Falls Church News-Press 8-16-2018

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The Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce announced Wednesday that Julie Coons will serve as the Chamber’s next President and CEO effective Sept. 10. SEE NEWS BRIEFS, PAGE 8

Voting Ends Monday at 5 p.m.! For details, see pages 12-13

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Falls Church City staff joined a representative from the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority and (center, left to right) City Council members Phil Duncan and David Snyder and Mayor David Tarter at the ribbon cutting for the new Van Buren Bridge. The total bridge replacement took nine months and cost nearly $1.2 million, all in grant funding. See News Briefs, page 8. (P����: C��� �� F���� C�����)

Sen. Kaine: Trump Has ‘50-50 Chance’ of Finishing His Term BY NICHOLAS F. BENTON

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Virginia’s U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, in comments to the NewsPress while at an appearance in Falls Church Monday, said that his colleague on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Mark Warner, has repeated his view that President Trump “has about a 50-50 chance of making through the end of his term.”

Kaine said that he and Warner speak frequently, and while Warner “is usually chatty,” when it comes to what he knows as a member of the Intelligence Committee, “he’s generally very closed mouthed.” However, Kaine added what he’s heard Warner say publicly more than once. In his remarks to the group, Kaine cited “what a small and petty personality the president has,” evidenced by Trump’s refus-

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al to mention even once the name of his critic, Sen. John McCain, after whom this year’s defense authorization bill was named. Asked by the News-Press about his own assessment of how the current crisis in the White House is going to play out, Kaine said “the only guarantor of democracy is the active engagement of the people.” It is possible Trump

SEE NEWS BRIEFS, PAGE 8

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BY NICHOLAS F. BENTON

By a unanimous vote (with one abstention on a technicality), the Falls Church City Council late Monday night once more gave its blessing, and authorization, to the Mill Creek developers for their Founders Row plan to build the biggest development in Falls Church history. Construction on the 4.3-acre project, at the northeast intersection of W. Broad and N. West Streets, will include a multi-screen movie complex, one major restaurant so far, almost 400 apartments, including affordable rate and active senior age-restricted ones, and a public square with a large fountain. Mill Creek’s Joe Muffler, who with Sean Caldwell spearheaded the public face of the approval process in front of the Council and numerous civic groups in the last months, told the News-Press yesterday that folks can look forward to a ceremonial groundbreaking in just a month or so. It will await the final purchase of the properties, and the 7-Eleven on N. West will be vacated before the end of September. Ken Currle’s popular Sunoco station on the corner will have an extra 60 days beyond the mid-September closing to vacate, but there are already signs up on the station grounds thanking customers for their patronage and encouraging them to move their car service needs with them to a new location behind the Trader Joe’s in Pimmit Hills. Muffler said it will take awhile, maybe into November, for the public to begin to see any major

Falls Church’s Housing and Human Services department announced this week it is currently accepting applications for two U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grants.

Andrew Campanelli, a Falls Church native and George Mason High School alum, is a self-taught drummer who got a taste for New Orleans’ style of music while working at the State Theatre. Now playing for The Revivalists, Campanelli spoke with the News-Press in advance of his band’s performance at Wolf Trap this Sunday.

Ceremonial Event to Launch City’s Biggest Mixed Project Ever


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