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Inside This Week Council Sends Out New Mason Row Plan

After a long presentation and debate Tuesday, the Falls Church City Council was without a consensus, so was forced to revert to a voice vote of 4-3 to send the latest iteration of the Spectrum Developers’ Mason Row mixed-use project directly to its volunteer boards and commissions for review. See News Briefs, page 8

Another Record Enrollment for F.C. City Schools as Total Now Tops 2,500 Forecast Almost ‘To a Tee,’ Jones Tells News-Press by Nicholas F. Benton

2 F.C. Businesses Robbed Over Holiday Weekend

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be renamed after the civil rights activist and U.S. Supreme Court justice who once lived in the school’s neighborhood. In the wake of the Charleston church massacre in June, the initiative took on a sense of urgency and Alumni for Change, and then the Fairfax County Branch of the NAACP quickly signed on as supporters of the initiative. “I think that the NAACP has done a lot for the cause,” said Lisa McQuail, East Coast chairman of Alumni for Change. “Because they’re are a national organization

As anticipated “almost to a tee,” the Falls Church City Schools opened their doors to another school year Tuesday to a new record high in enrollment. A record 2,515 students were registered and signed in as of the first bell Tuesday morning. F.C. City Schools Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones told the News-Press yesterday that the first day went very smoothly. Student enrollment numbers, she said, will fluctuate some between now and the last day of September, the date when an official count gets sent to Richmond to calculate Falls Church’s share of state funds. Over the course of the coming school year, enrollment will grow by about 30 students at all four of the City schools, she said. “There are no surprises in these enrollment numbers,” she said. “We hire experts (the University of Virginia’s Weldon Institute) to forecast these sort of things, and also we have our own in-house modeling, what we call our Kimble Model (for long-time chief financial officer Hunter Kimble), which comes in extremely close to the Weldon model.” This is the third straight year of a new record high enrollment, and enrollment has been on a consistent path of annual growth since 1982. She said the expected opening in the spring of two new large mixed use projects – the Rushmark project on West Broad and the Lincoln Project on South

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Two businesses on the same street were robbed two days apart in the City of Falls Church over Labor Day weekend but police are calling the two crimes “seemingly unrelated.” See News Briefs, page 8

David Brooks: The Anti-Party Men

This summer three American politicians have risen to the fore, and they all sit outside or at the margin of the party they are trying to lead. See page 12

IT WAS BACK TO SCHOOL time for over 2,500 children in the City of Falls Church School System on Tuesday, as a new record enrollment was welcomed for a third straight year. (Photo: Drew Costley)

Press Pass with Lizz Wright

Lizz Wright is grateful for her new album Freedom & Surrender, which was released just last week. It’s her first album on Concord Records after she was let go by her first label last year.

Fairfax NAACP Weighs In on Call For J.E.B. Stuart Name Change

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by Drew Costley

Editorial..................6 Letters..............6, 16 News & Notes.10-11 Comment........12-15 Business News....17 Food & Dining......19

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Fairfax County branch publicly announced on Sept. 6 that it is partnering with the two groups, Students for Change and Alumni for Change, who are seeking to change the name of Falls Church’s J.E.B. Stuart High School to Thurgood Marshall High School. “It is time for our public institutions, including our schools, to reflect the values and diversity of today’s citizens and not those

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Index Sports..................21 Calendar.........26-27 Classified Ads .....28 Comics, Sudoku & Crossword...........29 Critter Corner.......30

held over from the days of segregation,” said Shirley Ginwright, president of the Fairfax County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. “We are committed to toppling every vestige of segregation within our county so that all citizens can feel welcome and supported.” In May, Students for Change proposed that the name of their school be changed so that it no longer represented the values of the Confederacy but instead represented values that the diverse student body could emulate. It was later suggested that the school

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Maple – will be taken into account for next year, but it was stressed that most new enrollment growth will continue to come from single family homes. Last night, a George Mason High “Back to School” night was slated for parents at 7 p.m. and an “Info Fair,” including an ice cream social, hosted by the F.C. Elementary PTA was set for Thomas Jefferson Elementary. A “Back to School” night for parents of Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School students will be held tonight. This Friday, George Mason High School’s football team visits Sidwell Friends in Washington, D.C., and next Tuesday, an informational meeting for parents and students slated to graduate next spring who are interested in the International Baccalaureate program will be held at George Mason High’s

Mustang Cafe. Since August 1, over 200 students began practices for fall sports, with scrimmages and games in the books before the start of classes. Last week, the school year for teachers and staff was kicked off with a convocation at the high school. Forty new employees hired in the period between last September 2014 and this September were welcomed at the event, and special recognitions were afforded those who met milestones of employment with the system. Honored for 25 years of service were Tony Green, Judy Knoke and Bob Palermo. Honored for 20 years were Gabriel Fernandez, Deborah Flanigan, Diana Harrington, Nan Hof, Amy Kurjanowicz, Maria Silvia Rodriguez and Gwen Villareal. Noted for hitting the 15 year mark were Elizabeth Cate, Mark Coffren, Dang Nguyen and Yoki Smith-Jeffers.

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Hitting the 10 year mark were Kirsten Albert, Edna Baldo, Ruth Barry, Ann Beckman, Marybeth Connelly, Margaret Drawbaugh, Ken DiCesare, Kent Foster, Marty Gazell, Henry Gonzales, Jaclyn Harper, Holly Harrington, Andy Hosier, Christina Leigh, Layton McCann, Janice Nette, Nora Pishner, Karin Ritchey, Jose Rodrigues, David Sikora, Maureen Smith, Shane Spindle and Estrella Triana. Celebrated for five years service were Juana Cespedes, Scott Daugherty, Stephen Erick, Marcez Ferguson, Elizabeth Green, Michele Harcarik, Sharon Hoffman, Erin Jones, Shawn Northrip, Courtney Quinlan, Kelly Schumann, Scarlett Williams and Liqin Zhang. Providing live music entertainment were Mason High students Devon Boldt, Guthrie Edson, Neal Marshall, Ellen Rhee and Kit Richards.

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THE FAIRFAX COUNTY BRANCH of the NAACP publicly announced on Sept. 6 that they are joining the �ight to change the name of J.E.B. Stuart High School. (P��: D�� C��)

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that knows how to do this sort of thing, this type of social action and when people know that we’re working with them it’s obvious that we have some experienced people working on the project.” The National Association for

the Advancement of Colored People will honor the five students who started the movement to change the name of Stuart – Anna Rowan, Lidia Amanuel, Cassie Marcotty, Abby Conde and Marley Finley – at its upcoming Freedom Fund Banquet on Sept. 19. “The NAACP will continue to

support the Students and Alumni for Change as they courageously and creatively work to move our county and our state forward,” Ginwright said. The initiative to change the name of Stuart has gained momentum over the past month, with Oscarwinning actress Julianne Moore and Oscar-winning producer Bruce Cohen, both Stuart alumni, creating a Change.org petition calling for the renaming of their alma mater. “Bruce has always been involved with our alumni association,” McQuail said. “And he’s been really supportive of the alumni organization. And Julianne has a lot of issues that are close to her heart that she supports….She has a history of helping causes that she believes in.” At first timid to push for the name change until after this year’s election, the Alumni for Change and Students for Change groups have been emboldened by the recent alliances they have formed and are pushing for action more urgently than before. “I don’t think there’s any way to stop it being an issue before the election. It is an issue and we’re not going to do anything to prevent that or slow that down,” McQuail said. “We think this needs to be done immediately.”

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Small Schools = Better Schools = Higher Property Values = More Revenue This strategy has made Falls Church special for decades. But recently things have changed. Our student population has grown more than 30% in the last 6 years alone*, outstripping our schools’ facility capacity and driving up the incremental cost to taxpayers of each new student. Our school administrators have been forced to focus daily on facilities issues. v We believe that our bedrock of small, great schools is being hurt by the “residentialization”

of our commercially zoned corridors. v We believe there’s a smarter way. v We are pleased to support Council and School Board candidates who share this belief

and want to keep the Little City a little quirky. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US, write to smartlilcity@gmail.com with subject “Add Me”. *Sources: FCC Adopted 2009 Budget, FCC Adopted 2016 Budget.

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Mixed Use a Net Plus for Schools

The latest round kicked off Tuesday night at a Falls Church City Council work session of the effort by Spectrum Development to win approval for a zoning exception to build a project at the intersection of W. Broad and N. West Streets. It was a work session in a small room at City Hall, not intended for a public hearing or public input. Still, because one small business owner currently on the site in question sent out a huge mailing mostly to neighbors of the site likely, like him, to oppose the project, urging them to show up Tuesday night, the room was packed. All the citizens could do was interrupt with loud applause the proceedings when one or another of the Council members said something they liked, which was mostly the idea of further delaying the project by subjecting it to a third “first reading” OK. They were clearly unhappy when the Council had to take the uncommon action for a work session of actually voting to move the process forward, which it did by a 4-3 vote, or to take a big step back in preparation for yet another “first reading.” The audience Tuesday night by their applause and moans and groans exhibited the virtually identical behavior as others have for decades in Falls Church. The well-worn shorthand for the sentiment is “NIMBY,” as in “Not in My Back Yard.” It is so predictable how concerned citizens become when they perceive something is going to happen in their immediate neighborhood, but could care less about otherwise. There is a sense of entitlement associated with this notion that it’s OK for conjure up any and all kinds of “general public interest” arguments for keeping a project from imposing on a given neighborhood. So, you find circulating often in anonymous fliers, online comments or blogs allegations that are flatly untrue, such as the claim that mixed use projects are responsible for rapid enrollment growth and burdens on the City’s schools. Not true! The City’s Economic Development Office has calculated the following: Six mixed use projects built in Falls Church since 2003 yield a total of $7.1 million annually, about $38,688 for every pupil who lives in them (not counting the $3.4 million developers have donated in cash for school capital needs). By contrast, single family homes, which account for two thirds of the City school system’s pupils and where the fastest growth in student enrollment occurs, contribute an a per pupil basis $10,400 per year. The average cost of a pupil in the school system is $15,703 per year. So, the average single family home contributes only two thirds of what it costs the City to educate a child from such a home. For children in mixed use projects, on the other hand, each unit contributes far more than twice of what it costs to educate students from them.

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Editor, When we moved here 30 years ago, residents were very proud of their trees and these seemed to be fairly well protected; this was a tree-loving town and potential projects took into consideration the established canopy. For instance, when there was talk about increasing the size and scope of the Community Center the potential loss of some Cherry Hill trees was a major factor that

held that project back. But as time goes by, and as the town develops there seems to be less protection of our trees. All the trees that were on the lots for Northgate and Rushmark are gone and very few and puny trees were planted at Northgate creating no shade at all. This is a huge loss for City residents and for future generations. The latest fatality were the deep shade trees around the perimeter

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of the recently bulldozed Burger King. Aren’t these trees on public property? Did the Kensington LLC get permission from the City to destroy these? With our burning hot summers, these deep shade trees provide a cooler place to walk, natural beauty and protection for wildlife. Further up on Broad Street, on Fairfax land – in what used to be Sam’s Farm – is now a dustbowl created by Chestnut LLC Development – which should be more appropriately called Barewoods LLC as not one tree was left standing. Fairfax County has a tree preservation law that states that 20 percent of trees must be kept on a property. What hap-

pened? What will be the fate of the George Mason High School trees across the street? Many of these trees have a human interest story behind them as many were planted in memory of a beloved teacher, administrator or staff. All the beautiful open spaces at George Mason that generations of students have enjoyed will be commercially developed; more concrete, less trees. Lets not forget our roots. Maybe we should call it The Little Cement City. Linda Kamel Falls Church

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F.C. Should Learn from Arlington’s ‘Smart Growth’ B� S�� S�� S��

Charlie Clark’s column in the August 26 News-Press on Arlington parkland highlights the harsh realities resulting from decades of poor planning and unwise land use. For years, Arlington County has claimed that “smart growth” would result in fewer cars on the road with little or no increase in the school-age population. It would be environmentally sound. And all this development would pay for itself, too! Yet today, we see increasingly congested roads and failing intersections. We house around 3,000 children (roughly one out of every eight students) in school “relocatables,” with more trailers being added this year. Along with an increasingly dense population, our budgets have grown increasingly tight. And we have less undeveloped land to use for any purpose, public or private. None of these outcomes were hard to anticipate if county employees – who are supposed to be “experts” – had employed reality-based planning and legitimate impact analysis. Arlington’s critical shortage of parkland and green space has been discussed since at least 1975. Citizen-volunteers on the Planning Commission’s Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor Committee stated in a June 1975 report that it was “important to note that the [R-B] corridor is already deficient in park acreage… To allow increased development of the corridor without the concurrent

purchase of the required parkland would be unconscionable.” The committee strongly urged the county not to repeat the mistakes already made in Rosslyn. The county ignored those recommendations. And today, public officials still attempt to place the blame not on their own failed policies and

“Parkland and green space are not luxuries but necessities.” inadequate planning but on the hapless citizens who trusted them. Over the last 30–40 years, the county has allowed 80 percent of its mature tree canopy to disappear beneath a sea of highrises (built right up to the street), asphalt, cement, and so-called permeable or semi-permeable hardscape that is euphemistically called “open” space. Arlington’s land-use policies and scorched-earth development practices have contributed, among other things, to poor local air quality. The American Lung Association gives Arlington an F for air quality/smog. Whereas traffic counts technically may have dropped, that reduction may be attributed more to the difficulty of counting cars stuck in traffic rather than a true reduction

in the numbers of vehicles on the roadway. Cars sitting in traffic emit more pollution. And more pollution means higher rates of asthma (especially in children), more lung disease, more strokes, and more cardiovascular events. If you doubt that land-use has had an impact on our local environment, there are some geospatial satellite images that a local high school student submitted to JMU’s Geospatial Semester contest in 2011–2012 at fcne.ws/jmugeospatial. The urban heat island effect is real and growing. NASA studies show a direct link between dense urbanization and the urban heat island effect – resulting not only in higher temperatures but also increased air pollution. Unlike parkland, grass and other natural infrastructure, urban buildings, asphalt and concrete retain heat, which combined with auto exhaust produces dangerous groundlevel ozone (aka smog). “Smart growth” as applied in Arlington has been deeply flawed. Traditional smart growth supporters like Kaid Benefield of the Natural Resources Defense Council agree. In his column on the “environmental paradox of smart growth,” he specifically notes the lost opportunities to acquire/add sufficient parkland during Ballston’s redevelopment. Creating Arlington-style urban canyons has consequences. One is the loss of natural infrastructure that mitigates pollution (including carbon), offsets the urban heat island effect and protects public health.

Sadly, the remnants of Arlington’s mature tree canopy and other natural resources are located primarily within parkland. If we want to give Arlington’s children a healthy beginning when their lungs are developing, then we must find a way to nurture, preserve and expand our natural infrastructure. But Arlington has continued making poor choices that favor short-term gain rather than making wise decisions and investments for the long term. However, there is still time. Arlington can build up rather than out, shrinking the footprint of both private and public structures. It can require increased setbacks and convert existing hardscape surfaces back into green space and parkland with each redevelopment project. It can incorporate Chesapeake Bay Act regulations into the Zoning Ordinance to limit impervious surfaces. And, yes, it can jealously protect our remaining parkland and green space to ensure that they continue serving their existing, indispensable functions. But first, Arlington County government must acknowledge that parkland and green space are not luxuries but necessities. And that hot, crowded Arlington must accommodate and preserve nature if we are to protect public health and provide a livable environment for the people of Arlington. For our neighbors in Falls Church, Arlington serves as a cautionary tale. I hope that the Little City can avoid making the same mistakes.

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NEWS BRIEFS F.C. Council Sends Out New Mason Row Plan After a long, tedious presentation and debate at its first post-Labor Day work session Tuesday night, the Falls Church City Council was without a consensus, so was forced to revert to a voice vote of 4-3 to waste no more time and send the latest iteration of the Spectrum Developers’ Mason Row mixed-use project directly to its volunteer boards and commissions for review prior to a final vote on whether to approve the 4.3-acre project later this fall. The latest series of changes to the plan, with an assist from their new partners Mill Creek (formerly Trammel Crow), include moving the proposed hotel to a free standing building at the corner of W. Broad and N. West Street, moving the structured parking deeper within the project, putting a string of three-level condos along Park Avenue, creating a street internal to the project of 30-foot width with parallel parking on both sides, and adding a left turn lane into the project off W. Broad. The plan retains a projected 340 residential rental units, space for a 20,000 square foot restaurant, more retail (totaling 34 percent of the project), a slightly smaller multiscreen movie theater and continued net revenue gains for the City. The land that currently nets $190,000 a year in tax revenues to the City (after expenses) is projected by the City’s Economic Development Office to yield in the range of $1,186,000 to $1,894,000 per year (net, after school costs subtracted). The difference between the current net tax yield and the projected net yield, about $1.7 million, is equal to five cents on the real estate tax rate. Although a work session, with no provision for receiving public comment, a large contingent of citizens residing near the location showed up. A large mailing had been sent out by the owner of one of the small businesses currently on the site urging citizens to show up Tuesday night.

2 S. Washington St. Businesses Robbed Over Labor Day Weekend Two businesses on the same street were robbed two days apart in the City of Falls Church over Labor Day weekend but police are calling the two crimes “seemingly unrelated.” Falls Church police said the first incident occurred on Saturday, Sept. 5, at about 5:15 p.m. when Fast Auto Loan, located at 336 S. Washington Street, was robbed of cash. The suspect is described as a black male, about 5’10” to 6’ tall, wearing black clothing. No weapon was implied or displayed and the suspect fled on foot. There were no injuries. Two days later, on Labor Day at 10:30 p.m., police say a man robbed the Smashburger at 308 S. Washington Street with a taser. The suspect is described as a black male, light complexion, in his 20s, about 5’10”. His face was covered except for his eyes and he was wearing gloves. According to police, the suspect entered the business after it was closed and tried, but failed, to discharge a taser at an employee. He demanded the employee open the safe, but the employee did not oblige. The suspect fled on foot without any cash or valuables. There were no injuries. The Falls Church Police Department is asking anyone with information on either robbery to call 703-248-5053 (TTY 711).

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Out of respect for the Rosh Hashannah holiday, the next regular business meeing of the Falls Church City Council has been moved from Sept. 14 to Sept. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Council chambers of City Hall.

Paving Schedule for F.C. Announced From Sept. 15 through Sept. 18, the City of Falls Church Department of Public Works will be paving select city streets. The work will take place Tuesday through Friday from 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. There will be no parking allowed in the areas during work hours; parking restriction signs will be in place at least 48 hours in advance. All streets will remain open to traffic and residents and businesses will have access to driveways and entrances. The limits of work for each street are as follows: Gresham Place, Rolling Trace, Smallwood Way, Whittier Circle and Grace Lane. Sept. 21 through Sept. 25 will be used as make-up days if required.

Kaine, Warner Alarmed by FDA OxyContin Ruling U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia yesterday sent a letter to the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wa.) calling for an investigation into the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to approve OxyContin for use by children as young as 11 years old and an examination of the rise in the opioid misuse, abuse and consequent overdose deaths. Senator Kaine said “The over prescription and misuse of opioids has contributed to the drug abuse crisis, and I’m deeply concerned that FDA’s decision to approve OxyContin for children as young as 11-years-old will further complicate this epidemic.”

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Community News & Notes League of Women Voters Hosts Forum on Medicaid The League of Women Voters of Arlington and Falls Church are co-sponsoring a “Community Forum on Medicaid Expansion” on Thursday, Sept. 10, from 7 – 9 p.m. at the Arlington County Department of Human Services auditorium, located at 2100 Washington Blvd., Arlington. With Virginia’s General Assembly considering the adoption of Medicaid expansion, the League of Women Voters want to consider the fiscal and economic impact of such an expansion. According to the League of Women Voters’ press release about the event, several hundred thousand low-income Virginia residents do not earn enough to afford health insurance, yet are not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid. The impact of Medicaid expan-

sion for these residents will be among the topics discussed at the forum, which will feature five speakers – Massey Whorley, a senior policy analyst for The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis; Dr. Jennifer Lee, deputy secretary for the Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources; Sheila Ryan, director of clinical service at the Arlington Free Clinic; Mary Margaret Whipple, Northern Virginia regional director for community and member outreach at Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association; and Joe Vidulich, vice president, government relations for the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce. The event is free, but space is limited, advanced registration is requested. For more information or to register, visit eventbrite. com and locate the event by searching for “League of Women Voters.”

City Offering 2 New Classes For Senior Citizens The City of Falls Church’s Senior Center, located inside the Falls Church Community Center at 223 Little Falls Street, is offering two new classes over the next two months. The first is Museum Masterpieces: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which begins on Sept. 17. The course, which will be held on Thursdays from 10 a.m. – noon, will cover European sculptures, costumes, textiles and American art before World War II and will be taught on video by Dr. Richard Brettell. What’s Up with Apps? is the other new class being offered by the city and it starts on November 5. In the class, students can learn about using applications on their smartphone or tablet. The class, which will also meet on Thursdays from 10 a.m. – noon, is free and will be taught by Marymount

University professor Diane Murphy. Seniors can register for both classes at the community center or by calling 703-248-5027; TTY: 711. For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/611/Senior-Center.

Dr. Ted Perih Awards Nats Tickets to Military Veteran Dr. Ted Perih of Falls Church Chiropractic awarded free tickets to a Washington Nationals game to Debra Rice, a colonel in the U.S. Army, last week in a show of gratitude to all military personnel for their military service. Rice has seen action in Afghanistan, is a 26-year veteran of the military and resides in Arlington.

Bailey’s Rotary Club Gives Awards to Local Officers Members of the Bailey’s Crossroads Rotary Club pre-

sented awards to officers of the Mason District police station on Tuesday, Sept. 1 at the Mason Citizens Advisory Committee meeting. The awards were given in appreciation for helping with the August 19 J.E.B. Stuart High School Resource Fair. Bailey’s President Pat Borowski presented a certificate of appreciation from the club to the officers and staff of the Mason District police station and the award was accepted by Captain Andy Hill. Awards also were presented by Rotary members Glad Hatchl, Kate Walter and David Feld on behalf of the Stuart Resource Fair to other individuals who helped with the event, including Captain Hill, Crime Prevention Officer Kat O’Leary and Lieutenant Tony Matos. Awards were also given to the Mason Police Explorers Club, the Citizens Advisory Committee and the station.

THE ROTARY CLUB OF BAILEY’S CROSSROADS presented awards to members of the Mason District police station at the Mason Citizens Advisory Committee meeting on Sept. 1. The awards were given in appreciation for helping out with the August 19 Resource Fair at J.E.B. Stuart High School. Pictured (from left) David Feld, Pat Borowski, Alejandra Caballero, Glad AT A TRADITIONAL ANNUAL LABOR DAY fundraiser Monday, current State Hatchl, Captain Andy Hill, Lieutenant Tony Matos, Officer Kat O’Leary, Kate Del. Marcus Simon (right), who represents the 53rd Assembly District that Walter and Gabe Goldberg. Awards were also given to the Mason Police includes the City of Falls Church, is shown joined by the event hosts, his pre- Explorers Club, the Citizens Advisory Committee and the police station. (Photo: Courtesy of David Borowski) decessor former State Del. Jim Scott and his wife Nancy. (Photo: News-Press)

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Workhouse Arts Center Hosts First Ever Fall Festival

The Workhouse Arts Center will present its first Fall Festival on Saturday, Sept. 26, and Sunday, Sept. 27, featuring over 100 artists from across the nation. It will be held at the arts center, located at 9601 Ox Road, Lorton. The Workhouse has prescreened all artists to make sure only handmade products would be sold. Items available for sale include: exhibit paintings, ceramics, glass, fiber/clothing, mixed media, wood, jewelry, printmaking, photography, furniture, digital arts and sculptures. The festival is free for admission and parking, as well as free arts activities for children, local wine and beer, and food. For more information, visit workhousearts.org.

No. Va. Community College Hosts STEM Career Fair Northern Virginia Community College’s Workforce Development Division will host a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Career Fair at the Annandale Campus from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 30. The career fair will be located in the Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center, located at 8333 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, and is free and open to all job seekers. Workforce Development is expecting participation from a number of major companies and local businesses including Science Applications International Corporation, a Virginia-based information technology company. “We don’t want to just put on

a typical career fair. We’re working with interested companies and confirming with a few of them to do on-the-spot interviews,” said Radhay Chowbay with the Workforce Development Division. “Through this fair, we want to help talented STEM job seekers find new careers. We also want to do as much as we can to attract new talent to the area and keep and grow local talent.” In preparation for the STEM Career Fair, the Workforce Development Division will also host a Resume & Interview Prep Workshop from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 14. For more information, call 703-323-3281 or email NOVA_ CustomizedTraining@nvcc.edu.

Master Gardeners Announce September Events The Virginia Cooperative Extension’s Master Gardeners of Arlington/Alexandria will host several September events around the area, the group recently announced. First, the Master Gardeners will present a program on gardening in containers on Saturday, September 12, from 10:30 a.m. – noon at Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library, 4701 Seminary Road, Alexandria. It will emphasize the use of edible herbs and vegetables that not only look attractive but also can survive cold conditions. On Sunday, Sept. 13 the Master Gardeners will host their Annual Taste and Tour from 1 – 4 p.m. in the Organic Vegetable Demonstration Garden at Potomac Overlook Regional Park, 2845 N. Marcey Road, Arlington.

LO CA L The event will feature samples from the garden. Master Gardeners will be on hand to talk about growing vegetables in Northern Virginia, with a special emphasis on planting fall crops and overwintering vegetables. Visitors should park in the parking lot and walk past the Nature Center to the garden. Master Gardener Sally Baker will present a program on Putting the Herb Garden to Bed on Wednesday, Sept. 16, from 7 – 8:30 p.m. at Fairlington Community Center, 3308 S. Stafford St., Arlington. The program will be repeated on Monday, Sept.21, from 7 – 8:30 p.m. at Barrett Branch Library, 717 Queen St., Alexandria. The program will cover what herbs to prune, pull, protect, and bring inside and herbs that can be planted in fall. It will also offer tips and techniques for using or preserving cut herbs, including how to make flavored vinegars. Finally, on Saturday, Sept. 19, the Master Gardeners will present a program on fall lawn care on Saturday, Sept. 19, from 10:30 a.m. to noon at Fairlington Community Center. The program will be repeated on Tuesday, Sept. 22, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Fairlington. Program leaders will explain why fall is the ideal time to restore cool-season grass, describe how to improve lawns and the underlying soil, and outline steps for ensuring a beautiful weed-free lawn. Alternatives to turf will also be explored. All programs are free and open to the public, but registration is requested. For more information or to register, mgnv. org, call 703-228-6414 or email mgarlalex@gmail.com.

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The Anti-Party Men

Political parties are civic institutions. They are broad coalitions built for the purpose of creating a governing majority that can be used to win elections and pass agendas. This summer three American politicians have risen to the fore, and they all sit outside or at the margin of the party they are trying to lead. Donald Trump didn’t even swear allegiance to his party’s eventual nominee until last week. He is a lone individual whose main cause and argument is Himself. Ben Carson has no history in politics and a short history in the Republican Party. He is a politically unattached figure whose primary lifetime loyalty has been to the field of medicine. Bernie Sanders is a socialist independent, who in the Senate caucuses with the Democrats. And yet, these antiparty figures are surging in the party races NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE for the presidential nominations. This phenomenon is even more extreme in Britain. The British Labour Party suffered a crushing election defeat in May because people did not think its leader was strong enough, and because they thought its policy agenda was too far left. And yet at the moment the favorite to become the next leader of the British Labour Party is Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn has existed for decades on the leftward fringe of the Labour Party, tolerated as sort of a nice but dotty uncle. He spent much of his career at the edge of the parliamentary party, writing columns for The Morning Star, a communist-founded newspaper. He’s a pacifist who called for British withdrawal from NATO. He’s spent his career consorting with the usual litany of anti-Western figures, including his friends in Hamas and Hezbollah. Until about three months ago he was considered the most outside of the outsiders — until a cult of personality developed around him, rocketing him to the top of the polls. These four anti-party men have little experience in the profession of governing. They have no plausible path toward winning 50.1 percent of the vote in any national election. They have no prospect of forming a majority coalition that can enact their policies. These sudden stars are not really about governing. They are tools for their supporters’ selfexpression. They allow supporters to make a statement, demand respect or express anger or resentment. Sarah Palin was a pioneer in seeing politics not as a path to governance but as an expression of her followers’ id. Why has this type risen so suddenly? First, political parties, like institutions across society, are accorded less respect than in decades past. But we’re also seeing the political effects of a broader culture shift, the rise of what sociologists call expressive individualism. There has always been a tension between self and society. Americans have always wanted to remain true to individual consciousness, but they also knew they were citizens, members of a joint national project, tied to one another by bonds as deep as the bonds of marriage and community. As much as they might differ, there was some responsibility to maintain coalitions with people unlike themselves. That meant maintaining conversations and relationships, tolerating difference, living with dialectics and working with opposites. The Democratic Party was once an illogical coalition between Northeastern progressives and Southern evangelicals. The GOP was an alliance between business and the Farm Belt. But in the ethos of expressive individualism, individual authenticity is the supreme value. Compromise and coalition-building is regarded as a dirty and tainted activity. People congregate in segregated cultural and ideological bubbles and convince themselves that the purest example of their type could actually win. The young British left forms a temporary cult of personality around Jeremy Corbyn. The alienated right forms serial cults around Glenn Beck, Herman Cain, Palin, Trump and Carson. These cults never last because there is no institutional infrastructure. But along the way the civic institutions that actually could mobilize broad coalitions – the parties – get dismissed and gutted. Without these broad coalition parties, the country is ungovernable and cynicism ratchets up even further. Maybe this is a summer squall and voters will get interested in the more traditional party candidates come autumn, the ones who can actually win majorities and govern. But institutional decay is real, and it’s what happens in a country in which people would rather live in solipsistic bubbles than build relationships across differences. I wonder what would happen if a sensible Donald Trump appeared – a former Cabinet secretary or somebody who could express the disgust for the political system many people feel, but who instead of adding to the cycle of cynicism, channeled it into citizenship, into the notion that we are still one people, compelled by love of country to live with one another, and charged with the responsibility to make the compromises, build the coalitions, practice messy politics and sustain the institutions that throughout history have made national greatness possible.

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Trump is Right on Economics So Jeb Bush is finally going after Donald Trump. Over the past couple of weeks the man who was supposed to be the front-runner has made a series of attacks on the man who is. Strange to say, however, Bush hasn’t focused on what’s truly vicious and absurd – viciously absurd? – about Trump’s platform, his implicit racism and his insistence that he would somehow round up 11 million immigrants in the country illegally and remove them from our soil. Instead, Bush has chosen to attack Trump as a false conservative, a proposition that is supposedly demonstrated by his deviations from current Republican economic orthodoxy: his willingness to raise NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE taxes on the rich, his positive words about universal health care. And that tells you a lot about the dire state of the GOP. For the issues the Bush campaign is using to attack its unexpected nemesis are precisely the issues on which Trump happens to be right, and the Republican establishment has been proved utterly wrong. To see what I mean, consider what was at stake in the last presidential election, and how things turned out after Mitt Romney lost. During the campaign, Romney accused President Barack Obama of favoring redistribution of income from the rich to the poor, and the truth is that Obama’s re-election did mean a significant move in that direction. Taxes on the top 1 percent went up substantially in 2013, both because some of the Bush tax cuts were allowed to expire and because new taxes associated with Obamacare kicked in. And Obamacare itself, which provides a lot of aid to lower-income families, went into full effect at the beginning of 2014. Conservatives were very clear about what would happen as a result. Raising taxes on “job creators,” they insisted, would destroy incentives. And they were absolutely certain that the Affordable Care Act would be a “job killer.” So what actually happened? As of last month, the U.S. unemployment rate, which was 7.8 percent when Obama took office, had fallen to 5.1 percent. For the record, Romney promised during the campaign that he would get unemployment down to 6 percent by the end of 2016. Also for the record, the current unemployment rate is lower than it ever got under Ronald Reagan. And the main reason unem-

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ployment has fallen so much is job growth in the private sector, which has added more than 7 million workers since the end of 2012. I’m not saying that everything is great in the U.S. economy, because it isn’t. There’s good reason to believe that we’re still a substantial distance from full employment, and while the number of jobs has grown a lot, wages haven’t. But the economy has nonetheless done far better than should have been possible if conservative orthodoxy had any truth to it. And now Trump is being accused of heresy for not accepting that failed orthodoxy? So am I saying that Trump is better and more serious than he’s given credit for being? Not at all – he is exactly the ignorant blowhard he seems to be. It’s when it comes to his rivals that appearances can be deceiving. Some of them may come across as reasonable and thoughtful, but in reality they are anything but. Bush, in particular, may pose as a reasonable, thoughtful type – credulous reporters even describe him as a policy wonk – but his actual economic platform, which relies on the magic of tax cuts to deliver a doubling of America’s growth rate, is pure supply-side voodoo. And here’s what’s interesting: All indications are that Bush’s attacks on Trump are falling flat, because the Republican base doesn’t actually share the Republican establishment’s economic delusions. The thing is, we didn’t really know that until Trump came along. The influence of big-money donors meant that nobody could make a serious play for the GOP nomination without pledging allegiance to supply-side doctrine, and this allowed the establishment to imagine that ordinary voters shared its anti-populist creed. Indeed, Bush’s hapless attempt at a takedown suggests that his political team still doesn’t get it, and thinks that pointing out The Donald’s heresies will be enough to doom his campaign. But Trump, who is self-financing, didn’t need to genuflect to the big money, and it turns out that the base doesn’t mind his heresies. This is a real revelation, which may have a lasting impact on our politics. Again, I’m not making a case for Trump. There are lots of other politicians out there who also refuse to buy into right-wing economic nonsense, but who do so without proposing to scour the countryside in search of immigrants to deport, or to rip up our international economic agreements and start a trade war. The point, however, is that none of these reasonable politicians is seeking the Republican presidential nomination.

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The War Criminal Cheney Kraken

This week on the perpetual “news,” Donald Trump was trumped by the original Darth Vader, war criminal Dick Cheney, who delivers his lies with a certain gravelly timbre that can terrify the faint of heart. Cheney, let us be clear, is responsible for the refugee crisis now sweeping Europe. He’s the man who engineered the complete revamping of U.S. foreign policy from one of incremental gains through diplomacy to war, war and more war. These wars have killed hundreds of thousands in the Middle East and the refugee camps of innocent civilians seeking to escape the cauldron that Iraq had become due to the unprovoked U.S. invasion have been on the borders of Syria and Jordan for over a decade. Only now, with the ISIS terrorists FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS being the manifestation of Cheney’s darkest interiors, the refugee situation has gone totally out of control. One thing to bear in mind, it is unclear whether Cheney can freely travel outside the U.S. without being arrested and jailed pending a trial on crimes against humanity. There is almost no tyrant or murderer on the globe who is more qualified for a such a fate than Dick Cheney. His ties to Halliburton, for example, are just one more area where the pliant media failed to hold his administration to account over a decade ago, and damning evidence that has been produced since has been contained to the margins of the public conscience. Cheney is akin to a kraken of legendary magnitude, a giant and sinister sea squid who leaves chaos, pain and death in its wake. The fact that he walks freely on the streets of Washington, D.C., that he is still treated with civility by officialdom here, and especially by the media, is a testament to how cowed and limp our nation’s leaders, including its media leaders, have become. It’s nothing but kid gloves for the angry kraken! Steve Benen, an MSNBC blogger, made big news of the blatant lie that Cheney tried to pass off in a Fox News interview last weekend when he claimed that the production in Iran from zero to 5,000 nuclear centrifuges in operation “happened on Obama’s watch.” Fox News’ Chris Wallace shocked the vice president, undoubtedly expecting his Fox News lap dogs to overlook the lie, when he didn’t let the lie pass, but instead corrected him with the truth that all the growth occurred during the Bush-Cheney years. “If I were Cheney, I’d feel humiliated by the truth, too,” Benen wrote. “The underlying challenge for the failed former V.P. is the degree to which his own Iran policy failed spectacularly.” Then columnist Dana Milbank wrote in yesterday’s Washington Post that Cheney had the gall in remarks to the American Enterprise Institute on Tuesday to question “the veracity of the president’s (Obama’s) claims” associated with the Iran nuclear deal coming before Congress this week, and to label several of Obama’s claims as “simply false.” Now, this is the man, this Cheney, who bullied all of official Washington into believing what he knew was a lie, the specious claim that Saddam Hussein had stockpiled “weapons of mass destruction” at known locations in Iraq. It was he who also sought to sell a connection between al Qaeda and the attacks of 9-11 and Iraq in his push for an unprovoked war. And, as Milbank reported, he was at it again this week. “He unabashedly made allegations against Iran Tuesday that he once made against Iraq, citing evidence of ‘an agreement between the Iranian government and al Qaeda.” Milbank wrote. One can only shudder when thinking of what the world would look like now if the perpetuation of the Cheney madness had continued after 2008. There is no doubt that he and his cohort dogs of war, who were making military intrusions into Iran during the Bush-Cheney years, are livid that President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry have so effectively thwarted their sordid intentions for that whole part of the world. Going into the next presidential cycle, carting out the spectre of the Cheney kraken will help to drive that point home. He and the current GOP field are almost interchangeable.

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

Sexual Attraction and Fluidity Recently, Miley Cyrus told Elle UK, “I’m very open about it — I’m pansexual.” In June, she’d told Paper Magazine: “I am literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn’t involve an animal and everyone is of age. Everything that’s legal, I’m down with. Yo, I’m down with any adult – anyone over the age of 18 who is down to love me.” There was something about the casual, carefree-ness of the statements that I found both charming and revolutionary. It took a happy-go-lucky sledgehammer to the must-fit-a-box binary that constrains and restricts our understanding of the complexity of human sexuality. As much progress as has been made in the acceptance of LGBT-identified people in society, there is still a surprising level of resistance to people who identify as the B in that list of letters (bisexual) – or pansexual or omnisexual or even asexual – and that resistance comes from straight and gay people alike. I wrote in my memoir, Fire Shut Up In My Bones, about identifyNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE ing as bisexual because “in addition to being attracted to women, I could also be attracted to men.” I also wrote about the tremendous amount of agitation, and even hostility, that people – particularly men – so identified can engender: “Even the otherwise egalitarian would have no qualms about raising questions and casting doubt. Many could only conceive of bisexuality in the way it existed for most people willing to admit to it: as a transitory identity – a pit stop or a hiding place – and not a permanent one.” Yet, I don’t feel in any way defective or isolated in my identity. In fact, I feel liberated or and even enlightened by it. And, more young people like Cyrus appear to be joining in that enlightenment. The market research firm YouGov asked British adults last month to plot themselves on the sexuality scale created by Alfred Kinsey in 1940s, with zero being exclusively heterosexual and 6 being exclusively homosexual. The survey found that while 89 percent of the respondents overall describe themselves as heterosexual, “The results for 18-24-year-olds are particularly striking, as 43 percent place themselves in the non-binary area between 1 and 5 and 52 percent place themselves at one end or the other. Of these, only 46 percent say they are completely heterosexual and 6 percent as completely homosexual.”

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YouGov then released data from the United States where respondents were asked to do the same selfrating. The American data found that “29 percent of under 30s put themselves somewhere on the category of bisexuality.” Obviously, these ratings weren’t meant to measure sexual activity, intimate histories or label identification, but they were meant to measure “the possibility of homosexual feelings and experiences.” YouGov is not the only group that has tried to get a handle on the fluid middle. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Survey of Family Growth presented data from 2006-2008 in a 2011 report that showed that 16 percent of American women and 5 percent of men under 45 refused to say they were attracted to only one sex, instead admitting that they were only mostly attracted to one sex, were equally attracted to both, or were unsure. In that survey, 21 percent of women 20-24 years old and 7 percent of men in those ages said that they were somewhere in the middle. And remember, 2008 is forever ago on the rapidly changing issue of LGBT acceptability. For instance, according to Gallup, only 48 percent of Americans in 2008 found gay and lesbian relations morally acceptable. That number has now jumped to 63 percent, and among those ages 18-34 it is now at 79 percent. Attraction is simply more nuanced for more people than some of us want to admit, sometimes even to ourselves. That attraction may never manifest as physical intimacy, nor does it have to, but denying that it exists creates a false, naive and ultimately destructive sense or what is normal and possible. Furthermore, different people can experience attraction differently. And yet, the idea that one can have a physiological response to something other than gendered physicality seems to some antithetical to their rigid, superannuated notions of attraction, or even heretical to it. But it seems more younger people are liberating themselves from this thinking and coming to better understand and appreciate that people must have the freedom to be fluid if indeed they are, and that no one has the right to define or restrict the parameters of another person’s attractions, love or intimacy. People must be allowed to be themselves, however they define themselves, and they owe the world no explanation of it or excuse for it. They have to be reminded that the only choices they need to make are to choose honesty and safety. Attraction is attraction, and it doesn’t always wear a label.

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Such behavior is never acceptable in our modern conglomerate society. While the First Amendment protects both free speech and freedom of religion, it was never intended to pit one against the other. An attack against one faith can be construed as an attack on all beliefs, and local faith communities are standing in solidarity with the mosque so that all can practice their faiths, unimpeded by ignorance and hate speech. We all should be proud that our community can respond with such a positive approach. The Art in the Mason District Governmental Center exhibit this quarter features pastels by Mason District resident Joyce Turk. Joyce has traveled and backpacked across the globe, but most of her 26 works on exhibit reflect more familiar local scenes. Of special interest are four pastels of Great Falls, one depicting that natural phenomenon at each season. One can almost feel the bitter cold of the falls capped in the ice of winter. The artist’s use of color is most captivating in two selections capping the end of the day: Sunset Glory is all brilliant orange and coral and yellow, tempered by the deep purple of a mountain sunset, while Days End incorporates some deep blue wave action for a traditional beach sunset. Joyce Turk’s exhibit may be viewed Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. at the Mason District Governmental Center, 6507 Columbia Pike in Annandale.

School is back in session, heralding the end to a summer which probably seemed too short to some, and too long to others. Some bell schedules have changed, so the familiar start and end times at your local school may create different traffic patterns as you head to work or daily errands. Drivers are reminded that the speed limit in school zones still is 25 mph, and passing a stopped school bus is illegal. Some children may be getting adjusted to new school bus stops in the neighborhood, so please drive carefully and exercise caution any time you are on the road. One more reminder – the speed limit in most neighborhoods also is 25 mph. The most frequent neighborhood complaint is about drivers speeding and ignoring stop signs. Police will enforce the law, so you can slow down, or tell it to a judge. Fairfax County is home to countless faith communities and religious beliefs, all of which are welcomed and respected by the community at large. Many disparate faith communities work together to resolve local issues, providing food assistance, furniture, counseling, hypothermia shelter for homeless persons, and the like. They identify a need and seek to fill it, according to the shared tenets of their faith. That’s why it is unsettling that, periodically during the past year, protesters, apparently from another part of the country, have assembled at a church property near Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center to spew their own brand of hatred against the faithful, including children, who assemble for prayer on Friday afternoons. They were equally hateful when a church representative asked them to leave private property.

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At the beginning of last year’s legislative session in Richmond, I worked with several other legislators, NGO representatives and progressive lobbyists to establish a “New Americans” legislative caucus. Our mission is to assess proposed legislation, as well as draft and submit new legislation to facilitate the rational and compassionate integration of foreignborn Virginia residents and their families into the economic and civic life of the Commonwealth. We actively supported Attorney General Mark Herring’s finding that participants in the President’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program should qualify for in-state tuition at Virginia colleges. We intend to oppose bills that would overturn this policy. The caucus also supported legislation I filed in the 2015 session to enable the Virginia DMV to issue driver’s permits to refugees who are here legally under the U.S. government’s refugee resettlement program. My bill did not clear committee last year, but I intend to refine the draft and patron the legislation during the 2016 session. I have represented the culturally and ethnically diverse constituencies of Mason District – as School Board Member and, subsequently, as 38th District Delegate – for more than 15 years. Over the past 30-plus years living inside the beltway, my family life has been enriched by many friends, neighbors, colleagues and businesses with origins outside the United States. The foreign born residents in my neighborhood comprise an extraordinarily varied group. They include newly arrived refugees from Somalia and Iraq, earlier refugees from Afghanistan and Vietnam, economic migrants from Korea, India, Pakistan, Mexico and other Central and South American countries. I patronize a number of businesses founded by formerly undocumented residents, who became citizens under Ronald Reagan’s immigration reform initiative. I am particularly disheartened by the noxious environment that that is emanating from the Republican presidential campaign regarding the immigration “problem.” Donald Trump has seized the agenda with a proposal that consists of an odd-ball mix of jingoism and economic populism: (1) Build a bigger wall and make Mexico pay for it!; 2) Expel 11

million undocumented workers by tripling the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers; and, 3) Terminate give-away trade deals; cut H 1B visas; and reduce the number of refugees and legal immigrants we admit. According to his website, “The Schumer-Rubio immigration bill was nothing more than a giveaway to the corporate patrons who run both parties.” Needless to say Trump has heads spinning among the corporate Republicans, who hear echoes of Bernie Sanders in his rhetoric. Trump rightly highlights how cheap labor of undocumented workers benefits to some businesses, big and small. The only practical solution to the problem – short of spending $100-plus billions to “send them home” – is the same solution Ronald Reagan arrived at: a path to documented status. Such a program would also offer the best option to identify and expel the small number of real criminals. Unfortunately, the Syrian refugee crisis, which many conflate with legal immigration, has raised concerns and frustrations among average Americans. The United States works closely with the United Nations on refugee resettlement. In FY2014, we accepted 70,000 refugees qualified by the UN under international law, up from 58,000 in 2012. The 2014 numbers included 19,000 from Iraq, 15,000 from Burma, 9,000 from Somalia, and lesser numbers from 76 other countries. Only 132 were from Syria. Last year Virginia took a total of 1,310 refugees, most from Iraq and Somalia. To date, the UN High Commissioner on Refugees has credentialed 16,000-plus Syrians for the U.S. to consider. The expectation is that we should accept 65,000 refugees this year. Politicians from both sides of the aisle have used security concerns to deflect calls for program participation. The U. S. has been complicit in creating this crisis. We have a moral responsibility to respond, while actively minimizing risk. With effective vetting, I am certain that many talented Syrian refugees can be identified who can thrive following resettlement in the U.S.  Delegate Kory represents the 38th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. She may be emailed at DelKKory@house. virginia.gov.virginia.gov.

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Rowan County clerk Kim Davis was in the pokey – exactly where she belonged. Citing “God’s Law” she arrogantly thought she could abrogate Caesar’s law by refusing to marry gay couples. While right wing activists are foolishly trying to portray her as a modern day Martin Luther King Jr., she will be remembered as a contemporary George Wallace, the segregationist Alabama governor. Tellingly, Davis would not allow willing clerks in her office to marry same-sex couples, elevating her Jurassic beliefs over theirs. Although married four times, Davis dug in and preened as marriage’s great savior. While she rotted in jail, the opportunistic right wing organizations that exploited Davis paraded her mug shot next to shiny donate buttons on their websites. They sent out breathless direct mail campaigns, riling up yahoos, so the panicked would part with their paychecks. In a money-grubbing frenzy, the Family Research Council, (Josh Duggar’s former employer) is ratcheting up the red meat rhetoric. In one direct mail piece, FRC offers an avalanche of lies and hysteria with the group making the bogus claim that the Supreme Court’s ruling is forcing churches to participate in same-sex weddings. “Not long ago, liberals were insisting that churches would never be forced to violate their faith in the event of pro-same-sex marriage ruling. Now, in the blink of an eye, the march toward oppression is on,” FRC’s president Tony Perkins wrote in his direct mailer. Of course, not a single church in the U.S. has been forced to hold weddings for gay couples. This has never been a goal of the LGBT movement because it is undesirable and unconstitutional. But this does not stop the fomenting of fear to bilk Christians, who are made to quiver and quake at FRC’s militant and manufactured gay marriage mirage. In his histrionic letter, Perkins bellows: “I told you barely eight weeks ago that I believed a crackdown was coming and your own religious freedom would be in jeopardy. I didn’t know it would hit this fast and this hard…What we’ve witnessed since the same sex marriage ruling is a colossal push toward snuffing out your most cherished freedom, your religious freedom – your right to believe – crushing your constitutional rights as a Christian by forcing you to embrace practices that contradict biblical truth…the onslaught is underway.” Perkins and his ilk are deliberately undermining the rule of law and speak the fraught, yet barely coded, language of insurrection. They ferociously rip at the nation’s fabric and deliberately attack the underpinnings of democracy, blithely unconcerned that the end result is anarchy and chaos. If every person got to decide which laws to follow based on individual belief, our country would collapse and have as much stability as The Purge. More disturbing is that the Religious Right’s overheated language may lead to hate crimes. If gullible followers are deceived into believing “enemies” are “snuffing out” religious freedom, and “crushing” their constitutional rights, some may feel compelled to resort to violence. The rabidly anti-gay protesters in front of the Rowan County courthouse last week proved that there is no shortage of zealots, many of whom own guns. It is irresponsible for Perkins to incite these unstable powder kegs, with reckless rhetoric that doesn’t match reality. Factually, Perkins and those who echo his anachronistic views are wrong. He claims that Christians will be forced to “embrace practices that contradict biblical truth.” What he is doing, however, is conflating “embracing” with having to deal professionally with members of the public that fundamentalists find distasteful. Simply working with or serving people with differing views or backgrounds is not embracing them. It is not forcing anyone to surrender his or her view of “biblical truth.” No one was forcing Kim Davis, for example, to marry a woman against her will. She was simply asked to do her job and provide state documents to gay couples whose marriages have been ruled constitutionally legal. But the hypocritical Davis and the self-righteous Perkins have cunningly redefined religious freedom to go far beyond an individual’s ability to practice their faith unencumbered. They erroneously believe that religious liberty includes expressing moral disapproval while working at taxpayer-funded jobs, persecuting minorities without consequence, and refusing service to customers they look down upon. But such intolerance only curtails the rights and freedom of others, while adding no appreciative expansion of religious expression to those discriminating. Freedom of religion allows a person to live by his or her conscience, not commit unconscionable acts against others in the guise of liberty.

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Our Man in Arlington By Charlie Clark

In the world of consumer finance forecasts, Austin Kiplinger is a walking brand name. What is less-known is that the 97-yearold editor emeritus of Kiplinger Washington Editors spent a very happy childhood in our own Arlington. “I have lots of memories from 1924, very vivid years aged 6 to 14,” he told me in a crisp phone interview last month. “We lived in Lee Heights, up the hill from Rosslyn alongside the W & OD electric railway near what today is Old Dominion Drive.” Kiplinger, the son of the company’s founder, said his father and grandfather (a retired carriage maker from Ohio) bought three lots from longtime Arlington landowner Ruby Lee Minor. They built houses on what then was Spring Drive (named for a local water source), today’s Vermont Street. Teddy Roosevelt and White House physician Adm. Preston Rixey “took their weekend drives there,” says Kiplinger, a major collector of Washingtoniana and benefactor of District of Columbia history. “But our upscale subdivision never caught on – the streets were not paved,” he said. Still, “Mrs. Minor built a tennis court between Lorcom Lane and Vermont Street, one of the great attractions of the neighborhood, though none of us played tennis.” As a boy in the 1920s, Kiplinger

delivered the Evening Star. “It cost a nickel, and I got two cents a paper,” he recollected. “I really worked for that because of the great distances between houses – if I were in a city, I could throw a paper on every front porch.” His pal Bob Thomas had a “really big house on Lorcom Lane, with a porch and chicken coop in the back. We converted it into a sports club and held boxing matches,” he says. Kiplinger also recalls playing in Donaldson Run and hiking down to the Potomac cliffs – “I knew every inch of those woods,” he boasts. In the nearby “Marceytown” community was Marcey’s grocery, which offered fresh country meats and produce from the D.C. central market every Thursday. The future business editor went to elementary school at Carnes, a two-room structure for four grades built in the 1890s near a railroad track at modern-day Glebe Road at N. 26th Street. He also attended John Marshall. “Dr. Sutton, our family doctor, had a house at the end of the street,” Kiplinger remembers. There was also Puglisi’s grocery store, “where I could buy a licorice stick for one penny, before inflation.” In the early 1930s, Kiplinger attended Washington-Lee secondary school, then led by Principal Vanderslice, whom he imagines few recall. One teacher he has never forgotten was Miss Allen, the Latin instructor, for whom he

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CRIME REPORT Week of August 31 September 6, 2015 Driving Under the Influence, 100 block E. Jefferson St. On Aug. 31, an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a female, 42, of Rockville, MD, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence and Refusal to Submit to a Blood or Breath Test. Commercial Burglary, 301 W. Broad St. On Aug. 31, an unknown suspect(s) forced entry and stole raw materials from the construction site. Larceny from Vehicle, 500 block W. Broad St. On Aug. 31, police received a report that change was stolen from an unsecure vehicle. Drinking In Public, 312 Park Ave. (Cherry Hill Park) On Aug. 31, a male, 38, of Arlington, was arrested and released on summons for Drinking In Public. Vandalism to Vehicle, 132 W. Broad

St. On Sep. 1, police responded to the location for a report of individuals jumping on cars. After an investigation, a male, 19, of Falls Church; and a 15 year-old male, of Falls Church, were arrested for two counts of Destruction of Property. Shoplifting, 167 Hillwood Ave. (Virginia ABC Store) On Sep. 1, the victim business reported an alcoholic beverage was stolen from the store. Vandalism to Property, 100 block S. Spring St. On Sep. 1, police received a report that a house and car was vandalized. Public Drunkenness, 306 Hillwood Ave. (Lesly’s Restaurant) On Sep. 2, a male, 27, of Temple Hills, MD, was arrested for Public Drunkenness. Assault, 800 block W. Broad St. On Sep. 5, police investigated an assault. An acquaintance assaulted the victim and received minor injuries. The investi-

worked on a newsletter written in that dead language. (Kiplinger can still spell “Ab Ova Usque Ad Mala,” which translates roughly as “from soup to nuts.” Miss Allen “was an iconic figure in W-L history,” Kiplinger says. She encouraged him to edit the publication his sophomore and junior years, promising he would earn “good marks.” When senior year rolled around, the Kiplinger family publishing company was thriving, so the prodigy Austin was transferred downtown to Western High School. “My teachers in civics expected me to always to know the answer, which was very disconcerting.” He went off to Cornell University and led the career expected in his prominent family. “Yes, I still visit Arlington,” he told me. And plenty of the modern Kiplinger staff are Arlingtonians. *** I got the chance to knock over a lemonade stand. Sept. 1, 4 p.m., corner of N. 16th and Greenbrier streets, several girls under-age 5 set up as junior entrepreneurs in a front yard – a klatch of moms nearby chattering away. Parched, I double-parked my car and ordered a 50-cent cup, handing the kid three dimes and four nickles. She became so immersed in counting them, she neglected to pour my drink. I reminded her, but neither she nor her giggly partners acted. So I grabbed a cup and filled it. The girl then triumphantly offered me my change – two $5 bills. “No, that’s yours,” I said as the moms chattered on. It does take a village. gation is ongoing. Public Drunkenness, 306 Hillwood Ave. (Lesly’s Restaurant) On Sep. 5, a male, 27, of Vienna, was arrested for Public Drunkenness. Petit Larceny, 600 block Laura Dr. On Sep. 5, police investigated a report of a stolen mailbox. As a result of the investigation, a male, 33, of Gainesville, was arrested for Petit Larceny. Robbery, 336 S. Washington St. (Fast Auto Loans) On Sep. 5, an unknown male demanded cash from the victim business. Vandalism to Vehicle, 706 W. Broad St. On Sep. 5, police received a report of a car window smashed. Public Drunkenness, 220 N. Washington St. (The State Theater) On Sep. 6, a male, 36, of Dunkirk, MD, was arrested for Public Drunkenness. Larceny from Vehicle, 100 block E. Broad St. On Sep. 6, police received a report that an unknown suspect smashed a car window and stole a purse. Trespass, 400 W. Broad St. (Exxon) On Sep. 6, a male, 47, of Falls Church, was arrested and released on summons for Trespassing.

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Drivers, Please Watch Out for Bicyclists Editor, Last week I witnessed a sight I hope none of us will witness again: a car struck a cyclist at the corner of Haycock and Leesburg Pike, right in front of George Mason High School. As a bike commuter, I think about the inherent dangers of traveling on busy roads and neighborhoods. While I am happy to say that the cyclist was able to regain his footing and his bike was unharmed, I regret to say that the motorist sped off. As the school year begins and traffic increases, please pay special attention to all users of our roads. Our lives depend on it. Johannah Barry Falls Church

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What Else Do the Planned Parenthood Protesters Fight For? Editor, As I watch protesters picketing Planned Parenthood in an effort to end a woman’s right to choose, I wonder how many of them have fought to extend Obamacare to these same women and to their families. I wonder how many of them fight for Medicaid. I wonder if a child’s health is meaningless to them after they get their way and tell a stranger what she must do. I wonder how many of them will fight to expand the food stamp program and pay for free meals in our public schools. I wonder how passionate they are in their fight to expand welfare. I wonder if they even consid-

ered these basic needs in their mission to end a human’s right to make up her own mind. I wonder how many of them will nurture these unborn children and pay for their education, their well being, their safety, their health. I wonder if they are so caught up in their “feelings” that they’ve tossed their morality, their compassion and their heart onto the sidewalk. I wonder if they have a real cause, a real mission, a real sense of why it is their right to interfere in anyone’s business but their own. I wonder, I wonder. I wonder. Scot Walker Falls Church

Still No Whisper of Parking With New Development Editor, In Sajeela Ramsey’s letter last week, she is right in saying people will move out because they can no longer afford to live in the City. What the City does not recognize is that some people who have lived here for years and are now on fixed incomes, really can no longer afford the taxes. One thing the realtors do not tell people is the tax structure. However, we hope that buyers are smart enough to look it up before purchasing. Someone mentioned several issues ago that they thought all these new people moving in these apartments that are being built are probably going to have an impact on the schools. The apartments, from what has been printed, are going to be small enough for singles or possible couples to live in and probably will not have children. The Spectrum is a different story. Those are bigger and are purchased like The Broadway and The Byron. Still no whisper of parking for all of these buildings going up. The buildings all have hopes of retail on street level and the owners of apartments will have one space per unit, true? Then we have visitors, employees of retail spaces and if it is one of the grocery stores, where are the shoppers going to park? Barb Molino Falls Church

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B�� N�� N�� Women’s Circle of Influence Breakfast Hosted by Tysons Chamber Sept. 25 The Tysons Regional Chamber of Commerce is hosting the Regional Women’s Circle of Influence Breakfast on Friday, September 25. “Breakfast Near Tiffany’s” will start at Chef Geoff’s for networking, a light breakfast, and remarks from M2G Dynamic Leadership Solutions’ Dr. Mary M. Gillam, Col (Ret), USAF, PhD, from 8 – 10 a.m. and then move to Tiffany’s for refreshments, a tour, and drawing. The Regional Women’s Circle of Influence is sponsored by the Asian American, Falls Church, Greater McLean, and Greater Tysons Regional Chambers of Commerce and the Greater Merrifield and Vienna Business Associations. Tickets, which are $40 for members of the participating business groups and $45 for non-members, are available at www.tysonschamber.org.

Poet, Author Peabody to Hold Signing at One More Page Books One More Page Books is hosting appearances by local poet and author Richard Peabody who will be signing The Richard Peabody Reader on Saturday, September 12 at 7 p.m. and best-selling author Amy Stewart (The Drunken Botanist) who will read from her new book Girl Waits with Gun on Sunday, September 13 at 3 p.m. One More Page Books is located at 2200 Westmoreland Avenue in Arlington. For more information about these and upcoming events, visit www.onemorepagebooks.com.

F.C. Chamber Networking Luncheon Set for Sept. 15 The Falls Church Chamber of Commerce is hosting a networking luncheon on Tuesday, September 15 from 11:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. at the Italian Cafe. Local nonprofit executives will outline marketing and employee team building opportunities available through their organizations. Tickets with advanced registration are $27 for Chamber members and $32 for nonmembers. An additional $5 charge will be added to walk-ins should space be available. For more information or to register, visit www. FallsChurchChamber. org. The Italian Café is located at 7161 Lee Highway in Falls Church.

Sponsors Named for Taste of F.C. The 40th Annual Taste of Falls Church at the Fall Festival, scheduled for Saturday, September 19, has attracted a number of sponsors including Avalon Bay Communities, BASIS Independent McLean, Bath Fitter, Burke & Herbert Bank, Chasen Boscolo Injury Lawyers, Falls Church News-Press, Gutter Helmet, Kitchen Saver, LeafFilter North of Virginia, Nova Soccer Academy, Nu Look Home Design, United Bank and MoBu Kids which is sponsoring the Children’s Activity Tent. Additionally, at least 12 restaurants and more than 50 local businesses, civic groups, crafters, and vendors will be participating. The event will include a live music, pony rides, bouncy house, giant slide, and more. Taste of Falls Church at the Fall Festival will take place from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. in the Community Center parking lot, 223 Little Falls Street. Admission is free. Taste tickets are $3 each or 10 for $25. For more information, visit www.fallschurchva.gov.

McLean Chamber to Present ‘Women’s Fun Day of Learning’ The Greater McLean Chamber of Commerce is presenting the 2015 Regional Women’s Fun Day of Learning on Tuesday, September 22 featuring presentations by Moira Lethbridge, a Falls Church resident and business owner and Christina Daves. Lethbridge is a trainer, coach, and creator of Take the Leap to Success coaching program. Daves is a serial entrepreneur, award winning inventor, best-selling author, and DIY-PR expert. The workshop will take place from 10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. at Convene, 1800 Tysons Boulevard in McLean. Tickets are $75 for members, $95 for future members. For more information, visit www.mcleanchamber.org. u Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@fallschurchchamber.org.

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Singer/songwriter Lizz Wright said that she is “grateful” for her new album Freedom & Surrender, which was released on Friday, Sept. 4. It was her first album with Concord Records. “I remember a lot of long days and nights in front of the wood stove and in hotel rooms just kind of working through this songwriting and in the transition between labels and wondering how things would work out,” she said. “And I just remember putting my head down and working hard and meeting new friends and enjoying the process, but I also remember a lot of uncertainty.” The 35-year-old songstress had spent over a decade on Verve Records and released her first four albums on the label before they decided to let her go last year. She said she particularly remembers a string of days where she spoke to her mother every day. Throughout that period, her mother would wake her up every day with LIZZ WRIGHT (C�� P��) an inspirational words and prayers to keep her “And he works with so many different motivated. “I just really appreciate the deeper threads people and the span of his work reveals records that run through our lives and keep everything that are incredibly different and don’t have an connected. And I really had some time where overbearing stamp that would make him immethings were stripped down to those threads,” diately recognizable as a producer. And I think she said with a laugh. “So in a moment like that’s an extraordinary and special attribute. this I’m really grateful because the riverbed is He’s such a beautiful musician and person. I filling back in and I’m thankful for the whole had a such a good time working with him.” Wright spent six or seven week-long trips process that keeps it real.” Wright’s process for creating Freedom & to Los Angeles, she said, during the making of Surrender included a myriad of musicians, her latest offering, which she’ll be performing songwriters and producers, starting with Larry songs from at the Howard Theatre on Friday, Klein, the legendary musician and producer Sept. 11. She said that she would start her who has produced albums for Herbie Hancock, studio sessions at 11 a.m. most days with conJoni Mitchell and Tracy Chapman. She said versations with Klein and David Batteau. “The she enjoyed working with Klein on the album. pace of our conversations naturally started to “Even from our first couple of conversa- have more depth and meaning and sometimes tions, Larry has a beautiful ability to build a they would be more personal,” Wright said. “And then sometimes we’d talk about poetprocess for making a record around who the artist is and how they need work and how they ry, philosophy and things just came up on their own. So the resources started to appear from us express themselves,” Wright said.

starting to have relationship. I just never heard of anyone writing like this.” The disc is bookended by two songs bearing the name of the two parts of the album’s title. While the song “Freedom” wasn’t written by Wright, Klein and Batteau – it was written by Toshi Reagon – it’s a funky tone-setter for the album. “She sent the song to me while she knew I was in the process,” Wright said. “She said ‘I don’t know if this will fit what you’re doing, but I know that you could really sing something like this’ and I love Toshi because she’s family to me, she and her mother [Sweet Honey on the Rock founder] Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon. “And they helped to really keep a hold of where I’m from because they’re from Georgia also and they’re from a place of awareness where they make sure I sing my roots.” • For more information about Lizz Wright, visit lizzwright.net.

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F.C.’s Taco Bamba Makes ‘Best Tacos in America’ List Falls Church’s own Taco Bamba was recognized as one of the 50 best taco joints in America in a new list from Business Insider. The news website used Foursquare user data to compile the list which included independent stores as well as the toprated location of various chain restaurants. Taco Bamba, which was ranked 48th on the list, was cited for its popular eponymous steak-and-chorizo tacos as well its lengua and tripa options. Chef Victor Albisu first opened the small taqueria in a small Pimmit Hills strip mall in the summer of 2013. Albisu, who also leads the kitchen at his Washington, D.C. restaurant Del Campo, was recently named Chef of the Year at the RAMMY Awards this past June. District Taco, with locations in

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New Indian Restaurant Coming To Tysons This October Tysons Corner Center is set to add another new restaurant as restaurateur Karan Singh announced Wednesday plans to open American Tandoor in the mall this October. A press release says the new 4,000-square foot space will “showcase India’s electric culinary heritage with an American influence” and feature 16 spice blends made inhouse. Menu items will include samosas filled with sweet potato and marshmallow and saag paneer made with spinach and paneer cheese. American Tandoor will serve a brunch buffet on weekends featuring Indianinspired breakfast dishes like buttermilk and chocolate dosa waffles, benedicts made with naan and tandoor bacon and an Indian

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Church we first reported on last month. Jay Yu, who spent 13 years at Kaz Sushi Bistro in D.C. and also worked at Raku and Cafe Asia, will head up the new 30-seat restaurant which is set to open in November, the magazine reports. Takumi will be heavy on nigiri and sashimi and not complicated rolls, the article says, and will also feature warm dishes like fried tofu. The new sushi restaurant is taking over the former Vapor Solutions space between Smashburger and Ayoub Carpet Service on S. Washington St.

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Jeremiah Upton, ‘07 Grad of Mason, Dies at Age 26 Jeremiah Upton, a 2007 graduate of George Mason High School, died suddenly as the result of a seizure on Monday, Aug. 31 at his family’s home in Meadows Place, Tx. He was born on Saturday, Aug. 26, 1989 near Myrtle Beach, SC to Amanda and Kevin Upton. Jeremiah was an eighth grader at Berkeley Middle School in Moncks Corner South Carolina when his stepfather Carl Garris got a job in Alexandria. Jeremiah’s mother Amanda is a native of the City of Falls Church and saw the move as an opportunity to return to her roots. Jeremiah graduated from George Mason Middle School and High School in 2007, making friends like Matt Sullivan, Justin Lane, Blaine Eakes, Peter Michalski and Elena Bolaños along the way. According to Jeremiah’s mother, Peter was Jeremiah’s first friend when he and his family moved to Falls Church from Moncks Corner. He was active in the Falls Church Episcopal Church. While in high school, Jeremiah played lacrosse under coach Mark Coffren and took journalism with Michael Hoover. He started the Edwin Albert Mroz chapter of the Order of DeMolay, where he

reached the Degree of Chevalier, as Past Master Councilor. He also came in second place in a Citywide photography contest in 2006 with his city skyline sitting on top of the parking garage across from the State Theatre. After he reached driving age, Jeremiah drove a 2006 Blue Mustang to Mason – his mother said, “He thought he was all that.” As a teen, Jeremiah enjoyed calculus, computers and information technology. Once, his mother said, he got in trouble for getting around the controls the City schools had on their computers in order to read about a video game while he was in school. “I thought this kid’s smart,” Amanda Upton said. “You should hire him to keep people from getting into the computer system. But I don’t think the principal was amused, or at least he didn’t show it.” He enjoyed information technology so much that he majored in it, at least for a bit, when he went to Radford University. Later, he switched to computer science and then, after reading The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett, he switched to biology, set out to become a

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microbiologist and worked as a lab assistant in the microbiology lab at Radford. His biggest ambition was probably wanting to find a cure for malaria. “He had a lot of great ideas,” Amanda Upton said. “And he had a lot of plans for his life.” Amanda said that Jeremiah really loved pets – in high school he had a ferret and upon his death he had three tarantulas and a roughneck monitor lizard.

Before leaving Radford in 2014 to be with his family, who moved to Texas, Jeremiah applied for and gained early acceptance to Harvard Medical College, his mother said. “He got nervous about living so far away from home and his family,” Amanda Upton said. Another example of his dedication to his family was how Jeremiah used to have oral readings of The Alchemist by Paul Coehlo with his brother Michael. Although he left Radford and deferred decision on Harvard, Jeremiah still found a way to make science his vocation after he and his family moved to Texas in September 2014. He worked until his death at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Sugar Land, Tx. as a visitor services representative. “It didn’t pay great,” Amanda Upton said. “But he really liked talking to people about science.” He also loved working out, film, the Washington Redskins and classic rock. His mother said he really loved eclectic, odd films like “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” an interest that began in a film studies class at Mason. He and his mother attended the Washington Redskins’ November

5, 2005 22-19 win over the Dallas Cowboys. And less than a week before his death Jeremiah and his mother went to see the band Yes in concert at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Houston. Jeremiah will be missed by his colleagues and regular visitors at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, his friends, classmates and colleagues at Radford, his friends, classmates, faculty and administrators in the Falls Church City Public School System and his immediate and extended family. He’s survived by his grandmother Betty Kiser; his father Kevin (Debbie) Upton; his mother Amanda (Carl) Upton; his sister Katelyn Upton and his brother Michael Upton; and his uncles Pete (Renee) and Steve Kiser. A memorial service for Jeremiah was held on Tuesday, Sept. 8 at Settegast-Kopf Funeral Home, located at 15015 Southwest Fwy, Sugar Land, Tx. The family has asked that those who want to pay their respects do so by sending them postal mail at 12311 Level Run St., Meadows Place, Tx. 77477, but may also post on the Settegast-Kopf funeral home page.

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Mason Squashes Rapp, 52-0, in Season Opener Falls Church News-Press

George Mason High School’s varsity football team trampled over the Rappahannock County Panthers with a 55-0 victory on Thursday night, giving the Mustangs a 1-0 start to the season. The Mustang attack was led by senior running back Hunter Sulc and junior wide receiver Dustin Green, who combined for over 200 yards rushing and scored five and three touchdowns, respectively. The Mustangs came out swinging, with a 55-yard gain on their second play of the game by Sulc. On the next play, Sulc carried the the ball five more yards for the first touchdown of the game. Defensively, the Mustangs remained diligent, even though most offensive players had to double back on defense. “Our small roster means that most of our players are in the whole game,” said head coach Tony Green. “However, that helps our younger members get a good feel for the game and keep everyone focused.” Even after the second touchdown by Green in the beginning of the second quarter, Sulc, who also starts at linebacker, forced a fumble by Rappahannock senior Logan Aumock, resulting in a

turnover. With Mason’s possession, Sulc scored for the second time of the game on a 44-yard run. With the score 20-0 after the first half, Dustin Green found his stride with a 48-yard-run into the end zone for his second touchdown of the game. The Rappahannock possession after Green’s touchdown was cut short when Senior Matt Mineo intercepted a pass by the Panthers’ senior quarterback Jack Massie. Sulc finished out the quarter with two more touchdowns. “This game shows that when we play to our full ability, we can do special things,” said Dustin Green, a third year varsity starting wide receiver. “I really felt that I had great chemistry with the line. They were working hard to make sure I was making those runs and opened the opportunity for me to make big plays,” said Sulc. Green closed out the game with a 67-yard touchdown run for the Mustangs final touchdown of the game. Mason’s victory is bittersweet, however. Star running back, D’Montae Noble, a three-time first team all-district member, is no longer on the team. Coach Green said that Noble is on an”athletic suspension.” Noble declined to comment.

MASON JUNIOR WIDE RECEIVER Dustin Green breaks through a hole in Rappahannock County High Schol’s defense during the Mustangs’ 55-0 win over the Panthers. He scored three touchdowns in the Mustangs’ season opener. (Photo: Gary Mester) I think that we can adjust and be successful without D’Montae,” said Sulc. “Everyone has to do their job and we have to be powerful and consistent, moving forward.” The Mustangs are preparing for Sidwell Friends this week, who lost their season opener

Falls Church HS Freshman Subhash Plays in U.S. Open Junior Tournament Fairfax junior tennis player Natasha Subhash continued her run of success on Monday during the first round of the U.S. Open Junior Tournament being played at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center before being eliminated from the tournament on Tuesday, Sept. 8. The 14-year-old Subhash, a freshman at Falls Church High School, won her third match in four days. Playing a solid and consistent game, she eliminated Italy’s Beatrice Torelli, 6-3, 1-6, 6-1. Subhash won two rounds of qualifying on Friday and Saturday to earn entry into the main draw. “I wasn’t expecting to win a match, but I’m really feeling confident right now and I want to see how far I can go,” Subhash said. “It’s been amazing. I’m really excited to get in through the qualifying and now into the second round.” Also winning big on Monday

NATASHA SUBHASH (left) with her doubles partner Ann Li. Subhash advanced to the second round of the U.S. Open Junior Tournament, where she was eliminated on Tuesday. (Photo: Courtesy of USTA Girls Nationals)

was Fulton, Md., resident Raveena Kingsley. She beat Canada’s Bianca Andreescu, 6-1, 6-1. Subhash was eliminated in the second round in singles, as she fell to the No. 11 seed from Hungary

Fanny Stollar, 6-0, 6-3. In doubles, she and her partner Ann Li lost to the Colombian team of Maria Harzao Gonzalez and Yuliana Monroy, 6-4, 1-6, 10-8, in the first round.

8-41. Last year, Mason traveled to Rappahannock to deliver a shutout of 48-0, only to drop 0-42 to Wakefield High School the next week. “I don’t think this game is a symbol for the rest of the season,” said Coach Green. “We play in a

tough district, and Rappahannock is not in our district for football. The teams that we are going to play are much better and so we have to keep competitive.” Mason will travel to Sidwell Friends, a non-district opponent, on Friday, Sept. 11.

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LAST WEEK THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS held their Meet the Teacher days. The two kindergartners in the photo above visited Mt. Daniel Elementary School for a chance to see the classroom they’ll be learning in this school year, and to meet the teachers and the classmates they’ll be learning with. The kindergartners continued to familiarize themselves with the school with early release every day of the week. (P��: C�� M�� C��/FCCPS C��)

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F.C. Students Earn Academic Honors at Virginia Tech Several students from Falls Church earned academic honors from Virginia Tech during the spring semester of 2015. Sumner P. Askin, Jessica M. Auclair, Bruce M. Ayliff, Arman M. Bahraini, Brand L. Carson, Cole I. Benedict, Abigail E. Bent, Miguel A. Choi, Moses Cho, Fareez O. Chowdhury, Kristina Danielyan, Meagan C. David, Sarah E. Devlin, Giang P. Dieple, Gabriella R. DiPetto, William M. Doty, Peter J. Duffy, Mary C. Fleury, Jeremy D. Garner, Ernesto S. Guardia Gonzales, Brian R. Henderson, Timothy

J. Hilliard, Casey L. Hoff, Su Jung Kang, Sebastian J. Kaye, Jaclyn A. Koger, Nicholas S. Krall, Nora A. Lam, Mir Nima Yahyazadeh Langroudi, Mary K. Lecos, Sally E. Lewis, Jessica Lim, Evan K. Massaro, Erin S. McDougall, Erika S. Moscoso, Magdalina L. Moses, Caroline F. Murphy, Melanie C. Norton, Patrick E. O’Brien, Veronica I. O’Rourke, Emily M. Palacios, Bishal Paudel, Walter C. Porzel, Peter E. Price, Brittany M. Rorrer, Marek B. Salanski, Kallen J. Shea, Jay R. Sheth, John W. Spidi, Tinsaye Y. Sume, Alexander C. Talati, Anastasia Tolstikhin, Triet X. Truong, Paige A. Veoni, Anthony J.

Wagner, Katharine I. Wakeley, Joseph C. Weissman, Leah H. Worley and Nizar B. Zahed made the dean’s list at Virginia Tech, where students must complete at least 12 credit hours graded on the A-F grade scale and earn a 3.4 grade point average to be named to the list.

Madeleine Scherer, Junior at McLean HS, Studies in Russia Madeleine Scherer, a 16-yearold Falls Church resident and junior at McLean High School, studied abroad over the summer at in Moscow through the National Security Language Initiative for Youth. Run by the

State Department, the initiative is an immersion program sponsored in collaboration with the Russian American Foundation and the internationally renowned Moscow State Academy of Choreography. Scherer was one of 14 American high school students who studied in Russia through the program, which provides meritbased scholarships for eligible high school students to learn less commonly-taught languages in summer and academic-year overseas immersion programs. The scholarship covered all program costs for participants, including travel, tuition and related academic preparation, language testing, educational and cultural activities, meals and accommodations, among other things. The goals of the program are to develop advanced linguistic skills and related cultural understanding

and enable the students participating in the program to advance a positive international dialogue and compete effectively in the global marketplace.

F.C. Band Boosters Hold Pizza Night Fundraiser The Falls Church location of Flippin’ Pizza at 800 W Broad St #103 will host a fundraiser to benefit Falls Church City Band Boosters on Wednesday, Sept. 16 from 4 – 8 p.m. Flippin’ Pizza will donate 50 percent of all dine in and take out orders back to the Band Boosters. Falls Church City Band Boosters aims to enrich music education in the city schools, offers an instrumental lesson program, awards college scholarships and helps keep cost of performance experiences affordable for all students.

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Students Can Build A Robot at Mason’s New Makerstudio by Drew Costley

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An old space in the library at George Mason High School has a new purpose, or possibly thousands of new purposes, and has opened along with the start of the new school year. Two neighboring rooms in the rear of the school’s library, one of which was a test prep room, have been converted into what they’re calling a Makerstudio. “Explaining what this is is part of the challenge,” said John Ballou, a teacher in the school’s fine and performing arts department, as he sat at one of the workstations in the M-Space (short for Makerspace), a room with rudimentary robots, 3D printers, a workbench full of tools and a set to stage and film animation. The other room, called the M-Studio (short for Makerstudio), is a studio with audio and video equipment, musical instruments, a green screen and an Apple computer with the full suite of Adobe creative tools. The effort in part is to create a space where future students in the International Baccalaureate, which the City schools want expand to include the Middle Years Programme, can work on independent projects. The Middle Years Programme requires 10th graders to conceive and execute an independent project. But Ballou emphasized the importance of centralizing inde-

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pendent projects on Mason’s campus, creating a prototyping studio and allowing students to learn how to use design visualization tools. And the juxtaposition of the engineering and artistic tools in the Makerstduio is an effort by Mason, as with many schools across the nation, to promote STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) learning as opposed to STEM learning. “Most of the very fun things we’ve been doing in the arts department kind of stayed down there,” Ballou said. “We’ve moved some of it into the actual library where many more kids come through and get a chance to see things like robotics or get a chance to see people doing independent projects with a 3D printer and that kind of thing. “First of all, they’re going to see that it’s accessible and there are people their age who are doing this kind of work already and secondly that they’re going to be able to have a place and the time to do that.” As part of promoting use of the Makerstudio, Ballou will be teaching a Makerstudio class. The class does not have a strict curriculum – instead students conceive, plan and execute their own projects with Ballou’s guidance. In addition, the Makestudio will have open lab hours throughout the course of the day for students to come in and use the space to work on various projects.

GEORGE MASON HIGH SCHOOL is opening the school year with a new Makerstudio, a two-room space for creating and executing various projects. The space is packed with engineering and artistic tools, as part of the schools effort to integrate art into the exploration of the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Some of the tools include a 3D printer, musical instruments and a green screen. For a photo gallery of Mason’s Makerstudio, visit fcnp.com. (Photos: Drew Costley)

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Lasso’s Back to School Steps to Success 9 Steps to 9th Grade

friends, and maybe watch a few episodes of my favorite shows on Netflix. Now, however, I definitely find myself catching up on homework or going to teachers’ rooms and asking questions. It’s also perfect for if you are ever absent and need to take a test, do a science lab, or get the notes you missed. If you use Mustang Block as a time to work you can lessen the amount of homework you have to do in your own free time.

by Eliza Bonilla The Lasso

1. Join a GMHS sports team or a club if sports aren’t your thing Joining a sport can make the transition to high school so much easier and enjoyable. Since lots of sports practices begin in the summer they’ll give you a chance to get to know people before the school year starts. Sports tend to involve students in all grades, so you can find someone who knows their way around who can help you. If you don’t like sports, join a club! They’re a great way to get involved in the school and the community. And, if you don’t want to play a sport, definitely go watch the games! 2. Don’t be afraid to befriend upperclassmen For most people, freshman year will be the first time you have classes with people in multiple grades. Lunch, along with different classes and electives, is also mixed grade-wise. Branch out and don’t be afraid to talk to and become friends with people who aren’t in your own grade. If you exclusively talk to freshmen you could miss out on a lot. Yes, although people may make jokes about your freshman status, most people are open to being friends no matter what grade you’re in. 3. Pick your classes wisely Picking your classes can be a little stressful since there are more options than there were in middle school. Really think about what classes you want to take. You don’t want to get stuck in an elective you don’t like. (You should definitely choose to take journalism if you can’t decide.) Also, when it comes to whether you want to take honors classes or not, talk to your

10 Steps to 10th Grade by Megan Butler The Lasso

1. Stop complaining. Yes, it works freshman year to convince teachers to push back a test, give less homework, etc. But, 10th grade teachers are far less patient. Complaining about AP Gov to Ms. Mahony will only

teachers and think about whether you find that particular subject too challenging or not. Don’t stress about choosing too much though; you will always have the option to switch out of a class if you are really struggling, but picking the right class for you from the beginning is definitely the better option. 4. Think ahead Think about what classes you want to take next year. Your choices in classes can influence whether you choose to take an AP or IB class in the future. Check out the program of studies and meet with your counselor to see what path is the best for you. Ideally, you won’t start taking AP classes until sophomore year, but planning ahead will make it all so much easier. You don’t want to find yourself in the situation where you want to take a certain class, but don’t have the qualifications to. It might seem ridiculous to think about these get you the same response: “This is a college level course.” Also, it probably annoys a lot of upperclassmen who have harder classes than you. 2. Do NOT, I repeat do NOT check the little box to receive emails from “colleges interested in you” when you take the PSAT. If you do this, you will receive about 10 spam emails a day from some pretty weird colleges (Ursinus College???) and the emails are not special either.

things now, but never hurts to think ahead, and you might thank yourself in the future. 5. Be prepared to work! Don’t procrastinate! You will probably see a difference in the work load when you reach George Mason. It really does depend on what classes you’re taking, but, generally, you will have a lot more homework, projects, tests, etc. as most would expect out of high school. Procrastination is a big problem for me, and I’m sure it is for a lot of other people. You will definitely have to be more strict with your studying and time management. If you’re used to spending only a couple of hours on homework and studying while watching TV, it probably won’t work for you anymore. Freshman year is the time to get serious about your work ethic because the habits you make will probably stick with you for the next three years. If Sorry, but they are the same automated message sent to every other high school kid that filled in that little box on the PSATs. 3. Know that you can switch out of classes. If you walk into school during the first ten days and find learn that you signed up for a class you don’t want to take, switch out! All you have to do is go meet with your counselor and let them know that the class just isn’t going to work out for you. It will make you

you are doing a Mason sport your practices and games will leave you with even less time to get work done; balancing sports and school is extremely important. While procrastinating might seem like a good idea, it never ever is. 6. Refrain from using electronics in class and abusing your newfound freedom For students, life at George Mason is pretty relaxed, at least compared to middle school. It can be easy to take advantage of the ability to use your phone or computer, leave class, etc. Don’t make bad decisions that will negatively influence your ability to pay attention in class; you’ll probably regret it later. 7. Use Mustang Block for schoolwork! At the beginning of this school year I looked at Mustang Block as a time to just sit and relax with my a lot happier in the long run. 4. Get your learner’s permit ASAP. Sophomore year is usually the year where everyone starts driving, and trust me, it is absolutely miserable if you wait to get your permit late (I speak from experience) and then see people getting their license before you, who are younger than you. 5. SLEEP! Try to sleep when you can!

8. Don’t get too stressed or put too much pressure on yourself! While a lot of these tips have been about working hard and not goofing off, you don’t want to be too extreme about it. If you get too caught up in your school work you’ll find yourself extremely stressed. Enjoy your first year in high school, don’t let it get ruined by focusing only on grades and overworking yourself. If you get one bad grade it’s not the end of the world. Find a balance between school, hobbies, and friends. While you don’t want to completely slack off with school work, you don’t want overdo it. 9. Don’t be afraid to ask for help Just because you’re in high school, it doesn’t mean you are expected to be completely independent. If you don’t understand something, don’t refrain from asking your teachers or counselors for help. The first year at a new school can be kind of confusing because you don’t know the way everything works just yet. If you’re struggling with a class or with adjusting to high school, there is help available to you. There are writing labs and tutoring sessions you can go to after school or during Mustang Block to get a more one on one explanation of the things you’re learning in class. It also shows that you’re putting in the extra effort when you ask for help. And you can always make an appointment with a counselor if you are struggling with more than the material. After having your first couple allnighters, sleep will become your best friend and you’ll finally learn how wonderful it is. 6. Please please please go somewhere for Mustang Block besides the cafeteria. Actually be productive during Mustang Block, and you’ll have to be. Say goodbye to crowding the cafeteria (that seems to be the goal of the freshman class this year), and go do homework, study, and make use of your life.

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7. Use these suggestions for AP Gov. If you are taking AP Gov, please know these three tips: (1) Don’t think you can finish your gov homework the day it is due. You can’t. It usually at least takes about an hour or more, depending on the person and assignment. (2) That being said, try to do the Woll readings first! They are harder and longer and getting them done first feels amazing. (3) Test corrections actually save your life, so do them.

8. Know that the English books are awful compared to Freshman year. They simply are not as fun to read, they’re just annoying. You’re going to be Sparknoting a whole lot this year, but please understand that most times Sparknotes is not enough to get a good grade. 9. Participate and have fun. Be active members of the GM community. It makes life so much more enjoyable for everyone; apathy is stupid. Go hard in the pep rally,

have a blast during Sophmorphing (not trying to win the Scavenger Hunt is usually more fun), enjoy every possible snow day, and please don’t let the Freshman beat you in

dodgeball during spirit week.

11 Steps to 11th Grade

2. Get friendly with your counselor. Now is the time to become friends with your counselor, if you have not even met your counselor, and have spent the past two years avoiding him/her, it is time to stop and meet them. Not only will they be crucial in your college application process, but any summer programs/ internships that you will want to pursue will pretty much guarantee requesting a counselor’s recommendation.

the junior lot with sophomores. At this time, sophomores will start to get their licenses, which means they will start to encroach into the junior lot. Before you attempt to park in the senior lot, you better be 120 percent sure that there is not one parking spot left in the junior lot. And even when you’re sure, just know that you will get flack for being in the senior lot.

you will be faced with outside of school responsibilities. Whether you need to complete CAS hours or National Honors Society service hours, keep up and make sure you are pacing yourself.

BY MELISSA JOHNSON THE LASSO

1. Don’t be surprised that IB classes are hard. IB classes are going to be not just a step up from those honors classes that you took all through 9th and 10th grade; it is more like a flight of stairs. Don’t be surprised when you have a 12 page textbook reading, a bio IA (trust me you will get to know acronyms), and an English IOP all due on one day. Biggest advice in handling that big load is simply, don’t procrastinate and get it done. Spending time complaining and crying over the workload is only going to suck energy out of you that you will definitely need to complete those tasks.

12 Steps to 12th Grade BY EMMA GRAIG THE LASSO

1. First Semester is hard. Like, really hard. You are going to have to balance college applications and an endless workload. Just remember...you’re graduating this year. 2. Don’t think that you own a spot in the senior lot. The chalk means nothing. It’s a war zone out there. 3. Re: Pep Rally….participate. It’s not cool to pretend that you are above enjoying watching the three-legged race. This might be your last pep rally ever! Take advantage of it! The same goes for going to the musicals/plays and any sports games!

3. Establish a relationship with your current teachers. When applying to college, you will most definitely need a teacher recommendation, and specifically the recommendation should come from an 11th or 12th grade teacher. So start early, and make sure that you have a good relationship with at least two teachers.

The Official Student Newspaper of George Mason High School The Falls Church News-Press has partnered with George Mason High School’s award-winning newspaper, The Lasso, to bring its readers some of the top articles appearing in the student-run digital paper. This regular feature will appear monthly in the News-Press during the school year. The Lasso can be found online at www.fcpps.org/lasso.

5. Accept that you may be extremely sleep deprived at times. When you have gotten five hours of sleep, take a deep breath, and remember there is light at the end of the tunnel, June will come and before you know it you will be a senior. 6. Don’t procrastinate. To avoid sleep deprivation and case of insanity, do your work, and do it early. Enough said.

4. Know where to park. By Spring, you will be sharing

7. Pace yourself. In addition to your academics,

4. Be coy about college. “So….where are you going next year?! :)))” Neighbors, friends, family, parents of the kid you babysit, random person you just met, it probably seems like everyone is asking you this. My tip: Be as vague as possible in your response and then switch the subject immediately. They mean well but yeah...it’s going to get to be a little much.

tell. Your essay on your grandma can’t work for that question on “your greatest achievement”..... trust me, I’ve tried. 7. Avoid the alcoves. The senior alcove is gross and uncomfortable. I’ll just leave that there.

5. Don’t. Talk. About. College. All. The. Time. You don’t want to be one of those kids, and there are always a few, who has to know where everyone else is applying. Chill. You’ll hear when they decide where they are going next year, the rest isn’t anyone’s business but their own.

8. Learn to accept rejection. Rejection is a part of life. And it is about to be coming at you at a rapid pace. Don’t get caught up in the rejections and remember, as cliche as this sounds, it was for the best. It means you and that college went on a first date and it didn’t work out, but you have plenty of other interested boys/ girls who you click perfectly with. Thank me for the pep talk later.

6. Don’t try to use the same writing supplements for multiple colleges. It looks lazy and they can

9. Learn to navigate the waters of a College Facebook group. College Facebook groups are

10. Try Harder. Expect more work because school starts off strongly. Check

8. You don’t need to start talking about colleges yet! When people think of junior year, they think applying to college soon. Get ready for the “where are you thinking of applying to” question on the daily from your parents, teachers, and even fellow students. It is okay to say “I don’t know.” Remember most of us aren’t applying to college until August before senior year. 9. The cafeteria is not off limits. Contrary to belief, it is not shameful to be a junior in the cafeteria. Let’s be honest: The alcoves are crowded, dirty, and don’t have tables to finish last minute homework. As exciting as the perk of alcoves are; you are not any less

Schoology periodically throughout the day! It’s incredibly useful and teachers use it a lot more. Try your absolute best and don’t procrastinate. of a junior if you do not live in the alcove during lunch. I mean let’s be honest; it is hard to finish your homework on your lap. 10. Study hall is your friend. Sure, watching Netflix or Youtube for the entire block seems like heaven, but ultimately if you can use study hall as a real time to get work done, you will be forever grateful to yourself when you can go to bed at a somewhat decent hour, as opposed to losing more sleep to unfinished work. 11. You’ll survive. It goes by fast. I know when you are deep in hours of work and lack of sleep, it will seem like the year is crawling, however, you will get to June before you know it. You will get to the point where all the testing and loads of stress start to wear off, and suddenly you are left with the feeling that you have one year left of high school and that you are in the homestretch.

filled with undesirable people. The girls who want a “gym buddy” and the “Netflix lovers” and “quirky artsy” students aren’t a good representation of your school. Don’t worry, they just post the most. Also, if you decide to post in one of the roommate searches, Have an opinion on something. Don’t say you “like to go out but also stay in” or that you like “all types of music”....that’s not helpful. Being considerate isn’t going to find you a good roommate, it might just find you a wishy-washy person with no opinions.

lege so take advantage of it! You won’t be able to see Mrs. Chincheck’s endless sweater collection or Mr. Ferentinos’ slide projector next year.

10. Sit down and have a chat with some of your favorite teachers. You’ll see that the wall between the learn-ed and the learn-er breaks down more and more throughout the year. You probably won’t be able to have as close relationships as these when you’re a freshman in col-

12. Enjoy Senior year with your pals. This might be easier for some of you than others but really, take it all in. Even for those of you who are counting down the days until you can leave the “Little City” in the dust, nostalgia will hit you like a freight train. Embrace it.

11. Senioritis is real. ...And can be fatal when mixed with a second semester that really doesn’t get much easier. I repeat: second semester doesn’t get easier. Don’t kill yourself over studying for tests, but at the same time, don’t completely lose interest. You owe it to the teachers who had to deal with you throughout the fall semester.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

Medicaid Expansion: Who Beneﬁts?. The League of Women Voters of Arlington and Falls Church are hosting this forum looking at the ﬁscal and economic impact of the expansion of Medicaid currently being considered by Virginia’s General Assembly. Arlington County Department of Human Services Auditorium (2100 Washington Blvd. Arlington). Free. 7 p.m. lwvfallschurch.org. Author Visit. Brad Parks returns to One More Page to share from the most thrilling entry yet in his awardwinning Carter Ross mystery series, The Fraud. Mr. Parks is the only author to have won the Shamus, Nero and Lefty Awards. One More Page Books (2200 N Westmoreland St #101 Arlington). Free. 7 p.m. 703-300-9746.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

DMV 2 Go. Renew your driver’s license, get your hunting license, or update your address in the DMV 2 Go, open to all. City Hall (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). 9 a.m.—4 p.m. 703-248-5450.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

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. Recycling Extravaganza. Anything you need recycling, can and will be recycled: electronics, medical equipment, sewing machines, bikes, and more. Recycling Center (217 Gordon Rd., Falls Church). Volunteer: Habitat Restoration. Volunteers are needed to join a team to restore the local ecosystem in city parks. Work alongside members of the parks department and fellow volunteers to beautify the city’s parks and habitats for little creatures in the little city. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). 10 a.m.— noon. 703-538-6961. Neighborhood Plant Clinic. Master gardeners will lead a clinic on horticultural tips and tricks for adults. City of Fairfax Regional Library (10360 North Street, Fairfax). 10 a.m.—1 p.m. 703-2932113.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

Author Talk. Best-selling author Amy Stewart chats about her new novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation’s ﬁrst female deputy sheriﬀs, Girl Waits with Gun. One More Page Books (2200 N Westmoreland St #101

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Arlington). Free. 3 p.m. 703-3009746.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

Street Sweeping. Street sweepers collect the debris in our streets and keep it out of our streams. This will last from Monday until Friday. Falls Church City. Free. All Day. 703-248-5160 Author Talk. One More Page cohosts Father Michael Collins at Saint Ann Roman Catholic Church. Father Michael Collins will speak about and show images from Pope Francis: A Photographic Portrait of the People’s Pope which oﬀers a rare look at life behind the scenes with His Holiness Pope Francis. Saint Ann Roman Catholic Church (5300 N. 10th Street, Arlington). Free. 7 p.m. 703-300-9746.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

Senior Book Group. Seniors will discuss Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening by Carol Wall at the Library. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30—11:30 a.m. 703-248-5035. Paws to Read at the Library. Read with a canine companion for readers grades rising K to 6th. Sign-up will start on the day of the event, limited to

12-14 participants, depending on amount of dogs available. Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 5—6 p.m. 703248-5034.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 Clarendon Farmers Market. Support local farmers who keep their goods pesticide and chemical free. Clarendon Metro (3100 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). 3—7 p.m. 703-247-2125. Urban Gardening Classes. Arlington Food Assistance Shelter and the Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia will be teaching topics such as garden layout, design and orientation (a two-part series), soil building and testing, shadetolerant vegetables, growing and cooking superfoods, edible landscaping and fruits, container gardens, and water, irrigation and rain barrels. Central Library (1015 N Quincy St., Arlington). Free. 7—9 p.m. 703-228-6414. Author Talk. Sports author Adam Lazarus discusses Hail to the Redskins: Gibbs, the Diesel, the Hogs, and the Glory Days of D.C.’s Football Dynasty with a panel which will include former players and staﬀ interviewed in the book. One More Page Books (2200 N Westmoreland St #101 Arlington). Free. 7:30 p.m. 703-300-9746.

Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

“The Fix.” When a popular presidential candidate dies in his mistress’s arms, his ambitious wife, Violet, immediately declares that if she can’t be the wife of the president, then she’ll be the mother of the president – and thrusts their lackluster son Cal into the spotlight in Dempsey and Rowe’s outrageous musical comedy “The Fix.” With the help of her strategic brother-inlaw, Violet transforms her son into the perfect citizen and ideal politician. Through Sept. 20. Signature Theatre (4200 S. Campbell Ave., Arlington). $40 – $72. 8 p.m. sigtheatre.org.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

“Night Falls on the Blue Planet.” Renee has had a rough couple of years. Screw that: Renee has had a rough life, shaped by alcoholism and

estrangement. All that changes when she gets a massage and discovers that her body is a world unto itself. With help from her younger sister she starts to map and explore a lifetime of trauma: but is she healing, or is she vanishing into her own world? Will her exploration heal her relationship with her older sister, or widen their divide? Through Sept. 27. Anacostia Playhouse (2020 Shannon Pl. NE, Washington, D.C.). $20. 8 p.m. theatrealliance.com.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

“Girls Like Us: A History Lesson with Nora Palka.” Nora Palka presents “Girls Like Us: A History Lesson,” inspired by the groundbreaking biography by Sheila Weller. Through a night of singing and music we will celebrate the in�luence of these women in particular and the evolution of women in music from the 1960s

all the way up to our music we listen to today. One night only. ArtSpace Falls Church (410 S. Maple St., Falls Church). $15 – $50. 8 p.m. creativecauldron.org.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

“Chimerica.” This epic play tracks two decades of US-China relations alongside lives forever changed by the crosswinds of politics and history. In 1989, Joe, a young American journalist, photographs a protester facing down four tanks in Tiananmen Square. In 2012, with election season bringing US-China relations into the spotlight, Joe decides to seek out the subject of his most famous image – just as an old friend from China reaches out with an agenda of his own. Through Oct. 18. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $49 – $65. 7:30 p.m. studiotheatre.org.

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live_music&nightlife THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 T�� D�� J�� S�� M�� L��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $12 in advance; $15 day of the show. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. A�� A��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-5329283. L��’ D�� G��P�� H�� C��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. M�� B��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12. 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. T�� G�� K�� N�� R�� T�� B�� E�� W��. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $38 – $50. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 COMMUNION �� C�� S��, F�� F�� C�� N��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $18; $15 – $18. 7 p.m. 703-255-1566. C�� C�� S��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 7 p.m. 703-532-9283. L�� S�� T�� L�� T��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 8 p.m. 202265-0930. J�� B��. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $35 – $60. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900.

B�� T�� K�� T�� R�� M�� W�� B��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. M�� S�� R��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15. 9 p.m. 202-667-7960. T�� B�� T�� P�� L�� C��. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $10. 9 p.m. 703-522-8340. C�� N��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12. 9 p.m. 202-667-7960. E�� P��. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703237-8333.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 I��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. T�� S�� – A T�� B�� J��. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $17 in advance. $20 day of the show. 7 p.m. 703-237-0300. B�� 90� �� B�� S�� (G�� D�� T��), F�� U�� (P�� J�� T��), A�� V�� (B��) �� R�� H�� L�� (C�� T��). Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $15 in advance; $13 – $15 day of the show. 7 p.m. 703-255-1566. H�� B�� A�� C��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 7 p.m. 202265-0930.

T�� M�� G�� A��. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $49.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. C�� C�� R�� S��, A�� M�� M�. F��’� M�� A�� B��. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8 p.m. 703-5228340. T�� A�� S�� B�� B��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $16 in advance; $18 day of the show. 9 p.m. 202-667-7960. H��. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703237-8333.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 F�� S�� M�K�� F��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. C�� C�� H��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. I��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-532-9283. G��, T��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12. 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 T�� E�� S�� / R�� S��: M��, M��, C�� A�� B��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566.

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K��’� X �� K�� S��. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $25. 7:30 p.m. 703-5497500. A�� S�� C�� L�� W��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10. 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 F�� J�� J�� G�� L�� D�N��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $18 – $20. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. E�� D�� M�� J�� V�� R��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. B�� C��’� “S�� 40”. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $35. 7:30 p.m. 703-5497500. T�� D�� J�� S�� M�� L��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12 in advance; $15 day of the show. 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 99 – A R�� O��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 in advance; $15. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. C�� T�� B�� J�� N C��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. L�� J�� D�� R��. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $55. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500.

P�� A��... Saturday, September 19 – Taste of Falls Church and The Fall Festival 2015. Features include live entertainment, pony rides, children’s amusements, crafters,

businesses and civic organizations and cuisine from city kitchens. The children’s activity tent will oﬀer face painting and craft projects. Festivalgoers can sample cuisine from City restaurants for $3 per taste or $25 for 10 tastes. Skip the line and purchase your Taste tickets in advance at the Community Center beginning September 10 at 8 a.m. Admission to the event is free, but amusement rides and tasting require the purchase of one or more tickets. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/fallfestival.

Saturday, September 26 – Virginia Science Festival. Join Virginia Tech and 4-H at the Virginia Tech Maker Festival, part of the statewide Virginia Science

Festival that runs from September 25 – October 30. It will be a day full of creativity, engineering and resourcefulness where attendees can learn to make just about anything, such as natural dyes, play dough circuits, LED paintbrushes, t-shirt jewelry, robots, rockets and more. First Robotics and its 150 pound robot will be on hand. Virginia Tech – Northern Virginia Center (7054 Haycock Road, Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. cpe.vt.edu/vtmaker/ index.html.

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School Board Meets with Council Monday to Plead for More Money

Henderson Middle School Opens Its Doors, Area Schools Tackle Bullying

Reacting to pressures caused by unprecedented enrollment growth in the City’s schools, the Falls Church School Board will be seeking additional funds “in the range of $70,000 to $200,000” from the City Council in the next few weeks, Board Chairman Jann Murchie told the News-Press. Murchie reported to the Council Monday night that the system experienced an enrollment increase of 115 students over the summer.

It’s back to school for students at all levels, and their teachers and administrators, this week. In the City of Falls Church, Tuesday marked the opening of the new Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School building on the campus of George Mason High School. Students showed up for the new 7:20 a.m. start time at the middle school, which now constitutes grades five through seven.

F.C. Campaigns Begin For November Election It remains slow and uneven, but the campaigns of five candidates for the Falls Church City Council and nine for the Falls Church School Board aiming toward a November 3 election began to show some life as of the Labor Day weekend. Two new candidates shared an event to kick off their campaigns in the first public event of the campaign season: First-time candidates Letty Hardi for City Council and Erin Gill for School Board. And each with three young boys in the school system, they hosted a kickoff party at the pavilion in Cherry Hill Park Sunday morning with a robust turnout which was a roughly equal number of parents

and children. State Del. Marcus Simon was there to speak and Council member Phil Duncan and Planning Commissioner Lindy Hockenberry were present. Last month, Council candidate Sam Mabry issued a press release calling for a moratorium on apartment building construction, a position that incumbent Mayor David Tarter disputed in his annual “State of the City” interview in the News-Press last week. “Continued economic development should continue to replicate the mixed use model that has been so successful to date,” the mayor said. Hardi, in her event, said, “During T:7 in budget meetings this past spring, it was disheartening to hear from the

same, very vocal few who consistently offered a doom and gloom view of the City. I choose to be optimistically realistic...about funding our great schools, while promoting smart development and being fiscally prudent.” Council candidate Johannah Barry wrote a blog post earlier this month about what she called “The School Building Arms Race.” The next candidates forums are slated for Oct. 8 for City Council candidates and Oct. 15 for School Board candidates, and at the monthly luncheon of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce on Oct. 20. The Council candidates are incumbents Duncan and Tarter, and Hardi, Mabry and Barry (Mabry and Barry have served on the Council in the past). The School Board candidates are incumbents Justin Castillo and Kieran Sharpe and Gill, Jacob Radcliff, Philip Reitinger, Mark Kaye, Allison Kutchma and Becky Smerdon.

THIS IS CHIQUITA, a 9-year-old Chihuahua. She loves to go on walks at Alcova Heights Park, which is located in her South Arlington neighborhood. Her hobbies include: sunbathing, trying to catch flying insects that annoy her and guarding the house from the postman. She is terrified of thunderstorms and loud action movies, but she loves Spanish soap operas. Although she enjoys her dog food, her favorite treats are yogurt and empanadas (she even dances for them). Chiquita can have bad temper at times, but she has a good heart and is great companion.

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Diener & Associates, CPA. . . . . . . . . 241-8807 Eric C. Johnson, CPA, PC . . . . . . . . 538-2394 Mark Sullivan, CPA . . . . . . . . . . . 571-214-4511 Hahn & Associates, PC, CPAs . . . . . 533-3777

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Broad Street Pharmacy . . . . . . . . . . . 533-9013 Gary Mester, Event, Portraits . . . . . . 481-0128 Mary Sandoval Photography . . . . 334-803-1742 Merelyn Kaye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .790-9090x218 www.helpfulmortgage.us . . . . . . . . . . 237-0222 Casey O’Neal - ReMax . . . . . . . . . . . 824-4196 Rosemary Hayes Jones . . . . . . . . . . .790-1990 The Young Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .356-8800 Tori McKinney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867-8674 Shaun Murphy, Realtor . . . . . . . . . . 868-5999

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