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Inside This Week 2nd Candidate Forum Announced for Oct. 8

A second Community Issues Forum for Falls Church City Council and School Board candidates has been set for Thursday, Oct. 8.

See News Briefs, page 9

F.C. Planners, EDA at Odds Over Conceptual Plans for W. Broad St. B reaking B read

2 Meetings This Week; Planners Delay Approval

by Nicholas F. Benton

Falls Church News-Press

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archives of documents pertaining to the City of Falls Church without looking for anything in particular, long-time City resident, architect and Chamber of Commerce activist Paul Barkley came across an astonishing Spring 1985 Washington Post article, just

Identical presentations before two influential City of Falls Church citizen volunteer organizations this week of the F.C. Planning Department’s conceptual “small area” development plan for the central W. Broad Street district drew markedly different reactions.

The Planning Commission on Monday night and the Economic Development Authority on Tuesday night provided sharply diverse feedback to the report as presented both times by City Senior Planner Paul Stoddard.

In short, one body, the Planning Commission, reacted that the plan may be going too far in offering building heights up to eight stories in the section running along W. Broad from Maple Avenue to the W&OD Trail. The other body, the Economic Development Authority thought the plans were “not bold enough.”

While the Economic Development Authority, or EDA, role in this process is only advisory, the Planning Commission is tasked with actually voting to recommend, or not, the study to the City Council, which will take it up for a final vote. The Planners this week decided to defer their vote, however, until their next meeting on Sept. 8.

That has slowed down the process, but it is unlikely to make much of a difference because the EDA’s strong support seemed more in line with what the current City Council wants to hear. (City Council members Phil Duncan and

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After passing its health inspection this week, D.C.’s Astro Doughnuts and Fried Chicken hopes to open its second location in Falls Church’s Idylwood Plaza next week.

See Food News, page 21

David Brooks: Trump’s Allure

When America is growing and happy, the country is sort of like a sprinter’s track. In times of scarcity and alienation, it’s more like bumper cars.

See page 14

Press Pass with Angela Easterling

Having recently become a mother much of Angela Easterling’s new album, Common Law Wife, is about the challenges and joys of motherhood.

See page 20

SHARING A MEAL on the dais of the Falls Church City Council chambers Monday night, members of the F.C. Council and the Vienna Town Council partook of food provided by the Eden Market and then discussed common issues over their meals Monday night (See story Page 9). (Photo: News-Press)

‘85 Archive Clipping Confirms Long History of Water Fight

by Nicholas F. Benton

Falls Church News-Press

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Fairfax County was engaged in what was interpreted by the Falls Church city manager as an “unfriendly takeover attempt of the Falls Church Water System” more than 30 years ago, a prominent Falls Church citizen’s

search of his personal archives has revealed. A newspaper article in the spring of 1985 cited the Fairfax Board of Supervisors’ publicly stated interest in acquiring the Falls Church water system was made in December 1984, followed by a formal endorsement of a buy-out in April 1985.

Digging through his extensive

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Back in 1984, Fairfax Co. Sought F.C.’s Water System Continued from Page 1

over 30 years old, that sets the recent sale of the City’s water system to Fairfax County in a whole new light.

Back then, it was reported, Fairfax County offered the City of Falls Church the whopping sum of $5.7 million, total. The deal for the sale that was struck in January 2014 was for $40 million, plus almost 40 acres of extremely valuable (undeveloped and adjacent a Metro station) real estate.

Although the current water system sale by Falls Church to Fairfax County was completed

in January 2014, following its approval by a City referendum the previous November, issues surrounding the deal remain very much in the forefront of the Falls Church city government, including most importantly now, what to do with the almost 40 acres that was transferred to City jurisdictional control where the City’s high school and middle school sit.

Now comes Barkley’s article retrieved from his archives about what happened in 1985. It was six years before the News-Press arrived onto the scene in a lengthy era when there was no newspaper covering Falls Church and much

less public access to the doings of the local government. Barkley, who designed the Broaddale Shopping Center in Falls Church and much more, has been a long time proponent of new development for the City. He was president of the Falls Church Chamber in 1976.

Such an “institutional memory” of the City as his has been sorely lacking. As it turns out, the City fathers of that era came under unwarranted criticism from today’s generation of leaders for failing to renew a formal understanding between the City and County that had been in effect

since the 1930s.

That official agreement had set the parameters for the City’s ability to establish policies and control its water system that extended deep into county territory, with over 120,000 county customers through Tysons Corner, Merrifield, McLean and even Langley. When that lapsed in the late 1980s, the policy continued but was no longer protected by a formal agreement.

So, when the county began to violate the terms of that former agreement in 2006, the City came under fire for failing to have protected itself with a new agreement.

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Following years of bitter litigation that prevailed against the City at almost every juncture, it turned out to be a veritable miracle that the City, with the negotiations in mediation in November 2012, wound up with such a favorable outcome in the lucrative terms of the sale.

It is now evident, with the surfacing of Barkley’s archive, that the reason the formal terms were not renewed was because the Fairfax Water Authority was already on the track of what the Falls Church City Manager at the time called, “An unfriendly takeover attempt.”

Ironically enough, the Falls Church City Manager at that time quoted in the Post article, was Anthony Griffin, who left his job in the City in 1990, and eventually became the County Executive of Fairfax, a mammoth jurisdiction at over one million residents, compared to 13,500 for Falls Church.

When the Post article first appeared in April 1985, Falls Church City officials said they had no knowledge of any such proposal, and in fact, the article concluded by stating the plan had yet to be approved by the Fairfax County Water Board “which is expected to approve it overwhelmingly” prior to being transmitted to Falls Church officials.

At the time, Falls Church public utilities director Joseph Livinski said, “The City has no interest in such an arrangement.”

The slant in the article focused on the better service and rates that users of Falls Church system would get if Fairfax bought it. There was no mention of the extraordinary windfall of revenues that would come once the area became susceptible to the kind of development boom that is still in its early stages 30 years later.

In 1985, then Falls Church City manager Griffin is quoted in the article saying, “We would give serious consideration to a proposal which matched the benefits we get from the system now. But they (Fairfax) have never come to us and said, ‘What would it take for you to give up your water system.’”

In the final analysis, given the events of the last nine years, the county chose the path of egregious encroachment on the long standing Fairfax/Falls Church system’s geographical, if informal, accord and followed it up with a ferocious legal offensive that put Falls Church’s overall finances into jeopardy until the deal for the sale of the Falls Church system was eventually consummated.

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2 City Groups at Odds on Mid-W. Broad Strip Plan

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Marybeth Connolly and Council candidate Letty Hardi were present at the meeting).

After all, the one-mile strip of W. Broad in question, while not a “Miracle Mile” in the sense of Chicago’s or Los Angeles’, as Stoddard quipped, while it used to be known as the “Village Section” of the road, is already by now one of the City’s most developed with high-density mixed use projects.

The Broadway, the Spectrum, the Read Building, the Byron, the Flower Building and the Hilton Garden Inn, all put there in the last decade, have made it far more dense than those who decided to call it the “village section” some time in the 1970s had intended.

Moreover, there is the Kensington Senior Apartments over ground floor retail project that has been approved to the point that the Burger King it is replacing has closed and is on the verge of being demolished to make way for construction. Then there is also the 4.3-acre Mason Row project on the southeast corner of W. Broad and N. West

Street, whose latest resubmission of revised plans to City Hall seems to be met far more favorably than its earlier iterations.

At both meetings this week, it seemed to be accepted as almost a foregone conclusion, although there were still citizens present to speak out against it. The Mason Row’s latest plans to ease off development along Park Avenue, running parallel to W. Broad St., by such measures as making its hotel component a free-standing building right on the Broad and West corner, have apparently helped, Peter Batten of the project’s development team told the News-Press yesterday.

This mid-section of W. Broad Planning Opportunity Area “small area” conceptual plan is the fourth that the City’s Planning Department, under the direction of Jim Snyder, has churned out, and the other three – for S. Washington St. (Route 29), N. Washington Street and Downtown (nearest the intersection of Washington and Broad) have all met with enthusiasm by citizens during public hearings and in votes by the Planning Commission and the

City Council.

However, this is the first one involving a more significant exposure of residential neighborhoods behind it, and some of those, such as the well-organized and informed citizens on Grove Avenue that runs diagonally east of Broad, have been very vocal critics of the plan, not the least being the proposal for a “pit stop” along the W&OD Trail that would place restrooms next to the West End Park.

The concept plan splits the strip into five sections, with denser retail nodes at either end and around the existing Spectrum in the center. It conforms with the current plans for the Mason Row project at the west end, and at the east end it envisions a seven to eight story project on the current location of the Stratford Motor Lodge, and one where the Exxon station at W. Broad and N. Virginia is currently located.

Projects such as the single story Broaddale Plaza strip mall in the 400 block of W. Broad are not likely to be displaced because they’re already there and making a lot of money, Stoddard said, although it was noted that if “a

lot more height were offered as an incentive,” it might generate change.

The plan envisions another large project as the location of the Taco Bell currently at Broad and S. West, encompassing the twostory building next to it, in favor of something of seven or eight stories.

While there is no suggestion to move the St. James Church or school, the plan does envision reverting N. Spring Street back to a two-way street.

It envisions an expansion of the Hilton Garden Inn, parking meters where on street parking is available, and mid-block pedestrian crossings to make the area more

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pedestrian friendly, removing W. Broad as a “barrier” between its west and east sides.

The EDA discussed the need for tax revenue estimates to be provided for some of the larger projects the plan envisions, and in the meantime, taking steps to “clean up” the look of W. Broad.

In early September, the Planning Commission will take up the plan again, and it is as yet undetermined whether a walking tour of the stretch involving all the relevant boards and commissions will take place before or after that meeting.

Still to come are “small area plans” for sections further to the west on Broad Street.

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3 Small Schools – We like having a very small school system and don’t entirely agree with decisions including zoning exceptions that lead to a rapid increase in our school sizes. Small schools make Falls Church attractive and help preserve property values.

3 Accessible – We like places like Mike’s Deli where we can park 10 feet from the door and go in for an ice cream.

3 Hold onto our land - We are not sure it makes sense to sell 10 acres of our public school land to the real estate

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3 Livable – We like less traffic, sufficient parks, sufficient fields for our kids, and we enjoy 60 foot trees more than 60 foot buildings. We liked Dave Eckert.

3 Leave it better than you found it – We want to leave the next generation with a town that has character amidst the sprawling suburbia of Northern Virginia.

development complex. As a town, we have very limited land resources and we should anticipate a future where there is even more competition for public land and open space.

our property taxes while also stretching our capital budget capacity. Let’s examine our assumptions.

3 Proud - We like Falls Church.

We want to see its character preserved, and we are not envious of Crystal City, Clarendon,

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What Will Foust Do for Mt. Daniel?

Knowing what kind of rise it would get out of just about everybody, the Washington Post’s coverage yesterday of a preliminary set of options put out by a 36-member citizen task force on how to shave from $50 to $100 million from the Fairfax County Schools’ budget, focused its big headline on the idea of cuts to high school athletic programs.

“Fairfax Schools May Weigh Sports Cuts” blared the giant headline, and it got the hoped-for attention, even though in the text of the article, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors chair Sharon Bulova called it “alarmist rhetoric,” adding, “Eliminating high school athletics is just not going to happen.”

Way, way in the background, in the same report on the early draft of the citizens’ report are other potential cutbacks, such as shutting down high school yearbook, school newspaper, music and drama programs, and middle school afterschool programs. Also, it proposes cutting preschool to all children except those requiring special education, and cuts that would disproportionately hit high-poverty schools and teachers of English language programs.

These kind of cuts from somewhere will be required next spring even with a three-percent revenue increase for the schools’ overall $2.6 billion budget. Already, a salary increase for teachers in the fight to remain competitive for good teachers, a commitment to smaller class sizes are offset by things like enrollment surge for the system’s 187,000 students, an expected nearly $20 million drop in state funding, and the need for an additional $46 million for teacher retirement and health benefits.

The City of Falls Church’s school system faces many of its own budget woes, especially in the face of extraordinary enrollment growth, and Fairfax has hardly been the slightest empathetic as its Planning Commission is now mulling denying the City an expansion and renovation of F.C.’s Mt. Daniel Elementary School.

It’s not as if Falls Church comes hat in hand with its troubles. Fairfax has crises confronting its school system that are quite bad in themselves.

You’d think a little collaboration to offer some relief wherever possible would be in order, especially when it comes to education, and the opportunities or not for the youngest students.

But apparently this is not the case when it comes to Fairfax-Falls Church relations, which have resembled a David vs. Goliath scenario for a long time (see story on the county’s efforts over more than 30 years to take over the City’s water system in this edition) to the exclusion of all else.

From our perspective, this case comes right down to what Fairfax’s Dranesville District Supervisor John Foust is willing to do. Will he buck the narrow-minded McLean Citizens Association in the name of education and weigh in for the Mt. Daniel project that’s funded and ready to go, or won’t he? As a man who’s run for Congress, and will again, his priority should be education in general, not pressures from a local citizens group.

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City Should Involve Public in Developer Response to RFP Editor, On July 27 both the Falls Church City Council and School Board voted to release a Request for Proposals, known as RFP, for expanding George Mason High School and Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School, with commercial development allowed on a bit over 10 acres of the site – the RFP was then released on July 30. This was a critical step to start the process of improving these facilities, espe-

cially as George Mason is already over capacity, and no new facility would be ready until 2019 on the current timeline. While I do not believe the RFP is perfect, it is better to move forward and make adjustments as needed.

I am concerned that the process being used to consider developers’ proposals in response to the RFP will involve minimal public participation. I understand that Virginia law provides confidentiality for much of

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the content of proposals, including information that might adversely affect the bargaining position of the developer. I also understand that without confidentiality, developers are less likely to submit innovative proposals that others could copy.

Nevertheless, it will be very difficult for the public and stakeholders to participate unless they understand the proposals.

The RFP requires that each proposal have an executive summary that will be made public. That’s good, but that requirement needs to be backed by Council and Board oversight to ensure that sufficient information is included in the summary to allow public understanding. And as proposals are received

the staff needs to ensure that only material that meets the legal requirements for confidentiality is kept confidential.

As the process proceeds, the Council and Board should find ways to involve the public and stakeholders in the dialogue even if the details of proposals cannot be shared. This could involve, for example, additional town halls, public discussion of detailed evaluation criteria to be used to select the final winner, and further efforts to understand public opinion to supplement the excellent visioning work already done.

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Celebrating 25 Years of the Americans with Disabilities Act B� S����� N�����

New Editions Consulting, Inc., a Falls Church City company, is a government consulting firm that focuses on disability, health, education and international development programs. Last week we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Federal agencies, disability organizations and even the White House held events commemorating the anniversary. New Editions employees attended many of these events.

Before starting New Editions, I worked as a rehabilitation counselor, trying to change employer attitudes about hiring people with disabilities. Last week, while reflecting on my long career in the field, I remembered spending the year before the law was signed arguing with my brother-in-law, who belonged to an organization that was actively lobbying against the legislation. He was convinced that the American with Disabilities Act, or ADA, would be the death of the small business that employed him. Our arguments were heated and often led to me saying things such as, “We’re all only temporarily able-bodied. You should be helping to create an environment you’d want to live in if you became disabled.” I felt I had won that argument when the ADA was signed into law and his company continued business as usual.

About 15 years ago, that brother-inlaw had an accident and became mobility impaired. Now when we are together, he

smiles at me each time he can press a door button and have it stay open while he enters the building. We exchange glances when we enter a theater and there’s a place for him to sit or when a ramp allows him to avoid stairs that are almost impossible for him to navigate. “Thank goodness for the ADA,”

“Knowing that we’re all equal in the eyes of the law is inspiring, but legislation alone won’t change attitudes.” he will whisper to me.

Yes, the ADA has improved the physical environment, but I believe no one can gain independence without a fair opportunity at meaningful employment and increasing employment rates has been more difficult than building ramps, curb-cuts, automatic doors and other accessibility features.

There is research to support that hiring people with disabilities contributes to a company’s success and a large number of Americans say they prefer to patronize businesses that hire people with disabilities. Many large companies recognize this, realizing that the small cost associated with accommodations is more

than balanced by the benefits of having highly motivated employees with better than average attendance and lower turnover rates.

To help large employers assess their disability inclusion policies and practices, New Editions built the website and database for the Disability Equality Index (DEI), a national, benchmarking tool created by the US Business Leadership Network and the American Association of People with Disabilities. Eighty Fortune 1000-size companies completed the 2014 DEI survey. I’m hopeful that more large companies will learn of the DEI and recognize the contributions that people with disabilities can make to their organizations. I’m hopeful also, that more small businesses will follow New Editions’ example.

Twelve years ago, I started hiring employees into New Editions and was able to practice what I’d been teaching. Now, about 20 percent of New Editions’ employees have disabilities and many others have spouses, children and parents who have disabilities. We are a profitable company and we have received awards from The Washington Post, Washingtonian magazine, and Virginia Business magazine for our workplace culture.

As a part of our ADA celebration, New Editions asked our employees to reflect on the past 25 years and offered them an opportunity to share their experiences in a blog post on our company website. Most expressed positive experiences as a result of the ADA, but

we all acknowledge that there is more work to be done, especially in the areas of affordable, accessible housing, transportation, and employment. Knowing that we’re all equal in the eyes of the law is inspiring, but legislation alone won’t change attitudes.

One employee, Doug Zak, said, “I also feel that people with disabilities, and not laws, must be the ones to change perceptions of people with disabilities. I try to do this every day by doing the best job I possibly can, participating in group situations as much as possible, and being out in the community communicating with other people so that they may see that I am really just like them in so many ways. In this way I hope to promote diversity in the workplace and community and help people overcome their initial skepticism toward people with disabilities. I am so thankful to have found a job with New Editions, a company that appreciates and promotes workplace diversity and provides an understanding and caring environment where I can advance my career goals.”

Doug, I and all our employees, at this time of reflection on the changes effected by the ADA, hope that our award-winning company serves as a model of success and profitability that will encourage other companies to promote diversity in the workplace and include people with disabilities.  Shelia Newman is the president of New Editions Consulting, Inc.

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NEWS BRIEFS F.C., Vienna Councils Compare Commonalities In a rare meeting at any level, the Falls Church City Council invited members of the Town of Vienna town council to a repast in the Council chambers of the F.C. City Hall Monday to mark the conclusion of a friendly competition between the two jurisdictions for new sign ups for the Solarize Virginia campaign. According to F.C. City Manager Wyatt Shields, the competition ended in a veritable dead heat based on relative populations, but Vienna with a higher population technically won. Food was provided by the Eden Market in Falls Church. According to F.C. Vice Mayor David Snyder in a written comment to the News-Press, “There was discussion about how the planning departments are working to attract new businesses and how to better manage traffic – two major issues for both jurisdictions. There was also discussion about how to cooperatively work on W&OD bike path issues. Most importantly, in my view, was the recognition that both jurisdictions have similar aspects and challenges: strong communities, great schools, long histories, similar tax rates and close proximity to the burgeoning Tyson’s Corner. We agreed that because of these mutual conditions and challenges, we should be communicating more regularly.”

2nd F.C. Candidate Forum Set Oct. 8 A second Community Issues Forum for Falls Church City Council and School Board candidates has been set for Thursday, Oct. 8, according to Ken Feltman. Last month’s forum drew five of nine School Board candidates and three of five Council candidates. Council candidate and former F.C. Vice Mayor Sam Mabry, one of the absentees from the July forum, has notified the organizers that he will be unable to participate in October. Peg Willingham, chair of the F.C. City Democratic committee, will chair the forum and Sally Ekfelt of Citizens for a Better City will be the moderator. The forum is dedicated to providing citizens with information for decision-making on issues and candidates and to providing a fair and efficient way for candidates to reach the voters, Feltman, chair of the City’s Republican Committee, said in a statement.

S. West Street Closed for Roadbed Reconstruction The City of Falls Church announced Tuesday that the South West Street roadbed reconstruction project will officially start in September, but that in the meantime, the road will be closed at all times starting yesterday as a precursor project begins that will repair stormwater facilities. Starting August 5 and lasting about two weeks, the street will be closed at all times to through traffic from Parker Street to Madison Lane. Local access will be permitted: access to driveways will be maintained and trash and recycling collection will take place as regularly scheduled. The detour will take drivers on Parker Street to Ellison Street to Madison Lane.

Parking restrictions are in place on Madison Lane and S. West Street, according to the City.

Sen. Kaine Announces Support for Iran Deal In remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat from Virginia and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees announced his support for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to peacefully limit Iran’s nuclear program. Kaine was the co-author of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act. In announcing his support, Kaine said: “I conclude that the JCPOA is a dramatic improvement over the status quo in improving global security. The agreement takes a nuclear weapons program that was on the verge of success and disables it for many years through peaceful diplomatic means with sufficient tools for the international community to verify whether Iran is meeting its commitments. In the negotiation, America has honored its best traditions and shown that patient diplomacy can achieve what isolation and hostility cannot. For this reason, I will support it.” Kaine first indicated this support in comments to the News-Press last week.

F.C. Seeks Board & Commission Volunteers The City of Falls Church sent out a notice this week seeking volunteers who live in the City to serve on a variety of boards and commissions. The complete list is on the City’s website, and applications to volunteer must be submitted before the end of the month. The following City bodies were listed as open for volunteers: Aurora House Girls’ Home Advisory Board, Board of Equalization, Board of Zoning Appeals (alternate), City Employee Review Board, Economic Development Authority, Environmental Services Council, Historic Architectural Review Board, Historical Commission, Human Services Advisory Council, Library Board of Trustees. There are also openings on regional boards and commissions, including the Fairfax Area Disability Services Board, the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board, the Fairfax Partnership for Youth, Long Term Care Coordinating Council and the Workforce Investment Board.

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THE NEWS-PRESS KICKED OFF its year-long 25th anniversary celebration with its 25th Annual Summer Mixer last Thursday. Members of the community, including politicians, business owners, citizens and artists of the Little City, gathered in the newspaper’s offices at 200 Little Falls Street and enjoyed pizza, pasta and garlic bread from Ledo’s and beverages – those for adults and children – served up by the City’s official Commissioner of the Revenue and unofficial bartender, Tom Clinton. For more photos, check out fcnp.com. (Photos: Drew Costley/News-Press)

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1st Annual FCNP Caption Contest

IN RECENT YEARS at the Falls Church News-Press Summer Mixer, there have been tables with photos – some of which were used in the making of old issues of the newspaper – strewn on top of them. We decided to start a new tradition in the 25th year of the annual summer mixer and invited guest of the newspaper to grab a photo, any photo, and write a caption on the back photo. Here are some of the best entries. (Photo: News-Press)

IF ONLY HITCHCOCK put Janet Leigh in this motel! Falls Church City looks the part. (Caption: Dory Teipel)

IT’S RAINING MEN! (Caption: Letty Hardi)

YOUNG NICK BENTON! (Caption: Brenda Schrier)

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Community News & Notes F.C.’s Shane Plays in Citi Open Tennis Qualifier Falls Church resident and George Mason High School graduate Ryan Shane played in a qualifying match for the Citi Open Tennis Tournament this Saturday at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center. He earned his spot in the qualifying round of the Citi Open by winning the 2015 NCAA men’s singles championship.

The 21-year-old rising senior at the University of Virginia lost to Alejandro Gonzalez of Colombia (3-6, 6-3, 6-2) in the match. It’s not over for Shane, though. As part of his win, Shane also received a wild card in the U.S. Open, which starts Aug. 31 and runs through Sept. 13.

3 NoVa Locals Selected for Kennedy Center Internship The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ three college

summer interns will conclude their training on August 7. All three interns are from Northern Virginia and have been working for the Kennedy Center since June 1.

Falls Church native Fae Montgomery, of Swarthmore College, has been a contributor to the Washington National Opera Costume Studio. This internship is meant to broaden her understanding of day-to-day operations, which she will take back to Swarthmore in the fall where she is pursuing an art degree.

Allison Dyke, of Reston, was chosen for the Opera Costume Studio as well, working specifically in costume management.

She attends Elon University, working for a dual major in psychology and dance performance.

Bonnie Newton, of McLean, works to make performances at the Kennedy Center affordable for all, including managing free performances, updating social media,

and liaisons with artists. She will return to Christopher Newport University to complete her degree in theater.

Sun and Moon Wins 1st Place At National Competition A team from the Sun and Moon Taiji One tai chi schools in Falls Church and Bethesda won first place in the Synchronized Group Tai Chi competition at the 2015 National Classics/China Open this past Saturday, Aug. 1. This is their third consecutive national title.

The competition is one of four 6A-rated North American Sport Karate Association events in the country. This is the Sun and Moon Taiji One school’s third national championship since the gym opened in 2013.

Following the championship, the group was chosen to perform a special demonstration on the night of the Grand Championship

The team from Sun and Moon Taiji One schools in Falls Church and Bethesda pose with their first place trophy following their first place finish in the Synchronized Group Tai Chi competition at the 2015 National Classics/China Open this past Saturday. It was the school’s third championship in a national event since the school opened in 2013. Following the championship, the group was chosen to do a special demonstration. (Courtesy Photo)

Finals for top level martial arts.

The musical group tai chi was the only performance at the Saturday night stage before the competitions began.

F.C. Students Earn Academic Honors Across the Nation Several students from Falls Church earned academic honors from colleges, universities and other academic institutions across the nation during the spring 2015 semester. Flor Baumann made the dean’s list at Pratt Institute.

Rachel Croxton and Sarah Mellor made the dean’s list at Wake Forest University, where students must earn at least a 3.4 grade point average with no grade below C to make the list.

Sophia DeLeo made the dean’s list at The University of Hartford. Sara Erickson was named to the dean’s list at Hofstra University, where students must

earn at least a 3.5 grade point average to be named to the list. Jill O’Gara achieved honors at the University of New Hampshire, where students must earn between a 3.5 – 3.64 to make the list.

Thomas Sanders made the dean’s list at Loyola University Maryland, where students must earn at least a 3.5 grade point average while completing a minimum of 15 credits. Rebecca Sundel achieved honors during the third trimester at The Williston Northampton School, where students must earn a grade point average of at least 87 to achieve honors and of at least 92 to achieve high honors.

Ryan Herron graduated from Boston College’s Wallace E. Carroll School of Management with a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing and finance. Mollie Read graduated from Grinnell College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in religious studies.

AT HER BIRTHDAY PARTY celebration on Greenway Downs in Falls Church last weekend, Virginia Bowles (center) co-owner of the City’s popular Brits on Broad store, was joined by four who came over from England to join scores of others to help celebrate. Left, Richard and Gail Gale. Right, her sister Liz Wheatley and her son Robert. The event raised funds for a school in Haiti and for a family friend injured in a motorcycle accident in Australia. (Photo: News-Press)

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Mason Grad Violet Miller Joins Teach for America

George Mason High School graduate Violet Miller has been chosen to join Teach for America’s 25th Anniversary Corps. A 2011 graduate of Mason and 2015 graduate of the University of Richmond, Miller will teach in Greater New Orleans-Louisiana Delta.

Miller will join a group of 50,000 leaders who have helped children gain equal educational opportunity in low income areas of the United States. She has committed to teach in the urban area of New Orleans with the most need.

In these areas, only 6 percent of students are likely to graduate college by 25 years of age. Miller will work alongside Teach for America members, as well as community members to raise that percentage in the Greater New Orleans area.

J.E.B. Stuart High School Hosts Resource Fair J.E.B. Stuart High School will host a back to school resource fair on Aug. 19, from 2 – 4 p.m. The fair is aimed to help disadvantaged students prepare for the school year by offering free school supplies, vision tests, haircuts and more.

Stuart will work alongside members of the community such as Bailey’s Crossroads Rotary Club, J.E.B. Stuart PTSA, Fairfax County Department of Neighborhood and Community Services, Islamic Circle of Northern Virginia, Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque, St. Mark Catholic Church and Our Daily Bread.

The organizations involved aim to help students succeed in school

by offering supplies and more to students in need. Volunteers and sponsors are still needed. For more information, visit stuartpyramidresourcefair.com.

Lewinsville Presbyterian Selects Interim Pastor Lewinsville Presbyterian Church, located at 1724 Chain Bridge Road, McLean, has selected Rev. Scott Ramsay as their interim pastor. Ramsay will start next Monday, Aug. 10, and his first Sunday as pastor will be Sunday, Aug. 16. His wife, Rev. Laura Cunningham, is the pastor at Western Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. The couple has recently purchased a home in Arlington for themselves and their two children.

Ramsay will follow Rev. Deborah McKinley, who left to follow other interests in the church.

He will be accompanied at his post by Rev. Emily D’Andrea, the church’s associate pastor.

Ramsay will remain at Lewinsville Presbyterian until a full-time pastor is called and installed.

Fairfax Board of Supervisors Recognizes Homestretch The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors issued a proclamation to Homestretch for 25 years of service to the community on August 4. The proclamation aimed to congratulate the non profit for their work transitioning homeless families to self-sufficiency in the Northern Virginia area.

The proclamation specifically mentioned a George Mason University study on the organi-

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Sharon Bulova, chairperson of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, signed the proclamation. For more information, visit homestretchva.org.

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Seats Still Available for Master Gardener Training The fall training program for Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardners in Arlington/ Alexandria has a few slots available for area residents who want to learn more about gardening and be trained to work as volunteers in Virginia Cooperative Extension public education programs, which are aimed at preserving and sustaining the environment.

The program begins on Tuesday, Sept. 8, and continues every Tuesday from 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. until November 19 at the Fairlington Community Center, located at 3308 S. Stafford St., Arlington. Primarily Arlington and Alexandria residents are invited to register and undergo training, but residents of other jurisdictions may enroll on a space-available basis.

An application form is available at mgnv.org. For more information, contact Paula Kaufman, Master Gardener Program Coordinator, at 703-228-6426 or paulak1@vt.edu.

Dentist Dr. Melanie Love and Dr. Mark Miller

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Live Music Venue RESTAURANT www.jvsrestaurant.com 703-241-9504 TIM WINTERS, 16, A RISING SENIOR at George Mason High School and Eagle Scout Candidate works on setting parameters for tracking celestial objects as they move through the night sky during a gathering of Falls Church City’s West End neighbors, who assembled at the end of Grove Avenue last Friday to watch the Blue Moon rising. (P����: B���� W����)

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Trump’s Allure

When America is growing and happy, the country is sort of like a sprinter’s track. As Robert H. Wiebe put it in his classic book The Segmented Society, when things were going well the diverse country comprised “countless isolated lanes where Americans, singly or in groups, dashed like rows of racers toward their goals.”

In times of scarcity and alienation, it’s more like bumper cars.

Different groups feel their lanes are blocked, so they start crashing into one another. The cultural elites start feuding with the financial elites.

The lower middle class starts feuding with the poor.

A few decades ago the sociologist Jonathan Rieder studied what was then the white working-class neighborhood of Canarsie, Brooklyn. People there were hostile both to their poorer black neighbors, NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE who they felt threatened their community, and to the Manhattan elites, who they felt sold them out them from above.

We are now living in a time of economic anxiety and political alienation. Just three in 10 Americans believe that their views are represented in Washington, according to a CNN/ORC poll. Confidence in public institutions like schools, banks and churches is near historic lows, according to Gallup. Only 29 percent of Americans think the nation is on the right track, according to Rasmussen.

This climate makes it hard for the establishment candidates who normally dominate our politics. Jeb Bush is swimming upstream. Hillary Clinton may win through sheer determination, but she’s not a natural fit for this moment. A career establishment figure like Joe Biden doesn’t stand a chance. He’s a wonderful man and a great public servant, but he should not run for president this year, for the sake of his long-term reputation.

On the other hand, bumper-car politicians thrive. Bernie Sanders is swimming with the tide. He’s a conviction politician comfortable with class conflict. Many people on the left have a generalized, vague hunger for fundamental systemic change or at least the atmospherics of radical change.

The times are perfect for Donald Trump. He’s an outsider, which appeals to the alienated. He’s confrontational, which appeals to the frustrated. And, in a unique 21st-century wrinkle, he’s a narcissist who thinks he can solve every problem, which appeals to people who in challenging times don’t feel confident in their understanding of their surroundings and who crave leaders who seem to be.

Trump’s populism is pretty standard. He appeals to people who, as Walter Lippmann once put it, “feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row. He knows he is somehow affected by what is going on. [But] these public affairs are in no convincing way his affairs. They are for the most part invisible. They are managed, if they are managed at all, at distant centers, from behind the scenes by unnamed powers. In the cold light of experience, he knows that his sovereignty is a fiction. He reigns in theory, but in fact he does not govern.”

When Trump is striking populist chords, he appeals to people who experience this invisibility. He appeals to members of the alienated middle class (like those folks in Canarsie) who believe that neither the rich nor the poor have to play by the same rules they do. He appeals to people who are resentful of immigrants who get what they, allegedly, don’t deserve.

But Trump’s support base is weird. It skews slightly more secular and less educated than the average Republican, but he doesn’t draw from any distinctive blocs. Unlike past populisms he’s not especially rural or urban, ethnic based or class based. He draws people as individuals, not groups.

Unlike past populisms, his main argument is not that the elites are corrupt or out of touch. It is that they are morons. His announcement speech was fascinating (and compelling). “How stupid are our leaders?” he asked rhetorically. “Our president doesn’t have a clue,” he continued.

“We have people that are stupid,” he observed of the leadership class.

In other words, it’s not that our problems are unsolvable or even hard. It’s not that we’re potentially a nation in decline. The problem is that we don’t have a leadership class as smart, competent, tough and successful as Donald Trump.

Measured in standard political terms he is not ideologically consistent. As Peter Wehner pointed out, he’s taken so many liberal positions he makes Susan Collins look like Barry Goldwater. But ego is his ideology, and in this he is absolutely consistent. In the Trump mind the world is not divided into right and left. Instead there are winners and losers.

Society is led by losers, who scorn and disrespect the people who are actually the winners.

Never before have we experienced a moment with so much public alienation and so much private, assertive and fragile self-esteem. Trump is the perfect confluence of these trends. He won’t be president, but he’s not an aberration. He is deeply rooted in the currents of our time.

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America’s Un-Greek Tragedies On Friday the government of Puerto Rico announced that it was about to miss a bond payment. It claimed that for technical legal reasons this wouldn’t be a default, but that’s a distinction without a difference.

So is Puerto Rico America’s Greece? No, it isn’t, and it’s important to understand why. Puerto Rico’s fiscal crisis is basically the byproduct of a severe economic downturn. The commonwealth’s government was slow to adjust to the worsening fundamentals, papering over the problem with borrowing. And now it has hit the wall. What went wrong? There was a time when the island did quite well as a manufacturing center, boosted in part by a special federal NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE tax break. But that tax break expired in 2006, and in any case changes in the world economy have worked against Puerto Rico.

These days manufacturing favors either very-lowwage nations, or locations close to markets that can take advantage of short logistic chains to respond quickly to changing conditions. But Puerto Rico’s wages aren’t low by global standards. And its island location puts it at a disadvantage compared not just with the U.S. mainland but with places like the north of Mexico, from which goods can be quickly shipped by truck.

The situation is, unfortunately, exacerbated by the Jones Act, which requires that goods traveling between Puerto Rico and the mainland use U.S. ships, raising transportation costs even further.

Puerto Rico, then, is in the wrong place at the wrong time. But here’s the thing: while the island’s economy has declined sharply, its population, while hurting, hasn’t suffered anything like the catastrophes we see in Europe. Look, for example, at consumption per capita, which has fallen 30 percent in Greece but has actually continued to rise in Puerto Rico. Why have the human consequences of economic troubles been muted?

The main answer is that Puerto Rico is part of the U.S. fiscal union. When its economy faltered, its payments to Washington fell, but its receipts from Washington – Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and more – actually rose. So Puerto Rico automatically received aid on a scale beyond anything conceivable in Europe.

Is Puerto Rico’s status as part of the U.S. all good?

A recent report commissioned by the commonwealth’s government argues that its economy is hurt by sharing

Paul Krugman

the U.S. minimum wage, which raises costs, and also by federal benefits that encourage adults to drop out of the workforce. In principle these complaints could be right. In particular, even economists who support a higher U.S. minimum wage, myself included, generally agree that it could be a problem if set too high relative to productivity – and Puerto Rican productivity is far below mainland levels.

But the evidence that minimum wages or social benefits are really a problem is, as one careful if older study put it, “surprisingly fragile.” Notably, Puerto Rico’s low rate of labor force participation probably has more to do with outmigration than with welfare: When job opportunities dry up, young, able-bodied workers move elsewhere, while the least employable stay in place. You see the same phenomenon in Appalachia, where the disappearance of coal-mining jobs has induced many workers to leave, while the remaining population makes heavy use of the social safety net.

And how terrible is that, really? The safety net is there to protect people, not places. If a regional economy is left stranded by the shifting tides of globalization, well, that’s going to happen now and then. What’s important is that workers be able to find opportunities somewhere, and that those unable for whatever reason to take advantage of these opportunities be protected from extreme hardship.

There is, of course, the problem of maintaining public services for those who remain. Compared with Europe, America benefits hugely from having an integrated national budget – but it’s not integrated enough to deal with really big regional shocks. And Puerto Rico faces some risk of a death spiral in which the emigration of working-age residents undermines the tax base for those who are left, and deteriorating public services then lead to even more emigration.

What this tells us, in turn, is that even for a part of the United States, too much austerity can be selfdefeating. It would, in particular, be a terrible idea to give the hedge funds that have scooped up much of Puerto Rico’s debt what they want – basically to destroy the island’s education system in the name of fiscal responsibility.

Overall, however, the Puerto Rican story is one of bad times that fall well short of utter disaster. And the saving grace in this situation is big government – a federal system that provides a crucial safety net for American citizens in times of need, wherever they happen to live.

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‘Mendacity’ in War, Politics & the Media

“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death – ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.” – James Baldwin.

In his own, comparable way, the great American playwright Tennessee Williams identified the problem at the core of society’s problems as “mendacity.”

“Mendacity” has a whole array of FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS options to describe its meaning. It is basically lying.

But put more completely and colorfully, it is “the act of not telling the truth,” or “the tendency to lie,” or “deception, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification and subterfuge as acts to propagate beliefs of things that are not true, or not the whole truth,” or “a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive,” and so on.

“Mendacity” also includes things knowingly not said that should be.

Journalists Judith Miller and the late Robert Novak, who withheld crucial information about the Valerie Plame scandal, in so doing no doubt influenced the outcome of the 2004 presidential election.

Now, it is tragic to see the extent to which our public discourse, including in the first Republican so-called presidential debate tonight, is riddled with mendacity. It is almost expected. No one is supposed to tell the truth, but to say what they think will gain them an advantage as they breathlessly scamper through the years of their lives running away from death. How do you know who’s being honest, or better, how honest?

Not from the media, which faces a particularly sad state of affairs in this fading democracy. The numbers are these: 1,500 newspapers, 1,100 magazines, 9,000 radio stations, 1,500 TV stations, 2,400 publishers are owned by six corporations. That’s it. Ninety percent of what 277 million Americans see, hear and read is controlled by these six corporations.

It is hardly questioned now that Fox News can unilaterally dictate who is included in a presidential debate, or that the Koch Brothers can stipulate to the media that they can attend, but not report on the hundreds of millionaires invited to their mansion for a pitch, and that the media passively comply.

It’s the same for the entertainment industry.

Emily Yahr of the Washington Post did a good job this week writing about how journalists are ordered to withhold truths, or not ask questions about them. “Directed Not to ‘Ruin the Fun,’ Interviewers Go Easy on Stars,” is the headline of her August 3 article, and it focuses directly on the ban imposed on journalists wanting to ask Tom Cruise questions about his continuing deep involvement with Scientology, something that even the iconic Jon Stewart had to cave to on his “The Daily Show.”

Cruise, Yahr wrote, is now making the media rounds for his latest hit movie “several months after HBO’s Scientology documentary ‘Going Clear’ accused the church (and by extension Cruise, its most famous member) of some horrific behavior. The church denied everything, yet Cruise hasn’t been able to answer any or dodge any questions about the documentary – because he hasn’t been asked about it at all. It’s the extremely obvious elephant in the room and it’s impossible to overlook.”

So, what is the truth about anything? Maybe the popularity of Donald Trump is related to the public’s growing perception that it can’t trust anyone, especially politicians and the media, the ones they’re supposed to the most. Trump’s rise is symbolic of a big public middle finger to all of this.

Behind this charade, this cacophony of the damned, are those who don’t care if anyone thinks they are lying, cheating and blithely ruining countless lives in the process: Wall Street and the dogs of war.

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

Obama’s Flexible Fix to Climate Change For many years, I used to spend at least part of the summer in the gorgeous Laurentides region of Quebec, an hour northwest of Montreal. By the mid-1980s, with each return trip, I could see a growing environmental threat to the area’s beauty: More and more trees were dying. When I asked people what was happening, the answer was simple: “pluie acide,” or acid rain, a form of pollution caused by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides that were spewing from coal-fired power plants in America. A decade or so later, the trees had stopped dying. An environmental disaster had been averted.

What had happened?

The answer was that the administration of the first President George Bush, working hand in glove with the Environmental Defense Fund, devised a market-based plan, now known as cap-and-trade, to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions. Congress passed it in 1990. The brilliance of the scheme is that while it set emissions targets, it did not tell power companies how to meet those targets, allowing them a great deal of flexibility. It also provided NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE a financial incentive: Companies that cut their pollution beyond their caps could trade their leftover emission allowances to companies that were having trouble staying under the limit.

Industry officials and many state officials complained bitterly about the new system, saying it would be costly and tie companies up in regulatory knots.

But that’s not what happened. “Industry had incentive to innovate,” recalls Fred Krupp, the president of the Environmental Defense Fund. As an interim measure, power companies began using low-sulfur coal while they worked to come up with better and more affordable scrubbers. Today, average levels of sulfur dioxide pollution are 76 percent lower than they were in 1990. The cost has been far less than the critics feared.

On Monday afternoon, President Barack Obama unveiled his Clean Power Plan, formalizing some tough new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency that are aimed at reducing the carbon emitted by power companies. There is no bigger source of carbon pollution; the goal is that by 2030, carbon emissions will be reduced by 32 percent from their 2005 level. In the fight against climate change, nothing is more important.

Once again, opponents are up in arms, forecasting calamity for the utility industry if the rules are allowed to stand, with at least a dozen states planning

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to sue the EPA. The attorney general of West Virginia, Patrick Morrisey, has said the regulations would lead to “reduced jobs, higher electricity rates” and increased stress on the power grid. Mississippi’s Republican governor, Phil Bryant, described the EPA plan as “burdensome.”

And then there’s Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, whose state, Kentucky, is in the heart of coal country. He has openly called on states to defy the EPA. On Monday, he described the new rules as “a triumph of blind ideology over sound policy and honest compassion.”

But just as with the acid rain controversy, the opponents of the new emission-reduction rules have it exactly backward. The EPA rules have a far greater chance of creating jobs, being less burdensome and epitomizing sound public policy than the opposite.

The single most important fact about the new regulations is that they don’t tell utilities how to get their emissions down. Instead, they allow the states flexibility to figure out how to lower their own emissions. Some may choose a cap-and-trade system – as California and nine states in the Northeast have already done to great effect. They can stress energy efficiency or renewable energy. They can offer incentives to push innovations that would make carbon capture more affordable, which would allow for the continued use of coal, still America’s most plentiful energy source. Or they can do all of the above. Since many of these things are already happening, the new government policy is really just giving industry an extra shove in the right direction.

Jim Rogers, the former chief executive of Duke Energy, told me that he thinks natural gas could serve as the same kind of bridge to emission-lowering technology that low-sulfur coal was in the acid rain days. The point is, there is really no reason the Clean Power Plan won’t work – except for political intransigence, which is far worse today than it was during the first Bush administration.

In his 2010 book, The Climate War, Eric Pooley, the former managing editor of Fortune who has since become the Environmental Defense Fund’s communication chief, notes that the whole time officials at the fund were working on cap-and-trade to solve the acid rain problem, climate change was never far from their thoughts. They wanted to prove, with sulfur dioxide emissions, that a flexible, market-based system worked – and would work for carbon emissions as well.

It did. And it will.

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A Penny for Your Thoughts

News of Greater Falls Church

By Supervisor Penny Gross

The long-debated Seven Corners Comprehensive Plan Amendment was adopted by the Board of Supervisors last week, by a vote of 8 to 1. More than three hours of testimony, both for and against the proposal, was heard by the board, and there was another hour of debate among board members, before the final vote was taken about 12:05 a.m. on Wednesday. The vote followed more than three years of work, involving more than 85 public meetings (not counting the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors public hearings) by a task force, work groups, community members, and county staff. The public meetings even included charrettes and a bus tour.

At Tuesday’s meeting (it still was Tuesday when debate started), more specific language for building an elementary school was added, either at Willston or elsewhere in the area, unless the school system advises that a school is not necessary. The amended language, along with a letter submitted by County Executive Ed Long and School Superintendent Karen Garza committing the county and schools to work together on future development of a school and county services on a five-acre site in Willston, provides more clarity in the plan.

Clarifying language for a 1-to-1 replacement of existing affordable units at 60 percent of the area median income or lower within the overall development area also was added. Potential residential density was reduced by 20 percent for Area B (Seven Corners Shopping Center), as requested by an independent citizen group that reviewed the proposal. A series of follow-on motions addressed transportation analysis and future improvements for the nightmarish Seven Corners intersections. Funding timelines were requested in the motion, and preliminary infor-T:7”

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mation is expected sometime this fall.

Seven Corners/Willston was a brand new concept in retail in the 1940s and 50s, but housing stock has aged, and the commercial areas are little changed from when the shopping center opened in 1956 with Woodies and Garfinckels as anchor stores. The stable residential neighborhoods nearby are preserved and protected, but much of the mid-century model needs to change to attract residents and businesses – those moving here in the next 30 to 40 years. That is what is envisioned in the adopted Comprehensive Plan Amendment.

There were a number of common themes throughout the testimony, and most were addressed in the final language. Affordable housing units are not being displaced; in fact, the plan permits more affordable and workforce housing. The county also will undertake a review of its affordable housing policies. Transportation is addressed in detail, a stronger provision for school use is included, and density is reduced from the original language, both in Areas B and C. Most any redevelopment depends on the commercial property owners and developers whose reinvestment in the community will require them to construct many of the transportation improvements.

The increased value of their redeveloped properties also will provide revenue for other projects in the community. This part of the long and thoughtful public process that started more than three years ago is complete. Next steps are up to the property owners, and those will be subject to an equally thoughtful public process.  Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.

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Sales Tax Holiday This year, I sponsored legislation that became law to combine the existing sales tax holidays (SB 1319) to make it easier for Virginia families. The sales tax holiday will run from August 7 at 12:01 a.m. and end on Sunday, August 9 at 11:59 p.m. During the three-day sales tax holiday, consumers can buy school supplies, clothing, footwear, hurricane and emergency preparedness items, and Energy Star and WaterSense products without paying sales tax.

Visit the Virginia Department of Taxation website to see a list of tax-exempt items: www.tax. virginia.gov.

The tax-free weekend is a great way to save money on backto-school supplies. We are well into the hurricane season. If you missed the sales tax holiday in the spring, now is another chance to stock up on supplies. You may also want to explore some of the tax-exempt energy saving items.

Budget Surplus Last month, Governor McAuliffe announced that Virginia is on pace to have a $427 million revenue surplus. This is a welcome change from last year when we faced a $439 million revenue shortfall, leaving massive gaps in the state budget. It’s great news for our Commonwealth on several fronts. It proves that the fiscally responsible decisions made by the Governor and the General Assembly are making a difference.

Keep in mind that by law the bulk of this surplus will go directly into Virginia’s rainy day fund.

Another positive is that the surplus ensures a modest pay raise for state employees— including public school teachers and higher education faculty. This is a healthy sign for our economy and will help Virginia make the investments we need to expand job opportunities. In the month of May, Northern Virginia employment grew by 1.7 percent.

Annandale Road Maintenance We have all had the undesirable experience of dodging the large potholes on Annandale Road. It is a topic that has come up at town hall meetings and civic association gatherings. I hear about the sad state of Annandale Road – a major artery in our area – everywhere I go.

I have some good news to report: after speaking with VDOT, they have let me know that they plan on repaving

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Annandale Road in the middle of September. Currently, the Water Authority is doing work below the road, so the paving start date is not set in stone. This project is long overdue, but this is welcome news for Northern Virginia drivers. Stay tuned for more updates on the progress. I will continue to pass along more information as I hear about it.

On this same topic of road maintenance, we recently received word from Secretary Layne’s office that the road construction fund is rapidly being depleted by the ever growing demands for road repair/maintenance. While road maintenance is essential, traffic abatement enhancements will be limited in the short term.

EnergyShare Program Last week, I joined Governor McAuliffe in Annandale to announce the expansion of Dominion’s EnergyShare program. This program combines energy assistance and weatherization upgrades to the most vulnerable Virginians. Dominion has made a commitment of $57 million to expand EnergyShare, and it started by weatherizing a home on Holyoke Drive to demonstrate this project for the community.

Families in the neighborhood were given energy conservation kits.

This is another positive outcome of SB 1349 for consumers and one of the reasons there was such bipartisan support for the legislation. At the request of Governor McAuliffe, we added two important amendments. First, we added an amendment requiring at least 400 megawatts of solar energy by 2020 – enough solar energy to power 100,000 homes.

We also added the amendment that led to the EnergyShare program expansion – the low-income energy assistance and weatherization effort. The Governor asked me to carry this floor amendment and get it onto the bill, which I was pleased to do.

I hope others take advantage of this new initiative because it is a great way for consumers to keep energy costs down and maximize efficiency. In the end, it will help our Commonwealth and lower energy costs for low-income households with an emphasis on helping seniors, veterans, and those living with disabilities.  Senator Saslaw represents the 35th District in the Virginia State Senate. He may be emailed at district35@senate.virginia.gov.

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Planned Parenthood Vote The Republican “War Against Women” continues, with a partisan vote in the United States Senate to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood.

The group is under fire after a fake non-profit, The Center for Medical Progress, filmed undercover video of discussions with Planned Parenthood executives talking about the transfer of fetal tissue for medical research.

The Republicans passed the measure 53-46. However, they did not reach the 60 votes needed to override a veto from President Barack Obama. So, this was more of a symbolic vote that allowed Republican presidential candidates to parade and preen in font of anti-choice activists. It was a show pony charade with no substance, just like empty Republican votes against Obama Care that accomplished nothing and wasted taxpayer’s money on political gamesmanship.

Two Democrats disgracefully joined the witch-hunt against Planned Parenthood – Sens. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN). They should be ashamed of themselves for regurgitating GOP talking points and voting like Republicans.

Thanks to Planned Parenthood, abortions and unwanted pregnancies are at a 40-year low. If Republicans were really pro-life, they would give Planned Parenthood more money, not less. Instead they want to play politics with the lives of women and beat the drums of a bogus controversy.

First of all, Planned Parenthood did nothing wrong. The surreptitious and heavily edited videotapes actually reveal that the organization was not trying to profit off of fetal tissue. They were simply trying to break even and cover operational costs.

Providing fetal tissue for medical research is a good cause and should be supported – not skewered by shortsighted conservatives. The tissue is used to help find cures for ALS, Alzheimer’s disease, AIDS, cancer, and Sickle Cell anemia.

The question is, why don’t conservatives want to find cures for diseases? This proves, once again, that they are not pro-life and have a bizarre fetus fetish. They simply don’t give a damn about a person once they have been born.

Indeed, those who are howling the loudest about this research should be banned from using the medical advances that come from it. But we all know that these self-serving hypocrites will be the first in line demanding life saving fetal-based medications and therapies.

Here are some facts: 1 in 5 American women have visited a Planned Parenthood clinic. Federal dollars do not go towards providing abortions, unless they involve rape or incest. The federal money, that Republicans want to cut, is used for birth control, testing for sexually transmitted infections, and cancer screenings.

Abortions make up less than 10 percent of Planned Parenthood’s services nationwide. Planned Parenthood has roughly 700 health centers nationwide. Only a handful in three states have fetal tissue programs – which we have established are necessary for research into curing diseases.

The real scandal is not the videos supposedly exposing Planned Parenthood. The true outrage is that Republicans do not believe a woman has a constitutional right to choose. The real offense is that Republicans are kicking below the belt and sleazily taking underhanded actions to undermine women’s health. This is about a War on Women. This is about an ongoing, coordinated, strategic assault on reproductive rights.

The biggest joke of all was Sarah Palin whining about the evils of Planned Parenthood. Instead of complaining, Sarah should visit one of their clinics with her unmarried daughter, Bristol, who has had two babies with two different men. Bristol, a former abstinence spokeswoman for Candie’s Foundation, was paid $262,000 to avoid premarital sex and failed. She is Exhibit A of why planning parenthood is so important.

The question of abortion is between a woman and her doctor. There is no place for meddling, busybody politicians to insert their beliefs and ambitions for higher office into this decision. This is why the latest theatrical vote on defunding Planned Parenthood was an abomination.

Conservatives like to claim there are options such as adoption. But the only thing most of these phonies are willing to adopt is lazy antichoice political rhetoric.

With the first Republican debate on Fox News this week, there is no doubt that we will hear anti-abortion lectures from the various lecterns. Although there are 17 candidates, all will spew the same, tired Party Line on abortion, with the hope of winning the endorsements of social conservatives.

Such extremism is bad for women and for America. It is time for conservatives to end their war against women.

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Our Man in Arlington

By Charlie Clark

Hungry for a vivid portrait of Arlington’s seamier side?

You could do worse than the spooky website “Our Redneck Past” at ourredneckpast.blogspot. com. Its blogposts by a nonbylined researcher unearth “lost fragments” of our less-than-pleasant history – from motorcycle gang bars to Ku Klux Klan parades, plus more cheerful memories of country music haunts.

One entry describes the scene in March 1922, when 400 KKK members marched from Chain Bridge to Falls Church passing through Clarendon, Ballston, Cherrydale and Rosslyn. The marchers carried signs saying, “We are for upholding the law,” the account says. “Northern Virginia had about 60,000 KKK members in the twenties, which may have been as much as two-thirds of state membership, with the largest regional being the Ballston Klan No. 6.” Our local chapter had its own marching band, sponsored a youth baseball team “and owned a field for cross burnings… at the current site of Ballston Mall.”

Astonishing tidbits include a photo of robed Klansman holding a funeral in the Bon Air neighborhood, along with tales of bootlegging, gambling and friends in

high places. “In Arlington alone, the Klan would claim…. that `practically every male voter in good standing is a member.’ This was boastful swagger, but the fact that the claim could be made with a straight face proves the unnerving reality that Arlington was a Klan town,’” the narrator says.

Major Arlington figures as Sherriff Howard Fields (served from 1924-1944) and Commonwealth’s Attorney (and later state Sen.) Frank Ball are dragged in, their roles sometimes contradictory (Fields supposedly joined the Klan; Ball, a foe of segregation, accused its members of making false charges about his prosecutions).

For the 1960s and ‘70s, “Our Redneck Past” details murders involving the notorious motorcycle gang the Pagans. It criticizes the media for a “moral panic” about the state of local youth.

We get a list of “joints,” or biker hangouts. Among the Arlington ones are Bull Run Grill at 6001 Lee Hwy., the Classic Country at 89 N. Glebe Rd.; the Covered Wagon at 1720 N. Moore St.; JJ’s at 501 N. Randolph; the Keyhole Inn at 1126 N. Hudson St. in Clarendon; and the Royal Lee across from Ft. Myer. A gang business card reads, “You have had the privilege to be stomped by the PIONEERS of Arlington, Va.”

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CRIME REPORT Week of July 20 - August 2, 2015 Driving Under the Influence and Trespass, 115 E. Fairfax St. (The Falls Church) On July 20, a male, 50, of Falls Church, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence, and Trespassing.

Attempted Larceny from Building, 200 block Park Ave. On July 23, police received a report that an unknown male was attempting to steal copper downspouts.

Public Drunkenness and Urinating In Public, 6757 Wilson Blvd. (Eden Center) On July 23, a male, 36, of Fairfax, was arrested for Public Drunkenness and Urinating In Public.

Domestic Assault, 200 block Gundry Dr. On July 25, a male, 23, of Arlington, was arrested for Assaulting a Family Member.

Larceny from Building, 200 block Gibson St. On July 25, police received a report of a secured bicycle stolen from a residence.

More upbeat is the poster promoting a 1966 concert from bluegrass kings Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs at Washington-Lee High School. And there’s a nifty account of famed folk music popularizer Alan Lomax, who had a house in Rosslyn in the late 1930s with future film director Nicholas Ray. Pete Seeger hung out there.

So who’s behind this raw history? Keith Willis, 45, a union staffer who grew up in Fairfax, assembles the material from his home in Westover. “I’m trying to explain to people, few of who come from around here, how different it was with all these muscle-car kids” roaming Northern Virginia, he told me. “There’s a rich history to be done” on gangs, organized crime, area hippie culture and the politics of the Prohibition era.

Having studied history in college, Willis devotes leisure hours reading old Evening Star clips on microfilm and online at the District of Columbia and Arlington Central Library. All for the satisfaction of 1,000-2,000 visitors per month on the “Our Redneck Past” website. I commend his historian’s eye. *** It’s Arlington County Fair time again, Aug. 5-9. This year’s theme is “Summer Nights & Lights.” The event at Thomas Jefferson Middle School includes what planners hope will become a new tradition, a parade on Wednesday, opening night.

Larceny from Building, 100 block W. George Mason Rd. On Aug. 1, prescription medication was reported stolen from a residence.

Panhandling, 100 block N. Washington St. On Aug. 2, a male, 49, no fixed address, was arrested and released on summons for Panhandling.

Shoplifting, 1150 W. Broad St. (CVS Pharmacy) On July 29, police received a report that many merchandise items were stolen by an unknown male.

Narcotics Violation, 300 block Huton Ave. On July 31, a male, 21, of McLean, was arrested and released on summons for Possession of Marijuana.

Shoplifting, 586 S. Washington St. On Aug. 1, police received a report of unknown male stealing trading cards from the store.

Trespass, 6757 Wilson Blvd.

(Eden Center) On Aug. 1, a male, 57, no fixed address, was arrested and released on summons for Trespassing.

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Community Events

THURSDAY, AUGUST 6

Preschool Storytime. Stories, finger plays and songs for children ages 2 – 5 on Monday and Thursday every week. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 – 11 a.m. & 3 – 3:30 p.m. 703-248-5034.

Early Literacy Center. Explore educational and manipulative items to teach early literacy through play on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 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. & 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. 703-248-5034 Concerts in the Park. Bring your family, dinner to-go, and a picnic blanket and enjoy the music from local musicians and artists.

This week will feature The Tom Principato Band, a blues rock group, highlighting their new album, Robert Johnson Told Me So. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. fallschurchva. gov/632/Concerts-in-the-Park.

Youth Adult Panel. Authors of Under the Lights, Jesse’s Girl, and many others will be at a young adult fiction panel to take

questions and offer insight to their stories. One More Page Books (2200 N Westmoreland St #101 Arlington, VA). 7 – 8 p.m.

703-300-9746.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 7

Playdate Cafe. Parents and caregivers can enjoy coffee and conversation while infants age birth to 18 months socialize and play with toys. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. Registration required up to two weeks prior to date. 10 – 11 a.m. 703-248-5034.

Wine Tasting. Enjoy a variety of wines, surrounded by books, in the comfort of a local business.

One More Page Books (2200 N Westmoreland St #101 Arlington, VA). 6:30 – 8 p.m. 703-300-9746.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8

F.C. Farmers’ Market. Vendors offer fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables, cheeses, meats, baked goods, plants, and wine.

This week will showcase a chef demo by Chef O’Grady at Willow restaurant, from 9 a.m.—11 a.m.

City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 8 a.m.– noon. 703-248-5077.

Neighborhood Plant Clinic. Master gardeners will lead a clinic on

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horticultural tips and tricks for adults. City of Fairfax Regional Library (10360 North Street, Fairfax).

10 a.m. – 1 p.m. 703-293-2113.

Groovy Nate. Children can enjoy the songs, comedy, and experience of Groovy Nate, who will incorporate singing, puppets, and more into a groovy experience. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 – 11:45 a.m. 703-248-5034.

Sacred Music and Dance for World Healing. Come see Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery perform a traditional ritual performance of sacred music and dance. Unity of Fairfax (2854 Hunter Mill Road, Oakton). $15 for children, $20 for adult.. 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. 703-281-1767.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 9

Mosaic Central Farm Market. Enjoy offerings of fresh fruits, vegetables, meats and other local products.

Mosaic District (District Ave.). 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. 703-992-7765.

MONDAY, AUGUST 10

Nonfiction Book Group. The nonfiction book group will discuss Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan.

One More Page Books (2200 N

Westmoreland St #101 Arlington, VA). Free. 7 p.m. 703-300-9746.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 11

Preschool Storytime. Songs, movement, and stories for ages 1836 months. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. 703-248-5034.

Paws to Read at the Library. Read with a canine companion for readers grades rising K to 6th.

Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church, VA 22046). 2 – 3 p.m. 703-248-5034.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12

Lego in the Library. The Lego club with a theme for children ages 6 – 11. Tickets for the program will be given out at 1:30 p.m. Limited to 16 participants. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 2 – 3 p.m. 703-2485034.

The Magic of Wes Iseli. Bring children ages 5 and up to experience the magic and illusion of Wes Iseli. Enjoy audience interaction, surprises, and comedy routines.

Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 7 – 8 p.m. 703-248-5034.

Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, AUGUST 6

“Let Them Eat Chaos.” Chicago’s vaunted The Second City sketch comedy group rolls through Washington, D.C. to take shots at various aspects of American culture with their subversive brand of humor. From our love lives to our government to our Twitter feed, nothing and no one will be spared. Through Aug. 9. Wooly Mammoth (641 D St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $40 – $50. 8 p.m. woolymammoth.net.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 7

“Twelve Angry Men.” It’s the ultimate jury drama on stage again, just like in 1995 when it became the company’s very �irst show, and �irst hit. Now, American Century Theater Artistic Director Jack Marshall, who directed that acclaimed production will do it one last

time. with an all-star cast made up of veterans from the �irst dozen jurors supplemented by outstanding male performers who enhanced over 60 The American Century Theater shows between them. Through Aug. 8. The American Century Theater (2700 S. Lang St., Arlington). $37 – $40. 8 p.m. americancentury.org.

“The Girls of Summer.” Bring the family to enjoy classic summer tunes brought to you by Dani Stoller, Kara-Tameika Watkins and Shaina Kuhn. A night of throwbacks and current hits to keep everyone begging for more of the heat.

Two nights only. ArtSpace Falls Church (415 S. Maple Ave., Falls Church). $18 - $50. 8 p.m. creativecauldron.org.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Synetic remounts their playful adaptation of Shakespeare’s timeless comedy with

a trademark movement-based visual storytelling. This fantastical, darkly playful game of love, mistaken identity, and the supernatural, with dreamy, brilliant and colorful sets, was honored with nine Helen Hayes Award Nominations when it was �irst produced in 2010. Through Aug. 9. Synetic Theater (1800 S. Bell St., Arlington). $20 – $95.

8 p.m. synetictheater.org.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8

“Silence! The Musical.” This cabaret-style show presents Clarice, Hannibal and Buffalo Bill, all more outrageous than ever. This spoof of the 1991 Oscar-winning �ilm features gleefully vulgar songs, non-stop zingers, and a singing chorus of tap-dancing lambs. Through Aug. 9.

Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20– $45. 7 p.m. studiotheatre.org.

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

J��C��O� ���� R��� T�� ��� T��������. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $12. 10 p.m. 202-588-1889.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 7 H�� C���. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283.

K�� W�����. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $35. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500.

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(227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566.

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(2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12.

8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340.

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F�����. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m. 703-5258646.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 11 NEEDTOBREATHE. Wolf Trap Filene Center (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $25 – $35. 7 p.m. 703-255-1900.

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Friday, August 14 – Sunset Cinema in the Park. The 12th Annual Sunset Cinema kicks off with a screening of “Paddington,” a family-friendly film that was

adapted from a series of books written by Michael Bond and illustrated by Peggy Fortnum, and other artists. In the film, the title character makes his way to England in search of a home after a deadly earthquake destroys his home in Peruvian rainforest. Moviegoers are encouraged to bring blankets and picnics. Drinks, popcorn and snacks will be available for purchase. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 8:15 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/ sunsetcinema.

Saturday, August 15 – 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. Staff from the Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District will take participants through the construction steps and also give primers on proper composting technique. The finished composter will hold 55 gallons of organic material. All lumber will be pre-cut and all tools and materials will be provided. Registration is required and is limited to 15 people.

Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). $75. 1 – 4 p.m.

C������� S���������� Be sure to include time, location, cost of admission, contact person and any other pertinent information. Event listings will be edited for content and space limitations. Please include any photos or artwork with submissions. Deadline is Monday at noon for the current week’s edition.

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BY KARIM DOUMAR

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Angela Easterling’s new album, Common Law Wife, explores many timely and relatable topics.

“I’m a new mom so there’s a lot of things that relate to that on [the new album] but I’m also really interested in American History,” Easterling said. She tries to bring in some songs with historical context. Additionally, Easterling is fascinated by social issues. The result is a diverse album with a swath of different themes.

Easterling explores “things that draw my interest and things that I think will be relevant to my audience,” she said.

Though the new album will not be released until August 11, some of it will be performed and the CD will be for sale at her August 9 concert at Sleepy Hollow Folk Club at 6 p.m.

Having recently become a mother – Easterling’s child is a mere 2 years old – much of her newest album is about the challenges ANGELA EASTERLING (C������� P����) and joys of motherhood.

“It’s a huge source of inspiration for me,” upon his honorable discharge and subsequent she said of her toddler. As most parents will return home to South Carolina, is beaten by most likely attest to, Easterling’s entrance into local police authorities until he is blind.

“He was still in his uniform when he was the world of parenting has changed her perspective on life. “Instead of living a life that pulled off a bus and beaten,” Easterling said.

Originally, the song was supposed to act revolves around me, I have somebody else that I have to take care of and who needs me,” she only as a history lesson but in August of last said. Easterling has been lucky to identify and year, it took on a whole new meaning.

“I wrote that song last year before all of benefit from what she refers to as the freeing aspect of parenting as it has caused her to have this stuff sort of came in the news,” she said, referring to the recent publicity and coverage “some freedom from my own ego,” she said.

Her music about parenting is successful of police brutality and racism. “We were in the because Easterling tries “to get as deep with it as studio recording [the song] while the whole I can but also talk about the joys of it as well,” thing in Ferguson was going down,” she said. she said. Her goal is that people with and with- With this recent scrutiny of police, the song out children will be able to relate to these songs. now holds extra weight. It is a powerful artistic In addition to motherhood, Easterling loves representation of the fact that the events we see to explore history and social issues in her music. today involving police racism and brutality are In her newest album there’s a song about an not new but are part of a long and dark history African American World War II veteran who, of violent bigotry in this country.

“A lot of people have brought up that it means something to them nowadays because even though it’s about something historical, it seems to relate and that was completely unintentional on my part,” she said. Of course, in order to spread this powerful message, Easterling must tour to show her music around the country. This is no easy feat with a two-year-old at home.

“In order to make a living, I have to go on the road and I can’t really go on the road as much as I used to,” she said. Easterling can do this through the support of her family who dutifully care for her child while she tours.

Easterling struggles to balance her career as a musician and her life as a mother but she loves everything about both.

“It’s a juggling act,” she said “but it’s worth it.”

• For more information about Angela Easterling, visit angelaeasterling.com.

Culture Club Wolf Trap

These singles whet the appetites of the FCNP editorial team this week:

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 Nicholas Benton – Madame George by Van Morrison 

Jody Fellows – S.O.B. by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats 

Drew Costley – 3005 by Childish Gambino

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sandwiches with doughnuts as buns. Yup. The Falls Church location plans to offer a similar menu but with a few more sides, sandwiches and breakfast options.

Astro Doughnuts was first opened in 2013 by friends Elliot Spaisman and former Washington Capital Jeff Halpern.

Astro Doughnuts & Fried Chicken 7501 Leesburg Pike | Falls Church astrodoughnuts.com A selection of doughnuts from Astro.

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Astro Doughnuts Hopes to Open in F.C. Next Week A rep for Astro Doughnuts and Fried Chicken confirmed to the News-Press of the restaurant’s hopes to open its second location in Falls Church’s Idylwood Plaza sometime next week.

Astro’s original Washington, D.C. restaurant on G Street serves doughnuts like maple bacon, PB&J and creme brulee, plus fried chicken and even sandwiches that combine the two – that means fried chicken

Mad Fox’s D.C. Tap Room Opening August 17 Mad Fox Brewing Company has set Monday, August 17 as the opening date for its second location in the Glover Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C., the News-Press confirmed Wednesday.

Officially Mad Fox Brewing Company Tap Room, the new D.C. restaurant will be a smaller version of its Little City space with seating for about 120 compared to close to 400 in Falls Church. While there will be no brewing onsite, the Glover Park

joint will have 32 independent draft lines, split evenly between its main bar and a smaller bar on the second level plus three cask engines available downstairs.

A smaller menu comes with the smaller space with the D.C. lineup having no pizza and significantly fewer entrees. However, there will be a large selection of shareable items or what Mad Fox Executive chef Travis Weiss affectionately calls “communal grub.”

“This is a social environment,” Weiss says.

“Plates are meant to be passed around, shared and enjoyed together.” The new menu also includes a sandwich tribute to the neighborhood called The Glover Park with grilled pork belly, green tomato jam, fried egg, basil and smoked garlic aioli. Also at the new restaurant, a rotating trio of chef plates available in surf, turf and vegetarian options. And good news, burger lovers: Mad Fox’s famous “Epic Burgers” will be served at Glover Park every Wednesday, just like in F.C. Brandon Moser will lead the new kitchen while Weiss will oversee both restaurants.

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Willow Featured at F.C. Farmers Market Saturday This Saturday, August 8, Tracy O’Grady and Kate Jensen from Arlington’s Willow

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Restaurant are the featured chefs for the Falls Church Farmers Market Chef demonstration series. From 9 – 11 a.m. the chefs will prepare “WillowWood” flatbreads with smoked eggplant and ricotta cheese, summer ratatouille, basil, Fontina and Parmesan, using ingredients from the market. In addition to the demo, recipes and tastings will also be available.

The Falls Church Farmers’ Market takes place at 300 Park Avenue from 8 a.m. to noon.

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TRIO Grill Continues Oyster Day Celebration Through Friday National Oyster Day may have come and gone (it’s held annually on August 5, FYI), but TRIO Grill in Merrifield is keeping the shucking party going with specials on the bivalves through the end of the week.

Until August 7, from 4 – 7 p.m., halfdozen and full dozen orders of Hog Island, Chincoteague, Chesapeake Gold and Sewansecott oysters are available for $9 and $18 respectively. And, while not a limited-time special, TRIO’s next-door neighbor and sister restaurant, Open Road,, has a $1 oyster happy hour weekly on Tuesdays from 3 – 7 p.m.

TRIO Grill 8100 Lee Highway | Falls Church triomerrifield.com – Jody Fellows

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ERIN SCRANTON with Smith II (left) and Kastner (center), both of whom she’s raising to assist people with disabilities. (P����: K��� K�������/N���-P����)

F.C. Resident Raises Pups To Be Canine Companions

BY KATE KARSTENS

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“She’s a hearing dog. They’re the smartest of all the service dogs,” Falls Church resident Erin Scranton whispered, as to not hurt the feelings of the other three dogs who live with her.

Scranton was talking about Luna, a recent graduate of Canine Companions for Independence who now assists a firefighter in New York with a hearing disability. Hearing assistance dogs never take a break from their job, constantly keeping their ear to the ground for a knock, phone ring, or even a fire alarm.

“Everything that I thought would be a red flag ended up making her the top tier,” said Scranton.

“She was always hyper-aware and I would just try to tell her to calm down but she would always be on watch.”

This particular quality is what made Luna perfect for a hearing dog.

Raising this hyper-aware animal for a year and a half before her training in January was the livelihood of Erin Scranton and her daughter Maggie, who have lived in Falls Church for the past couple years after moving from Davis, Calif. When the family moved to Northern Virginia, Luna simply curled up by Erin’s feet for the five hour plane ride.

“It was great because when her new owner asked if he could take her on a plane, it wasn’t going to be a new experience for Luna because she had already done it,” said Scranton.

Involving the dog in everyday life is a key to the program, as the main job of the puppy raisers is to socialize the dog. The result of the socialization is for the dogs to be exposed to every situation possible, so the disabled owners can be fully independent. For Erin, that meant trips to the grocery store and post office were accompanied

by Luna. Even her daughter, a recent graduate of McLean High School would take Luna to school once a week.

“It’s at the point where if I go somewhere without Kastner, employees at the grocery store are disappointed and ask where he is,” said Erin.

Kastner is a 18-month-old golden retriever that replaced Luna’s presence at the house and is close to being sent off to training in Long Island, NY, the Northeast headquarters of CCI. “I’ve become a serial puppy raiser,” said Scranton, the term used to describe volunteers who are comforted after the send-off of their socialized dog by a brand new 8-week-old puppy.

Erin Scranton is currently housing her family dog, Tex, a

socialized dog ready for training, Kastner, and a new golden lab puppy named Smith II for Erin to turn her attentions to when Kastner is sent off.

Puppy raisers will attend a ceremony where the leash will be handed over to the disabled person requiring the dog. Luna is still a part of Erin’s life, as her owner, Stephen Yaciuk, keeps in touch with the Scrantons, sending pictures and updates.

“The ceremony where the leashes are exchanged is just amazing,” said Scranton. “There is just so much love in the room and when I handed Luna’s leash over, her new owner was just sobbing. Even though it’s hard for me to give her up, the truth is she was never really mine. From the beginning, she was ready to serve and assist those in need.”

As Luna was Erin’s first dog, her success was outstanding considering the 67 percent of puppies who don’t make it through the rigorous training to become a service dog.

“Even the slightest issue will disqualify a dog. A health problem, a behavioral twitch, anything,” she said. “However, I’ve known dogs who don’t make it as personal service dogs but end up working in Social Services or as a police dog. These are highly trained animals and all that money and time shouldn’t go to waste.”

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Business News & Notes Sunflowers & Oms Yoga Studio Closes Sunflowers & Oms, the yoga studio owned and operated by Summer Baroody at 710 W. Broad Street in the City of Falls Church has closed. The F.C. yoga studio opened just last year. For more information about the studio which provided “yoga for the rest of us,” visit www.sunflowersyoga.com.

Indoor Playground for Kids Opens on Rt. 50 in Falls Church BusyBees, where kids are encouraged to “Be Active, Be Funtastic,” has opened at 6110 D Arlington Boulevard in Falls Church. The indoor playground for kids under 48” tall was founded and owned by Natalia Arbelaez, an active stay at home mother of two young girls who saw the need for a unique playground in the Washington D.C. metro area. BusyBees, where everything moves, spins, or flies, is open Monday – Sunday from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. All day play is available for one child for $15 and siblings for $12 while parents and kids under one year old are free. Complimentary coffee, tea and WiFi are also available as are party packages. For more information, visit www. busybeesplay.com.

Chesterbrook Documentary Screening to Benefit Alzheimer’s Fund Chesterbrook Residences in Falls Church has partnered with Great Falls Assisted Living, Potomac Place Assisted Living, and Tall Oaks Assisted living to present a screening of “I’ll Be Me,” the documentary about Glen Campbell on Wednesday, August 12 – 4 p.m.

The screening will take place at the Hyatt Regency, Reston Town Center at 1800 Presidents Street. Proceeds from the $10 tickets will benefit the I’ll Be Me Alzheimer’s Fund. For tickets, call 703-531-0781.

NOVA ScriptsCentral Calls for Donations, Volunteers NOVA ScriptsCentral is reaching out to the business community and residents to help provide free medications to low income uninsured children and adults through its network on 13 different health care clinics in Northern Virginia that provide medical care to uninsured residents. The average NOVA Scripts patient is on five or more medications and lives below 200 percent below the federal poverty level. Since 2006, NOVA ScriptsCentral have been able to provide over $32 million worth of medications to the uninsured residents of Northern Virginia. To learn more about NOVA ScriptsCentral, located at 6400 Arlington Boulevard, Suite 120 in Falls Church or to find out how to help by donating funds, items and services or by volunteering, visit www.novascriptscentral.org.  Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@ fallschurchchamber.org.

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Public Notice CITY OF FALLS CHURCH FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA BOARD AND COMMISSION VACANCY 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. Requests for reappointment must be made through the City Clerk.

Applications are accepted until the end of the month. Vacancies advertised for more than one month may be filled during each subsequent month before month’s end.

Board of Equalization Board of Zoning Appeals (alternate) City Employee Review Board Economic Development Authority Environmental Services Council Girls’ Home Advisory Board Historic Architectural Review Board Historical Commission Human Services Advisory Council Library Board of Trustees Regional Boards/Commissions: Fairfax Area Disability Services Board Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board Fairfax Partnership for Youth Long Term Care Coordinating Council Workforce Investment Board

INVITATION FOR BIDS AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA The City of Falls Church INVITES BIDS for the franchise proposed to be granted in the below-referenced ordinance. All bids shall be in writing and delivered to the Clerk of the City Council at the addresses below, on or before August 10, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. Bids will be opened in public session. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the ordinance referenced below was given first reading on July 27, 2015; and second reading will

be considered and public hearing held on Monday, August 10, 2015 at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as may be heard.

(TO15-10) ORDINANCE AWARDING A NON-EXCLUSIVE, THIRTY-YEAR FRANCHISE TO USE PUBLIC PROPERTY TO PROVIDE POWER WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF FALLS CHURCH TO THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDER

ABC LICENSE Delias Catering, LLC, Trading as Heirloom Catering, 626 S Washington Street, Falls Church, Virginia 22046-4033. The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) for a Mixed Beverage Caterer Limited license to sell

or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Vicky Theodora. Owner. 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. Objections should be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200.

(TO15-10) would grant a franchise for the right to use the streets and alleys of the City of Falls Church, subject to the conditions and limitations set forth in the Draft Utility Franchise Agreement, to acquire, construct, install, operate, maintain and use, and to the extent now constructed or installed to operate, maintain and use, poles, towers, structures, attachments, wires, cables, conduits, ductways, manholes, handholes, meters, appliances and other equipment necessary or useful in the distribution, transmission or sale of electricity in, over, along and under the streets and alleys of the City for the purpose of distributing, transmitting and selling electricity at any point within the corporate limits of the City. A copy of the full text of the ordinance is on file in the office of the Clerk of the City Council of Falls Church, 300 Park Avenue, Suite 303E, Falls Church, Virginia.

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 or visit www. fallschurchva.gov. Copies of legislation are on file in the City Clerk’s Office, 300 Park Avenue, Suite 303E, Falls Church, Virginia.

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).

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1. Comparable to a fiddle 2. “The Cider House Rules” Oscar winner 3. 2006 Winter Olympics host 4. “O.G. Original Gangster” rapper 5. Plane, train or an automobile 6. Neither Rep. nor Dem. 7. German “the” 8. Onetime carrier with a hub at JFK 9. Embryonic sac 10. Be a wiseacre 11. Tolerate 12. Many a broken statue 13. Clear up, as a windshield 18. Fats Domino’s “It’s ____ Love” 22. Soap-on-____ 25. Sales slips: Abbr.

26. “I’ll ____ brief as possible” 27. “Omigosh!”

28. Doo-wop syllable 29. Area conquered by Alexander

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the Great 30. Band with the 2000 #1 hit “It’s Gonna Be Me” 31. The ones here 34. Pressing needs?

35. Welsh breed 36. Boozehound 38. Its hollow stems are often home to venomous insects 39. Insurance co. employee 42. Property recipient, at law 44. Basic ballroom dance 47. What a horseshoe has 49. Simpson with the 2004 hit “Pieces of Me” 53. AOL or EarthLink: Abbr.

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58. Diminutive suffix 59. Lead-in to plop or plunk 60. Actors Harris and Helms

51. Actor Davis who eulogized Malcolm X 52. 2013 Spike Jonze love story 53. Suffix meaning “approximately” 54. Ferris’ girlfriend in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” 57. Name on many a hospital 61. “Goody, goody gumdrops!”

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Mayor Responds to Accusation of ‘Improper’ Early Retirement Offer

Moran Delivers Transportation Center $ for F.C. & Law Vs. Predatory Towing

Mayor Jeff Tarbert addresses all citizens of Falls Church in a lengthy statement submitted to the News-Press Tuesday, detailing events surrounding an early retirement offer made by the City officials to a police officer here that has been characterized by some as “improper.”

In the statement, published in full on Page 2 of this edition, Tarbert presents the chronology of events related to the incident since the first of the year....

The City of Falls Church will be the beneficiary of a $1,672,000 item in the federal transportation bill (H.R. 3) that carried the House by a 412-8 vote in Washington, D.C., last Friday with assurances of no presidential veto.

The $1.6 million component inserted in the bill by Rep. Jim Moran, who represents the 8th District of Virginia that includes the City of Falls Church, is earmarked to fund a “Falls Church Intermodal....”

LETTERS Continued from Page 6

Why Add Another Grocery Store to F.C.?

Editor, I was horrified to read City Hall’s interest regarding the Broad-Washington Plan for a Whole Foods plus apartment rental complex.

Regarding adding a third grocery store to the two under construction nearby, City Planning Director Jim Snyder was quoted as saying that grocers want to be near one another. So? I want a unicorn. Any logical person would note the redundancy of these businesses and the creation of a ridiculous traffic pattern. I love Whole Foods as much as the next hemp grocery bag-toting patron but I go two miles to the existing one when need be. And here’s a crazy idea, why don’t we build the other two complexes first and see how that goes before adding a third?

2. Is the City of Falls Church prepared to accept the influx of students and temporary residents?

The addition of another apartment complex seems diametrically opposed to already burdened school facilities. We moved here so our daughter could progress through one middle and one high school with her friends, instead of joining a feeder school community. I cringe that we are creating an irreversible situation that many of us purposefully moved here to avoid.

3. Additionally, Jim Snyder states that the City “could become a food and restaurant focal point for this part of Northern Virginia.” Oh good, that’s why my family and I chose to live in this peaceful 2.2 square mile area, to become a focal point for Northern Virginia.

Maybe we will have to change our Little City logo to “Tyson’s Three.” I can picture a sky bridge from the Whole Foods garage to Cherry Hill in order for pedestrians to dodge traffic now coming through our neighborhood (not a suggestion).

My daughter brags about the City of Falls Church, saying she is proud to live here where she knows her neighbors and feels safe. We even know our postman (hi Dennis). When she heard about the plans she said “why are people trying to wreck our town?” I had no response. Speak now or forever hold your peace.

Kate Jefferson Falls Church

Not Enough Customers For 3 Grocery Stores In Same Area Editor, Unlike having four to six coffee shops either in or near the City, or three or four yogurt shops, the plan to have another, full-sized grocery store at the corner of Broad and Washington makes no sense. With three large groceries the increase in traffic will be noticeable, and unwanted, plus I can’t help but think neither Harris Teeter nor Whole Foods can pull enough customers to both be successful.

I think eventually one of the three stores will fail and the other two will be marginally successful – maybe all three will be gone.

There is not enough customers to support three large groceries within a four-block radius.

Michael Baker Falls Church

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