, the WETA producer affiliated with the show said that the episode will be aired on WETA throughout the month. For more information, visit watch.weta.org/ show/weta-neighborhoods.
Once Upon a Stage Performs At Falls Church Library Once Upon a Stage, an interactive children’s theater troupe, is performing “The Princess and The Pea,” at Mary Riley Styles Public Library at 120 N. Virginia Avenue on Saturday, July 16 from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. in the library’s Youth Services room. In each hour-long performance, the narrator and ensemble will
lead the audience through classic fairy tale and then the audience will have the chance to ask the characters questions about themselves and their actions. Then, the story starts over from the beginning, but during the second performance audience members can join the action and help the characters reach their happily ever after. The performance is recommended for children ages 5 – 7. For more information, call 703-248-5034.
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. Jaime Alexander Calderon made the dean’s list with high honors at McDaniel’s College, where students must earn a grade point average between 3.7 and 3.89 to achieve the honor. Jaclyn Rose Hallenbeck made the ACH list at Siena Heights University, where students must earn at least a 3.5 grade point average to make the list. Altinay K. Karasapan made the dean’s list at Colby College, where students must earn at least 3.75 grade point average to make the list. Paula O’Rourke made the dean’s list at George Mason University, where students must earn at least a 3.5 grade point average to make the list. Osama Ashour graduated cum laude from Emory & Henry College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in pre-professional – act-
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ing. Victoria Pender graduated from Union College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in gender, sexuality and women’s studies. Irina Vasilache graduated from Kent State University with a Master of Science from the school’s College of Communication & Information. Michael Wortman graduated from St. Cloud State University with an Associate in Arts in liberal arts and sciences.
McLean Rotary Club Installs New Officers for 2016-2017 The Rotary Club of McLean installed its new officers and directors for the 2016-2017 Rotary year at a special meeting on Tuesday, June 28 in the Bistro Restaurant at the Vinson Hall Retirement Community. The new officers were installed by Suzanne McDougall, assistant district governor, who was representing Rotary District 7610. The new president for the Rotary Club of McLean is Michael Arietti who served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for the United States in Rwanda from 2005 – 2008. He is replacing outgoing president Lynn Heinrichs, who owns a State Farm Insurance agency in McLean. Aside from Arietti, several other Rotary Club of McLean members were installed into their new positions. Robert Francis Jansen was installed as president-elect, Eugene Durman was installed as secretary and Robert F. Rosenbaum was installed as vice president. For more information, visit mcleanrotary.org.
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Is the U.S. on the Path to Ruin? SAN ANTONIO – I never really understood how fascism could have come to Europe, but I think I understand better now. You start with some fundamental historical transformation, like the Great Depression or the shift to an information economy. A certain number of people are dispossessed. They lose identity, self-respect and hope. They begin to base their sense of self-worth on their tribe, not their behavior. They become mired in their resentments, spiraling deeper into the addiction of their own victimology. They fall for politicians who lie about the source of their problems and about how they can surmount them. Facts lose their meaning. Entertainment replaces reality. Once facts are unmoored, everything else is unmoored, too. People who value humility and kindness in private life abanNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE don those traits when they select leaders in the common sphere. Hardened by a corrosive cynicism, they fall for morally deranged little showmen. And then perhaps there’s a catalyzing event. Societies in this condition are culturally tense and socially isolated. That means there are a lot of lonely, alienated young men seeking selfworth through violence. Some wear police badges; some sit in their rooms fantasizing of mass murder. When they act, the results can be convulsive. Normally, nations pull together after tragedy, but a society plagued by dislocation and slipped off the rails of reality can go the other way. Rallies become gripped by an exaltation of tribal fervor. Before you know it, political life has spun out of control, dragging the country itself into a place both bizarre and unrecognizable. This happened in Europe in the 1930s. We’re not close to that kind of descent in America today, but we’re closer than we’ve been. Let’s be honest: The crack of some abyss opened up for a moment by the end of last week. Blood was in the streets last week – victims of police violence in two cities and slain cops in another. America’s leadership crisis looked dire. The FBI director’s statements reminded us that Hillary Clinton is willing to blatantly lie to preserve her career. Donald Trump, of course, lies continually and without compunction. It’s very easy to see this country on a nightmare trajectory. How can America answer a set of generational challenges when the leadership class is dysfunctional, political conversation has entered a post-fact era and the political parties are divided on racial lines – set to blow at a moment’s notice? On the other hand I never really understood how a nation could arise as one and completely turn itself around, but I think I’m beginning to understand now. Back in the 1880s and 1890s, America faced crises as deep as the ones we face today. The economy was going through an epochal transition, then to industrialization. The political system was worse and more corrupt than ours is today. Culturally things were bad, too. Racism and anti-immigrant feelings were at plaguelike levels. Urban poverty was indescribable. And yet America responded. A new leadership class emerged, separately at first, but finally congealing into a national movement. In 1889, Jane Addams created settlement houses to serve urban poor. In 1892, Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance to give the diversifying country a sense of common loyalty. In 1902, Owen Wister published The Virginian, a novel that created the cowboy mythology and galvanized the American imagination. New sorts of political leaders emerged. In city after city, progressive reformers cleaned up politics and professionalized the civil service. Theodore Roosevelt went into elective politics at a time when few Ivy League types thought it was decent to do so. He bound the country around a New Nationalism and helped pass legislation that ensured capitalism would remain open, fair and competitive. This was a clear example of a society facing a generational challenge and surmounting it. The Progressives were far from perfect, but they inherited rotting leadership institutions, reformed them and heralded in a new era of national greatness. So which path will we take, the horrific path of 1930s Europe or the renewal path of 1890s America? The future of the world hangs on that question. One way to think about it is this: America still has great resources at the local and social level. Here in San Antonio, there are cops who know how to de-escalate conflicts by showing dignity and respect. Everywhere I go there are mayors thinking practically and non-dogmatically. Can these local leaders move upward and redeem the national system, or will the national politics become so deranged that it will outweigh and corrupt all the good that is done block by block? I’m betting the local is more powerful, that the healthy growth on the forest floor is more important than the rot in the canopy. But last week was a confidence shaker. There’s a cavity beneath what we thought was the floor of national life, and there are demons there.
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Cheap Money Talks What with everything else going on, from Trump to Brexit to the horror in Dallas, it’s hard to focus on developments in financial markets – especially because we’re not facing any immediate crisis. But extraordinary things have been happening lately, especially in bond markets. And because money still makes the world go ‘round, attention must be paid to what the markets are trying to tell us. Specifically, there has been an extraordinary plunge in long-term interest rates. Late last year the yield on 10-year U.S. government bonds was around 2.3 percent, already historically low; on Friday it was just 1.36 percent. German bonds, the safe asset of the eurozone, NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE are yielding minus – that’s right, minus – 0.19 percent. Basically, investors are willing to offer governments money for nothing, or less than nothing. What does it mean? Some commentators blame the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank, accusing them of engineering “artificially low” interest rates that encourage speculation and distort the economy. These are, by the way, largely the same people who used to predict that budget deficits would cause interest rates to soar. In any case, however, it’s important to understand that they’re not making sense. For what does “artificially low” mean in this context? Compared to what? Historically, the consequence of excessively easy money – the way you know that money is too easy – has been out-of-control inflation. That’s not happening in America, where inflation is still below the Fed’s target, and it’s definitely not happening in Europe, where the central bank has been trying to raise inflation, without success. If anything, developments in the real economies of the advanced world are telling us that interest rates aren’t low enough – that is, while low rates may be having their usual effects of boosting the housing sector and, to some extent, the stock market, those effects aren’t big enough to produce a strong recovery. But why? In some past episodes of very low government borrowing costs, the story has been one of a flight to safety: investors piling into U.S. or German bonds because they’re afraid to buy riskier assets. But there’s little sign of such a fear-driven process now. The premiums on risky corporate bonds, which soared during the 2008 financial crisis, have stayed fairly low. European
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bond spreads, like the difference between Italian and German interest rates, have also stayed low. And stock prices have been hitting new highs. By the way, the financial fallout from Britain’s vote to leave the European Union looks fairly limited, at least so far. The pound is down, and investors have been pulling money from funds that invest in the London property market. But British stocks are up, and there’s nothing like the kind of panic some pre-referendum rhetoric seemed to predict. All that seems to have happened is an intensification of the trend toward ever-lower interest rates. So what’s going on? I think of it as the Great Capitulation. A number of economists – most famously Larry Summers, but also yours truly and others – have been warning for a while that the whole world may be turning Japanese. That is, it looks as if weak demand and a bias toward deflation are enduring problems. Until recently, however, investors acted as if they still expected a return to what we used to consider normal conditions. Now they’ve thrown in the towel, in effect conceding that persistent weakness is the new normal. This means low short-term interest rates for a very long time, and low long-term rates right away. Many people don’t like what’s happening, but raising rates in the face of weak economies would be an act of folly that might well push us back into recession. What policymakers should be doing, instead, is accepting the markets’ offer of incredibly cheap financing. Investors are willing to pay the German government to take their money; the U.S. situation is less extreme, but even here interest rates adjusted for inflation are negative. Meanwhile, there are huge unmet demands for public investment on both sides of the Atlantic. America’s aging infrastructure is legendary, but not unique: Years of austerity have left German roads and railways in worse shape than most people realize. So why not borrow money at these low, low rates and do some much-needed repair and renovation? This would be eminently worth doing even if it wouldn’t also create jobs, but it would do that too. I know, deficit scolds would issue dire warnings about the evils of public debt. But they have been wrong about everything for at least the past eight years, and it’s time to stop taking them seriously. They say that money talks; well, cheap money is speaking very clearly right now, and it’s telling us to invest in our future.
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The High Vs. The Low Road
The high road, and the low road. Civilizations have always been saved by leaders who’ve chosen the former route, and destroyed by those who’ve chosen the latter, through cynical postmodern revisionist histories try to blur that unyielding reality. Abraham Lincoln referred to the organizing method of the high road as an appeal to the “better angels of our nature.” In his first inaugural address he coined this famous phrase that resonates directly to human souls when it is invoked. It’s meaning is unmistakable on a core human level. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton set the tone for just this approach with her perfectlytimed speech at the Old State House in Springfield, Illinois, yesterday. The day FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS after two major national events spoke to the merits of unity and common interests – Clinton’s event where her primary rival Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed her and the moving memorial ceremony in Dallas where President Obama was joined by former President G. W. Bush in an appeal for healing the divide between law enforcement and disenfranchised minorities – Clinton underscored the need for a national leadership that will bring the nation together, not tear it apart. The location of her remarks was symbolic and poignant. That was where presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln kicked off his campaign two years before he was elected, delivered his famous “House Divided” speech against slavery, saying, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” “Let’s think better of each other,” she said. “Let’s hold together in the face of our challenges, not turn on each other or tear each other down. Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of police officers, kissing their kids and spouses goodbye every day and heading off to a dangerous job we need them to do. “Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of African Americans and Latinos, and try as best we can to imagine what it would be like if we have to have ‘the talk’ with our kids about how carefully they need to act because the slightest wrong move could get them hurt or killed,” she went on, and she didn’t stop there: “Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of Donald Trump supporters. We may disagree on the causes and the solutions and the challenges we face, but I believe like anyone else, they’re trying to figure out their place in a fast-changing America.” She said, “We’ve got to reclaim the promise of America for all our people, no matter who they vote for,” adding, “My life’s work is built on the conviction that we are stronger together, not separated into factions or sides, not shouting over each other but together.” It was in the context of this spirit that Clinton assailed her presumptive GOP rival Donald Trump because his campaign “adds up to an ugly, dangerous message to America, a message that you should be afraid, afraid of people whose ethnicity is different, or religious faith is different, or who were born in a different country or hold different political beliefs.” It is sad when one is forced to conclude that too much of the 24 hour TV news punditry is simply incapable of “getting” the point of what’s being said. In this case, the coverage centered on the “scathing attack” that Clinton unleashed against Trump, without providing any context for such attacks, except to say that they were aimed at Trump’s character. They then add, “Well, the American people have a problem with Clinton’s character, as well,” dismissing the substance of Clinton’s remarks with a lowest common denominator “he says, she says” resolution. But the two campaigns are not moral equivalencies, not by a long shot. Next week America will be presented with the spectacle of the GOP eating its own fecal matter, faced with the unsavory inevitability of a Trump debacle of its own making. Those desperate Republicans fighting to stop the catastrophe at the convention must know that their predicament has come because for the entire time that President Obama has been in office, their party has incited its supporters to take the low road of divisiveness, division, bigotry and hate.
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A Week from Hell Last week was yet another week that tore at the very fiber of our nation. After two videos emerged showing the gruesome killings of two black men by police officers, one in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the other in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, a black man shot and killed five officers, and wounded nine more people, in a cowardly ambush at an otherwise peaceful protest. The Dallas police chief, David O. Brown, said, “He was upset about Black Lives Matter” and “about the recent police shootings” and “was upset at white people” and “wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.” We seem caught in a cycle of escalating atrocities without an easy way out, without enough clear voices of calm, without tools for reduction, without resolutions that will satisfy. There is so much loss and pain. There are so many families whose hearts hurt for a loved one needlessly taken, never to be embraced again. There is so much disintegrating trust, so much animosity stirring. So many – too many – Americans now seem to be living with an ambient terror that someone is someNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE how targeting them. Friday morning, after the Dallas shootings, my college-student daughter entered my room before heading out to her summer job. She hugged me and said: “Dad, I’m scared. Are you scared?” We talked about what had happened in the preceding days, and I tried to allay her fears and soothe her anxiety. How does a father answer such a question? I’m still not sure I got it precisely right. Truth is, I am afraid. Not so much for my own safety, which is what my daughter was fretting about, but more for the country I love. This is not a level of stress and strain that a civil society can long endure. I feel numb, and anguished and heartbroken, and I fear that I am far from alone. And yet, I also fear that time is a requirement for remedy. We didn’t arrive at this place overnight, and we won’t move on from it overnight. Centuries of U.S. policy, culture and tribalism are simply being revealed as the frothy tide of hagiographic history recedes. Our American “ghettos” were created by policy and design. These areas of concentrated poverty became fertile ground for crime and violence. Municipalities used heavy police forces to try to cap that violence. Too often, aggressive policing began to feel like oppressive policing. Relationships between commu-
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nities and cops became strained. A small number of criminals poisoned police beliefs about whole communities, and a small number of dishonorable officers poisoned communities’ beliefs about entire police forces. And then, too often the unimaginable happened and someone ended up dead at the hands of the police. Since people have camera phones, we are actually seeing these deaths, live and in living color. Now a terrorist with a racist worldview has taken it upon himself to co-opt a cause and mow down innocent officers. This is a time when communities, institutions, movements and even nations are tested. Will the people of moral clarity, good character and righteous cause be able to drown out the chorus of voices that seek to use each dead body as a societal wedge? Will the people who can see clearly that there is no such thing as selective, discriminatory, exclusionary outrage and grieving when lives are taken, be heard above those who see every tragedy as a plus or minus for a cumulative argument? Will the people who see both the protests over police killings and the killings of police officers as fundamentally about the value of life rise above those who see political opportunity in this arms race of atrocities? These are very serious questions that we dare not ignore. We must see all unwarranted violence for what it is: A corrosion of culture. I know well that when people speak of love and empathy and honor in the face of violence, it can feel like meeting hard power with soft, like there is inherent weakness in an approach that leans so heavily on things so ephemeral and even clichéd. But that is simply an illusion fostered by those of little faith. Anger and vengeance and violence are exceedingly easy to access and almost effortlessly unleashed. The higher calling – the harder trial – is the belief in the ultimate moral justice and the inevitable victory of righteousness over wrong. This requires an almost religious faith in fate, and that can be hard for some to accept, but accept it we must. The moment any person comes to accept as justifiable an act of violence upon another – whether physical, spiritual or otherwise – that person has already lost the moral battle, even if he is currently winning the somatic one. When we all can see clearly that the ultimate goal is harmony and not hate, rectification and not retribution, we have a chance to see our way forward. But we all need to start here and now, by doing this simple thing: Seeing every person as fully human, deserving every day to make it home to the people he loves.
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In Dallas, police officers were covering a peaceful protest march, to ensure the safety of the marchers and onlookers, when they found themselves under attack. According to eyewitness accounts, officers continued to protect innocent bystanders, even while taking fire. That’s what they are trained to do. That’s part of the investment the community makes in recruiting, hiring, training, and retaining its police officers. That partnership with the community happened in Dallas, and it happens in Fairfax County. And, we expect outstanding quality public safety services in return. When that doesn’t happen, as a community, we examine and reexamine policies and procedures, and make changes when needed. The Board of Supervisors is working through the dozens of recommendations made by the Ad Hoc Police Practices Review Commission, which was formed after the Geer shooting. The recommendations reflect the changing nature of police work. The previous approaches weren’t necessarily “wrong,” things are just done differently today. That adjustment can be difficult, for officers and the community alike. “What can we do to help?” The badge, the weapon, the Kevlar vest may identify the wearer as a police officer, but underneath it all, they are human. They need our support, our understanding, and our respect. And those will be returned, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year.
“What can I do to help our police department?” The question was earnest, posed by a thoughtful constituent as we stood in line at the grocery store last weekend. The horrors of the sniper attack on Dallas police officers, where five officers died and several more were injured, put not only police officers and their families on greater alert, but communities across the nation on alert as well. There is a tremendous brotherhood and sisterhood in public safety, and any assault on a police officer in one part of the country is felt as an assault on all police officers. In the wake of such slaughter, police officers in Fairfax County report being the recipients of hugs, food, and gift cards from the people they serve. Simple gestures, to be sure, but appreciated nonetheless. Such actions reinforce an understanding about our police department, where “community” and “trust” are watchwords for the department. That focus on our community – all of our diverse community – helps ensure that Fairfax County will continue to be the safest community of our size in the nation. Protecting the public is a core service of local government, and the majority of police/community interactions centers on non-violent issues – traffic control, property damage, safety seminars, and community patrols. But police work is inherently dangerous. An argument may escalate quickly into an assault; a parking spat may result in vehicle damage; a loud party could end up with underage drinking and shots fired. An officer never knows what might happen during a call for service. That’s why officers train and retrain, from the time they are recruits at the academy, and all through their police careers. Safety never stops; neither does training.
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In the recently adjourned 2016 General Assembly session, I filed HB478 which adds language to Subsection H of Section 22.1-253.13:4 of the Code of Virginia (relating to the high school graduation and dropout data; formula; on-time graduation) to read: “H. (Effective July 1, 2016) The Board shall also collect, analyze, report and make available to the public high school graduation and dropout data using a formula that excludes any student who fails to graduate (i) because such student is in the custody of the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, or local law enforcement or (ii) on time because of an extenuating circumstance enumerated by the Board pursuant to regulation. For the purposes of the Standards of Accreditation, The Board shall use the graduation rate required by this subsection.” My goal with this language is to add more flexibility to the current on-time graduation formula such that students with interrupted formal education (SIFE) who do not graduate on time will not be counted as dropouts, and thereby negatively impacting a high school’s graduation rate. As I am sure you are aware, the number of students defined as SIFE is rapidly growing across the nation, because American public schools have a legal obligation to serve all children of school age, regardless of the child’s immigration or refugee status. School-age children and adolescents who enter the U.S. as refugees may well have stopped attending school in their home country after sixth grade. This is the case for the majority of youth refugees from Central America. Some of the countries of origin of refugees do not require school attendance through the age of 16 and many of these countries cannot offer public education due to raging war as well as frequent wartime destruction of public institutions. Refugee youth experience many challenges to academic success sometimes due to illiteracy in both their native language and in English, as well as the need to overcome the consequences of the trauma that forced them to flee from their home countries.
Our public high schools should be lauded for their efforts to instruct and support students who fall within the definition of SIFE, and not be penalized by lack of flexibility in the Commonwealth’s graduation rate formula. Yes, specific instances of a high school being stigmatized as “Accredited With Warning” because of a “failing” graduation rate can be appealed to the Department of Education. However, even if the appeal is successful (and the appeal I requested was successful, thanks to Secretary Anne Holton) and the school’s accreditation status subsequently revised, much damage has already been done to that school’s reputation by the immediate public posting of a school’s accreditation status. A school’s reputation is not readily repaired even when a “failing” graduation rate adjustment is made public, regardless of the recalculation and re-posting. When I presented HB478 to the Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education of the HOD Education Committee, many members of our education associations, as well as members of the general public, lined up behind me to voice their support of this addition to the current Code. The Subcommittee discussed the issue and concluded with advice that I bring HB478 to the State Board of Education for consideration. I have requested that the State Board consider the issue and amend the formula to be more inclusive of the diversity in student bodies across the Commonwealth. The graduation rate formula is a serious evaluation tool and should reflect the efforts made and resources expended by our public schools to educate students with interrupted formal education. The score yielded by the formula must not discourage that investment by punishing schools for offering an education that truly meets SIFE needs at each student’s optimal learning pace, and is not simply expedient. 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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sages that were only on AM. Especially challenging was the siting of the rooftop tripod antenna. First WERA tried Fire Station No. 10 in upper Rosslyn, then 2100 Clarendon Blvd. But coverage testing showed that the first two sites not optimal. Now rent for the eventual antenna site atop the privately owned 2300 Clarendon Blvd is paid by the county. WERA has “potential” of more than 700,000 listeners, but it can’t yet afford a Neilsen report on actual earcount. “There’s lots of interest on social media, with 80 producers tweeting and posting on Facebook,”LeValley notes. The signal doesn’t reach my East Falls Church neighborhood. But I listen on the website. Glad to boost a new thread in the Arlington social tapestry. *** I was astonished recently when I poked my head in my boyhood church – St. George’s Episcopal on Fairfax Drive – to see workmen dismantling the pews. Inquiries revealed that the renovation of the sanctuary where I was baptized and where my mother worshiped for 50 years (they kindly named the library for her) is part of a larger spiritual project. The idea is to substitute portable chairs and a movable altar to allow a variety of service events and participants to better draw in the community. “We seek to eliminate separateness in worship, reaching towards not just accessibility but inclusion,” the church elders wrote on their website. “We seek a flexible space that reflects a God who is not fixed but is ever responsive.”
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I scored an adventure in local radio last month. Former county board candidate Andrew Schneider asked me onto his Friday morning “Arlington Voices” show on Arlington’s own FM radio station WERA-LP 96.7 on (most of) your dials. We talked writing, history and too much on my adolescence. I learned that this listener’s bazaar of localized talk, music and volunteer reportage has surprised its founders by rapidly beating the expectations of wizened radio professionals. Since its launch in the Clarendon studios of Arlington Independent Media last Dec. 6, WERA-LP (the LP stands for lowpower) has attracted 80 on-air content producers (all volunteer), with proposals for more arriving daily via the website. “When I first started thinking about it, I was skeptical because I knew from experience that when you feed stations and channels, they want more and more,” I was told by executive director Paul LeValley, who has led AIM since 1992. “Where would the content come from?” Turns out, if you take a community as flush with talent and civic-mindedness as Arlington, add the Internet’s free access and branding opportunities, and you get a window of opportunity a savvy team can power through. “WERA-LP is Arlington’s only radio station,” the promo materials declare. “Broader coverage of D.C. and Northern Virginia often overshadows the news, events,
people, stories, and culture that define one of the most diverse and innovative communities in the country.” Offerings range from Nico Electra’s “It Might Get Loud – Arlington,” to shows titled “Vinyl Assault Vehicle,” “Radio Still Sucks,” “Soccer Talk Chat” and “Awesome Women Entrepreneurs.” LeValley credits AIM’s technical staff – pedigrees from establishments like NPR and the Voice of America – along with AIM stalwarts such as director of community programs Jackie Steven (who produced my session hosted by Schneider) and operations manager Lauree McArdle. The station continues to seek underwriters (for $5,000, a business can have its name on the air five times a day). AIM offers on-air production training for fees that start at $45 (mandatory for WERA producers), and memberships for $25. The idea for WERA “bubbled up” several years ago when strangers alerted LeValley to the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to offer lowpower frequency licenses in urban areas, provided there’s a nonprofit sponsor. AIM staff and folks at public meetings egged him on, and soon his report was presented to his board. Stunningly, the FCC came through with an offer of a construction permit, but the team had to hurry. Creating the audio suite “was like building an airplane in mid-air,” LeValley says. Luckily, Arlington’s Office of Emergency Management was happy to acquire an FM outlet for emergency mes-
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(7-Eleven) On July 7, two unknown suspects left the store with unpaid food merchandise. Stolen Vehicle, 551 N. Washington St. (IM Autohaus) On July 7, a customer’s vehicle was reported stolen sometime overnight. The vehicle was later
Assault, 100 block Hillwood Ave. On July 8, police received a report that an unknown female assaulted the victim during a customer dispute. No injuries were reported. Public Drunkenness, 400 block N. Washington St. On July 9, a female, 25, of Vienna, was arrested for Public Drunkenness. Assault, 6757 Wilson Blvd. (Eden Center) On July 10, police received a report of an assault. The victim sustained minor injures.
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TO LETTERS THE EDITOR Continued from Page 6 Our commercial corridors unfortunately are largely older buildings which makes them prime for redevelopment, especially since the City struggles financially. The guide was created to provide yet another benefit to our membership by helping them make smart choices and be better equipped to adapt when need be. Joe Wetzel Chairman, Falls Church Chamber of Commerce
Thanks for Keeping Us Safe, F.C. Police Editor, Thank you, thank you to the City of Falls Church Police Dept. for keeping us safe. Thank you too to the Fire Dept. & EMS & the people who support you. Barb Molino Falls Church
Opposing Free College is Not Proto-Fascism Editor, My first reaction to the editorial, “The Free Higher Education Plan” was huh? The most recent rant on the part of the editor was a bit difficult to follow, needless to say to anyone who at least tried to wade through its tortured, rambling logic. One conclusion is apparent. He believes that anyone who opposes free college is a proto-fascist. So, every generation of Americans since our founding contained proto-fascists since they obviously eschewed providing free college to the masses. Does that make FDR a proto-fascist? Or how about Bill Clinton, who I do not recall ever proposing such a thing. So, let’s look at this wonderful idea. A hard working coal miner, steelworker or street sweeper will be asked to pay, through his taxes, for the college education of some
pampered child living off a paltry $125,000 in say, Charlestown, WV, or some other small town (or even here in our area). Now, what’s next? If the pampered child needs more than just assistance for tuition, will the government (we) also support him with living expenses too? We certainly would not want him to miss a meal would we? Working for your living expenses? What a proto-fascist idea… The Democrat liberals have moved, in just over a half century, from (JFK, 1961) “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” to gimme, gimme, gimme free stuff. As to the gratuitous shot on old time evangelical Methodism, I would only say that the enlightenment was not perfect. It directly gave us the French Revolution, which tried, with beheadings, to kill all the Catholic priests and nuns in France. I do not remember reading of any old time Methodists beheading any who refused one of their alter-calls at one of their tent revival meetings. As Margaret Thatcher famously said, “Socialism is a great idea, until you run out of other peoples’ money.” Dave Phelps Falls Church
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Editor, In reporting on the WMATA and Metro system’s financial issues, you accuse the Republicancontrolled Congress as the main culprit for not funding repairs and upgrades. Historically, the Democrats have had control of Congress more than the Republicans in the years since Metro was built. Please try to keep your bias out of print. Fredericka Wall Falls Church
Thanks for the Generosity at F.C. Farmers Market Editor, For one of the few times, a letter that isn’t about a complaint. This is about the generous and caring people of Falls Church and its environs. I played guitar and sang at the Falls Church Farmers Market last weekend and put a sign over my tip bucket that said half my tips were going to my fel-
low West Virginians (I’m a native of the Mountain State living in Northern Virginia) victimized by severe and deadly flooding earlier this summer. I’ve played the Farmers Market several times in the past but never have I had the outpouring of goodwill, care and good old hard cash like I had Saturday morning. In a little over three hours of playing, I was able to provide $120 to flood relief efforts. I know, given how hard the Mountain State was hit, $120 isn’t a lot of money, but for only three hours of playing music, I think that’s pretty good. A heartfelt thanks to you, the people of Falls Church (and surrounding areas), for your kindness and generosity. “Durty Harry” Baisden Falls Church
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Arc of Nova to Host Special Education Open House The Arc of Northern Virginia is hosting a Transition Points open house on Tuesday, July 19 from 4 – 6 p.m. The event will provide families of people with developmental and intellectual disabilities with information, resources, and support to help with key decisions through the lifespan of their loved one. The event is free and includes a copy of “Getting the Most from Special Education.” For more information, visit www.thearcofnova.org.
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BalletNova Lines Up Guest Teachers for Summer Series BalletNova Center for Dance has announced nationally recognized guest teachers for its 2016 Summer Ballet Intensive: Connor Walsh (principal, Houston Ballet); Ja’ Malik (award-winning choreographer); Mary Beth Hansohn (Metropolitan Opera Ballet); and Florian Rouillier (Washington D.C. area master teacher). The Ballet Intensive Study session runs from July 5 – August 5, and is a rigorous program designed to prepare intermediate and advanced dance students through a challenging curriculum ranging from classical ballet to modern, hip hop and contemporary classes. The Summer Studio Company goes from August 8 – 19, and immerses serious young ballet students in the rigor and daily life of a professional dancer, working on both technique and choreography. Both programs take place at BalletNova’s spacious 20,800 square foot studio facility at 3443 Carlin Springs Road in Falls Church. For more information, www.BalletNova.org.
Local Businesses Invited to Contribute to New Teacher Welcome Bags The Falls Church City School system is inviting local businesses to promote themselves by contributing to new teacher welcome bags that are being prepared for the 60 new employees who will start in August. Promotional items and information are due to Marybeth Connelly no later than August 16. For more information, contact Marybeth Connelly, Falls Church City School’s Director of Business and Community Partnerships, at connellym@fccps.org. Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@fallschurchchamber.org.
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Shelia Newman, founder and president of Falls Church-based New Editions Consulting, was honored by SmartCEO with a Brava award which celebrates high-impact business leaders who “combine their irrepressible entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for giving back to the community…are exemplary leaders of both their companies and their communities” and who “encourage local philanthropy, mentor up-and-coming leaders and set their companies on the path to tremendous growth.” Newman was honored for her focus on diversity, inclusivity, accessibility, and on work-life balance as well as the success of her government contracting firm. Honorees are selected annually by an independent committee of local business leaders based on company growth, community impact and mentoring. For more information visit www.smartceo.com or www.neweditions.net.
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Body Dynamics is hosting a grain-free cooking seminar on Thursday, July 21 from 9 – 10:30 a.m. Power & Balance Fitness will teach attendees how to cook with Seed-nola and Nut-nola (both a “kind of” granola) and discuss the benefits of grain-free cooking. The event will take place at 410 W. Maple Avenue as part of the Body Dynamics Community Health Talk series. For more information visit www.bodydynamicsinc.com or www. powerandbalancefitness.com.
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Community Events
THURSDAY, JULY 14
Concerts in the Park. The City of Falls Church’s Concerts in the Park series continues with Irish Breakfast Band, who will be performing Celtic music. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Concerts. Little Legos at the Library. Lego play time for ages 3-6 years old with a caregiver. Registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 3 – 4 p.m. 703-248-5034. DIY Nail Stickers. Children rising to grades 6 – 12 can gather at the library to add some sparkle to their nails. Registration required and participation is limited to 15 children. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. 702-2485034.
FRIDAY, JULY 15
Dance with your Baby at the Library. Enjoy songs and movement for children ages 0 to 18 months. Registration opens two weeks prior to each program date. Register with the Youth Services desk by phone 703-2485034 or in person. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls
Church). Free. 10:30 – 11 a.m. 703-248-5034. Playdate Cafe. Coffee and conversation for the adults; age appropriate toys for the kids. For parents/caregivers with infants ages birth to 18 months. Registration opens two weeks prior to the date of the class. Space is limited to 16 children and their parents/caregivers. Register with the Youth Services Department by phone 703-2485034 or in person. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 – 12 p.m. 703248-5034.
SATURDAY, JULY 16
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. Once Upon a Stage presents The Princess and The Pea. Once Upon a Stage, an interactive children’s theatre troupe, will lead the audience through a version of this classic fairy tale and then give the audience a chance to ask characters about themselves and their actions. Then, the story starts over from the beginning,
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but with crowd participation. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 a.m. – noon. fallschurchva.gov/Library. Author Talk and Signing. New York Times bestseller Beatriz Williams will discuss and sign her newest novel A Certain Age, accompanied by a wine tasting. One More Page Books (2200 N. Westmoreland St. #101, Arlington). Free. 7 p.m. onemorepagebooks.com.
SUNDAY, JULY 17
Launch Party. One More Page is co-hosting a launch party for John Gilstrap’s Friendly Fire, the latest in the Jonathan Grave thriller series. The Vienna Inn (120 E. Maple Ave., Vienna). Free. 2:30 p.m. onemorepagebooks.com.
MONDAY, JULY 18
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, JULY 19
Paws to Read. Children can come and read with a canine companion. Readers rising grades
K-6th. Registration Required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 3 – 4 p.m. 703-248-5034.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
Kandinsky Looms in the Library. Children who are rising to grades 1 – 5 can create woven works of art using CDs and yarn, a la Wassily Kandinsky. Registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 3 – 4 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Library. Bingo at the Library. Play Bingo at the Library. Rising grades K-5th. Registration opens two weeks before each date. Register with the Youth Services desk by phone or in person. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 8 p.m. 703-2485034. Town Hall: Library Expansion and Renovation. The Mary Riley Styles Public Library Board of Trustees is inviting the public to provide input and learn more the proposed library expansion and renovation project. City Hall Council Chambers (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/670/ Master-Plan-Expansion.
Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, JULY 14
“Another Way Home.” It’s visiting day at Camp Kickapoo, and Joey Nadelman is nowhere to be found. As the search parties come up empty, Joey’s parents are left wondering not only where he’s gone, but also why their marriage feels lacking, and what might have happened if they had taken a different path. An insightful, sardonic drama about the strangers we all live with – family. This is a preview performance of the show. Through July 17. Washington, D.C. Jewish Community Center (1529 16th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 – $35. 8 p.m. dcjcc.org.
FRIDAY, JULY 15
“Katie McManus Presents The Divine Miss McM.” D.C. theatre veteran Katie McManus joins Creative Cauldron for a tribute performance to
the original showgirl: Bette Midler. From Midler’s early days in the bathhouses of New York all the way to Hollywood and back to Broadway, McManus will sing us through the the Divine Miss M’s decades-long career. With Midler’s resume of over 30 albums, 35 movies, 4 Golden Globes, 3 Emmys, 3 Grammys and dozens of nominations, it’s sure to be divine. Through July 16. ArtSpace Falls Church (410 S. Maple Ave., Falls Church). $15 – $100. 8 p.m. creativecauldron.org.
“Footloose.” This is the opening night of the McLean Community Players’ production of “Footloose,” the high-energy rock musical based on the �ilm by the same name. The musical tells the story of Ren, a teenager who is forced to move with his mother from Chicago to Bomont, a small farming town, after his father abandons them. Ren expects to have the usual problems in adjusting to a new school, but he does not expect
the repressive atmosphere of Bomont, where a powerful minister has persuaded the town council to ban dancing and rock music. Through July 24. The Alden (1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean). $23 – $25. 8 p.m. McLeanPlayers.org.
SATURDAY, JULY 16
“Born For This: The BeBe Winans Story.” This is the opening night of this performance. Detroit natives BeBe and CeCe Winans, youngest siblings of the Winans family dynasty, experience the ultimate in culture shocks when invited to join Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s “Praise the Lord” television show. The Winans teenagers have the opportunity to become more than just television celebrities, but to integrate TV evangelism. Through August 28. Arena Stage (1101 6th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $64. 8 p.m. arenastage.com.
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P������� A����... Thursday, July 21 – Concerts in the Park. The City of Falls Church’s Concerts in the Park series continues with Ocho de Bastos who will be playing Latin pop
music. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Concerts.
Saturday, July 30 – Once Upon a Stage presents The Girl Who Cried Wolf. Once Upon a Stage, an interactive children’s theatre troupe, will lead the audience through
a version of this classic fairy tale and then give the audience a chance to ask characters about themselves and their actions. Then, the story starts over from the beginning, but with crowd participation. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 a.m. – noon. fallschurchva.gov/Library.
Saturday, July 30 – Build Your Own Composter Workshop. Participants will start this workshop with a pile of recycled lumber, a recycled pickle barrel and
assorted screws and bolts and leave with a fully functioning tumbler style composter. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). $75. 1:30 – 4:30 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/520/Composting-Workshops.
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Quesadilla Recipe & Other Uses for Tortillas Inspired by the Whopperito BY MICHELLE STARK TAMPA BAY TIMES
Another day, another fastfood mashup. This time it’s the Whopperito, a new Burger King concoction the fast food chain is currently testing. “They tested the waters with the Whopper Dog, its ‘flamegrilled’ beef, melted cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, mayo, ketchup, pickles, and onions in an elongated form. (Reenactment of pitch meeting: ‘Imagine the Whopper, but it’s...wait for it...not round.’) And now Burger King is rolling its ‘have it your way’ message – body-in-rug style – in a flour tortilla,” our reporter wrote last week. That’s right, the idea is to take Burger King’s classic sandwich the Whopper and stuff it into a tortilla. The product is only being officially tested in the Pennsylvania market at this point, but the idea for the Whopperito has been around for a couple of years, with fastfood fans combining their hauls at BK and Taco Bell. To be honest, this sounds like one of the least appalling Frankensteined fast foods. Think about it: A Whopper’s innards are
very similar to the innards of a standard burrito. Beef? Lettuce? Tomato? Sounds just fine wrapped in a flour tortilla. Actually, it’s almost boring. There are far more inventive uses for a tortilla, including the squash quesadilla recipe below. And in the spirit of mashups like the Whopperito, we came up with three off-the-wall (but appetizing) creations: Peanut Butter and Jelly Quesadilla: Spread a thin layer of peanut butter on a flour tortilla, then top with an even thinner layer of jelly, either grape or strawberry. Sprinkle some slivered almonds on top, then place the whole thing carefully into a skillet and cook over medium heat for about 2 minutes. Top with another flour tortilla, press down slightly, then flip and cook for another 5 minutes. Drizzle with honey and cinnamon and serve. Pizza Burrito: Homemade Hot Pockets, anyone? To make, spread a layer of marinara sauce on a flour tortilla (use a large one, not the 6-inch ones), then top it with mozzarella cheese, diced onions, diced green pepper and slices of pepperoni. Place in a
Summer Squash Quesadilla • 1 large onion • 2 jalapeno peppers • Olive oil • Salt • Pepper • 2 cloves garlic • Salsa
1. Chop onion into chunky 2-inch pieces. Dice jalapeno. 2. Heat about 2 tablespoons olive oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions, then season with salt and pepper. Cook for about 15 minutes, until onions have cooked down quite a bit and are translucent. Add jalapeno and garlic and cook for 5 minutes more.
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3. Meanwhile, cut zucchini or squash into thin rounds, no thicker than ¼ inch. Add to pan with onion mixture and cook about 8 minutes until squash is soft but not mushy. Remove mixture from pan and set aside.
5. Flip quesadillas and cook on that side for 3 to 5 minutes, until tortillas and browned and cheese is melted inside. Lower the heat if the tortillas are cooking too quickly.
4. Return skillet back to heat and add another tablespoon of olive oil. Add 1 or 2 corn tortillas to skillet, depending on how large your skillet is, and cook for a minute or so until they start to brown. Top with 2 ounces cheddar or
skillet, cook for 2 minutes over medium heat until cheese starts to melt, then remove from heat and let cool for a minute or so. Roll tortilla into a burrito. (You can microwave it at this point for
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Colby Jack cheese, then add about ½ cup squash-onion mixture. Season with salt and pepper, then top each quesadilla with a second tortilla.
6. Remove from pan, cut in half, then top with a dollop of sour cream or yogurt and salsa.
Makes 4. Source: Michelle Stark, Tampa Bay Times
30 seconds if cheese isn’t melted enough.) Sprinkle with fresh Parmesan cheese and serve. Shepherd’s Pie Quesadilla: Spread a thin layer of mashed potatoes on a corn or flour tortilla. Top
with cooked ground beef, cooked peas and cheddar cheese. Place in a skillet, cook for 2 minutes over medium heat, then top with second tortilla. Flip and cook for 5 to 7 minutes, or until cheese is melted.
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Singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer and her father Jack Palmer, a semi-professional choral singer in the Washington, D.C. area, have spent more than a year working on an album called You Got Me Singing, which is set to be released on Friday, July 15. And a day after the album, a collection of covers, comes out, the Palmer father-daughter duo are playing their first show in a run of performances to support the album at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. “I thought it would be really nice for him to do a hometown show and he’s really excited to be playing,” Amanda said. “And we did an iteration of this show in London about a month ago and it was just wonderful. I thought about doing one giant, banging album release show or a little tour and I opted for a little tour so that we could...spend time together and he could spend time with his grandchild. “One thing I learned as a musician is that if you want to spend time with the people you love you have to incorporate them into what you’re doing or you have to take a lot of time off. So being able to do this creative project with my father and getting to spend some time with him on the road and to be able to take walks with him in Central Park with my child is sort of my version of modern multitasking where I can hold an instrument in one hand and my family in the other and not have to choose.” While Amanda and Jack were recording this album, Amanda was pregnant with her first child, so the recording spans three generations of Palmers. She said that the experience of recording the album with her father, with whom she once had an estranged relationship, was “incredibly non-dramatic.” “One of the reasons we picked such beautiful, simple songs was that I didn’t want to have any pressure in the studio,” she said. “So we only chose material that we knew we could knock out
AMANDA PALMER. (P����: C������� �� K��� C������) of the park in the studio so that we could spend time enjoying ourselves, which is not to say to it was easy – being in the studio is always work, but we picked songs that we love playing and that we knew that we would have fun recording.” Amanda has covered songs prior to You Got Me Singing and in 2010 she released an EP of covers of Radiohead songs, but most of the songs she’s performed throughout her 16-year career have been originals. Aside from the Radiohead cover EP, this is the first time she has released a complete collection of covers. “I been thinking a lot about why it was so important, about why covers matter,” she said. “The political scene in America right now that has been serving as a backdrop to my dad and I choosing the songs for and recording and mixing this record hasn’t been coincidental….You look at all of these songs and have to shake your head and say ‘Oh my gosh, nothing has changed’ and at the same time music can be the thread that
reminds us where we’ve been and where we’re at. “I think music and our reflecting the world around us is an essential part of being human and an essential part of what I want to hand down to my son.” Amanda noted the dedication in her husband Neil Gaiman’s new book The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction, a collection of his writing spanning most of his career, as another example of the importance of handing down their creative work to their son. “In a sense, Neil and I are artists, we’re not going to stop producing, but there is this wonderful sense that whatever we’re producing now is going in a time capsule for our son when he’s older,” she said. “And there’s this sense of joy and responsibility that comes with that. These are letters to our future selves and our future son.” • For more information about Jack & Amanda Palmer, visit amandapalmer.net.
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Last month, Randell Mills, the founder and CEO of New Jersey’s Brilliant Light Power, put on another of his infrequent briefings on the progress his laboratory has been making in developing a new source of energy. Mills has been working on his technology for over 25 years; has raised over $100 million to finance his experiments; has some major, if unnamed, investors and collaborators; and as yet has received close to zero attention in the media. No one has yet proved the key parts of Mills’ theories wrong; they have just ignored them or said they are not real off the top of their heads. These assertions are mostly based on life experiences, such as “water does not burn” but in some cases, they come from individuals with a deep understanding of scientific principles. Claims of a phenomenon that appear to violate what we currently hold to be the laws of science are immediately seen as an experimental error or even fraud rather than a sign that we do not, and probably never will, know all there is to know about God’s universe. Most of us believe there is such a thing as nuclear energy – A-bombs, suns, stars, nuclear power plants, etc. However, to suggest that there may be ways other than nuclear fission or fusion to access this energy sets off howls of skepticism, especially from those who earn a living knowing or perhaps teaching about science, for some of their knowledge might be wrong. When considering claims about possible new sources of energy, it is important to remember the mess that we (humanity) currently are in with fossil fuels. Some 100 years or so from now it is going to be so hot, so dry and so wet at the same time, that this planet will not be much of a place to live on – unless we can stop burning fossil fuels and keep our civilizations running at the same time. Given the importance of new and non-polluting sources of energy, any claim no matter how far fetched it seems is worth watching. Unlike the claims and controversies surrounding cold fusion, Mills and his Brilliant Light Power colleagues are our only source of information. All that we know about his technology has come from his published papers and briefings. Although Brilliant Light has numerous organizations
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collaborating, financing, and supporting the Sun Cell project so far they have said nothing. For those coming in late to this story, Mills says he has developed a way of changing hydrogen into another stable form of matter that is non-polluting and gives off colossal amounts of energy in the form of light during the transition to the new form. The light given off by Mill’s reactions is to be directed into solar cells that produce electricity at very low cost. In recent years, Mills has been saying that the science behind this technology is now well understood and that work has started on devices that soon will be producing commercial amounts of electricity. The first such device, called a “Sun Cell” as it produces a miniature sun inside, has been under development for the past year and is now being fine-tuned for efficiency, reliability, safety, and field testing. The latest Brilliant Light Power briefing was released to the public in the form of power points rather than a video of the briefing. This change signifies that the gee-whiz stage of flashes and clouds of vaporized silver is over as the reactions now take place in a closed container. The data from trial runs and the information concerning schedules and possible scenarios for deployment of the Sun Cell constitute most of the recent briefing. The PowerPoints recent briefing and a considerable library of background information are available at http://brilliantlightpower.com. In the past six months, Mills has closed in the top of his experimental Sun Cell allowing him to make measurements of the power consumed vs. the power emitted of the prototype. These show that for an input of 6.6 kilowatts, his sun cell is producing 1,260 kilowatts of energy in the form of heat and light. As today’s concentrated solar cells can only convert light into electricity at about 30 percent efficiency, the device should be capable of producing some 250,000 kilowatts of electricity. Assuming the technology works as advertised, it will take
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Fairfax Co. Police, in Hot Pursuit at 100 MPH, Crash in Downtown Falls Church The News-Press has learned that the two Fairfax County police cruisers who came down West Broad Street Sunday afternoon chasing a fleeing stolen vehicle were going almost 100 miles per hour, before one of the police vehicles collided with a passenger car at the intersection of Broad and Washington Streets and careened into the Robertson Building there. Neither police officer driving the crashed vehicle nor the driver of the passenger car were seriously injured.
Falls Church News-Press Vol. XVI, No 19 • July 13, 2006
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Foxes Music Sale A special tribute to honor Jim Edmonds, long-time owner of the successful Falls Church based music store, Foxes Music, upon his retirement and the sale of his company to three of this employees, will be held next Tuesday, July 18, at the State Theatre. Foxes Music is the highest-volume seller of music and musically-related items in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region.
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Beyer Volvo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237-5000 Koons Used Car Outlet . . . . . . . . . . . 533-3363 n
BANKING
Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Co.. . . 519-1634 BB&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241-3505 TD Bank/www.TDBank.com. . . . . . . . 237-2051 n
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VA Outdoor Power Equipment . . . . . . 207-2000 n
Point of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237-6500 n
FRAMES
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Allstate Home Auto Life Ins. . . . . . . 241-8100 State Farm Insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . 237-5105 Complete Lawn & Landscape Services 571-221-4330 Morales Lawn Care . . . . . . . . . . 571-221-4330
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Doug’s Handyman Service. . . . . . . . . 556-4276 Your Handyman . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571-243-6726
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Jazzercise Falls Church. . . . . . . . . . . 622-2152
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Dr. Alison Sinyai, Family Eye Care . . 533-3937
PAINTING
Freitas Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841-5132
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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
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Academy of Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 938-8054 Foxes Music Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533-7393
PHOTOGRAPHY
Gary Mester, Event, Portraits. . . . . . . 481-0128 Mary Sandoval Photography . . . 334-803-1742
Dr Gordon Theisz, Family Medicine. . 533-7555 n
PHARMACY
Broad Street Pharmacy . . . . . . . . . . . 533-9013 n
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Apex Pet Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532-8012 Feline Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 920-8665
www.healthybyintention.com.. . . . . . . 534-1321
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HOME IMPROVEMENT
FC Heating & Air Service . . . . . . . . . . 534-0630 Joseph Home Improvement. . . . . . . . 507-5005 One Time Home Improvement. . . . . . 577-9825
Family Dentistry, Nimisha V Patel . . . 533-1733 Dr. William Dougherty . . . . . . . . . . . 532-3300
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Maid Brigade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823-1922 Acclaimed Carpet Cleaning . . . . . . . . 978-2270 A Cleaning Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892-8648
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Tailor Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534-8886
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2754 Stone Hollow Dr. Vienna, VA 22180 (walk to Dunn Loring Metro) $497,000 4BR/2FBA/2HBA Completely updated! 3 levels w gourmet kitchen, hardwood floors, updated baths. Pergola & patio out back!
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2345 N. Oak St. Falls Church 22046
Beautiful 3BR/2.5BA level house on quaint street! 3 finished levels feature refinished hardwood floors, open kitchen, updated baths, newly remodeled family room, updated and expanded rec room,& large screened in porch off Master BR. Large, lush lot on .27 acres! Haycock ES, Longfellow MS, McLean HS. SoldPrice $850,000.
7601 Burford Drive, McLean VA 22102
Lovely and spacious floor plan in this beautiful home. 5BR/3.5BA home on full acre of land in Langley HS pyramid. New Price $1,199,000. For rent $4,000.
210 Noland St, Falls Church City 22046
Beautiful rambler on gorgeous, tree lined street. 4BR/3BA on .30 acres of landscaped yard. Completely updated. Detached garage with finished loft space. Priced at $950,000.
WestLee (2200 N Westmoreland Street Arlington, VA 22213)
For Sale #515 1BR+den/1BA condo on TOP Floor of beautiful building. 1 storage space + 1 parking space included. Overlooks green area in condo. Gourmet kitchen w breakfast bar, SS appl., granite. $409,000
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#410 2BR/2BA corner unit $545,000.
1097 Pensive Lane, Great Falls, VA 22066
Beautiful home on .91 acres- lush backyard. 5BR/3.5BA with beautifully refinished hardwood floors. Fresh paint and new carpet in basement. New Price $889,000.