Falls Church News-Press Memorial day 2015

Monday, May 25, 2015 Falls Church, Virginia

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Memorial Day Schedule Letter from the Mayor Parade King & Queen Parade Grand Marshal Memorial Day Vendor List Parade & Festival Map Veterans Ceremony Information Official 2015 Parade Lineup Happy Memorial Day & The Best of Summers from Stacy Hennessey, your area REALTOR® who knows Falls Church City best Supporting, living and working in "The City" since 1991

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Linger Awhile!

To all who come to the City of Falls Church to celebrate and commemorate Memorial Day with our most elaborate festival of the year, welcome!

This goes for all the locals and especially our visitors on this day.

We are immensely proud of our city, and invite you to learn more about it while you are here. You are reading a special supplement to our weekly newspaper that serves Falls Church, with its 11,400 citizens, and its Northern Virginia environs.

Falls Church enjoys an unparalleled quality of life, superb schools, wonderful public services including a magnificent library, friendly merchants, and incredibly active and accessible participatory government and, yes, a terrific newspaper.

It you’ve ever considered residing, shopping or doing business in Falls Church, let us invite you to linger beyond the end of the Memorial Day parade and mosey around a bit. We’re sure you’ll like what you see.

Falls Church prides itself on its hospitality and affirmation of diversity. It makes a point of welcoming all who come to visit or live, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity. We want you in Falls Church!

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Monday, May 25, 2015 • 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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www.fallschurchva.gov/MemorialDay 9 a.m.

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Start Line: Great Falls & Little Falls Streets; rollerblades & bicycles not permitted.

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The two Falls Church City natives and soon-to-be George Mason High School grads who were named Mr. and Ms. Mason said they were nominated, as tradition goes, by their teachers to compete in the faux beauty pageant.

But Constance also said he competed to uphold the tradition of his two older sisters, who competed and won the Mr. and Ms. Mason competition in recent years. And Miller said that she had to overcome some stage fright in order to give her pageant-winning performance this year.

The duo sat down with the News-Press to talk about the Mr. and Ms. Mason competition, their Memorial Day and Mason memories and their plans for the parade and the future.

How did you win the Mr. and Ms. Mason titles?

Sarah Miller: So I did a skit. It was a satire on the big crazy college admissions process. I called it “College Applicants Shoot for the Moon,” and it was about how applications to the University of the Moon have skyrocketed this year. And it was just kind of silly.

I pretended to be an ABC reporter and I wrote this thing to talk about and then I interviewed a bunch of my friends who are seniors about why they did or didn’t apply to the

University of the Moon.

Gus Constance: I won by collaborating with my friend Emma Graig. We did a video together and in the video we performed a skit.

The premise of the skit was that the SCA advisor and an English teacher at George Mason, Mr. Laub, had been framed for embezzling money from the school, so we wanted to get to the bottom of that. We were trying to be funny and all.

What are your memories from past Memorial Days in the city?

Sarah: I love Memorial Day and chicken on a stick obviously.

I love the Fun Run. I take the fun part of Fun Run seriously and I used to run cross country and I love to do it with friends and stuff. I also love just seeing everyone. It’s just so special that everyone in Falls Church comes out and I can see like my first grade teacher, or someone from my swim team that I haven’t seen all year who doesn’t necessarily go to City schools. Everyone is out at once, which is fun.

Gus: What I always looked forward to about Memorial Day was the different booths and stands and different food.

There’s this one booth that always had good lemonade. And then the parade is always very fun, with the Shriners going around in their cars and stuff. It’s just a good time.

Did you know that, by winning Mr. and Ms. Mason, you became king and queen of the Memorial Day parade?

Sarah: It was in the back of my mind but I had kinda forgotten about it until like after it happened when they were like ‘Oh, by the way, you’re the queen now.” And I was like “Oh my gosh, right. I forgot about that.”

Gus: Yeah. Both my older sisters were Ms. Mason before I was, so I knew that’s what I was in for.

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Buschows to Serve as Parade Grand Marshals

by Liz Lizama

Falls Church News-Press

Longtime Falls Church residents Barry and Kathleen Buschow are honored to serve as grand marshals for this year’s Memorial Day parade.

“The parade is so all Americana,” said Mrs. Buschow.

“It is what I think Falls Church is all about. It just makes you smile.

It’s a really great reflection of our community.”

The couple has a long history of public service and dedication to uplifting the Falls Church community.

Mrs. Buschow, who served 14 years as Falls Church City Clerk, has strong roots in the Northern Virginia area. “I grew up in Alexandria, Arlington,” she said.

“I grew up in Kings Park – when it was the end of the Earth,” she laughed continuing on about her presence in the area during the opening of the beltway and Dulles Airport.

A graduate of George Mason University, Mrs. Buschow worked for two U.S. senators on Capitol Hill, a small business lobbying organization and a large Washington, D.C. law firm before becoming City Clerk of Falls Church, which she described as the perfect job for her.

As City Clerk, Mrs. Buschow said she enjoyed working with the residents, especially the senior citizens. “My degree is in government, and I’ve worked in politics and in the legal field, so it was a great job for me to have after my other previous jobs.”

Prior to her tenure, she said Falls Church had not been represented much in the Virginia Municipal Clerks Association.

She made a point to attend every conference and served as president of the organization from 2010 to 2011. In 2008, the association also named her Clerk of the Year.

Since retiring last year, Mrs. Buschow now enjoys painting but remains involved with the Virginia Municipal Clerks Association.

She recently donated one of her paintings for an upcoming silent auction.

When she’s not painting, she dedicates her time to the Falls Church Sisters’ Choice Quilters and the Falls Church chapter of Quilters Unlimited, which she has been active in for more than 25 years. She previously served as board member and treasurer of Falls Church Arts.

Much like his wife, Mr. Buschow has been a very active figure in the Falls Church community. He currently serves on

MEMORIAL DAY GRAND MARSHALS Barry and Kathleen Buschow stand together at Cherry Hill Park in the photo above.

Kathleen Buschow, who served for 14 years as Falls Church City Clerk, is a native of Northern Virginia and Barry Buschow, president of the Lions Club of Falls Church, is a 1967 graduate of George Mason High School. In the photo on the right, Barry Buschow stands with George Mason High School students, who volunteered to help the Lions unload citrus during the organization’s annual citrus sale. (Photos: Liz Lizama/News-Press and courtesy of Barry Buschow)

the board of the Northern Virginia Parks Authority and is president of the Falls Church Lions Club, corresponding secretary for the Village Preservation and Improvement Society, and secretary of the Falls Church Scout House Building Association.

Last year, the Village Preservation and Improvement Society awarded the “Spirit of Falls Church” award to Mr. Buschow for his dedication to the community. In addition, he has been named the Lions Club “Lion of the Year” three times and received the 1999 Caroll V. Shreve Award for Meritorious

Community Service from the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce The 1967 George Mason High School graduate first moved to Falls Church in 1951 with his parents. After going away to college, Mr. Buschow spent some time away from Falls Church but returned in 1987 with his wife and his son, James, who also graduated from George Mason High School.

In his professional career, Mr. Buschow has served as a government contractor for 30 years.

He currently works as a consultant on the Federal Aviation Administration’s NextGen air traffic control initiative.

Mr. Buschow said it is an honor to serve as grand marshal with his wife. “I’ve marched in the parade when I was in high school, in the band, back in the day when we used to march down Broad Street, so I’ve known the parade for a long, long time,” he said.

For the last 20 or 25 years, he

said he’s been volunteering at different booths during the parade.

“I’m always working the Lions Club or the Village Preservation and Improvement Society booth, and so I never really get to see the parade,” he laughed. “So this will be one of the first years I really get to see the whole parade.”

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B100.........City and Event Info.

B101........ Alliance for Youth B102................Falls Church Victorian Society B103.......Friends of the F.C. Homeless Shelter

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B107.Falun Dafa Association

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C101....................Columbia Institute of Fine Arts C102................. BalletNova C103........................League of Women Voters C104............................Holy Trinity Lutheran Church C105....................F.C. Village Preservation and Improvement Society C106.........Family Medicine in F.C. C107.........The Falls Church Episcopal C110..... St. Paul’s Lutheran Preschool/Church C112................. Orient-Bowl C114............ Keller Williams Realty-Hutchison & Boeding C116...... Destinctive Design C300..... Papa’s Kettle Korn C301................ Royal Siam Catering

C302....................Fun Time Ice Cream C303........International Grill C304........Bunny & the Bear Food Festival C305............... Rod’s Oasis Shaved Ice C306....... The Smoke Shop C307.......................TK Grill

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In Front of Police Dept. in Parking Spaces

D101................. Greyhound Pets of America D102................... Skyline Vineyard Church D104...... The LIBRE Initiative D106............... Greater F.C. Veteran’s Council D107............ Janice’s Table D200....................G’s Glory Handbags D201............. Lokonia Greek Products D202....................... Gordos D203............ Uncommon Finds D206.............Oceans Away D207......... GMHS Robotics Team 1418

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Memorial Day 2015 Veterans Ceremony Monday, May 25, at 11 a.m.

City of Falls Church Veterans Memorial, 223 Little Falls St., Falls Church, VA 22046 Master of Ceremonies Harry Shovlin Posting of Colors Honor Guard from the American Legion Post 130 Remembrance for POW/MIAs Commander Bob Smith, VFW Post 9274 National Anthem City of Falls Church Concert Band Under the direction of Robert Little Vocals by SGM Robert M. Petillo, United States Army Band “Pershings Own” Invocation Rabbi Jeffrey Saxe, Temple Rodef Shalom

Welcoming David Tarter Mayor, City of Falls Church

Presentation of Wreath in Memory of Departed Veterans Kim McArdle, Falls Church Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Escorted by Richard L. Anton, Post 130

Remarks Bob Smith Chairman, Greater Falls Church Veterans Council Keynote Address Linden Dixon 2014 Department Commander The American Legion Department of Virginia God Bless America City of Falls Church Concert Band Under the direction of Robert Little Vocals by SGM Robert M. Petillo, United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own”

Prayer for the Departed Veterans Rabbi Jeffrey Saxe, Temple Rodef Shalom Taps Master Gunnery Sgt. John Abbracciamento, U.S. Marine Corps Band Retiring of POW/MIA Flag Commander Bob Smith, VFW Post 9274 Retiring of Colors Honor Guard from the American Legion Post 130

This program was prepared by representatives of American Legion Post 130, American Legion Post 225, American Legion Post 124, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Martin Leppert Sipes Post 9274, Catholic War Veterans Paul and Jacques Martin Post 1652, Falls Church Daughters of the American Revolution, Northern Virginia WWII Veterans, the Veterans Memorial Committee, and dedicated volunteers under the coordination of the City of Falls Church Recreation and Parks Division. Citizen participation is encouraged. The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability call 703-248-5077 (TTY 711).

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DAVID TAX (left) and Jeff Jones of Decorate A Vet at Tax’s restaurant Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (Photo: Patricia Leslie)

Decorate A Vet Spruces and Dresses Up Veterans’ Homes

by Patricia Leslie

Falls Church News-Press

Jeff Jones was sitting in church one morning during Christmas when it all came together.

He’d been thinking for a while about doing something to honor veterans – his father, grandfather, and uncles were all servicemen – but the project had not formed.

Until then.

“I’m a Navy brat who’s moved around the country, and I came to a point in my life when I could do something,” said Jones, the owner of Classic Stonescaping and Gardens in Falls Church.

In the pew that Sunday morning, the idea took shape, and “Decorate A Vet” was born.

Why not decorate the homes of veterans for the holidays?

Jones, 45, approached his pal, David Tax, 49, who exclaimed

“I’m in, 100 percent!” and off they ran in 2010, starting with five or six homes to decorate.

Right from the get-go, it quickly became apparent that more was needed to be done for the veterans’ homes than simply decorating for the holidays.

“The first year blossomed into a lot more,” said Tax in an interview with Jones at Tax’s restaurant, Clare and Don’s Beach Shack.

They started painting and chopping and trimming and cutting and hauling away overgrown bushes and trees and debris from the homes, and installing new fences and gutters and shutters, ramps, and hand rails, and over the years, found hundreds of volunteers and partners to help out.

Like Home Depot at Seven Corners whose manager uses his discretionary fund to supply mate-

rials and send over five or six volunteers, or the FBI which sent 50 volunteers one year, or the five fire departments whose ladders volunteers climb to erect lights up high, or the American Legion.

Said Tax: “The kids of my generation have had some kind of disconnect. They’ve not been to combat or defended the U.S.,” so involving children in the project was a top goal, and they do it, on “Decoration Day,” the Saturday which follows the work week after Thanksgiving when adult volunteers, who have numbered in the hundreds over time, beautify the veterans’ homes.

“It’s the most fun seeing kids out there, sharing responsibilities,” Tax said.

The group’s biggest problem is identifying veterans who want to sign up for the project since many veterans believe their comrades

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have greater needs, but “this is not need based,” Jones said.

Nominations for (mostly, outside) home improvements can be made on the DAV website, www. decorateavet.org, and veterans may submit themselves.

At each of the five to nine homes DAV decorates, volunteers hang a flag and plant a tree.

One year they branched out to the Wounded Warriors Care Center at Fort Belvoir to decorate a floor and serve food to the staff and patients from Tax’s restaurants. (He also owns Mike’s Deli at Lazy Sundae.)

For two years going on three, a grant from the Bob Woodruff Foundation has funded the administrative side of DAV which recently received a 501(c) (3) status from the IRS making donations to DAV tax deductible.

(DAV’s annual fundraiser will be in October at the Beach Shack.)

Dave and Ada Evans are one Falls Church couple who have benefitted from DAV’s gifts.

In 2013 they were mostly confined to home. Dave Evans, an Army veteran who served during the Vietnam War days, was felled by a stroke in 2009 and got around on a scooter. Ada Evans was recovering from eye surgery.

“We were not looking forward to Christmas very much that year,”

Ada Evans said.

One Saturday morning they looked out their windows to find 100 “decorators” in their yard.

The volunteers “really lifted Dave’s spirits a great deal,” she said, and her husband came out on his scooter to welcome the guests.

The Evans have lived in their Falls Church home since 1972 and “had never had a driveway” until DAV built one for them.

Dave Evans likes to grill, and “Jeff built a very expensive, beautiful stone walkway” so Evans can get out to the grill on his scooter, and, also, his “man cave,” made accessible by DAV. “I was just stunned,” said Ada Evans.

We really appreciate what they did,” and she still calls Jones for referrals on home improvements.

“We’re just trying to say ‘thank you,’” said Tax. “It’s more about what they’ve already done.”

“If more people would do a little bit more, it would go a long way.”

“Our goal is to help vets within the city,” Jones. “Stay in your lane.”

Neither Jones nor Tax is a veteran. They estimate they’ve worked on 35 to 40 homes since Jones’s dream took root in a church pew at Christmas.

A CREW OF VETERANS GOES TO WORK on a local veteran’s home as part of the Decorate a Vet organization’s work. (Photo: Courtesy of Jeff Jones of Stonescaping and Gardens)

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Parade King & Queen Chat with News-Press And just like no one takes themselves too seriously which I like.

I remember my eighth grade year was the first year I was there and I was kind of apprehensive about going to high school like “Oh my gosh, there are people here who are five years older than me. That’s insane.”

But some time during the school year there were people, to this day I don’t know why, but there were people dressed as Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man and the ghosts and chasing each other around the school and like no one blinked an eye like it was normal.

And I thought okay, I can fit in here. I can do this.

Gus: I’d say overall it was enjoyable just because it was an environment where I was able to be friends with pretty much everyone in my grade. And so, as stressful as it may be, it was always a friendly place that I didn’t mind going back to necessarily.

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also want to avoid them. But usually people aren’t trying to take my photo so that’s a good thing.

Gus: Exercising everyday [insert] plug for Title Boxing Club.

It’s a great place. Awesome trainers. And just hanging around the many wonderful places that we have here in Falls Church. Cherry Hill Park is a favorite of mine.

What was your Mason experience like?

Sarah: It’s been wonderful.

I’m so glad I was lucky enough to grow up here. Everything about Mason is so special. I love the community because it’s a smaller school, especially this year, our grade has gotten really close. And the teachers are so supportive and so wonderful. I love how everyone knows each other and the teachers go above and beyond.

What is one Mason memory you’ll never forget?

stay with me for the rest of my life.

Sarah: I’ve been on swim team and student government and I started the Settlers of Catlan Club and doing the activities with that club has been so fun.

And this year, my brother [David] is a freshman this year so we’ve been able to overlap and he’s been on student council, which has been so much fun.

We’ve gotten a lot closer this year and I love him and I’m going to miss him so much next year.

But it’s been so fun to be together this year, so I’ll never forget that.

Gus: Probably being a part of “Les Miserable,” the musical, in eighth grade.

That was my first musical and I stayed a part of the theatre program since then. It was just awesome being a member of that cast.

I think we got some kind of award for that. But yeah, that’ll

What are your plans after graduation?

Sarah: In the fall I’m going to Dartmouth College and I want to study neuroscience and maybe minor in statistics.

I’ve done a lot of work with kids neurodevelopmental delays or that are on the autism spectrum and I’m also really interested in science, so maybe eventually get my PhD and contribute to the knowledge of neurobiological factors of developmental delays.

Gus: I’m attending VCU this fall and majoring in psychology.

I’m excited to live in Richmond.

What are your career aspirations?

Sarah: As of right now – I’m definitely open to changing my mind, but I want to get my PhD

and do research in that field and maybe be a professor or something like that, so I can do research or maybe a marine biologist.

That’s always been my childhood dream like ‘I want to be a marine biologist,” but I’ve never done anything with marine biology, so we’ll see. I love manatees, though.

Gus: I hope maybe one day to have my own occupational therapy practice and if that doesn’t work out I might try to open a record store.

What is your message, as king and queen, to your subjects?

Sarah: I guess my message to my subjects would be if you’re a little sweaty that’s okay.

I think everyone sweats at Memorial Day, so just embrace that. And you’re all wonderful and Falls Church is a great place.

Gus: Stay in school.

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Your Official 2015 City of Falls Church Memorial Day Parade Lineup 1. American Legion Post 130 Color Guard 1a. Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps 2. Falls Church Sheriff’s Department 3. City of Falls Church Police Honor Guard 4. Memorial Day Grand Marshals The Buschows 5. Falls Church City Council 6. Falls Church City Public Schools 7. Memorial Day King & Queen 8. Greater Falls Church Veteran’s Council 9. Operation Earth Watch 10. Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department 11. Mary Riley Styles Public Library 12. Falls Church Recreation and Parks Department 13. Cub Scout Pack 681 14. Thomas Jefferson Elementary Safety Patrols 15. Falls Church Kiwanis Little League 16. Cub Scout Pack 657 17. Falls Church Youth Lacrosse 18. Suzanna Muldowney 19. The Washington Scottish Pipe Band 20. South Lakes High School JROTC 21. St. Paul’s Lutheran Preschool 22. NOVA Parks & Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation 23. Dunn Loring Volunteer Fire & Rescue Department 24. Tinkus Cochabamba VA USA 25. TITLE Boxing Club 26. Citizens for a Better City 27. Village Preservation and Improvement Society 27a. Marshall High School “Marching Statesmen” 28. Girl Scouts 50-14 29.Jhoon Rhee Tae Kwon Do 30. Falls Church Chamber of Commerce

31. Virginia International University 32. Embajadores del Folklore 33. Fairfax VA Chapter – Harley Owners Group 34. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church 35. Falun Dafa 36. Hilton Garden Inn 37. McLean Volunteer Fire Department 38. Just Clowning Around of Northern Virginia 39. Millford Mill Academy Marching Band 40. Falls Church Democratic Committee 41. Delegate Marcus Simon 42. John F. Nicoll Pipes and Drums 43. Always There Pet Care 44. Al Manarah Court #50, Ladies Oriental Shrine of NA 45. Kena Shriners 46. City of Falls Church Department of Public Works – Operations Division 47. Centro Cultural Peru 48. Cub Scout Pack 861 49. Falls Church News-Press 50. Falls Church Original 1956 Pontiac Chieftain 51. Falls Church Lions Club 52. Maha Yoga 53. Dave & Melanie Elliott 54. Tinkus Tiataco USA 55. Old Rugged Cross 56. Jim Moyer Circus Club 57. Fraternidad Folklorica Bolivia 58. Bikenetic Bike Posse 59. Blue Nectar Yoga 60. Providence Players of Fairfax 61. Nickelz Production Dance Company 62. Rotary Club of Falls Church 63. Famous Daves

Parade starts at 2 p.m. at the intersection of N. West St. and Park Ave. and runs through the intersection of Park Ave. and Little Falls St.

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