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In the wake of Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe’s executive order restoring voting rights to former felons, local organizations are teaming up for a voter registration drive for this Saturday in Arlington. SEE PAGE 5
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Virginia Underestimates Payroll Tax Revenues, Budget Growth Falters Del. Simon Tells F.C. Chamber of Slow Growth Challenges
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The City of Falls Church’s 24th annual Summer Concerts in the Park series, produced by the Village Preservation and Improvement Society, is a series of performances with bands and musicians with connections to The Little City. SEE PAGE 25
VIENNA MAYOR LAURIE DIROCCO and Falls Church Mayor David Tarter (foreground, left to right) sat across from Fairfax City Mayor Scott Silverthorne (in back, between them) at Tuesday’s threejurisdiction celebration of solar energy gains in Northern Virginia. (P����: N���-P����)
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The leadership of three Northern Virginia jurisdictions – the City of Falls Church, City of Fairfax and Town of Vienna – gathered over a meal Tuesday night in downtown Fairfax City to celebrate a successful annual campaign to advance the uses and benefits of solar power in the region. The gathering marked the culmination of a friendly competition between the jurisdictions
to see who could get the greatest number of citizens to sign up for the Spring 2016 Solarize Northern Virginia effort. The program, run by the Local Energy Alliance Program (LEAP) in partnership with the Northern Virginia Regional Commission and the three participating jurisdictions, provided those who signed up with free solar assessments of their home locations, free home energy check-ups, and the ability to purchase solar photovoltaic systems
at discounted prices with prenegotiated contracts. Overall, this year’s campaign produced 464 new solar assessments and 27 contracts for solar, with a total construction value of $710,092. The host of Tuesday’s gathering, the City of Fairfax, won the friendly competition with 217 sign-ups, to 129 for the City of Falls Church and 118 for the Town of Vienna. The mayors of all three juris-
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In the wake of the Great Recession and federal budget sequestration, Virginia finished the fiscal year on June 30 with considerably less in revenues than earlier projected. The modest 1.7 percent general fund revenue growth was almost half the 3.2 percent that was projected when the coming two years’ budget was adopted in the spring. Del. Marcus Simon, who represents the 53rd State Assembly district that includes the City of Falls Church, told the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce monthly luncheon this week that as a result “everything is on hold” in terms of any new spending until a process for making necessary adjustments is put into place. It means that raises for public employees, including in areas of the state heavily reliant on the state for funding their schools, that were voted in the spring are now stalled at least until September, Simon said. Consultations by legislators with Virginia Finance Secretary Ric Brown have been underway, and the Governor’s Advisory Council on Revenue Estimates will meet on Aug. 15 to develop a new forecast that will inform revisions that the legislature will make after Labor Day, Simon said. Still, Gov. Terry McAuliffe noted that 135,000 net new jobs were created in Virginia in the last year and yesterday announced that homelessness is down by 10.5 percent, including down by 17 percent for family homelessness.
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Simon noted that the shortfall in revenue projections had to do with payroll taxes coming in considerably lower than anticipated. It means that even with the net new jobs created adding to a net record $18.3 billion in new revenue accounting for the 1.7 percent growth, the salaries paid to employees around the Commonwealth turned out to be far less than projected. Simon said that the leveling off of federal spending in Northern Virginia is a big factor in the slower than expected growth, and that rather than hoping that might rebound, the state is focusing on economic diversification, seeking new investments in biotech industries, such as at the Center for Personalized Medicine on Gallows Road and expanded academic centers affiliated with George Mason University. He said that keeping federal dollars in the state is also a challenge in the face of some lost seniority in the Congress. Another challenge to address this comes in the unsettling fact that 100 of incumbents in the state legislature were re-elected in the most
recent election, although Democrats are looking at some opportunities to pick up both U.S. congressional and state legislative seats this year in Fairfax County and even in areas bordering it in Loudoun and Prince William counties. But he said that the fact there are no longer any elected Democrats from rural southwest Virginia is not likely to change. He said there is a need to “change the culture” in Richmond (and Washington, D.C.) because the sense of cozy relationships between lawmakers and lobbyists has created a perception that “the system is rigged,” which deters voter enthusiasm. One step toward this has been an initiative by freshmen State Del. Mark Levine from Alexandria to form a “Caucus on Transparency” with the aim that lobbyists providing gifts to legislators, even if not illegal, may make lawmakers uncomfortable if the public was informed about them. Simon said that one of the biggest problems in the state is the legislature’s stubborn refusal to buy into the President’s Medicaid expansion initiative that would bring $6 million a day to Virginia to cover citizens who are in the 100 to 138 percent area below the poverty line.
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Voter Registration Drive for Former Felons Organized by Drew Costley
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In the wake of Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe’s executive order restoring voting rights to former felons, the Arlington chapter of League of Women Voters and the Northern Virginia chapter of the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice are teaming for a voter registration drive for former felons on Saturday, July 23. The registration drive will be held from 1 – 5 p.m. at Macedonia Baptist Church, located at 3412 S. 22nd St., Arlington. Any Virginia citizen who has committed a felony, served their jail or prison sentence and has completed their parole or probation supervision is eligible to register to vote in Virginia after Governor McAuliffe signed an executive order in April restoring rights to such citizens. And the Arlington chapter of the League of Women Voters and the Northern Virginia National Association for Blacks in Criminal Justice are inviting potential voters who are former felons to see if they are eligible to vote and register to vote if they are eligible ahead of Virginia’s October 17 voter registration deadline. “The governor granted former felons their [voting] rights and we want to be part of that,” said Karen Kimball, a member of the Arlington chapter of the League of Women Voters. While an appeal of a court challenge of the governor’s action is expected to be
ruled on by next week, the plan is to push ahead aggressively in the meantime. “For somebody who was imprisoned and gets out and serves their probationary or parole time, the best thing is to get them back into society as voting citizens because that’s part of the rehabilitation process. And it also makes them feel like citizens of the community they live in and so they feel they have a part in what is happening,” Kimball said. The two organizations which are hosting this voter registration drive were connected through their shared desire to play a role in expanding the voting franchise to former felons, which was given a boost after Governor McAuliffe’s executive order. “When the Governor signed his executive order, it was a step toward justice for my organization,” said Mondrè Kornegay, president of the Northern Virginia chapter of the National Association for Blacks in Criminal Justice. “And for [Karen] and her group it was a step toward inclusion because they are hoping to get as many people to vote as they can. Our goal is to help people get past what happens to them when they’ve been in the criminal justice system.” Kornegay said that “everyone has a price for their poor choices,” but forcing former felons to carry around that stigma for the rest of their lives creates second-class citizenship. “And so often those second-class citizens are people who are of African-American
VIRGINIA HAD THE THIRD HIGHEST level of felon disenfranchisement as of 2010, according to statistics from The Sentencing Project. The Arlington chapter of the League of Women Voters is one of two organizations seeking to restore voting rights to former felons with a registration drive on July 23. (Source: The Sentencing Project) descent and that’s a big issue for us,” Kornegay said. “We know that when you can go and you can say I voted for my councilmember, I voted for my president, I voted for my governor, I can run for office if I want to and I’m part of the process, then I’m no longer a second-class citizen. And we can’t afford to have those levels of citizenship because it keeps us apart instead of bringing us together.” The organizations have pulled together more than 30 volunteers for the event to help former felons walk through the process of finding out if they are eligible to vote and registering if they are eligible. Kimball said that she’s read about
former felons having trouble navigating the website in place for letting people know if they are eligible to vote. Serving as a form of voter education, one of the two missions of the League of Women Voters, there will be a representative of the Virginia Restoration of Rights Office on hand to answer questions potential voters might have. “Having a representative from the Restoration of Rights Office is just going to be critical,” Kimball said. Any potential voter who needs a photographic form of identification will be able to get one on the spot at the July 23rd event from Bill Sands of the Arlington
County Voter Registrar’s Office. Sands, the outreach coordinator for the Arlington Office of Voter Registration, said that “he was more to happy to help” when called upon to help with the July 23 event. “Some people don’t know that when you go to vote on November 8 that you have to have a qualified photo ID,” Kimball said. Governor McAuliffe’s move to restore voting rights to former felons follows a 2013 move by his predecessor, former Governor Bob McDonnell, to streamline the civil rights restoration process for nonviolent felons. McDonnell Continued on Page 13
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American and global culture lost a compassionate and moral giant Tuesday with the untimely passing of the Rev. John Deckenback, the Central Atlantic Conference minister of the most progressive among Protestant denominations, the United Church of Christ. Deckenback, as we are sure he would have preferred, “died with his boots on,” suddenly at his desk in the early evening hours of July 19. He was in his early 70s. Deckenback was one of the countless human beings who carry out their life’s work outside the kind of spotlights that define “celebrity” these days, although his entire adult life was dedicated to his special ministry in the U.C.C. at the regional conference spiritual and administrative level. In particular, he endured and persevered in that “conference minister” role in Northern California and for the past two decades in the Central Atlantic states, including Virginia, navigating the ongoing relevance and redemptive role of the church through a rough period of declining numbers and its calling for social change and spiritual growth. Deckenback was a lifelong friend, a year junior, of our owner-editor. They grew up together in a southern California seacoast town and both wound up attending the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif., during the wildly tumultuous times of the burgeoning anti-Vietnam War, civil rights, feminist and gay liberation movements. Upon his graduation, Deckenback saw his role as moving into the denomination’s regional administrative offices in downtown San Francisco in the midst of that era, while our editor chose the role of social activism and journalism. It did not cause their estrangement, but as Deckenback said back then, “We’ve simply chosen different paths.” The two were reunited when, a year after our editor founded this newspaper in 1991, Deckenback was called to head the U.C.C.’s conference in this region. Among many other things, Deckenback helped arrange exclusive interviews with the national leadership of the U.C.C. by the News-Press. A big, burly, bearded, booming but friendly and kind-faced man, he cherished all his roles as pastor, husband and father. He was a tireless worker, holding together the churches in a denomination that prides in the independence of its local congregations, from conservative ones in the Shenandoah Valley to predominantly African-American ones in the D.C. and Baltimore inner cities. The role of the denomination in founding Howard University after the Civil War was never lost on him as an inspiration for his work, as well the denomination’s trail-blazing decision at a national synod to advocate for same-sex marriage years before it became a popular idea. Deckenback also traveled periodically to the Middle East, visiting and bringing aid to the massive refugee camps on the Syrian-Iraqi borders after the U.S. began its invasion and occupation of Iraq. A core theme of the U.C.C. is that “God is still speaking,” and “where man puts a period, God puts a comma.” The Rev. Deckenback was a living, breathing embodiment of just that.
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We Must Incentivize More Renewable Energy Sources Editor, With Governor McAuliffe signing Executive Order 57, which targets areas for reduction in carbon emissions, we are moving towards a better future, but more needs to
be done. Every day, we pollute the atmosphere from car and power plant emissions, which reduces the quality of living for everyone in the area. More importantly, those carbon emissions lead to global climate change, of which the effects of that we are only starting to see. If we do nothing, then we ensure that our planet becomes more polluted. In order for us to stop polluting the atmosphere and the world around us, we need to implement a strong Clean Power Plan. This means meeting EPA emission limits to cut carbon pollution, soot, and smog. This also means incentivizing renewable energy sources like wind and solar. John Carballo Falls Church
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When the children at the Falls ChurchMcLean Children’s Center heard that an important person was coming to visit Tuesday morning, they were excited and full of questions. What does Congressman Beyer do? Will he play with us or have a snack? I explained that he was part of the government and that he helped make the rules. Wow! was the response. Wow indeed! I am delighted that Congressmen Don Beyer was interested in seeing our early childhood education in action. Founded in 1968 by 20 faith groups in this area concerned about parents leaving children alone in their cars because they couldn’t afford childcare, the Children’s Center serves all children, regardless of the family’s ability to pay. Now 60 percent of the families who enroll their children here are the working poor; many are recent immigration from counties all over the world. The other 40 percent are families who want their children to experience the socioeconomic and rich cultural diversity of our program. I am proud of our work excellence. Each of our classrooms has three teachers, with 12 – 17 children and every room has at least one teacher who is a native Spanish speaker. The teachers are professionals, continually pursuing more education and training, using an evidenced
based curriculum and assessments with fidelity. I pay them well above the national average of $12 an hour for a lead teacher, $9 for an assistant. But it is still not a living wage. Parents trust their precious
“What if our ‘tribe’ truly understood the need to nurture and educate our children?”
children every day with these teachers and often pay as much in child care costs as their rent or mortgage payment. But it still is not a living wage. The Children’s Center Board admires Congressman Beyer’s past service to the Commonwealth. As the former Chair of Jobs for Virginia’s Graduates, he recognizes the importance of providing children with the education needed to be productive employees. He knows of Nobel Prize winning Economic Professor James Heckman’s work: Every dollar invested in early education saves society eight dollars in future cost. Children will have better health and education outcomes, will be less likely to be incarcerated, join gangs or become preg-
nant as teens. This is particularly true for children living in poverty. Virginia has elected delegates, congressmen, senators and governors who support early childhood education. President Obama has been vocal about his support. Retired military officers formed an advocacy group, Mission Readiness, because they know that some of our young men and women were unable to serve their country and benefit from the training and education that the military offers because they could not pass the entrance test. Congressman Beyer assured our Board members and me that more members of Congress understand the value of high quality education than do not. But so little is actually being done. When Board members and I asked what we could do to help advocate for change, the congressman was not able to give us much encouragement, telling us to just keeping doing what we are doing in this small program that serves 75 children each year. He patiently explained the budget demands: Half goes to entitlements and the debt, one-quarter goes to defense, leaving only one-quarter for everything else. Transportation, rebuilding the country’s infrastructure, water and energy – so many other things. What is the answer? Do we continue to allow the 1 percent to pay fewer taxes than the rest of us? Should large corporations continue to have huge bottom lines while
being exempt from many taxes or using loopholes to avoid taxes all together? There is a story that you may have heard about a tribe in Africa. They are considered fierce warriors and other tribes fear them. But they understand that the future of the tribe depends on the well-being of the children. Only if the children are provided for can the rest to the tribe flourish. So when they greet one another, they do not say “hey” or “what’s up?” They ask, “And how are the children?” What if our “tribe” truly understood the need to nurture and educate our children? What if we greeted one another with “and how are the children?” What if every meeting, every session of congress opened with that question? What if the President started every press conference by asking about the children? What would the answer be? I am grateful to Congressman Beyer for taking the time to see our children. I am grateful that he understands the value of early childhood education. And I understand budget struggles. But how long can we delay investing in our most precious resource, our children? How long can we go without a good answer to the question, “and how are the children?” Elizabeth Page is the executive director of the Falls Church-McLean’s Children’s Center.
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NEWS BRIEFS W. Broad Harris Teeter Opens July 27 Harris Teeter announced this week that its West Broad location will open to the public on Wednesday, July 27 at an 8 a.m. grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony and in-store sampling. Harris Teeter officials noted that as in each of its stores, this new one will strive to offer customers “an excellent shopping experience, which begins with customer service and features high-quality products, variety and selection.” Harris Teeter also works to be a community partner by supporting local schools and youth sports organizations, among other non-profit organizations, the statement said.
Young Group Buys 1.3-Acre Railroad Avenue Site The Young Group closed this week on the purchase of three subdivided lots at 1006 Railroad Avenue that have been underutilized and in disrepair for years. The purchase price was over $1 million. Young will pursue a classic cottage colony as they first appeared in Southern California in 1909. The units would be 1,000–1,200 sq. ft. each, all with front porches, one or one-and-a-half stories tall, with a traditional “cottage” architecture style clustered around a large common garden. The units would be sold only to seniors 55 and up. Cars would all be parked at one end of the site in a covered carport with solar panels on the roof and other sustainable features. It is being considered that each owner would have an electric bike included as a part of their purchase price, and it is being planned to work with the City of Falls Church and Northern Virginia Park authorities to create a small park at one end of the property.
F.C. Area Teen Found Dead in Lake Barcroft A Falls Church area teenager reported missing in Lake Barcroft on the night of Thursday, July 14 was found dead in the lake in the early morning hours of Friday, July 15, according to the Fairfax County Police Department. Police said that they recovered the body of Jeremie Munga, 17, of Falls Church, after it was reported that he was swimming on the evening of July 15 and disappeared from the water’s surface. Witnesses called 911 immediately and directed police, fire and rescue units to the location where he was last seen upon their arrival.
Simon: Kaine a ‘60-40’ Favorite for VP Pick Del. Marcus Simon told the F.C. Chamber Tuesday that Virginia U.S. Senator Tim Kaine is a “60-40 favorite” among Democratic party insiders to be chosen to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate in this year’s presidential election. One advantage to the choice of Kaine is that if he were elected, the person who would appoint his replacement would be a fellow Democrat, Gov. Terry McAuliffe. Simon said the word is that McAuliffe is not interested in a senate seat himself, but would prefer, if she won, a cabinet level position in the Clinton administration.
Fairfax Schools: Name Change ‘Working Group’ The Fairfax County School Board announced last week that it will vote on a motion to create a J.E.B. Stuart High School Renaming Working Group at its next regular meeting on Thursday, July 28. Several people expressed their thoughts on whether or not the Lake Barcroft-based high school should be renamed. At a hearing last week, Tom Davis, former Republican congressman, spoke out against renaming the school. Nine people spoke about the subject during the citizen participation period of the meeting, six who were against the renaming and three who spoke in favor of renaming the school. Also, Sandy Evans, the board member who represents Mason district, where J.E.B. Stuart is located, was elected chairman of the board for the next year in an unanimous vote. Janie Strauss was elected vice chairman, but her election was more contentious. One member of the board abstained and three members were opposed to her election. Eight members of the board carried the majority that elected Strauss.
Police Investigate Gunshot Report The Arlington County Police Department is investigating reports of a gunshot fired on Monday, July 18 at around 8 a.m. The incident took place on the 2600 block of N. Winchester Street, near the W&OD Trail. Several people told police that they heard a gunshot. One of those people said that they also heard a woman screaming and seeing a group of men speed off immediately after hearing a bang.
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Community News & Notes Mason Soccer Player Makes Scholar All-American Team Grant Goodwin, a 2016 graduate of George Mason High School and former soccer player on the Mustangs’ varsity boys soccer team, was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s 2015-2016 High School Scholar All-America Team. Goodwin, a midfielder on the team, carried a 3.89 grade point average while at Mason. He was one of 35 players, selected from soccer teams that played in the fall 2015, winter 2016 and spring 2016, to be named to the High School Scholar All-America Team. He was also named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s AllSouth team for the 2015-2016 year. Goodwin, a four year varsity
player for the Mustangs, was also named the Virginia High School League’s 2A Player of the Year and was named to the 2A First Team. For more information or a full list of the players who made the team, visit nscaa.com.
F.C. Second Baptist Church Hosts Ribbon Cutting Renovations are nearly complete at the Second Baptist Church, located at 6626 Costner Dr., Falls Church, according to a press release from the church. The church is hosting a ribbon cutting ceremony for its renovations on Sunday, July 24 at 11 a.m. at the church. The ceremony will include a re-entry and re-dedication celebration, worship service and homecoming. “We are looking forward with joyful anticipation while remembering to praise God for
how far we’ve come,” the press release from the church said. The theme of the ribbon cutting ceremony is “We’ve Come This Far by Faith.” For more information, visit sbcfallschurch.org.
City of Falls Church Hosts Guided Tours of City Hall According to a press release from the City of Falls Church, the City’s Police, Sheriff’s Deputies, Courts and Jail System, which are located in City Hall at 300 Park Avenue, need improvements for the public’s safety. In order to educate the public on the state of the building, the City is inviting the public to take guided tours of the building to see first-hand the accessibility, safety and aging infrastructure issues the public spaces are facing today on Saturday, July 23.
BRITS ON BROAD hosted a going away party at its former location on W. Broad Street on Friday, July 8. Brits On Broad was open for four years and during that time became known throughout the City as place with one of a kind eclectic and eccentric products. The business, which also operated as a hair salon, continually sought innovative ideas in hair styling for their clients’ needs and for their delight. (Photo: Courtesy of Shaun van Steyn)
Project managers with the City will lead 45-minute tour of City Hall from 9 a.m. – noon. Tour groups will meet near the Compost and Environment Programs booth at the Farmers’ Market. No reservations are required. To request accommodations for any type of disability, call 703-248-5042 (TTY 711). For more information on the project, visit fallschurchva.gov/ CityHallImprovements.
Local Tai Chi School Hosts Open House in Falls Church Sun & Moon Taiji One is hosting a open house called “Beat the Heat,” which features a free Tai Chi class, on Saturday, July 23 from 7:50 – 8:50 a.m. for those interested in learning the martial art. The event will take place at the Falls Church location of Jhoon
Rhee Tae Kwon Do at 1136 W. Broad Street. For more information, call 301-512-5071 or email SunAndMoonTaijiOne@gmail. com.
The Original Pancake House Hosts Benefit for Homeless The Original Pancake House, located at 7395 Lee Hwy., Falls Church, is hosting a benefit for the homeless called Dine Out for the Falls Church Homeless Shelter on Thursday, July 28. The restaurant will donate 15 percent of its proceeds made from 7 a.m. – 3 p.m. to the Falls Church Homeless Shelter, which is open during the winter for the City’s homeless. The shelter serves up to 50 residents each year during hypothermia season. For more information, call 703-944-1134.
SUN & MOON TAIJI ONE is hosting an open house and a free Tai Chi class on Saturday, July 23 from 7:50 – 8:50 a.m. for those interested in trying to learn the martial art. The event will take place at the Falls Church location of Jhoon Rhee Tae Kwon Do at 1136 W. Broad Street. For reservations, call 301-512-5071 or email SunAndMoonTaijiOne@gmail.com. (Photo: Courtesy of Mickey Lee)
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City of F.C. Changes Start Time of Sunset Cinema
The City of Falls Church recently announced a change in the start time for its Sunset Cinema series, which starts on Friday, Sept. 9 with a screening of “Zootopia.” The event will no longer start at 8:15 p.m. Starting this year, Sunset Cinema screenings will start at 7:45 p.m. On Friday, Sept. 23 “The Jungle Book,” will be screened at Sunset Cinema. Then, on Friday, Sept. 30, there will be a double feature. The first film will be “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and the second film will be a viewer’s choice pick. Viewers get to choose between “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “The Rookie” and “Mary Poppins.” For more information, visit fallschurchva. gov/650/Sunset-Cinema.
Shannyn Snyder Teaches ‘Grossology’ to Local Children Shannyn Snyder will teach ‘Grossology’ at Mary Riley Styles Public Library at 120 N. Virginia Avenue on Wednesday, July 27 from 3 – 4:30 p.m. in the library’s Youth Services room. At the event, children will be exploring all things slimy, burpy, runny and gooey, from making slime and goop to understanding worms and slugs. Participants will use Petri dishes, scopes and insects, make faux bacteria to prep for some at-home experiments and learn
about what bugs are “allowed” in foods. Registration is required and the event is for children in grades 1 – 5. For more information, call 703-248-5034.
Producer of ‘Rotary Times’ Speaks to F.C. Rotary Club Producer of the television show “Rotary Times,” Ahmed Selim, is slated to the speak to the Falls Church Rotary Club at their weekly dinner meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 21 at Harvest Moon Restaurant, located at 7260 Arlington Blvd. Rotary Times is a production of the Falls Church Rotary Club which tapes two interviews on the last Friday afternoon each month at Fairfax Public Access TV in Merrifield. Selim will give a biographical talk at the meeting. Dinner at the meeting costs $15 and the meeting is open to the public. For more information, visit FallsChurchRotary.org or fallschurchrotary.org/PhotoAlbums/ rotary-times-tv-tapings or email FallsChurchRotary@gmail.com.
Thomas Jefferson Library Hosts ‘Soul in Motion’ Event Thomas Jefferson Library, located at 7415 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church, is hosting an event called Soul in Motion on Monday, July 25 at 7 p.m. The event, which is recommended for preschool age children but is suitable for children of all ages, will consist of West African drumming, song and dance.
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F.C. Girl Scout Troop Finishes Bronze Award Project Falls Church Girl Scout Troop 1506 recently finished its Bronze Award project, according to a press release from troop’s leader, Kathleen Philpott Costa. During the project, the scouts chose a problem happening in the world, learned about it, shared it with the community and helped solve it. Troop funds were earned by the girls through three sales of lemonade, baked goods and jewelry and Girl Scout cookie sales. The troop chose to donate a portion of their troop funds to an organization called Days For Girls, which collects money and hygiene products to make hygiene supplies for girls all over the world to use. As a result of Troop 1506’s efforts, Days for Girls will be able to provide provide 46 hygiene kits for women and girls. Days For Girls thanked the local girl scout troop and said that the donation “lifts up women and girls, allowing them to break the cycle of poverty by giving them back days of education and opportunity.”
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signed an executive order when he was in office that removed the application process for individuals who were convicted of nonviolent felonies and have completed their sentences and eliminated the two-year waiting period for voting rights restoration. But this latest effort, which is taking place in a presidential election year and was spurred by McAuliffe, former chair of the Democratic National Committee and a longtime political ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton, has generated more profile and resistance. Judicial Watch, an organization based in Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit against Governor McAuliffe in hopes getting his executive order struck down by the courts. A court decision on
that suit is expected in the coming week based solely on whether the governor has the authority to make such a ruling. Kimball said that the burden should be on the opponents to explain why former felons shouldn’t have their voting rights restored, especially since many of them are decades removed from the crime that led to the loss of their rights. Don Gurney, also with the League of Women Voters, said that the whole idea of prison is to help people to reform and rehabilitate themselves and not giving them the right to vote once they’ve done that is holding them back from being a productive member of society. “What comes to mind for those who think that it’s not appropriate is if they are without sin, then they
can cast the first stone,” Kornegay said. “But all of us have made mistakes that could have landed us in some really big trouble and if we haven’t made them, then our sons and daughters, or parents or uncles and aunts have made them. “It’s a human frailty to make mistake and we’ve become such an unforgiving and judgmental nation. We can not progress with that mindset. It’s not healthy. So we need to do this. This is not for someone who keeps getting arrested and they’re not trying to make a go of their lives. It’s very, very difficult to get through the process of incarceration or probation/parole supervision and be off paper for three years or more. Most of the people that we’ll see, they haven’t had a problem with the law for five, ten or 20 years. So why should they be treated differently?”
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dictions were present to congratulate each other, including Falls Church Mayor David Tarter, Fairfax Mayor Scott Silverthorne and Vienna Mayor Laurie DiRocco. While Fairfax City won, it was noted that sign-ups as a percentage of the total population of each jurisdiction meant the results were much closer. Fairfax has, according to 2013 numbers, 23,973 residents, Vienna 16,370 and Falls Church 13,508, so from the standpoint of a percentage of their population, had Falls Church signed up one more person, it would have won first place. Last year, the first year of this campaign, Falls Church competed against Vienna alone, and came in second, hosting a buffet of food from Eden Center at the Council chambers of City Hall to culminate that program. Falls Church Council members present tonight included, in addition to Mayor Tarter, Vice Mayor Marybeth Connelly, Phil Duncan, Letty Hardi, Karen Oliver and Dan Sze. City Manager Wyatt Shields and City Clerk Celeste Heath, along with Environmental Services Council chair Tim Stevens were also present. Solarize Northern Virginia was among the programs named in an energy alternatives accomplish-
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Fairfax, distributed the fact sheet with this year’s campaign results. It included data that for all campaigns to date, there have been 2,492 household signups, with 83 contracts for solar. The new solar units amounted to 638,759 pounds of coal not burned, 67,356 gallons of gasoline not consumed and 599 metric tons of CO2 not emitted, according to the fact sheet, while energy checkups accounted for 338,102 pounds of coal not burned, 35,652 gallons of gasoline not consumed, and 317 metric tons of CO2 not emitted. Tuesday night’s event culminated with dessert, coffee and tea at the new Old Town Square in downtown City of Fairfax, a few steps away from the host restaurant, 21 Great American Bistro.
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Trump Getting Trumpier Does anybody else have the sense that Donald Trump is slipping off the rails? His speeches have always had a rambling, free association quality, but a couple of the recent ones have, as the Republican political consultant Mike Murphy put it, passed from the category of rant to the category of full on “drunk wedding toast.” Trump’s verbal style has always been distinct. He doesn’t really speak in sentences or paragraphs. His speeches are punctuated by five- or six-word jabs that are sort of strung together by connections that can only be understood through chaos theory: “They want the wall … I dominated with the evangelicals … I won in a landslide … We can’t be the stupid people anymore.” Occasionally Trump will attempt a sentence longer than eight words, but no matter what subject he starts the sentence with, NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE by the end he has been pulled over to the subject of himself. Here’s an example from the Mike Pence announcement speech: “So one of the primary reasons I chose Mike was I looked at Indiana, and I won Indiana big.” There’s sort of a gravitational narcissistic pull that takes command whenever he attempts to utter a compound thought. Trump has also always been a little engine fueled by wounded pride. For example, writing in BuzzFeed, McKay Coppins recalls the fusillade of abuse he received from Trump after writing an unflattering profile (he called Mar-a-Lago a “nice, if slightly dated, hotel”). Trump was so inflamed he tweeted retaliation at Coppins several times a day and at odd hours, calling him a “dishonest slob” and “true garbage with no credibility.” The attacks went on impressively for over two years, which must rank Coppins in the top 100,000 on the list of people Donald Trump resents. Over the past few weeks these longstanding Trump patterns have gone into hyperdrive. This is a unique moment in American political history in which the mental stability of one of the major party nominees is the dominating subject of conversation. Everybody is telling Trump to ratchet it down and be more sober, but at a rally near Cincinnati this month and in his Pence announcement speech on Saturday, Trump launched his verbal rocket ship straight through the stratosphere, and it landed somewhere on the dark side of Planet Debbie. The Pence announcement was truly the strangest vice-presidential unveiling in recent political history. Ricocheting around the verbal wilds for more than twice as long as the man he was introducing, Trump even refused to remain onstage and gaze on admiringly as Pence flattered him. It was like watching a guy lose interest in a wedding when the bride appears. The structure of his mental perambulations also seems to have changed. Formerly, as I said, his speeches had a random, free-form quality. But on Saturday his remarks had a distinct through line, anchored by the talking points his campaign had written down on pieces of paper. But Trump could not keep his attention focused on this through line – since the subject was someone else – so every 30 seconds or so he would shoot off on a resentment-filled bragging loop. If you had to do a rough diagram of the Trump remarks it would be something like this: Pence … I was right about Iraq … Pence … Hillary Clinton is a crooked liar … I was right about “Brexit” … Pence … Hillary Clinton’s ads are filled with lies … We’re going to bring back the coal industry … Christians love me … Pence … I talk to statisticians … Pence is good looking … My hotel in Washington is really coming along fantastically … Pence. Donald Trump is in his moment of greatest triumph, but he seems more resentful and embattled than ever. Most political conventions are happy coronations, but this one may come to feel like the Alamo of aggrieved counterattacks. It’s hard to know exactly what is going on in that brain, but science lends a clue. Psychologists wonder if narcissists are defined by extremely high self-esteem or by extremely low self-esteem that they are trying to mask. The current consensus seems to be that they are marked by unstable self-esteem. Their self-confidence can be both high and fragile, so they perceive ego threat all around. Maybe as Trump has gotten more successful his estimation of what sort of adoration he deserves has increased while the outside criticism has gotten more pronounced. This combination is bound to leave his ego threat sensors permanently inflamed. So even if Candidate Trump is told to make a normal political point, Inner Boy Trump will hijack the microphone for another bout of resentful boasting. Suddenly the global climate favors a Trump candidacy. Some forms of disorder – like a financial crisis – send voters for the calm supple thinker. But other forms of disorder – blood in the streets – send them scurrying for the brutal strongman. If the string of horrific events continues, Trump could win the presidency. And he could win it even though he has less and less control over himself.
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Both Sides Now? When Donald Trump began his run for the White House, many people treated it as a joke. Nothing he has done or said since makes him look better. On the contrary, his policy ignorance has become even more striking, his positions more extreme, the flaws in his character more obvious, and he has repeatedly demonstrated a level of contempt for the truth that is unprecedented in American politics. Yet while most polls suggest that he’s running behind in the general election, the margin isn’t overwhelming, and there’s still a real chance that he might win. How is that possible? Part of the answer, I’d argue, is that voters don’t fully appreciate his awfulness. And the reason is NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE that too much of the news media still can’t break with bothsidesism – the almost pathological determination to portray politicians and their programs as being equally good or equally bad, no matter how ludicrous that pretense becomes. Just to be clear, I’m not arguing that distorted news coverage is the whole story, that nobody would support Trumpism if the media were doing their job. The presumptive Republican nominee wouldn’t have gotten this far if he weren’t tapping into some deep resentments. Furthermore, America is a deeply divided country, at least in its political life, and the great majority of Republicans will support their party’s nominee no matter what. Still, the fact is that voters who don’t have the time or inclination to do their own research, who get their news analysis from TV or regular news pages, are fed a daily diet of false equivalence. This isn’t a new phenomenon. During the 2000 campaign George W. Bush was flatly dishonest about his policy proposals; his numbers didn’t add up, and he claimed repeatedly that his tax cuts, which overwhelmingly favored the 1 percent, were aimed at the middle class. Yet mainstream coverage never made this clear. In frustration, I wrote at the time that if a presidential candidate were to assert that the earth was flat, news analysis articles would have the headline “Shape of the planet: Both sides have a point.” And Trump is far from being the only current political figure who benefits from the determination to find balance where none exists. Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, has a reputation as a policy wonk, committed to fiscal responsibility, that is utterly incomprehensible if you look at the slapdash, funda-
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mentally dishonest policy documents he actually puts out. But the cult of balance requires that someone on the Republican side be portrayed as a serious, honest fiscal expert, so Ryan gets slotted into that role no matter how much a con man he may be in reality. Still, there are con men, and then there are con men. You might think that Donald Trump, who lies so much that fact-checkers have a hard time keeping up, who keeps repeating falsehoods even after they’ve been proved wrong, and who combines all of this with a general level of thuggishness aimed in part at the press, would be too much even for the balance cultists to excuse. But you would be wrong. To be fair, some reporters and news organizations try to point out Trump statements that are false, frightening, or both. All too often, however, they still try to maintain their treasured balance by devoting equal time – and, as far as readers and viewers can tell, equal or greater passion – to denouncing far less important misstatements from Hillary Clinton. In fact, surveys show that Clinton has, overall, received much more negative coverage than her opponent. And in the last few days we’ve seen a spectacular demonstration of bothsidesism in action: an op-ed article from the incoming and outgoing heads of the White House Correspondents’ Association, with the headline “Trump, Clinton both threaten free press.” How so? Well, Trump has selectively banned news organizations he considers hostile; he has also, although the op-ed didn’t mention it, attacked both those organizations and individual reporters, and refused to condemn supporters who, for example, have harassed reporters with anti-Semitic insults. Meanwhile, while Clinton hasn’t done any of these things, and has a staff that readily responds to fact-checking questions, she doesn’t like to hold press conferences. Equivalence! Stung by criticism, the authors of the op-ed issued a statement denying that they had engaged in “false equivalency” – I guess saying that the candidates are acting “similarly” doesn’t mean saying that they are acting similarly. And they once again refused to indicate which candidate was behaving worse. As I said, bothsidesism isn’t new, and it has always been an evasion of responsibility. But taking the position that “both sides do it” now, in the face of this campaign and this candidate, is an act of mindboggling irresponsibility.
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The White Male Pig Gotterdammerung
Poor William Kristol, quoted at the outset of the Republican National Convention this week by Ben Terris in the Washington Post lamenting that his party’s nomination of Donald Trump for President of the U.S. is “the last gasp of civilization, the end of the Roman Empire.” Kristol, of course, as editor of the Weekly Standard, is a charter member among those neo-conservatives who ran the George W. Bush administration and by way of that, the nation into the ground. What he’s witnessing this week in Cleveland is the product of his own making. The same can be said for anti-Trump Republican Michael Gerson, crying crocodile tears in every Post column over the rise of Trump and the trashing of his beloved GOP. The GOP convention this week has been little more than a lynch mob. FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS Delegates have been drowning out dull speakers by chanting anti-Hillary Clinton mantras every day. Tuesday night’s program was supposed to focus on what Trump would do to help the little guy with the economy. But there were no specifics to be had, none whatsoever. So, Kristol’s lament does have a ring of truth to it, the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire part, anyway. This week marks the death knell of stupid, straight, white male chauvinist pigs’ dominion over U.S. culture. This is their Gotterdammerung. Think about it. No stupid white male has been able to stop the uber-bully Trump. It will take a woman to do that, and I think she will. What white male pigs in the GOP have demonstrated is their unfitness to lead, instead grovelling before Trump in a blatantly shameful way. There’s Vice Presidential nominee Mike Pence, who was made to eat almost all of his previously heart-felt positions to awkwardly conform to Trump. Then there are the loser VP picks, Newt Gingrich and Chris Christie. Gingrich, in a last ditch desperate attempt to win Trump’s favor, departed from his own form by calling for even more draconian immigration restraints than Trump himself. That outdid even Christie’s disingenuous convention speech Tuesday night. So much for any principled standards that Paul Ryan or party chair Reince Priebus had given lip service to. Then there is the case of the sudden fall of Fox News’ Roger Ailes on multiple allegations of sexual abuse. This is relevant not only in terms of timing, but because this particular stupid white male pig has been so instrumental in driving a relentless high profile barrage of lies against Clinton and her Democratic colleagues for so long. Moreover, this comes just weeks after GOP darling Ken Starr was forced out of his leadership role at the Christian evangelical Baylor University because he condoned and covered up multiple cases of sexual abuse by male Baylor athletes. Then there is the entire entourage of evangelical preachers who have thrown any shards of morality to the wind to cowtow to the blatantly immoral Trump. The religious right can now be declared officially dead by this. I can’t feel a bit sorry about that, but never imagined it would happen in one of the greatest public displays imaginable of disregard for Biblical principles by these people. The more all these stupid white men have been insulted and held in contempt by Trump, the more they’ve fallen on their knees to grovel before him. The relentless attacks on Clinton at the GOP convention have not only been a smokescreen for the party’s complete lack of programs, policies and ideas, but are is also designed to divert attention from the fact that Trump, of the two candidates, is far more associated over the course of his career with contemptuous and ostensibly criminal activity. With Republicans in the Congress drumming up relentless accusations against Clinton, and then ignoring entirely the results of official investigations which have exonerated her, they’ve deployed the tactic of, whenever questionable business practices or behaviors of Trump arise, to shout them down with groundless charges against Clinton. The media have been far too kind to this kind of behavior, willing to acknowledge a moral equivalency that is simply not there. There is no moral equivalency between Trump and Clinton, whatsoever.
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W., Borne Back Ceaselessly WASHINGTON – During W.’s 2000 convention in Philadelphia, my sister showed up at my door. She was volunteering for the Republican nominee and carrying a “W. Stands for Women” sign. The hotels were sold out and she wanted to crash in my room. I told her that she could come in but the sign could not. I brought Peggy along for a meal with Johnny Apple, the Times politics and food writer. She asked Johnny if W. would win the presidency. I was interested in his reply because he had known W. and Al Gore since they were young, having covered their dads. “Bush will win,” he told my sister in his booming voice, his napkin hanging from his neck like a bib. “And he will be a very popular president.” I always think of that moment, and how 9/11 upended everything and what could have been different, on the rare occasions when W. pops up. The former president gave a short eloquent speech in Dallas at the memorial service for five police officers murdered by a sniper. In a slap at Donald Trump, a man loathed by the NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE Bush family, W. said: “We do not want the unity of grief nor do we want the unity of fear. We want the unity of hope, affection and high purpose.” He is right that the world has had too much of the unity of grief, plunged into the random lightning strikes of mass shootings and terrorist attacks. The reputations of W. and President Obama are getting a Trump bump, burnished by the contrast. W. talked in Dallas about “finding our better selves.” If only he had found his in office. Instead, his ghosts are never far away. He must watch as riptides from his mistakes continue to rip up the globe. A new biography, Bush, by Jean Edward Smith, makes the same points that Trump made when he shook up the Republican orthodoxy and tripped up Jeb – that W. ignored warnings before 9/11 and overreacted after. “To argue that by taking the actions that he did, the president kept America safe is meretricious,” Smith writes, adding: “The fact is, the threat of terrorism that confronts the United States is in many respects a direct result of Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.” Speaking of meretricious, we finally got to see two long-awaited government documents last week. The sterling former Sen. Bob Graham of Florida pushed the Bush and Obama administrations to declassify the notorious 28 pages held back when the 9/11
Maureen Dowd
congressional inquiry was released in December 2002. The section details suspicious ties between the hijackers and other al-Qaida operatives to the Saudi royal family. The first al-Qaida prisoner in CIA custody post-9/11 had a phone number that belonged to a company that took care of Prince Bandar bin Sultan’s Colorado home. The former Saudi ambassador was so close to the Bushes he was known as Bandar Bush. If the 28 pages had been released back in 2002, the revelations might have helped stop the Iraq invasion by refocusing attention where it belonged: on possible real links between al-Qaida and Saudi royals, rather than the fantasy links between al-Qaida and Saddam pushed by Dick Cheney. W. said releasing the pages back then would “make it harder for us to win the war on terror.” But now that we can see them, it’s clear that the reverse is true: It was the Saudis who repeatedly stymied U.S. efforts to crack down on al-Qaida in the years before 9/11. The British government’s Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq War also finally landed – a 2.6 million-word report savaging Tony Blair. In 2002, Blair affirmed his lapdog bona fidos by sending W. a note saying “I will be with you, whatever.” The British public deemed Blair a pariah long ago. But it took the British government seven years to conclude that Blair enabled W. to start a war on dodgy intelligence with inadequate planning to control the killing fields of a post-Saddam landscape, a landscape that eventually spawned the Islamic State. Sarah Helm, the wife of Jonathan Powell, a top Blair aide in the ramp-up to war, wrote a piece in The Guardian recently about a conversation between W. and Blair. She said she listened with Powell on a crackly secure phone at their house one night in March 2003. A journalist, Helm took notes that she would later use in a play. This is her account: Blair was still trying vainly to steer the president, who was cocky and impervious. W. told Blair he was “ready to kick ass.” He dismissed Hans Blix, the U.N. weapons inspector who could not find any WMD in Iraq, as “that no-count.” He praised Blair’s body language in pushing for war and urged the poodle prime minister to “hang on in there” and show “cojones.” When Blair raised the objections of the French, W. mocked: “Yeah, but what did the French ever do for anyone? What wars did they win since the French Revolution?” W. comes across as a naive, willful, spangly cartoon cowboy. Sometimes, when at last you get a peek behind the curtain, your worst fears come true.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts
News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
Sadly, it’s happened again. An attack on public safety officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, ended with three officers dead and others fighting for their lives in the hospital. Once again, Fairfax County Police Chief Ed Roessler conducted a departmentwide conference call to make certain that all Fairfax County officers, and their families, have the information and knowledge they need to stay safe while delivering the services our community expects and demands. While there may be no credible threat to Fairfax County at this time, our officers must remain vigilant, for our safety and theirs. These tragic events are occurring just as preparations for the annual National Night Out are underway. National Night Out, which will be celebrated on Tuesday, August 2, provides an opportunity for neighbors to gather in their communities, get to know each other better, and reinforce community efforts to combat crime. Each year, dozens of Mason District neighborhoods sponsor some sort of evening event – an ice cream social, a potluck or picnic, maybe hot dogs or dessert. Police officers make the rounds, talk to residents, and participate in the fun. It’s a wonderful opportunity for the community to come together, support our police department, and vice versa. Each police station commander in Fairfax County also conducts a monthly Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting, open to all, to present information about public safety programs and activities at the station. Helpful and informative question and answer sessions with the Captain are high points of every meeting. The Mason District Police Station CAC meeting is held on the first Tuesday of each month (except August which is National Night Out),
at 7 p.m. at the Mason District Governmental Center, 6507 Columbia Pike in Annandale. Log on to www. fairfaxcounty.gov/police/jobs/citizenadvisorycommittee.htm for information about other police district CAC meetings for your area. Negotiations for a permanent location for the new Bailey’s Community Shelter have resulted in a signed contract for purchase of commercial property at 5914 Seminary Road. The existing shelter is proposed to be relocated temporarily on county-owned property behind the Lincolnia Senior Center. The future permanent site is anticipated to open in late 2020. A recent sewer blockage caused damage to some residences in the Culmore area, but the spill was contained very quickly and no raw sewage made it to any water bodies. The cause of the spill, however, was due to something easily correctable. Fats, oils, and grease (known as FOG in wastewater lingo) poured down the drain can clog sewer pipes and cause messy, smelly, and expensive backups that can damage structures and the environment. When enough FOG accumulates to clog a pipe, whatever else is behind the clog will find the easiest way out, often through a floor drain or a commode. Yuck! To avoid such a mess, simply pour cooled grease into a used food can, add an absorbent such as paper towel, or simply place in the refrigerator to solidify. You can add grease until full, then discard the can and its contents in the trash for the next pick-up. Quick, easy, and responsible! Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.
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Richmond Report Earlier this week prefiling of bills resumed for the 2017 House of Delegates session. The House Majority Caucus decided to highlight the introduction of HB 1392, a duplicate version of a measure Governor McAuliffe vetoed in 2016, which would put guns in the hands of civilians inside our schools. It’s amazing to me that Virginia’s GOP still hasn’t gotten the message that the myth of the good-guy with a gun has been completely debunked. As so many across the country grieve and mourn those lost to gun violence, as police unions ask for action to restrict civilians from carrying firearms openly, for the Virginia House GOP to reintroduce a bill that will put more guns in close proximity to our school children shows just how out of touch they’ve become. A study of mass shootings from 2009–15 revealed that 96 percent of these tragedies occurred somewhere other than a school. In fact, accidental deaths involving firearms are the third leading cause of death for children. I challenge my Republican colleagues in the House to show that they really are serious about protecting children by supporting legislation to require smart gun technology, to promote the use of trigger locks, and to fund a comprehensive study of gun violence as the public health scourge that it is. At the same time, recent news stories involving lethal interactions between the police and men of color have been heartbreaking. Here in Northern Virginia, we also have work to do with regard to the way police are trained and when and on whom they use physical force and how much is appropriate. On Tuesday, the Fairfax County Police Chief released a report including data showing 40 percent of use-of-force incidents involved African American suspects, even though African Americans are approximately eight percent of the overall county population. These statistics were reported at the recommendation of the Fairfax County Ad Hoc Police Practices Review Commission on which I served. I want to highlight some of the recommendations of the Police Oversight and Use of Force subcommittees. These subcommittees presented recommendations to the Board of Supervisors after months of stakeholder meetings. Each sub-
committee comprised a group of individuals representing diverse backgrounds and experiences. The recommendations were only agreed upon after long discussions, presentations from several sources and a comprehensive data review. For the past few months, the Board of Supervisors has been reviewing and implementing these recommendations. One of the most important recommendations establishes a civilian oversight committee, which would go a long way in creating a transparent relationship between the police and the community. It is important to note that an oversight committee is not intended to be a punitive measure; it’s actually a pro-police position. Accountability and oversight builds trust and confidence which in turn makes policing our communities safer and easier for officers and residents alike. Further, making it a civilian oversight committee is integral to its success. Specifically, the recommendations included: • Appointing an Independent Police Auditor who will report to the Board of Supervisors to participate in and monitor Internal Affairs Bureau investigations of use of force and other serious cases; • Establishing a Civilian Review Panel to respond to community concerns or complaints about alleged abuse of authority incidents by the Fairfax County Police Department; • In addition, the Commission recommends strengthening the independent investigative ability of the Commonwealth’s Attorney in use of force and other serious cases. I am a huge fan and supporter of our state and local police officers. I believe that holding them to high standards, requiring transparency, and accountability are propolice positions that will build a rapport with the community. While a strong commitment exists to further improve the relationship between the police and our community, we still have much to do to fully implement the subcommittees’ recommendations. And if HB 1392 is any indication, we also have much to do to ensure that some of my colleagues have a better understanding of how we can effectively protect our children from gun violence. Delegate Simon represents the 53rd District in the Virginia House of Delegates. He may be emailed at DelMSimon@house.virginia.gov.
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My recent screeds against arrogant pedestrians in crosswalks who seem to taunt drivers drew varied reactions. “Roads are for cars,” said one friend. Another said he actually maneuvers his car to gently “brush back” pedestrians who challenge him on ownership of those uncontrolled stripes, each seeking to “educate” the other on safety. But most healthy was the invite I received from hearty volunteers with the county’s Pedestrian Advisory Committee. [ https://commissions.arlingtonva. us/pedestrian-advisory-committee-2/] A dozen of them escorted me, during evening rush-hour, for a “Walk the Walk” across Washington Boulevard at its treacherous stretch between Virginia Square and WashingtonLee High School. Fresh in everyone’s memory was the April accident at Utah Street that injured a teen pedestrian and earned a driver a ticket for failure to yield. My hosts included activists from the committee that since its formation in the 1990s has met monthly to advise the county on its transportation plan safeguards and to make Arlington “a better place to walk.” They were joined by exuberant members of BikeArlington, Walk Arlington and the Ballston-Virginia Square Civic Association. Lots of sharp-eyed expertise assembled. The boulevard has no median strip or bike lanes, and its bus stops have no shelter
lane, thus obscuring the vision of both drivers and pedestrians, they explained. There are few stoplights – none in five blocks between Stafford Street and Glebe Road, so cars emerge from the last light and pick up speed, said Lauren Hassel. Pedestrians here have long faced “very difficult challenges trying to cross legally,” said Pam Van Hine. And now Metro’s current SafeTrack repairs put more cars on side streets, plus more bicycles and pedestrians, she added. “People are not used to it.” The white-painted crosswalks aren’t always visible to drivers from a distance, especially in the sun’s glare, and their plastic markers are often knocked down. Even when one car stops for a pedestrian, noted John Armstrong, a second car in the adjacent lane often barrels through obliviously. Many cars run the red light at Utah Street, said civic association president Nia Bagley, reporting that a police cruiser stationed there recently issued 23 citations in 90 minutes. School kids from nearby Science Focus are at risk, as are high schoolers and Metro walkers in the wintertime dark. The intersection at Quincy and Washington Boulevard is “badly designed,” Bagley said, calling for turn lanes. The boulevard will “only get worse” after tolling begins on I-66, she added. Activists want a long-term pedestrian safety plan. These pedestrian advocates have met with the county board and county staffer Dave Goodman – who showed up and
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CRIME REPORT Week of July 11 - 17, 2016
Smoking Violation, 6795 Wilson Blvd. #52 (Hung Café Billiard) On July 11, a male, 38, of Annandale, was cited
for Smoking In a Non-Designated Area. Larceny from Motor Vehicle, 200 block Midvale St. On July 14, an unknown suspect stole a laptop from the victim’s vehicle.
JULY 21 - 27, 2016 | PAGE 17 expressed optimism about funding for solutions, perhaps flash signals. They boost the county’s PAL (Predictable, Alert and Lawful) campaign for sharing the roads. But I winced when one member purposefully marched out in a painted crosswalk defying oncoming cars “to see if they stop,” he announced. That’s the kind of pedestrian-rights dogma that angers many at the wheel of a car who are doing the speed limit and feeling eager to get to their destination without frequently slamming on their brakes. In the end, I was impressed with Van Hine’s notion that pedestrians and drivers convey “mutual respect. We need to change the culture on the streets from me to we,” she told me. The need for pedestrian-driver eye-contact negotiating is best communicated with the slogan “Stop, Look, Wave.” *** Perhaps you noticed Donald Trump’s Republican running mate is a former Arlingtonian. Mike Pence, who returned to Indiana when elected governor in 2012, spent a dozen years in my neighborhood. His brick colonial at 6543 N. 28thSt. near O’Connell High School actually became a campaign issue that year – his opponent blasting ownership of a Washington area home as a sign Pence had gone native. Pence’s next-door neighbor, Louis Emery, told me the future vice presidential candidate bequeathed a basketball hoop to neighborhood kids (which sported a Pence bumper sticker). Without betraying his own voting plans, Emery assures me Pence is “a nice guy.” Larceny from Building, 300 block N. Spring St. On July 15, lawn ornaments were reported stolen from the victim’s residence sometime after June 27. Public Drunkenness, 804 S. Washington St. (7-Eleven) On July 15, a male, 60, of Fairfax, was arrested for Public Drunkenness. Animal Cruelty, 6607 Wilson Blvd. (BJ’s Wholesale) On July 16, a female, 23, of Lorton, was arrested and released on summons for Animal Cruelty.
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Community Events
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.
FRIDAY, JULY 22
Author Readings. Tara Laskowski, author of Bystanders, and Jen Conley, author of Cannibals: Stories from the Edge of Pine Barrens, will share from their short story collections. One More Page Books (2200 N. Westmore St. #101, Arlington). Free. 7 p.m. onemorepagebooks.com.
SATURDAY, JULY 23
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. Storytime Express at the Library. Children 2 – 6 years old can drop-in with their parents for a fun-filled, interactive program of stories and songs with Barbara Effron’s Storytime Express. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia
Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 – 11:45 a.m. 703-248-5034. City Hall Tours: Public Safety and Access Improvements. The City of Falls Church’s Police, Sheriff ’s Deputies, Courts and Jail System need improvements to City Hall for the public’s safety. Take a tour to see first-hand the accessibility, safety and aging infrastructure issues the City’s public spaces are facing today. City Hall (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 9 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. 703-248-5105.
SUNDAY, JULY 24
Invasive Plant Removal. Join community volunteers in protecting the local environment from invasive plant species. This is a ongoing project that to reclaim the natural area at Ft. Bennett Park. Ft. Bennett Park (2133 N. Taft St., Arlington). Free. 10 a.m. – noon. 703-228-1862.
MONDAY, JULY 25
Preschool Storytime. Stories, finger plays and songs for children ages 2 – 5 on Monday every week. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 – 11 a.m. 703-248-5034. ESL Conversation Group. An English as a second language conversation group focusing on
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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. Early Literacy Center. Explore educational and manipulative items to teach early literacy through play on Monday and Tuesday every week. This program is for ages birth to 5 years. No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 a.m. – noon.703-248-5034.
TUESDAY, JULY 26
Preschool Storytime. Songs, movement, and stories for ages 18 – 36 months. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. 703248-5034.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27
1-on-1 Computer & Internet Tutoring. Learn how to download eBooks and eMagazines, search the internet, customize email, use social media, word process, and much more. Free personalized session by appointment. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 2 – 4 p.m. 703-248-5034.
Grossology with Shannyn Snyder. Shannyn Snyder will lead this workshop that puts a spin on traditional biology for children rising to grades 1 – 5. Participants will explore all things slimy, burpy, runny and gooey, from making slime and goop to understanding worms and slugs. They will also use Petri dishes, scopes, insects, make faux bacteria for at-home experiments and learn what bugs are “allowed” in food. Registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 3 – 4 p.m. 703-248-5034. The Dangerous Ladies 2.0. This tour featuring five young adult fiction authors makes a stop in Arlington. One More Page Books (2200 N. Westmore St. #101, Arlington). Free. 7 p.m. onemorepagebooks. com. Blue Sky Puppets: The Three (Not So) Little Pigs. The wolf is a vegetarian and the pigs jam on rock and roll guitars. This show offers an offbeat version of the classic children’s tale that’s as much fun for the adults as it is for the kids. Recommended for children age 5 and up. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 7 – 8 p.m. 703248-5034.
Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, JULY 21
“Sizzlin’ Summer with Claybourne Elder: Sondheim and Beyond.” In this candid, hilarous and heartfelt show, Clay won’t just sing show tunes and share reminiscences about the theater, but also reflections on travel, adventure, romance – and open up about his life growing up in rural Utah as a Mormon. One night only. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington). $35. 8 p.m. sigtheatre.org.
FRIDAY, JULY 22
“Dani Stoller presents Awkward: A Musical Ode to the Funny Best Friend.” Local cabaret favorite and Helen Hayes Award-Nominee Dani Stoller has performed at Signature, Keegan, 1st Stage and the Kennedy Center.
Now, she returns to Creative Cauldron for two nights of heartfelt songs paying homage to the funny, awkward, most-likely-bespectacled, never-gets-the-guy-but-is-somehowalways-smiling, awkward girl. Through July 23. 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 23
“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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live_music&nightlife THURSDAY, JULY 21 E��S������� ���� T���� C��������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. B���� D����� ���� E��� P��������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. G����� N���. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $90.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. W��� W���...D��’� T��� M�. Filene Center at Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $30 – $65. 8 p.m. 703-2551900. T�����������. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. J����� S������. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-237-8333.
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$15 day of the show (Backstage). 9 p.m. 202-667-7960. W����� J������. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. R�� H�������� B���. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333.
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40 D����� F���. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. J����� A�����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $18. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. C������: T�� C��� ��. T�� S����� D���� P���� ���� DJ� EP, K���� K, K����� M�N���� ��� DJ M���������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 (Mainstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. T�� C������������ R�������. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $20 in advance; $25 day of the show. 8 p.m. 703237-0300. S���� F���� A������ ���� C���� F������ � T�� S���� M���� B���. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 8 p.m. 202-265-0930. T�� F������� ���� N������� S������� O��������. Filene Center at Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $20 – $65. 8:15 p.m. 703255-1900. T�� B������. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504.
B�� B��: A K-P�� D���� N����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $5 (Backstage). 9 p.m. 202667-7960. G-N��� P������ ���� T���������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $18 in advance; $12 – $18 day of the show. 9:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. T�� D���� A���. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333.
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K������� H���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20 in advance; $25 day of the show. 3:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. C������ H���� S������. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. R���� C��������. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 5:30 p.m. 703-5329283. C������� ��������� J�� F������� � E���� B������ ���� J�� L������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 6:30 p.m. 703-2551566. P��� R��� K������: A B������ ��� G���� R���! DC. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $8 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-6677960. P��� M������ ���� N������� S������� O��������. Filene Center at Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $30 – $60. 8:15 p.m. 703255-1900.
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E���� ���� S������� ��� T����� D����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $18 in advance; $13 – $18 day of the show. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. BWB ��������� N����� B����, K��� W����� ��� R��� B����. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $49.50. 7:30 p.m. 703549-7500. H��� L���� � ��� N��� ���� J���� K���. Filene Center at Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $25 – $50. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. L������ T����� ��� F��� E����. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.
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L�� V���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. H��������� T�� H���� ���� H������� P������ ��� A��� V���. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. J��� B��� � B���� G��. Filene Center at Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $30 – $65. 8 p.m. 703-2551900.
P������� A����... Thursday, July 28 – Dine Out for the Falls Church Homeless Shelter. The Original Pancake House will be hosting an event to benefit the Falls Church Homeless
Shelter. The restaurant will donate 15 percent of proceeds to benefit the shelter, which serves up to 50 residents each year during the hypothermia season. The Original Pancake House (7395 Lee Hwy., Falls Church). Prices vary. 7 a.m. – 3 p.m. 703-944-1134.
Thursday, July 28 – Concerts in the Park. The City of Falls Church’s Concerts in the Park series continues with Mama Tried with Randy Barrett and Dede
Wyland, who will be playing bluegrass. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Concerts.
Saturday, August 13 – Once Upon a Stage presents Rumplestiltskin. 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.
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Two Falls Church hospitality giants have teamed up to create a new, special collaboration beer for The Little City. State Theatre V.I.P.A., the new brew from Mad Fox Brewing Company and the popular F.C. live music venue, is a Session IPA created by Mad Fox CEO and executive brewer Bill Madden and lead brewer Matt Ryan. “The State Theatre wanted an easy drinking beer that was different enough from the rest of their draft lineup, and it was time for us to brew a Session IPA so it worked out perfectly,” says Mad Fox marketing strategist Melissa Gringol. The V.I.P.A. is brewed with flaked oats which gives the beer a medium body and Australian Galaxy hops provide a tropical aroma. The beer, which will be available all summer and possibly beyond, is currently on tap at Mad Fox (444 W. Broad St.) and will debut at The State Theatre (222 N. Washington St.) at a special V.I.P.A. release party featuring The Legwarmers on Saturday, July 30.
La Côte d’Or Café will host a fundraiser in August to benefit the victims of the terrorist attack carried out in Nice, France on Bastille Day. The East Falls Church cafe has a special connection to the French city as its owner and head chef, Jacques Imperato, grew up in Nice, worked and went to culinary school there and still has family living in the city. The “Stand Together for Nice” four course, prix-fixe menu will feature traditional Nice recipes for $45 and 25 percent of the proceeds will be donated to Give for France, an organization supporting the people affected by the Bastille Day attack. Dishes on the special menu include an onion pizza with olive and anchovies, ravioli a la Nicoise and a swiss chard tort. La Côte d’Or’s Nice fundraiser will take place August 11 from 11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. and 5 – 10 p.m. La Côte d’Or Café 6876 Lee Highway | Arlington lacotedorcafe.com
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POSING WITH THE V.I.P.A, (l. to r.) Mad Fox brewers Matt Ryan and Travis Reynolds with Joe Thierry and Brennan Giuffre of The State Theatre. (P����: M�� F��)
Sfizi, Mad Fox Celebrate Birthdays in July It’s anniversary month for two Falls Church restaurants with both Sfizi Cafe and Mad Fox Brewing Company celebrating birthdays in the next few days. On Saturday, F.C.’s brew pub turns six and is marking the occasion with an anniversary party featuring the release of five beers, food specials, giveaways and live music. Mad Fox’s beer release kicks off with Kirsche Weiss at 11 a.m., Oaked Crazy Ivan Imperial Stout at noon, Batch 100 at 2
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The 24th annual Summer Concerts in the Park series, produced by the Village Preservation and Improvement Society, is a series of performances with bands and musicians somehow affiliated to Falls Church. The concerts occur each Thursday until August 4 in Cherry Hill Park at 312 Park Avenue. Mama Tried is led by Randy Barrett, who will be performing on July 28. The band plays bluegrass and progressive bluegrass genre music. Progressive bluegrass is bluegrass which is not traditional material but includes more modern songs played in the bluegrass context. Barrett plays banjo, guitar, and fiddle. Barrett is accompanied by vocalist Dede Wyland, Ira Gitlim on bass, and Tom McLaughlin who plays guitar and mandolin. Together the members of Mama Tried have been playing for around 15 years. “The best part of my job is basically being able to share OCHO DE BASTOS performs on Thursday, July 21. (C������� P����) something artistically with other people and have them be a party of it,” said Barrett, “it’s a is the lead guitarist of his American roots Area Music Association, voted on by the memmusic style band. He is accompanied by Josh bers of the music community for the winners in great connection to have.” The name Mama Tried comes from the Howell on percussion, vocals and harmonica, different categories. Principato usually wins in title of a famous American country song by Steve Wolf on bass, and Joe Wells on drums. categories such as Best Blues Group, Best Male Merle Haggard. Influences for the band are Musicians that influence Principato are B.B. Singer Blues Category, Best Instrumentalist Blues Category, and other similar awards. Doc Watson, Tom O’Brien, and the father of King, Chuck Berry, and Jimi Hendrix. All of the artists throughout the series had Principato has led his own band for years. It bluegrass, Bill Monroe. The band is performing for the Summer Concerts in the Park series was formed in the early ‘80s. Principato started varied styles. On June 23 the Falls Church because of Barrett’s previous 17 year Falls playing guitar in high school, and “when I Concert Band performed concert style music. Church City residency, and his current housing graduated I decided that I wanted to become a Bad Hair Day, a variety musical group, played professional, so I moved to Boston and looked in June 30. The Andrew Acosta Band perstill in Falls Church, but outside of the city. Other than performing, Barrett is the presi- into a full time music job with a band,” said formed roots music on July 7. Irish Breakfast Band presented their Irish Celtic music on July dent of a non-profit called the DC Bluegrass Principato. Falls Church is Principato’s hometown. 14. Ocho de Bastos, a Latin Pop group, perUnion. The organization promotes bluegrass music in Washington and puts on an annual Principato said “Gordon [Theisz] who books forms on July 21, followed by Mama Tried on DC Bluegrass Festival in Tysons Corner. The the show has been in touch with me now for July 28 and Tom Principato on August 4. upcoming 2017 festival will take place on close to 10 years so I just keep playing him.” • For more information about the Concerts Over the years of his musical career, March 10 and 11. The final performance for the series is with Principato has won several WAMMIEs. A in the Park series, visit fallschurchva.gov/632/ Tom Principato on August 4. Tom Principato WAMMIE is an award from the Washington Concerts-in-the-Park.
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Help Wanted
PROGRAM DIRECTOR – PROFESSIONAL MBA The Virginia Tech Professional MBA Program (PMBA) located in Falls Church is seeking a Program Director to recruit students and manage day-to-day operations of an academic program with course offerings in Richmond and Roanoke. Experience in higher education, a master’s degree in business (MBA), and willingness to travel are preferred. For more information and to apply, please review the job posting at https://lisgings.jobs.vt.edu and search for posting #AP0160156 EO/AA Responsive Menu SUNSTATE HARVESTERS, INC., is seeking 49 hardwork-
ing people to temporarily pick watermelon in Bridgeville, DE. 07/15/2016 to 09/15/2016. Must have 1 month verifiable commercial vegetable harvesting experience. At least $11.66 an hour, guaranteed. ¾ of contract guaranteed. Work tools, supplies, and equipment will be provided at no cost to the worker. Free housing, for those that cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of each working day. Transportation and subsistence expenses to the work site will be provided or paid by the employer upon completion of 50% of the work contract. All applicants will have
The ordinance referenced below was given first reading on June 27, 2016; and second reading and public hearing are scheduled for Monday, July 25, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard. (TO16-12) ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS OF THE CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA, IN AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED EIGHT MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($8,700,000.00) TO PAY COSTS INCIDENT TO RENOVATING, CONSTRUCTING, EXPANDING, RECONSTRUCTING, REPLACING IN ONE OR MORE LOCATIONS, EQUIPPING, AND/OR REEQUIPPING, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, A PUBLIC LIBRARY INCLUDING AN ARCHIVE/HERITAGE CENTER, AND REQUESTING THE CIRCUIT COURT TO ORDER A SPECIAL REFERENDUM ELECTION ON THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THE ISSUANCE OF SUCH BONDS SHOULD BE AUTHORIZED The resolutions referenced below were heard by City Council on June 13, 2016; and public hearings are scheduled for Monday, August 8, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard. (TR16-31) RESOLUTION TO AMEND THE OFFICIAL FUTURE LAND USE PLAN MAP AND COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF THE CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA, BY RECLASSIFYING APPROXIMATELY 85,965 SQUARE FEET OF LAND AT 604 SOUTH OAK STREET (RPC #52-206-077), FROM “LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL (4.0)” TO “PARKS AND OPEN SPACE” , TO ADD THE SCHOOL SYMBOL TO THAT SITE, AND AMEND THE FUTURE PARKS MAP IN CHAPTER 6 OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO DEPICT THE SITE AND THE ENTIRE THOMAS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AS “OTHER PARKS & OPEN SPACE” (TR16-32) RESOLUTION TO AMEND THE OFFICIAL FUTURE LAND USE MAP and CHAPTER 4 OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: LAND USE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO ADD REVITALIZATION
AREAS, SMALL AREA PLANS, & URBAN DEVELOPMENT AREAS The new areas do not change the permitted land use or change the future vision. They reflect areas in which the existing plan is for redevelopment that is mixed use, and that, in part, can achieve a density of 3.0. In addition, they include land acquired by the City (George Mason High School site and area formerly in Fairfax County that fronts on Shreve Road) recently that currently has default zoning. The areas also include all other parts of the City that are NOT zoned to an “R” district designation (R-1-A, R-1-B, R-M or R-TH). A map showing these areas is available at the address set forth below. All public hearings will be held in the Council Chambers, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church, Virginia. For copies of legislation, contact the City Clerk’s office at (703-248-5014) or cityclerk@fallschurchva.gov. The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, call 703-248-5014 (TTY 711). CELESTE HEATH CITY CLERK
PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING The City of Falls Church Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 1, 2016 at 7:30 PM in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 300 Park Avenue, to consider the following resolution: (TR16-31) Resolution to Amend the Official Future Land Use Map and Comprehensive Plan of the City of Falls Church, Virginia, by reclassifying approximately 85,965 square feet of land at 604 South Oak Street (RPC #52-206-077), from “Low Density Residential (4.0)” to “Parks and Open Space”, to add the school symbol to that site, and amend the Future Parks Map in Chapter 6 of the Comprehensive Plan to depict the site and the entire Thomas Jefferson Elementary School as “Other Parks & Open Space” Information on or copies of the proposed resolution can be viewed at the Develop-
ment Services Counter or City Clerk’s Office at City Hall, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church, VA, Monday through Friday (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.). You may contact the Planning Division at 703-248-5040 with any questions or concerns. This location is fully accessible to persons with physical disabilities and special services or assistance may be requested in advance. (TTY 711)
PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING The City of Falls Church Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 1, 2016 at 7:30 PM in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 300 Park Avenue, to consider the following resolution: (TR16-32) Resolution to Amend the Official Future Land Use Map and Chapter 4 of the Comprehensive Plan: Land Use and Economic Development to add Revitalization Areas, Small Area Plans, & Urban Development Areas The new areas do not change the permitted land use or change the future vision. They reflect areas in which the existing plan is for redevelopment that is mixed use, and that, in part, can achieve a density of 3.0. In addition, they include land acquired by the City (George Mason High School site and area formerly in Fairfax County that fronts on Shreve Road) recently that currently has default zoning. The areas also include all other parts of the City that are NOT zoned to an “R” district designation (R-1-A, R-1-B, R-M or R-TH). A map showing these areas is available at the address set forth below. Information on or copies of the proposed resolution can be viewed at
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wespirit are pledged the letter of Virginia’stopolicy for equal housing opportuandachieving spirit of Virginia’s policy throughout the Commonfor nity achieving equal housing wealth. We encourage and opportunity throughout the support advertising and marketing programs which Commonwealth. Wein encourare no barriers to obtaining agethere and support advertishousing because of race, color, ingreligion, and marketing programs national origin, sex, familial or in elderliness, which there arestatus no barhandicap. All real estate adverriers to obtaining housing tised herein is subject to because reliVirginia’sof fairrace, housingcolor, law which makesnational it illegal to advertise gion, origin,“any sex, preference, limitation, or elderliness, familial status discrimination because of race, or color, handicap. All real estate religion, national origin, sex, elderliness, familial or advertised herein isstatus subject or intention to make to handicap Virginia’s fair housing any such preference, limitation, laworwhich makesThis it illegal discrimination.” newspa- to per will not knowingly accept advertise “any preference, advertising for real estate that limitation, or discrimination violates the fair housing law. Our because of herby race,informed color,that relireaders are all dwellings advertised in this gion, national origin, sex, newspaper are available on an elderliness, familial equal opportunity basis. Forstatus more or information handicap or to or file aintention housing call thesuch VirginiapreferFair to complaint make any Housing Office at (804) ence, limitation, or discrimi367-8530. Toll free call (888) nation.” newspaper 551-3247. This For the hearing call (804) 367-9753. willimpaired not knowingly accept advertising for real estate Email: fairhousing@dpor.virginia.gov. www.fairhousing.vipnet.org that Website: violates the fair housing law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. For more information or to file a housing complaint call the Virginia Fair Housing Office at (804) 367-8530. Toll free call (888) 551-3247. For the hearing impaired call (804) 367-9753.
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City Charges Fairfax Officer in HighSpeed Chase With Reckless Driving
New F.C. Mayor warns of Budget Crunch With Steep Decline in Assessment Growth
The City of Falls Church has filed official reckless driving charges against the Fairfax Police Department officer who crashed his car at the intersection of Broad and Washington Streets last week while in a hot pursuit of a suspected stolen vehicle. The case will come to trial in Arlington Circuit Court August 28.
The City of Falls Church’s new mayor, Robin Gardner, in her first public speaking engagement since her election earlier this month, confirmed to a sell-out crowd at the monthly luncheon of the Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce Tuesday that the growth of real estate assessments is cooling dramatically.
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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. OPEN SUNDAY 2-4PM
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