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Inside This Week F.C. is Getting Its Very Own Distillery
On Wednesday, Falls Church Distillers signed a lease for 3,400 square feet in the Washington Market center, taking over the former Mobu Kids space at 442 S. Washington Street. See page 17
F.C. Veterinarian Dr. Steve Rogers to Retire
Dr. Steve Rogers, former Falls Church vice mayor, councilmember and head of the Chamber of Commerce, announced his plans to retire from Falls Church Animal Hospital at the end of September.
F.C. Mayor Tarter Upbeat About Future in ‘State of City’ Interview Annual Discussion With News-Press Yields Optimism
by Drew Costley
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The Lasso and later republished as a guest commentary in the August 4 edition of the NewsPress entitled, “Time to End Prior Review at George Mason High.” That was followed by an interview with her published online by the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), where she was described as “a passionate voice for free press” who “has vowed to work for the repeal of the school’s prior restraint policy,”
City of Falls Church Mayor David Tarter won reelection to the Falls Church City Council last November and was reelected by the City Council in January by a unanimous vote. Amid a highly contested election in 2015, Tarter came out as the candidate with the most votes. A little over eight months after the start of his second term on the City Council and as Falls Church City’s Mayor, Tarter sat down with the News-Press for its annual State of the City interview. We asked him about how he’s handling his duties as Falls Church City Mayor, how he thinks the City Council, Falls Church School Board and various other boards and commissions are working together, real estate and economic development in the City, the elections in Falls Church in 2017 and his perspective on the future of Falls Church. News-Press: What is different about how you approached your first term as Mayor and how you’ve approached this one so far? Tarter: I’ll tell you, first off, I spend a lot of time [in] and I put a lot of time into this. I seek input from all sorts of folks. We’ve got some great boards and commissions. My council is great. The City Council has got a lot of people with diverse experience and knowledge, so we all work together as a team and I think we’ve had some pretty good results. N-P: You were talking about working together with City Council and the commissions. How well do you think City Council is working with other groups like the School Board and the Planning Commission?
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David Brooks: Making Modern Toughness
“Today’s students are more accomplished than past generations, but they are also more emotionally fragile.” See page 12
Press Pass with LAYNE
Layne Putnam and Alex Rosca of pop-rock duo LAYNE created an entire world, they call it “The In Between,” to live inside while making their new album, The Black Hills, which was released last Friday. See page 16
CITY OF FALLS CHURCH Mayor David Tarter visited the office of the News-Press this week for his annual “State of the City” interview. (Photo: News-Press)
Mason High Newspaper Editor Challenges Censorship Policy by Nicholas F. Benton
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On the eve of a new school year in the City of Falls Church, School Board members and administrators are already well aware of an important issue that the “rising senior” editor of the George Mason High School student newspaper will bring to them this fall. She has already met informally with a couple School Board members and is working on a formal statement to
bring before the School Board in the next couple months. Kate Karstens, editor of The Lasso, Mason’s mostly-online newspaper, is going after the Falls Church City Public Schools School Board Policy 9.46, which permits the school principal to review and censor news and commentary items before they are published in the paper, a policy known as “prior restraint.” Karstens signaled her intentions by joining with student colleagues to publish an editorial in
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and enjoys the support of her student newspaper adviser, English teacher Peter Laub. The NCAC interview quoted Karstens citing numerous cases of censorship of The Lasso in the past year alone, which she claimed violated the 9.46 policy itself. The policy, she said, “specifies that only articles that discuss the death of community members, criminal activity, discipline, drugs, sex, alcohol and violence are subject to review.” But The Lasso saw articles about student absenteeism and graffiti in school restrooms as among those that were censored by Mason Principal Ty Byrd, who left the school for a new position in Arlington last spring. She said she anticipated a similar response to a story on the school’s “abstinence only” sex education policy. NCAC reported in its story that the Youth Free Expression Project is writing a letter to the FCCPS in support of Karstens and The Lasso. Karstens, who served as an intern at the News-Press a year ago and is now interning at the Falls Church City Manager’s office, wrote the News-Press last week saying, “I know that feathers are already ruffled but that’s just part of trying to get something done, I suppose.” She added, “I hope that my School Board and teachers and community trust our school paper enough to give it the freedom to report on issues that matter to students. My dream is a new, free press policy that creates a deep sense of mutual trust between both the paper and the school system.” Although revised only slightly, the 9.46 policy was adopted in 1974, 14 years ahead of the 1988 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Hazelwood Vs. Kuhlmeier, permitting schools’ “prior restraint”
GEORGE MASON HIGH School senior Kate Karstens, editor of the student newspaper The Lasso, is pushing for the repeal of the F.C. School Board “prior review” censorship policy. (Courtesy Photo) over student freedom of speech. But the tide is turning, and the states of California, Illinois and Maryland have forbidden “prior restraint” by law, as has also happened for Fairfax County’s Chantilly High School. A huge dust-up occurred at Mason High in the early 1990s when the editorial board of The Lasso voted to permit an ad from SMYAL, an advocacy organization in support of LGBT youth. At a special meeting of the School Board advocates for and against
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the decision spoke passionately and there were anonymous threats against the paper’s faculty adviser, the school’s legendary English teacher Michael Hoover, who stood firmly behind the student editorial board’s unanimous decision. So did the News-Press, editorially, where as a high school student a few years later, Laub came to work and stayed on past his college years, before signing on with the Mason faculty five years ago. Karstens told the News-Press that her motivation to change the “prior restraint” policy came from attending a Columbia Scholastic Press Association Conference in New York last spring. “I saw all these amazing (student) papers covering these controversial stories with grace, and when I asked how they were able to do that with prior review, they all looked back with quizzical looks as if to say, ‘What’s prior review?’ I know that The Lasso can be the watchdog that this community is begging for and I’m just anxious to make that happen.”
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Tarter: I think we’re working well. We’ve come at things with different points of view, but that’s good. I think we all have our own perspectives on things and I think we have come up with some pretty good results. N-P: Earlier this summer, the School Board and Council voted to decouple the development of the 28 acres that George Mason High School and Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School sit on from 10 acres designated for commercial development. What do you think would work best on the commercial acreage moving forward? Tarter: There are different ways to approach this. There are what the market would prefer, which is probably a fair amount of apartments, but that doesn’t mean that’s what we want as a community. What we need to do is get our arms around, as a community through a public process, our goals for that site. One thing I think we ought to be thinking about is creating a sense of place, a special place. Falls Church already is a special place, but we have an opportunity to enhance that through this 10-acre site and there are unmet needs in our city that we may want to address. It’s part of the reason we’re doing the visioning process that started early in the summer. We have a meeting in October, we have a survey going on right now and the idea behind that is to give the public an opportunity to let City Council and boards and commissions know what peoples’ priorities are. What do people want to see in future development? What kind of businesses do you want to see in the City? What do you like about things? What don’t you like about things? What could we do better? So, I think that’s a critical part in what we do with this ten acres is really get a lot of public input and really try to create a special place and I
really think we have an opportunity to do that, given that it’s ten acres and it’s right next to a metro station, so it has a lot going for it. N-P: What needs of the City do you think that space can meet specifically? Tarter: First off, I’d like to hear what people think. One thing that I personally felt was lacking was entertainment. Some people have expressed interest in a sports complex of some kind, which I think would be very exciting. Those tend not to pay as much money in terms of profitability. So I think we really have to work with market forces to determine not only what we want, but what’s feasible. I think it’s a very exciting opportunity. N-P: You mentioned Mason Row. What is the latest, moving ahead with that development? Tarter: To my knowledge it is moving forward and I understand they are making progress with a hotel operator and a movie theater operator, so as best as I understand everything is moving forward. It’s going to take a while, though. This is a complex project. N-P: What’s the latest with the development at W. Broad and N. Washington Streets? Tarter: The latest I’ve heard is that they are still in progress and they are still interested, but they are working on coming back with a very strong commercial component to it. N-P: What do you say to longtime residents who are opposed to so much development in the City? Tarter: First off, I understand their concerns. Falls Church is a great community. I love Falls Church. But we can’t stand still in life and the City has to evolve and personally I view it as getting better and changing with the times. I mean, we have to have development to pay for the important things to us. For example, a new high school. We were just talking about that site. It’s a $100 million dollars. That’s a whole lot of
money, so we really need to have our downtown working on all cylinders to help pay for those kinds of things. So that’s one thing, but I think when you get beyond that it’s just quality of life. For example, with the new Harris Teeter that just opened, about half the City can walk there and I’ve seen about half the City in there. And so I think it’s a big success in terms of quality of life. People being able to get out of their cars, walk and explore downtown and go to the grocery store without having to buy a week’s worth of groceries…. That’s the kind of downtown that I see. A lively vibrant place and I view commercial development as having a [significant] role in that. So the projects that I’ve approved or supported have all contributed in some way, I think, to a more vibrant downtown. So that’s the real critical element. It’s not for development’s sake. It’s to make a better community and that’s the goal I see and I think we’re able to accomplish that. N-P: Next year is a local election. What are your thoughts about that? Tarter: I’m not sure I have too many thoughts about that. I’m not aware of anyone announcing their candidacy, so I think it’s a bit early to speculate about that, but there’s a lot of good folks in this city, there’s a lot of good folks on council and a lot of good folks on the boards and commissions. We have a great city and great city involvement, so I’m looking forward to having some great candidates like we do every year. N-P: Do you expect next year’s election to be contentious as this past year’s was? Tarter: It’s hard to say. It really is. I don’t know. I like a good dialogue. I think it’s appropriate and I think that’s what democracy is all about, so having elections where there’s a vigorous discussion of the issues of the day is very healthy for a city. It fleshes out issues and it fleshes out candidates, so I have no issue with
F.C. MAYOR DAVID TARTER sat down with the News-Press’ Drew Costley for the annual “State of the City” interview. (Photo: News-Press)
vigorous debate and the like, so we’ll see what comes. N-P: Earlier this summer, the City got approved for grants to install bike share stations in the City. What can the City do to make the streets more bike friendly? Tarter: We’ve done a lot of planning. For example, we have a bike master plan. We have a mobility for all modes master plan and some of those contain bike routes. Like where to direct bikes, where should bikes be promoted, where they should maybe be not so much promoted, and so the bike master plan does have a lot of routes and things like that in it. But we are pushing very hard on bike issues. N-P: Overall, are you optimistic, cautiously optimistic or less so about the future of the City in the near term, medium term and long term and why? Tarter: I’m optimistic all the way across the board….Falls Church has got so many great things going on. I’ll give you a couple of them. Harris Teeter opening up. It’s drawing people into our downtown. I see people walking down there more than ever before. It’s going to create tax revenue, really great
tax revenue, maybe three [or] four cents on our tax rate for folks in the City….Northside Social, I think is going to be opening up pretty soon….I understand he’s pulled his permits, so we’re going to have that coming in in hopefully the next couple of months. Mason Row is going to provide entertainment, activity and life to a new part of town. Bike share, which we talked about earlier. The shopping center across from The Falls Church was vacant for 12 years. It’s under construction, being renovated and it’s going to be fully occupied by the end of the year…. That was 12 years in the making. [At] Big Chimneys Park, the City is going to be spending about a million dollars on that for traffic calming around that….So there’s a lot of good things. We’re planning for the future. The future is not an accident. It’s something that we are seeking through the visioning process….So, really, things are not just happening. We’re focusing on them. We’re planning for them…. So there’s a lot of good stuff happening in the City and I think there’s a lot of reason to be optimistic for the City’s future.
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The enthusiasm exhibited at Falls Church City Public Schools’ convocation Tuesday in the auditorium at George Mason High School was palpable and encouraging. Despite all the concerns that have arisen about the embattled project to renovate and expand the out-of-city Mt. Daniel Elementary School, the rough budget setback suffered at the hands of the F.C. City Council last spring, the urgent need to fill three vacated school principal slots at the system’s four schools, and the angst around how to proceed with the development of the 38-acre campus property...(takes deep breath) despite all that, the system, its administration and School Board have exhibited a solid ability to deal with this and all else on their plate to bring us to the start of what everyone expects should be a banner school year. There are always the naysayers. We always love to recall a big billboard that rests on an interstate highway leading into a small west Texas town in the Permian Basin. It reads, “Welcome to Stafford, Texas, 10,000 Friendly People and a Few Old Soreheads.” Yes, Falls Church may be at least as typical of a small American town as it also is exceptional. This is not meant to minimize the importance of a vigilant citizenry, buoyed by the existence of an independent local newspaper and numerous blogs, to prevent, for example, what happened in Bell, California in recent years, when a slumbering citizenry allowed its City Hall to vote itself enormous salaries, Eventually someone woke up and many of those officials, lacking accountability sufficient to keep their hands out of the cookie jar, are now behind bars. Where genuine oversight and vigilance are hallmarks of a good democracy, there is also the concern that nit-picking, grudges, paranoia, egos and all sorts of other factors can enter in, especially when there is no established process for evaluating claims, and in this Internet age, not even requirements that those making accusations back up their claims by identifying who they are. Such a bald-faced lack of accountability needs to taken into account from some quarters who are noisiest about, of all things, demanding accountability from public officials. We challenge all such persons to voluntarily put their real names to their criticisms and allegations when posting them online. As far as letters to the editor, we always welcome them but it has long been the policy of virtually all reputable newspapers to require those making submissions to use their real and verifiable names. But we also urge robust debates, accountability and transparency. Good public officials do not shy away from such things. It is most often the case that problems arise when civil discourse and communications break down. Sometimes things get so bad that genuinely-felt fears of ill intent begin to catch hold, and seldom does any good come of that. We think it is safe to posit that everyone in leadership in our community is acting honestly with good intentions.
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My husband, Jim Scott, who represented Falls Church in the Virginia House of Delegates, and I have taken many wonderful trips during our 44 years together. Perhaps most memorable have been our annual vacations in Long Beach Island, New Jersey, with old friends who have become extended family, as well as trips with our two daughters to our majestic national parks. The memories of those travels are slipping away from Jim as he now journeys the path that Alzheimer’s disease is taking him. Jim has led a life of action in public service, always seeking ways to create coalitions to expand access to affordable housing and overcome the hurdles of poverty and discrimination. He started his Northern Virginia career in 1966 as director of the Fairfax Community Action Program, a public-private partnership formed to promote selfsufficiency of the poor. Frustrated with the responsiveness of some local officials, Jim took a chance and, on a shoestring budget, ran for the Board of Supervisors. To everyone’s surprise, including his own, he became the Providence District Supervisor in 1972. On the Fairfax Board, Jim won approval for the County’s now much-expanded School-Aged Child Care program, as well as for the first County Office for Children in Virginia. He authored Fairfax’s Human
Rights Ordinance and resolutions creating the Environmental Quality Advisory Council, the Washington metro area’s first county Commission on the Handicapped,
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and a re-instituted Fairfax Fair. He led successful efforts to encourage affordable housing in new developments and pushed to provide infrastructure improvements (sidewalks and sewers!) in older neighborhoods. After the 1990 census, Jim was elected to the new 53rd District seat in the House of Delegates. In Richmond, he continued advocacy for affordable housing as well as for issues pertaining to mental health, head injury services, teleworking, and higher education. For a time Jim was proud to be the only member of the Legislature with a degree from George Mason University (MPA ’82). He was able to obtain muchappreciated State funding for GMU’s growing Center for Conflict Resolution as well
as for Falls Church’s Homestretch program, which has helped diminish homelessness in the Falls Church area. Jim’s ability to stay involved with our community and to remember his achievements, has gradually slipped away. Until last year the cognitive changes were gradual. At first doctors attributed them to normal aging, but Jim correctly realized that it was time to retire from the House of Delegates in 2013. As we embarked on our Alzheimer’s journey, we were fortunate to discover the non-profit Insight Memory Care Center, then located in Merrifield. With time, our involvement with Insight, since moved to a larger space near Fair Oaks, has grown. We first attended a couples’ support group for those in the early stages of memory loss; last fall Jim joined a weekly group for early stage participants. Since his Alzheimer’s disease has progressed, as it inevitably does, he has moved to the full day program which provides structure and stimulation for him and respite time for me to attend to my aging parents and our new granddaughter. The only dementia-specific day center in the D.C. metro area, Insight has been a lifeline for both of us. Traces of the Jim we know and love remain: a proud UNC graduate and loyal Tarheel, Jim is most comfortably dressed in blue – not Duke blue! – and his Carolina cap. He has followed the presidential cam-
paign and like many is appalled by the rhetoric of Donald Trump. He recently was visibly saddened to learn a TV commentator defending Trump was a UNC graduate. There are still joys in our life – we joined Insight’s Caregiver Cruise to New England early in the summer with other couples and staff; we cheer for our beloved Nats, and we look forward next week to hosting our 24th annual Democratic Labor Day BBQ, now sponsored by Jim’s very able successor, Delegate Marcus Simon. Friends often ask what they can to do help. It’s hard to think of an answer, but supporting Insight’s education and support programs is one way to honor Jim and help others in our community who also find themselves on this cloud-filled journey. In tribute to Jim and to Insight, Marcus will donate half the proceeds of this year’s BBQ to Insight Memory Care Center. Insight’s mission and staff echo so many aspects of Jim’s long career: a commitment to those in need, a resource and voice for those who have lost theirs, and a focus on community as a source of strength. Those of us traveling this road cannot turn back or halt our journey, but we keep standing with the support of family, friends, and caring professionals like those at Insight. For further information on the Democratic Labor Day BBQ, email andrea@marcussimon.com.
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F.C. Schools Begin Year with New School Bus Technology by Drew Costley
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The Falls Church City Public Schools system has new technology rolling out with its school buses on Tuesday, Sept. 6 when students return to class. The new tech is a software system called Predictable Ryde that allows the school system to track its buses and, through a mobile tracking app, lets parents know where their child’s bus is and when to be at the bus stop. Falls Church schools are the first in the country to have access to this app. “I want to provide schools that may not have the budget for an advance tracking system to give them a bus tracking and analytics system for themselves to use, so they can improve their bus operations. They know how to do that better than anybody, so this is a tool that provides that to them,” said Matt Vuturo, the president and developer of Predictable Ryde. “It’s a no cost tool for them. And for parents who want to have access to that information, they would be able to subscribe and help pay for that for the schools. That subsidizes it for the schools.” Predictable Ryde is available on a subscription basis of $4.99/ month or $39.99/year, but the company is offering a free monthlong trial for parents who sign up by Friday, Sept. 30. “The idea is that schools and parents have this long tradition of working together to help solve problems and this is just another way to do that,” Vuturo said. Vuturo said that he came up with the idea for the app when he was driving during a snowstorm in Boise, Idaho, where he currently lives and where Predictable Ryde is based. “We had gotten an early snow that fall and I saw a number of children outside waiting for their bus,” he said. “They were waiting out there and I went and did what I was doing and I came back and they were still waiting. I said ‘Gosh, they’ve been there a long time, they’re probably pretty cold. There must be a better way to do this.’” At that point, he began talking over the idea with Mike Novotny, Vuturo’s brother-in-law who lives in Falls Church and has students in the school system, who he said was thinking something similar around the same time. “This might something that could be helpful to the schools and to parents and definitely to schoolchildren,” Vuturo said. Not long after those conversations began, Novotny approached Falls Church City Public Schools superintendent Dr. Toni Jones with the idea for the app. “She
felt that it would be a very good tool for our parents and a very nice feature that we could offer to them,” said Nancy Hendrickson, director of transportation for the Falls Church City Public School System. Hendrickson agreed when speaking with the News-Press that the app can be useful to parents. “It will be a really nice tool for them because it’ll send them a text that says that your bus is five minutes away or whatever,” Hendrickson said. “And, in my opinion, I don’t think people should rely on the app because if something happens and a bus breaks down and I send another bus to pick the students up, it’s not necessarily going to send them an update because it’s tracking the bus that broke down. “But it’s going to be a great tool, though, on a fairly regular basis, especially for somebody who’s trying to do one last thing or who’s always running a little bit late. [It will alert them that] your bus is five minutes away, whether it sends an alert to the student’s phone, the parent’s or the babysitter’s or whoever, allowing them to know that you’re going to miss the bus or you’re leaving the house now.” Hendrickson said that what’s more important than the app’s usefulness to older students or parents of older students in the Falls Church school system is its potential for helping students and parents of students at Mt. Daniel School and Jessie Thackrey Preschool. “I think it’s going to be a really helpful tool to our Mt. Daniel [and Jessie Thackrey] students and parents because those students need to be received off the bus,” Hendrickson said. “Mt. Daniel and Jessie Thackrey students all need to have a parent or adult receive them off the bus and if they’re not there the child goes back. And very often, especially on early release Wednesdays, parents forget….So to have a text that says your child is about to arrive at their bus stop will hopefully try eliminate some of that and the hassle and chaos that creates for some of our students and our families.” Falls Church City Public Schools was so excited about this app that it was announced over a year ago, at the end of the 20142015 school year, long before the app was ready to be rolled out. Novotny said that most of the delay in having the app ready to go was the logistics of implementing the tracking devices onto the buses. In terms of safety, Novotny said there is a three-fold system in place to try to ensure that the tracking
FALLS CHURCH FAMILIES WAVE GOODBYE to their students on the first day of school in 2014. The Predictable Ryde app aims to allow parents to know when their child’s bus is arriving. (Photo: Courtesy of John Wesley Brett/FCCPS Photo)
information doesn’t fall into the hands of those who might cause harm to the students. “Security is a big concern and it’s something that we considered from the beginning,” Novotny said. First, all of the application traffic is protected using SSL encryption. Then the registration process is protected through the school system setting a private registration code to provide to the parents, who must have the registration code before they can even register for the app. Finally, Predictable Ryde is going to provide the school district with a list of everyone who has signed up to review. “If it at any point they think there’s a suspicious account, they can go ahead and suspend that account. They have that power directly at their fingertips.” The Predictable Ryde desktop and mobile applications is one of three upgrades that the Falls Church City Public School system is rolling out with its buses this year. Earlier this summer the Virginia General Assembly paved the way for Falls Church schools to use their stop arm bus cameras when they made it legal to mail a summons to the owner of a car photographed passing a stopped school bus. The school system began using the stop arm cameras to improve the safety of students who ride the bus in October 2013, but had to suspend the program two years later as a result of an official advisory opinion from the Commonwealth’s Attorney.
“We were very excited to hear that that was put in place….It was a tremendous safety tool that we really missed this past year. We didn’t run it all year long and you can really tell the difference,” Hendrickson said. “When people pass the school bus and they get a ticket in the mail and they get a fine of $250, it’s amazing how it changes the way that they drive. They’re going to stop for that school bus. They usually aren’t going to get a second ticket. So it does make a really big difference.” Hendrickson said that the stop arm camera program is not a big money maker for the school system or City because the bulk of the funds generated from it go to the vendor that furnishes the stop arm camera technology. The money that goes back to the school, Hendrickson said, is going into potential additional safety measures for the school buses, like putting cameras on the inside of buses, which could assist with resolving issues with student management or issues parents might have when they pick their children up from the bus. Finally, the school system has upgraded its Transfinder software, which they use help establish, assign and alter bus routes throughout the year. Justin Kirby, the head bus driver for the Falls Church City Public School system, helped implement the Transfinder software for the school system. He said that using the Transfinder
software has transformed the bus routing operation from one that was more manual to more of an automated system. “Once we have the basic framework of our routes put in place, it will place students where they belong and we can see where our numbers are trending higher or lower or if we need to shift a bus from one section of the city to another,” Kirby said. “It definitely makes things more efficient. We were able to eliminate some crossing of paths of buses because we could see it on a map rather than trying to remember where each one went.” Kirby, who has worked in another school district with this type of software in the past, said that it’s important to have this type of software at the beginning of a school year because it allows the school system to gather information about bus routing and capacity much faster than with manual systems. “Before you had to wait for someone to send you information before you could know whether things needed to change or you had to wait to see if a bus is going to be overloaded on the first day of school,” he said. “But now you have a pretty good idea of how many students could show up for that particular bus, so it helps eliminate that factor of not knowing do I need an extra bus on standby for this area...Whether it’s a small system like this one or as big as Fairfax County, you need it.”
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NEWS BRIEFS Admired F.C. Veterinarian Dr. Steve Rogers Retiring Dr. Steve Rogers has served as Falls Church’s vice mayor, on its City Council, as the head of the F.C. Chamber of Commerce and of its Housing Commission. But it’s as his life-long calling that most people in Falls Church have come to respect and admire his work, as co-owner and then senior veterinarian at the Falls Church Animal Hospital. Dr. Rogers announced his retirement as of the end of September on the hospital’s website last week. “It is with mixed emotions that I want to share my decision to retire from active practice at the end of September. For 41 years I have shared the joy and sadness that comes with bringing a four-legged family member into your life,” he wrote. He added, “I have enjoyed, with your support, watching Falls Church Animal Hospital grow from a small practice into a state of the art multi-veterinarian practice...I look forward to seeing you around town and to becoming a regular at our neighborhood coffee shop. Expect to see me in the company of my two grandsons as I become a soccer and other sports grandpa.”
Spouse Goes Public With Del. Scott’s Alzheimer’s Struggle Nancy Scott, spouse for 44 years of retired State Del. Jim Scott, who represented the City of Falls Church and environs in the Virginia House of Delegates for 22 years before retiring in 2013, has made the first public announcement in a guest commentary elsewhere in this edition of the News-Press that she and her husband are struggling with his progressing Alzheimer’s disease. Ms. Scott has written on the eve of what has been a long tradition of a Labor Day barbecue at the Scott home, now a fundraiser for Scott’s successor Del. Marcus Simon, and because Del. Simon has pledged half of all the money raised for that event will go to the work of the Insight Memory Care Center in Fair Oaks. “Insight’s mission and staff echo so many aspects of Jim’s long career: a commitment to those in need, a resource and voice for those who have lost theirs, and a focus on community as a source of strength.” She directs those interested in contributing to contact andrea@marcussimon. com.
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F.C. Schools Open Year With Convocation The annual convocation of the Falls Church City Schools, kicking off a week of professional development prior to the formal start of the school year for students in the system next Tuesday, was conducted with enthusiasm and optimism at the George Mason High School auditorium Tuesday morning. “Engaging Every Learner Every Day” was the theme of the event, with many sponsoring schools-related organizations — PTAs, Athletic and Band Boosters, and the F.C. Education Foundation — dedicated to their collective theme of “180 Days of Gratitude” for the work of the school employees from administrators to teachers to custodial services and more. Following welcoming remarks by Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones, F.C. Vice Mayor Marybeth Connelly, School Board chair Justin Castillo and F.C. Education Association president Amanda Blanchard, new administrators were introduced, including Erin Kelly (Mt. Daniel principal), Jeremy Ferrara (Mt. Daniel assistant principal), Paul Swanson (Thomas Jefferson principal), Rob Carey (Thomas Jefferson administrative intern), Matt Hills (Mason High principal), and David Serensits (Mason High assistant principal). The highlight of the event was the recognition afforded teachers and staff reaching milestones of service in the system, including 18 who reached their five-year anniversary, 10 who reached their 10 year anniversary and 13 who reached their 15 year anniversary. Marking 20 years in the system were Tammy Chincheck, Jose Fuentes-Ortiz, Tom Horn, Rik Jowers, Chris Pikrallidas, Helen Tam and Alice Tam-Lee. 25-year milestones were recognized for Syda Chansombat, Bridget Dean-Pratt and Eduardo Molina; 30 years was celebrated by Mary Kelly and 35 years by John Ballou.
Bullet Strikes Vehicle on Beacon Lane Detectives with the Fairfax County Police Department are investigating a report of a bullet that struck a vehicle in the 2200 block of Beacon Lane in Falls Church on Sunday, Aug. 28 at around 3:52 a.m., according to a press release. According to the person who called in the report, a vehicle drove down the street and shot the caller’s vehicle which was unoccupied. After officers responded, they found that the caller’s residence was also struck by a bullet. While canvassing the area, officers discovered four more vehicles that had been struck by bullets. None of the vehicles were occupied and there were no reported injuries. Detectives from the McLean District Station are actively investigating the incident. There is no suspect information at this time.
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Community News & Notes Buddhist Organization Holds Introduction Meeting in F.C.
tries. For more information, visit sgi-usa.org.
Falls Church Conducts Street Sweeping from Sept. 12 – 16
The U.S. chapter of the Soka Gakkai International, an organization that practices Nichiren Buddhism, is holding an introduction meeting at the Falls Church Community Center at 223 Little Falls Street on Saturday, Sept. 10 from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. The meeting is an opportunity for members of the organization to share their movement for peace with interested members of the community. The meeting will include an exhibit detailing the organization’s movement for peace and dialogue with the community in which members of the organization will talk about their practice. Soka Gakkai International was founded in 1930 in Japan to create educational reform based on the happiness of the people. The organization, which is dedicated to peace, culture and education, now has members in 192 coun-
Fairfax County Police Dept. Holds Community Meeting
The City of Falls Church is scheduled to perform street sweeping around the City from Monday, Sept. 12 – Friday, Sept. 16 and is asking the community to move its vehicles off the streets the day their area is scheduled for street sweeping. Doing so helps crews do a more efficient and effective job of preventing 200 – 250 tons of debris from entering local waterways. September street sweeping will start on Monday, Sept. 12 and Tuesday, Sept. 13 with sweeping of the residential areas south of Broad Street. It will continue on Wednesday, Sept. 14 with sweeping of commercial areas and municipal parking areas. The sweeping will conclude on Thursday, Sept. 15 and Friday, Sept. 16 with sweeping of the residential areas north of Broad Street. The street sweeping schedule is subject to change in case of inclement weather.
The Mason District Station of the Fairfax County Police Department is holding a community engagement meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. at the station, located at 6507 Columbia Pike, Annandale. Members of the community have the opportunity to meet station commanders, ask questions and learn more about the station. There will be a presentation of the Mason Station District’s new homepage, the Fairfax County Police Department’s blog, NextDoor, Crimereports. com and more. Participants in the meeting do not need to RSVP, but are encouraged to bring their mobile devices to experience the sites as they are being presented. For more information, contact Gabe Goldberg at gabe@gabegold.com.
MARRIED LAST SUNDAY at Falls Church’s Temple Rodef Shalom were Rachel Geier and Benjamin Schollnick, shown here just after tying the knot. Schollnick is the nephew of Janine Schollnick Benton and by prior marriage the News-Press’ Nicholas Benton and the grandson of Eileen Levy, all of Falls Church. Family of Schollnick from Rochester, New York, included his parents Gary and Nancy Schollnick and brother Nate. Family of Geier from Jupiter, Florida, included parents Brenda and Daniel Geier, brothers Benjamin and Jacob, and grandparents Charlotte and Harold Gross and Helen Ives. (Photo: News-Press)
Residents are asked to move vehicles off of residential streets scheduled for sweeping between 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. When cars are parked on the street, the effectiveness suffers greatly, as the greatest accumulation of debris and pollutants is in the gutter. For more information, visit fallschurchva. gov/Sweep, call 703-248-5176 or email dpw@fallschurchva.gov.
F.C. Residents Earn Academic Honors Across the Nation Several Falls Church residents recently earned academic honors from colleges, universities and other academic institutions across the nation. Daniel Anderson was named to the dean’s list at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where students must earn at least a 3.5 grade point average with no grade below a C to make the list. Matthew Beer made the dean’s list at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where students must
earn at least a 3.4 grade point average with no grades of D or F and no incomplete classes while carrying at least 12 credits to make the list. Morgan Elizabeth Eldred, Matthew Gerald McManis and Amanda Michelle Meszaros were all named to the dean’s list at Longwood University, where students must earn at least a 3.5 grade point average to make the list. Maeve Ponticiello and Lauren Sese made the dean’s list at Loyola University Maryland, where students must earn a 3.5 quality point average while carrying at least 15 credits to make the list. Christian A. Rowcliffe and James A. Vaus made the dean’s list at the Virginia Military Institute, where students must earn at least a 3.0 grade point average with no grade below C to make the list. Jacob Somer was named a commended scholar at Mercersburg Academy, where students must earn at least 85 on all of their grades to be named a commended scholar.
AMERICANA BAND THE HONEYCUTTERS, who are based in Asheville, NC, performed at Bikenetic on Sunday, Aug. 21. The band played to a packed house as part of the 2016 Stone Room Concert series. The Honeycutters released their 4th studio album, On The Ropes, in May. (Photo: Courtesy of Dan Lehman)
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Suzanne McDougall Speaks To Falls Church Rotary Club
The Falls Church Rotary Club’s assistant governor Suzanne McDougall will speak to the Falls Church Rotary Club at the club’s weekly dinner meeting at Harvest Moon Restaurant, which will be held on Thursday, Sept. 1 at 6:30 p.m. McDougall will speak about the club’s plans for the year. Dinner costs $15 and visitors are welcome. Harvest Moon Restaurant is located at 7260 Arlington Boulevard. For more information, visit FallsChurchRotary.org.
McLean High School Hosts Back-to-School Celebration McLean High School is hosting a back-to-school celebration on Thursday, Sept. 1 from 3 – 6 p.m. at the school’s athletic field, located at 1644 Davidson Road, McLean. There will be food trucks, games and prizes, balloon animals, a dunk tank, face painting, spirit wear, a photo booth and several other activities at the event. McLean High School’s student clubs and activities will have representatives at the event. Community organizations will also be present and the McLean Volunteer Fire Department will give tours of its fire engines. Also, the McLean High School Marching Band will perform. There will also be meet and greet and games with McLean Highlander athletes. Kids 12 and under get free t-shirts while supplies are available and there will be free admission to a youth football game. For more information, visit fcps.edu/McLeanHS.
United Way Launches School Supply Collection Drive United Way of the National Capital Area will host an official kick off for its school supply collection drives around the region on
Thursday, Sept. 1 from 2 – 4 p.m. at the Lord & Taylor, located at 7950 Tysons Corner Center, McLean. The event will bring together area residents to help assemble “Stuff The Bus” backpacks full of school supplies, non-perishable food products and personal care items for area students. United Way of the National Capital Area staff and volunteers as well as Timothy Johnson, the vice president for community impact with the United Way of the National Capital Area, will be on hand for the collection drive. Each of the “Stuff the Bus” backpacks contain school supplies such as gift cards to Targets, Wegmans and Walmart, as well pens, pencils, scissors, erasers and other needed supplies to help middle school students succeed. The backpacks will also contain personal care items such as toothpaste, toothbrushes and food. For more information, visit donate.unitedwaynca.org/page/ contribute/stuff-the-bus.
McLean Community Center Announces September Events The McLean Community Center recently announced its slate of events for September, which includes a community garage sale, a fun event for children ages 3 – 8, a performance by a world-renowned dance company and an author talk. The McLean Community Center’s September schedule kicks off with its Fall Community Garage Sale on Saturday, Sept. 10 from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the parking garage, located at 1420 Beverly Road, McLean. Admission to the garage sale, which includes more than 50 vendors selling gently used household goods, furniture, clothing, jewelry and other treasures, is free. On Saturday, Sept. 24 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. McLean Community Center is hosting Harvest Happenings. Admission to the
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PUPPET STATE THEATRE OF SCOTLAND, seen in the photo above, is one of several performance arts companies who are slated for The Alden’s 2016-2017 Kids’ Performance Series. They will perform “The Man Who Planted Trees” at The Alden, located at 1234 Ingleside Ave., on October 2. Tickets cost between $10 – $15. (P����: C������� �� P����� S���� T������ �� S�������) event is $5 per person, but children 3 and under will be admitted for free. The indoor-outdoor festival will include live entertainment, crafts and games. All activities are included in the entrance fee with the exception of the purchase of pumpkins for $3 and food concessions. That night the world-renowned Martha Graham Dance Company will perform at the McLean Community Center’s The Alden theater at 8 p.m. There will be a discussion with the artists following the performance. Tickets for the event are $35 for McLean Community Center district residents and $50 for everyone else. Closing out the month is an author talk with Patricia Briggs, the author of the New York Times bestselling Marcy Thompson urban fantasy series, on Thursday, Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m. Briggs will talk about her work, take your questions and sign books
in this event that’s being cosponsored by the Fairfax County Public Library and the Fall for the Book festival. For more information, mcleancenter.org.
BalletNova Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month BalletNova Center for Dance, located at 3443 Carlin Springs Road, Falls Church, is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with a two-day festival focusing on flamenco dance on Saturday, Sept. 17 and Sunday, Sept. 18. There are two workshops, one for kids and one for adults, and a performance by Furia Flamenca Dance Company in the Fredgren Studio Theatre, all of which will be accompanied by live music. The celebration will kick off with a lecture and demonstration for children ages 12 and under at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17. Admission to the lecture and
demonstration is $10. At the event, children will hear about the history of flamenco, learn a few steps and watch a short performance. That night the Furia Flamenca Dance Company will give a performance at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the event are $15. Under the direction of Estela Velez de Paredez, this awardwinning company brings the ferocity and passion of flamenco to the stage and transports audiences to southern Spain in technically refined, emotionally explosive, and dynamically choreographed dancing. The next day there will be an adult intro to flamenco workshop at 10 a.m. for people age 15 and over. Admission to the workshop is $25. Participants learn the basics of flamenco’s fluid arms and percussive feet. For more information or to buy tickets for any of the events, visit BalletNova.org.
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Making Modern Toughness When I ask veteran college teachers and administrators to describe how college students have changed over the years, I often get an answer like this: “Today’s students are more accomplished than past generations, but they are also more emotionally fragile.” That rings true to me. Today’s students are amazing, but they bathe one another in oceans of affirmation and praise, as if buttressing one another against some insecurity. Whatever one thinks of the campus protests, the desire for trigger warnings and safe spaces does seem to emanate from a place of emotional fragility. And if you hang around the middle aged, you hear a common story line to explain the rise of the orchid generation. Once upon a time, the story line goes, kids were raised in a tough environment. NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE They had to do hard manual chores around the house and they got in fights on the playground. Then they went off to do grueling work in the factory or they learned toughness and grit in the military. But today, helicopter parents protect their children from setbacks and hardship. They supervise every playground conflict, so kids never learn to handle disputes or deal with pain. There’s a lot of truth to that narrative, but let’s not be too nostalgic for the past. A lot of what we take to be the toughness of the past was really just callousness. There was a greater tendency in years gone by to wall off emotions, to put on a thick skin – for some men to be stone-like and uncommunicative and for some women to be brittle, brassy and untouchable. And then many people turned to alcohol to help them feel anything at all. Perhaps it’s time to rethink toughness or at least detach it from hardness. Being emotionally resilient is not some defensive posture. It’s not having some armor surrounding you so that nothing can hurt you. The people we admire for being resilient are not hard; they are ardent. They have a fervent commitment to some cause, some ideal or some relationship. That higher yearning enables them to withstand setbacks, pain and betrayal. Such people are, as they say in the martial arts world, strong like water. A blow might sink into them, and when it does they are profoundly affected by it. But they can absorb the blow because it’s short term while their natural shape is long term. There are moments when they feel swallowed up by fear. They feel and live in the pain. But they work through it and their ardent yearning is still there, and they return to an altered wholeness. In this way of thinking, grit, resilience and toughness are not traits that people possess intrinsically. They are not tools you can possess independently for the sake of themselves. They are means inspired by an end. John R. Lewis may not have been intrinsically tough, but he was tough in the name of civil rights. Mother Teresa may not have been intrinsically steadfast, but she was steadfast in the name of God. The people around us may not be remorselessly gritty, but they can be that when it comes to protecting their loved ones, when it comes to some dream for their future self. People are much stronger than they think they are when in pursuit of their telos, their purpose for living. As Nietzsche put it, “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” In short, emotional fragility is not only caused by overprotective parenting. It’s also caused by anything that makes it harder for people to find their telos. It’s caused by the culture of modern psychology, which sometimes tries to talk about psychological traits in isolation from moral purposes. It’s caused by the ethos of the modern university, which in the name of “critical thinking” encourages students to be detached and corrosively skeptical. It’s caused by the status code of modern meritocracy, which encourages people to pursue success symbols that they don’t actually desire. We are all fragile when we don’t know what our purpose is, when we haven’t thrown ourselves with abandon into a social role, when we haven’t committed ourselves to certain people, when we feel like a swimmer in an ocean with no edge. If you really want people to be tough, make them idealistic for some cause, make them tender for some other person, make them committed to some worldview that puts today’s temporary pain in the context of a larger hope. Emotional fragility seems like a psychological problem, but it has only a philosophical answer. People are really tough only after they have taken a leap of faith for some truth or mission or love. Once they’ve done that they can withstand a lot. We live in an age when it’s considered sophisticated to be disenchanted. But people who are enchanted are the real tough cookies.
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States of Cruelty Something terrible has happened to pregnant women in Texas: their mortality rate has doubled in recent years, and is now comparable to rates in places like Russia or Ukraine. Although researchers into this disaster are careful to say that it can’t be attributed to any one cause, the death surge does coincide with the state’s defunding of Planned Parenthood, which led to the closing of many clinics. And all of this should be seen against the general background of Texas policy, which is extremely hostile toward anything that helps low-income residents. There’s an important civics lesson here. While many people are focused on national politics, with reason – NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE one sociopath in the White House can ruin your whole day – many crucial decisions are taken at the state and local levels. If the people we elect to these offices are irresponsible, cruel, or both, they can do a lot of damage. This is especially true when it comes to health care. Even before the Affordable Care Act went into effect, there was wide variation in state policies, especially toward the poor and near-poor. Medicaid has always been a joint federal-state program, in which states have considerable leeway about whom to cover. States with consistently conservative governments generally offered benefits to as few people as the law allowed, sometimes only to adults with children in truly dire poverty. States with more liberal governments extended benefits much more widely. These policy differences were one main reason for a huge divergence in the percentage of the population without insurance, with Texas consistently coming in first in that dismal ranking. And the gaps have only grown wider since Obamacare went into effect, for two reasons. First, the Supreme Court made the federally funded expansion of Medicaid, a crucial part of the reform, optional at the state level. This should be a no-brainer: If Washington is willing to provide health insurance to many of your state’s residents – and in so doing pump dollars into your state’s economy – why wouldn’t you say yes? But 19 states, Texas among them, are still refusing free money, denying health care to millions. Beyond this is the question of whether states are trying to make health reform succeed. California – where Democrats are firmly in control, thanks to the GOP’s alienation of minority voters – shows how
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it’s supposed to work: The state established its own health exchange, carefully promoting and regulating competition, and engaged in outreach to inform the public and encourage enrollment. The result has been dramatic success in holding down costs and reducing the number of uninsured. Needless to say, nothing like this has happened in red states. And while the number of uninsured has declined even in these states, thanks to the federal exchanges, the gap between red and blue states has widened. But why are states like Texas so dead-set against helping the unfortunate, even if the feds are willing to pick up the tab? You still hear claims that it’s all about economics, that small government and free markets are the key to prosperity. And it’s true that Texas has long led the nation in employment growth. But there are other reasons for that growth, especially energy and cheap housing. And we’ve lately seen strong evidence from the states that refutes this small-government ideology. On one side, there’s the Kansas experiment – the governor’s own term for it – in which sharp tax cuts were supposed to cause dramatic job growth, but have in practice been a complete bust. On the other side there’s California’s turn to the left under Jerry Brown, which conservatives predicted would ruin the state but which has actually been accompanied by an employment boom. So the economic case for being cruel to the unfortunate has lost whatever slight credibility it may once have had. Yet the cruelty goes on. Why? A large part of the answer, surely, is the usual one: It’s about race. Medicaid expansion disproportionately benefits nonwhite Americans; so does spending on public health more generally. And opposition to these programs is concentrated in states where voters in local elections don’t like the idea of helping neighbors who don’t look like them. In the specific case of Planned Parenthood, this usual answer is overlaid with other, equally nasty issues, including – or so I’d say – a substantial infusion of misogyny. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Most Americans are, I believe, far more generous than the politicians leading many of our states. The problem is that too many of us don’t vote in state and local elections, or realize how much cruelty is being carried out in our name. The point is that America would become a better place if more of us started paying attention to politics beyond the presidential race.
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Abdul-Jabbar Defends Kaepernick
Among professional basketball’s most memorable “big men,” the likes of Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell and Shaquille O’Neal, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ranks as by far the most graceful, featuring a deadlyaccurate hook shot that was poetry in motion and indefensible. During his amazing athletic career, he led the UCLA Bruins to three consecutive NCAA championships (1967-69), each time being named the national college player of the year, and he went on to play 20 years in the professional National Basketball Association, scoring over 38,000 points, named the league’s Most Valuable Player six times and leading his team to five NBA championships before retiring in 1989. Now, Abdul-Jabbar has carried his talent and grace under fire far beyond his storied athletic career. He has become an FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS articulate Muslim American spokesman whose role could not be more important in these times as an advocate for reason, sanity and justice in the face of roiling racial and religious tensions sparked by recent cases of video-taped discriminatory and deadly police violence against African-Americans and a presidential candidate, Donald Trump, who is inciting the lowest prejudices in the population against Muslims and almost all other non-white male segments of the U.S. population. (Thanks to a lazy, cowardly and immoral major media, Trump has by and large been able to mask his ties to white supremacist and other racist groups by preemptively charging his opponent, Hillary Clinton, with “bigotry.” This groundless bit of name-calling has served to permit the media to assert a non-existent “moral equivalency.” Trump has a lengthy, documented dossier of ties to hate groups, cited in detail by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Clinton has nothing but an incendiary charge by her opponent. But the media blithely calls this a moral equivalency. Not just Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, but leading media talking heads like Wolf Blitzer, Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell have failed their profession and the American people in this way. And CNN’s insistence on maintaining the disreputable former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski as a paid commentator is like forcing these people to choke on their own verbal excrement.) But this week the Washington Post provided op-ed space to AbdulJabbar to weigh in on the controversy swirling around National Football League player Colin Kaepernick’s decision to remain seated during the playing of the U.S. national anthem at the start of a game last weekend. Abdul-Jabbar quoted Kaepernick, “There are a lot of things that are going on that are unjust (that) people aren’t being held accountable for. And that’s something that needs to change.” Abdul-Jabbar wrote, “Patriotism isn’t just getting teary-eyed on the Fourth of July or choked up at war memorials. It’s supporting what the Fourth of July celebrates and what those war memorials commemorate: The Constitution’s insistence that all people should have the same rights and opportunities and that it is the obligation of the government to make that happen. When the government fails in those obligations, it is the responsibility of patriots to speak up and remind it of its duty.” He added, “What makes an act truly patriotic and not just lip service is when it involves personal risk or sacrifice,” when “inspiring others is more important than personal cost,” and noted the significant risks of personal and professional loss that Kaepernick has been willing to take. The knee-jerk reaction against Kaepernick, and the insidious role of the media to counterpose it to interviews of grieving war widows, shows much has gone backwards since the civil rights activism of the 1960s, when among other things the late Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted into the Vietnam War, saying at that the time, “I am not going ten thousand miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over.” With his passing this summer, Ali was lionized by everyone. But it was his willingness to stand up for justice and peace that was at his core. Did everyone forget his poignant protests, or his conversion, like Abdul-Jabbar, to Islam, in his earlier days? Moreover, my hope is that Kaepernick, Abdul-Jabbar and many others extend their protests to expose the dangers that every NFL player faces from brain damage and the NFL’s insidious campaign to cover it up.
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Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.
Trump’s Bigotry According to recent polls, the image of Donald Trump as a bigot has begun to crystallize, and for good reason: Because it’s true! A Quinnipiac poll released last week found that 59 percent of likely voters, and 29 percent of likely Republican voters in particular, think that the way Trump talks appeals to bigotry. Republicans were the only anomaly. A majority or plurality of every other demographic measured agreed that Trump’s words appeal to bigotry. But there is one demographic that must be particularly concerning to Trump: college-educated whites. I know that Trump has boasted that he loves the poorly educated, but there appears to be little love lost between him and those white people with degrees. In fact, as the blog FiveThirtyEight predicted in July, “Trump may become the first Republican in 60 years to lose white college graduates.” This may in part be due to his particularly abysmal performance among collegeeducated white women. An ABC News/ Washington Post poll this month found: “Trump enjoys a NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE roughly 40-point lead among white men without college degrees but only a high single-digit lead among college-educated white men. Among white women without college degrees, he leads by low double-digits but trails by nearly 20 points among college-educated white women.” Not only are these college-educated white women likely to recoil from a man they view as biased toward others, they also probably realize their own place as a historically disadvantaged group and know how very harmful bias can be. This is surely earthshattering news for a struggling campaign, so Trump is trying anything and everything to shake the bigotry label on him and make it stick to Hillary Clinton. He has engaged in fake outreach to AfricanAmerican voters, feeding his nearly all-white crowds a healthy diet of the most pernicious stereotypes about the horror and unremitting bleakness of black life. He has waffled and grown more ambiguous on his hard line concerning immigrants. His repeated refrain, supposedly to the black and Hispanic voters, is: “What the hell do you have to lose? Give me a chance.” But in fact, he’s talking past blacks and Hispanics, two groups he has previously shown little interest in. He is instead speaking directly to the educated white voters who recoil at the thought of supporting a bigot.
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Blacks and Hispanics are mere pawns in this appeal. Furthermore, he wants to move the withering light of examination away from himself, his history, his disturbing coziness with white nationalists, and focus that light on the history of racial and ethnic alliances in the opposite political party. There is a disturbing racial undertone to the Trump campaign that goes far beyond the tired narrative of economic anxiety and distress among white people in the flyover states who feel ignored by conventional politicians. That may be one component, but so is this: One of the most effective narratives of Trump’s campaign has been driven by racial isolationism, and racial isolationists appear to be the very ones drawn to that message. This is not partisan theory, but empirical fact. The draft of a major working paper published this month by the Gallup senior economist Jonathan Rothwell found: “His supporters are less educated and more likely to work in blue-collar occupations, but they earn relatively high household incomes, and living in areas more exposed to trade or immigration does not increase Trump support. There is stronger evidence that racial isolation and less strictly economic measures of social status... are robustly predictive of more favorable views toward Trump, and these factors predict support for him but not other Republican presidential candidates.” Specifically on this racial isolation point, Rothwell put it this way: “This analysis provides clear evidence that those who view Trump favorably are disproportionately living in racially and culturally isolated ZIP codes and commuting zones. Excluding other factors, constant support for Trump is highly elevated in areas with few college graduates, far from the Mexican border, and in neighborhoods that stand out within the commuting zone for being white, segregated enclaves, with little exposure to blacks, Asians, and Hispanics.” He continued: “This is consistent with contact theory, which has already received considerable empirical support in the literature in a variety of analogous contexts. Limited interactions with racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, and college graduates may contribute to prejudicial stereotypes, political and cultural misunderstandings, and a general fear of rejection and not-belonging.” Racial isolation is the common thread here. It is what would allow his supporters to accept the corrosive mythologies he creates about minorities. But it is this same racial isolation that will make minorities and college-educated white voters avoid Trump like the plague.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts
News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
This weekend marks the traditional end of summer, even though meteorological summer still has three weeks to go. September heralds many new beginnings, as students in Fairfax County embark on a new school year. For the kindergartner or firstgrader, taking the big yellow bus to school may be the first real and exciting transition in a young life. For high school students, taking the bus may be a last resort as they anxiously await the responsibility of a drivers’ license and the possibility of driving themselves to school. For students, and their parents, safety should be paramount, whether riding the bus or walking to classes. The Fairfax County Police Department reminds drivers that passing a school bus when its red lights are flashing can result in a reckless driving ticket, including $2500 in fines, loss of your license for six months, and/or 180 days in jail. All drivers must stop when a school bus is loading or unloading, unless there is a raised median or wall between the travel lane and the stopped school bus. Most of our residential streets do not have raised medians or walls so, in nearly every case where a school bus is stopped, drivers on all sides must stop. When you see the yellow lights flashing on the bus, you should assume that the red lights are about to start, and be ready to stop. School zones may be marked with “25 MPH” flashing signs called Wink-o-Matics. The lights are activated to flash 30 minutes before school starts, and for 30 minutes after class dismissal. Please pay attention to the flashing lights and sl-o-o-w down, even if you do not see children or other pedestrians right away. Some Wink-o-Matics were
malfunctioning this summer, flashing on Sundays, etc., but those were reported to the school system, and should be functioning normally now. Speeding through a Wink-o-Matic sign can result in a ticket, higher fines, and increased points against your license. Morning and afternoon traffic around schools also may increase next week, as parents and students become accustomed to the schedules and rhythms of a new school year. If your commute takes you past a school, please exercise additional caution and patience. Everyone – drivers, students, and teachers – wants to get to their destination safely. Let’s make sure they do. Monday is Labor Day, a holiday designated by Congress more than 100 years ago, to celebrate the social and economic achievements of America’s workers. Perhaps more importantly, and sometimes lost in the busy world we live in, Labor Day also is a time to remind us about the many improvements in worker conditions that have transpired since Labor Day was created. Child labor laws, the 8-hour workday, employee health care, retirement accounts, and workplace safety are only a few of the improvements demanded by labor since the 1880s. Workers are safer, better paid, with benefit packages, and more opportunity, than they were in my grandfathers’ day. There always has been dignity in work. Labor Day gives everyone an opportunity to remember and reflect on those advancements. 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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Senator Dick Saslaw’s
Richmond Report On August 26, the Governor addressed the Joint Money Committees of the General Assembly. Most of you are aware the Virginia economy remains in a sluggish cycle, very much modeling the nation. Last February we adopted a balanced, two-year budget anticipating excess revenues from FY 2016 that would be rolled into FY 2017. Closing out FY 2016 a shortfall of $279.3 million puts an unanticipated hole in the current biennium budget. We are now looking at an additional $1.25 billion projected revenue shortfall over the biennium (FY 2017 & FY 2018). Needless to say this is rather sobering and will require swift corrections to be made. Of course, an improving economy could change the outlook. A large source of revenue for the budget comes from personal withholding taxes. While job growth has continued, it has been skewed toward lower wage earners. With the silver tsunami of baby boomer retirements, comparable compensation is not there for new workers replacing retirees. Ironically, tens of thousands of higher wage jobs remain vacant because of a skills gap in the available workforce. As you can imagine, this has an impact on spending power, which generates another revenue source in the form of sales taxes. Brick and mortar retail is being challenged by online sales, where sales tax may or may not apply depending on the origin of the purchase. We will once again revisit the revenue problem in October. The Governor will present his proposal for addressing the anticipated $843 million shortfall for FY 2017. While focusing on rebuilding a new and innovative Virginia economy, workforce development and education must remain a top priority when considering how to close the gap. Another topic getting much ink these days is the Strategic Investment Fund for our flagship school, the University of Virginia. In 2006, the General Assembly enacted legislation authorizing the universities to make strategic investments. In my opinion, Virginia is underfunding public education at all levels. Recognizing this reality, the legislature has given our universities a tool to address growing needs. During a public hearing held by the Senate and House subcommittees on higher education, the
results of a comprehensive audit were revealed. No maleficence was uncovered but rather total compliance with the Code of Virginia and successful execution of the legislature’s directive were affirmed. The University SIF has an ROI around 9 percent, is nationally acclaimed, and is being modeled by many universities that have created such a fund. Is there any wonder why UVa and its peers must look for innovative means to address its needs? I commend the Board of Visitors, the Rector and UVa leadership for its outstanding national ranking and the valuable education its students received. When the smoke clears after the General Assembly many groups rank members on their “performance” regarding their special interest. I take exception with some of these organizations for their grading methods and in particular would like to debunk the myth that Republicans exclusively are pro-business. One of the most damaging anti-business bills introduced in many states has been labeled the “religious freedom” act. It was drafted to allow businesses to discriminate on the basis of a religious ideology. We have all read about the passage of this bill in North Carolina. You may recall that several companies including PayPal, the NCAA and others have either discontinued operations or threatened to do so after the state’s Governor signed this measure into law. It has had a huge economic impact on North Carolina. We had the same bill before the legislature in 2016. I want to point out only Republicans voted for it with every one of my Democratic colleagues in both Chambers voting in opposition. Fortunately for the Commonwealth, Governor McAuliffe vetoed the measure. Again, it was the demonstrably pro business Democrats that sustained that veto. This was an evidencebased outcome with real consequences for our neighbors to the south. Coincidentally, the business organizations that ranked the legislators did not include the measure as part of the evaluation instrument. Go figure – no pun intended. I look forward to seeing you in the community at the many homeowners meetings and events coming up. Senator Saslaw represents the 35th District in the Virginia State Senate. He may be emailed at district35@senate.virginia.gov.
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“Soccer is a communist sport.” Hard to believe this comment came from an Arlington high school coach in the early 1960s, when that global game was still being overshadowed here by mainstream football, basketball and baseball. I flashed back to it when the Arlington School Board voted Aug. 18 to spend $92,000 to elevate Ultimate Frisbee, a onetime “hippie sport,” to official intramural status for middle and high school competition. Beginning mid-September and going through October, boys and girls at nine schools will enjoy two practices a week and six games, I was told by Yorktown High School activities director Mike Krulfeld. No one is more wowed than H-B Woodlawn program math teacher Dave Soles, executive director of the Youth Ultimate League of Arlington. Because the “Frisbee” was copyrighted by Wham-O, the sport is called ultimate or flying disc, said Soles, who began playing it in college in the 1990s. “Ultimate is an inherently fun game that has grown outside the media machine. Football has ads that make it look glorious,” he said. But this game is “self-driven and self-officiated. It appeals as soon as a kid starts playing it – everyone is a quarterback and a wide receiver. And no one kid can run with the disc – even the best
athlete can’t win alone. You have to pass and work as a team. The inclusiveness and positivity makes it catch on quickly.” Because there are no refs, no one flops, cheats or commits intentional fouls, Soles added. “The kids are empowered to make their own decisions. It’s not up to some adult.” When ultimate was merely a club, lines were blurred as whether school athletic directors would provide practice space, and whether games were announced on the morning P.A. announcements, Soles said. “It was like a soccer association, with a separate group of parents making something happen.” Now the players will wear their school’s uniforms, which in the past “was a stumbling point because the kids didn’t feel the pride of representing their school.” Arlington schools sports supervisor Deborah DeFranco said another advantage of the funding is that the program opens the game up to kids from different socioeconomic status, who may have had trouble paying for uniforms and travel. The biggest administrative concern, she said, was the shortage of playing space, which was solved by sharing the diamond fields. “The game helps build 21st-century skills of problem solving and conflict resolution,” she added, “a natural fit for Arlington.” School board member Barbara Kanninen, who, with colleague Reid Goldstein, is an “ultimate
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parent,” said the “big selling point is how inclusive it is – traditionally a no-cut sport.” The board was also attracted to how ultimate encourages kids to be “entrepreneurial and spread the word” to recruit from special schools such as New Directions, Langston and Arlington Tech. Yorktown senior Johnny Malks, who has captained an ultimate team, said, “It means the world to me that people are finally taking this seriously, respecting these men and women athletes. It’s just as competitive and intense as other high school sports, but comes along with as wonderful community as you can imagine.” (Yes, they prepare by lifting weights and running track.) So far, about 400 students have registered, Soles said, and he’d like another 100. Any resentment from the traditional sports folks? “Not yet, but there will be.”
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Urinating In Public, 306 Hillwood Ave. (Lesly’s Restaurant) On Aug. 23, a male, 24, of Fairfax, was arrested and released on summons for Urinating In Public. Smoking Violation, 6757 Wilson Blvd. #16 (Le Mirage Café) On Aug. 27, a male, 45, of Falls Church, was cited for Smoking In a Non-Designated Area.
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Layne Putnam, the lead singer and guitarist of the indie pop-rock duo LAYNE, and her musical partner Alex Rosca created an entire world to live inside while making their new album, The Black Hills, which was released on Friday, Aug. 26. The world, called “The In Between,” while obviously fictional, is definitely represented the sound on the new album – dark, quasi-dystopian and existentially curious. “I grew up in the woods, so I’m incredibly sensitive to environment,” said Putnam, who grew up in South Dakota. “And I think music fits in that as well. You use different materials to create an environment and so the idea was that I wanted to make a space where fans could go that they could listen to the music, look at the visuals or go to the show and feel like they are in this environment. “For some reason it just popped into my head one day – it’s the in between. We’re in the in between. We’re in between feelings, we’re in LAYNE. (C������� P����) between genres. Everybody can relate to the in between. I feel like they’re in between relation- Putnam said. “But it’s still the same color ships, jobs or whatever it is and I thought that scheme. We have color schemes for every song. was a really cool way to encapsulate what this So it’s still in the same alignment color-wise, but that song was a much faster BPM. And then environment is.” Putnam, the daughter of violinist Kenny when we got to “Good” and the EP I was more Putnam, said that she wants to create a com- influenced by that slow groove that just makes munity for her fans using this concept of The you lean. But the guitar parts are similar. I’ve In Between. LAYNE brought that world to the always found those picky, groovy guitars, but Washington, D.C. region when the band played the songs are mixed differently, too.” Putnam has been representing her home state at DC9 on Wednesday, Aug. 31. She ventured into this world herself after cre- of South Dakota since at least “Somebody,” ating the song “Somebody,” which has already where she references The Black Hills, but went surpassed one million plays on Spotify and all in to represent for where she’s from on her landed on the U.S. Spotify Viral 50 and Global new album. “We actually went up to my homeViral 50 Spotify/Billboard charts. That song, town in The Black Hills and we got a bunch created about two years ago, is higher tempo of samples from this lake that I used to write than most or all of her songs on The Black Hills songs at,” Putnam said. “And we got samples of the wind and the environment and we used and is a lighter than those songs as well. “‘Somebody’ is a much quicker BPM,” them in the record. So I wanted to...pay tribute
to where I’m from and it fits in that aesthetic. And we used so many sounds from that environment, so we thought it was fitting.” On “Twuh,” Putnam uses sounds that she and Los Angeles-based engineer/producer Devon Corey, who is Putnam’s best friend, recorded at Lake Sheridan in South Dakota. “The first thing that you hear is the water moving from the lake and then we recorded me walking on gravel,” Putnam said. “And then I was just coming up with drum ideas when we got back to the house and we were working in the studio and I started playing a drum beat on my hands and Devon was recording everything. So that was me thinking of a drum idea and it was messy and weird and we thought that was cool...so we ran with that.” • For more information about LAYNE, visit laynemusic.us.
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The Little City is getting its very own distillery. On Wednesday, Falls Church Distillers signed a lease for 3,400 square feet in The Young Group’s Washington Market shopping center, taking over the former Mobu Kids space at 442 S. Washington Street. The new operation comes from F.C. resident Michael Paluzzi, an Air Force veteran, who is following his lifelong passion. Raised in a family of Italian immigrants, the Falls Church Distillers CEO grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania where he says alcohol-making was just part of his world. “Everyone made homemade wine, liqueurs, anisette, lemoncello...stuff like that,” he says. After an early career in the military and working with the military in his current job, Paluzzi says he wants the “sunset of his work life to be a passion.” Since winemaking would take
too long, liquor was the natural move. And continuing the family tradition, his oldest son Lorenzo, with a degree in chemistry, will be his chief distiller. When picking a place for his distillery to come to life, Paluzzi says it came down to Falls Church and Washington, D.C. While the District has “more lax laws” on alcohol making, he says the final decision was all about location. “If I’m going to do something, I might as well do it in my own backyard.” And since the City of F.C. is allowing him to do much more with his space than Fairfax County would, it was The Little City proper that won out. On Day 1, Paluzzi plans for Falls Church Distillers to offer vodka, gin and blended whiskey and has made arrangements with a couple of local restaurants for catering. Down the road, he hopes to offer small plates – Italianthemed, of course – like olives, cheese plates and bruschetta. Paluzzi says he would love to be up and running in time
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Community Events
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
Preschool Storytime. Stories and fun for ages 2 – 5. Drop-in. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 a.m. 703-248-5034.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
DMV 2 Go. Renew driver’s licenses, obtain ID cards and Virginia’s veterans ID cards, take road and knowledge tests; obtain copies of driving records, license plates, decals, and transcripts; ordering disabled parking placards or plates; update an address after a move for DMV and voter registration. No appointments necessary, held in the parking lot. City Hall (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. 703-248-5450. FIRSTfriday of Falls Church. FIRSTfriday is a monthly, yearround event that features special events, performances and promotions for visitors at various places throughout the City. 5 p.m. firstfridayoffallschurch.com.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
Farmers Market. F.C. Farmers’ Market. Vendors offer fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables, cheeses, meats, baked goods, plants, and wine. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls
Church). Free. 8 a.m. – noon. 703248-5077. RiP: Haley Park Invasive Plant Removal. Join community volunteers in protecting the local environment from invasive plants. Be sure to come dressed for work, wear long pants, long sleeves, and a hat. You may also want to bring along a water bottle. Ages 9+. James W. Haley Park (2400 S. Meade St., Arlington). Free. 9 – 11 a.m. 703-228-1862.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
CLOSED: Sunday Before Labor Day. The Mary Riley Styles Public Library will be closed in observance of Labor Day. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). All day. fallschurchva.gov/Library.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
Labor Day Ice Cream Social. The Falls Church Democratic Committee hosts its annual Labor Day Ice Cream Social. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 2 – 4 p.m. vademocrats.org.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
Baby and Me Storytime. Stories and activities for children ages birth – 23 months. Must be accompanied by caregiver. Woodrow Wilson Library (6101 Knollwood Dr., Falls Church). Free.
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10:30 – 11 a.m. 703-820-8774. Cricket Music. Learn about the cricket life cycle, their habitats, and listen to an orchestra of six-legged musicians. For ages 3 – 5.Gulf Branch Nature Center (3608 North Military Road, Arlington). $5. 1 – 2 p.m. 703228-3403. Kids’ Chess Club. Children between the ages 7 – 14 can learn to play chess. All skill levels are welcome. Thomas Jefferson Library (7415 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). Free. 4:45 – 5:45 p.m. 703-5731060. Color Me Calm. Adults can come together to relieve their stress and discover their inner artist inside of a coloring book. Books and colored pencils are provided. Thomas Jefferson Library (7415 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. fairfaxcounty.gov/ library/branches/tj.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
Northern Virginia Bird Club Walk. Informal bird watching tours and walks for ages 18+. Bird watchers of all experience levels are welcome. Long Branch Nature Center at Glencarlyn Park (625 S. Carlin Springs Road, Arlington). Free. 8:30 – 11 a.m. 703-2286535.
Annandale NARFE Meeting. Elsie Cunningham from Seven Lands and Seas Travel will recommend ways seniors can enjoy various types of travel at a meeting of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. 10 a.m. Mason District Governmental Center (6507 Columbia Pike, Annandale). Free. 703-690-6861. Music and Movin’ with Miss Susan. Children ages six months – five years old can join Miss Susan for singing and moving to music. Cosponsored by the Friends of the Woodrow Wilson Library. Woodrow Wilson Library (6101 Knollwood Dr., Falls Church). Free. 10:15 – 11 a.m. 703-820-8774. Time for Twos. Children ages 2 – 3 meet for early literacy storytime with songs, stories and activities. Registration required. Thomas Jefferson Library (7415 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 10:30 – 11 a.m. 703-573-1060. Music and Movin’ with Miss Susan. Children ages six months – five years old can join Miss Susan for singing and moving to music. Cosponsored by the Friends of the Woodrow Wilson Library. Woodrow Wilson Library (6101 Knollwood Dr., Falls Church). Free. 11:15 a.m. – noon. 703-820-8774.
Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
“Hand To God.” In a church basement in a small Texas town, the teens of Christian puppetry Ministry gather to bring the Word to the Flock. But one puppet takes on a foulmouthed, demonic life of its own – unleashing the community’s barely repressed lust and rage. Like nothing you’ve seen before, this blasphemous Broadway hit is a ruthless comedy about sex, sinners, and sock puppets. This is the opening night of this production, which was written by Robert Askins and is directed by Joanie Schultz. Through Sept. 18. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 – $45. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
“Jelly’s Last Jam.” Take your seat at the
legendary Jungle Inn nightclub for the electrifying, multiple Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning musical that tells the story of jazz through one of its most notorious entertainers: Jelly Roll Morton. Journey from the back alleys of New Orleans to the dance halls of Chicago to the stages of New York with “he who drinks from the vine of syncopation” in a sizzling memoir of pride, lust and a past denied. Through Sept. 11. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Arlngton). $40 – $79. 8 p.m. sigtheatre.org.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
“Satchmo at the Waldorf: Mosaic Theater Company of DC.” It’s March 1971 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and Louis Armstrong has just played one of the �inal performances of his extraordinary career. Backstage, he
recounts events that transformed him into the world-famous “Satchmo.” With no-nonsense manager Joe Glaser, his Jewish manager,at his side, and Miles Davis, his �iercest colleague and critic, challenging his standing in African American culture, Armstrong keeps steady through an era of enormous social change… but at what cost? Through Sept. 25. Atlas Performing Arts Center (1333 H St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 – $60. 8 p.m. atlasarts. org.
“Shear Madness.” Set today in the Shear Madness hairstyling salon, this record-breaking comedy is Washington’s hilarious whodunit. After more than 12,000 performances, the show has stayed in great shape. Performances are ongoing. Through Oct. 2. The Kennedy Center (2700 F St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $50. 9 p.m. kennedycenter.org.
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A����� O’D��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. C����� C�� R��� � S��� G��� K���� B������ ��������� J����� T������ ��� ��� C����� G���, P�� M�G��, T��� W����� � F������, W������ A������ ��� O���� M����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 in advance; $20 day of the show. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. T�� C������� L����� D�������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $35. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. T�� M������� G���� ���� T������. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $30 in advance; $35 day of the show. 7 p.m. 703-237-0300. U���� E��� ���� A��� � E��������. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $27.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. R�����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12. 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. P���� T�� T��� B������� � G��� P����. The Fillmore (8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring). $25 – $30. 8 p.m. 301-960-9999. C������. The Barns at Wolf Trap (1635 Trap Road, Vienna). $35 – $60. 8 p.m. 703-938-2404. F��� S������ C����� S�������. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-532-9283.
Y����� B������� B���. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. H������ H���� ���� K����� D������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $12 – $20. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. T�� F������ H���� H���. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). 7 p.m. 202-667-7960. D����� �� C������: T��� A� O�� A� T���. The Barns at Wolf Trap (1635 Trap Road, Vienna). $25 – $65. 7:30 p.m. 703-938-2404. T�� M��������� ��������� G����� A�����. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $49.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. B������ B�������� P�������: P������ G�-G�. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12 in advance; $15 day of the show. 9 p.m. 202-667-7960. M��������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10. 9:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. G���������� F����. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $17. 10 p.m. 202-588-1889.
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B�������� K������. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). x p.m. 703-532-9283. J�����’ J��� L���� S����: T��� I� A�� N��, S������� �� S�������, W��� L��� ��� M����� O��. Jammin’
Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $18 in advance; $13 – $18 day of the show. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. D�. W�� H���� H���. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). 7 p.m. 202-667-7960. I L��� T�� 90� ��������� S���-N-P��� ���� S����������, A��-4-O��, C���� M� B���, C�����, T��� L��, R�� B��� ��� Y���� MC. The Barns at Wolf Trap (1635 Trap Road, Vienna). $37 – $80. 7 p.m. 703-938-2404. B��� K������ � A����� D� L���, T�� M��� F�� ��� T�� P��������� B��� “T��� T���� R���� A����”. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $29.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. K���� S������ ��� S���� S���. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12. 8 p.m. 202-667-7960.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
R����S���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $18. 6:30 p.m. 703255-1566. D���� S������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $35. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. S����� F��������� ���� A�� V�����. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $20. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. L��� S��� ���� D�� Z������� ��� F��� Q����. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 7:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. C���� T����� K���. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington,
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
S������ ���� O�� �� ��� W������, S��-R���� ��� J��� T�����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $18 in advance; $13 – $18 day of the show. 6 p.m. 703255-1566. M����� T������ ���� H����� S�������� ��� C����� K����. The Barns at Wolf Trap (1635 Trap Road, Vienna). $32 – $65. 7 p.m. 703-9382404. T��������� ���� C���� S�����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. S����� C����. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.) $25. 8 p.m. 202-337-4141.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
J�����’ J��� L���� S����: T����������, A��� R�����, PS24, R��� C��� ��� A N��� T�� S���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $18 in advance; $13 – $18 day of the show. 6 p.m. 703255-1566. �� M������� ���� R��� ��� R���������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. D�� H�����. The Barns at Wolf Trap (1635 Trap Road, Vienna). $42– $112. 8 p.m. 703-938-2404. M�� S������. The Fillmore (8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring). $15. 8 p.m. 301-960-9999.
P������� A����... Thursday, September 8 – Town Hall: Zika Prevention. Residents can learn about Zika and what they can do to prevent it and other mosquito-borne diseases
at this town hall presented by the Fairfax County Health Department. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 8:30 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Blog.aspx?IID=79.
Friday, September 9 – Sunset Cinema. Free film screenings of various family friendly movies are shown throughout September. Moviegoers are encouraged to bring
blankets and picnics. The film being screened is “Zootopia.” Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7:45 – 9:45 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/sunsetcinema.
Saturday, September 17 – Taste of Falls Church at the Fall Festival. Features include live entertainment, pony rides, amusement rides, crafters, businesses and
civic organizations, and cuisine from city kitchens. The children’s activity tent offers craft projects. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/FallFestival.
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New Business Variance application V1583-16 by Melbert and Anne Schwarz, owner and applicant, for a variance to Section 48-238(3)(a) to allow a rear yard setback of 22 feet instead of 40 feet for the purpose of constructing a screened porch on premises known as 1307 Seaton Circle, RPC #52-505-015 of the Falls Church Real Property Records, zoned R-1A, Low Density Residential. Variance application V1584-16 by Jason A. Brown, owner and applicant, for a variance to Section 48-238(3)(a) to allow (1) a front yard setback of 17.84 feet instead of 30 feet along the Jackson Street frontage; and (2) a side yard setback of eight (8) feet instead of 15 feet along the western property line for the purpose of constructing a new single-family house on premises known as 1268 South Washington Street, RPC #52-501-001 of the Falls Church Real Property Records, zoned R-1A Low Density Residential.
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Falls Church News-Press Vol. XVI, No. 26 • August 31, 2006
10 Year s Ago
Thr ow it up. Pour it up It now is the time for all go od cows to go the to aid
Falls Church Schools’ SAT Average Ranks Tops in Metro Region Again
F.C. Mulls Offering Home for ‘Katrina Cottage’ Affordable Housing Model
Falls Church’s Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) scores for 1996 led all school divisions in the area according to test results released this past week. Falls Church’s composite score of 1158 ranked it first of the metropolitan area’s 12 jurisdictions.
The News-Press has learned that the Falls Church city council members met earlier this month with representatives of a nationally prominent architectural firm involved in the design of an attractive new affordable housing model, dubbed the “Katrina Cottage.”
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Business News & Notes Foxcraft Wins CotY Award Foxcraft Design Group won the 2016 CotY Award for the best “Residential Bath Over $100,000” for Region 2 Southeast from the National Association of The Remodeling Industry Metro DC Chapter. The 27-year-old design build company based in Falls Church is led by President Chandler Fox and Vice President & COO Mike Blood. The winning project was a master bathroom and closet that included custom cabinetry and natural stacked-stone wall. For more information about the winning project, visit www.foxcraft.com.
F.C. Animal Hospital’s Dr. Rogers Retiring Dr. Steven Rogers is retiring from the Falls Church Animal Hospital which he founded in July 1975. Rogers, who sold the business several years ago, has continued to work for the popular veterinary clinic on a part-time basis. Recognized by the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce with its 2011 Pillar of the Community Award, Rogers has been a leader in the Falls Church Community for decades, including service as a member and Vice Mayor of the Falls Church City Council, a member and Chairman of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce, and as a donor and member of the Falls Church Housing Corporation. Considered by many to be responsible for sparking the City’s desire for new development and growth while serving on Council, Dr. Rogers’ dedication to animals and animal lovers was evidenced by his co-founding of the Hope Center for Advanced Veterinary Medicine, as well as the care he provided to both pets and their owners, his work to spay/ neuter feral cats in the community, and his annual Memorial Day dog costume contest. Rogers’ last day at the Falls Church Animal Hospital will be in late September. Falls Church Animal Hospital is located at 1249 W. Broad Street in Falls Church. For more information, visit www.fallschurchanimalhospital.com.
2016 Little City Community Guide is Out The 2016 Little City Community Guides are out. The Guide, a project of FIRSTfriday of Falls Church and published by Tom Gittins, creator of FIRSTfriday of Falls Church and owner/operator of Art and Frame of Falls Church and Jefferson Street Artists, provides information about local attractions, events, services, restaurants, shopping, entertainment, recreation, and more. The guide also provides resources for residents and visitors and a business guide by industry of members of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. For information about the guides and where to find them, contact Tom Gittins at 703-534-4202.
Body Dynamics Offering Back-to-School Specials Body Dynamics Inc. Center for Sustainable Health is offering back to school fitness and massage 10-pack specials from August 29 to September 9. Body Dynamics offers physical therapy, a variety of fitness classes, counseling services, and massage at 410 S. Maple Avenue in Falls Church. For more information about the special offer or the new small group training classes, visit www.bodydynamicsinc.com. Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@fallschurchchamber.org.
THIS IS SIMON, a 5-year-old male Snowshoe Siamese cat who is new to Falls Church and has been missing since Saturday, Aug. 27 when he ran off after being spooked while he and his owner were moving into their new house. His left ear is chipped and he is microchipped. He’s not familiar with his new neighborhood and might be a little skittish. If you have found him or have information about his whereabouts, please call 703-380-1619. Just because you’re not famous doesn’t mean your pet can’t be! Send in your Critter Corner submissions to crittercorner@fcnp.com.
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