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Historic Decision to Change Name of J.E.B. Stuart High Spurs New Dialogue A Year to Pick New Name, Rift Persists, Will There Be More?
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mates the City would earn potentially $43 million from a long-term lease or sale of 10 acres on the existing campus. In addition, City staff estimate net tax revenue from the site could exceed $3 million per year once fully developed. The payments related to the land lease/ sale would be expected to begin in 2022; tax yield would be expected to accrue in 2025 as development is completed in phases. To bridge the financing gap, the City would rely on a combination of capital reserves (current balance is $10 million) as
Last week’s decision by the Fairfax County School Board to change the name of J.E.B. Stuart High School by a vote of 7-2 with two abstentions represented the county’s subscription to a growing national attitude that Confederate emblems are not fit to adorn public spaces. The process in which that vote was achieved, however, was marred by inconsistency and opaqueness, and leaves an already fractured community at risk of a prolonged road to recovery. “Whenever students are uncomfortable with some aspect of their educational environment, the School Board needs to take their concerns seriously,” at-large Board member Ryan McElveen told the News-Press in an e-mail interview. “However, this was the first time a school name change has ever been considered by [this] Board, and it was a learning experience.” The next steps in the process are an open public meeting at Stuart on Saturday, Sept. 9 at 10 a.m. to gather new names for consideration. A vote will be held the following Saturday, Sept. 16 from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. where community members can choose from the top three choices. Cost-wise, the renaming will run from $600,000 – $900,000, or more specifically, in the ad hoc committee’s report $678,000 is projected to be covered by the county with an additional $255,916 projected to be covered by the private citizens, totaling $933,916. Last Thursday’s meeting began with citizen speakers from both
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Falls Church City Manager Wyatt Shields announced this week the appointment of Jenny Carroll as Director of the award-winning Mary Riley Styles Public Library. SEE NEWS BRIEFS, PAGE 8
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SUPPORTERS OF A NAME CHANGE for J.E.B. Stuart High School �illed the auditorium of Luther Jackson Middle School last Thursday for the Faifax County School Board’s vote on renaming the school named for the confederate general. At the end of the night, the Board voted 7-2 in favor of a name change. (P����: R���� A�������/���������G���.���)
1st New School Bond Fact Sheet Stresses Site’s Economic Offsets
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Last-minute changes made to a one-page information sheet issued yesterday by Falls Church City Schools on the November school bond referendum put added emphasis on the potential cost offsets of the proposed new $120 million high school. The combination of the sale or long-term lease of 10 acres on the George Mason High School property site for commercial development and the annual tax yields from that development will play a major role in the City’s
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ability to absorb the $120 million cost without a blow-out impact on City taxpayers. The first draft of the information sheet did not make that point. But before a final version was signed off on by Schools Superintendent Peter Noonan, information provided by City Manager Wyatt Shields and his finance office was added. The paragraph of the fact sheet titled, “Sale of Lease of 10 Acres of GMHS Campus to Help Offset the Cost of the School,” now reads, “An economic feasibility study by the firm of Alvarez and Marsal esti-
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camps reiterating their contrasting views on the name change. Each side stuck to their party lines: For those supporting the name change, colloquially known as “Changers,” the argument was to address the immorality of naming a school after someone who fought against the U.S. and for the enslavement of AfricanAmericans. For those in support of keeping the name, or “Keepers,” the goal was to not conflate past values with current ones while also highlighting that the Board’s direction had been questionable over the past two years. It was the Keepers’ latter point that resonated with some members of the Board. What ensued was a 90-minute debate over a substitute motion proposing to suspend the name change vote until October in order to hammer out the ambiguity in Regulation 8170 — a revision drafted in Dec. 2015 and put into effect in Feb. 2016 in light of the Stuart issue which laid the framework for how the Board would handle other name changes moving forward — and its wording of what qualified as “compelling need,” “sufficient support” and “community.” With the language clarified, whatever conclusion the Board reached would be transparent to all members of the community and remove any shadow of a doubt that due process was followed. Instead, the motion narrowly failed to pass by a 6-5 margin and ensured Mason district representative Sandy Evans’ original motion, which had a late addendum about keeping the name “Stuart” as a compromise in order to sway undecided Board members in its favor, would be enacted. Reception to the passage was, expectedly, mixed. “A ‘compelling need’ is what the School Board says is ‘compelling need,’” proponent of the name change Stephen Spitz said. “‘Sufficient support’ – I don’t think it’s inappropriate to say it doesn’t have to be a certain percentage...I don’t think they violated their regulation.” “They’re not exhibiting good governance and they’re not following their own regulations [or] the rule of law,” Denise PattonPace, who supports keeping the name, said. “[They] weren’t elected to sit in this seat by ‘sufficient support,’ and don’t have the right to make up the rules of democ-
THE FAIRFAX CO. SCHOOL BOARD casts its vote to rename J.E.B. Stuart High last Thursday. (P����: R���� A�������/ ���������G���.���) racy.” Differing opinions on the Board’s procedure weren’t confined to members of the ad hoc committee. Board members found themselves in the dark on the committee’s proceeding and weren’t aware of that ad hoc members had divided into various subcommittees soon after its formation until this spring — months after the committee was created. According to Braddock district representative Megan McLaughlin and Springfield district representative Elizabeth Schultz, theninterim Superintendent Steven Lockhard conferred with former board chair, Evans, and vice chair, Dranesville district representative Jane Strauss, on what to do regarding the balkanization of the ad hoc members. The three agreed to let the committee simmer in its current state as opposed to bringing it to the rest of the Board’s attention and revising guidelines for the what they were expecting to see from ad hoc members. While advisement from board may not have corrected the course of the committee, it would’ve been seen as an effort to remain steadfast to a process they constructed. The lack of involvement, or interest thereof, in the committee’s procedure is what left Regulations 8170’s criteria up to discretion throughout the past year. Rather than have the Board and superintendent delve into the committee and work with both sides on a path toward a compromise, as McLaughlin said was done in Georgetown University’s recent renaming issue, the laissez-faire approach let the two groups develop separate rationales and schlep the onus for more discretion from Board members to determine
whose argument was most valid. Add in the Freedom of Information Act documents that reveal proponents of the name change helped draft the Feb. 2016 revision, per Schultz, and even with that control, a name change couldn’t be logically justified. It sets a precedent that haphazard governing will prevail if the Board deems it necessary and is what ultimately led to the vote that had Luther Jackson Middle School’s auditorium in a hodge-podge of applause and appall. That brings about the age-old question of whether policies are to be followed strictly or if they are open for interpretation. For the Keepers, it’s the former and for the Changers, the latter, adding more discretion into a contentious debate that was riddled with subjectivity from the start. Though not all Board members felt there was any straying from the what the regulation demanded. “We did follow the letter of the law. Some folks were questioning that, [but] we did follow our rules,” Evans said. “Now am I going to tell you this process was perfect? No...we certainly could’ve done it better. That doesn’t mean we’re just going to stop cold and say we’re not going to do what the right thing to do is because we had some missteps along the way.” As one board member put it to summarize the intent of the Board, “The perfect cannot be the enemy of the good.” And for some, last Thursday’s decision was a good and well-deserved accomplishment for two years of labor. But without attempting to be perfect in their procedure, the Board settled for a merely good result while the community remains divided.
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well as real estate tax increases.” In fact, in presentations made in Council and School Board sessions and at a town hall last month, it was estimated the tax impact on citizens might be limited to three cents per $100 of assessed real estate value at least for the first three years, then dropping to two cents for the next 13 years (the current tax rate is $1.33). “This is one of the important points to make about this bond referendum,” Dr. Noonan told the NewsPress in an interview Wednesday. “If the referendum is not approved, then about $40 million in costs to make the school ADA (“Americans With Disabilities Act”) compliant, to replace the HVAC, fix the roof and make other patchwork fixes would have to be absorbed by taxpayers without any provision for an economic development revenue offset.” The fact sheet is one of the first steps in mounting a campaign of citizen education on the bond referendum, coming right after the City Council’s final vote to move the referendum onto the ballot made at its July 24 meeting. A more detailed “frequently
asked questions” paper is still being prepared by Shields’ office that, as Shields told the NewsPress, will be a “deeper dive” into the more complicated issues of land use and financing matters. It will be posted onto the City’s website when it is ready, he said. In addition, Noonan has spearheaded the formation of a citizens committee composed of city leaders and stakeholder groups to educate and advocate for the referendum. Names of that group have not yet been made public, but it is almost complete in its formation stage, Noonan suggested. “This referendum is about needed facilities that matches the instructional programs with the community’s expectations for excellence,” Noonan said. “The
opportunity has never been better than now to do something that will reflect this community’s values.” Noonan said, “This is one of the reasons I was excited to come here [he was chosen for the job in April], that I could have a chance to help build and create something that I know will have a powerful impact on outcomes for our kids.” A meeting of the campus Process Working Group’s Economic Development Committee is still on schedule for this Friday at 7:30 a.m. at City Hall, and the Alvarez and Marsal consultants are scheduled to present a final draft of their first-stage analysis later this month. Meanwhile, the F.C. City Council has only one scheduled public business meeting this month, on Monday, Aug. 14.
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It’s going to be a very interesting next 13 and a half weeks! This November’s general election is chock full of interesting and important components, and since voters in the City of Falls Church always score the highest turnout in Virginia in such elections, we recognize the importance of making sure all our readers know what they need to in order to make the right decisions at the polls. We’ll do our best. Yes, we will be endorsing candidates again this fall, but our thoughtful preferences should not be counted against our resolve to provide fact-based and balanced reporting as best we can. If we fall off the straight and narrow in this endeavor, we are confident our readers will let us know. So far, there’s only one endorsement we are prepared to make for an item on the ballot, and that concerns the City’s school bond referendum. We urge a “yes” vote on the measure. If you could vote, “Heck yes!” we would urge that instead. We’ve been covering the journey of the Falls Church City School System since before we published our first edition way back in March 1991. It has been a particularly rich and heroic story. Teachers and staff, always underpaid, refuse to compromise on excellence and the extra mile with the students. Facilities have always been wanting and when voters OK’d a bond for a major renovation of George Mason High School, its proponents were so apologetic about asking that they seriously underfunded the effort, leaving the project wanting, to say the least. So the need for a new high school, following improvements and upgrades of the four other schools, goes way, way back. Finally, the concerted effort has gone into giving the students of this City what they need to sustain the excellence of what they’ll be getting for the next 50 years, if this November’s bond referendum is passed. To reiterate, the City’s schools are consistently ranked some of the best in the nation not by accident, but by deliberate and sustained effort from top to bottom in the system, too often despite financial pressures against it. But there’s more on the ballot to start paying attention to. More than in other elections, this one is really kicked into gear a month ahead of the usual Labor Day launch pad. There are the three statewide races — all important in this divided state — for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general. There are the City’s hotly contested seats on the City Council and School Board. In each case, there are six candidates running for four seats. While the state delegate and constitutional officers’ races are barely to noncompetitive, all good people in those slots will be retained. Overall, the Trump factor is making almost all upcoming elections nationally much more interesting. The Merrifield-based Competitive Commonwealth Fund has announced that the number of genuinelycontested races in Virginia has almost doubled, for instance.
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Editor, Like the majority of our local citizens, I’m a strong proponent of excellent schools, and have followed closely over the past few years as citizens and officials alike have worked tirelessly to find a solution for a new high school. Councilman Sze’s recent guest commentary sounds like it should have been written by an outsider looking in, not a member of the very city council tasked with
tackling this initiative. Why are there so many questions left unanswered? Why does it seem like this is a rudderless ship adrift at sea? Simply put, I’m speechless. How is it that with the current leadership, we have spent “hundreds of thousands of dollars in consultant fees, experts, outside counsel and strategic facilitation” and we are no further along than when we started? How is it that someone in current “leadership”
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can be so negligent they feel it is satisfactory to not only spend these tax dollars and not “move the needle,” but then also write a commentary listing excuses and their lack of qualifications? If this is an “approach and not a strategy” as Mr. Sze states, why did he not help manage those consultants and experts to deliver based on the milestones city council should be setting? “Many questions remain unanswered.” he says. Mr. Sze voted “no” because of these unanswered questions, however isn’t it his job to get these answers for the Falls Church community? And hasn’t he had four years to do so? This commentary asks more
questions the “common” citizen is probably not aware of and accentuates a lack of leadership. If someone with four years on the council is writing a commentary asking all these questions (or telling us why they haven’t moved forward), then we obviously need new leadership. There is a solution here. It requires individuals with the knowledge, experience, and the right attitude to get us there. There are 13 questions Councilman Sze asks us, the reader. Don’t we want someone who is providing answers or a path to get those answers? Remember, “those who can, do.” Richard Thomas Falls Church
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I would like to thank the members of the Falls Church City Council who authorized a $120 million school bond referendum for a new George Mason High School to be placed on the ballot November 7. For more than two years, the School Board and City Council have worked together gathering information from consultants and experts, validating both the need of a new school and the costs to build it, and we continue our work on how best to maximize economically the 10 acres of our land to mitigate much of the costs of the new school project. In advance of this fall’s referendum, we encourage citizens to take a final look at why we need a new high school, the benefits to both students and the community, and how we plan to pay for it. While many of you already understand the need, I invite anyone who would like to see for themselves what our students and staff endure each day to attend one of the tours that will soon be organized of our facilities. Our 60+ year old building has not aged well, and it is time our facilities reflect the same commitment we have to our students. For many years we have kicked the replacement can down the road searching for a perfect time, a more affordable time to undertake this large of a project. All the while our schools continue to become
more crowded and construction costs continue to rise. I believe there is no more perfect or affordable time than the present. We have reached this moment after an incredible amount of work and consultation. We have looked at a great number of
“We will not skimp on our prime obligation; guaranteeing a personalized environment that supports the unique educational needs of every student who walks through our doors.” options; from renovation to a new building. We’ve discussed these options with each other and as a community at numerous meetings, forums, and town halls. In the end, the School Board and City Council deemed the best option is to move forward with new construction as projected renovation costs would almost be as expensive as a new building and would last less than the 50+ years of a new building.
An analysis of the critical improvement needs at the high school shows it would cost greater than $40 million, probably in the form of a bond, just to cover replacement of the end-of-life HVAC and boiler systems, and to replace the roof with a 25-50-year product. Yet these improvements would not address enrollment growth projected for the high school in the coming decades. Further, if we were to improve our existing building it would ultimately cost our city more in the out years because we have to address the student capacity issue, and perhaps equally important, we collectively would lose the opportunity to develop the ten acres of land the School Board and General Government have identified for economic growth. It is evident from what has been presented publicly in the many forums we have held that this school, once the economic engine of the site is developed and producing, represents no more than three pennies on the tax rate. This modest increase in our community positions us to have a facility for decades that will match our tremendous programs and support our students and teachers as they move further into the 21st Century. Last Monday I pledged to the community that the School Board would remain good stewards of the public monies entrusted to us by the City and will be diligent in our spending, especially in the
next several years as the project moves forward as we recognize we are all in this together. We are always looking at ways to bring costs down and taking advantage of efficiencies both in capital and operational spending. But we will not skimp on our prime obligation: guaranteeing a personalized environment that supports the unique educational needs of every student who walks through our doors. There are still many weeks between now and November 7. I hope the community will utilize this time to ask further questions. I and members of the School Board and City Council stand ready to answer them. We will soon be sharing responses to Frequently Asked Questions and will continue to expand them during this time. Our schools are a major part of Falls Church’s history and identity. This, in many ways, is an existential moment for us. Are we a community that values our schools and is committed to our collective independence or is this a time where we seek alternatives to educating our students? If the City of Falls Church wishes to continue to be known for its world class education, then we must provide the facilities that allow our students and faculty to thrive. Lawrence Webb is a chairman of the Falls Church City School Board.
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Carroll Named New F.C. Library Director Falls Church City Manager Wyatt Shields announced this week the appointment of Jenny Carroll as Director of the award-winning Mary Riley Styles Public Library. She began her duties immediately, the day after Mary McMahon retired after 18 years in the position. Carroll started her employment with the Library in 2007 and rose to lead the Youth Services Department in 2013. In this role, she has overseen a 60 percent growth in participation in the many services, including the popular Summer Reading Program and the new “Read and Roll” bookmobile to serve at-risk children and their families. She has worked hard to build partnerships with City Schools and other City Departments to bring innovative Library programs to the public.”We are very pleased to welcome Ms. Carroll as our new Library Director,” said Brad Gernand, Chairman of the Library Board of Trustees. “We are impressed by her energy, creativity, and innovation, which is reflected in the popularity of Library programs. Her knowledge and experience will allow us to continue the positive momentum we have in the Library, to the benefit of the entire community.” Carroll holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from Mary Washington University, a Masters of Information Sciences from the University of Tennessee, and a Masters of Social Work from New Mexico State University.
Revenue Commissioner Needs Personal Property Info Falls Church’s office of the Commissioner of the Revenue issued a follow-up to a mailing that went to all City residents in early July to that included a return form for updates to personal property holdings. Any changes to personal property needed to be reported by July 24 to be updated in the Commissioner’s records so that tax bills going out this fall will accurate. The books will be closed in mid-August, Commissioner Tom Clinton reported, and anyone who’s not yet returned their form is urged to do so right away. Out of date records will result in $50 fines for failure to display City decals on new vehicles this fall. The Commissioner’s office needs to be notified if a person in the last year has moved out of the City, and sold, donated, had totalled in an accident or traded in a car.
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Bailey’s Apartment Fire Had No Injuries A fire in an empty apartment at the 5800 block of Oakview Gardens Drive in Bailey’s Crossroads occurred Saturday, Jul. 29, around 3:30 p.m leaving five people displaced and causing $20,000 of property damage. No civilian or firefighter injuries were reported but Red Cross assistance was requested and accepted. The accidental fire started in a bedroom closet when combustible materials came in contact with an unattended open flame device, Fire Investigators would later learn. But at the time the apartment’s three smoke alarms weren’t working so other tenants were unaware of the fire until they saw smoke coming from the apartment and promptly called 911. They received a response from Fairfax County Fire and Rescue, the City of Alexandria Fire Department and Arlington County Fire Department. Units arrived on on the scene and identified smoke coming from the front terrace area of the three-story complex. Firefighters quickly located and extinguished a small fire in one of the apartments.
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Kaine, Warner Move to Drop Prescription Drug Costs Virginia’s U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine joined U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and 29 of their colleagues to introduce legislation to lower prescription drug costs this week. The bill would allow for Medicare to negotiate the best possible price of prescription drugs to cut costs for nearly 41 million seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D. Current law only allows for bargaining by pharmaceutical companies and bans Medicare from doing so. The legislation would permit the Secretary of Health and Human Services to directly negotiate with drug companies for price discounts for the Medicare Prescription Drug Program, eliminating the “non-interference” clause that expressly bans Medicare from negotiating for the best possible prices.
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Community News & Notes Technical School Fundraises for Alma Mater Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) in conjunction with the school’s Alumni Association of North America (GAA) “Giants” raised about $25,000 to benefit their GSTS alma mater at their 10th Anniversary Fundraising Dinner Dance and Convention last weekend. Nearly 120 people, including alumni, family and friends of GSTS, gathered at the Marriott Fairview Park in Falls Church for the event, which also launched GAA’s year-long fundraising campaign to raise funds for sanitation upgrade projects at the school in Takoradi, Ghana. In his welcoming remarks to the Giants (alumni of GSTS) and
guests at the event, themed “The Role of the GAA – Past, Present and Future,” GAA-North America President Giant Emmanuel (Lee) Idun, PhD, reminded members that, “Our mission is to foster growth, academic and infrastructure development, as well as student motivation at our alma mater.” Keynote speaker and current GSTS Headmaster Mr. Samuel K. Essel toured Worcester Technical High School in Worcester, Massachusetts, as well as Brooklyn Technical High School, Park Slope Middle School and the Brooklyn School of Arts in New York City during his brief stay in the United States. He also met with Mr. John T. Shea, CEO – Division of School Facilities-NYCDOE and Executives of the Brooklyn
Tech Alumni Foundation. In his speech at the event Mr. Essel said that “The arranged visits to some selected high schools in the US have brought to the fore some experiences that will be utilized in the running of GSTS”.
Summer Sundays Concerts in McLean Central Park Come out and see Big Bang Boom perform at the McLean Central Park Gazebo (1468 Dolley Madison Blvd., McLean) on Sunday, August 6 at 5 p.m. Big Bang Boom’s live show is high-energy, and both parents and children find it hard to stay in their seats. From calling the kids up on stage for the “SpongeBob Chorus” to the “Parents vs. Kids Hokey-Pokey Challenge,” Big
BOAT PEOPLE SOS (BPSOS), a Vietnamese-American non-profit organization, is partnering with the National Institute of Health’s All of Us Journey at Eden Center in Falls Church this Friday, August 4 from noon – 5 p.m. The All of Us Journey is a traveling exhibit to raise awareness about the All of Us Research Program, which aims to gather data from over a million people living in the U.S. to accelerate research and improve health. (Photo: Courtesy Wondros)
Bang Boom has made certain that there is no sitting down at their fun and energetic show.
Local Non-Profit Announces Event & New Board Members Homestretch, a non-profit that helps homeless parents with children transition to financial independence, is working with Philomela to present a benefit concert for Homestretch clients. The concert, titled “Still I Rise,” will take place Saturday, August 19 at the the Falls Church Episcopal Church (115 E. Fairfax St., Falls Church) and will begin at 7:30 p.m. with a reception to follow. The concert will feature songs, poetry and narration of empowerment for and about women and the under- represented, including
those who rose to inspire and change American History and who confronted the issues of slavery, immigration, family planning, labor and workforce and voting rights In other Homestretch news, the organization recently elected four new members to its Board of Directors for three-year terms, including: David Chavern, president and chief executive officer of News Media Alliance and American Press Institute; Lisa D’Ambrosio-Irons, vice president/ relationship manager for Access National Bank, who has served in the banking industry for 25 years, and is also the chair of the Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce; Michael Leavitt, PE, Principal with general contractor John Moriarty and Associates;
NEWS-PRESS COLUMNIST Charlie Clark (left), who pens the weekly “Our Man in Arlington,” spoke to a full house at the Arlington Central Library last Saturday as the guest of State Del. Patrick Hope about his new book, The Hidden History of Arlington County, out in July. (Photo: News-Press)
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The Virginia Department of Taxation’s Sales Tax Holiday starts this Friday August 4 and runs through Sunday, August 6 during which consumers can buy select items without paying sales tax. Eligible items include school supplies, Energy Star and WaterSense products and emergency preparedness products. Consumers can take advantage of the holiday for both in-store and online purchases.
Lizzie Borden Ax Throwing Contest at American Legion The 7th Annual Lizzie Borden Ax Throwing Contest will be held on Saturday, August 5 at American Legion Post 130 (400 N. Oak St., Falls Church). Sign up takes place at 11 a.m. with a practice session being held from 12 – 12:45 p.m. and the contest starting promptly at 1 p.m. The contest is open to the public. Competition entry fee is $25, and includes a Lizzie Borden t-shirt and glass to go with a free
Creative Cauldron Presents Latest ‘Bold New Work’ Creative Cauldron’s latest “Bold New Work” is in development for the 2017-18 season and has begun to raise the funds it needs to produce another world premiere musical. During the run of the theater’s recent critically acclaimed Bold New Work, “Kaleidoscope,” long time Falls Church resident and Creative Cauldron supporter Jon Wiant pledged to donate $10,000 to the project if Creative Cauldron can also secure $10,000 in additional donations. Jon Wiant has supported Creative Cauldron and its Bold New Works projects since its very beginnings in Falls Church. For five years Jon sponsored the original holiday production, “A Christmas Cabin of Carnaween,” in honor of his late wife Cay. In recognition of Jon Wiant’s generous support over the years, the black box theater at Creative Cauldron was designated “The Cay Wiant Theater” in 2015. When Creative Cauldron launched the five year “Bold New Works for Intimate Stages” initiative in 2014, Jon committed to a $5,000 annual donation for each of the five years.
So far the company has produced three world premiere musicals here in Falls Church by creative duo, Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith. Fresh off the critical success of “Kaleidoscope” this past May, the two announce that the Bold New Work coming in the 2017/18 Season will be titled “Witch.” This new musical will examine the demonization and oppression of historical and iconic women from the Salem witch trials to modern day politics. “Witch” is scheduled to premiere in May of 2018.
Local Resident Made Fellow From Welsh Law School Local resident Gareth Howell was made Honorary Fellow from the Law School of the University of Aberystwyth in Wales on July 20, 2017 Howell, an active member of the Falls Church City community, hails from Wales. He is an Aberystwyth law graduate and has shown innovative leadership in devising practical solutions to problems in countries facing extreme transitions in national life. Besides his extensive impactful work with international development and financial organizations, Howell was also a Magistrate in Wales and drafted early proposals for Welsh constitution development, eventually enacted in 1999. For these contributions, Howell was the commencement speaker at the Law School graduation and was conferred an Honorary Fellowship and received a welldeserved standing ovation.
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kind of statesmanlike behavior that was expected, and demonstrated, by past presidents. One of the first rules a public speaker learns is “know your audience.” I imagine that Mr. Trump could have regaled the Boy Scouts with stories of his own boyhood, perhaps military boarding school lessons, or how the world has changed since he was little, or perhaps when his father was young. It shouldn’t be that hard to pull out a few of those thoughts and put them on the teleprompter. Or recognizing that use of force is a serious matter for police departments across the country, and they need support from the federal government, not ridicule about shoving a perpetrator into a vehicle. Mr. Trump pontificates about keeping America safe, and then mocks the very men and women helping in that task. Kudos for those, like the president of the Boy Scouts and former Fairfax County Police Chief, and now Montgomery County police chief, Tom Manger who, rankled by the shenanigans of Mr. Trump, called him to task publicly. Boy Scouts and law enforcement personnel rank up there with Mom and apple pie when it comes to characterizing our American values. The only thing missing might be baseball, but that requires teamwork and discipline, traits Mr. Trump apparently lacks. New chief of staff, Major General John Kelly has them, I’m sure, but they need to be infused when one is of Boy Scout age, not a senior citizen. Now is too late.
As the daily “you won’t believe this!” chaos continues at the White House level, families around the nation are beginning to concentrate on getting kids ready to go back to school later this month. So here is something you can believe. The 2017 Collect for Kids campaign kicked off this week, with the goal of collecting backpacks and new school supplies — pencils, Sharpies, tablets, boxes of crayons, calculators, etc. — that will be distributed to Fairfax County students who need them. More than 50,000 children, from kindergarten through high school, qualify for free and reduced meals in Fairfax County alone. Last year, Collect for Kids, a partnership of local nonprofit organizations, government, and businesses, outfitted more than 37,000 students, but still weren’t able to reach all who needed help. If you would like to assist in this worthy effort, you can drop off backpacks and new school supplies in the large yellow box outside my office at the Mason District Governmental Center, 6507 Columbia Pike in Annandale. You also may donate money via an online portal, http://collectforkids.org/donate/. With Collect for Kids buying power, each $1 donated is turned into $3 worth of supplies. The campaign runs through September 1, so there’s plenty of time to shop (Virginia’s sales tax holiday this weekend applies to school supplies) and help kids start the school year with the supplies they need to succeed! President Trump’s supposedly offhand remarks last week, both to the Boy Scout Jamboree and to a law enforcement gathering, demonstrated once again that he has no concept of governance, nor the
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This weekend brings a unique opportunity for Virginians looking to take advantage of tax-free shopping. This year Virginia’s tax-free events for back-to-school items, Energy Star products, and hurricane-preparedness resources are being combined into one tax-free weekend. The sales tax holiday will run from August 4th through 6th. During the holiday, the following items will not be charged sales tax: clothing and shoes under $100 per item, school supplies under $20 per item, hurricane preparedness supplies under $60 per item, generators that cost less than $1,000, and any Energy Star or Water Sense products that cost less than $2,500. I encourage you to exercise fiscal responsibility, but clearly the savings can add up fast for muchneeded items. It seems hard to believe, but the summer is in the home stretch, with college students returning to campus in a scant three weeks and our K-12 children returning to the classroom the last week of the month. I mentioned our future adults and workforce of the Commonwealth because exciting developments are afoot in Virginia that will greatly benefit the younger population in the years to come. Virginia remains at the forefront of innovation in both the education and energy spaces. Just last month, Governor McAuliffe announced that more than 2,000 workforce credentials have been awarded by Virginia’s community colleges through the New Economy Workforce Credentials grant program. This new, crucial program helps Virginians earn a license, credential, or certification needed for a high-demand career. The program is truly a win-win for the state, creating a 21st century workforce vital to attracting new businesses, and also enabling citizens to earn a good wage, growing the tax base of the Commonwealth., While Virginia is home to excellent four-year universities, we also have excellent pathways to the workforce through community college and workforce credentials. The waters off the coast of Virginia are positioned to be a future wind energy hotspot. Dominion Energy Virginia, in partnership with DONG Energy of Denmark, a global leader in offshore wind development, is set to construct the first offshore federal land wind infrastructure in the mid-Atlantic region. The offshore
wind project is expected to deliver 12 megawatts of clean, consistent power when it’s completed in 2020. Though 12 megawatts only powers in the neighborhood of 3,000 homes, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management estimates that full development of the site could eventually generate 2,000 megawatts of clean energy, powering more than 500,000 homes. Wind energy in tandem with impressive recent solar developments in Virginia is creating both a cleaner environment and an attractive state for business. The explosive growth of data centers is just one example. These server farms that power the World Wide Web and “e-behemoths” such as Amazon, Google, Netflix, and Facebook are expected to annually consume the equivalent of 25,000 megawatts of power by 2020 and also emit more than 150 million metric tons of carbon pollution. There will be an immense need for cheap, clean energy, and Virginia’s wind and solar developments will pay dividends down the road. The education and energy innovation going on in the Commonwealth combined with the Governor’s New Virginia Economy initiatives is already starting to reap benefits. CNBC recently released its “Best States for Business” 2017 rankings and Virginia moved up six spots to #7. I applaud Governor McAuliffe’s laser-like focus on making Virginia less reliant on federal monies by diversifying the economic base in the Commonwealth and growing a qualified workforce. Unemployment is down, wages are up, and we no longer have to hold our breath worrying about what the dysfunctional executive and legislative bodies across the Potomac plan next. Finally, there is recent news from the Department of Medical Assistances Services that the Commonwealth Coordinate Care Plus (CCC Plus) is launching in Virginia. The CCC Plus program will transition Medicaid enrollees from a fee-for-service to a managed healthcare model and promises to bring a more compassionate, efficient level of care to some of our most at-risk citizens in the Commonwealth. I encourage you to learn more at cccplusva.com or by calling 1-844-374-9159. Senator Saslaw represents the 35th District in the Virginia State Senate. He may be emailed at district35@senate.virginia.gov.
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Our placid residential enclave in East Falls Church was rocked July 24 when news broke of an apparent murder-suicide. Around 2:45 in the afternoon, police responded to a welfare call on the 2400 block of North Quantico St. When I arrived two hours later, a dozen officers and a mobile crime lab were in front of the red-brick home cordoned off with yellow crime-scene tape. Terry Lynn Matsumoto, 82, police said in their statement that evening, was the victim of gun shots. Also found dead was her husband, Masao Matsumoto, 81. “This appears to be an isolated incident and there is no indication of a larger threat to the community,” police said. Neighbors in the days following expressed puzzlement. Several left flowers in bottles on the front stoop, along with messages scrawled in magic marker on cardboard to “the best neighbors and dog owners in the neighborhood,” as one said. The couple’s cars remain, variations on their names on vanity plates, a porch light still on. “It was such a shock,” said Lex Schembri, who regularly chatted with the couple while walking her dogs. “It’s surprising that people like that would have a gun. They were so antiviolence and peace-and-love types. He was quiet, but his wife was very friendly and always asked me about the pets.” Terry and Masao Matsumoto
were seen by many as “aging hippies,” he with the gray goatee and long hair. Their highly private manner endured through a half-century in the neighborhood. Both were retired from the federal government, she with the Federal Communications Commission, he as an economist for the Agriculture Department and the University of California at Davis. They had two children: daughter Kim, who left Arlington, and son Tosh, a tow-truck driver who was seen at his parents’ home when police arrived. Tosh, who has fathered the couple’s grandchildren, posted Facebook photos of his parents on vacation riding an elephant, along with the frontstoop tributes. Neighbors who gathered Sunday to remember the couple said they had a sense of humor, as in applying black tape to a yellow car to make it look like a giraffe. Husband and wife were tightly bonded. “He was a JapaneseAmerican who defied convention in life and death, and they didn’t fit the North Arlington upperclass norm,” said Amy Sebes. The wife’s Alzheimer’s had made her look increasingly ill, several said. That was confirmed by clientele who frequent the Forest Inn bar-restaurant in Westover, where the Matusmotos were regulars. “They were wonderful,” said bartender Liz. But when Terry came in the week before, she looked unkempt. Because she had alco-
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was struck by another vehicle which left the scene. Larceny from Building, 438 S Washington St, (The Bike Club), July 25, two bicycles were stolen by suspects who were seen taking two bicycles on the previous day. Suspects were described as a white male, tall with a skinny build, wearing a red polo shirt, black pants and a black baseball hat. The second subject was described as a white female with blonde hair, a yellow shirt and red shorts. They fled the scene in a gold Honda Civic. Investigation continues. Hit and Run, 416 S Washington St (Foxes Music Co), July 24, between 11 AM and 9 PM, a parked vehicle was struck by an unknown
AUGUST 3 – 9, 2017 | PAGE 15 hol issues, no liquor was kept in the home, Liz added, showing me a photo of the couple just sent by their grieving son. Terry was an artist whose paintings occasionally showed up in the bar. “They were a couple in love,” I was told by Ray Allen, a locksmith who noted that their visits to the Forest Inn had become less frequent. “They held hands when they got out of the car and were very cordial. It was one of those `can’t live without you, can’t live with you’ ” situations, he speculated. Detectives continue to investigate, police spokeswoman Ashley Savage confirmed on July 30. Final determination of cause of death lies with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. *** Triple whammy last week at the site of the Arlington Presbyterian Church on Columbia Pike. Its eight-decade-old building was demolished – part of a deal to build low-income apartments by the Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing. County officials came by July 27 to break ground for the 173-unit project. And the determined congregation – temporarily at the Arlington United Methodist Church on South Glebe Road – rushed to broker a last-minute good deed. On learning a slice of land was left over, parishioners wrestled permission from the church’s regional authority and raised $700,000 to snatch it from a developer. The purpose: to preserve green space, perhaps for a garden. vehicle which left the scene. Hit and Run, 803 W Broad St (Parking Lot), July 26, between 4:15 and 6:50 PM, a parked vehicle was struck by an unknown vehicle which left the scene. Hit and Run, 706 W Broad St (Hilton Garden Inn Parking Lot), July 28, a vehicle parked overnight was struck by an unknown vehicle which left the scene. Larceny – Shoplifting, 167 Hillwood Ave (Virginia ABC Store), July 28, 7:00 PM, unknown suspect took a small bottle of vodka valued at $2.99. Smoking Violation, 6795 Wilson Blvd, #50 (Hung Cafe), July 29, 2:20 PM, a male, 46, of Falls Church, was issued a summons for smoking in a restaurant. Trespass, 310 Park Ave (Cherry Hill Park), July 29, 9:00 PM, a male, 65, of McLean, VA, was issued a summons for trespass after being forbidden.
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Trump, Putin Foiled By New Sanctions Law
His hands tied tightly, President Trump has grudgingly signed legislation passed overwhelmingly by Congress last week imposing further sanctions against Russia and more importantly preventing the president from being able to unilaterally remove any specific entities from a sanctions list. Trump howled and protested the bill, and signed it with no fanfare, but he had no choice. It was truly veto-proof, so that if he’d vetoed it, it would have been enacted anyway and he’d only further drawn suspicion on himself for his role as a veritable Russian agent in the White House. You see, through a series of classified briefings in recent months, all of Congress is now privy to the treasonous quid pro quo deal that Trump agreed to with Putin that was the subject of the infamous July 6, 2016 FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS meeting at the Trump Towers in Manhattan. In that deal, Trump’s son and others in his inner circle signaled their willingness to trade a commitment to delist key Putin entities from the U.S.’ 2012 Magnitsky Act sanctions in exchange for the Russians deploying their battery of resources to help get Trump elected. That was the deal, and while the Russians kept their part of the bargain, an aroused U.S. intelligence community and patriotic elements in Congress moved quickly to prevent the quid pro quo from being accomplished by blocking Trump from being able to keep his part of the arrangement. Both Trump and Putin are chewing rugs today as the passage of the act protecting the sanctions from Trump have foiled the plot. It’s the biggest news since the illegitimate election of Trump last November, and of course it’s not going to stop here. The context for this was provided last week by the explosive public testimony given by William Browder to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Browder asserted Putin’s main interest in colluding with Trump was the removal of Putin-linked financial entities from the sanctions list so he could resume laundering billions in ill-gotten gains through banking and investment systems in the West, especially in the U.S. This, according to the explosive testimony of William Browder, an American businessman and former major investor in Russia, to the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday, is Putin’s Number One interest. With an estimated worth of over $200 billion, Putin has all his money planted in the West, thus potentially exposed to asset freezes and confiscation under the Magnitsky Act provisions. Browder’s testimony last week was called by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) “one of the most important” brought before the committee. Insofar as Putin’s original retaliation for imposition of Magnitsky Act sanctions was to ban adoptions of ill Russian children by families in the West, the adoption issue became the well-known code language for lifting Magnitsky sanctions. That was the context for the June 2016 meeting at the Trump Tower in New York that Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort attended with top Putin intelligence operatives Natalia Veselnitskaya, the chief lobbyist in the U.S. working to address the “adoption issue,” Rinat Akhmetshin, Ike Kaveladze, translator Anatoli Samochornov and middle-man Rob Goldstone. It is publicly established that the Trump team was enticed to the meeting with promises of highly-compromising information about Trump’s presidential campaign opponent Hillary Clinton. There can be no doubt that the quid pro quo offered was to elicit Trump interest in going along with its terms, namely, the anti-Clinton materials in exchange for the removal of key Putin entities from the sanctions list. The minute any evidence arises showing that the Trump team responded favorably to the nefarious scheme, then grounds for charging treasonous collusion with the adversarial Putin regime are firmly established. It is rumored that the Robert Mueller investigative team is already in possession of such hard evidence. (The Trump team spent all last Thursday in a successful array of wild smoke screen activities to keep the Browder testimony out of the news. It fabricated a fantastically absurd argument read at the White House briefing by Sarah Sanders that Browder’s testimony exonerated Trump because it was noted that Fusion GPS, who provides “opposition research” to anyone who pays, commissioned the shocking anti-Trump Steele Dossier.)
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Before Manliness Lost Its Virtue
The Trump administration is certainly giving us an education in the varieties of wannabe manliness. There is the slovenly “I don’t care what you think” manliness of Steve Bannon. There’s the look-atme-I-can-curse manliness that Anthony Scaramucci learned from “Glengarry Glen Ross.” There is the affirmation-hungry “I long to be the man my father was” parody of manliness performed by Donald Trump. There are all those authentically manly Marine generals Trump hires to supplement his own. There’s Trump’s man-crush on Vladimir Putin and the firing of insufficiently manly Reince Priebus. With this crowd, it’s man-craving all NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE the way down. It’s worth remembering, when we are surrounded by all this thrusting masculinity, what substantive manliness once looked like. For example, 2,400 years ago the Greeks had a more fully developed vision of manliness than anything we see in or around the White House today. Greek manliness started from a different place than ours does now. For the ancient Greeks, it would have been incomprehensible to count yourself an alpha male simply because you can run a trading floor or sell an apartment because you gilded a faucet handle. For them, real men defended or served their city, or performed some noble public service. Braying after money was the opposite of manliness. For the Greeks, that was just avariciousness, an activity that shrunk you down into a people-pleasing marketer or hollowed you out because you pursued hollow things. The Greeks admired what you might call spiritedness. The spirited man defies death in battle, performs deeds of honor and is respected by those whose esteem is worth having. The classical Greek concept of manliness emphasizes certain traits. The bedrock virtue is courage. The manly man puts himself on the line and risks death and criticism. The manly man is assertive. He does not hang back but instead wades into any fray. The manly man is competitive. He looks for ways to compete with others, to demonstrate his prowess and to be the best. The manly man is self-confident. He knows his own worth. But he is also touchy. He is outraged if others do not grant him the honor that is his due. That version of manliness gave Greece its dynamism. But the Greeks came to understand the problem with manly men. They are hard to live with. They are constantly picking fights and engaging in peacock displays.
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Take the savage feuding that marks the Trump White House and put it on steroids and you get some idea of Greek culture. The Greek tragedies describe cycles of revenge and counter-revenge as manly men and women wreak death and destruction on each other. So the Greeks took manliness to the next level. On top of the honor code, they gave us the concept of magnanimity. Pericles is the perfect magnanimous man (and in America, George Washington and George Marshall were his heirs). The magnanimous leader possesses all the spirited traits described above, but he uses his traits not just to puff himself up but to create a just political order. The magnanimous man tries to master the profession of statecraft because he believes, with the Athenian ruler Solon, that the well-governed city “makes all things wise and perfect in the world of men.” The magnanimous leader tries to beautify his city, to arouse people’s pride in and love for it. He encourages citizens to get involved in great civic projects that will give their lives meaning and allow everybody to partake in the heroic action that was once reserved for the aristocratic few. The magnanimous man has a certain style. He is a bit aloof, marked more by gravitas than familiarity. He shows perfect self-control because he has mastered his passions. He does not show his vulnerability. His relationships are not reciprocal. He is eager to grant favors but is ashamed of receiving them. His personal life can wither because he has devoted himself to disinterested public service. The magnanimous man believes that politics practiced well is the noblest of all professions. No other arena requires as much wisdom, tenacity, foresight and empathy. No other field places such stress on conversation and persuasion. The English word “idiot” comes from the ancient Greek word for the person who is uninterested in politics but capable only of running his or her own private affairs. Today, we’re in a crisis of masculinity. Some men are unable to compete in schools and in labor markets because the stereotype of what is considered “man’s work” is so narrow. In the White House, we have phony manliness run amok. But we still have all these older models to draw from. Of all the politicians I’ve covered, John McCain comes closest to the old magnanimous ideal. Last week, when he went to the Senate and flipped his thumb down on the pretzeled-up health care bill, we saw one version of manliness trumping another. When John Kelly elbowed out Anthony Scaramucci, one version of manliness replaced another. The old virtues aren’t totally lost. So there’s hope.
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sound into a soothing, yet snappy scores that blessed the world with Soulgrass. It’s that sound that set apart the band’s debut album, Buddha State of Mind in 2010 and further distinguished the group’s follow up Carnival of Miracles in 2015 Not too bad for the former service woman, lawyer and corporate executive. And while all these occupations may seemingly run in contrast to one another in terms of the values they promote and demand, all the world needs to know is that Boggs’ music comes from the heart. “The thing that, hopefully, people take away about me whether it is with the military, lawyer, business or musician hat on is that they believe I’m authentic,” Boggs stated. “There’s a reason why the music you’re hearing is so distinct. They’re made by people who have worked on their craft for years… so hopefully the listener is coming away with a sense of how real our sound is.” For more information on Paula Boggs Band, visit paulaboggsband.net.
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FALLS CHURCHCALENDAR COMMUNITYEVENTS THURSDAY, AUGUST 3 Teen Time “Escape Room.” Beat the puzzles and escape the room. For teens rising grades 5-12. Registration is required. Registration opened July 20 at the Youth Services Desk by phone or in person. Registration not accepted by email. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 2 – 4 p.m. 703-248-5034. Concerts in the Park: Bushmaster. The Village Preservation and Improvement Society and the Recreation and Parks Department host the 25th annual Summer Concerts in the Park series which began on June 22 and continues through August 3. The series features local musicians of various genres every Thursday evening. Concerts are free. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church) 7 p.m. 703-248-5077.
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Preschool Storytime. Stories and fun for ages 0-5. Drop-in. All storytimes are followed by playtime with the Early Literacy Center toys. Mary Riley Styles (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 10:30 – 11 a.m. 703-248-5034.
DMV Connect. The limited DMV Connect service conducts all regular DMV transactions, except for the processing of vital records such as birth, death, divorce and marriage certificates and road and knowledge testing. Customers should be prepared with the required documents to complete transactions. American Legion (400 N. Oak St., Falls Church). 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. 703-248-5210.
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the storm of a rapidly changing society where their kind is less than welcome. Led by the enigmatic Emcee, the colorful characters of this Kander & Ebb masterpiece are eager to entertain you. The Kennedy Center (2700 F St. NW, Washington, D.C.). 8 p.m. $15. kennedy-center.org.
“An Octoroon.” A plantation on the brink of foreclosure. A young gentleman falling for the partblack daughter of the estate’s owner. An evil swindler plotting to buy her for himself. Meanwhile, the slaves are trying to keep things drama-free, because everybody else is acting crazy. “An Octoroon,” Jacobs-Jenkins’ Obie-winning riff on a 19th century melodrama that helped shape the debate around the abolition of slavery, is an incendiary adaptation. Part period satire, part meta-theatrical middle finger, it’s a provocative challenge to the racial pigeonholing of 1859—and of today. Woolly Mammoth Theater Company (641 D St. NW, Washington, D.C.) 7 p.m. $50. woollymammoth.net.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 6 “BIG FISH.” “BIG FISH” centers on Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman who lives life to its fullest. Edward’s larger-than- life stories thrill everyone around him – most of all, his devoted wife Sandra. But their son Will, about to have a child of his own, is determined to find the truth behind his father’s epic tales. Overflowing with heart and humor, “BIG FISH” reminds us why we love going to the theatre – for an experience that’s richer, funnier and more extraordinary than life itself. Keegan Theatre (1742 Church St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $45. 3 p.m. keegantheatre. com.
LIVEMUSIC THURSDAY, FEBRUARY THURSDAY, AUGUST 23 The Wingits. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-532-9283. Britton James. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-237-8333. The Sweet Remains. Jammin’ Java
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(227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20 – $25. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. Blondie and Garbage: The Rage and Rupture Tour. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd., Vienna). $35 – $85. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1900. The Thrillbilly’s. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 4 Joe Daniels. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-5329283. TGI 90s Party with DJ Suga Ray. The State Theatre (220 N Washington St., Falls Church). $5. 8 p.m. 703-237-0300. Grateful Dead Tribute Celebration featuring On The Bus + David Gans. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 – $25. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566. La La Land in Concert. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd., Vienna). $40 – $60. 8:30 p.m. 703-255-1900. Willem Dicke. Ireland’s Four Provinces (105 W. Broad St., Falls Church) 9 p.m. 703-534-8999. Shartel and Hume Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9:15 p.m. 703-2419504. Herb & Hanson. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333
SATURDAY, AUGUST 5 Kevin Dudley with The Snake Farmers. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504 Daycare Swindlers 20th Anniversary with Solace Sovay + Gallows Bound + The Mad Conductor. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $20. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566.
THE GOO GOO DOLLS will be at Wolf Trap in Vienna next Tuesday. (Photo: Team Rock) 522-8340. Cargo and The Heavy Lifters. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-2419504. Girlfriend in a Coma: Tribute to Morrissey and the Smiths. The State Theatre (220 N Washington St., Falls Church). $10 – $13. 9 p.m. 703-237-0300. Willem Dicke. Ireland’s Four Provinces (105 W. Broad St., Falls Church) 9 p.m. 703-534-8999. Dan Fisk. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333.
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Jurassic Park in Concert. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd., Vienna). $35 – $58. 8:30 p.m. 703-255-1900.
D.C. Houserockers. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 1 p.m. 703-2419504.
Covered with Jam. Iota Club & Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-
Sookie Jump. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504.
Ramon and Kamaka. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 5:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. Greg Howe Power Trio featuring Stu Hamm + Gianluca Palmieri. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20 – $25. 7:30 p.m. 703255-1566.
MONDAY, AUGUST 7 Jammin Java Local Scene: Vim & Vigor + Birds for Eyes. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $20. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566. Wolf Blues Jam Weekly Show. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 8 Two Blue Band. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-532-9283. Acoustic Soul. Ireland’s Four
Provinces (105 W. Broad St., Falls Church) 7:30 p.m. 703-534-8999. William Wild with Corey Kilgannon + Keelan Donovan. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $12 – $20. 8 p.m. 703255-1566. Goo Goo Dolls with Phillip Phillips. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd., Vienna). $40 – $75. 7:30 p.m. 703255-1900. The Rajas of Rhythm. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-2419504
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9 Nathan Angelo + Matt Simons. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 – $25. 7:30 p.m. 703255-1566. Open Mic Night featuring the Bob Hume and Martha Capone Band. JV’s Restaurant (666 Arlington Blvd., Arlington) 8 p.m. 703-522-8340.
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Public Notice NOTICE FROM CLERK’S OFFICE VOLUNTEERS CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA Volunteers who live in the City of Falls Church are needed to serve on the boards and commissions listed below. Contact the City Clerk’s Office (703-248-5014, cityclerk@fallschurchva.gov, or www.fallschurchva.gov/BC) for an application form or more information. Positions advertised for more than one month may be filled during each subsequent month. Architectural Advisory Board (alternate) Board of Building Code and Fire Prevention
Code Appeals Board of Equalization City Employee Review Board Falls Church Cable Access Corporation Board Historical Commission Housing Commission Library Board of Trustees Recreation and Parks Advisory Board Regional Boards/Commissions: Fairfax Area Disability Services Board Long Term Care Coordinating Council Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority Spotlight on the Library Board of Trustees: The Library Board provides general supervision of the public library, establishes policies, and issues necessary regulations for the governance of the library. The Board gives guidance to the Library Director in the preparation of the budget and advises the City Council and the City Manager. The Library Board holds regular meetings once a month, generally on the third Wednesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. in the library’s Conference Room. Members especially needed on the Board of Equalization: The Board of Equalization (BOE) is an independent body appointed by the Circuit Court and charged with determining whether the Office of Real Estate Assessment has equalized the assessments among property owners. Upon its review, the BOE has the power to increase, decrease, or keep the same assessment. BOE members undergo state mandated training prior to voting in meetings. Members can expect to attend an organizational meeting each year to elect a Chair and Secretary and select meeting dates for hearings. The number of meetings is dependent on the number of appeals received. Meetings are Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 6pm and can run up to 3 hours. Professional members of the accounting, legal, and real estate community are encouraged to apply – the board requires three members from these fields.
PUBLIC HEARING CAPITAL BIKESHARE EXPANSION CITY OF FALLS CHURCH MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2017 7:30 PM CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS 300 PARK AVENUE, FALLS CHURCH, VA 22046 The City will conduct a public hearing on the
proposed station locations for the Capital Bikeshare Expansion Project during the City Council’s regularly scheduled August 14, 2017 meeting. The proposed project would install between 10 and 16 Capital Bikeshare stations throughout and adjacent to the City of Falls Church. Project schedule information will be discussed at the public hearing. Preview preliminary project information prior to the public hearing on the project webpage http://www.fallschurchva.gov/ bikeshare or the City of Falls Church Department of Development Services, Suite 301W, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church, VA 22046, telephone 703-248-5477 (TTY 711). Please call ahead for staff availability. Give your written or verbal comments at the hearing or submit them by August 24, 2017 to Ms. Kerri Oddenino, City of Falls Church Department of Development Services, Suite 301W, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church, VA 22046. You may also email your comments to koddenino@fallschurchva. gov. Please reference “Capital Bikeshare Expansion Project” in the subject heading. The City of Falls Church ensures nondiscrimination in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For information call 703-248-5004 or (TTY 711). State Project # U000-110-192 and U000-110-200, Federal Project # STP-5A01(795). ACCESSIBILITY TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, contact Ms. Kerri Oddenino, City of Falls Church Department of Development Services, Suite 301W, 300 Park Avenue, City of Falls Church, VA 22046, telephone. 703-248-5477 (TTY 711). Persons needing interpreter services for the hearing impaired or those with limited English proficiency are requested to notify Ms. Kerri Oddenino no later than Tuesday, August 1, 2017 so appropriate arrangements can be made.
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN THE R-1A, LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICT ON APPROXIMATELY 1.25 ACRES OF LAND LOCATED AT THE EAST END OF RAILROAD AVENUE AND COMPRISING THREE PARCELS (REAL PROPERTY CODE NUMBERS 52-102030 THROUGH 52-102-032) KNOWN AS “RAILROAD COTTAGES” ON APPLICATION BY RAILROAD, LLC. (TR17-26) RESOLUTION TO AMEND THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF THE CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA, TO (1) CHANGE THE DESIGNATION OF APPROXIMATELY 51,454 SQUARE FEET OF LAND FROM R-1A, LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL (4.0) TO LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL( 6.0) FOR THE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY AT 116 GREAT FALLS STREET AND A PORTION OF THE COLUMBIA BAPTIST CHURCH PROPERTIES AT 308, 310, 312 NORTH MAPLE AVENUE & 103 WEST COLUMBIA STREET AND (2) CHANGE THE DESIGNATION OF APPROXIMATELY 26,845 SQUARE FEET OF LAND FROM LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL (4.0) TO TRANSITIONAL FOR A PORTION OF THE COLUMBIA BAPTIST CHURCH PROPERTIES AT 308, 310, 312 NORTH MAPLE AVENUE & 103 WEST COLUMBIA STREET (REAL PROPERTY CODE NUMBERS 51-103-005 THROUGH 51-103-008, 51-103-023, AND 51-103-024) ON RECOMMENDATION BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION The ordinance referenced below was given first reading by the City Council on June 26, 2017; and second reading and public hearing are scheduled for Monday, August 14, 2017 at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as may be heard.
APPROXIMATELY 51,454 SQUARE FEET OF LAND FROM R-1A, LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL TO R-1B, MEDIUM DENSITY RESIDENTIAL FOR THE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY AT 116 GREAT FALLS STREET AND A PORTION OF THE COLUMBIA BAPTIST CHURCH PROPERTIES AT 308, 310, 312 NORTH MAPLE AVENUE & 103 WEST COLUMBIA STREET, AND REZONING APPROXIMATELY 26,845 SQUARE FEET OF LAND FROM R-1A, LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT TO T-1, TRANSITIONAL DISTRICT, FOR A PORTION OF THE COLUMBIA BAPTIST CHURCH PROPERTIES AT 308, 310, 312 NORTH MAPLE AVENUE & 103 WEST COLUMBIA STREET (REAL PROPERTY CODE NUMBERS 51-103-005 THROUGH 51-103-008, 51-103-023, AND 51-103-024), ON APPLICATION BY DAVID F. & EDITH H. SNYDER AND THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA BAPTIST CHURCH All public hearings will be held in the Council Chambers, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church, Virginia. For copies of legislation, contact the City Clerk’s office at (703-248-5014) or cityclerk@fallschurchva.gov. The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, call 703-248-5014 (TTY 711). CELESTE HEATH CITY CLERK
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Planners Send Rite Aid Back to Drawing Board
Shields Unveils Plans for More Public Notification of Building Permits, Plans
A proposal by Rite Aid Drug Company to locate a large free-standing store directly across from the existing CVS drug store in the 200 block of West Broad Street was firmly rebuffed by the Falls Church Planning Commission during a work session Monday night.
Falls Church City Manager Wyatt Shields informed the City Council at a work session this Monday that he’s preparing to launch an effort to make the public more aware of building, renovation and development activity in the City.
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F.C. Chamber Hosting Networking Event Aug. 10 The Falls Church Chamber of Commerce is hosting an informal networking breakfast on Thursday, August 10 from 8 – 9 a.m. at the Original Pancake House. Members, local business leaders, and friends of the business community are invited to attend. There is no registration fee but attendees are responsible for their own checks. Reservations are not required. The Original Pancake House is located at 7395 Lee Highway. For more information, visit www.FallsChurchChamber.org.
Washington Group Solutions Earns High Ranking by Business Journal Falls Church-based Washington Group Solutions was ranked by the Washington Business Journal, in its July 28 edition, as number six in the D.C. Metro-area based on 2016 sales. The company has provided commercial and government workspace solutions to clients in the Mid-Atlantic region for more than 20 years. WGS is located at 101 W. Broad Street. For more information, visit www.wgsoffice.com.
Luk Joins F.C.’s Pulmonary & Medical Associates Pulmonary & Medical Associates has welcomed Dr. Christopher Luk to the practice located at 500 W Annandale Road in Falls Church. Dr. Luc is board certified in Family Medicine and is now accepting new clients. PMA, a member of Privia Medical Group, is a multi-specialty medical practice with more than 20 providers in 2 offices in Falls Church and Arlington. Founded in 1961, the practice provides a diverse range of services, including internal medicine and primary care, pulmonary medicine, sleep medicine, critical care, sports medicine, travel medicine, aesthetics, and a full complement of ancillary services such as diagnostics and lab services. For more information, visit www.pmaofnorthernva.com. Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@fallschurchchamber.org.
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NAPPING THE DAY AWAY is Pearl, the Fasbender’s family cat. Seeing her relax is a sight for sore eyes, as Pearl went from being a terrified kitten following her adoption in March to a full-blown member of the family by mid-summer. Just because you’re not famous doesn’t mean your pet can’t be! Send in your Critter Corner submissions to crittercorner@fcnp.com.
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1004 Broadmont Terr. | Falls Church City
Beautiful & spacious 2 BD/2 BA condo in The Broadway. Gleaming hardwoods, private balcony overlooking quiet courtyard, 2 garage parking spaces, and 2 storage units. Fantastic location! Offered at $549,000
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Lovely 4 BD/2.5 BA brick home on cul de sal in desirable Broadmont neighborhood. Less than a mile to metro and huge private lot. Offered at $800,000
502 W Broad St #321 | Falls Church City
710 W Broad St, Falls Church VA 22046 ~ 703-596-5303 Each Office Independently Owned and Operated
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Financing fell through this is your chance! Falls Church, Spacious and Gracious! Stunning mouldings throughout this seven bedroom, six bath Gem. Hardwood floors, custom plantation shutters, large kitchen with stainless steel appliances, granite counters, maple cabinets and custom tile floor. High ceilings, bay windows, recessed lighting and a fully finished lower lever. Priced at $745,000. 7004 Hickory Hill Road, Falls Church.
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UNDER CONTRACT 259 Gundry Drive Falls Church VA 22046
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4633 B 28th Rd S Arlington VA 22205
Beautiful 2 level condo 2BR/1BA in The Arlington. Updated floors. Wood burning fireplace. Sales Price $310,000.
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