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Inside This Week F.C. Residents Like Mad Fox, Harris Teeter
Respondents to a Falls Church Planning Department survey this summer overwhelmingly felt that the large-scale, mixed-use projects, the Mad Fox/Spectrum building and the newly completed Harris Teeter building and residences, contribute positively to the “community character” of the City. See News Briefs, page 8
F.C. Chamber Lunch Focuses on Diversity
An unprecedented panel discussion before the monthly luncheon of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce Tuesday drew four Muslim business owners in the area to share their dreams, their striving and challenges to making it.
5 F.C. School Principals Report Enrollment Up Sharply K-to-12 Tastiest of Falls Church
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A few weeks ago I met a guy in Kentucky who’d lived through every trend of deindustrializing America. See page 14
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CAFE KINDRED CO-OWNER JEN DEMETRIO celebrates after her restaurant is named winner of the 2017 Taste of Falls Church last Saturday afternoon. Demetrio and her Cafe Kindred crew served a winning menu of mushroom and scallop vol-au-vent, Brussels sprouts with bacon and Parmesan crisp, grilled cheese with peppers and gazpacho and blueberry cheesecake mousse. For more pictures from the Taste of Falls Church at Fall Festival, see page 22. (Photo: Drew Costley)
Nationwide Concerts to ‘End Gun Violence’ Feature 4 in F.C. by Patricia Leslie
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It will be the concert heard around the nation this Sunday when thousands of performers, including George Mason High School’s jazz ensemble, play throughout the U.S. at free “End Gun Violence” shows, including
four at Falls Church locations. Musicians are donating their talents and restaurants are donating their venues to raise awareness of gun violence which is out of control, says Carol Luten, the Falls Church coordinator and passionate advocate for the “End Gun Violence” movement. At Argia’s, Mason teacher Josh
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Walker will join the F.C. school’s jazz ensemble and play guitar, singer and guitarist Andrew Acosta will perform at Applebee’s, vocalist Ramon Camarillo will play at Clare and Don’s Beach Shack, and the Yeonas Brothers Band will be at Lil City Creamery.
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Peter Bjorn and John released their first album in five years, in June. Guitarist and vocalist Peter Morén said the group can feel that they’ve been away for a long time.
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On the heels of the first day of school’s enrollment numbers tallied last week showing an addition of 157 net new students, or a robust 6.6 percent growth, principals of the five Falls Church City Public Schools campuses came together at a work session of the Falls Church School Board Tuesday night to give reports on early enrollment numbers (the biggest news, all solidly up), as well as some SOL and other test comparisons (all very high) and objectives for the coming year above and beyond excellent classroom education. George Mason High School’s interim principal Matt Hills reported that enrollment as of today is at 821, up 34 over last year, and noted that in addition to a 100 percent graduation rate, over 91 percent of seniors are enrolled in at least one Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or Dual Enrollment (in subjects such as physics in conjunction with the Northern Virginia Community College) class. The total is 83 percent of those in grades 10-12. Mary Ellen Henderson principal Ty Harris reported an attendance of 591 as of today, and that reading scores for ESOL students are 10 to 20 points above the state SOL average. Engagement, he noted, will include the annual Back to School Night tonight (Thursday. Sept. 22) from 6 p.m. on, and an MEH Faculty Vs/ Rec Center Staff basketball game Oct. 14.
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All 5 F.C. Schools Report Solid Enrollment Growth Continued from Page 1
Thomas Jefferson Elementary’s new principal Paul Swanson reported enrollment at 823 students, up from 784 during the 2015-16 school year, and said that a major challenge there is to raise the English proficiency rankings of the school’s economically disadvantaged students, which are currently below the state average (unique for Falls Church schools). Those students represent almost 10 percent of the student body. He added that based on the spring’s “climate survey” results, another challenge being addressed is to “revitalize the culture and communication” at the school. He noted the campus is almost at full capacity now. Mt. Daniel Elementary’s new principal Erin Kelly reported attendance at 392 today, up from 349 last year, and cited good results in the Developmental Reading Assessment, Phonological Awareness Literacy Screens,and STAR Early Literacy, Math and Reading results. Summer school
increased STAR reading results in 85 percent of the students. Jessie Thackrey Preschool principal Elizabeth Germer cited enrollment at 73 this year compared to 56 last year, including nine two-year olds compared to one a year ago. Later in the work session Tuesday, the School Board discussed plans for finding a qualified replacement for departing Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones. With Dr. Jones slated to leave in early December for a new position as superintendent of the Fairfield, Connecticut, school system, the board indicated its intention to launch a nationwide search using a search firm or Virginia School Board Association resources, and indicated a “robust public engagement process” would be involved in the decision making. The aim, according to Board vice chair John Lawrence, would be to hire the replacement in the spring and to have the replacement ready for to start July 1, 2017 or before if possible. In the search for an interim
PRINCIPALS OF ALL 5 Falls Church City Public School campuses appeared together before the Falls Church School Board at a work session Tuesday night to give preliminary enrollment numbers and more at the work session. (P����: N���-P����) superintendent, the plan is to search the Virginia School Board Association’s pool of past superintendents in the state willing to serve in an interim role, and to advertise elsewhere as well. The plan, Lawrence said, is “to aim for some overlap with Dr. Jones before she leaves in early December.” Also, Superintendent Jones told
a meeting of the Elementary PTA Tuesday night that the plan is to begin with the renovation and expansion of the Mt. Daniel Elementary School as soon as school ends next June 22, now that the plan was approved by the Fairfax County Planning Commission last week. The construction team returned Tuesday to resume mapping the planning and permitting process,
she reported, and with demolition expected to begin next June, and the new site is expected to be ready for occupancy between August and December 2018. Temporary classrooms will likely arrive around the time of the Spring Break next spring which will impact parking but no moving of classrooms or demolition will begin before June 22.
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F.C. Chamber Hosts Panel Of Muslim Business Owners
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An unprecedented panel discussion before the monthly luncheon of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce this Tuesday drew four Muslim business owners in the area to share their dreams, their striving and challenges to making it. They acknowledged that today’s political climate has made life more difficult for them over the past year. The unique event was put on by the recently-convened Diversity Inclusion Effort of the Falls Church Chamber under the direction of local CPA and Chamber board member Michael Diener, who moderated Tuesday’s event. Diener opened the discussion by hailing the Chamber Board’s willingness to form this new group, having considerable diversity among its members, itself. He cited his long friendship with Falls Church City Assessor Sam Khamis, who is of Egyptian descent. He said that while Muslim faith or ethnicity has never come into their friendship, he was shocked to learn that Khamis’ daughter feared for her ability to come back into the U.S. from a visit abroad.
The business owners who spoke were Masgood Chaudhry who owns a chain of Grove Dental Clinics, Liaqat Al Chaudry, a Shell gas station owner, Mohammad Asghar of Solutions Catering and Bentley’s Restaurant, and Marwan Ahmad of Arabesque Media, the Arab-American Voice, an online news provider, and ArabAmerican Business Council. All described stories of coming to the U.S., their parents and themselves working menial jobs, but with perseverance moving up to the point of running their own businesses. The unexpectedly moving accounts were made more poignant by their accounts of how 9/11 impacted them, and more recently with the heightened antiMuslim political rhetoric of the past year’s presidential election. Asghar, who runs his Bentley’s business in conjunction with Chamber member David Crance, told the story of coming to the U.S. from Pakistan, and his father working as a dishwasher. He, himself, got a job as a busboy and worked his way up in a restaurant such that he was able to start his own business by 1999. But the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 “hurt us big time,” he said, and he spent the
next four years trying to scratch together means to pay the mortgage. He appealed to communication, to talking, as the best way to overcome fears and doubts, and praised the convening of the panel for contributing to that effort. Ahmad spoke of the fear of losing business if one becomes known as a Muslim. When his newspaper was produced in print, he said that efforts to even give away ads, as incentives to even as large a business as Walmart were rebuffed. But he said in reality the Muslim community in this region is “a highly educated community” that “makes more on average than the median household income in the U.S.” Liaqat Al Chaudry spoke about his struggle to make his small business, which he began by working at a gas station in 1975 before taking it over and running it with his brother until he died in 1986. Masgood Chaudhry, now with dental offices in Falls Church, Alexandria, Herndon, Tysons Corner and Sterling, spoke of the tendency to avoid discrimination by “hiding who you are.” Ahmad said that business is hurting now because of “those who want to shy away from us until the (presidential) election is over.” He said that “many of us are
FOUR MUSLIM OWNERS of area businesses spoke about their challenges to the monthly luncheon of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce Tuesday, convened by the Chamber’s Diversity Inclusion Effort led by local CPA Michael Diener (far left). (P����: N���-P����) ing rural kids to school. We used to have to pack our food when driving to New York, because we couldn’t be sure if a restaurant we stopped at would serve us.” But now he has a Master’s Degree, he said, as evidence that things get better. “We are so happy to be a part of the United States,” said Asghar. “This is the land of opportunity.”
not out of the closet yet” being “afraid of a backlash.” Chamber member Gary Hughes praised the courage of the business owners on the panel, saying, “It takes courage to stand up and say, ‘This is who I am.’” As an AfricanAmerican, Hughes said, “When I was born it was illegal to marry my wife, and in school, there was no money allotted to pay for bring-
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On the one hand, it is encouraging that the citizens of Falls Church, responding to the survey circulated by the City’s Planning Department this summer (see story, page 5), feel very positive about some of the new large-scale mixed-use development projects around town. In particular, as the survey results showed, they like the Mad Fox building and Harris Teeter building (giving the building the name of its principal ground floor retailers is fair enough, in our view). This means that the public should love the big 4.3-acre Mason Row project that will soon begin construction at the southeast corner of the W. Broad and N. West Street intersection, once it is done, at least. It makes sense that the survey shows the public less thrilled by mixed-use projects that have not been able to score with good ground floor retailers. If you like what you see in front of you at the street level, you don’t care so much about what’s above it, apparently. Again, fair enough. But what is not encouraging about the survey, which will be the subject of a town hall meeting on Falls Church “visioning” on the morning of Oct. 1, was the response to Question 11: “Which of these values do you think are most important to include in an updated Vision Statement?” “Community character” came in first at 72 percent, followed by “environment” at 52 percent and “quality education” at 52 percent, with “diversity in housing” coming in last among six options at 25 percent. Now, granted there are 13,500 residents in Falls Church and this survey was taken by only 472 (it would have been a lot more had the survey been published in the News-Press). But to the extent that City Hall and others take their cues from this, we are not happy that “quality education,” which used to be the pride and joy of this City, came in third to factors that at least these residents think are more important, such as breweries, big grocery stores and good restaurants. The altruism that is associated with dedication to quality education is eclipsed in these survey results by more self-centered creature comforts. Alas, in a nation with a Donald Trump as potentially its next president, maybe this also reflects a souring mood in the body politic. A sad commentary if true, and if it is, frankly it makes a full dedication to what once was a truly special place less enticing. Let there be no doubt that the News-Press’ 25 year history of support for economic development in Falls Church was never for the development in and of itself. It has always been because we’ve seen the link between strong economic growth and the revenues it provides to pay for quality schools. For us, top quality educational opportunities for students in the schools have been our Number One priority, without exception.
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cation and commitment to excellence and to our students. Although he has only just begun his climb into the higher levels of administration with his appointment as Director of Secondary Education for Arlington County, I encourage the school board to consider his education, dedication and experience in our school system as more important factors than the bureaucratic experience other candidates for this posi-
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Outsource City Of F.C. Schools to Arlington County Editor, What with the turmoil at the top of our school system, maybe it’s time to consider doing what the City did with our Fire Department: outsource it to Arlington County. We could eliminate all the schools’ considerable management costs and have our tax dollars go to classrooms. Charles D. Connor Falls Church
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Walkable Urbanism in the City of Falls Church B� S������ S�������
People were streaming along the sidewalks and biking down the street – parents with children, couples, retirees, and the full ethnic diversity of our region. Where were they all going? We were leading one of our tours of walkable urban places and were amazed. Our group had just reached Park Avenue after having come up from the East Falls Church Metro. It felt like market day, and in fact it was – with the weekly Farmers Market, the Taste of Falls Church and the Fall Festival all taking place last Saturday. Mayor Tarter, Vice Mayor Connelly, and Councilmember Hardi were there to meet us and tell us about the Little City. The Mayor talked about the community’s efforts to become an even better place for walking and bicycling, including adding Capital Bikeshare. We learned about the effort to bring new amenities like the Harris Teeter, and investment that will diversify the tax base to reduce pressure on residential property taxes. We learned about the city’s commitment to environmental sustainability and quality of life. With the help of Falls Church’s planning department, our guides for the morning, we looked at old and new development along Washington and Broad Streets, talking about urban design, sidewalk widths, best designs for ground-floor retail and more. It was easy to feel the difference between walking along a narrow sidewalk
next to high-speed traffic and the new wider sidewalks with street trees. At the Northgate development, we talked about the benefits of redevelopment for dealing with long-standing stormwater
“Metro studies show that attracting more riders who walk and bike to the stations is far more cost-effective than building very expensive parking structures.”
problems. Old parking lots fuel torrents of floodwater into creeks like Four Mile Run. New development must meet current stormwater control standards and significantly reduce runoff. The sidewalk retention basins are one tool, although the big clunky ones at Northgate will have to be chalked up as a learning experience! The Harris Teeter is the big new addition and lies within reach of most city residents, generating a significant number of walking trips to the store. Later, we learned from developer Bob Young about the sustainability features of his Flower Building
and the affordable apartments for teachers in the Read Building. Parking needs are being reduced through shared parking at the Hilton Garden Inn. So many people arrive by shuttle from Metro, that they don’t need as much parking as they have. The two Metro stations that bear the Falls Church name became a big topic of conversation, particularly because neither is as accessible as it could be. The long walk from East Falls Church Metro demonstrated, without a doubt, the need for a western entrance to the Metro at Washington Street. The western entrance would place the Metro much closer to many Falls Church and Arlington residents. Metro studies show that attracting more riders who walk and bike to the stations is far more cost-effective than building very expensive parking structures. Almost all of Falls Church lies within one mile of one of the two Metro stations. So it’s easy to see why good sidewalks, bike lanes and bikeshare are great ways to connect the community to the two Metro stations. East Falls Church Metro is already a champion in attracting bike commuters, but the demand is such that a bike station is in progress, designed by the same folks who created that amazing glass bike station at Union Station in DC. Bikeshare will add a whole new level of convenience for the commute to Metro, because you’ll be able to ditch the heavy bike lock. But the city almost didn’t win the funding in the face
of opposition from outer suburban legislators and highway lobbyists. So we jumped into the fray, sending an alert to our Falls Church members, who responded in record numbers to send letters of support that helped to win the funding. We didn’t have time to go to Tinner Hill or the West Falls Church Metro, but we learned about both and plan to come back. West Falls Church Metro is a disjointed place today and many talk about how the big parking lots feel unsafe at night. So it would be a real win to create a walkable urban place, with a new high school, mixed-use development, and a more vibrant Virginia Tech campus. We wrapped up our tour in the pocket park at the Spectrum development, but people wanted to keep talking, so we adjourned for a great lunch at the Mad Fox. Falls Church is a wonderful place, and in demand because of its walkability, convenient access to jobs and services, and nearby Metro stations. Carefully planned development in the commercial corridors will provide needed housing, convenient new services, help the tax base, and contribute to a walking and biking friendly community. We look forward to returning to see the next stages in the evolution of the Little City.” Stewart Schwartz is executive director of the Coalition for Smarter Growth.
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NEWS BRIEFS Survey: F.C. Citizens Like Mad Fox, Harris Teeter In a result that surprised many on the Falls Church City Council, the 472 City of Falls Church respondents to a Falls Church Planning Department survey this summer overwhelmingly felt that the large scale mixed use projects at 444 W. Broad (the Mad Fox/ Spectrum building) and 301 W. Broad (the newly completed Harris Teeter building and residences) contribute positively to the “community character” of the City. F.C. Principal Planner Paul Stoddard reported the results to the Council at a work session Monday night in advance of a scheduled Oct. 1 follow-up public meeting on the community’s vision for the future of F.C. Stoddard said about the survey, conducted between Aug. 1 and Sept. 9 this summer, “Respondents generally favor the small town charm of Falls Church and want to keep its sense of place. However, respondents overwhelmingly think the Spectrum (86 percent) and Harris Teeter (77 percent) have contributed to the City’s character.” When asked what kinds of places in the region they liked best, respondents selected Old Town Alexandria and Shirlington, along with Falls Church, and areas they least liked included Tysons Corner and Ballston. In ranking the most important values for the City, citizens placed community character first (72 percent), followed by environment (52 percent), quality education (52 percent), commercial redevelopment (47 percent), transportation (39 percent) and diversity in housing (25 percent), with others totaling eight percent.
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U.S. Representatives Don Beyer and Gerry Connolly are demanding the release of Falls Church native Aya Hijazi, who the representatives say has been falsely imprisoned without trial in Egypt for over two years. Beyer, a Falls Church native himself, met with Hijazi’s family and counsel from Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights on Thursday, Sept. 15 to discuss the conditions of Hijazi’s confinement. They discussed the lack of evidence presented by Egyptian authorities to support their charges, the breakdown in due process which has resulted in seven trial postponements and the broader crackdown on non-governmental organizations, journalists, academics, artists and human rights organizations in Egyptian civil society. After the meeting, Beyer was joined by Connolly and Chelsea Cowan, Hijazi’s close friend, at the U.S. Capitol for a press conference to discuss the case further. “The biggest thing was trying to bring this case to the attention of the administration,” Beyer said.
Input Sought on Hazard Mitigation Plan The 2017 draft Northern Virginia Hazard Mitigation Plan is now available for public review and comment on Fairfax government websites and public review and comments are encouraged up to Friday, Oct. 2. The plan was updated by the Northern Virginia Hazard Mitigation Advisory Committee, which includes representatives from 19 jurisdictions, including the City of Falls Church. The committee plans to have it approved by February 2017 to comply with the five year update cycle required by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Hazard mitigation is the effort to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters.
82 Living Cats Removed from F.C. Home Fairfax County Animal Protection Police removed 82 living cats and five dead cats from a 52-year-old man’s house in the 7200 block of Westmoreland Road in Falls Church on Saturday, Sept. 17. A tip came from an investigator with the Director of Code Compliance. Officers discovered the cats, ranging in age from newborns to nearly seven years old, exhibiting varying signs and symptoms of illness. All of the cats were removed from the home, transported to the Fairfax County Animal Shelter and treated by a local veterinarian.
Minority Law Firms Now Welcome LGBT Members The National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) announced yesterday that LGBT owned firms certified by the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NLGCC) and otherwise eligible are “effective immediately to be members of our organization.” The Falls Church NAMWOLF-member firm of Benton, Potter and Murdock forwarded the announcement here.
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“This is not ‘anti-gun,’” Luten emphasized in an interview at her Falls Church home last week. “It’s designed to create awareness and a movement for change. We need to come together and stop gun violence. I’ve never had any gun violence in my life.” Haunted by the murders of 26 students and staff members in Newtown in 2012, Luten’s passion to stop gun violence intensified the following year when the Navy Yard shooter killed 12 here in D.C. “I had to do something,” she said. Luten founded “I Draw Guns,” an artistic boon to unleash her gun violence emotions and display her talents, using chalk to illustrate the movement in public places. And she joined others on the mission. Every week Luten, a retired microbiologist, spends hours working with local groups, designing art for events, writing news releases, communicating, promoting the message and attending rallies like the one held monthly at National Rifle Association headquarters in Fairfax. Argia’s owner Salina Rana says “gun violence is one of the major problems happening in America, especially among the young. I am very happy that Argia’s is participating to help create this awareness. I really appreciate Carol. It’s a great message. So many innocent lives have been lost.” According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 33,000 die every year in the U.S.
from gun violence. “When Carol presented the idea, we got very excited to participate in this worthy cause,” said Jeff Goldberg, owner of Lil City Creamery, “We have to do something about gun violence. It’s an honor for a small shop like us to be a part of this, and it’s a nice way to have some community involvement.” Over at Clare & Don’s, Ramon Camarillo will play a ukulele and sing “happy” (Don Ho) Hawaiian music where he’ll be joined by a bass player. “We need to make it harder for the wrong people to get guns,” Camarillo said “I don’t know what we can do besides get stronger legislation and have background checks.” According to a CNN/ORC poll, more than 91 percent of Americans favor background checks. At Applebee’s, Andrew Acosta will be accompanied by bass player Harold Richmond. Acosta is happy he was invited to play. “I love to play music, and it’s a good cause, and I am happy to contribute to a good cause,” he said. The George Mason Jazz Ensemble has 22 students who play seven different instruments, said Mary Jo West, the school’s director of music who’s been teaching for 33 years. “We feel very positive about supporting a good cause,” she said. West continued. ”I feel strongly how important it is for the students to understand the impact of music, and how music can impact a cause.”
The Yeonas Brothers Band has been playing together about 15 years, ever since identical twins, Paul and Dimitri, launched their musical careers at age seven. The brothers’ dad, Dean, is a member of the band, too. “Paul and I play the acoustic guitar, and Dimitri, the bass guitar,” said their proud papa who co-owns Northern Virginia’s Yeonas & Shafran Real Estate in McLean. The elder Yeonas says they were asked to play 60s music so they’ll be doing songs by Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, among others. “This is a really great event to raise awareness. It’s not anti-gun,” Yeonas said. “We love to play music and hope to add some positive energy to the whole event. We’re not there to take a political position.” Local legislators supporting the movement include U.S. Congressman Don Beyer and Virginia General Assembly members, Marcus Simon and Dick Saslaw. All the concerts last from 5 – 8 p.m., are free and donations to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence will be accepted at the venues. In addition, there will be a petition for a new gun violence license plate, the latest project for Luten. Drumming up support for the special car tag is not easy since 450 signatures are required. “We have 200 [signatures] now, but it’s really hard to get them,” Despite the challenge, Luten remains confident. “I will do it,” she says.
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Community News & Notes Kensington F.C. Caregiver Connect Starts on Oct. 5
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F.C. Hosts 2nd Visioning Community Workshop
The Kensington Falls Church, an assisted living facility, is hosting a monthly gathering for caregivers of seniors called Caregiver Connect. The next Caregiver Connect is on Wednesday, Oct. 5 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at the recently opened Kensington Falls Church Information Center, located at 1212 W. Broad St., Falls Church. Aging and Dementia expert Dr. Anya Parpura will be at the event, which is a time for caregivers to meet and discuss the challenges they face. Experts will provide information, advice and support at the sessions. Light refreshments will be served. The next Caregiver Connect after the October session is Wednesday, Nov. 2. Those who plan to attend can RSVP by calling 703-992-9868. For more
‘Plants 4 Life’ Event Slated For Sept. 29 at F.C. Library
The City of Falls Church is hosting another community workshop on Saturday, Oct. 1 from 9 – 11 a.m. at Columbia Baptist Church at 103 W. Columbia Street to give residents, City officials, staff and guest speakers a chance to meet to discuss results of a survey asking residents what they think the City will look and feel like in the future. At the community workshop, attendees will discuss the results of the City’s Vision 2040 survey, which closed on Friday, Sept. 9. Survey results will be presented at the workshop. There will be guest speakers who will give a presentation about the future of the City at the workshop. The event is free and open to the public. The City asked in a post about the event on its
Mary Riley Styles Public Library at 120 N. Virginia Avenue is hosting an event called Plants 4 Life: Nutrition and Healthier Living on Thursday, Sept. 29 from 7 – 9 p.m. At the free class, registered nurse Margaretha Backers will teach about how to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into participants’ diets, some easy tips for good nutrition and the cost of eating healthier. Backers will also teach attendees about how to add plant-based nutrition and wellness to their diets. Registration is required for the event. To reserve a spot, stop by the library’s Reference Desk or call 703-248-5035. For more information, visit fallschurchva. gov/Library.
FALLS CHURCH CHEETAH PLAYER Rebecca Degnan (center right, red jersey) challenges for a loose ball during a recent game. Saturday, Sept. 17 was the beginning of the Falls Church Youth Soccer season. The youth soccer season lasts through early to mid-November and will feature competition between several different squads from the local area. (Photo: Courtesy of Matthew Degnan)
website that those who plan to attend, RSVP at surveymonkey. com/r/37KHLZY. For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/ vision.
Woodrow Wilson Library to Screen All 8 Harry Potter Films Woodrow Wilson Library, located at 6101 Knollwood Dr., Falls Church, is planning to screen all eight Harry Potter movies during its Movie Night at the Library series, a monthly film screening event, starting with “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” on Thursday, Oct. 6. The screening starts at 5 p.m. The films are rated PG or PG13 and the screenings are free. The films will be shown the first Thursday of each month, which means the series will run through May. Registration is not required. For more information, call 703820-8774.
City Hall Renovation Town Hall Scheduled for Oct. 6 The City of Falls Church is hosting a town hall on Thursday, Oct. 6 to give citizens a chance to weigh in on the City’s plans to renovate City Hall. The town hall will be held from 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers on the second floor of City Hall, located at 300 Park Ave., Falls Church. The City is currently planning a multi-million dollar renovation project for City Hall, which several employees who work in the building said is deteriorating and unsecured. City staff and the architectural firm that the City is working with on the project will be present at the town hall. City residents will have the opportunity to give input on the overall concept, building flow and more at the event. For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/ cityhallreno.
THE 22ND ANNUAL GREENWICH STREET block party was held on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016. It was a great night of welcoming lots of new neighbors to the ever changing street, visiting with old neighbors who remain a part of the Greenwich family, face painting, bike riding, water balloons, lots of home cooked food and even live music from Sound Check a local George Mason High School band. (Photo: Courtesy of Katrina Wagner)
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Dulin United Methodist Hosts Blessing of Animals
Dulin United Methodist Church at 513 E. Broad Street is hosting its annual Blessing of Animals event on Sunday, Sept. 25 at 4 p.m. The church is inviting members of the public to bring their pets to the front lawn of the church to get them blessed by Dulin’s pastor Dave Kirkland. There will be music and more at the event. Dulin Church is accepting donations at the event to benefit the local branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. For more information, visit dulinchurch.org or call 703-532-8060.
“We are proud to join the adoptee-led movement that seeks justice for the thousands of intercountry adoptees without U.S. citizenship. These adoptees came as children and many now have children of their own,” said Dae Joong Yoon, executive director of the National Korean American Service and Education Consortium. “There are adoptees struggling to support their families, find or keep their jobs, cover legal fees to uncover why they are not citizens, and are subject to being detained or deported to a country they do not even remember.” For more information, visit adopteerightscampaign.org or email adopteedefense@gmail.com.
Eileen Levy Recovering at Home from Recent Fall
McLean Players’ ‘Comic Potential’ Opens on Oct. 7
Falls Church’s treasured artist and bon vivant in residence Eileen Levy is home from the Rehab Center and undergoing rigorous therapy to recover from her bonebruising fall last month.
The McLean Community Players’ production of Sir Alan Ayckbourn’s sci-fi romantic comedy “Comic Potential” opens on Friday, Oct. 7 at 8 p.m. at the McLean Community Center’s Alden Theatre. “Comic Potential” runs through Saturday, Oct. 22 and includes Sunday matinees on October 9 and 16. On one level, “Comic Potential” is a satire of the television industry. It is set slightly in the future, when everything has changed except human nature. On a deeper level, Comic Potential explores what makes us human and the nature of love. The McLean Players’ production of the show is directed by Bob Sams. “In Comic Potential, Sir Alan Ayckbourn presents us with a couple of very interesting questions: What makes comedy (as opposed to just being funny)? What is love and can restrictions be placed upon it? Can a human actually fall in love with an android and can an android actually experience love? When do artificial intelligence and humanity coincide?” Sams said. “But the real point of the show is, ‘You call that comedy? Yeah,
Annandale Organization Joins Adoptee Rights Campaign The National Korean American Service and Education Consortium joined the Adoptee Rights Campaign to launch the Family Is More Than DNA Postcard Campaign on Tuesday, Sept. 6. The campaign is aimed at supporting the Adoptee Citizenship Act. Adoptees, adoptive parents, community-based organizations, religious institutions and the broader community are being encouraged by the National Korean American Service and Education Consortium and the Adoptee Rights Campaign encouraged to join the movement by signing postcards in-person and online. The postcards urge Congress to support and prioritize remedying the fact that a significant number of international adoptees lack U.S. citizenship.
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CHEERLEADERS FROM THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS perform for the crowd at the Eden Center’s Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, Tet Trung Thu, which was held on Saturday, Sept. 17 at the Eden Center. There was also a special performance at the event by the Miss Vietnam DC Pageant Contestants. (P����: G��� M�����) it’s funny. It’s real funny, but it ain’t comedy! This is comedy! Watch!’ And Sir Alan serves up a double helping of comedy. This is a show that will make you hang on the edge of your seat wondering how the characters are going to escape ‘another fine mess you’ve gotten me into.’” The Alden Theatre is located at 1234 Ingleside Avenue. Friday and Saturday shows start at 8 p.m. and the Sunday matinees start at 2 p.m. Tickets cost between $18 – $20. For more information, visit mcleanplayers.org.
Pumpkins ‘n Preparedness 5k To Support First Responders Capital One is sponsoring the inaugural Pumpkins ’n Preparedness 5k race to support first responders, which is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 15. The race will start at the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department, located at 400 Center St. S., Vienna, at 8 a.m. All proceeds from the race will go to benefit the Northern Virginia
Emergency Response System, which was developed by first responders in 2005 and supports a regional approach to coordinated preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery across jurisdiction and discipline boundaries. Raising funds allows the organization to increase its support of local police and fire departments and their partners. The race organizers will give out awards for the top three runners in ten different age groups. Registration for the 5k, which will be held rain or shine, costs $35. For more information, visit nvers5krace.org.
Local Children’s Center Holds 4th Annual Teddy Bear Run A free teddy bear will be awarded to all runners and walkers who cross the finish line at the Falls Church-McLean Children’s Center’s Fourth Annual Teddy Bear 5K & 1K Walk/Run on Sunday, Sept. 25. The event, organized to benefit the Falls Church-
McLean Children’s Center, starts with a free fair at 2 p.m. and continues with the run/walk at 4 p.m. It will be held at the Falls Church-McLean Children’s Center, located at 7230 Idylwood Road, Falls Church which is home to the Children’s Center day-to-day operation. The fair will include activities like puppet shows, balloon artists, face painters, exhibits and an instrument petting zoo with instruments provided by local music school Bach to Rock. The 5k course takes runners through the shaded Pimmit Hills neighborhood just west of Falls Church City. 5k runners will be awarded prizes donated by local businesses. Fastest male and female 5k runners in 6 age groups for children under 18 and 7 age groups for adults. Overall winners will receive a new pair of running shoes from Road Runner Sports. For more information, visit fcmlcc.org and, to register for the run/walk, visit runsignup.com/ TeddyBear5K.
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A few weeks ago I met a guy in Kentucky who’d lived through every trend of deindustrializing America. He grew up about 65 years ago on a tobacco and cattle farm, but he always liked engines, so even while in high school he worked 40 hours a week in a garage. Then he went to work in a series of factories – making airplane parts, car seats, sheet metal and casings for those big air-conditioning fans you see on the top of buildings. Every few years as the economy would shift, or jobs would go to Mexico, he’d get hit with a layoff. But the periods of unemployment were never longer than six months and he pieced together a career. He’s in semiretirement now, but he hasn’t been able to take a vacation for four years because he and his wife take NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE care of her elderly mother, who has trouble swallowing. He’s saved her life 10 times so far with the Heimlich maneuver, and they have to be nearby, in case she needs it again. His best job came in the middle of his career, when he was a supervisor at the sheet metal plant. But when the technology changed, he was no longer qualified to supervise the new workers, so they let him go. He thought he’d just come in quietly on his final day, clean out his desk and sneak away. But word got out, and when he emerged from his office, box in hand, there was a double line of guys stretching all the way from his office in back, across the factory floor and out to his car in the lot. He walked down that whole double line with tears flowing, with the guys clapping and cheering as he went. We hear a lot about angry white men, but there is an honorable dignity to this guy. Some of that dignity comes from the fact that he knows how to fix things. One of the undermining conditions of the modern factory is that the workers no longer directly build the products, they just service the machines and software that do. As the sociologist Richard Sennett once put it, “As a result of working in this way, the bakers now no longer actually know how to bake bread.” But this guy in Kentucky can take care of himself – redo the plumbing at home or replace the brake pads. He also had a narrative about his own life. It’s not the agency narrative you often find in the professional segments of society: I found my passion and steered my own ship. It’s more of a reactive, coping narrative: A lot of the big forces were outside my control, but I adjusted, made the best of what was possible within my constraints and lived up to my responsibilities. There’s honor to that, too. Still, over the past many months speaking with people in these situations, I can’t help feeling that society is failing them in some major way, and not just economically. There is often a sad, noncumulative pattern to working-class lives. In some professions as you get older, you rise to more responsible positions. And that was true under the old seniority-based work rules in factories. But now there is a stochastic, episodic nature to many careers. As workers get older, potential employers become more suspicious of their skills, not more confident in them. As a result, you often meet people who had been happiest at work in middle age, and then moved down to a series of positions they were overqualified for and felt diminished in. Furthermore, I often run across people who have gone back to menial work in their 60s and 70s because they just want to get out of the house. When you ask them more questions, you find that they are devoted to home and work, but that they often don’t have rich connections outside these spheres. Many of their friends came through work, but those friendships tend to fade away when the job ends. There are older people who feel unneeded. There are younger people who feel lost. Somehow these longing souls never find each other. Suburbia isn’t working. During the baby boom, the suburbs gave families safe places to raise their kids. But now we are in an era of an aging population, telecommuting workers and single-person households. The culture and geography of suburbia are failing to nurture webs of mutual dependence. We are animals who can’t flourish unless we can’t get along without one another. Yet one finds too many people thrust into lives of semiindependence. These are not the victims of postindustrial blight I’m talking about; they are successful people who worked hard and built good lives but who are left nonetheless strangely isolated, in attenuated communities, and who are left radiating the residual sadness of the lonely heart.
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Vote As If It Matters Does it make sense to vote for Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president? Sure, as long as you believe two things. First, you have to believe that it makes no difference at all whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump moves into the White House – because one of them will. Second, you have to believe that America will be better off in the long run if we eliminate environmental regulation, abolish the income tax, do away with public schools, and dismantle Social Security and Medicare – which is what the Libertarian platform calls for. But do 29 percent of Americans between 18 and 34 believe these things? I doubt it. Yet that, according to a NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE recent Quinnipiac poll, is the share of millennial voters who say that they would vote for Johnson if the election took place now. And the preponderance of young Americans who say they’ll back Johnson or Jill Stein, the Green Party nominee, appear to be citizens who would support Clinton in a two-way race; including the minor party candidates cuts her margin among young voters from 21 points to just 5. So I’d like to make a plea to young Americans: your vote matters, so please take it seriously. Why are minor candidates seemingly drawing so much support this year? Very little of it, I suspect, reflects support for their policy positions. How many people have actually read the Libertarian platform? But if you’re thinking of voting Johnson, you really should. It’s a remarkable document. As I said, it calls for abolition of the income tax and the privatization of almost everything the government does, including education. “We would restore authority to parents to determine the education of their children, without interference from government.” And if parents don’t want their children educated, or want them indoctrinated in a cult, or put them to work in a sweatshop instead of learning to read? Not our problem. What really struck me, however, was what the platform says about the environment. It opposes any kind of regulation; instead, it argues that we can rely on the courts. Is a giant corporation poisoning the air you breathe or the water you drink? Just sue: “Where damages can be proven and quantified in a court of law, restitution to the injured parties must be required.” Ordinary citizens against teams of highpriced corporate lawyers – what could go wrong?
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It’s really hard to believe that young voters who supported Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary think any of this is a good idea. But Johnson and Stein have received essentially no media scrutiny, so that voters have no idea what they stand for. And their parties’ names sound nice: who among us is against liberty? The truth, that the Libertarian Party essentially stands for a return to all the worst abuses of the Gilded Age, is not out there. Meanwhile, of course, it does make a huge difference which of the two realistic prospects for the presidency wins, and not just because of the difference in their temperaments and the degree to which they respect or have contempt for democratic norms. Their policy positions are drastically different, too. True, much of what Trump says is incoherent: in his policy proposals, trillion dollar tax breaks are here today, gone tomorrow, back the day after. But anyone who calls him a “populist” isn’t looking at the general thrust of his ideas, or at whom he has chosen as economic advisers. Trump’s brain trust, such as it is, is composed of hard-line, right-wing supply-siders – whom even Republican economists have called “charlatans and cranks” – for whom low taxes on the rich are the overwhelming priority. Meanwhile, Clinton has staked out the most progressive policy positions ever advocated by a presidential candidate. There’s no reason to believe that these positions are insincere, that she would revert to 1990s policies in office: What some are now calling the “new liberal economics” has sunk deep roots in the Democratic Party, and dominates the ranks of Clinton’s advisers. Now, maybe you don’t care. Maybe you consider center-left policies just as bad as hard-right policies. And maybe you have somehow managed to reconcile that disdain with tolerance for libertarian free-market mania. If so, by all means vote for Johnson. But don’t vote for a minor-party candidate to make a statement. Nobody cares. Remember, George W. Bush lost the popular vote in 2000, but somehow ended up in the White House anyway in part thanks to the Ralph Nader vote – and nonetheless proceeded to govern as if he had won a landslide. Can you really imagine a triumphant Trump showing restraint out of respect for all those libertarian votes? Your vote matters, and you should act accordingly – which means thinking seriously about what you want to see happen to America.
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Trump’s Ugly ‘Macaca Moment’
It’s hard to imagine now, given all the disgusting filth and bigotry that has issued from the mouth of Donald Trump and his surrogates in the last year, that one single slur brought down a U.S. Senate candidate who was being groomed for the presidency just 10 years ago. In August 2006, George Allen was running for the U.S. Senate from Virginia and was considered a virtual shoe-in. But in a rural area of southwest Virginia, he felt he had the liberty to sling a racial slur at someone videotaping the event he perceived to be a spy for his Democratic opponent. He called the Indian-American a “macaca.” Naturally it was caught on tape, and when it was released to the media and aired statewide, it triggered a firestorm. A lazy summer day’s thoughtFALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS less slur led to the upset of this man in November and the Democrats briefly regained the majority in the U.S. Senate as a result. It has become legend as the “macaca moment.” Something tells me there will be more to come in the final two months before this fall’s U.S. presidential election, but Donald Trump’s first major “macaca moment” came in the form of a huge (yuge) miscalculation by him and his campaign managers with the one-sentence “press conference” he held at his new hotel in Washington, D.C. last Friday. That one sentence, “President Obama was born in the United States, period,” bristled with aggressive hostility and was preceded by falsely blaming the entire “birther” controversy on his opponent and crediting himself with “ending it.” Having kept the media corps waiting hours for that 30-second episode, he then turned away, blocked reporters from following him or asking questions, and permitted only camera crews to accompany his entourage on a tour of his new joint in hopes they would help him show it off on national TV. CNN was broadcasting the whole thing live, with repeated teasers leading up to it about a “major announcement” that Trump was about to make. When it abruptly ended as it did, CNN anchor Ashley Banfield at first was in disbelief. But then she got visibly angry and unleashed an unscripted criticism against Trump. Everywhere, it was subsequently learned, people who were watching on TV exploded in similar anger. Instead of putting the “birther” issue behind him in pursuit of more African-American votes, Trump inflamed all the rage that had gradually subsided over his unrelenting, five year campaign to delegitimize the nation’s first African-American president by insisting he was not born in the U.S. It was such an insult to President Obama, who’s become more and more popular with everyone, that it plainly revealed and reinforced the vile, self-serving core nature of Trump. So, it instantly became his “macaca moment.” It also helped to angrily set off the major media, forcing them to face how they’ve been played for suckers all along. If they didn’t do something after this, they’d forever be shamed. So many news organizations reacted. The next day, the Sept. 17 New York Times featured five headlines about Trump that included the words, “lie,” “false,” “falsely claimed” and “untrue,” as Laura Clawson of the Daily Kos pointed out. Kerry Eleveld of the DK declared the incident signaled “the beginning of a new day, not,” she added, “because Donnie has seen the light but because reporters seem to have caught on to the notion that they’ve been aiding and abetting a fraud all along.” “Journalists got played, punked, duped – pick your word. But before this event, traditional reporters had typically been cruising along on auto-pilot, regurgitating everything this one-man freak show says.” Peter Beinart in The Atlantic wrote that the New York Times’ reaction to the incident spelled “The Death of ‘He Said, She Said’ Journalism” by calling a lie a lie instead of politely presenting it merely as one of two contesting points of view. Generally, false “objectivity” had replaced truth in major media journalism, or at least up until last week. We’ll see how all this impacts the first big Trump-Clinton debate on Monday night.
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Nicholas F. Benton
Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.
Trump, Grand Wizard of Birtherism So, on Friday the Grand Wizard of Birtherism against President Barack Obama admitted that birtherism was bunk, not by apologizing for his prominent role in the racist campaign – no, that would have been too right – but by suggesting that he deserved credit for dousing the flames he’d fanned. This man is so low he’s subterranean. Donald Trump said Friday: “Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy.” That was a lie. There is no evidence Hillary Clinton and her campaign either started or took part in the efforts to question the location of Barack Obama’s birth. He continued: “I finished it.” That was also a lie. Well after it had been established that the president was born in this country, Trump continued to traffic in speculation to the contrary, all the way up to and including this year. Then Trump said, without elaboration or allowing questions: “President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period.” Trump has a long history of NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE elevating the idiocy of conspiracy theories and normalizing the nonsensical. Trump has claimed that Bill Ayers wrote the president’s acclaimed, best-selling memoir because surely this black man couldn’t have the talent to write the book. As Trump put it, “I think somebody else had a lot to do with that book. I think he wrote the second book, which was certainly not a masterpiece. I’m very good at books, and it certainly wasn’t a masterpiece.” It should be noted that Trump’s own best-seller, The Art of the Deal, was ghostwritten by Tony Schwartz, who told The New Yorker in July, “I seriously doubt that Trump has ever read a book straight through in his adult life.” Trump claimed in a 2011 interview with Sean Hannity that Obama was “born Barry Soetoro, somewhere along the line, he changed his name.” Soetoro is the surname of Obama’s mother’s second husband, who she married when Obama was a young boy. But Trump didn’t stop there. He strung together more conspiracy theories, including coming back to his obvious envy of the success and quality of Obama’s first book. “I heard he had terrible marks and he ends up in Harvard. He wrote a book that was better than Ernest Hemingway, but his second book was written by an average person. He shouldn’t have written the second book,” he wrote.
Charles M. Blow
Speaking of college, Trump has insinuated that Obama never attended Columbia University. In 2011, Trump told the Conservative Political Action Conference that “our current president came out of nowhere” and “In fact, I’ll go a step further: The people that went to school with him, they never saw him, they don’t know who he is. It’s crazy.” The fact-checking site PolitiFact rated this lie “Pants on Fire.” He once suggested to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that maybe Obama hadn’t produced a birth certificate because it could reveal that he’s a secret Muslim. He said, “People have birth certificates. He doesn’t have a birth certificate. He may have one but there’s something on that, maybe religion, maybe it says he is a Muslim. I don’t know. Maybe he doesn’t want that.” Indeed, the list of conspiracy theories Trump has floated about Obama is long, but Obama has not been the only target. Trump has also entertained the suspicion that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was murdered, just as he suggests Vince Foster was. He has also intimated that Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This is what Trump does: He exalts gossip and innuendo, which has the direct and opposite effect of degrading truth and honesty. He finds a lie in which the depraved have faith and he lifts it up as if it’s a secret that their opponents fear. This is an enormous distraction, because it means that time and attention that could be put into exposing that Trump’s policies are either paper thin or laughably unworkable are instead diverted to disproving lies which usher forth from his mouth like water from a hose at full throttle. And even when confronted with proof positive that his conspiracies are baseless, he often doesn’t back down, or if he does, he does so without apology. He is not only bending the truth, he is breaking the notion that truth should matter in the first place. This is what is so baffling about the people supporting him: They know he’s lying, but they so want to believe the lies that they have pushed themselves into a universe of irrationality that is devoid of logic. So, his admission on Friday was too little, too late. In fact, Trump has peddled so many lies about the president that this clearly election-driven, downto-the-wire political ploy rang hollow and felt like as much of an insult as the original claim. No one who so proudly wears the mark of dishonesty and defamation possesses the power to grant the stamps of legitimacy and absolution.
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News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
The Bailey’s Community Shelter will remain in Bailey’s Crossroads. It will not move to a temporary location on the grounds of the Lincolnia Senior Center. On September 14, Fairfax County acquired property on Seminary Road, not far from the existing facility, that will be the site of a new permanent shelter. On that same day, AvalonBay, the county’s partner in the Southeast Quadrant redevelopment project, terminated the Real Estate Exchange Agreement (REEA) that was approved by the Board of Supervisors in February, effectively withdrawing from the project. The County remains fully committed to the revitalization of this area, and is pursuing other ways to proceed with redevelopment. Any new options, however, will entail a new development timeline that makes it feasible to relocate the shelter just once – to its permanent location – saving the county some $2.5 million in relocation costs. At Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, the Board approved my motion to overrule the Planning Commission’s action this summer on what is called a 2232 application. Under Virginia Code, the Planning Commission determined that the temporary site met the criteria of location, character, and extent, and is substantially in accord with the provision of the adopted Comprehensive Plan for the area. With the acquisition of property for a permanent site, and the termination of the REEA, the county no longer needs the temporary site. The Planning Commission’s decision to approve the 2232 application was entirely correct, but the withdrawal renders that decision moot. The new permanent site on Seminary Road will be subject to the same stringent land use community process – possible Comprehensive Plan Amendment
and subsequent rezoning – that other land use applications in Mason District undergo. The new permanent facility is proposed to include transitional housing units in addition to the traditional dorm-like shelter bed space. The new shelter is contemplated to open in the fall of 2019. The Bailey’s Community Shelter is one of four shelters – Patrick Henry (Seven Corners), Embry Rucker (Reston), Eleanor Kennedy (Mount Vernon) are the other three – proposed for replacement or renovation, using some of the human services bond funds that voters will be asked to approve this November. The county’s shelters are all at least 30 years old, and full to capacity every night of the week throughout the year. Also on the ballot are bond questions for transportation and parks. More about those referenda will be included in future columns. Also at Tuesday’s meeting, the Board of Supervisors authorized public hearings for expansion of the Culmore and Springdale Residential Permit Parking Districts (RPPDs) and a Through Truck Restriction (TTR) for the Courtland Park area of Bailey’s Crossroads. The RPPD hearings will be on Tuesday, October 18, at 4 p.m.; the TTR public hearing is scheduled for the same day, at 4:30 p.m. Both programs are part of the Residential Traffic Administration Program (RTAP) under the auspices of the Fairfax County Department of Transportation, and reflect a lot of community work among neighbors to address parking and traffic in residential neighborhoods. Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.
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From the Front Row: Kaye Kory’s
Richmond Report I have been working with the Mason District Council (of Civic Associations) to set up a districtwide town hall focused on the AirBnB/short-term lodging rentals issue. The town hall has been set for Wednesday, Oct 5 from 7 – 9 p.m. at Sleepy Hollow Elementary School. I invite you to attend. I will attend, as will Senators Marsden and Saslaw. Simply put, the issue is that AirBnB and other online shortterm lodging/rental companies have an increasing presence in Virginia, but currently are unregulated at the state level. “Unregulated” means that neither AirBnB, the renter, nor the owner of the rental property pay any taxes to the state and few to the locality. It also means that there are no health and safety requirements or inspections, or any limits upon the number of vehicles or renters at the rented property at any given time, or any bond posted to protect damaged community or neighboring property. As with Uber, which did not fit into any of Virginia’s existing business models, we are grappling with proposed legislation and regulations to handle this situation. We do not propose to prohibit online/traditional short-term lodging businesses from operating in Virginia, but have recognized the need to develop methods of maintaining a level business playing field, while protecting existing neighborhoods and respecting individual property-owner rights. A May 2016 Virginia Municipal League survey reported that only 52 percent of localities require any type of registration or license for ‘rentals in residential dwellings for periods of less than 30 days.’ This lack of local regulation prompted the legislation that we passed, which would not go into effect unless re-enacted in the 2017 session. This bill contains detailed strictures governing this type of business, precludes local regulation and requires a working group to meet between sessions to develop potential legislation for 2017 or to recommend that the same bill be re-introduced. The working group is functioning now under the auspices of the Housing Commission. Their meeting dates, agendas and materials are available on the Housing Commission website. As you might expect, a primary disagreement on how to regulate
and collect taxes from short-term lodging has emerged between the localities and the state. Basically, the question is “who is in charge here?” The Virginia Municipal League strongly advocates defending local zoning authority and the ability of local government to regulate business. I don’t disagree; but I also know that businesses operating statewide prefer statewide uniformity of regulations and procedures, and if not that, then as much similarity between localities as can be developed or imposed. AirBnB has recommended that the state collect these taxes and remit appropriate amounts to each locality involved. Beyond this fundamental power dispute, existing lodging businesses such as Bed and Breakfasts, and hotels and motels are lobbying for equal regulation across the industry, regardless of length of stay. A further consideration must be made of the rights and responsibilities of HOA’s and Civic Associations which are already established in covenants and rules and regulations that homebuyers accept and agree to abide by when purchasing a home. I am not pushing a particular solution to all this, but I am very sympathetic to homeowners whose stable neighborhoods are being disrupted by unregulated short-term residential rental businesses. Many constituents have told me, “I purposely did not buy a home next door to a hotel. I bought a home in a residential neighborhood, not a commercial zone, and that is how I want my neighborhood to remain.” I could and will say the same about the home-buying choice that my family made. Change is always difficult and not always good or fair. We have an opportunity to shape this change and make it fair and good. Of course, other states and cities across the nation are facing this same complex dilemma. There is no common approach and a number of lawsuits have already been filed. I hope that Virginia will take a proactive position and avoid statewide whack-a-mole, i.e. only dealing with specific pieces of the overall problem as each aspect arises. Delegate Kory represents the 38th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. She may be emailed at DelKKory@house. virginia.gov.
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If we make it through Metro’s SafeTrack repair binge, what will we loyal subway users have gained? Worst-case scenario: a continually unsafe system underfunded and losing ridership to hipster services like Uber. So said panelists at the Sept. 14 Arlington Committee of 100 dinner, brainstorming on solutions for a Metro that lost 11 percent of its ridership this spring compared with last year. And that was before SafeTrack started. “Metro was built in the 1970s and designed for commuters,” said county board member Christian Dorsey, who volunteered (he insisted) after his election to serve on the board of the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority. “But today people work in all manner of times and places,” and they also use Metro to play. Restoring Metro’s reliability is “essential to the region, essential to Arlington,” Dorsey added. Without it, other goals like reducing commercial vacancies and investing in parks are for naught. Metro is losing out because of safety concerns, Dorsey said. “The way Metro responds is to obfuscate.” The public responds with blogs using names like UnsuckMetro. The Washington Post “gets criticized for negative stories on Metro,” acknowledged Martine Powers, a reporter for the Post’s transportation and development team. And while such stories attract readers, “there are many engaged people who want Metro
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to get better.” Candid coverage, she said, can hold Metro accountable for its troubles “so they never happen again.” Stiffed by Metro and the Federal Transit Administration, the Post this summer filed a Freedom of Information Act request and received audit reports detailing Metro’s defects. Initially reporters were told the problems were small beer, such as a shortage of bathrooms and employees wearing wrong safety vests. But the full audits highlighted dangerously loose fasteners on tracks and parts of the third rail lacking insulation. Subways in Europe generate more riders, higher revenues and steadier public support than the Washington system, said Ralph Buehler, associate professor in Urban Affairs & Planning at Virginia Tech’s Alexandria Center. His study of systems in Munich, Vienna, Berlin, Freiburg and Hamburg showed that all delivered stronger per capita passenger growth than D.C.’s. “They’re multi-modal and regionally integrated with attractive fares,” Buehler added. That’s achieved through higher taxes, restrictions on cars and tough land-use rules. Powerful regional transport associations in Europe have created “a seamless” system dovetailed with bus routes. Ticket revenue from expanded ridership – even with discounts for seniors and students – can cover maintenance costs, the professor said. While Washingtonians suffered from our two-track subway, the Europeans invested in redundant tracks that allow for ongoing repairs. And Europe’s real-time
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Domestic Assault, 100 block E. Annandale Rd. On Sep. 12, a male, 54, of Falls Church, was arrested for Assaulting a Family Member. Stolen Vehicle, Driving Under the Influence, Eluding , 200 block W. Annandale Rd. On Sep.
13, police received a report of a stolen vehicle. After an investigation, the vehicle was recovered and the driver of the stolen vehicle, a male, 42, of Fairfax, was arrested for Grand Larceny, Driving Under the Influence, Refusal to Submit to a Blood or Breath Test, and Eluding Police. A passenger, a male, 32, was arrested for Grand Larceny and Public Drunkenness. Shoplifting, 400 W. Broad St. (Exxon) On Sep. 14, police received a report of shoplifting. After an investigation, police found
electronic signs provide accurate train arrival information. Trains are frequent enough that “no timetable is the best timetable,” Buehler said. Dorsey said Metro’s budget outlook is gloomy. He rejected suggestions that the regional board’s structure stalls progress: “It’s more that the people at the table haven’t figured out an efficient way to govern,” he said. Yes, long-term solutions may require a dedicated funding source and pricey new infrastructure such as another cross-river tunnel. “But where we are now is not a result of too little money,” he said. What’s needed is a “massive change in culture.” Start with cleanup of Metro stations that are “disgusting,” Dorsey said, citing trash, bad lighting and walls in need of a power wash. The failure to address this “lowhanging fruit drives me absolutely nuts.” *** The bulldozers came last week for the 18th-century house reputed to have hosted Dolley and James Madison when they fled the British in 1814. I joined the half-dozen neighbors, preservationists and former residents of the off-white home to watch the beams and bricks tumble. Though this Minor’s Hill lot sits in Franklin Park, McLean, many locals describe it as Arlington, I was told as we watched the demolition crew clear space for three modern homes. One onlooker who grew up in the house, Marion Hardy LaRow, told me the family spent two years seeking a preservation-minded buyer. But the taxes and upkeep were a tough sell.
a male, 31, of Fredericksburg, during a subsequent robbery who was then arrested for Shoplifting. Robbery, 603 W. Broad St. (SunTrust Bank) On Sep. 14, police responded to the location for a bank robbery. Officers on scene arrested a male, 31, of Fredericksburg, for Robbery. Larceny from Building, 500 block Roosevelt Blvd. On Sep. 15, the victim reported a bicycle was stolen from a balcony sometime overnight. Larceny, 1150 W. Broad St. (CVS Pharmacy) On Sep. 15, a bicycle was reported stolen from a rack. Larceny from Building, 1230 W. Broad St. (Giant Foods) On Sep. 18, an unattended wallet was reported stolen.
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Mustangs Volleyball Starts Season at 6-1
BY MATTHEW HOCHBERG
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George Mason High School girls’ volleyball team continued their hot start, rattling off four consecutive wins within the past week and a half, improving their record to 6-1 on the season. Head coach Hillary Trebels is pleased, and is not very surprised with the impressive start from her team. “We expected to be good. We had a lot of players returning and coming from the junior varsity level,” she said. “We anticipated to have a good run.” On Sept. 13, Mason stormed into Warren County High School’s gym and swept three sets, before winning another road game at John Paul the Great on Sept. 15. Returning home on Monday, the Mustangs comfortably defeated Riverside 3-1 and finally, on Tuesday, bested Central High
School 3-1 in another away matchup. “Riverside is a really good team,” Trebels said, referring to the only opponent to have beaten her squad this season. “But everything was clicking. It was exciting.” Despite the 3-0 victory against Warren County, it wasn’t as smooth of a game as one would think right out of the gate. A few players were out of position and there were some early struggles, but junior defensive specialist Jaden White stepped up. “She played a huge role,” Trebels said. Facing John Paul, the match began well before an injury led the team to a lack of focus. They regrouped, though, behind the play of junior hitter Merriweather Gordon and sophomore hitters McKenzie Brady and Riley Ruyak. Trebels said she’s never seen her junior hit that well, adding the sophomores have emerged as the
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MASON SOPHOMORE RILEY RUYAK leaps up to make a play during the Mustangs’ match against William Monroe High School. (P����: C���� S��) team’s go-to hitters when players find themselves out of position during the match. “They’ve expanded their repertoire,” she said. “Everyone stepped up.”
During Tuesday’s 3-1 victory, Gordon once again emerged as Mason’s most reliable hitter. Sophomore setter Annie Castillo finished out games two and three with strong serving.
Moving forward, the Mustangs will be competing in their first tournament of the season on Sept. 24 at J.E.B Stuart High School, with two more away games next week.
GMHS Varsity Field Hockey Drops Mason Football Loses Second Game in a Row, JV Wins 41-25 Against Luray HS BY JEFFREY WOJTALA
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The George Mason High School field hockey teams split their recent games against Wakefield High School at home on Thursday, Sept. 15. The junior varsity team supported by a strong team effort won on a penalty corner at 15:42 of the second half with a goal from Clare Doss. The final score was 1-0. The varsity team took the field looking to turn around their latest loss to another Arlington County team, Washington-Lee High School’s Generals. The Wakefield Warriors were a familiar adversary to a number of the girls who play lacrosse and field hockey. On this night Mason dominated everywhere on the field except in penalty corners and ultimately, the final score. Head coach Amanda Crider had her girls prepared for the game and Mason pushed into the Warriors zone through the strength of their will, but could not manage a shot on goal, even though receiving four penalty corners. The Mustangs had numerous chances but missed the net on each advance. The score at the end of the first half was 0-0 but Mason was dominating in all game statistics.
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MASON FIELD HOCKEY dropped two straight to Arlington County teams before beating Liberty High School on Tuesday, Sept. 20. (P����: C������� �� J����� W����) The second half began with the Warriors pushing deep into the Mason zone on numerous occasions, only to be thwarted by the Mason defensive squad. The Warriors managed seven penalty corners in the half because of infractions inside the circle, and on the third consecutive corner the Warriors broke the tie by getting one past Mason’s goaltender Hannah Hiscott and ultimately the win. Strong defensive play was
shown by Kalena Wojtala, Maeve Donnelly, Alex Biggs, Manon Diz and Hannah Hiscott throughout the game, but in the offensive zone, no direct shots on goal doomed the Mason squad in the lost. The Mustangs varsity team showed signs of bouncing back when it beat Liberty High School on Tuesday, Sept. 20. They faced the Flint Hill Huskies at home on Wednesday, Sept. 20, but results of the game were not available at press time.
The George Mason High School football team’s momentum came to a screeching halt on Sept. 16, falling to Luray High School 41-25 on the road. Despite the loss, head coach Tony Green understands this is just one game in a long season of ups-and-downs for the 2-1 team. “We played a good football team,” he said. “We scored first, but then it got away from us.” That first score came from a Dustin Green 46-yard touchdown run. Even with the early score from the senior, Luray followed up by going on a 35-0 run and deflating any hope there was for a
Mason comeback. Green, though, sees ways his team can improve moving forward. “We played well at times, but also didn’t follow assignment. We definitely learned something.” Junior fullback Finn Roou managed to get the Mustangs back on the scoreboard in the third quarter with a 23-yard run into the end zone. He found the back of the field once more in the fourth quarter for the final points of the game. Despite the tough loss, the team is still above .500 and Green looks at every outcome – win or lose – as a positive. “We are still trying to find our way, we have to come together as a team. We can’t dwell on the past. Every week is a new journey.”
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FALLS CHURCH RESIDENT EDWIN HENDERSON holds a photo of his grandmother, Mary Ellen Henderson, at the school named after her. Henderson visited the middle school recently to teach the students about his grandmother, who who would have celebrated her 131st birthday on Sunday, Sept. 18. (Courtesy Photo) A LOCAL RUNNER receives on congratulations from the Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School mascot at the finish line of the Falls Church Education Foundation’s 12th Annual Run for the Schools event on Sunday, Sept. 18. (Photo: Courtesy of Marybeth Connolly/FCCPS Photo)
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School News & Notes F.C. Students Could Win National Merit Scholarships Several students from Falls Church are among the approximately 16,000 students nationwide who made it to the semifinal round of the National Merit Scholarship Program, according to a press release from National Merit Scholarship Corporation. George Mason High School’s Lydia Gompper is the only Mustang on the list of semifinalists for the scholarship. Jackson Dillard of J.E.B. Stuart High School is the lone semifinalist for the scholarship from the Lake Barcroft high school. There are several students from George C. Marshall High School who are semifinalists for the scholarship. Patrick Brinza, Ethan Epstein, Dannie Griggs, Salim Rouston and Emma Ward are the semifinalists from Marshall. According to the release, about 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist status and more than half of the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship. Winners of the National Merit Scholarships will be announced in the spring and summer of 2017.
F.C.’s Camila Moscoso Receives Fulbright Fellowship Falls Church native Camila Moscoso, who is a 2016 graduate of Lafayette College, was won a spot
in the Fulbright program, a prestigious, life-changing fellowship that provides funds for study/research projects or for English Teaching Assistant Programs. She is a graduate of J.E.B. Stuart High School. Moscoso, who was a double major in biology and international affairs, will travel and teach English to children in Venezuela. The trip is a homecoming of sorts for Moscoso. Her mother is Venezuelan, and she took frequent visits there as a child to see her grandparents. She hasn’t been back to Venezuela since her extended family emigrated to the U.S. years ago and is looking forward to giving back to the community she once knew as a child. “I just love the idea of helping people,” she said. Health care is “so important. It’s a general human right...Service has been my way to form strong connections in a community, and I plan to utilize service to strengthen my roots in Venezuela.” Moscoso hopes to pursue a future in public health. At the end of the year, she plans to begin her master’s degree in public policy and a Ph.D. in public health. She is one of two students from Lafayette selected for the Fulbright program.
Wilkes U. Awards Master’s Degree to Kyle Drake Falls Church native Kyle Drake was recently awarded a
Master of Science degree in education from Wilkes University. His degree was one of 372 doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s degrees awarded to Wilkes students graduating after the completion of the 2016 summer semester. Wilkes is an independent institution of higher education dedicated to academic and intellectual excellence through mentoring in the liberal arts, sciences and professional programs. Founded in 1933, the university is on a mission to create one of the great small universities, offering all of the programs, activities, and opportunities of a large, research university in the intimate, caring and mentoring environment of a small, liberal arts college, at a cost that is increasingly competitive with public universities. For more information, visit wilkes.edu.
Courses in the eight-week session cover the same material and award the same credits as semester-long classes. Northern Virginia Community College offers day, evening, weekend and online courses to make it easy for students to schedule classes around work and other responsibilities. For more information, go to nvcc. edu or call 703-323-3000.
FCCPS Creates Technology Advisory Committee Falls Church City Public Schools is creating an Technology Advisory Committee to review current technology usage and plan for the future of the Personalized Learning Initiative. “Parent input on educational technology usage is especially important,” the school system said in its Wednesday, Sept. 21 Morning Announcements email. The school system is seeking parents to serve on the committee, which will meet twice a month in October and November. The
October meeting dates are the 12th and the 26th and the November meeting dates are the 2nd and 16th. In order to apply to serve on the committee, visit tinyurl.com/ haygq8t. For more information, visit fccps.org.
F.C. Elementary PTA Fall Social Planned for Sept. 24 The Falls Church Elementary Parent Teacher Association is hosting its annual Fall Social on Saturday, Sept. 24 from 7 – 10 p.m. at the house of Joe Abrenio and Rebecca Masri located at 418 Great Falls Street. There will be drinks, hors d’oeuvres and a spirit wear raffle at the social. The organization is seeking parents to serve wine and check people in. The volunteer shifts are 30 minutes long. Tickets for the Fall Social are $30. To purchase tickets, visit fcepta.org/fallsocial. For more information or to volunteer, email the Fall Social Committee at fallsocial@fcepta.org.
Registration Open for New NoVa Comm. College Session Registration is now open for an eight-week session that begins Wednesday, Oct. 19 at Northern Virginia Community College. Registration for the session closes at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 18. Students may enroll 24 hours a day at nvcc.edu or in person at one of Northern Virginia Community College’s six campuses in Alexandria, Annandale, Loudoun, Manassas, Springfield or Woodbridge.
FOURTH GRADERS AT TJ READ the handbook for the school’s new Being A Writer program. In the program, they listen to two poems read by their teacher. Then, after listening to the poems, the students drew what they visualized as they listened. (Photo: Courtesy of FCCPS Photo/Lisa Allan)
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 Author Talk and Book Signing. New York Times bestselling author Danielle Paige discusses and signs Stealing Snow, a reimagining of the Snow Queen fairy tale. One More Page Books (2200 N. Westmoreland St. #101, Arlington). Free. 7 p.m. onemorepagebooks.com.
FRIDAY, SEPTEBMER 23
Deadline: Affordable Dwelling Unit Lottery Applications for Lincoln at Tinner Hill. The City of Falls Church Housing and Human Services department will hold a lottery for 14 Affordable Dwelling Units (ADUs) and applications for the lottery are due by the close of business. Falls Church Department of Housing and Human Services (300 Park Ave. G2 Level, Falls Church). 5 p.m. hhsinfo@fallschurchva.gov. Sunset Cinema. Moviegoers are encouraged to bring blankets and picnics. The film being screened is “The Jungle Book.” Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7:45 – 9:45 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/sunsetcinema.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
Farmers Market. F.C. Farmers Market. Vendors offer fresh locally grown fruits and
vegetables, cheeses, meats, baked goods, plants, and wine. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 8 a.m. – noon. 703248-5077. Book Sale. Used adult and children’s books for sale. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. 703-248-5034. Falls Church Farmers Market Chef Series. The Falls Church Farmers Market will feature a chef demo from the culinary staff at Lebanese Taverna. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 9 – 11 a.m. fallschurchva.gov/FarmersMarket. Habitat Restoration. Join the City of Falls Church Habitat Restoration Team in restoring the local ecosystem in city parks. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – noon. fallschurchva.gov/Volunteer. Author Reading. Leslie Welch will share from her debut novel The Goodbyes. One More Page Books (2200 N. Westmoreland St. #101, Arlington). Free. 3:30 p.m. onemorepagebooks.com.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Book Sale. Used adult and children’s books for sale. Mary Riley Styles
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Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 1 – 5 p.m. 703-248-5034. Blessing of Animals. Come get your animal blessed. Dulin Church (513 E. Broad St., Falls Church). Free. 4 p.m.703-532-8060. dulinchurch. org. Film Screening. Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners of Arlington/ Alexandria will present the film “Hometown Habitat,” a 90-minute documentary focused on showing how and why native plants are critical to the survival and vitality of local ecosystems. Arlington Central Library Auditorium (1015 N. Quincy St., Arlington). Free. 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. bit.ly/2av1P2g.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
Preschool Storytime. Stories and fun for ages 2 – 5. Drop-in. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 a.m. 703-248-5034. Playtime with the Early Literary Center. Explore educational and manipulative items to teach early literacy through play. Ages birth to 5 years, no registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 a.m. – noon. 703-248-5034.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Senior Books Discussion. A general book discussion geared toward seniors. The book being discussed at this session is Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 by Cokie Roberts. Open to all. No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. 703-248-5030. Great Books Discussion. Discuss Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor in the library conference room through a “Great Books” program that focuses on modern and traditional classics. No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. jamesreid842@ yahoo.com.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
Author Event. Sonya Chung, author of The Loved Ones, and Daniel Paisner, author of A Single Happened Thing will appear as part of George Mason University’s Falls for the Book Festival. One More Page Books (2200 N. Westmoreland St. #101, Arlington). Free. 7 p.m. onemorepagebooks.com.
Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
“Hand To God.” In a church basement in a small Texas town, the teens of Christian puppetry Ministry gather to bring the Word to the Flock. But one puppet takes on a foulmouthed, demonic life of its own – unleashing the community’s barely repressed lust and rage. Like nothing you’ve seen before, this blasphemous Broadway hit is a ruthless comedy about sex, sinners, and sock puppets. This is the opening night of this production, which was written by Robert Askins and is directed by Joanie Schultz. Through Oct. 2. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 – $45. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
“Cloud 9.” Nearly four decades after its startling
debut, the audacious, playful take on sexual politics of “Cloud 9” resonates anew with its prescient exploration of power and perception. The repression of colonial Africa and the liberation of late-1970s London intersect in Caryl Churchill’s revolutionary masterwork. Bending time, gender, and genre, this nimble modern classic embraces the confusion and complication of identity: What forces de�ine who we are – and at what cost? Through Oct. 16. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 – $69. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
“Man of La Mancha.” The Tony Award-winning musical, Man of La Mancha, is one of the great theatre successes of our time. This play-withina-play, based on Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, is a poignant story of an old man whose
impossible dream takes over his mind. Featuring classic songs, “It’s All the Same,” “Dulcinea,” and “The Impossible Dream,” the audience will be transported by Quixote’s tale. Imagination and storytelling take center stage as a beautiful score and fantastical adventure abound. Dream the impossible dream with Cervantes, as he pulls the audience into the world of Don Quixote. Through Oct. 8. Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre (125 S. Old Glebe Road, Arlington). $15 – $25. 8p.m. thearlingtonplayers.org.
“Shear Madness.” Set today in the Shear Madness hairstyling salon, this record-breaking comedy is Washington’s hilarious whodunit. After more than 12,000 performances, the show has stayed in great shape. Performances are ongoing. Through Oct. 2. The Kennedy Center (2700 F St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $50. 9 p.m. kennedycenter.org.
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live_music&nightlife THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 A����� O’D��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. D���� R���. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $44.50 in advance; $54.50 day of the show. 7 p.m. 703-237-0300. T�� S���� S������’ ���� A� P�������. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $25. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. H����� F��� ���� F����� C�������� ��� S������ B���� T�����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. G���’, G���’, G���. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504. P���� R���������� S������ ���� D����� B����. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. B�� D�� R������ ��������� 2��� � N������ ���� T�� M���, O������ B2B H���� ��� R���. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $5. 10:30 p.m. 202-588-1889.
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B���� P���� ���� R���� W������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 6 p.m. 202-265-0930. W�����’� R���������. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. S���� S�� ���� P���� A. U Street Music
Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $20. 7 p.m. 202-588-1889. M���� ��� H�� F��� S��� S������� ���� F���� M�C���. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $65. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. A���� S�� ���� A����� R�����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 (Mainstage). 8 p.m. 202-667-7960. B�� I�������� B���. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. T�� R���������� ���� T�� T��������� M�������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $24. 10 p.m. 202-265-0930. W��� A������� (���� �� �����). U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $20. 10:30 p.m. 202-588-1889.
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T�� S������’ D���. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. D�� � C����. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. L���� A�-S���� ���� O��� D�����. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $25. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. G����� C������ ��� P��������� F���������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $45. 8 p.m. 202265-0930. T�� L���������. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls
Church). $18. 8 p.m. 703-237-0300. S��� H���� ���� T�� C���. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $18. 9 p.m. 703-522-8340. D���� ���� R���� F������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $22 in advance; $25 day of the show (Mainstage). 9 p.m. 202-6677960. W����� J������. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. T���B��: T�� M����� T��� ���� F��������� ��� G���. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $18. 10 p.m. 202588-1889.
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N�����’� B�������. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. P������� ��������� M��� R������ ��� G������� L�������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $30. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. T�� S���� B����� B���. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $45. 7:30 p.m. 703-5497500. M������ G���. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. T�� R�������� ���� I����� F������. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m. 703-525-8646.
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Washington, D.C.). $32.50. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. T�� L���������. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $18. 7 p.m. 703-237-0300. J��� T�� B���������� ���� M���� B���. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. B����� N�����. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $10. 8 p.m. 703-522-8340. W���’� B���� J��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. T�� D�� A���� ���� M��� L��� ��� T�� D���� Q�����. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m. 703-525-8646.
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Y��� ���� Ń���. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. B���� B���� � J�� H����: S���� A L���� T���. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $59.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. M����� B��� ��� ��� L����� K����. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504.
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B�������� ���� R��������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $35. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. A����� L��� � V������. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $10. 10 p.m. 202588-1889.
P������� A����... Friday, September 30 – Sunset Cinema. Moviegoers are encouraged to bring blankets and picnics. The film being screened is “Star Wars – The Force
Awakens” and a second feature that will be chosen by vote. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7:45 – 9:45 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/ sunsetcinema.
Saturday, October 1 – Community Workshop #2: Vision for the City. Join your neighbors, City officials, staff, and guest speakers to discuss survey results
and what you think The Little City look and feel like in 25 years. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free. 9 – 11 a.m. fallschurchva.gov/vision.
Saturday, October 6 – Town Hall: Public Space & Safety Improvements. Join City staff and the architectural firm for an update on the City Hall project. Give
input on the overall concept, building flow, and more. City Hall (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/cityhallreno.
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Cafe Kindred Wins Taste of F.C. Title At Fall Festival by Drew Costley
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Relatively new eatery and coffee shop Cafe Kindred won the Taste of Falls Church competition on Saturday, Sept. 17 at the City’s 41st Taste of Falls Church and Falls Festival, which was held on the grounds of the Falls Church Community Center, City Hall and Cherry Hill Park. Thousands of area residents gathered on the festival grounds for tastes of local restaurants, to ride carnival rides and learn about different businesses and nonprofit organizations in the City. The City of Falls Church also hosted the Falls Church City Council at its booth at the Fall
THE 2016 TASTE OF FALLS CHURCH AND FALL FESTIVAL brought residents from around the region to the Little City on Saturday, Sept. 17. In addition to the Taste, which featured some of Falls Church’s top restaurants, and the Fall Festival, which featured local bands, crafts, moon bounces of various kinds and pony rides, the Falls Church City Council was present at the City’s information booth to give area residents a chance to meet their public servants. For a photo gallery of all of Saturday’s events, check out fcnp.com. (Photos: Drew Costley/News-Press)
Festival in order to give City residents a chance to meet and speak with their councilmembers. In addition to all that was taking place in the parking lot of the community center and City Hall, there were also several crafts tables hosted by Mobu Kids and pony rides. The Cherry Hill Farmhouse was open for area residents to give area residents to use old school farm implements. Famous Dave’s was chosen by the judges to have the Best Value out of all of the restaurants that participated. Cafe Kindred, which opened in Falls Church in 2014, has been taken home the Best of Falls Church “Best Coffee Shop” title two years in a row.
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Why Lean Cuisine Called to Me from the Freezer Aisle BY MICHELLE STARK TAMPA BAY TIMES
While walking down the frozen food aisle in the grocery store the other day, something caught my eye: a Lean Cuisine, of all things. It was one of their new entrees, four of which they are offering for a limited time: SouthwestStyle Potato Bake, Chicken Tikka Masala, Cheese & Fire-Roasted Chile Tamale and Thai-Style Ginger Beef. Caught in a deluge of wedding planning for the next two months, with little time or money to spare, I am turning to easy lunches to get me through the workday more than usual. Most days, it’s a chopped salad – current fave: kale, fresh corn, chickpeas, chunks of cheddar cheese and avocado – that I can prep in a few minutes. But sometimes, I don’t have time even for that. You probably don’t either. I don’t have the best relationship with premade frozen meals. It’s less for me about what’s in them and more about the fact that they all tend to taste the same, like rubber and despair. But on this
particular day, I was feeling lazy, and a chile tamale that would be ready in three minutes and 30 seconds sounded really appealing. So I tried it. And it wasn’t bad. Made with organic and nonGMO ingredients (so they claim, at least), the tamale wasn’t as toothsome as the fresh kind, but it had good flavor, a sweet and spicy chile sauce giving the whole thing a needed kick. Cilantro lime rice on the side helped keep me full for a respectable amount of time. It was fine. It was a Lean Cuisine. The next day, there was a news release from the frozen food company in my in-box. “In addition to new, delicious flavors, the four entrees offer highprotein and gluten-free options and dishes made with organic ingredients. The new items boast the high-quality ingredients consumers are looking for in their grocery store aisles.” And: “The new limited-time entrees gave our team of chefs a chance to explore new ideas and flavors while bringing creative, delicious foods to your home.” A few hours later, an email
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Savory Zucchini Clafouti Don’t be intimidated by the word “clafouti.” It refers to a French baked dish that involves a thick batter and typically fruit. This recipe swaps the fruit for zucchini, which works well with my current summer squash obsession. The result is similar to a crustless quiche, but lighter and even easier to put together. • 3 pounds young zucchini, sliced into ¼-inch-thick discs • 2 large shallots, chopped • 2 tablespoons olive oil • About 1 tablespoon butter, for pan • ½ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese • 3 eggs • ¾ cup whole milk • ½ cup sour cream • 2 tablespoons flour • ½ teaspoon vanilla • Salt and freshly ground black pepper • 2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves • Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
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3. Whisk together eggs, milk, cream, flour, vanilla, ½ teaspoon salt and a few grinds of pepper. Set aside. 4. When vegetables are roasted, toss with thyme, lemon zest and salt and pepper to taste. Let cool a few minutes.
1. Toss zucchini and shallots with olive oil. Spread out in a single layer on two large rimmed baking sheets. Slide sheets onto the lowest racks of a 425-degree oven. Roast, turning zucchini once and switching position of pans once, until zucchini turn tender and golden brown, about 35 minutes.
5. Scrape vegetables into the prepared pan. Pour in egg mixture. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Set on a rimmed baking sheet and slide onto the center rack of a 425-degree oven. Bake until clafouti is brown, slightly puffed and set (a knife stabbed in the center should come out clean), 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool. Enjoy warm or at room temperature.
2. Meanwhile, butter a 9-inch round baking pan. (A regular pie plate will do.) Sprinkle with half the cheese. Set aside.
Serves 6.
from Stouffer’s, touting similar wholesome improvements to their frozen meals, arrived. “Stouffer’s has just announced a new initiative to renovate its recipes making them shorter and simpler – and ingredients that you
Source: Adapted from the Chicago Tribune
could find in your own home. As a part of this Kitchen Cupboard commitment, Stouffer’s will begin to apply a consistent set of standards across new and existing meal lines, starting with its staple dish – Meat and Sauce Lasagna.”
Maybe it wasn’t a coincidence that the Lean Cuisine called out to me from the freezer case. These food companies are actively trying to make their items more appealing to consumers, especially ones aware of the ingredients in their meals.
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Peter Bjorn and John released Breakin’ Point, their first album in five years, in June and Peter Morén, a guitarist and vocalist in the group, said that the group can feel that they’ve been away for a long time. “You know, you don’t think about it when you’re a grown up person, but if you’re like picturing an 18-year-old who starts listening to a band and five years go by, there’s a lot of music out there,” he said. “And you can feel that a little bit, but as soon as people come to shows and actually remember that we exist, they really connect with the songs. “Personally, you always say that your new record is the strongest, but I feel the songwriting is really solid on this record. I like every song. It took too long to make it. It doesn’t have to take four years to make a record, but regardless it’s a good record, and it’s really coming alive in the live shows….I think as a live band we’ve never been this good.” The indie rock trio is currently touring PETER BJORN AND JOHN. (P����: M����� P��������) North America and will perform at the Lincoln It was Epworth who produced the song “And this time we really were searching Theatre on Saturday, Sept. 24. Morén said that the group is playing a mix of old and new in the blind a little bit for what direction the “Dominos,” which became the first music songs in its live show and have added two other record should take and then we decided that video released from this album. Both the song we should focus on the songs and let the songs and the video are fun and simple. The video players to their performance outfit. Morén said that there were a couple of dif- dictate the production rather than having a features an elaborate domino line of humans ferent reasons that it took them so long to put production dogma define what sort of songs going in reverse, so that all of the “dominos” stand up, and then goes forward so that they all out a new album. Before this five-year gap in we should write.” The group became meticulous about the fall down again. Morén said that it was tricky between albums, the group was releasing about an album every other year. The first reason is album before they even started recording, but to execute the video logistically. “There were a lot of hurt knees, that’s for that the group took a year off after the tour for when they eventually got into the studio, they its sixth album Gimme Some partly because ended making a record that features six differ- sure. We did ourselves. We were a part of that whole falling strategy….It was just great ent producers. there were some injuries in the band. Patrick Berger, who has worked with because it’s filmed in Stockholm, in our neigh“John [Erikkson] had broken his shoulder, so he couldn’t play for a year. So that was one Icona Pop and Robyn, Paul Epworth, who has borhood,” Morén said. “And it was a very thing,” Morén said. “And then I think when we worked with Florence and the Machine, U2 simple idea, that sort of reflects the lyrics in an started recording we didn’t really know what and Paul McCartney, and Emilie Haynie, who obvious way, but I think that’s the best way to we wanted to do. In the past we usually had has worked with FKA Twigs, Lana Del Rey make a music video.” • For more information about Peter Bjorn some sort of dogma or idea behind what sort of and Kanye West, were among the ensemble of and John, visit peterbjornandjohn.com. producers on the record. record we wanted to do.
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Business News & Notes ‘Dine Out Day’ at Pancake House Thursday to Benefit Arc of NoVa The Original Pancake House is hosting a Dine Out Day on Thursday, September 22 to benefit The Arc of Northern Virginia, which was recognized by the Washington Business Journal as one of the most entrepreneurial and groundbreaking organizations in the Washington region at its inaugural Innovation Awards on September 22. The Arc was selected for its innovative TravelMate and EmployMate “apps” which help people with cognitive challenges to navigate transit and the workplace. For more information, visit washingtonbusienssjournal.com or thearcofnova.org. The Original Pancake House is located at 7395 Lee Highway and is open from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Andrew Duhon Trio in Bikenetic Stone Room Concert Sunday Bikenetic is hosting a Stone Room Concert featuring The Andrew Duhon Trio on Sunday, September 25 at 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 7 p.m.) Andrew Duhon, a Grammy nominated blues and folk singer/songwriter/storyteller from New Orleans, will be joined by Myles Weeks on the stand-up bass and Maxwell Zemanovic on drums. Bikenetic is a full service bicycle shop located at 201 W. Jefferson Street in Falls Church. To reserve a seat or learn more about the series, visit www.stoneroomconcerts.com.
Barkley Square, Mad Fox Team Up for Dog Happy Hour Barkley Square and Mad Fox Brewing Company have partnered together to host Yappy Hour on Tuesdays from 3 – 7 p.m. Dogs are invited to Mad Fox’s patio to enjoy homemade treats from Barkley Square’s “Bark Bar” along with a hydration station while drink specials and discounted bar snacks are offered to their owners. Mad Fox is located at 444 W. Broad Street. For more information, visit www.madfoxbrewing.com or www.barkleysquare.com.
F.C. Chamber’s Mini-Golf Night Set for Sept. 27 The Falls Church Chamber of Commerce is hosting its annual Mini-Golf Family Fun Night on Tuesday, September 27 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Upton Hill Regional Park. In addition to the opportunity to play miniature golf, attendees will have access to a picnic dinner provided by Buffalo Wild Wings, a fire pit and s’mores provided by Sislers Stone, a moon bounce sponsored by Family Medicine in Falls Church, and a Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department truck. Tickets to this community event are $10 in advance, $12.50 at the door while tickets for children 2 – 5 are $5 and tickets for children under 2 are free. To register or for more information, visit www. FallsChurchChamber.org.
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Bias Shown in News Brief Item On Wendy Davis Editor, The Falls Church News-Press platform promises to “keep the news clean and fair” and “not let the news columns reflect editorial comment.” This is a worthy platform, but one that is all too often ignored by this publication. The latest example of this paper’s habit of editorializing the news can be found in the “News Briefs” section under the headline “Big Labor Day Weekend for Local Dems.” Here, Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis is described as “the woman who led a nationally-publicized filibuster to stop anti-woman legislation from becoming law in Texas.” Anti-woman? Sure, that might be the term a pro-abortion activist might use, but it is hardly appropriate for a newspaper purporting to be “clean and fair.” It makes just as much sense to say “pro-child,” yet you chose “anti-woman.” Your bias is showing. Philip Messing Falls Church
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The reality is people are confronted with the two worst candidates in my memory. Hilary is well-educated, experienced in politics, very rich and apparently constitutionally unable to give a clear and honest answer to any significant question; ethically challenged is a kind description. Trump on the other hand is also rich, appears completely incapable of coherence and consistency, not to mention apparently believing that everything he says is absolute truth even when he completely contradicts himself. The choice is between a crook and a fool – I leave the reader to determine which is which. For the first time in a fairly long life, I am voting for the Libertarian Party, both major parties have failed the country. Henry J. Gordon Falls Church
THIS TRIO OF DEER were found lounging, perhaps catching some shade in the middle of a hot day, in the backyard of one of the houses on Jackson street in late August. Just because you’re not famous doesn’t mean your pet can’t be! Send in your Critter Corner submissions to crittercorner@fcnp.com.
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A rarely seen view of African American life in 1950, captured by groundbreaking photojournalist Gordon Parks. 200 N. Boulevard | Richmond | 804.340.1405 | www.VMFA.museum Gordon Parks, Back To Fort Scott is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with the Gordon Parks Foundation. Photo: Untitled, St. Louis, Missouri, 1950, Gordon Parks (American, 1912–2006), gelatin silver print. Courtesy of and copyright the Gordon Parks Foundation
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