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Inside This Week After 41 Years, Dr. Rogers Retires
In 1975, Dr. Steve Rogers arrived in Falls Church to begin working as a veterinarian at the Falls Church Animal Hospital. After 41 years, Rogers retired yesterday. See page 11
City of F.C. ‘Visioning’ Meeting Saturday
A second community meeting to encourage the public to weigh in on “visioning” about their desired future for the City of Falls Church will be held Saturday, Oct. 1, at 9 a.m. at the Columbia Baptist Church, N. Washington at W. Columbia Street.
Kaine Returns to N.Va. to Welcome Endorsement By Sen. John Warner Little Survivors
VP Candidate Hails GOP Lawmaker’s Clinton-Kaine Nod
by Nicholas F. Benton
Falls Church News-Press
While some citizens are leery that prices after opening promotions may begin to rise, many residents have been recipients of coupon promotions that offer $10 back for $50 of purchases. The location has been busy most daytime and early evening hours with many recognizable Falls Church residents among its clientele, and is open 24 hours. It
Retired Virginia U.S. Senator John Warner, a Republican, gave a ringing endorsement of the Democratic Clinton-Kaine ticket at an event in Alexandria yesterday morning. He was introduced by current U.S. Senator and vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine who was making his first public appearance in Northern Virginia since being nominated for vice president in July. The event, attended by a couple dozen decorated military veterans, was built around the John Warner endorsement. The veteran lawmaker, who served 30 years in the U.S. Senate, most as chair or ranking member of the Armed Services Committee and was also the Secretary of the Navy, was sharp in his support for Clinton and also in his criticism of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, though mentioning Trump by name only once at the very end of his comments. While calling Clinton “firm, fair and respectful” in Monday’s televised debate, the 89-year-old Northern Virginia resident said that “that last quality is totally lacking on the other side.” He assailed Trump’s “audacity to degrade the Purple Heart and the military,” which he said is “the strongest in the world and not in shambles.” The Pentagon, he said, “Is just as vibrant as when I was there.” In a final comment, he said that when he was in boot camp as an 18-yearold in 1945, with World War II still going on, there was a sign posted
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See News Briefs, page 9
David Brooks: The Age of Reaction
If you studied history in school you probably plowed through book after book about this revolution or that one. See page 14
Press Pass with Andrew Leahey & the Homestead
Andrew Leahey and the Homestead are slated to perform 120 gigs in 2016 but of all the shows, the group’s namesake and front man is looking forward to the ones in Virginia and D.C., especially. See page 25
TWO FALLS CHURCH CHILDREN joined Falls Church Mayor David Tarter on the City Council dais Monday night as he proclaimed September Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in the City. Mia Grace Baroukh and Jimmy Alverson were joined by Alverson’s sister Rebecca. (Photo: Gary Mester)
Report: Tax Revenues From Harris-Teeter Will Be Huge by Nicholas F. Benton
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On the verge of the completion of the first three-month quarter of the City of Falls Church’s new fiscal year, the News-Press has learned that sales and meals tax revenues coming from the new Harris-Teeter supermarket smack in the center of the City are eye popping. The official numbers could be
available to the City Council as early as next week. Since its opening on July 27, the 85,000-square foot mega-store has been operating on all cylinders with a wide range of offerings from prepared hot food bars to organic veggies, a huge offering of wines and beers, a wine bar, a satellite Starbucks with second-level outside seating that looks over downtown, and lots of traditional grocery and related items.
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for everyone to see that said, “Loose lips sink ships,” and added, “Got that, Trump?” Kaine introduced Warner saying he has been a friend of his wife’s family (her father being former Virginia governor Lynwood Holton) for over 70 years. He is one who’s “always put country and the commonwealth first,” working in a bipartisan manner often. Warner’s endorsement of Clinton, however, marks the first time he’s done that for a Democrat presidential candidate. Warner, in turn, called Kaine “a beautiful man, inside and out with unquestioned integrity,” and said that, as the U.S. remains the leader of the free world and is looked to that way, Clinton is “firm, experienced and fundamentally understands how we as a nation got here.” This is not a matter of “National Security for Dummies,” he quipped. U.S. Senator Mark Warner, who opened the event with remarks, described John Warner and Kaine as “two of the most decent human beings, not politicians, but human beings,” saying he first knew Kaine in 1980 when both were in the Harvard Law School. In coming back to Northern Virginia, Kaine addressed a fundraiser in Washington, D.C. the night before that included a large contingent of Virginians, among them Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring. The night before, Kaine had been at a rally at the location of the Pulse nightclub in in Orlando, Florida where he’d been deeply moved, he said, because he’d prayed when the Virginia Tech massacre occurred when he was governor of Virginia in 2007 that he’d never see anything as massive as that tragedy occur again.
While 32 died then, 59 died in the Pulse shooting. Kaine bases a lot of his campaign narrative on the time when he took a year off from law school to join a Jesuit missionary effort in Honduras, which also proved useful because he learned to speak fluent Spanish while there. He learned a lot, he said, from the dedicated missionaries there, but also from the people themselves. He said said that his most formative life experience was the 17 years he spent as a civil rights attorney in Richmond, fighting housing discrimination throughout Virginia and the south, advocating usually on behalf of persons who had no one else to stand up for them. While he compared his experiences, including in public life from the time he was elected to the Richmond City Council, then as mayor, then as Virginia’s lieutenant governor, governor and now U.S. Senator, with those of Hillary Clinton, he contrasts them to Donald Trump and his disdain for minorities. The debate Monday night demonstrated that Clinton is “fit, and has the substance” to be the president. He noted that the nation was founded in 1776 by those who established the ideal of equality, even while it was far from realized at first. “But equality has been this
DEMOCRATIC VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Tim Kaine (left), making his �irst public Northern Virginia appearance since being chosen as his party’s nominee in July, greets former U.S. Sen. John Warner, a Republican who announced his endorsement of the Democratic Clinton-Kaine ticket Wednesday morning. (P����: N���-P����) nation’s North Star,” he said. Fighting a civil war in the 1860s for it, granting women’s suffrage in 1919 for it, and LGBT equality for it more recently, “as a nation we’ve made adjustments to be more equal, in fact.”
Now, he said, “We need to orient to it, not away from it, by electing the first woman president.” What binds Democrats, who are often very different, Kaine said, “is that we are ‘underdog
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gets an additional boost from residents of the 286 rental units above it. On the other hand, the fact that a corporate ownership change has resulted in the cancellation of plans for the Fresh Market slated to go into the soon-to-be-completed Lincoln at Tinner Hill mixed use project has left a hole in the City’s projections for revenues in the coming fiscal year, but apparently not that much. But Chief Financial Officer Richard LaCondre said the impact would not be “not much” in remarks accompanying in his presentation of his Fiscal Year 2016 Year-End and Financial Condition report presented to the City Council Monday night. LaCondre is remaining in his position at City Hall until the end of October, when he plans for retire. Another factor to watch will be the impact of the new Harris Teeter on other providers of similar services in Falls Church,
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the main case being the Giant Food Store in the 1100 block of W. Broad. Other nearby providers, such as two nearby Safeway stores on Lee Highway, are not in the City of Falls Church and whatever becomes of their sales and meals taxes will not impact the City. The good news in LaCondre’s report for the fiscal year that ended June 30 was that the City collected $483,623 more than had been expected, taking in $81,587,581 compared to a projected goal of $81,103,958. This included a robust 4.4 percent increase in sales tax revenues and 3.1 percent increase in the personal property tax revenues. Moreover, there are buoyant projections for the current year of a 7.7 percent increase in sales tax revenues, and a 42 percent increase in licenses and permits due from projects that have been approved and that are expected to begin construction later in this fiscal year. Shields also announced that
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among developer voluntary concessions for school capital costs – including $680,000 received from the Northgate project and $2,035,481 due from the 301 W. Broad (Harris Teeter) project – a sum of $1,577,310 due from the Lincoln at Tinner Hill was in fact received on Monday. That was one fat check in the mailbox. These benefits from new commercial and mixed-use developments in the city will be hard to ignore when the City’s Planning Department hosts a “visioning” session, encouraging citizen participation, this Saturday (Oct. 1) at 9 a.m. at the Columbia Bapist Church. “We will need 4.5 percent growth in tax revenues in the coming fiscal year, and I am reasonably confident that we can hit that target,” Shields told the Council Monday. With $15,166.910 sitting in the City’s “unassigned fund balance,” which some might call as “rainy day fund,” LaCondre recommended to the Council Monday that all
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F.C. 1 of Least PedestrianFriendly Areas Around D.C. Editor, As an avid dog walker and runner living in the Mt. Daniels area, I read with dismay the recent, selfcongratulatory guest commentary by Stewart Schwartz which touted Falls Church’s “walkable urbanism.” After three years of walking 4-6 miles every day in the neighborhoods between West Falls Church Metro and City Hall, I’ve found F.C. to be one of the least pedestrianfriendly suburbs in the D.C. area.
Almost none of the residential streets in this area have sidewalks on both sides; many have no sidewalks at all. Crosswalks of any kind are few and far between, and anyone walking the two miles from West Falls Church Metro to City Hall will find exactly one pedestrian traffic light (on Haycock – technically in Fairfax County) in the entire distance. Sidewalks in general are poorly maintained, uneven, and hazardous in the dark. Lines
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of sight at street corners are often blocked by the overgrown trees and bushes of homeowners, and in inclement weather, roughly half of homeowners do not shovel their sidewalks or intentionally shovel their driveways onto the sidewalks. Neither residents nor the municipality appear to take any responsibility for maintaining the accessibility of public walkways. Worse still, the Highland/Haycock intersection accessing West Falls Church Metro is completely impassible by pedestrians for weeks after winter storms when Fairfax County dumps snow onto sidewalks, forcing commuters into the busy street. That street is not a safe place to be in Falls Church, where I watch one in three
drivers fail to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks. My dog and I wear no fewer than five lighted devices after 5 p.m. during the winter months and still have near misses with cars roughly twice a week. The dismal walkability of residential areas is one of our major reasons for choosing not to buy or live here permanently. I invite Mr. Schwartz to spend a few weeks trying to commute, walk his dog, or run in the neighborhood and then to call Falls Church “pedestrianfriendly” with a straight face. I’m confident he won’t be able to do so. Tracy Whittington Via the Internet
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Voting Absentee in the City of Falls Church B� D���� B. B�����
Do you want the campaigns to stop calling you and filling up your mail box? Did you know there is something you can do to reduce those calls and mailings? Vote early. Vote absentee. All over Virginia, election offices opened for early absentee voting on September 23. The campaigns get daily updates of who votes all the way through Election Day. Once they know you’ve voted, they don’t need to call or mail you anymore. It’s a nice incentive and with 19 valid reasons to vote absentee, if you can’t find a reason, you’re not trying very hard. Do you work in D.C.? Arlington? Fairfax? That’s a reason! If you leave the Little City for any reason, that’s a valid reason to vote absentee. If you think it’s even possible you might leave the City of Falls Church on Election Day, that’s a valid reason. But will your vote count? Yes! Every vote counts! I have voted absentee every election since 2007. Everyone in my office usually votes absentee. There’s a myth that absentee ballots are only counted if the races are close and we’ve been fighting that myth for years. Our central absentee precinct counts all by-mail and in-person ballots at the same time as the polling places, right after the polls close at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 8, Election Day. Another factor in deciding whether to
vote early/absentee is lines on Election Day. While the biggest draw for the Presidential General and Special Elections is the electors for President, there is also a House of Representatives race,
“There’s a myth that absentee ballots are only counted if the races are close and we’ve been �ighting that myth for years. Our central absentee precinct counts all by-mail and in-person ballots at the same time as the polling places.”
two proposed amendments to the Virginia Constitution, and a local Referendum. Those last three items are long and wordy and many voters don’t know they are on the ballot. Voters will spend several more minutes in the voting booth trying to both read and understand these questions written with a lawyer’s vocabulary
and that may lead to longer lines. Avoid the long lines on Election Day by voting early/absentee. Our office is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. We will be closed Columbus Day. However we will be open Saturdays October 29 and November 5, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Please note that the last day to vote in-person absentee is Saturday, November 5 at 5 p.m. We always have voters try to vote the Monday before Election Day when, unfortunately, by law, we only have emergency exceptions available 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. But none of this matters if you’re not properly registered to vote. Go to www.elections.virginia.gov and check your voter registration. You can do it on your smartphone! All you need is your Virginia Driver’s license or identification card and you can register and update. If you don’t have either of those, you can still fill out and print the application and mail it to me or bring it to my office. While you’re checking your registration, you can apply for an absentee ballot to be mailed to you. The recommended date to request an absentee ballot by mail is right now. Don’t rely on the U.S. Postal Service to be fast so request as soon as possible. Otherwise, the recommended deadline is October 25. The USPS says mail can take three to five days to deliver. Combined, it is a 10-day turnaround to request and cast your ballot. The legal deadline is November 1. But I’ve
never seen a ballot requested by the legal deadline make it back to my office by the 7 p.m. cast ballot deadline on Election Day, so waiting until November 1 is not recommended. Finally, you must have a valid photo ID to vote in-person. The most common form of photo ID is your Virginia Driver’s license, and the address does not need to match because people move all the time and other forms of valid ID do not have any address on them at all. No other state license qualifies, but you can use a passport, work ID if it has your photo and name, student ID if it’s a Virginia school, and even a Metro access card. If you do not have any form of valid photo ID, come to any elections office and have one made for you for free. We will take your picture and your signature, append them to your voter record and your ID will be mailed to you in about a week. TL/DR: Please check your registration, have a valid photo ID, and vote absentee! Go to www.elections.virginia.gov on your smartphone to check and update your registration, request an absentee by mail ballot or check for all the valid forms of photo ID. Thank you for your time and attention. David Bjerke is Director of Elections and General Registrar of Voters for the City of Falls Church.
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Judy, a nun for the Kunzang Palyul Chöling Center of Tibetan Buddhism: “For an American woman to be recognized by a Tibetan buddhist, like Penor Rinpoche, it’s very unusual and it put him under a lot of criticism because people didn’t understand why an American, and especially a woman, would deserve such an honor. I was one of the �irst to take ordination 32 years ago. ”
Editor, Henry J. Gordon’s letter (Sept. 22-28 edition) claimed that the choice in the upcoming Presidential election.is “between a crook and a fool.” And that, consequently, he would vote for the Libertarian candidate. In that same edition, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said, accurately as far as I can ascertain, that the Libertarian candidate is running on a party platform that would “eliminate environmental regulation, abolish the income tax, do away with public schools, and dismantle Social Security and Medicare.” Is that agenda, Ms. and Mr. voter, really what you desire for our country? I recall that many years ago, in 1972, I felt I faced a similar non-
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choice – between Richard Nixon and George McGovern. I decided, “on principle,” not to vote for either gent, nor even Dr. Benjamin Spock, who was running on the People’s Party ticket. Although my one vote, of course, had no influence on the outcome, I came to regret it deeply. I think this November voters really have to decide between the two main candidates, one of whom will win the election. A vote for Gary Johnson or for that matter Jill Stein “on principle” is, I reluctantly conclude, a wasted vote. This November, we really have to, as the Krugman headline claims, “vote as if it matters.” So I urge my fellow voters to choose between “the lesser of the two evils,” if you see it that way, or, perhaps, between the predictable and the unpredictable. Please examine your conscience and decide who, of the two major candidates, you’d rather have at the helm of the Ship of State for the next four years. Gerald Kamens Falls Church
Mayor Clarifies Cost of City’s Traffic Calming Study
Editor, In response to Dan Lehman’s letter to the editor in the September 15-21 edition of the News-Press, to clarify, the total cost of both the Big Chimney’s Park upgrade and the related traffic calming is approximately $1 million. The traffic calming portion of the project alone is substantially less. Also, these improvements are being paid for from the proceeds of the sale of City land as part of the Harris Teeter transaction, not general tax revenues. I am sorry for any confusion. Dave Tarter Mayor, City of Falls Church
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NEWS BRIEFS Falls Church ‘Visioning’ Meeting Saturday A second community meeting to encourage the public to weigh in on “visioning” about their desired future for the City of Falls Church will be held Saturday, Oct. 1, at 9 a.m. at the Columbia Baptist Church at 103 W. Columbia Street. The meeting will open with guest speakers, led by City Principal Planner Paul Stoddard, and the results of several community outreach efforts, including a survey, and a draft vision statement.
Shields Hails F.C. Police Training in Action At Monday’s Falls Church City Council meeting, City Manager Wyatt Shields briefed the Council on the exemplary manner by which a team of City police officers effectively prevented a bank robbery attempt at the Sun Trust bank from escalating into potential violence. Officer Eric Reynolds responded to a bank teller notification that a robbery was in process, and pulled his gun on a suspect as he exited the bank. He was soon joined by Cpt. Alan Freed, Sgt. Steve Rau and Officer Daniel People. When the command was given to the suspect to put up his hand, the suspect instead put his hands in his pockets, repeating that to get a cigarette, then a lighter. The suspect was then brought to the ground and was discovered to be unarmed. But it was the kind of situation that without due restraint could have ended much more violently.
W. Broad Closed for 10 Hours Friday Night West Broad Street in downtown Falls Church will be closed to traffic for a 10-hour period from late Friday night to early Saturday morning to accommodate the undergrounding of utility lines in front of the Kensington, under construction in the 500 block. The exact hours of the closing were not available as of press time.
Farm Day in F.C. Set for Oct. 8 The City of Falls Church Recreation and Parks Department has announced that it is sponsoring the 24th Annual Farm Day on Saturday, Oct. 8, from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. at Cherry Hill Park, (312 Park Avenue). Old-fashioned fun, including horse-drawn hayrides, a petting farm, pumpkin painting, scarecrow-making, blacksmith demonstrations, cider pressing from locally grown apples, pony rides and more will be offered. Andrew Acosta and Friends will provide live music. Free tours of the 1845 Cherry Hill Farmhouse will be offered throughout the day. Admission is free, however nominal fees apply to some activities. Food will be available for purchase from Margaret’s Soul Food and Stay Cool Ice Cream.
Rabies-Positive Kitten Treated at F.C. Animal Hospital The Falls Church Animal Hospital reported to the News-Press on Monday, Sept. 26 that it recently had to euthanize an 11-week-old kitten from Vienna because it was exposed to rabies. Becky Keenan, Falls Church City’s animal warden, told the hospital that there have been five positive and three probable rabies infected raccoons in the City of Falls Church over the past year. According to Dr. Amy Yam at the animal hospital, the kitten contracted the virus when it was eight weeks old. “It was bitten when it was eight weeks old and didn’t have any clinical signs, but then, when we saw it, it had started to develop neurological signs,” Yam said. She also said that the kitten was born to a stray mother in a Vienna woman’s garage, but not contained in the garage. According to Yam, animals don’t usually get vaccinated for rabies until they’re 12 weeks old because they are usually contained in environments where there is low risk of exposure to rabies, but that wasn’t the case with this kitten. Yam said that this was the first time that she had seen a pet at the animal hospital that was rabies-positive, despite the recent uptick in rabid raccoons in the region over the past year or so.
Graduation Rate Up in Virginia, McAuliffe Says Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced yesterday that over nine out of ten students who entered the ninth grade in 2012 earned a diploma within four years, and more than half graduated from high school with the Commonwealth’s most rigorous diploma, the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) reported today. Of the 95,130 students in the class of 2016, 91.3 percent earned a Board of Education-approved diploma, compared with 90.5 percent of the 2015 cohort. “The success demonstrated by our students is a testament to the resolve of teachers, administrators, parents, and community leaders across the Commonwealth to ensure that every individual gets the best possible education,” said Governor McAuliffe.
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By now we know that exercise is good for us. It helps to postpone aging and keeps us healthier. Even knowing that, however, not all of us do what we should. Now there’s research reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that points fingers at those who aren’t active. The study collected information from more than 300,000 adults over the age of 50. For the sake of definition, “inactivity” was not doing any activity outside of daily-living tasks. Here’s what we now know from the research: • More than one-fourth of adults over age 50 don’t do any physical activity ... at all. By age 75, that number jumped up to one-third. • More women were inactive than men. The lower the education, the lower the amount of
activity. The higher the body mass index (BMI), the lower the rate of activity. • Those living in the South were the most idle, while the West and Northeast were the most active. • Having one of seven chronic diseases increased the numbers of inactive participants. • Excuses for inactivity ranged from having a limited number of places to be active to not knowing how, given their own physical limitations. These reasons for not being active have a ring of truth. If we live in an area with no sidewalks and we don’t drive, we won’t be doing much walking. In some areas, the sidewalks might not be safe anyway. However, we don’t need to walk or run for our activity. We can do gardening, watch workout videos at home, ride a bike around the high-school track, dance around the living room, lift hand weights, take a low-impact fitness class and much more – as
long as we do something. *** Supposedly we go to the hospital to get better. Too often, however, we come out in much worse condition than when we went in. Kaiser Health News has written a series about the impact of hospitals on seniors, and one of the articles has a frightening headline: “Elderly Hospital Patients Arrive Sick, Often Leave Disabled.” The article describes the chaos of being in the hospital, with noisy wards, interrupted sleep, strange food and germs that make patients sicker than they were. Research shows that in seniors over age 70, one-third will end up disabled even after the original illness or condition is treated. It proposes a plan of focusing on daily living skills, mobility and cognition while the seniors are in the hospital, not letting skills deteriorate. The biggest of those is mobility. Some hospitals around the country are setting up seniors-only
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wards, called Acute Care for Elders (ACE) wards, with staffers who are experts in taking care of the elderly. Again, mobility is the big thing, and seniors are encouraged to move around and eat in a communal dining area instead of staying in bed 24 hours a day. At this point there are only 200 such wards. Go online to khn.org/topics/ aging/ and click through the various articles about seniors and hospitals. If you’re a caregiver for a senior, be sure to read through these as your senior might not come home in the same physical condition after hospitalization, and adjustments will need
to be made. Check your local hospitals in advance, should you or a family member ever need to be hospitalized. Is there a seniors wing? Determine, too, if your local hospital has a geriatric emergency room. The care will be targeted toward seniors, which means better patient screening. Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@gmail.com.
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Local Vet Dr. Rogers Retires After Over 4 Decades of Service
DR. STEVE ROGERS PETS ONE OF HIS RECENT PATIENTS, a labrador named Gigi, during his �inal week at the Falls Church Animal Hospital. (P����: D��� C������/N���-P����) stone of the community.” Asked what his motivations were for retiring now, he said, “while I still love what I do, I’d like to go out on top; 41 years is enough. I want to travel and I also
have grandkids in the city, so I’m looking forward to spending time with them.” Without a doubt, he will also spend a lot of time with his two Burmese cats, Mocha and Bean, while he plans his next
adventures. “We’re happy for him about his retirement. He certainly has earned it,” said Kfoury. “But we’re also sad because no one could take his place.”
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In 1975 Dr. Steve Rogers arrived in Falls Church to begin working as a veterinarian at the Falls Church Animal Hospital. Now, after 41 years of dedicated service to the community, he retired from his practice on Wednesday, Sept. 28. During his career, he has tended to the needs of thousands of animals and built close and enduring relationships with city residents and their pets. “He is a great vet, a tremendous community servant, and a wonderful human being,” said Liz Giovaniello, who is both a client and a near neighbor. “He’s always been there for humans and animals alike.” Dr. Rogers grew up in Smithfield, Virginia where he was exposed to veterinary medicine from an early age. “I guess I was just bred into it,” he said. “My father was a large animal vet and so were two uncles and a great uncle.” He attended Virginia Tech for his undergraduate degree before being accepted into a prestigious and selective program at the University of Georgia, where he earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. After school, he worked for a few years in Richmond and Southeast Washington, D.C. before joining the Falls Church Animal Hospital, which at that time was a small two-doctor operation. Reflecting on how the practice has changed since then, he said that “back then we were a catchall operation” doing everything from general medicine to procedures that are now taken
care of by specialists. “It was challenging, but extremely rewarding.” “I get paid for what I would do for free and it will be tough to say goodbye,” he said. “It has gone by so fast. What I will miss the most is making the animals better and the joy of the client when returning their pet to health.” In talking with several clients, it is clear that Dr. Rogers will be sincerely missed. “For my family, it’s been multi-generational,” said Denise Kfoury. “We’ve been taking our pets to him for 40 of the past 41 years. His skill is tremendous. He has such a high level of dedication.” Alexandra Roth has been bringing her cats to Dr. Rogers for over a decade. “He’s extremely empathetic,” she said. “Not all vets are good with people, but he certainly is. He’s a mensch!” Indeed, both Roth and Giovaniello related how kind and conscientious he is through both good times and bad. “He is always looking for the best thing to do for the animal and is so good at explaining things to us animal lovers in tough situations,” said Giovaniello. The staff at the Falls Church Animal Hospital expressed the same sentiments. “Everyone is thrilled for him. He’s earned it. He deserves it,” said Naomi Wheeler, who has worked there for ten years and is a receptionist. “It’s a bittersweet time. We’re getting lots of calls from people wishing him well. A lot of people all of a sudden need an appointment. They’re all coming in for one last visit. He’s a real corner-
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Community News & Notes Quinn’s Auction Galleries Features Oct. 1 Tribal Art Sale A 16th-century bronze plaque recovered in 1897 from the charred ruins of the Benin Kingdom’s Royal Palace (Benin City, Nigeria) is the featured item in the the Saturday, Oct. 1 auction of the late Merton D. Simpson’s private collection at Quinn’s Auction Galleries at 360 S. Washington Street. The auction estimate for the plaque is $800,000 – $1.2 million. Simpson, who was an expert, artist and New York City-based gallerist, will have some of his own paintings featured in the sale, as well as his some of the artworks and rare African artifacts from his personal collection and Manhattan gallery. Also featured in the sale is a horned plank Bedu mask with checkerboard design from the first half of the 20th-century in Ivory Coast/Ghana that’s estimated at $10,000 – $15,000 and a seated
clay figure from between the 15th17th century that was found in a cache uncovered in the 1980s in Mali that’s estimated in the same price range. The items in the auction can be previewed at the gallery on September 23, 24, 26-29 from 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. or from 9 – 11 a.m. on October 1. The auction begins at 11 a.m. on October 1. For more information, visit quinnsauction.com.
Kensington, Falls Church Arts Exhibit Conn’s Art Work Kensington Senior Living and Falls Church Arts held a special exhibit opening for the work of local artist Deborah Conn on Thursday, Sept. 22 at the Kensington Sales and Information Center at 1212 W. Broad Streeet. The exhibit opened at the Kensington Sales and Information Center on Monday, Aug. 29 and closes on Monday, Oct. 10.
Conn uses watercolor and textural elements to create portraits, figurative paintings and other works. The exhibit will be open from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. For more information, call 703-982-9868 or visit thekensingtonfallschurch. com or fallschurcharts.org.
Providence Players Opens 19th Season with ‘Amadeus’ The Providence Players of Fairfax are gearing up to open its 19th season with a production of “Amadeus” on Friday, Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the James Lee Community Center, located at 2855 Annandale Road, Falls Church. The show will be open until Saturday, Oct. 15. “Amadeus” is the story of legendary composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told through the eyes of his jealous rival Antonio Salieri, this psychological mystery has played to thunderous applause the world over. The scene is set in 1781 Vienna and
LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS HELPED WELCOME the Hampton Inn & Suites located at 6430 Arlington Boulevard to Falls Church at the new hotel’s grand opening on Thursday, Sept. 15. (L to r) Virginia Delegate Marcus Simon, Falls Church Vice Mayor Marybeth Connelly, City Council Member Phil Duncan, City Council Member Letty Hardi, and Commissioner of the Revenue Tom Clinton were all present at the grand opening. (Photo: Courtesy of Sally Cole)
features a young Mozart, who can write an opera a week but can’t control his exuberant giggling and notorious libido. Antonio Salieri – until now the royal court’s most lauded musician – recognizes Mozart’s genius, calling him “God’s magic flute.” Pious, wicked and soon to be guilt-ridden, Salieri tries everything to subvert the success of this enfant terrible. “My vision is to stay true to the original script and intent of Amadeus while enhancing the musical experience through the integration of live music. I am intensifying the focus on story and music by downplaying much of the visual opulence of 18th-century costume and set design,” said Julie Janson, the show’s director. “Instead, I will replace these elements with design aspects which highlight the timelessness of both Mozart and [Peter] Shaffer’s work.” Performances of the show will be held on Thursdays, Fridays
and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets for the performance cost $17 – $20. For more information, visit providenceplayers.org.
Falls Church Fall Community Clean Up Slated for Oct. 1 The City of Falls Church is hosting a Fall Community Clean Up and Litter Pickup on Saturday, Oct. 1 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at various locations around the city. Participants will meet at the Falls Church Community Center at 223 Little Falls Street and then spread out around the City to areas of highest impact. Individual citizens or groups of them can request a specific area of town to clean up or be assigned an area of town on the day of. Registration is requested so that event organizers can provide the correct number of supplies. For more information, email cmcgough@fallschurchva.gov or visit fallschurchva.gov/volunteer.
MIKE RUDDEN AS MOZART and David Whitehead as Salieri rehearse a scene from the Providence Players of Fairfax’s production of “Amadeus.” The show, which is directed by Julie Janson, opens on Friday, Sept. 30 and runs through Saturday, Oct. 15. The show is the opening production of the Providence Players’ new season and will be performed at James Lee Community Center, located at 2855 Annandale Road, Falls Church. (Photo: Courtesy of Chip Hertzog)
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Mary Riley Styles Public Library is hosting Mrs. B and her honeybees for its next Early Release Wednesdays on Wednesday, Oct. 5 from 3 – 4 p.m. at 120 N. Virginia Avenue in the library’s Youth Services room. Mrs. B is dedicated to educating children and adults about the value we must place on bees and protecting their habitat. Through small and large group demonstrations, Mrs. B teaches about the bee life cycle, habitat, and adaptations. She explains why bees are so important to human life, what we must do to help bees thrive and why to respect and not fear them. Her hands-on science lessons empower students with knowledge and ideas to save the bees. The event is for children in grades 1 – 5. Registration is required and participation is limited to 15 children. Children must be present at 3 p.m. to enter the room. At 3:05 p.m., spaces will be given to children who are on the wait list. For more information, call 703-248-5034 or email juv@fallschurchva.gov.
‘ARTrageous’ Silent Art Auction Scheduled for Oct. 7
‘Indiana Jones’ Chosen for Next Sunset Cinema The City of Falls Church will screen “Indiana Jones – Raiders of the Lost Ark,” by decree of online voters, at its next Sunset Cinema, which is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 30 at Cherry Hill Park at 312 Park Avenue. The screening of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” is the second part of a double feature and was chosen as the second film by an online vote on the City’s website. “Star Wars – The Force Awakens” will kick off the double feature at 7:45 p.m. The City encourages those who are planning to attend to bring a blanket and picnic to the event, which is free. For more information, call 703-248-5027, email cmadi-
The Arlington Artists Alliance is hosting its 3rd Annual ARTrageous Silent Art Auction on Friday, Oct. 7 from 6 – 8 p.m. at the Gallery Underground, located at 2100 Crystal Dr., Arlington. There will be framed original paintings, jewelry, pottery and sculpture from local artists at the auction. There will also be food at the auction. All of the proceeds from the auction will go to the Arlington Artists Alliance. All of the artwork that will be available during the auction can be previewed at the gallery from Monday, Oct. 3 – Friday, Oct. 7 from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Also, the artwork available can be viewed flickr.com/photos/126919361@ N04/sets/72157671268913426. Parking for the Gallery Underground is free after 4 p.m. at the Crystal City Shops where the gallery is located. For more information, visit arlingtonartistsalliance.org/events/artrageous.html.
Friends of the Patrick Henry Library Host Fall Book Sale The Friends of the Patrick Henry Library is hosting its Fall Book Sale on Saturday, Oct. 1 and Sunday, Oct. 2 at the Patrick Henry Library, located at 101 Maple Ave. E., Vienna. The sale will feature thousands of top quality used books, CDs, DVDs and audiobooks. The prices for the book sale on Saturday, Oct. 1, which will be held from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., are the following: $2 for hardbacks, $1 for trade paperbacks, $.50 for pocket paperbacks, $.25 – $.50 for children’s books and CDs and videos for $1 – $2. There will be a special sale for the Sunday book sale, which will be held from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Book
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FALLS CHURCH RESIDENT TOM GITTINS recently competed in the Northern Virginia Senior Olympics’ seven swimming events and won the gold medal in his age group in all of the events. (Photo: Courtesy of Tom Gittins) sale attendees can fill a shopping bag with books, movies and CDs for $5. All proceeds from the book sale will go to benefit the library. The book sale is being sponsored by the volunteers of the Friends of the Patrick Henry Library. For more information, sharonbohlman@msn.com or call 703-281-3831.
McLean Art Society Opens ‘Art of the River’ Exhibit The McLean Art Society is opening its Art of the River juried show on Thursday, Sept. 29 at The American Horticultural Society at River Farm, located at 7931 E. Boulevard Dr., Alexandria. Artists in all media will be offering nature and floral paintings for exhibit and for sale. The show will be juried by Carolyn Gawarecki, an awardwinning artist and teacher. The show will close on January 2. There is no fee for admission to the exhibit. For more information, visit mcleanartsociety.org or call 703-768-5700.
Attacca Quartet Performs at St. Patrick’s on Sept. 25
Falls Church’s Farm Day Features Scarecrow Making
The Attacca Quartet, a New York City-based prime string quartet, is slated to perform on Sunday, Sept. 25 at 4 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, located at 3241 Brush Dr., Falls Church, as part of the Odeon Chamber Music Series. Prize winners of international competitions, the group never fails to grab the audience’s attention with their passionate performance and musicality. They are performing twice this season for the Washington Performing Arts Society. The program for the concert consists of “String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1,” “String Quartet No.9 in C major, Op.59 No.3” and “String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131.” Admission to the performance is free, but there is a $20 suggested donation. For more information, visit odeonchambermusicseries.org, email Mariko Hiller at marikohiller@gmail.com or call 703-200-7489.
The City of Falls Church is hosting its annual Farm Day on Saturday, Oct. 8 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. at Cherry Hill Park at 312 Park Avenue. Along with scarecrow making, the event will feature blacksmith demonstrations, horse-drawn hayrides, pumpkin painting and a petting zoo. Children of all ages can learn basic farming skills such as cornshelling, cider pressing and beekeeping at the event. There will also be tours of the Cherry Hill Farmhouse given during the event. Andrew Acosta and Friends will perform and Margaret’s Soul Food and Stay Cool Ice Cream will have food for sale. Finally, there will be a Children’s Tent at Farm Day, sponsored by Gentle Touch Dental P.C. Admission for the event is free, but there is a fee for some of the activities. For more information, call 703-248-5027, email recreation@fallschurchva.gov or visit fallschurchva.gov/FarmDay.
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The Age of Reaction
In the normal telling, history is driven by visionaries and revolutionaries. If you studied history in school you probably plowed through book after book about this revolution or that one – the American Revolution or the French, the industrial revolution or the information one. In the normal telling of the past, events are driven by revolutionaries, and the few reactionaries who stand in the way get run over. But really, history is often a volley between revolutionaries and reactionaries. Today, as the Columbia political theorist Mark Lilla points out in his compelling new book, The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction, reactionaries are in the saddle. Reactionaries, whether angry white Trumpians, European nationalists, radical Islamists or left-wing anti-globalists, are loud, self-confident and on the march. Reactionaries come in difNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE ferent stripes but share a similar mentality: There was once a golden age, when people knew their place and lived in harmony. But then that golden age was betrayed by the elites. “The betrayal of elites is the linchpin of every reactionary story,” Lilla writes. Soon, they believe, a false and decadent consciousness descended upon the land. “Only those who have preserved memories of the old ways see what is happening,” Lilla notes. Only the reactionaries have the wisdom to turn things back to the way they used to be, to “Make America Great Again.” “Reactionaries are not conservatives,” Lilla continues. Reactionaries are marked by a militant, apocalyptic mindset, a crisis mentality. They are willing to take extreme, violent action to turn back the clock. In their narcissism, they think they alone understand the crisis and are in a position to reverse the trends. It’s understandable that we would be living in a reactionary moment. The periods after financial crises are always bumpy politically. Whether it was the 1890s, the 1930s or today, such periods often thrust up ugly, backward-looking ideologies. Eras after mass immigration tend to be bumpy, too. There tends to be a repulse against the sudden influx of new people. Moreover, for many groups, especially the less educated working class, life genuinely is worse than it was in the mid-60s. It’s no wonder such people buy Donald Trump’s paradise-lost narrative. The more serious problem is today’s pervasive and self-reinforcing pessimism, which feeds the reactionary impulse. The belief systems that used to reinforce a faith in progress have become less influential. First there was moderate religiosity, the belief that God is ultimately in control, that all things are ultimately fashioned toward the good and that the arc of history bends toward justice. This was the mindset that made Martin Luther King Jr. fundamentally optimistic, even in temporarily dark times. Then there was humanism, the belief that people are learning more and more, inventing more and more, and so history is a steady accumulation of good things. As humanism and moderate religion have withered, gloom has pervaded that national mind. It doesn’t matter how much living standards rise or the poverty rate falls, it makes you seem smart and awakened to be alarmed and hypercritical. Every dour attention-grabber wants to claim that the elites are more corrupt than ever. The paranoid style of conspiracy-mongering has become the lingua franca of the internet. Public conversation is dominated by people’s ahistorical insistence that this country is sliding toward decline. As Arthur Herman writes in his book The Idea of Decline in Western History, “The sowing of despair and self-doubt has become so pervasive that we accept it as a normal intellectual stance – even when it is directly contradicted by our own reality.” The best weapon against the reactionary is not bubbly, blind optimism. It is, frankly, temperamental conservatism. It is the belief that, thanks to the general spread of market freedom and cultural pluralism, our society is becoming stumblingly but gradually richer, more just and more creative. But economic and technological dynamism needs to be balanced by cultural cohesion. It’s stupid and impossible to turn back the clock. But history is a repository of wise cultures. Each historic culture contained some piece of wisdom and had its own strengths and weaknesses. Classical Greek culture could produce epic courage but was weak when it came to compassion. The conservative looks fondly to the past not as a paradise to return to but as a treasure trove of experience to borrow from. The conservative seeks to revive, restore and reconstruct – to use the gifts of the dead to make the present a little sweeter and deeper. Many of history’s most inspiring leaps forward (the Renaissance) came from a blending of past cultural and spiritual wisdom with present technological advance. The global pluralistic marketplace is a permanently revolutionary force. If you don’t balance it with the communal, humanistic and spiritual countercultures from the past then the people, naked, will try to reject it altogether. They’ll succumb to the angry extremism of reaction and discard progress whole cloth. That impulse is on the march just now.
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Progressive Family Values Here’s what happens every election cycle: pundits demand that politicians offer the country new ideas. Then, if and when a candidate actually does propose innovative policies, the news media pays little attention, chasing scandals or, all too often, fake scandals instead. Remember the extensive coverage last month, when Hillary Clinton laid out an ambitious mental health agenda? Neither do I. For that matter, even the demand for new ideas is highly questionable, since there are plenty of good old ideas that haven’t been put into effect. Most advanced countries implemented some form of guaranteed health coverage decades if not generations ago. Does this NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE mean that we should dismiss Obamacare as no big deal, since it’s just implementing a tired old agenda? The 20 million Americans who gained health coverage would beg to differ. Still, there really are some interesting new ideas coming from one of the campaigns, and they arguably tell us a lot about how Clinton would govern. Wait – what about the other side? Aren’t Republicans also offering new ideas? Well, I guess proposing to round up and deport 11 million people counts as a new idea. And Republicans in Congress seem to have moved past their tradition of proposing tax cuts that deliver most of their benefits to the wealthy. Now they are, instead, proposing tax cuts that deliver all of their benefits to the 1 percent – OK, actually just .4 percent, but who’s counting? Back to Clinton: Much of her policy agenda could be characterized as a third Obama term, building on the center-left policies of the past eight years. That would hardly be a trivial matter. For example, independent estimates suggest that her proposed enhancements to the Affordable Care Act would extend health coverage to around 10 million more people, whereas Donald Trump’s proposed repeal of the act would cause around 20 million people to lose coverage. In addition to defending and extending President Barack Obama’s achievements, however, Clinton is pushing a distinctive agenda centered around support for working parents. This isn’t a completely new idea, but the scale of the Clinton proposals is off the charts compared with anything that has gone before. And as I said, this tells us a lot about her priorities.
Paul Krugman
One piece of that agenda involves 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for new children, help sick relatives, or recover from illness or injury. Oh, and in case you were wondering, Trump, who has offered his own threadbare version of a maternal leave plan, was pants-on-fire lying when he claimed that his opponent has no such plan. Are you surprised? Another, even more striking piece involves helping families with young children in several ways, especially through universal preschool and public outlays – subsidies and tax credits – to hold down the cost of child care (the campaign sets a target of no more than 10 percent of income.) And everything we know, both about Clinton’s long-term interests and her current choices of advisers, suggests that family-centered issues are close to her heart. I was personally struck by the campaign’s choice of Heather Boushey, a leading expert on worklife balance issues, as chief economist for the Clinton transition team. That tells me a lot about priorities. But why should helping working parents be such a priority? It looks to me like an attempt to focus on the problems of the real America – not the white, rural “real America” of right-wing fantasies, but the real, real America in which most of our fellow citizens live. And that America is one in which working parents are the norm, in which stay-at-home mothers are a distinct minority, and in which the problem of how to take care of children while making ends meet is central to many people’s lives. The numbers are striking: 64 percent of women with children younger than 6 are in the paid labor force, up from 39 percent in 1975. Most of these working mothers are surely doing so out of economic necessity, and we as a society need to find a way to reconcile this reality with the need to raise our children well. I suppose a free market purist might question why we need government policies to help deal with this new reality. But we are, after all, talking about the fate of children, who are to some extent a common responsibility. Furthermore, child care economics is in some ways like health economics: for a variety of reasons, mostly coming down to the fact that we’re dealing with people, not things, we can’t trust unregulated markets to deliver a decent outcome. So anyone who complains that there aren’t big new ideas in this campaign simply isn’t paying attention. One candidate, at least, has ideas that would make a big, positive difference to millions of American families.
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Lady & The Trump
Often, first impressions are the best impressions. When recalling the historic presidential debate Monday night, the prevailing sense was of the starkest of contrasts between a civil, highly knowledgeable and fearless woman, and a snarling, pouting, disrespectful stupid old white male. It was visual, it was visceral, and despite all the dissembling, lies and spins of the following days, the obvious was the obvious, and among the 100 million or so viewers (84 watching on TV, the rest elsewhere), the first poll to be reported on CNN was undoubtedly spot on: 62 percent saw Hillary Clinton as superior to the baboon Donald Trump, who only 27 percent favored. That first poll also revealed that a full 25 percent of its sample said the debate FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS had the effect of changing their vote. Well, 25 percent of 100 million is 25 million. That’s a lot of people who were switched by the debate from voting for one to voting for the other candidate, and since almost two thirds preferred Clinton, the debate was an absolute catastrophe for Trump. First, CNN tried to characterize the 25 percent as “only 25 percent.” What a laugh. But quickly, that poll result was buried and never repeated. The level of devastation that result spelled for Trump was apparently too much for someone. One could dissect the debate piece by piece, but it’s the big picture, the overall impression that matters most. Like Nixon’s five o’clock shadow in his debate with Kennedy. It’s what sticks. Like Reagan’s hilarious one liner challenging Mondale’s youth and inexperience in 1984. And maybe the most famous of all, Lloyd Bentsen’s rejoinder to Dan Quayle in the vice presidential debate of 1988. When Quayle alluded to his similarity to the late president John Kennedy, Bentsen slowly twisted in a dagger, “Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.” The only thing uncertain now is which of the things out of this week’s debate will eventually be the most memorable. Will it be the more than 50 times that Trump interrupted Clinton? Will it be his quip that avoiding tax made him “smart?” (That would be at the top of my list). Or will it just be the broad strokes, a morality play pitting the all too obvious slimy Simon Legree against the strident Lady in Red. That’s how this election is playing out. Once all the efforts spent trying to drag Clinton through the mud since the earliest days of Bill Clinton’s first term, all the efforts subtle and not too subtle to throw every misogynistic smear, an unfiltered Hillary Clinton has been able to dust herself off and present herself as who she actually is. And the result is that she’s little short of extraordinary, far better than a lesser of evils. That this human being could become the first ever female president of the United States is a great tribute not only to her, and her perseverance, skill, talent and dedication, but to the American system and the American people who will elect her. As ugly as Trump is, he is only a byproduct of the residual hate, rage, impotent frustration and willful ignorance that were coaxed to arise in the wake of the election of the nation’s first AfricanAmerican president. His rude and filthy tongue and demeanor is a caricature of all that ugliness rolled into one bloated, twisted cartoon. But most of America has moved on. There were still racists after the Civil War. There were still male supremacist misogynists after Suffrage. Some residue of far worse bygone days persists and sometimes seem to have the advantage by virtue of a wanton willingness to break the rules, including of civility and any laws advancing justice and equality, and to resort without shame to threats, blackmail and deceit. That said, and as distressing as it is, forget not that this nation elected an African-American president twice recently, and is about to elect its first woman president. The nation will come through this distasteful chapter in its history as long as the proponents of progress and equality don’t fade.
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Nicholas F. Benton
Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.
Police Violence: American Epidemic Another set of black men killed by the police – one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, another in Charlotte, North Carolina. Another set of protests, and even some rioting. Another television cycle in which the pornography of black death, pain and anguish are exploited for visual sensation and ratings gold. And yes, another moment of mistakenly focusing on individual cases and individual motives and individual protests instead of recognizing that what we are witnessing in a wave of actions rippling across the country is an exhaling – a primal scream, I would venture – of cumulative cultural injury and a frantic attempt to stanch the bleeding from multiplying wounds. We can no longer afford to buy into the delusion that this moment of turmoil is about discrete cases or their specific disposition under the law. The system of justice itself is under interrogation. The cultural mechanisms that produced that system are under interrogation. America as a whole is under interrogation. We are in a new age in which the shroud has slipped and trauNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE ma has risen. This is a video age, in which facts that were previously filtered though police accounts and media sources, that were previously whispered over shoulders at barbershops and across kitchen tables, have been buttressed by the immediacy and veracity of visual proof. It is an age in which the language of resistance has been set and accepted, in which the mode of expression and resistance has been demonstrated and proved effective. It is an age of enlightenment and anger, of fear and frustration, of activism and alertness. Black America is beyond the breaking point, a point of no return. And in this era, the discussion around these issues must be broad and deep because the actions required to address the problems must be broad and deep. This moment in our nation’s history is not about how individual fears are articulated. This moment is about the enormous, almost invisible structure that informs those fears – the way media and cultural presentations disproportionately display black people, and black men in particular, as dangerous and menacing and criminal. It’s about the way historical policies created our modern American ghettos and their concentrated poverty; the ways in which such concentrated poverty and its blight and hopelessness can be a prime breeding ground for criminal behavior; the way these
Charles M. Blow
areas make poverty sticky and opportunity scarce; the way resources, from education to health care to nutrition, are limited in these areas. We keep talking about choices, but we don’t talk nearly enough about the fact that choices are always made within a cultural and historical context. People didn’t simply choose to live in neighborhoods with poor housing and poor schools and crumbling infrastructure and few grocery stores and fewer adequate health care facilities. There were many factors that created those neighborhoods: white flight, and the black flight of wealthier black people, community disinvestment, business lending practices and government policies assigning infrastructure and public transportation to certain parts of cities and not others. And the people living in those communities – sometimes trapped in those communities – make choices, sometimes poor ones, within that context. We may say that a poor choice is simply wrong and the offending party must deal with the consequences. But poor choices made in a poor environment don’t have the same consequences as those made in wealthy environments. For poor people, the same poor choices are punished more often and more severely, compounding their deficit. Then America takes it further, imputing the poor choices of a few onto a whole race, and in so doing sets the stage for disaster. This creates the suspicion and fear that can lead to the deaths we’re seeing. This is what people mean when they talk about the impact of systemic racism in these cases and in these areas. It is not that the police harbor more racism than the rest of America, but rather that racism across society, including within our police departments and system of justice, has been erected in ways that disproportionately affect poor, minority communities. That is acutely clear in these killings. What took centuries to grow may take a long time to fully chop down. You can’t fight racism by plucking leaves from the top of the poisonous tree, but by taking an ax to the root. Republican vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence said last week, “We ought to set aside this talk, this talk about institutional racism and institutional bias.” That is exactly the opposite of what we should do. The police are simply instruments of the state, and the state is the people who comprise it. The police are articulating a campaign of control and containment of populations and that campaign has the implicit approval of every citizen within their jurisdictions. This is not a rogue officer problem; this is a rogue society problem.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts
News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
In-person absentee voting started last Friday in Virginia, and satellite polling locations across Fairfax County, including the Mason District Governmental Center, will be open for in-person absentee voting each Saturday through November 5, from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Weekday voting hours, from 2 – 8 p.m., at the satellite locations will begin on Monday, October 17, – Friday, November 4. Any registered Fairfax County voter may vote absentee in-person, with a valid photo ID. You also may vote at the Electoral Board office at the Fairfax County Government Center in Fairfax; check www.fairfaxcounty.gov/ elections for further information about extended voting hours there, or about registering to vote before the deadline of October 17. Election Day is Tuesday, November 8; your regular polling place will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. In-person absentee voting makes it easy for those who work long hours, or may be out of town on Election Day, or who may find standing in line difficult, to exercise their most important duty as a citizen of this great nation – VOTE! In addition to voting for President and Members of Congress, there are several items on the Fairfax County ballot that may need additional study by the voter. Households should have received an information flyer about three bond referenda questions in the mail recently. Bonds are a form of long-term borrowing used by most local governments to finance public facilities and infrastructure. Virginia law requires that voters approve general obligation bonds through a referendum. You may vote YES or NO. If a majority votes YES, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors can sell bonds for the purposes described in the bond question. If a majority votes NO, the Board will not be able to issue the said bonds.
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The Transportation referendum asks if the county may issue up to $120 million in bonds to fund the county’s share of Metro’s Capital Improvement Program and road improvements. Most local jurisdictions in the metropolitan area are signatories to the decades-old Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Compact. Metro’s Six-Year Capital Improvement Program includes purchase of 300 replacement railcars, 250 buses and construction of new bus garages, including one in Fairfax County. The goal of the program is to provide safe and reliable public transit service, something that has been discussed a great deal this year as Metro continues with its SafeTrack and surge repair program. A $107 million Parks and Park Facilities Bond Referendum would provide funds for preservation projects, renovation and upgrades of aging community park facilities countywide, and a baseball complex to serve the entire county. Also included is $12 million to pay the county’s contribution to the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority’s (NVRPA) capital improvement program. Fairfax County is a founding member of the NVRPA. Finally, a Human Services and Community Development bond requests approval of $85 million to renovate, expand, or replace four of the county’s shelters that serve homeless persons, including the Bailey’s Crossroads and Patrick Henry shelters in Mason District. Bond funds also would be used to replace the Sully Senior Center and construct a new Lorton Community Center. Both facilities would continue to provide programming for older adults, and expand capacity for other programs for all ages 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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Congressman Beyer’s News Commentary
Women’s Economic Empowerment By Donald S. Beyer
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote nearly a century ago. Today, despite enormous progress in other areas of our society, we continue to disenfranchise women in the workplace. This makes no economic sense. After 40 years in business, I know that when women succeed, America succeeds. That is why I am proud to announce that I will be hosting my second conference on women’s economic empowerment, Women Take Charge, on Saturday, October 15, at George Mason University in Arlington. Women make up nearly half of the American workforce and according to U.S. Census data, 40 percent of American households rely on women as the sole or primary breadwinner. Yet data shows that women earn only 77 cents for every dollar their male peers make. This is unacceptable. We need to unleash the potential of America’s female employees, for our economy, our businesses,
and our families. We can do this with policies like the Paycheck Fairness Act that I sponsored, or by bringing our paid family and medical leave policies in line with the rest of the world, or by urging corporations to act more transparently when it comes to putting women in leadership roles. To achieve this, we also need to remove speed bumps that hinder women’s involvement in local civics and politics. Our event’s keynote speaker this year is former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, one of the most highly regarded strategists with decades of experience in political, corporate, and nonprofit advocacy. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from Anita on what initially inspired her political engagement. After Anita’s keynote delivery, I will present the annual Clara Mortenson Beyer “Women and Children First” Award to a longtime community and civic leader
who has devoted her life to ensuring families and children in disadvantaged communities have the resources, education, and enrichment opportunities to succeed. Then, participants will break out into leadership training sessions on a number of topics affecting working women, including a leadership conference with Virginia Senator Janet Howell, Delegate Charniele Herring, Fairfax County Supervisor Penny Gross, and School Board Member Dalia Palchik moderated by Kim Anderson from the Democracy Alliance. Other breakout sessions will discuss the global impact of women in politics, information for emerging women leaders, and grassroots lessons on getting involved in your community. I hope to see you on October 15. Rep. Beyer can be reached through his website at www. beyer.house.gov, on Twitter @ RepDonBeyer or his office at (202) 225-4376.
A ZIP CODE SHOULD NOT DETERMINE A CHILD’S FUTURE. Many variables can shape a child’s outcome in life–like the zip code where a child grows up. That’s because not all neighborhoods have the same opportunities and resources, such as quality schools, transportation, housing, healthcare, food and jobs. The good news is that there are many ways to improve our communities so that everyone has a fair chance to succeed, regardless of zip code. You can play a vital role in your local community.
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Our Man in Arlington
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Drunkenness. Narcotics Violation and Public Drunkenness, 116-B W. Broad St. (Unity Club) On Sep. 20, a male, 28, of the City of Falls Church, was arrested for Possession of Heroin,
Ballston would benefit.” But Rebeccah Ballo, the county’s historic planner, stresses that “there are no records from the county, church or court or anybody showing that graves were already exhumed. Anyone can see with their own eyes” the graves are old, she said. The county’s role is to assure a fair process. “We try to be sure that many public goods – transportation, land use, affordable housing – are respected. We don’t see them as diametrically opposed.” A public meeting is set for Oct. 6 at the church, with comments due Oct. 13. Folks from the nonprofit Preservation Arlington and the Arlington Historical Society are monitoring the proposed reburials. Neither has finalized a position. The Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board will review the issue next month. *** As a self-proclaimed “worldclass urban community,” Arlington is going world-class on streetlights. I first noticed the Victorianlooking “Carlisle-style” lampposts on Old Dominion Drive near Williamsburg Blvd. But Environmental Services Department spokeswoman Katie O’Brien tells me they’ve gone up in more than 90 percent of Arlington where streetlights are county-owned. Beneath the elegant casings is intelligent light-emitting diode technology that efficiently extends lightbulb lifespans from three to 25 years and use 75 percent less power, she said. “The lights produce uniform distribution and dispersion, creating safer roadways and sidewalks for all users.” Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and Public Drunkenness. Petit Larceny, 300 block W. Broad St. On Sep. 23, a female, 21, of Henrico, was arrested for Petit Larceny and was served a warrant for Eluding in Arlington County. Driving Under the Influence, Unit block Hillwood Ave. On Sep. 25, a male, 28, of Vienna, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence and Drinking While Driving.
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GMHS Varsity Field Hockey Team Earns 3-Game Win Streak
BY JEFFREY WOJTALA
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS-PRESS
George Mason High School’s varsity field hockey team won its third game in a row Monday, Sept. 26 with a 4-0 win against School Without Walls of Washington, D.C. The win elevated the varsity team’s record to 8-2 on the season. From the opening whistle Mason controlled the tempo of the game, maintaining possession in the Penguins’ end of the field. On Mason’s first penalty corner of the night, Celine Diz inserted the ball to Meredith Johnson whose shot was deflected in front of the goal by Olivia Cipriano for a 1-0 Mason lead. Mason would go on to take ten penalty corners in the first half but could not capitalize on any of the others. The Penguins did make
excursions into the Mason end of the field but were turned away each time before they could manage a shot on senior goaltender Hannah Hiscott. The second half began with Mason beginning with the ball and they once again took play to the Penguins in their end of the field. At the 16:53 mark, on Mason’s twelfth penalty corner of the game, after insertion to Kalena Wojtala, Kalena’s shot was driven to the far right post where Manon Diz put the ball behind the Penguin goalie for the 2-0 lead. The Penguins continued to have problems getting the ball past midfield which allowed Mason Coach Amanda Crider to freely substitute all her players throughout the game. Meredith Johnson got her second point of the night when she placed a hard shot inside the net-
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MASON JUNIOR MIDFIELDER LYDIA GRUND crosses a ball to the Mustang offense during its recent win over School Without Walls. (P����: C���� S��) ting at the 5:35 mark for a 3-0 lead. Celine Diz scored Mason’s last goal of the night after a great centering pass from Olivia Cipriano, her second point of the night, with 2:04 left in the game.
Throughout the match the Penguins goalie played tough, knocking aside numerous shots from the Mustangs. The score would have been much higher except for her outstanding play.
Mason finished the game 2 for 22 on penalty corners, but they also did not allow one shot on goal. Mason will travel to Kettle Run High School on Thursday, Sept. 29 for its next match.
Mustang Volleyball Team Bounced Dustin Green Continues From Tournament at J.E.B. Stuart To Shine Despite Mason Football Loss to WMHS
BY MATTHEW HOCHBERG
FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS
Coming off six consecutive victories after just one loss more than a month ago, George Mason’s High School girls’ volleyball had high hopes entering Saturday’s round-robin tournament at J.E.B. Stuart High School. After splitting a number of matches in the tournament’s twoset structure, as opposed to the traditional three-set contests played during the season, the Mustangs managed to break away and win one match. This propelled them out of pool play and into the knockout stage as the two-seed from their group. The Mustangs, though, could not advance any further. Tuscarora High School – the eventual tournament champions – defeated Mason. “We had a slow start to the day,” head coach Hillary Trebels said. “I don’t know if it was a morning thing or what,” referring to the tournament’s start time of 8:30 a.m., the first type of competition of the year that wasn’t after school hours in the evening. Trebels also had playing time on her mind, trying to ensure all of her players had an opportunity
BY MATTHEW HOCHBERG
FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS
MASON VOLLEYBALL HEAD COACH Hillary Trebels talks to her team during a timeout at a recent match. She is currently preparing the team for a tournament at J.E.B. Stuart High School on Saturday, Oct. 1. (P����: C���� S��) to contribute while keeping them rested. Despite struggling at times, there were encouraging moments that the coach saw. Mason played different types of offense, including 5-1 and 4-2 formations. Trebels said she was impressed with how they handled both strategies. The Mustangs, though, bounced back on Tuesday night. Playing Madison County High School on the road, the team defeated the Mountaineers 3-1. Even with some more early struggles and unforced errors, Trebels’
squad rebounded. “Once we started playing calm volleyball we were in the clear, letting them make the errors and running our offense. (In practice on Monday) we did some individual work and I think that paid off. We had stronger hits and less hesitation on defense.” The Mustangs played against Rappahannock County on Wednesday night, a match Trebels said would be a competitive one. The results of the match were not available at press time.
Senior running back Dustin Green ran for a seven-yard touchdown. He then caught a pass that turned into a 37-yard score. Yet, it wasn’t enough for George Mason High School’s football team in their 23-15 Friday night loss against William Monroe High School on the road. The Mustangs suffered their second consecutive defeat to bring them to 2-2 on the season. Even with the loss, though, head coach Tony Green is not down on his team that lost by just single-digits. “We played pretty well, and we played with them. Some of our offensive linemen went down and our younger guys had to step up. We fought hard,” he said. Down by just three entering the second half, the game was still
very much a winnable one. “We counteracted to some of what they were doing. They counteracted to some of what we were doing,” Green said. The play of the senior Green, though, has been impressive to watch throughout the season. “He’s getting more touches and taking advantage. He’s a veteran.” The loss of D’Montae Noble and Hunter Sulc, who both graduated last year, have left the bulk of the carries – and scores – to Green. Mason, however, is in familiar territory moving forward. Last season, which was the first year the Mustangs’ football program ever won a playoff game, the team started 2-2 before rattling off five wins in six games in the regular season. Mason’s next game is against Strasburg High School on Friday night at home.
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GEORGE MASON HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ ENSEMBLE plays at Argia’s during The Concert to End Gun Violence, which was held nationwide on Sunday, Sept. 25. There were four concerts in Falls Church as part of the nationwide effort. (Photo: Carol Sly)
Academic Stress & Mental Health Film Screens in F.C. “Unmasked,” a 2015 film created by a group of students from Palo Alto, Ca., is going to be screened on Thursday, Oct. 13 at Luther Jackson Middle School. The event, which is being held from 6:30 – 9 p.m., will also include a youth-led panel that will focus on new initiatives locally to relieve teen stress and support youth wellness in Fairfax County. The film will be screened at 7 p.m. and the panel will follow the film. The film was originally created by the Palo Alto students, who wanted to open community conversations about mental health with an emphasis on hope, communication and moving forward, because they were saddened and called to action by a number of teen suicides. The event is being sponsored by Community of Solutions, Josh Anderson Foundation, Unified Prevention Coalition of Fairfax County, Washington Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board and the Washington Christian Counseling Institute.
George Mason HS Science Fair Forms Due on Oct. 5 The student form for the George Mason High School Science Fair, which will be held on February 22, is due on Wednesday, Oct. 5,
STUDENTS IN MASON’S NEW TV and Media Production class work in the studio, where they are working toward a new student-centered newscast that will be recorded in the studio of Falls Church City TV. In this photo, Mason English teacher Peter Laub (left, blue shirt) teaches Eliza Bonilla how to do an audio check. (Photo: Courtesy of FCCPS Photo/Kevin Clark) according to the Falls Church City Public Schools’ Morning Announcements email. Successful entrants will have time to prepare for the Regional Science Fair on Saturday and Sunday March 4 and 5. Participation is purely voluntary – enthusiastic science students can engage more deeply in topics that interest them. George Mason High School science teacher Carey Pollack is available to advise or students can reach out to any of their favorite science teachers for direction.
GMHS Students Creating Newscast for FCC-TV George Mason High School students enrolled in a new TV and Media Production class this semester are working toward creating a student-centered newscast to be recorded in the studio of Falls Church City TV. The show will be both filmed and produced by students. Right now, the class is learning how to use all the equipment in the studio as well as field cameras.
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Community Events
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
Plants 4 Life: Healthy Ea�ng & Nutri�on. Do you want to know how to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into your diet? Do you want some easy �ps for good nutri�on? Is it more expensive to be healthy? Learn all this and how to add plant-based nutri�on and wellness to your life by a�ending this free class led by registered nurse Margaretha Backers. Registra�on required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 9 p.m. 703-2485034.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
1-on-1 Computer Tutoring. Receive personalized assistance using computers, internet and e-books. Registra�on required. To schedule an appointment, stop by the reference desk or call 703-248-5035. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 2 – 4 p.m. 703248-5035. Sunset Cinema. Moviegoers are encouraged to bring blankets and picnics. The film being screened is “Star Wars – The Force Awakens” and “Indiana Jones – Raiders of the Lost Ark.”. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls
&
Church). Free. 7:45 – 9:45 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/sunsetcinema.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1
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. 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 Li�le City look and feel like in 25 years. Falls Church Community Center (223 Li�le Falls St., Falls Church). Free. 9 – 11 a.m. fallschurchva.gov/ vision. Annual Oktoberfest Marketplace. This event benefits area women and children’s help ministries. There will be vendors represented, with great food and fun for all who a�end. Charles Wesley United Methodist Church (6817 Dean Dr., McLean). Prices vary. 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. thehungerchurch.org. Fall Community Clean-Up & Li�er Pickup. Clean up the City of Falls Church and keep li�er out of the City’s waterways. Ci�zens or groups can request any area of town to clean up or
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be assigned an area of town on the day of. Registra�on required so organizers can provide the correct number of supplies. Falls Church Community Center (223 Li�le Falls St., Falls Church). 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/ volunteer.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2
Grant Us Peace. Choralis’ chamber chorale, Echos, with a string quartet, presents “Grant Us Peace.” Free parking in church lots. The Falls Church Episcopal (115 E. Fairfax St., Falls Church). $5 – $50; Children 12 and under free. 5 p.m. choralis.org.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3
Preschool Story�me. 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. Play�me with the Early Literary Center. Explore educa�onal and manipula�ve items to teach early literacy through play. Ages birth to 5 years, no registra�on required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 a.m. – noon. 703-248-5034.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4
Preschool Story�me. Songs,
movement, and stories for ages 18-36 months. Drop-in at the Youth Services Room. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. 703-2485034.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5
Annandale NARFE Meeting. Robert Osgood, George Mason University, will talk about cyber security and computer forensics at a meeting of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. 10 a.m. Mason District Governmental Center (6507 Columbia Pike, Annandale). Free. 703-6906861. Early Release Wednesday: Mrs. B and Her Honeybees. Ms. B teaches about the bee life cycle, habitat and adapta�ons. She explains why bees are so important to human life, what we must do to help bees thrive and why to respect and not fear them. Her hands-on science lessons empower students with knowledge and ideas to save the bees. For children in grades 1 – 5. Registra�on is required and limited to 15 par�cipants. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 3 p.m. 703-248-5034.
Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
“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 30
“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, OCTOBER 1
“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 29
C���������� M������� ���� O���� M����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $22 – $30. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. B�� M���� ���� N� R������ ��� W����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. L��� ���� B����� P������. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $35. 7:30 p.m. 703-5497500. T�� B��� ��� T�� B�� ���� T�� S���� H���. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $18 in advance; $20 day of the show (Mainstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. D��� C������� B���. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504. M������ R��� ��� M������ M�D������. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $15. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. D��� S������. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-237-8333. L� Y���� ���� P�� L�� ��� F���������. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $12. 10 p.m. 202-588-1889.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
R��� M����� ��� E������� B��������. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $20 in advance; $23 day of the show. 7 p.m. 703-237-0300.
IAMX ���� C������. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $25. 7 p.m. 202-588-1889. A’����� W������. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $45. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. T������ S��� �� C�������� T�� 25�� A���������� �� T�� R������ �� B���� S����������’� “N�������”. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8 p.m. 703522-8340. T�� P��������� B���. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. M������ �� B��� K���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). Free. 9 p.m. 703-255-1566. C����� P����� U�! 90� A��-P��/ H��-H�� D���� P���� ���� DJ ���’�. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 (Mainstage). 9 p.m. 202-667-7960. I����������. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. B������� � S�� F����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $26. 11 p.m. 202-265-0930.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1
T����� W���� ���� S������ G���� A��� S�����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $22 – $30. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. P��� S��� G������ O� M�: H��� M���� B��������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 (Mainstage). 8 p.m. 202-667-7960.
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T�� G�������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 8 p.m. 202265-0930. S���� B� T�� 90� – A P���� W��� T�� B������ T�����. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $15 in advance; $18 day of the show. 8 p.m. 703-237-0300. F������ S�������� ���� T�� T�� T���. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $13. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. T�� S������ ���� H�������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12 (Backstage). 9 p.m. 202667-7960.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2
O� H���� ���� B���� C���� ��� B�����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 – $25. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. K��� S����� ���� T�� B�������’� M���. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $22. 7 p.m. 202-588-1889. E� D������. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $65. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. E������� S�� ���� I� T�� W����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3
B��� �� U� ���� V��� Y����, P���� T�����, S�������� ��� P�������� N����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 in advance; $15 day of the show. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566.
L�������� ���� R��. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $25. 7 p.m. 202-588-1889. T�� L�������� P��� D��� ���� O���� S������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 in advance; $25 day of the show (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. R��� R�� ���� O����� M������ ��� T�� H���������. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m. 703-525-8646.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4
J�� R������� ���� S����� H���� S����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. W������� ���� F�����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. Q������ L���. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $18. 7 p.m. 202-588-1889. B��� �� S����� ���� M������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 (Mainstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5
T����� W���� ���� S������ G���� A��� S�����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $22 – $30. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. G����� S����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12 in advance; $14 day of the show (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. L����� B���� (DJ S��). U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $10 – $15. 10 p.m. 202-588-1889.
P������� A����... Thursday, 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.
Saturday, October 8 – Farm Day. This family event features blacksmith demonstra�ons, horse-drawn hayrides, pumpkin pain�ng, scarecrow making, and a
pe�ng zoo. Children can learn basic farming skills such as corn-shelling and beekeeping. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/FarmDay.
Saturday, October 15 – Fire Preven�on Week Open House. Meet Sparky the fire dog mascot, climb on fire trucks, enjoy free food and games, see a mock
structure fire and other demonstra�ons and more. Fire Sta�on 6 (555 N. Washington St., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. fallschurchvfd.org.
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Merrifield Biz Association Hosting Seminar Oct. 6 The Greater Merrifield Business Association is hosting a seminar, Being Successful in Times of Adversity, featuring Mary Lynne Carraway, President & Franchise Owner, Team Washington, Inc. which consists of 74 of the most successful Domino’s Pizza stores in the system. Carraway has won six Gold Frannies, the highest award given to a franchise and she won the Circle of Excellence Award for the Top 10 CEOs in DC and Woman of the Year for the Eastern Region in 2013. The event, which is part of the Women’s Regional Circle of Influence Breakfast Series sponsored by the Asian American, Falls Church, Greater McLean, and Regional Tysons chambers of commerce and the Vienna and Merrifield business associations, will take place Thursday, October 6 from 8 – 10 a.m. at Blackfinn Ameripub, 2750 Gallows Road in Vienna. For more information email secretary@greatermerrifield.org.
2 Events Coming Up for F.C. Chamber of Commerce The Falls Church Chamber of Commerce is hosting two events in the week ahead. The first is a networking mixer hosted by Creative Cauldron on Thursday, September 29 from 5:30 – 7 p.m., and the second is a member orientation meeting on Tuesday, October 4 from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. The Creative Cauldron Mixer is free to Chamber members, Creative Cauldron patrons, and friends of the Chamber and Creative Cauldron. It will include refreshments and a sneak peek of the nonprofit theater’s upcoming show “Ruthless, The Musical” which is being sponsored by Sislers Stone. The member orientation meeting is designed to educate prospective, new, and long-time Chamber members about the benefits of their membership. For more information on either of these events, visit the calendar of events at www.FallsChurchChamber.org.
Locker Room Shows Off New Game Room The Locker Room Bar & Grill recently held a grand opening for its new game room which features two pool tables, dart boards, another bar, and HDTVs. Members of the Falls Church City Council and Chamber of Commerce joined the Locker Room’s owners for the official ribbon cutting on Saturday, September 24. The Locker Room is located at 502 W. Broad Street in Falls Church. Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@fallschurchchamber.org.
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Maneki Neko Express in Arlington Offers Unique Menu BY DREW COSTLEY
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Maneki Neko recently won the Best Sushi category in the NewsPress’ “Best of Falls Church” contest and is definitely one of the more popular lunch spots in The Little City. But did you know that it opened up a location in Arlington in late 2015?
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3813 Lee Hwy. Arlington 703-528-5833 Hours: Monday – Friday: 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. & 4 – 9 p.m.; Saturday – Sunday: 12 – 2 p.m. & 4 – 9 p.m.; That’s right, Maneki Neko branched out to the Cherrydale neighborhood with a location called Maneki Neko Express. Don’t let the restaurant’s name fool you, though, this eatery is good for on-the-go noms or a nice sit down meal. The dining room of Maneki Neko Express is definitely smaller than the Falls Church location, but it looks to sit about as many people
as that location. It has a sushi bar and eating nooks like its predecessor. The area I sat in on my first visit was a small bench space – it sits two maximum – facing a large window. But other than the dining room, the first thing that Maneki Neko regulars – this writer included – will notice about the second location’s menu is that it has several options that can’t be found on the Falls Church location’s menu. The most noticeable difference between the menu at Maneki Neko and Maneki Neko Express is that the menu of the latter includes more than Japanese cuisine. There are six curry dishes on Maneki Neko’s menu and other Thai dishes, including Drunken Noodle ($11.95 – $13.95), Pad Thai ($11.95 – $15.95) and Pad Kapow ($11.95 – $15.95). That was an extremely pleasant surprise for me. I’m a regular at the Maneki Neko in Falls Church, especially considering that it’s only minute-long walk to get there. But I usually only get sushi and veggie gyoza when I go. So the prospect of being able to eat sushi and Thai food in one meal made my eyes dilate and bulge. Thai is my favorite type of Asian cuisine, but sushi
is life-affirming in its own special way, so to be able eat them together was wonderful. When I went to Maneki Neko Express I got usual sushi that I get when I go to the Falls Church location: Green Veggie Roll ($8.50), Oshinko Roll ($4.95) and Kampyo Roll ($4.95). The Green Veggie Roll comes with avocado, asparagus, cucumber and shiso (Japanese basil) and is a hearty and refreshing selection. Oshinko and kampyo rolls are two of my favorite food discoveries over the past couple of years. Usually I would have to settle for an avocado (which is fine) or shiitake (which is better) roll at Japanese restaurants, but oshinko and kampyo are wonderful additions to the basic vegan sushi diet. Oshinko is Japanese pickled radish and kampyo are dried shavings of calabash. The two types of rolls are wonderful together as the oshinko is tangy and salty and the kampyo is sweet. Maybe it’s because there weren’t that many people there when I went, or maybe it’s because they spotted my camera, but the sushi came plated with a lemon garnish that favored a
THE PRESENTATION OF THE SUSHI at Maneki Neko Express is wonderful. And it tastes good, too. (P����: D��� C������/N���-P����) swan. That’s not something I normally see at the Maneki Neko in Falls Church, so it was a nice surprise (not to down Falls Church’s sushi chefs; I love those guys). The curry at Maneki Neko passes muster, too. Even though it’s not indicated, all of the curry dishes (and I suspect any of the Thai dishes) can be made without meat or with Tofu subbing for meat). And the saying that you don’t go to a pizza place and order a burger kind of goes out of the window with Maneki Neko Express. The Green Curry ($11.95 – $15.95) had
a spice and a flavor to it that snuck up on me. The curry sauce/broth is lighter in texture than most Thai places, so I suspected a less than flavorful dish, but I was wrong to suspect that. The dish was savory and sweet. The serving size was a smaller than most Thai restaurants, but it was made up for in the dish’s deliciousness. Maneki Neko in Falls Church is one of my favorites in The Little City. And its counterpart, with a unique menu, cozy setting and attentive service, might become one of my favorites in Arlington.
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Andrew Leahey and the Homestead are slated to perform 120 gigs in 2016 – an average of one about every three days. But of the band’s numerous shows, Andrew Leahey, the group’s namesake and front man, looks forward to the ones in Virginia and D.C. especially, such as their upcoming show at State Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 15. “I guess it’s always been a hub [for me],” said the Richmond native. “I went to college at UVA, and I would constantly go to D.C. to catch bands…. I think our very first gig [as Andrew Leahey and the Homestead] was a house show in D.C., in Dupont Circle. We had like a hundred people in somebody’s living room. A killer weekend for us is playing Leesburg, then D.C., and then Richmond. It’s just a great time.” Leahey is the vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter for the band, while “the Homestead is less of a concrete lineup and more of a community.” Due in part to the grueling – and admittedly low-paying – nature of the group’s tour, the Homestead consists currently of about eight members who cycle in and out for different shows, but by Leahey’s estimation, around thirty different musicians have been part of the Homestead over the past four years. Though Leahey considers his group a rock band, they have been embraced by the country music community in their home base of Nashville. “Maybe we’re the rock-and-roll gateway drug for country bands,” Leahey joked. He believes that the perception of what is truly rock has shifted over the years, suggesting that past work by Tom Petty, the musician who is his “number-one influence,” would be considered Americana if released today, though it was considered rock when originally released. “Rock and roll these days, people tend to think of the Foo Fighters and Jack White, and
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to “instantly grab you…easy melodies to walk around humming yourself.” The band’s tour is date-heavy and constant, but Leahey wouldn’t have it any other way. The discovery of a tumor that was growing on his hearing nerve – one benign by medical definition but potentially fatal to his career, as it would have eventually rendered him deaf – his subsequent surgery, and the year-plus he had to spend recovering, have led him to adopt a self-described “balls to the wall” approach with his music. “Years ago, we had never done a big album with someone like [Wilco member and producer of their current album] Ken Coomer. My plan was always like, ‘Why blow all your money on one album?’ But when I became sick, [I wondered] why was I pinching my pennies for a rainy day? Now my plan is, do this thing, do it right, and don’t cut any corners.” • For more information about Andrew Leahey & the Homestead, visit andrewleaheymusic.com.
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1. “Holy moly!” 2. Brownie mix add-in, often 3. Peter of Peter, Paul and Mary 4. Food item in quarter-pound sticks 5. Venetian blind section 6. Scrabble 10-pointers 7. Urge forward 8. Spree 9. “____ Club” (2003 50 Cent hit) 10. Pushkin Museum home 11. Should the situation call for it 12. Musician’s deg. 13. Mind-reading skill, for short 21. New ____ 22. Sgt. or cpl. 26. ____-Lite (band with the 1990 hit “Groove Is in the Heart”) 27. Home of “Weekend Update,” in brief 29. Decline 30. The Once-____(“The Lorax” character) 31. ____-pitch softball 32. “Definitely!” 34. Henhouse menace 36. Utah national park 37. Multicountry union using the same currency
CHUCKLE BROS BRIAN & RON BOYCHUK
10. Have a silent role?
Sudoku
38. Jon Stewart display 39. Some Sharp and Sony products 40. Cheerleader’s cheer 41. Baseball positions: Abbr. 45. Some tributes 46. And so on: Abbr. 47. One way to complete an online purchase 48. She said “Today we have broken the marble ceiling” when becoming House Speaker in 2007 49. “Good as done” 50. What the weary get, in a saying 52. Beat overwhelmingly 55. Hula dancers shake them 56. Home to billions 57. Plenty 58. Fiscal ____ 59. Digital ____ 60. Morning moisture Last Thursday’s Solution A G A S P
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LOOSE PARTS
28. "The War of the Worlds" author
DAVE BLAZEK
31. Edward who went into self-imposed exile in 2013 Solution to last Sunday’s puzzle
NICK KNACK
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Deal on Old AdCom Site Falls Through High hopes held for the last five months of a lucrative new antique retailer moving into the vacant old AdCom building in the 500 block of West Broad Street were dashed with confirmed reports last week that the deal for purchase of the site has fallen through for lack of financing.
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Wonderful renovated brick rambler featuring 3 BD/1 BA in Mclean High School District. Additional space in large finished attic. Great Yard. Offered at $499,000
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2200 N Westmoreland Street Arlington, VA 22213
3245 Rio Drive #715, Falls Church, VA
For Sale #515 1BR+den/1BA condo on TOP Fl of beautiful building. 1 storage space + 1 parking sp. Overlooks green area in condo. Gourmet kitchen w breakfast bar, SS appl., granite. Sales Price $400,000 also For Rent $2,100.
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2907, Linden Lane Falls Church, VA 220422 4 BR/3BA cape cod home. Excellent Falls Church Location. 3 finished levels, updated kitchen, Hdw fls, fenced yard &1car garage. Price perfected $695,000.
7601 Burford Drive, McLean VA 22102 UNDER CONTRACT
Lovely and spacious floor plan in this beautiful home. 5BR/3.5BA home on full acre of land in Langley HS pyramid. Sales price $1,150,000.
Beautiful rambler on gorgeous, tree lined street. 4BR/3BA on .30 acres of landscaped yard. Completely updated. Detached garage with finished loft space. Sales price $950,000.
6851 Grande Lane Falls Church VA 22043
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5BR/3.5BA center hall colonial. Close to West FC Metro. 2 car garage, large yard. Hancock, Longfellow, McLean. Sales price $949,000.
1097 Pensive Lane, Great Falls, VA 22066
Beautiful home on .91 acres- lush backyard. 5BR/3.5BA with beautifully refinished hdw fls. Fresh paint & new carpet in basement. Sales price $889,000.