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NO DENYING IT WAS WET, but for all who braved the elements to enjoy the show and celebrate the nation’s birthday at the George Mason High School �ireworks Monday night, it was well worth it. A great show thanks to the efforts of the Falls Church Department of Recreation and Parks. See more photos, pages 16–17. (P����: C�������� B����)

Chamber Guide to Help Small Displaced Businesses a First

BY NICHOLAS F. BENTON

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A unique initiative by the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce, arising in the context of the recent years’ surge in new mixed use projects in the City’s slim commercial zones, is believed to be the first of its kind in the entire

U.S. and is aimed at assisting existing small businesses who are, or may become, faced with displacement.

The initiative, “A Resource Guide for Displaced Businesses,” was presented to the Falls Church City Council last month and it includes a lengthy list of “strategic action

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items” that the Chamber will pursue from the City government to improve the plight of these small businesses.

The highest profile case so far was the displacement of the historic Anthony’s Restaurant to make way for the new 301 W.

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Toronzo Cannon’s life has changed a lot in the year that’s passed since he announced he was signing to Alligator Records and stole the show at the Chicago Blues Festival in June 2015.

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Falls Church City Manager Wyatt Shields confirmed to the News-Press today that the City will formally request a public hearing be established by the board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority at its next meeting on July 21 for purposes of reinstating the 3T bus line that ran through the heart of the City but was abruptly terminated late last month.

The 3T bus line had provided service along Route 7 (W. Broad Street) between the West Falls Church and East Falls Church Metro stations and then proceeding to the through Pimmit Hills to a new Silver Line Metrorail station in Tysons Corner.

Clearly, its primary ridership service was to citizens of Falls Church, a half dozen of whom showed up last week to protest the termination of the 3T and 28X routes along Route 7 when the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, or WMATA, board chair Jack Evans and acting chief operating officer Jack Requa were in town to address the Falls Church City Council at its twice-monthly public business meeting.

Shields told the News-Press that in response to those citizen concerns, most coming from residents of the historic Winter Hill condominium complex (formerly a post-World War II GI loan residential development known as Tyler Gardens), WMATA was back in touch with the City right

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F.C. Formally Requests WMATA Board to Mull Bus Reinstatement Continued from Page 1

away in a letter to Mayor David Tarter and Shields spelling out the reasons (financial) for the decision to terminate the lines.

“Their response had everything to do with the public hearing last week,” Shields said. “They got right back to us and provided basic information about the cost of the service, which was funded

by Fairfax County.”

He said the communication suggested that were the 3T line to be reinstated, the City of Falls Church would have to bear the cost at a net of about $675,000 a year. “An evaluation of the ridership and cost recovery data will be further pursued,” he said, as well as data on increasing the number

of trips on the 28A line, the one remaining bus line that runs the length of W. Broad (Route 7) in the City.

The 28X line, which used to also run that route until late last month, has been revised to serve a different route connecting the East Falls Church Metro to the Seven Corners Transit Center and the Mark Center in Alexandria.

The City’s interest in reinstating and improving bus service along W. Broad is not only to see that existing City residents’ needs are met, but to provide service for the hundreds of new City residents that will be occupying the 301 W. Broad apartment building as it is being completed, and other large scale mixed use projects along that route either approved for con-

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Concerning WMATA’s interest in developing its three dozen acres adjacent the West Falls Church Metro, potentially in partnership with the City of Falls Church’s development of its own three dozen acres of the adjacent “Campus Redevelopment Project,” Shields said there is also cause for optimism.

“Actually, we have been in steady contact with WMATA about that property for the last three years,” he said, including a meeting as recently a two months ago. “They’d stopped their own planning on the site, which they’d done in the past, and we’re asking them to re-engage that effort.”

He said there will be plenty of time to dovetail their planning efforts with those of the City of Falls Church if they re-engage.

The good thing from the appearance of Evans and Requa at last week’s F.C. City Council meeting, which was scheduled as a perfunctory effort by WMATA to explain the delays and disruptions that the “Safe Track” program of emergency and comprehensive repairs of the entire 170-mile D.C. area-wide Metrorail system, is that “the issues of concern to Falls Church, including development at the West Falls Church Metrorail site, “[have] been raised to the highest level” at WMATA.

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KEY PLAYERS FOR THE Falls Church Chamber of Commerce’s groundbreaking “Resource Guide for Displaced Businesses” are shown discussing their project at the local Panera Bread. Left to right, Andrew Painter, who initiated the project, Chamber board chair Joe Wetzel and Chamber executive director Sally Cole. (Photo: News-Press)

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Broad apartments above the soon-to-open flagship Harris Teeter supermarket. A huge outpouring of public concern for the fate of Anthony’s, a popular family-owned restaurant that operated at the site since the early 1970s, was unable to prevent the inevitable displacement.

However, the citizens’ concerns contributed to the family’s commitment to stay in business with fresh energy from its next generation, and while intense efforts by the City’s Economic Development office failed to produce a desirable alternative site in the City, a new location was found a short way away, on Annandale Road near the Route 50 intersection, where it has pros-

pered every bit as well as before by bringing over many of its former customers and added business from local citizens sympathetic to its plight, and tasty fare.

Now, this week has come the news that another popular establishment, Brits on Broad, will be closing its doors by the end of this month. Their location in the 900 block of W. Broad Street is slated for demolition to make

way for the massive 4.3-acre Mason Row project inclusive of restaurants, movie theaters, a hotel, retail and hundreds of apartments.

It has been common for the Chamber of Commerce to align not with the small businesses being displaced, but to endorse the new, large scale projects, which has been the case for Falls Church in almost all the new projects that have come here, or are approved to, since 2001.

So, it is a marked departure for the Chamber now to also look out for the smaller businesses, many of whom are dues-paying Chamber members themselves, who may stand in the path of progress in an effort to make the next steps in their lives easier and potentially successful.

The new resource handbook, developed by Chamber Board of Directors member Andrew Painter, who spoke to the City Council last month, “is intended to help local businesses anticipate and successfully navigate business displacement challenges owing to condemnation, lease expiration and termination, eviction, rent increases and redevelopment by the owner,” according to a Chamber statement.

The Chamber claims the guide “is thought to be the first such handbook in the nation specifically crafted to tackle the issue of business displacement.”

“Redevelopment can be an emotional process for neighbors and businesses,” current Chamber board chair Joe Wetzel explained.

“How we wrestle with issues of picking up and moving your merchandise, your cash registers, and employees often creates anxiety and uncertainty. For an organization representing primarily local businesses, our Chamber felt we needed to do something for our

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membership and the community as a whole.”

The handbook “provides comprehensive information regarding best practices between tenants and landowners, contact information for key government agencies and officials, an overview of the redevelopment process, lease negotiation tips, information on finding space to which to relocate, and a list of permits required for business relocation,” the Chamber statement reads.

In addition an appendix to the 24-page guide spells out 11 Chamber “strategic actions,” including an annual City legislative package, a mentor/protege program, a local business roundtable, a displacement study, a local business survey, a comprehensive space inventory, a business retention outreach team, development evaluation process criteria, broker engagement, lower Chamber membership fees, and proposed City government initiatives.

The City initiatives include nine proposals of bonus densities, fee waivers, fast-track permitting, a relocation fund, application notifications, lower exhibitor and sponsorship fees at City events and lower BPOL (business license) taxes for displaced businesses.

Working with Painter, himself a local zoning attorney, on the guide was the Chamber’s Business Displacement Subcommittee, including Alan Frank, Gary LaPorta, Bob Young, Wetzel and the Chamber’s executive director Sally Cole.

The guide’s disclaimer states that “Nothing contained within this document is intended to constitute legal advice and is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not act upon this information without seeking professional counsel.”

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The Free Higher Education Plan

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders agree on one important issue going into the Democratic National Convention, that a college education should be free to aspiring youths in families with incomes less than $125,000. It is a huge step in the right direction for the entire nation.

Imagine that, the initiative proposes education, not organized stupidity, as a guaranteed right of American citizenship! How refreshing!

How anti-hysteria, how anti-bigoted, how anti-xenophobic, how antibullying, how anti-Trump can you get?

It is long overdue for the nation to revive and celebrate the true democratic Enlightenment movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that informed and grew the American revolution and the cornerstone documents of its subsequent democratic-republican tradition.

It is high time that the ugly, cynical revisionists of proto-fascist postmodernism, that which has led to the Trumpist version of so-called “patriotism,” be thoroughly repudiated.

No, the Founding Fathers, while hardly perfect, were not the greedy, self-serving, slovenly pigs as postmodern revisionist hogwash claims.

They were high-minded, believers in reason and science over superstition and tyranny, and many were very progressive thinkers in terms of feminism and abolitionism.

They aligned with the Paris-based “History of Philosophy” movement, the radical wing that opposed the institutions of monarchy in favor of science-based universal education and democracy.

The enemies that the British crown threw against them were rooted in religious irrationalism and fear, among them the so-called Great Awakening and Methodist fundamentalism of that era, which assigned to an angry god every natural calamity and event of the age.

As the renowned Pavlovian psychologist William Sargant wrote in his pioneering book, Battle for the Mind, the use of religious fervor (or, fear) driving the religious evangelist John Wesley to “convert” large areas of the British Isles “helped to stave off political revolution at a time when Western Europe and North America were in ferment, or in actual revolt.” Wesley, in allegiance to the British crown, fervently hated the American revolution.

Happily, Methodism is not like that today. But the use of irrationalism and encouraged ignorance is still a tried and true tactic for the suppression of the general public, whether in a tyranny, a cult, or in a culture, like ours, soaked in the limitless diversions of “bread and circuses.”

If we want to “take our nation back,” it has to happen by a revival of free, public and scientific-based universal education, especially to include higher education.

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Urging Support for F.C. Library Renovation

Editor, The City Council will be voting on July 25 whether to put on the November ballot an item authorizing an $8.7 million bond issue for renovation and expansion of the Mary Riley Styles Public Library. There is reportedly some sentiment on the Council for delaying this bond referendum by one year. We say no! It is crucial that the citizens get a chance to vote on this referendum in 2016.

Our library is one of this city’s most popular institutions. But it is badly in need of help. The existing building was constructed in 1958 and last renovated in 1992. Today its antiquated systems are costing the city unnecessary extra expense in maintenance. There is no room for additional materials and for the new technology we need. The program space is inadequate; when 140 students show up for reading time, the library is delighted, but barely has

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space to accommodate them. Much of the structure is not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Why should we wait another year? The City Council and Planning Commission have already approved $8 million for the library in the capital budget for the year beginning July 2017. If there is no authorization vote this year, that money cannot be spent and planning and design cannot begin, until a year later. A year wasted.

We, the members of the board of the Mary Riley Styles Library Foundation, urge concerned citizens to tell the City Council to allow us a vote this year. The City is likely to hold a town meeting before that time. We urge friends of the library

to come to that event – as well as the Council meeting on July 25 – to express support for the library and for its renovation and expansion.

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Will City Try to Take More Than Just the Fellows Property?

Editor, I must echo the sentiments of your reader who was stunned that the City of Falls Church was con-

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Texas Decision is a Victory for Women’s Health B� E���� M�������

United States and Virginia women won a decisive victory in last month’s Supreme Court 5-3 ruling in Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt, which ruled that two Texas restrictions on abortion were unconstitutional and presented an undue burden. The ruling on the restrictions comes from a single law in Texas, but has far-reaching positive implications on policy, healthcare, and women nationwide that we are only just beginning to see.

To understand the case better, it helps to look at previous Supreme Court rulings.

After abortion was legalized in 1973 by landmark case Roe v. Wade, state lawmakers quickly began adding restrictions to abortion, and in 1992, the Supreme Court took up Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a case from Pennsylvania that challenged the constitutionality of some of these restrictions.

While most of the law stood, the Court ruled that states could not impose an “undue burden” on the right to choose. However, what exactly constituted an undue burden was less than clear and the vagueness of the ruling was subsequently exploited by opponents of safe and legal abortion.

The restrictions in question were part of the 2013 law famously filibustered by thenTexas senator Wendy Davis. The first was a set of requirements that mandated that abortion clinics follow standards inappropriately stringent for the type and safety of proce-

dure performed, despite respected medical groups, including the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, having testified that standards like these do not

“There is no reason for abortion to be regulated differently from any other legal medical procedure.”

actually improve patient health. The second restriction was a requirement mandating that doctors must have admitting privileges at a hospital within a certain radius, which proved to be often impossible for a variety of reasons. Many hospitals required physicians to admit a certain number of patients annually, a bar abortion providers could not meet due to an extremely low rate of abortion-related complications. Some hospitals would not grant admitting privileges due to religious objections, and others simply did not want to be seen as taking a political stance.

As a result, 75 percent of the clinics in Texas closed, leaving less than ten clinics across the state, most concentrated in urban areas in the east. Waiting times for appoint-

ments skyrocketed, sometimes even pushing women outside of the legal timeframe to have an abortion. Many Texans found themselves hundreds of miles from the nearest clinic, and had to take time off work and secure days of childcare if they already had children, in order to travel, wait the 24 hours required by Texas law, and finally have the procedure itself. These barriers to access, among many more, disproportionately affected low-income Texans.

The clinic closures had a significant effect on women seeking abortion: in 2015, the Texas Policy Evaluation Project reported that up to 240,000 Texas women had attempted to self-induce an abortion, and cautioned that the new law could lead to increased attempts at self-induced abortion.

These laws are far from unique to Texas. Virginia, which earned a grade of “F” from NARAL Pro-Choice America in 2016, has some of the most restrictive laws in the country governing the clinics that provide abortion. Here, clinics must conform to many blatantly unnecessary requirements that would be laughable if they didn’t result in clinics closing due to the financial stress of renovations. Virginia law specifies the type of fabric that must be used on window coverings, the widths of hallways, the ceiling heights in the boiler room, and even the number of parking spaces at the clinic.

Laws like the ones in Virginia and Texas are implemented to score political points

with anti-choice activists, not to actually improve women’s health or the safety of abortion procedures, which, the majority opinion in Whole Women’s Health v.

Hellerstedt notes, are less risky than tonsillectomies, colonoscopies, and in-office dental surgery. There is no reason for abortion to be regulated differently from any other legal medical procedure.

Fortunately, there are indications that the tide has started to turn nationwide following the case, including in Virginia.

Alabama’s attorney general recently declared the state would no longer attempt to appeal a block on the state’s admittingprivilege law, and the Supreme Court declined to review cases from Wisconsin and Mississippi, thus upholding lower courts’ bars on admitting-privilege laws in those states. And Planned Parenthood recently added Virginia to a list of states with laws it plans to challenge in court.

While the organization has not yet specified which laws it will target, removing any of the Commonwealth’s unnecessarily restrictive laws will be an improvement from the current legal landscape.

Removing medically unnecessary laws from the books is only the first step to ensuring women and families have the ability to fully control their reproductive destinies. But the Supreme Court’s ruling and the case’s earliest preliminary effects are a victory, and reason for hope for Virginia women and families.

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NEWS BRIEFS Man Robs Bank on Arlington Blvd.

A man who claimed to have an explosive device in his backpack robbed a TD Bank at 6198 Arlington Blvd. in Falls Church, at around 3 p.m. on Tuesday, July 5, according to the Fairfax County Police Department. Police say the man demanded money after claiming that he had an explosive device in his backpack and then left the bank with an undisclosed amount of cash. There were no injuries in the incident. When the man fled, he left the backpack outside the front of the bank and the bank and surrounding businesses were evacuated shortly afterward. Arlington Boulevard at Patrick Henry Drive was shut down periodically to maximize the safety of passing motorists. The Fairfax County Police Department’s bomb squad examined the backpack out of an abundance of caution. The bomb squad declared the contents of the backpack safe shortly before 7 p.m. Detectives from the Major Crimes Division and the Crime Scene Section, took over the investigation and believe the suspect is the same person responsible for a June 1 robbery of a BB&T Bank in Falls Church. The suspect was described as a white male in his 50’s, approximately 6 feet tall, thin build with gray hair in a ponytail. He was wearing sunglasses, a yellow hat, a gray shirt and jeans.

$50K Winning Lottery Ticket Unclaimed in F.C. One of three winning Virginia Lottery tickets worth $50,000 set to expire on Tuesday, July 12 was bought at a store in Falls Church, according to a press release from the Virginia Lottery. According to the Virginia Lottery, a winning lottery ticket was purchased at La Bodega Supermarket, located at 6170 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church for the January 13 Powerball, which had a $1.58 billion jackpot. The winning numbers in the January 13 Powerball drawing were 4-8-19-27-34 and the Powerball number was 10.

Each of these tickets matched four of the first five numbers plus the Powerball number to win $50,000. The other two winning lottery tickets were bought in Lorton and Coeburn.

The winning tickets are set to expire at the close of business, which is 5 p.m., on July 12, unless those who have the tickets come forward to claim their prizes. For more information, visit powerball.com.

Pavement Reconstruction Begins in F.C. Falls Church road crews began a series of pavement reconstruction projects on both the east and west ends of the City this week that are expected to last until mid-September.

Affected areas on the east end include Roosevelt Blvd. from Wilson Blvd. to City limits at N. 11th Rd. and on the west end, the roads affected are Walnut St., Pine St. and Lincoln Ave. from N. West to Highland St. According to the City, these reconstruction projects are different from typical repaving and require more time to complete. On the west end of the city, the asphalt was installed directly over native soil which provides substandard structural and drainage capacity and resulted in a “substantially” diminished life cycle. On the west end, the project will look to repair weak and inconsistent base materials under Roosevelt Blvd. that have resulted in numerous potholes and pavement failures. The City says east end project construction will occur from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday – Friday, and work on each block will take about three to five days to complete. The project could possibly require complete road closures for non-local traffic with access to driveways provided as needed and maintained outside of work hours. One lane will remain open during the Roosevelt Blvd. project and access to all properties will be maintained. Construction will occur from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. for the northbound lane and 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for the southbound lane.

‘Sunset Cinema in the Park’ Begins Sept. 9 The City of Falls Church Recreation and Parks Department presents the 13th Annual Sunset Cinema in the Park. This summer, the free screenings of family-friendly movies will be held on September 9, 23, and 30 (double feature night) beginning at 8:15 p.m. in Cherry Hill Park, 312 Park Ave. Moviegoers are invited to bring blankets, lawn chairs, and picnics. Snacks and beverages will be available for purchase. In the event of inclement weather, the movies will take place at the Falls Church Community Center, 223 Little Falls St.

Best of Falls Church 2016 Voting Begins The annual Best of Falls Church reader vote has begun with all-new categories for 2016.

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Community News & Notes City of F.C. Offers Rape Aggression Defense Course

information, email ksdempsey@ verizon.net.

The City of Falls Church Police Department is offering a free Rape Aggression Defense program to teach women self-defense tactics and techniques. Women ages 12 and up are eligible for the course, which will be offered August 8, 9, 15 and 16 from 6 – 9 p.m.

The course will be taught by national certified Rape Aggression Defense instructors from the City of Falls Church Police Department and is a comprehensive, womenonly course that addresses awareness, prevention, risk reduction, risk avoidance and the basics of hands-on self-defense training.

The Rape Aggression Defense course is not a martial arts program and there are a limited number of spaces available. Participants are required to attend all four sessions and will be notified of the location after signing up. For more

Composter Building Workshop Slated for July 30 The Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District is hosting a Build-YourOwn Composter Workshop on Saturday, July 30 from 1:30 – 4:30 p.m. at the Falls Church City Community Center located at 223 Little Falls Street.

At the workshop, participants will start with a pile of recycled lumber, a recycled pickle barrel and assorted screws and bolts, then leave with a fully functioning tumbler style composter.

Instructors will take participants through the steps required to construct a composter and offer primers on proper composting techniques.

The finished composter will hold 55 gallons of organic mate-

rial. All lumber will be pre-cut and all tools and other materials will be provided. The workshop costs $75 and registration is limited to 15 people. For more information or to register, email recycling@fallschurchva.gov or visit fallschurchva. gov/520/Composting-Workshops.

The Choralis Foundation Renames Premiere Award The Falls Church-based Choralis Foundation recently announced that it is renaming the award for Outstanding Contributions to Choral Music, the premiere award given out at its annual Greater Washington D.C. Area Choral Excellence Awards.

The award’s new name is The J. Reilly Lewis Award for Choral Excellence in honor and memory of Dr. J. Reilly Lewis, who died on June 9.

Lewis was the inaugural recipient of the award that’s now named

AT THE WHOLE FOODS IN IDYLWOOD, (l to r) Virginia Delegates Rip Sullivan, Kathleen Murphy and Marcus Simon and Fairfax County Supervisor John Foust pose with the Falls Church-McLean Children’s Center’s mascot Honey during the organization’s recent fundraiser at the grocery store. The four public servants, along with Falls Church City councilmembers Marybeth Connelly and Letty Hardi and Falls Church City Mayor David Tarter were “celebrity baggers” at the checkout lines at the store, which donated five percent of sales to the organization on Wednesday, June 22. (Photo: Courtesy of Renee Boyle)

after in him June 2010 and was a perennial attendee at the awards ceremony now known informally as the Ovation Awards, as he loved the opportunities for collegiality and camaraderie provided by the end-of-season gathering of D.C.’s choral community.

He also served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Choralis Foundation and, as such, contributed greatly, especially in the early years of the award ceremony. Choralis also plans to honor Lewis’s memory by denoting its annual high school singer scholarship as the J. Reilly Lewis Merit Scholarship.

The Eighth Annual Greater Washington, D.C. Area Choral Excellence “Ovation” Awards is scheduled for June 6, 2017.

The first recipient of the J. Reilly Lewis Award for Choral Excellence will be Tom Hall, director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society.

Hall will retire from the society after 2016-2017 season, which will be his 35th season as director.

For more information, visit choralis.org.

F.C. Library Invites Parents To Weekly Baby Dance Party Mary Riley Styles Public Library at 120 N. Virginia Avenue is starting its weekly baby dance party called Dance with Your Baby at the Library on Friday, July 8 from 10:30 – 11 a.m. in the library’s conference room.

At the weekly event, children ages 0 – 18 months can enjoy songs and movement with their parents or caregivers. Registration is required for this event and opens two weeks prior to each program date. Parents and caregivers can register with the Youth Services desk or by phone at 703-2485034. For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/Library.

RETURNING TO HIS FALLS CHURCH hometown from seven years working in Hungary and England, George Mason High Class of ‘94 grad Andrew Turner and his mother Fran Turner hosted a celebration of his Big Number 40 birthday last month. (Photo: News-Press)

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F.C. Residents Graduate from James Madison University

Several Falls Church residents recently graduated from the James Madison University for the spring 2016 semester. David Olson graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics.

Laura Massaro and Charlotte Lathrop graduated magna cum laude. Massaro graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in interdisciplinary liberal studies and Lathrop graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in international affairs.

Paul Henninger and Lily Slonim graduated cum laude.

Henninger graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and Slonim graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.

Rachelle Aderoju, Hannah Greene, Hayden Hall, Laura King, Anna Koch, Anton Konjevoda, Kyle Kowalczyk, Viann Le, Katia Lizarraga, Patricia McConnell, Laura Nettuno, William Ohmer, Maianh Phan, Nicole Philbin, Maria Springer, Steven Rhodes and Derek Wilus graduated from the university.

Thompson of F.C. Selected For Leadership Program Falls Church resident D’Michael Thompson is among 70 students across the globe who were recently selected to partici-

pate in the Four Star Leadership program, which will take place from July 9-15 in Hobart, Okla.

The Four Star Leadership program with General Tommy Franks is a free program that provides students with both classroom and one-on-one experiences with respected leaders.

Thompson, a student at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science, was chosen due to his demonstrated leadership abilities and outstanding character.

During the program, Thompson will be hosted on the Oklahoma Christian University campus and travel on various excursions across the state. On his travels, Thompson will meet and engage with national and international leaders, including politicians, dignitaries and star athletes.

In addition, Thompson will be confronted with practical leadership and ethical scenarios and then challenged to address them individually in a persuasive speech and writing competition as well as collaboratively in an Ethics Bowl tournament.

Thompson will also have a chance to earn more than $15,000 in scholarships as well as gain internships and receive letters of recommendation. For more information, visit FourStarLeader.com or call 580-726-5900.

Arlington Artists Alliance Features ‘Suite Inspirations’ The Arlington Artists Alliance is featuring Suite

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FALLS CHURCH-BASED SKATER QUINN HARBIN (left, red shirt) came in 2nd place in the 11 & Under division for Best Trick and 3rd place in the halfpipe competition at Fairfax Surf Shop’s skateboarding competition, Skatefest, on Saturday, June 25. Quinn is a rising 4th grader at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. Skatefest is annual event that raises money for the Children’s National Medical Center and Quinn raised $165 towards the cause by selling lemonade (Photo: Courtesy of Jody Thomas) Inspirations, a show focusing on what it means to create art in a series now through Friday, July 29 at Gallery Underground, located at 2100 Crystal Dr., Arlington.

The show will feature work from all-media.

The exhibition explores what

happens when an artist creates a body of work with a common thread. It could be aspects of the same theme, or simply different facets of the same image. A series exhibit allows the viewer a rare and deeper glimpse into what an artist’s work is all about.

Gallery Underground’s hours are 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Monday – Friday and 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Saturday. For more information, visit galleryunderground.org.

McLean Community Center Names 2016 ‘Friends in Deed’

THE KENSINGTON FALLS CHURCH hosted a preview party for the Falls Church Plein Arts Festival on Thursday, June 16. Several City notables and Falls Church Arts board members gathered to see artwork featured in the Plein Air Festival prior to the Saturday, June 18 event. The Kensington Falls Church also sponsored a $300 prize for the festival called the The Kensington Choice. Falls Church Arts plans to open a new space in the Kensington in 2017. (Photo: Courtesy of Shaun van Steyn)

The Friends of the McLean Community Center has named Bonnie Weston and Gordon Thomas the recipients of its 2016 Friend in Deed award. Weston and Thomas are the 24th and 25th persons to receive this recognition “with gratitude for outstanding leadership and support of the McLean Community Center,” a press release from the community center said.

Friends of the McLean Community Center president Glenn Yarborough recognized the two at the organization’s annual meeting on Monday, June 13.

Their names will be added to the list of award recipients on the “Friend in Deed” plaque, which is displayed in the community center’s main lobby.

A 45-year resident of McLean, Thomas has been a mem-

ber of Friends of the McLean Community Center organization for seven years and has held the office of vice president for four years. Weston has been a member of Friends of McLean Community Center organization for five years and has served as treasurer for four of those five years. For more information, visit friendsmcc.com.

Ballston Iceplex Hosts Skate Night for the Disabled Individuals with disabilities are invited to bring their friends and family to an Adapted Ice Skate Night at Kettler Capitals Iceplex at Ballston Commons Mall, located at 627 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, on Saturday, July 9 from 6 – 8 p.m.

All ages are welcome to the event and admission to the event is $1, which covers the cost of skate rentals. Event organizers suggested that those who may have difficulty using the rental skates purchase BOB skates, which are available at Kettler in limited quantities, or to purchase other skating aids to use in conjunction with the rental skates.

Registration for the event is requested. For more information or for registration information, call Katie Salyers at 703-2284738 or visit parks.arlingtonva. us/therapeutic-recreation/therapeutic-recreation-family-programs.

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Clueless or Crazy

These days, if you want to elect a leader, you generally have two choices: a sensible, establishment figure who is completely out of touch, or a populist outsider who is incompetent, crazy or both.

That was the choice British Labour Party members faced in 2015, when they were picking a new leader. They went with the incompetent, inexperienced outsider, Jeremy Corbyn. He recently lost a no-confidence vote among members of Parliament in his own party, 172-40.

That was the choice Republican voters in the states faced throughout the primaries. Passing up the out-of-touch insiders, they went for an overflowing souffle of crazy incompetence in the form of Donald Trump. And this is certainly the choice that confronts members of the British Conservative Party. Calm cluelessness comes to them in the form NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE of David Cameron. He was a good prime minister, but he called for a “Brexit” referendum for short-term political gain, blithely unaware of what was happening in his own nation.

Crazy incompetence comes in the forms of the two leading pro-Brexit campaigners, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. Johnson is a witty, rakish showman who always puts himself at the center of attention and is willing to put up with a lot of scandal and disapproval in order to stay there.

It’s not clear Johnson was really in favor of Britain leaving the European Union, but leading a campaign for it seemed to be the quickest way to make himself prime minister. When his side of the referendum surprisingly won, he emerged ashen-faced, like a boy who’d had fun playing with matches but accidentally blew up his own house.

His first response apparently was denial. He had no post-referendum plan and canceled a meeting with MPs 15 minutes before it was due to start, but, according to British newspapers, did manage to spend a day playing cricket with his friend Earl Spencer at Althorp House, Princess Diana’s ancestral estate. The next day he hosted a barbecue at his house in Oxfordshire that was described in The Telegraph as “boozy, shambolic, disorganized and ill-disciplined” – which sounds fun but maybe not for a politician in the middle of a world crisis.

Then came the backpedaling. He wrote an op-ed piece for The Telegraph headlined “I Cannot Stress Too Much That Britain Is Part of Europe – and Always Will Be,” which went beyond reassuring the markets and left the impression that nothing very important had happened at all.

The week ended with him abandoning his campaign to become prime minister – an astounding feat of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory that must make some of history’s all-time choke artists gape and applaud.

Gove, on the other hand, is earnestly sincere, with a manner that would get him kicked off many math teams for being too nerdy. Two years earlier, Gove had expressed disdain for Johnson, reportedly telling a crowd after a long dinner: “Boris is incapable of focusing on serious issues and has no gravitas. He isn’t a team player and plays to the gallery the whole time.” But during the Brexit campaign, Gove was Johnson’s deputy and seemed destined to be his No. 2 in the government.

But sometime in the days after the victory he decided that Johnson was wobbly and that he himself should really be No. 1. Gove’s doubts were fortified by an email from his wife, the Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine. She reminded her husband that party members were skeptical of Johnson but found him reassuring. “Do not concede any ground. Be your stubborn best,” she wrote to him.

How an email from a wife to a husband got leaked to the press is a question for another day.

Gove shockingly announced that rather than support Johnson, he would run against him. This may have been an act of principle, but it left the impression, as one Tory party leader told The Telegraph, that Gove is a “Machiavellian psychopath” who had planned to stab his friend in the back “from the beginning.”

In any case, they are both now thoroughly in disgrace, Johnson out of the race and Gove languishing.

The big historical context is this: Something fundamental is shifting in our politics. The insiders can’t see it. Outsiders get thrown up amid the tumult, but they are too marginal, eccentric and inexperienced to lead effectively.

Without much enthusiasm, many voters seem to be flocking to tough, no-nonsense women who at least seem sensible: Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton and, now, the Conservative Party front-runner, Theresa May. We probably need a political Pope Francis-type figure, who comes up from the bottom and understands life there, but who can still make the case for an open dynamic world, with free-flowing goods, ideas, capital and people. Until that figure emerges, we could be in for a set of serial leadership crises.

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Trump, Trade & Workers Donald Trump gave a speech on economic policy last week. Just about every factual assertion he made was wrong, but I’m not going to do a line-by-line critique. What I want to do, instead, is talk about the general thrust: the candidate’s claim to be on the side of American workers.

Of course, that’s what they all say. But Trumponomics goes beyond the usual Republican assertions that cutting taxes on corporations and the rich, ending environmental regulation and so on will conjure up the magic of the marketplace and make everyone prosper.

It also involves posing as a populist, claiming that getting tough on foreigners and ripping up our trade agreeNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE ments will bring back the well-paying jobs America has lost.

That’s a departure, although not as much as you may think – people forget that Mitt Romney similarly threatened a trade war with China during the 2012 campaign. Still, it was interesting to see a Republican presidential candidate name-check not just Bernie Sanders but the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, which has long been critical of globalization.

But the institute is having none of it: Lawrence Mishel, the think tank’s president, put out a derisive reply to what he called the “Trump trade scam.” His point was that even if you think, as he does, that trade agreements have hurt American workers, they’re only part of a much broader set of anti-labor policies.

And on everything else, Donald Trump is very much on the wrong side of the issues.

About globalization: There’s no question that rising imports, especially from China, have reduced the number of manufacturing jobs in America. One widely-cited paper estimates that China’s rise reduced U.S. manufacturing employment by around 1 million between 1999 and 2011. My own back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that completely eliminating the U.S. trade deficit in manufactured goods would add about 2 million manufacturing jobs.

But America is a big place, and total employment exceeds 140 million. Shifting 2 million workers back into manufacturing would raise that sector’s share of employment back from around 10 percent to around 11.5 percent. To get some perspective: in 1979, on the eve of the great surge in inequality, manufacturing accounted for more than 20 percent of employment.

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In the 1960s it was more than 25 percent. I’m not sure when, exactly, Trump thinks America was great, but Trumponomics wouldn’t come close to bringing the old days back.

In any case, falling manufacturing employment is only one factor in the decline of the middle class. As Mishel says, there have been “many other intentional policies” driving wages down even as top incomes soar: union-bashing, the failure to raise the minimum wage with inflation, austerity, financial deregulation, the taxcut obsession. And Trump buys fully into the ideology that has driven these wage-destroying policies.

In fact, even as he tried to pose as a populist he repeated the same falsehoods usually used to justify anti-worker policies. We are, he declared, “one of the highest taxed nations in the world.” Actually, among 34 advanced countries, we’re No. 31. And, regulations are “an even greater impediment” to our competitiveness than taxes: Actually, we’re far less regulated than, say, Germany, which runs a gigantic trade surplus.

As Mishel wrote, “if is he so keen to help working people, why does he then steer the discussion back toward the traditional corporate agenda of tax cuts for corporations and the rich?” I think we know the answer.

But never mind Trump’s motivations. What’s important is that voters not mistake tough talk on trade for a pro-worker agenda.

No matter what we do on trade, America is going to be mainly a service economy for the foreseeable future. If we want to be a middle-class nation, we need policies that give service-sector workers the essentials of a middle-class life. This means guaranteed health insurance – Obamacare brought insurance to 20 million Americans, but Republicans want to repeal it and also take Medicare away from millions.

It means the right of workers to organize and bargain for better wages – which all Republicans oppose. It means adequate support in retirement from Social Security – which Democrats want to expand, but Republicans want to cut and privatize.

Is Trump for any of these things? Not as far as anyone can tell. And it should go without saying that a populist agenda won’t be possible if we’re also pushing through a Trump-style tax plan, which would offer the top 1 percent huge tax cuts and add trillions to the national debt. Sorry, but adding a bit of Chinabashing to a fundamentally anti-labor agenda does no more to make you a friend of workers than eating a taco bowl does to make you a friend of Latinos.

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Trump, Roy Cohn & Worse

(Anybody remember that Karl Rove set up a private e-mail account in the George W. Bush White House under the domain name “gwb43. com,” from which he purged 22 million e-mails in 2007 at the height of the Valerie Plame scandal? Jon Ponder tells the story in the online Pensito Review.)

By all measures, Donald Trump is one of the most corrupt business figures ever, by his own self-obsession a veritably storied one, who brings one thing only: the personality and demeanor of a galling bully.

This he is good at, having as the New York Times’ Jonathan Mahler and Matt Flegenheimer wrote last month, learned at the knee of New York shyster lawyer Roy Cohn, one of his closest FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS collaborators until Cohn died of AIDS in 1986.

Cohn, chased by authorities for years for conspiracy, bribery, fraud and income tax evasion, was eventually disbarred for “unethical, unprofessional and particularly reprehensible conduct.” He was a major player in Trump’s rise as a real estate mogul, as documented in Nicholas Von Hoffman’s Citizen Cohn: the Life and Times of Roy Cohn, Harry Hurt III’s Lost Tycoon: the Many Lives of Donald J. Trump and other sources.

Perhaps the best representation of Cohn was in Academy Award winning playwright Tony Kushner’s incredible Broadway play (and HBO mini-series classic), “Angels in America,” with Al Pacino so brilliantly playing Cohn as a central figure. Trump seemingly stands just offstage in so much of this play.

You see in Cohn where Trump came from and is now. Peter Fraser, Cohn’s companion for his last two years who spent much time with Trump, said for the Mahler-Flegenheimer article, “I hear Roy in the things he (Trump) says quite clearly. That bravado, and if you say it aggressively and loudly enough, it’s the truth — that’s the way Roy used to operate to a degree, and Donald was certainly his apprentice.”

In the Von Hoffman book, Cohn friend Liz Smith said of Cohn, “He was absolutely great where it was a matter that he could call somebody he knew and say, ‘I’m going to kick your ass from here to the Brooklyn Bridge if you don’t get this quashed,’ or whatever, but when it came to actually having to file papers and do things, I have begun to wonder if he really – he just didn’t want to bother...He was a wonderful intimidator and bluffer and bullshit artist. I don’t think, in a way, that he could write a paper or draft anything.” That’s Trump to a tee.

In Hurt’s Lost Tycoon, a best seller in 1993 but now out of print (which, curiously, the publisher, W.W. Norton, has recently said it isn’t interested in reviving), a caveat was printed onto the first page as agreed to with Trump’s lawyers, a statement from Trump’s first wife Ivana that qualified her testimony in a deposition in the divorce case where she stated Trump “had raped me.”

There was one occasion in 1989, she explained, when she “felt violated,” adding the following: “I referred to this as ‘rape,’ but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.”

Now, the mainstream media is looking the other way in another case where the word “rape” is associated with Trump. A lengthy article published last week on the Huffington Post by Lisa Bloom, an NBC News legal analyst, entitled, “Why the New Child Rape Case Filed Against Donald Trump Should Not be Ignored,” has been, well, ignored.

It accuses Trump of raping the plaintiff when she was 13.

Bloom wrote, as a journalist to journalists, “No outsider can say whether Mr. Trump is innocent or guilty of these new rape charges.

“But we can look at his record, analyze the court filings here, and make a determination as to credibility – whether the allegations are believable enough for us to take them seriously and investigate them, keeping in mind his denial and reporting new facts as they develop. I have done that. And the answer is a clear ‘yes.’ These allegations are credible. They ought not be ignored. Mainstream media, I’m looking at you.”

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

Giving Clinton Her Due It is easy in an election cycle that has seen the improbable rise of the preposterous presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump to center all discussion about the race on him: how poorly he’s doing, how outrageous this week’s comments were, how damning a new investigative report into his past has proved.

But doing so exposes a bias toward the sensational, underselling another rather remarkable story, at least for the month of June: Hillary Clinton ran an incredibly strong campaign last month.

First, let’s start with the obvious. As Gallup pointed out last week: “Trump and Clinton are currently among the worst-rated presidential candidates of the last seven decades.” But the article continued: “In the race to the bottom, however, Trump’s 42 percent highly unfavorable score easily outpaces Clinton’s 33 percent. Prior to now, 1964 Republican nominee Barry Goldwater had the highest negative score, with 26 percent rating him highly unfavorably in October 1964.”

A couple of weeks ago Gallup found that “Americans’ views of NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE Donald Trump have drifted slightly more negative over the past month and a half, with his net favorable rating slipping to -33 for June 13-19 from -28 in the first week of May. Americans’ views of Hillary Clinton have remained significantly less negative than their views of Trump – and have been more stable, with her current -13 net favorable rating almost identical to her -14 from early May.” Both Clinton and Trump are flawed and damaged candidates, but they aren’t equally flawed and damaged.

And while Trump is digging his holes deeper, Clinton is remaining steady in some and climbing out of others.

Clinton began the month with a major foreign policy speech that CNN called an “evisceration of Donald Trump,” and she never let up. She delivered a stinging critique of Trump as dangerous in an economic policy speech in Ohio. In an article about the speech, The New York Times pointed out: “The barrage comes at a perilous moment for Mr. Trump, who fired his campaign manager on Monday and faces severe disadvantages in fundraising and on-the-ground organization. One supporter introducing Mrs. Clinton said gleefully that the campaign had more staff members in Ohio than Mr. Trump had nationwide.”

How did Trump respond to this speech? He livetweeted his objections.

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When he did give a major speech in response, it was roundly condemned for the numerous falsehoods it contained. But this is nothing new for Trump. Of all the statements by Trump that have been examined by the fact-checking site PolitiFact, most have been rated false or “pants on fire.” Trump simply can’t muster the discipline that is one of Clinton’s hallmarks. While giving a trade speech in New Hampshire last week, Trump departed from the subject to again go after Mexico.

What is this man’s issue with Mexico, anyway?

As The Times observed: “Donald J. Trump was seven minutes into an address on Thursday on the loading dock of a shuttered lighting plant here in New Hampshire, reading from prepared remarks, when he turned his attention to Mexico. That country’s leaders are smarter than those in the United States, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said. Then, as the sound of a plane overhead drowned out his voice, Mr. Trump went off his script. ‘In fact,’ Mr. Trump said, pointing his finger toward the sky, ‘that could be a Mexican plane up there.

They’re getting ready to attack.’”

At times last month, Clinton and her campaign so outmatched Trump that the competition wasn’t even close. And perhaps most intriguingly, in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Orlando and Turkey and the Brexit vote in England, Clinton turned what many had seen as a negative for her into a positive: Her cautious delivery, which can sometimes feel a bit guarded and robotic, began to sound steady, reassuring and presidential.

Trump, in contrast, stumbled terribly, because rather than rise in these moments of trauma and volatility, he sinks to being more, well, Trump. He made everything about him. After the Orlando massacre, Trump tweeted: “Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don’t want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!”

Following the Brexit vote, MSNBC reported: “Asked about economic turmoil and the degree to which the Brexit results are undermining the value of the British pound,” Trump replied “that the market decline is good news – for him. ‘If the pound goes down, more people are coming to Turnberry, frankly,’ he said, referring to the location of his resort. ‘For traveling and for other things, I think it very well could turn out to be positive.’”

There’s no way to know if this will continue, especially in light of the ongoing FBI investigation of her emails, but last month Clinton out-campaigned and outclassed Trump at every turn. It’s important that she is given her due.

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The Fairfax County History Commission presented its annual report to the Board of Supervisors on June 21. The History Commission is a boardappointed group of citizen volunteers, whose task is to promote public interest in the history of Fairfax County. And what a rich history it is! Much of the Colonial Era, the struggles of the new nation, the challenges of the Civil War, and its aftermath, have been documented, but the newer history of Fairfax County needs similar documentation, before we lose our longtime residents and their significant memories.

In 1970, Fairfax County’s population was 454,300, overwhelmingly Caucasian, and housing units numbered just 130,800, countywide. Fairfax County was a bedroom community, most people worked in Washington, D. C., and commuted via the Shirley Highway (now I-395). The county’s success as an economic engine and national leader may have been dreamed about, but not realized. Today, our incredibly diverse population is 1,125,400, living in 412,200 housing units, with an economy that rivals many small nations.

What happened between 1970 and today? That’s where you can be helpful. As the population ages, neighbors who witnessed such significant changes are leaving, some downsizing, some moving to be near family, some through death. Their memories, photos, letters, newsletters, etc., should be captured and preserved for future generations. Oral histories are a simple way to do that, and connect with treasured neighbors at the same time. The History Commission’s Oral History subcommittee offers support to groups in Fairfax County seeking to record and collect oral histories. Perhaps you have

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a longtime neighbor who remembers when farmland was abundant inside the Beltway, or when that same farmland was developed into your subdivision. My across-the-street neighbor, who has lived in the same house since about 1954, told me that our street used to be a dirt road, and her husband finally got the state to put some gravel down to make it passable when it rained. There were four houses on the street then; now there are 13, with very diverse architecture and occupants, mirroring the changes in the county.

Another approach might be to ask residents, who came here from another country, about their experiences moving to Fairfax. Those changes, and those memories, can provide the basis for an oral history that will be treasured for years to come. More information is available at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/ histcomm.

Fairfax County’s free summer concerts continue to draw hundreds of attendees to local parks for live musical entertainment. You can enjoy a free concert somewhere in the county most evenings during the summer, usually starting at 7:30 p.m.

Check the Fairfax County Park Authority website (www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks) for venues and performers. Tomorrow, the Empty Bottle String Band will perform at Mason District Park, and the NOVA Annandale Symphony Orchestra will play on Sunday. The international concert series at Ossian Hall on Saturday will feature Vietnamese Cultural Heritage Night. Bring a blanket, bring a picnic, bring the family. I look forward to seeing you there.

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The beginning of July is an important time for our nation and the Commonwealth. This week we celebrated the 4th of July – the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776 by the Continental Congress declaring the 13 colonies no longer part of Britain’s empire. There have been parades, fireworks and celebrations with friends and family. The official school year has ended and summer sports are in full swing. Think about our children and please drive responsibly in our communities.

Another major date of note is July 1, the enactment date for most newly-passed legislation.

With a shrinking press corps in Richmond, throughout the year we have tried to highlight the more significant bills that passed during the General Assembly. I would like to call to your attention to some that may not have crept to the top of the list. From naming state animals to reducing the number of SOL’s, we saw more than one thousand measures introduced and many of them were debated as well.

On the November ballot we will have two constitutional amendments for consideration. I generally oppose constitutional amendments because they often are superfluous and intended to send a message. Why should we tinker with a document that Mason, Madison and Jefferson thoughtfully penned for generations to come? I firmly believe amending the Constitution should be done on the rarest of occasions. Additionally, opening up the historic document for any and all whims is not something I hope anyone would support. With that said, each and every year more amendments are introduced.

There is no mystery that Virginia is a right to work state and to the best of my knowledge there has not been a problem to date. However, you will be asked to vote on the merits of a constitutional amendment that prohibits any agreement or combination between an employer and a labor union to deny the right to work to nonunion members.

There will also be a referendum on whether localities can exempt taxes on the real property of the surviving spouse of any law-enforcement officer, firefighter, search and rescue personnel or emergency medical services personnel killed in the line of duty.

Another bill that may come as

a surprise establishes the legal age for marriage as 18 years. However, there is an exemption for a minimum of 16 years with the consent of the parent or guardian in the case of pregnancy. A minor may petition the juvenile and domestic relations court for emancipation based on the minor’s desire to enter into a marriage.

While we would all endorse the idea of working families being able to support themselves, any and all measures to increase the minimum wage quickly met their demise. It seems like simple math to me. Someone working 2,000 hours/year at $7.25/hour cannot possibly make ends meet – particularly with the cost of living in our region. If we thought long and hard about it, it’s not difficult to see how government services are necessary for basic survival at that wage. Fortunately, most Northern Virginia businesses recognize this and treat their employees better than currently required.

It was disappointing to note a downstate legislator thought it necessary to prohibit localities from requiring their contracted vendors to provide a stated wage level for employees that exceeds state or federal levels. It was gratifying to see the Governor veto this bill on the grounds that localities are best able to understand the local needs and availability of the workforce.

While on the topic of the veto pen, fortuitously HB 773, which was known as the Government Non-Discrimination Act, was also one of many vetoes. On the other hand, the Governor of North Carolina signed this license to discriminate and they are realizing the economic impact it has had with major companies and the NCAA leaving the state.

In all, the Governor vetoed 17 bills. To view those measures and the rationale for the veto, I encourage you to visit my website, dicksaslaw.com for more information on the vetoes, the adopted new biennial budget, and additional newlyminted legislation signed into law.

July 1 is the beginning of Virginia’s fiscal year. We are cautiously optimistic that revenue estimates will be met in order to fund the raises for state employees and others. We are still playing catch up when it comes to funding public education – but it is long overdue for us to appropriately fund a developing workforce pipeline necessary for the Commonwealth to be competitive.

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by Syphax family historian Steve Hammond. The spiffy groom was Arlington black heritage stalwart Craig Syphax, a fourth-generation descendant.

Arlington House is revamping its exhibits thanks to the donation from billionaire David Rubenstein, and it will coordinate with the soon-to-open National Museum of African American History.

The effort to spotlight Robert E. Lee’s handling of slavery on his property is a direct challenge to “the lost cause” myth that emerged in the South in the 1870s to minimize the peculiar institution, an approach the Park Service calls a “genteel and decontaminated narrative.” *** It appears no one can save the two-century-old Minor’s Hill house to which Dolley Madison fled the British in 1814, across the Arlington border in McLean.

My talks with neighbors revealed that the home – with wooden beams built by patriarch George Minor – has been a neighborhood conversation piece (there’s talk of a ghost). Neighbor Mike Ryan, a descendant of the Crimmins family that farmed Minor’s Hill after the Civil War, displays an 1899 photo of his ancestors at a nearby home under construction.

But the wrecking ball is coming. Wally Sansone, president of the Franklin Area Citizens Association, told me, “Many of us are sad to see this historic property developed.” But builders and the county say the demolition plan will “meet all applicable zoning laws and regulations.” An official historic marker is being considered. pects attempted to pry a window of a residence sometime after June 1.

Public Drunkenness, 100 block W. Broad St. On June 28, a male, 55, of Arlington, was arrested for Public Drunkenness.

Public Drunkenness, 600 block S. Washington St. On June 28, a male, 26, of Falls Church, was arrested for Public Drunkenness.

Shoplifting, 348 W. Broad St. (FedEx Store) On June 29, police received a report that merchandise was stolen from the store by unknown patrons.

Larceny from Building, 300 block W. Broad St. On June 29, two cell phones were reported stolen.

Driving Under the Influence, 6600 block Wilson Blvd. On July 2, a female, 63, of Falls Church, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence.

Larceny, 220 N. Washington St. (The State Theater) On July 3, a female, 30, of Ashburn, was arrested and released on summons for Petit Larceny.

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DESPITE HEAVY RAINS THROUGHOUT THE DAY, Falls Church City and its citizens celebrated Independence Day with readings at Falls Church’s City Hall at noon and fireworks at George Mason High School in the evening. The rain tapered off just before the City’s fireworks display was set to take place, so there was little crowd interaction as most of the event attendees gathered on the hill leading up to Mason’s new athletic field and in neighboring parking lots. (Photos: Claudette Brown/News-Press)

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Business News & Notes F.C. Chamber Hosting Events For New & Potential Members The Falls Church Chamber of Commerce is hosting two events for new members and businesses interested in learning more about the chamber on Thursday, July 14. An informal networking breakfast will be held from 8 – 9 a.m. at the Original Pancake House to provide business leaders the opportunity to meet other business leaders in a small group setting while a chamber orientation meeting will be held from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. to provide current and prospective members with an overview of the chamber benefits. Both events are free although attendees are expected to pay for their order during the breakfast event. Visit the calendar at www.FallsChurchChamber.org for more information. .

Going Out of Business Party at Brits on Broad Set for Friday Brits on Broad is hosting a going out of business party on Friday, July 8 from 6 – 10 p.m. at 926 W. Broad Street. Owned and operated by hair stylist Virginia Bowles, the four-year-old hair salon and specialty gift shop is offering deep discounts on remaining merchandise including jewelry, British goods, and more through its last day July 8.

McLean Chamber Hosts Business Golf Tourney July 27 The Greater McLean Chamber of Commerce’s 2016 Business Alliance Golf Classic will take place Wednesday, July 27 from 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the Freddie Couples-designed Westfields Golf Club in Clifton, Virginia. The fundraising event includes a continental breakfast, an awards luncheon, a silent auction, and contests. The event’s luncheon host is four-time Washington Redskins Pro-Bowl linebacker Ken Harvey and the Honored Golfer is Steve Davis, chairman of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority and former corporate controller for Mobil and Chevron. Giant is the Event Sponsor with additional sponsorship support provided by Republic National Distributing Company; Amelia Distributing Company; Polar Beverages; Ross, Langan & McKendree, LLP; Capital Wealth Management Inc.; Chain Bridge Bank; and The JBG Companies. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the McLean Community Foundation. Hole sponsorships for $250 are still available. For more information, visit www.mcleanchamber.org.

Al-Anon Northern Virginia Moving to S. Washington St. The Al-Anon Northern Virginia Service Center is moving from its current location to 900 South Washington Street, Suite G-16, in Falls Church effective August 2. Office hours will be the same as at present, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, from 12:30 – 4 p.m.. The center, which has been in its current office space on North Washington Street for nine years, is moving due to pending new construction. The services offered in the new location will not change. The last day of the center’s operations on North Washington Street will be July 30, from 12:30 – 4 p.m. Al-Anon is a self-help program to help people deal with an alcohol problem in a friend or relative. For more information, visit www.alanonva.com.

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Community Events

THURSDAY, JULY 7

Concerts in the Park. The City of Falls Church’s Concerts in the Park series continues with Andrew Acosta Band. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Concerts.

FRIDAY, JULY 8

Dance with Your Baby at the Library. Enjoy songs and movement for children ages 0 to 18 months. Registration opens two weeks prior to each program date. Registration required.

Mary Riley Styles Public Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 – 11 a.m. 703-248-5034.

Playdate Cafe. Coffee and conversation for the adults; age appropriate toys for the kids.

For parents/caregivers with infants ages birth – 18 months.

Registration opens two weeks prior to the date of the class.

Space is limited to 16 children and their parents/caregivers. Register required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free.

11 – 12 p.m. 703-248-5034.

SATURDAY, JULY 9

Ready, set, POLKA! at the Library.

Get up and move to the happy sounds of polka music with Uncle

Mike’s, “Ready, Set, Polka!”! Test your fitness with a multitude of dance opportunities, like special Pint Size Polkas versions of the “Hokey Pokey,” the “Chicken Dance,” and “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.” Volunteer, participation and sing along opportunities abound in this winning program that promises to be fun for all ages. Recommended for children 2-6 years old. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 – 11:45 a.m. 703-248-5034.

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.

SUNDAY, JULY 10

Shaadi Showcase Summer 2016.

Dream Shaadi makes sure your Big Day is your Best Day! Dream Shaadi is a South Asian wedding guide company serving the region since 2004. Falls Church Marriott Fairview Park (3111 Fairview Park Dr., Falls Church). Free. 1 – 5 p.m. info@dreamshaadi.com

MONDAY, JULY 11

Street Sweeping. Each cycle of street sweeping collects between

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40 and 50 tons of debris from city streets and keeps it out of our streams. Ongoing from July 11-15. fallschurchva.gov/Sweep.

ESL Conversation Group. An English as a second language conversation group focusing on English Language and American culture. No registration required.

Mary Riley Styles Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 8:30 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Library.

TUESDAY, JULY 12

Mary Riley Styles Public Library Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free.

3 – 4 p.m. 703-248-5034.

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.

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.

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.

Paws to Read. Children can come and read with a canine companion. Readers rising grades K-6th. Registration Required.

On the Ball with Spinny Johnson.

Join Spinny Johnson, a former Harlem Globetrotter, for an interactive program of basketball skills and tricks. Fun for the whole family. Recommended for ages 5 and up. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church).

Free. 7 – 8 p.m. 703-248-5034.

Lego in the Library. Lego club with a theme for grades rising 2nd – 5th. Registration begins June 29.

Limited to 16 participants. Children must be present at 3 p.m. to enter the room; at 3:05 we will give spaces to children on the waitlist.

Mary Riley Styles Public Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 3 – 4 p.m.

703-248-5034.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 13

Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, JULY 7

“Another Way Home.” It’s visiting day at Camp Kickapoo, and Joey Nadelman is nowhere to be found. As the search parties come up empty, Joey’s parents are left wondering not only where he’s gone, but also why their marriage feels lacking, and what might have happened if they had taken a different path. An insightful, sardonic drama about the strangers we all live with – family. This is a preview performance of the show. Through July 17. Washington, D.C. Jewish Community Center (1529 16th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 – $35. 8 p.m. dcjcc.org.

FRIDAY, JULY 8

“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.

“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.

SATURDAY, JULY 9

“La Cage Aux Folles.” The twenty year relationship between Georges, a club-owner, and Albin, the head drag performer, faces a test when their son announces his engagement to the daughter of ultra-conservative political parents. To please their son, Georges and Albin agree to hide their lifestyle and play it straight for a dinner with the potential in-laws.

However, Albin‘s different de�inition of “normal” threatens to upend the entire supper with hilarious results. Through July 10. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Falls Church). $40 – $72. 7:30 p.m. sigtheatre.org.

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S����� M������. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-237-8333.

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6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.

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7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500.

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L��� A����� H�����. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church).

9 p.m. 703-241-9504.

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4 p.m. 703-241-9504.

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9 p.m. 703-241-9504.

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B��� �� S�����. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $25 – $91. 5 p.m. 703-2370300.

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Thursday, July 14 – Concerts in the Park. The City of Falls Church’s Concerts in the Park series continues with Irish Breakfast Band, who will be playing Celtic

music. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Concerts.

Wednesday, July 20 – Kandinsky Looms in the Library. Children who are rising to grades 1 – 5 can create woven works of art using CDs and yarn, a la

Wassily Kandinsky. Registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 3 – 4 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/ Library

Saturday, July 30 – Build Your Own Composter Workshop. Participants will start this workshop with a pile of recycled lumber, a recycled pickle barrel and

assorted screws and bolts and leave with a fully functioning tumbler style composter. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). $75. 1:30 – 4:30 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/520/Composting-Workshops.

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Sawatdee’s Laid Back Thai Eatery is Tops in Courthouse

BY DREW COSTLEY

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Sawatdee is barely visible from Clarendon Boulevard, where it resides, but it is one of the best restaurants in the Courthouse neighborhood where it’s located.

Sawatdee

2250 Clarendon Blvd.

Arlington 703-243-8181 Hours: Monday – Thursday: 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.; 5 – 10 p.m.

Friday: 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.; 5 – 10:45 p.m.

Saturday: 12 – 10:45 p.m.

Sunday: 12 – 10 p.m.

Although the storefront isn’t much to look at, which is a result of it being in the gray strip mallesque shopping center that also houses an AMC Theater and a FedEx Office Print & Ship Center,

the interior is beautifully decorated. My favorite feature of the lush dining room is the booths, which are among the comfiest I’ve ever sat on. Sawatdee isn’t the only non-franchise restaurant in the shopping center, but it’s definitely my favorite in the area, probably because it’s a Thai restaurant and that’s one of my favorite types of cuisine.

Sawatdee has a large menu, but it’s organized and digestible, so diners most likely won’t be intimidated by the restaurant’s many selections. As with most Southeast Asian restaurants, there is a healthy selection of vegetarian and vegan options, with such options on each of the menu’s sections. The appetizers menu has three vegetarian options, two of which I have seen at several other Thai restaurants – Spring Rolls ($5) and Tofu-Tod ($6) and one I have never seen at a Thai restaurant – Sesame Green Beans ($6).

The Sesame Green Beans at Sawatdee is the menu item that I like most from what I’ve had at the restaurant. They are deep fried green beans served with a sesame soy sauce and beat out every other similar dish I’ve had, regardless

of cuisine (that’s aimed at you, T.G.I. Friday’s). Both times I’ve had the dish the green beans were fried just enough to be crispy, but not enough to ruin the flavor of the breading, the green beans were fresh and the sauce is a amazing.

It’s sweet with a touch of saltiness, which is a perfect addition to the deep fried green beans, which aren’t extremely flavorful.

Out of the “Chef Recommended” section of Sawatdee’s menu, there aren’t any vegan/vegetarian items outright, but there are options to substitute tofu or vegetables in most of the dishes. The Angel Eggplant ($14), which is deep fried eggplant topped with juicy stir fried ground chicken, bell peppers, carrots and spicy basil sauce, is my favorite with fried tofu instead of the chicken. It’s spicy and earthy with the bell peppers and carrots giving the dish a light feel.

The Ga-Pow is one of 12 dishes on the entree portion of the menu, and one of six that can be made with either vegetables or tofu instead of meat. It comes with the diner’s choice of meat sauteed with chili peppers, bell peppers, garlic and fresh basil leaves in a

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SAWATDEE’S SESAME GREEN BEANS is the best dish of its type. (P����: D��� C������/N���-P����) spicy basil sauce. One thing that’s not in the menu’s description of the Ga-Pow is that the dish comes with plenty of jalapenos. The dish is spicy, but it’s little more than that. It’s decent, but it’s much less flavorful than similar dishes I’ve had at other Thai restaurants.

The curry dishes at Sawatdee are wonderful. The curry dishes aren’t as lumpy or thick as curry dishes at other Thai restaurants in the area, which actually works in this case.

The Red Curry, which has the same pricing per the diner’s choice of meat/non-meat, is delicious. The

diner’s choice of meat comes with red curry paste that’s cooked with coconut milk, bamboo shoots, Thai eggplants and sweet basil leaves.

Finally, the Drunken Noodle at Sawatdee, which has the same pricing per the diner’s choice of meat/non-meat, is probably my second favorite in the area to Rincome in South Arlington.

Sawatdee is a wonderful date spot, has a great patio for outdoor dining now that the sun is out and has an attentive wait staff. I definitely recommend the spot, especially to fans of Southeast Asian cuisine.

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Blues guitarist Toronzo Cannon’s life has changed a lot in the year that’s passed since he announced he was signing to Alligator Records and proceeded to steal the show at the Chicago Blues Festival in June 2015. With his showstealing performance, Cannon won the praise of local media and has since been building momentum toward his debut album, The Chicago Way, which was released in February 2016.

“The added attention is very cool because it seems like you get your music out easier and people are a little more in tune with what you’re trying to say or what you’re trying to put down,” Cannon said.

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He said that his signing with Alligator [Brooks] and the list goes on. So sometimes I He’s had plenty of experience balancing his job Records has led to attention from other parts of would pinch myself and say ‘You know what, as a bus driver with his work as a musician, but the country, which is “kinda cool,” he said. And I’m sitting across from Bruce, even though me the amount of recognition he gets from his felalthough Cannon’s relationship with Alligator and Bruce were friends 10 or 12 years before low city employees has changed recently.

“My co-workers knew that I played on Records president Bruce Iglauer formed long this whole thing went down.”

Prior to Cannon signing to Alligator Records, the weekends and knew I did things and a before he signed with the legendary blues label in 2015, they now have a much closer working Iglauer played more of an occasional advisory couple of them knew I’ve played overseas, but relationship. Cannon and Iglauer produced The role in Cannon’s music career. And even earlier now management knows,” Cannon said. “The than that, Cannon started his career as a sideman people downtown know and I’ve been doing Chicago Way together.

“He always challenged me as far as my for several notable blues artists. But although TV interviews and things like that, so now it’s writing and things like that. He’d take some- he’s been playing the blues professionally since kind of like ‘Oh, this is who we have driving thing and ask how could you get this mes- the 90s and gigs regularly, he has a day job as a our bus’ and it’s been positive. It hasn’t been sage across with the least amount of words,” bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority. He negative in anyway.

“I haven’t been gaining any favor from my uses most of his vacation days and days off to Cannon said.

“He wouldn’t change anything, but just practice, perform and record music and works bosses, but it’s like this secret side of me that’s challenge me, which is cool because I’d look four ten-hour shifts a week in order to arrange his out now. I’m not just a bus driver now [to at my previous album and saw that I was a schedule to gig out of town as much as possible. them]. I guess it’s kind of like finding out that He started his latest run of shows on July 6 the librarian is a stripper.” little bit too wordy.... So I dug the challenge • For more information about Toronzo and of course you’ve gotta dig the history of in Grand Rapids, Mich. and will be playing at what Alligator put down with Luther Allison, The Hamilton in Washington, D.C. on Friday, Cannon, visit toronzocannon.com.

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ABC LICENSE THE HAPPY TART LLC , Trading as: The Happy Tart LLC, 410 South Maple Avenue, Falls Church, Virginia 22046-4247. The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) for a Wine and Beer On Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Emma Cech, Managing Member. NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices.

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The Board of Zoning Appeals of the City of Falls Church, Virginia will hold a public hearing on July 14, 2016 at 7:30 PM in the Council Chambers, 300 Park Avenue, for consideration of the following subjects: New Business Variance application V1582-16 by Charles and Kimberly Cates, owner and applicant, for a variance to Section 48-263(5)(a) and 48-263(6) to allow a lot coverage of thirty (30) percent instead of twenty five (25) percent; and to allow a impervious lot coverage of forty (40) percent instead of thirty five (35) percent for the purpose of constructing a new single-family house on premises known as 301 N Lee Street, RPC #51-125-011 of the Falls Church Real Property Records, zoned R-1B, Medium Density Residential.

Variance application V1583-16 by Melbert and Anne Schwarz, owner and applicant, for a variance to Section 48-238(3)(a) to allow a rear yard setback of twenty two (22) feet instead of forty (40) feet for the purpose of constructing a screened porch on premises known as 1307 Seaton Circle, RPC #52-505-015 of the Falls Church Real Property Records, zoned R-1A, Low Density Residential.

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Website: www.fairhousing.vipnet.org or discrimination.” This newspaper will not knowingly accept advertising for real estate that 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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Brangman Elected Mayor in 5-2 Vote By City Council; Snyder Vice Mayor

Robin Gardner Voted F.C.’s 1st Woman Mayor Since ‘90 in Narrow Council Vote

Architect Alan Brangman was elected by his colleagues on the Falls Church City Council to become the City’s new mayor in last Monday’s special Council meeting that also featured the swearing of two new Council members elected in last month’s City election.

The two new Council members – Mary Ann Capria and Sam Mabry – in their first official actions, cast their votes with the 5-2 majority for Brangman....

In a dramatic 4-3 vote last Saturday night, Robin Gardner was elected by her City Council Colleagues the 18th mayor in the 58-year history of the City of Falls Church. Her narrow election over David Snyder was interpreted by many as a vote favoring a more aggressive approach to new development in Falls Church over the go-slower sentiment exhibited by Snyder in his Council tenure.

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TO LETTERS THE EDITOR Continued from Page 6 sidering taking the Fellows property by eminent domain.

I am a new renter in the neighborhood – so I have no dog in this hunt. However, I took a walk so I could see for myself the property that is so desirable that it needs to be taken from a senior citizen by the government.

Contrary to reporting by this newspaper, the Fellows property is not “adjacent” to Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. It is across Oak Street, a somewhat busy neighborhood thoroughfare. While it faces Oak Street, a large portion of the property faces Fellows Court – aptly and historically named for a long-time property owner. There are five other houses on Fellows Court – and their property is contiguous to the Fellows property. Perhaps their property might also be up for grabs? Or maybe the homes behind (and contiguous to) the Fellows property facing Parker Ave. should also be snatched?

Or maybe the three or four lovely properties that actually are adjacent to the school and on the same block – between the school and Seaton Lane – would be the most sensible to take via eminent domain, as then, school children would not have to cross Oak Street as they go back and forth between the Fellows property and the main office/playing fields?

Why are these homeowners’ properties immune from being seized?

Walk or drive by, neighbors, and see for yourself.

It appears that the city is con-

sidering taking the easiest route – initiating eminent domain proceedings against a senior citizen who likely would not have the resources to vigorously defend the action in court.

Shame on you, City of Falls Church.

Carolyn Witthoft Falls Church

Fairfax Meals Tax Will Help With Fiscal Shortfall Editor, In the June 8 News-Press Letters to the Editor, Mr. Natoli flames Fairfax supervisors for putting meals tax referendum on the ballot, blaming them for “the fiscal shortfall that they themselves have created.” He might read Supervisor Gross’ column in the same issue to (re)learn that with Virginia a Dillon Rule state, the county can’t do anything the legislature doesn’t specifically allow. For the last several years, with county funding largely and unavoidably based on property taxes, Fairfax has struggled to meet basic requirements such as supporting schools, public safety, human services, libraries and everything else citizens expect.

Has he read about measures taken to economize? And where services/facilities have been painfully squeezed? What, exactly, does he think should have been done – within what’s possible, of course? – to prevent the shortfall he criticizes?

Like it or not, the meals tax is simply one of the few ways available for Fairfax to broaden revenue sources and reduce reliance on property taxes. Since so many nearby jurisdictions have both meals tax and vibrant restaurant choices, strident doom-saying meals tax opponents aren’t credible. But having served on the county’s meals tax committee, it’s clear to me that the measure will only pass with a concerted effort supporting it.

Gabriel Goldberg Falls Church

Residents Should Trim Plants Blocking Views of Traffic Editor, There is a safety concern in Falls Church City that impacts anyone who lives, drives, walks, or bikes in the area. At several intersections, trees and/or bushes block clear views of cross traffic, and drivers are required to unsafely enter the intersection in order to see approaching cars. Similarly, some driveways have high bushes that extend to the sidewalk, making it impossible for pedestrians to see if a car is pulling out of the driveway without entering the driveway itself. Logic would also dictate that a car pulling out of the driveway would not be able to see pedestrians who are about to cross its path.

I encourage all citizens to inspect your property to see if any of your plantings need to be trimmed in order to allow for safe line-of-sight at street and driveway intersections. If you are a pedestrian, biker, or driver, please take extra care when approaching such intersections.

Diane Feeley Falls Church

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Academy of Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 938-8054 Foxes Music Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533-7393

PHOTOGRAPHY

Gary Mester, Event, Portraits. . . . . . . 481-0128 Mary Sandoval Photography . . . 334-803-1742

Dr Gordon Theisz, Family Medicine. . 533-7555 n

PHARMACY

Broad Street Pharmacy . . . . . . . . . . . 533-9013 n

LAWN CARE

PET SERVICES

Apex Pet Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532-8012 Feline Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 920-8665

www.healthybyintention.com.. . . . . . . 534-1321

HANDYMAN

HEALTH & FITNESS

HOME IMPROVEMENT

FC Heating & Air Service . . . . . . . . . . 534-0630 Joseph Home Improvement. . . . . . . . 507-5005 One Time Home Improvement. . . . . . 577-9825

Family Dentistry, Nimisha V Patel . . . 533-1733 Dr. William Dougherty . . . . . . . . . . . 532-3300

BOOK BINDING

BUILDING MAINTENANCE

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American College of Commerce & Technology 534-8886

BCR Binders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534-9181 n

CLEANING SERVICES

Maid Brigade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823-1922 Acclaimed Carpet Cleaning . . . . . . . . 978-2270 A Cleaning Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892-8648

Antique Annex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241-9642 n

3 months - $150 6 months - $270 1 year - $450

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TAILOR

Tailor Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534-8886

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158 Rees Pl | Falls Church City

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209 Pennsylvania Avenue | Falls Church City

Wonderful 3 level brick colonial featuring 3 BD/2.5 BA, spacious light-filled family room,master suite addition.

Potential for 4th bedroom on upper level. Private mature landscaping & two level deck. Primely located in the heart of FCC, walk to everything and mins to Metro and DC. Offered at $949,000

118 Tollgate Way | Falls Church City Outstanding town home in highly desired Tollgate.

Don’t miss this one, almost 3,500 sq ft. Spectacular details including private, serene patio w/waterfall and pond! Offered at $899,000

Falls Church City resident and local business owner. Real Estate expert right here in our community for more than 10 years.

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Elegant 3 BD/3.5 BA townhome overlooking Tripps Run. Open floor plan on main level w/ gourmet Kitchen. Master Bedroom w/ en-suite bath. You won’t believe you are mins from DC! Peaceful and stunning views. Offered at $849,000

3 BD/2 Full & 2 Half BA, 4 level townhome, 2,948 square feet, two car garage. Lots of natural light! Master Bedroom w/ skylights and vaulted ceilings. Walk to everything and mins to Metro and DC. Offered at $875,000

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7035 Haycock Rd #F | Falls Church City

Exceptional 2 level 2 BD/2.5BA townhouse style condo. Recently updated with HW floors, new appliances and private patio. 2 Garage spaces and storage. Offered at $565,000

710 W Broad St, Falls Church VA 22046 ~ 571-282-3732 Each Office Independently Owned and Operated

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6656 Jefferson Ave Falls Church

Charming renovated fenced and landscaped 3 BR 3 bath Cape Cod featuring numerous upgrades. Conveniently located near Rt 50, 7, I-495 and I-66 and 2 metro stations. Upgraded kitchen with Granite and new SS appliances. Den and refinished hardwoods on main level.

Fully finished basement.

Reduced to $549,000

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2754 Stone Hollow Dr. Vienna, VA 22180 (walk to Dunn Loring Metro) $497,000 4BR/2FBA/2HBA Completely updated! 3 levels w gourmet kitchen, hardwood floors, updated baths. Pergola & patio out back!

SOLD $850,000! Multiple offers.

7601 Burford Drive, McLean VA 22102

Lovely and spacious floor plan in this beautiful home. 5BR/3.5BA home on full acre of land in Langley HS pyramid.

New Price $1,199,000. For rent $4,000.

210 Noland St, Falls Church City 22046 Beautiful rambler on gorgeous, tree lined street.

4BR/2BA on .30 acres of landscaped land.

Completely updated. 2 car detached garage!

WestLee (2200 N Westmoreland Street Arlington, VA 22213)

For Sale #515 1BR+den/1BA condo

2345 N. Oak St. Falls Church 22046

Beautiful 3BR/2.5BA level house on quaint street! 3 finished levels feature refinished hardwood floors, open kitchen, updated baths, newly remodeled family room, updated and expanded rec room,& large screened in porch off Master BR. Large, lush lot on .27 acres! Haycock ES, Longfellow MS, McLean HS. SoldPrice $850,000.

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on TOP Floor of beautiful building. 1 storage space + 1 parking space included. Overlooks green area in condo. Gourmet kitchen w breakfast bar, SS appl., granite. $409,000

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#410 2BR/2BA corner unit $545,000.

1097 Pensive Lane, Great Falls, VA 22066

Beautiful home on .91 acres- lush backyard.

5BR/3.5BA with beautifully refinished hardwood floors. Fresh paint and new carpet in basement. New Price $889,000.