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Windshields Without Decals on the Horizon?

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High-Tech Enforcement Could Render Familiar Stickers Obsolete in Coming Year SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

If County Board members in September decide to kill off Arlington tax decals that have been a fixture on local windshields for a half-century, the two elected officials who will be tasked with implementing the decision say they can make it happen.

The question that still hangs in the air, though, is whether eliminating the decal will make it more likely scofflaws will get away with cheating the tax man (and woman), or whether advances in technology truly make the 3-inch-by-3inch appendage obsolete.

Arlington’s top tax collector may not come across as ecstatic about the proposed eradication – she has long been in the decals-serve-a-purpose camp – but appears willing to live with

Commissioner of Revenue Ingrid Morroy (left) and Treasurer Carla de la Pava say that if the County Board eliminates tax decals for vehicles, they have the tools to maintain enforcement.

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“I will support whatever decision the County Board makes regarding the decal, because there are tax-collection systems in place in my office that will preserve the county’s famously Continued on Page 20

Next Stop for Aquatics Center?

Determining Operating Costs SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Samantha Brady helped Overlee accumulate a 5-0 record in Division II of the Northern Virginia Swimming League dive competitions this summer. See coverage of the diving season in Sports and a slide show of photos at www.insidenova.com/news/arlington.

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Even as construction on the longawaited-but-not-without-controversy Long Bridge Park Aquatics Center gets under way, the question of how much it will cost to swim there – and how much Arlington taxpayers will need to subsidize operations – remains

an open issue.

As part of the decision-making process, some local residents will be receiving mailed-out surveys to gauge their interest in the Crystal City swim complex, and how they think the revenue stream should be structured.

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APS Moves Forward on Ed-Center Reconfiguration SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Arlington school officials are set to ramp up renovation of the former Arlington Education Center for use as a new high-school building.

School Board members on Aug. 2 are slated to appoint members and designate the chairman of a building-level planning committee (BLPC) that will work with staff and architects to develop plans for the project, which currently has a budget of $37 million.

The committee will include representation from the school system, PTAs, vari-

ous county and school advisory panels and neighboring civic associations. One youth representative from the Student Advisory Board is slated to be appointed.

The BLPC will coordinate with the county government’s Public Facilities Review Committee through liaison James Schroll. School Board member Nancy Van Doren will serve as liaison between the committee and the School Board.

For 50 years, the school system was headquartered at the North Quincy Street building, but administrative offices have been moved to leased space in Penrose and the Education Center space will be repurposed to provide about 600 addi-

tional high-school seats.

While at one point the school system was aiming to creating a self-contained, specialized program in the building, as planning has developed the facility is looking more likely to be an adjunct of nearby Washington-Lee High School.

Construction is slated to take a little over a year, with the renovated space to be open in the fall of 2021. Funding will come from a variety of sources, including a future school bond.

School officials on Aug. 2 are slated to direct the BLPC and staff to develop a schematic design for the renovations that will not exceed the $37 million cap.

212 feet of buffer between the edge of the new facility and the midpoint of 26th Street North, compared to a previously planned 144-foot buffer. The new location likely will enable several additional trees to be saved.

County Board members on July 18 agreed to move forward with a temporary relocation of the government’s salt dome, a move that drew hostile reaction from neighbors upset with a lack of advance warning and with a dearth of options put on the table.

At the time of the vote, county officials agreed to continue looking at the site in an effort to find a better configuration.

The latest design incarnation seems to be an effort to do that.

The current Old Dominion salt-storage facility is one of two in the county (the other is in Shirlington), and provides a holding tank for about 60 percent of the 9,500 tons of salt that is stockpiled by the county government as it gears up for each winter season.

The 5-0 County Board vote in July was on a merely procedural motion – setting a public hearing on the matter for late September – but given the immediate need to replace the existing salt-storage facility, it cleared the way for county staff to begin moving immediately on the project.

But as has been seen in several design-development efforts, most recently the new elementary school planned for Westover, cost-containment has proved problematic.

That new 725-seat elementary school has been budgeted at $49 million but currently is estimated to come in at $55 million – even before the potential of higher construction costs due to international trade disputes are factored in. School Board members say they will continue to work to find cost reductions for that yet unnamed school, to be located adjacent to Westover Library at Washington Boulevard and North McKinley Road.

County Officials Tweak Salt-Dome-Relocation Plan SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Arlington government officials have come up with a slightly altered placement for a new North Arlington salt-storage container, one that may assuage the concerns of some – if not necessarily all – critics of the move.

A new schematic drawing moves the footprint of the new storage facility closer to the existing, dilapidated salt dome on the 7.5-acre parcel along Old Dominion Drive between 25th Road North and 26th Street North.

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Earlier this year, county officials deemed the existing storage structure as unsafe and unusable for the 2018-19 winter season. The first thought from planners was to demolish the existing structure and build a new one on its footprint, but county staff determined a two-step process could not be completed by the time snows start to fall.

Leftover salt will be transferred from the existing facility to the new one under controlled conditions in an effort to avoid the risk of collapse.

(County officials have tried other ways besides salt to make roads passable during and after storms, such as beet juice. That effort failed, county staff said, because it clogged equipment and drew complaints from residents about the color and odor.)

In another bow to community discontent, County Board members and County Manager Mark Schwartz also agreed on a timeline that would develop a long-range plan for the entire 7.5-acre Old Dominion tract, with final recommendations coming before the County Board in late 2019. Residents in the neighborhoods surrounding the parcel have been angered by a lack of comprehensive planning and by occasional attempts by the county government to shoehorn public facilities – like a replacement for Fire Station #8 – onto the parcel.

Most residents are hoping for much of the space to be used as a park, while Marymount University also seeks to have a role to play as it looks for further expansion opportunities.

Ceremony Celebrates Spirit of Local Volunteerism SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

From teenagers to those three or four times as old, the full array of local volunteerism was on display at the second annual “Arlington Cares” celebration, held July 24 in Ballston.

“People in our community really do care. There is a magic that happens when a need is filled,” said Lisa Fikes, executive director of Volunteer Arlington, a collaborative effort between the Leadership Center for Excellence and the Arlington County government.

The event drew about 340 attendees to the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association conference center, a significant hike from the first-year attendance.

“This is worth celebrating – we seek to deepen the depth and breadth of the volunteer spirit here in Arlington,” said David Barkley of Freddie Mac, who chairs the Leadership Center for Excellence board of directors.

Among those saluted was Janet Garber, a board member of Northern Virginia Senior Olympics who, when time is available,

also volunteers as a tax-preparer for senior adults.

“All of us at some point in our lives have needed a little help from others,” Garber said of her decision to become and remain an active volunteer.

“It’s incredibly rewarding to me,” she said.

On the other end of the age spectrum was Mia Lee, who while still in her teens at Yorktown High School led Reuse and Replay, a non-profit that provides gently used sports equipment to those in need around the local area and worldwide.

To date, more than 3,000 items of sports equipment have Jeanie and Gene Cross were honored for their work with Central United Methodist Church at the “Arlington Cares” been accumulated and distrib- celebration, held July 24 in Ballston. uted.

Lee said she came up with the more broadly, those in need County Board Chairman Katie over 40,000 volunteer hours. idea while playing travel soccer across the community.

Cristol paid tribute to the hunBarkley said the goal of and recognizing not everyone Their goal is to “take our dreds of individuals who toil on Volunteer Arlington is to bring has the same opportunities as mission outside of church and the county government’s adviso- together those who want to conshe did. into the community,” said Gene ry boards and commissions. tribute to the social well-being of “I wanted to level the playing Cross.

“We rely on their hard work; the community with groups that field,” she said.

Also receiving specific awards their input helps us make better could benefit from their supThe largest contingent in the were Siobhan Grayson; Sly decisions,” Cristol said. “It in- port. room came out in support of Young; Kate Athing and the spires me every day.”

“When those connections are Gene and Jeanie Cross, who have Marymount University women’s Also winning salutes at the happening, it makes a true differworked through Central United lacrosse team; and Deloitte. Lois ceremony were those who con- ence in our community,” he said.

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Camp for Young Musicians Adds a Little Mirth A Greek goddess, piece of bacon, blue squid, bunny rabbit, sensei, Hawaiian dancer and banana wearing a comically small cowboy hat were among those playing classical music this summer at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in McLean.

Well, not really. The musicians were costumed elementary-school students taking part in the 36th annual Summer Strings Camp taught by Ruth Donahue.

Donahue, who has taught the playing of stringed instruments in public schools since 1975, educated the students about the history of classical music and took them through a series of exercises and musical works designed to strengthen their abilities.

The camp injected some additional fun into the proceedings by encouraging students to wear costumes on “Messy Monday,” “Wacky Wednesday” and “Freaky Friday.”

Over the years, Donahue has taught all levels from third-graders through college, but her favorite musicians are third- through sixth-graders.

“They have such enthusiasm,” Donahue said. “They can play much more skillfully than many people imagine.

In this year’s Summer Strings group, they played middleschool-level music with finesse.”

The rising fourth- through seventh-grade students all came from Spring Hill Elementary School in McLean, where Donahue works during the school year. Donahue, who also has taught Summer Strings Camps in Ohio and Oklahoma, said this was the first time all the students had come from one school.

“We could reminisce about pieces or concerts they had especially enjoyed without anyone feeling left out,” she said of the students’s shared experiences.

The students wrapped up the camp with a July 24 concert at St. Thomas Episcopal Church.

Jiayu Chen, 10, of McLean and Tysons residents Maya Pashai, 12, Jolie Korfonta, 10, and Daniel Pashai, 9, play violin in costume July 18 during Wacky Wednesday at the annual Summer Strings Camp at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in McLean. See a slide show of photos at www.insidenova.com/news/fairfax.

Above: Wyatt Lewis, 10, of McLean plays the violin in costume on July 18 during Wacky Wednesday at the Summer Strings Camp at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in McLean.

PHOTOS BY BRIAN TROMPETER Lydia O’Quinn, 10, of McLean plays the viola while dresses as a “Princess Pony Librarian.”

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At left: Grace Fitzgerald, 9, of McLean wears a squid hat while playing the violin during the Summer Strings Camp.

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Mary Nash, shown celebrating her 100th birthday earlier this year, was among centenarians recently honored by the Arlington County government.

Whether it’s the cause or the effect, staying active (in mind and body) seems to go hand in hand with successful aging.

At least that’s the case with the latest crop of Arlington centenarians, who were honored recently by the Arlington government’s Aging and Disability Services Division, which recognized local residents who have hit the 100-year mark and those who are just a few months shy of it.

The event attracted community leaders, including County Board members, to hear from the super-seasoned citizens about their lives and the secrets of living both well and long.

Among those being honored was 102year-old Vera Punke, who lives by the personal motto: “If I have helped ease one ache or pain, I have not lived in vain.”

The most senior honoree was 104-yearold Clive Watson, a native of Kansas and World War II veteran of the Army Air Corps who has lived in Arlington since 1957. It was here that he and his wife, Geraldine, raised their two children.

Watson stays active with a variety of activities, including golf and sailing.

Gert Friedman, who clocks in at 103 years old, attributes her longevity to the support system that friends provide, as well as good genes. A Brooklyn native, she keeps her own unique daily schedule: Going to bed around 2 or 3 a.m., up around 3 p.m. with “breakfast” at 4 p.m. That night-owl persona is left over from her earliest days, when Friedman (the youngest of four children) never wanted to go to bed at night.

A fan of the Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals, Friedman got a treat on her 101st birthday – she and her family were guests at a playoff game, and she was invited to ride the ice resurfacer (better known as the “Zamboni”) during a break between periods.

While some of Arlington’s centenarians started their lives hundreds or thousands of miles away from the local area, 101-year-old Mary Lockett grew up close at hand, having been born on Feb. 7, 1917, to the late Edward and Annie Sheppard of neighboring Baileys Crossroads.

Lockett has lived in the Nauck community since 1939, where she and her husband raised their four children. She’s a strong believer in hard work, evidenced by her regimen: She is up at 5 a.m. and ready to call it a day at 7:30 p.m. (after “Wheel of Fortune”). She has been a member of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Alexandria for 77 years, and currently is deaconess emerita.

Asked for a hint to a long healthy life, Mrs. Lockett was direct: “Eat your blueberries daily.”

Also among those honored at the event (with ages in parentheses) were Allan Matthews (102), Betty Etzell (102), Patricia Robbins (102), Vera Dean (102), David Vandusen (101), Janet Platzer (101), Raymond Renola (100), Helen Gee (100), Col. Charles Schudt (100), Mary Nash (100), Thelma Russell (100), Elenor Byrnes (100), William Owens (100), Elizabeth Coles (99) and Dr. Robert Maddin (99).

Arlington officials are always on the hunt for those who are, or soon will be, centenarians. To be placed on the list for invitations to future events, e-mail Rachel Coates at rcoates@arlingtonva.us. For information about county-government services available to seniors, call (703) 228-1700.

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Highs & Lows THUMBS UP: To the groundbreaking for the Long Bridge Park aquatics center, which occurred last week and which kicks off a two-year construction process.

What a long, tortuous road it has been – going back nearly a decade, to when the Arlington County government was gold-plating every public amenity it could find, to the voter rebellion of 2014 that saw several of those projects eliminated (Artisphere, we hardly knew ye ...), to the more streamlined aquatics center that was resurrected in the early days of County Manager Mark Schwartz’s watch.

Even though construction of the facility is on track, there remains the niggling question of exactly how much of a subsidy Arlington taxpayers – the majority of whom

are likely to never set foot in the facility – will have to shell out to cover operating losses. Guess we’ll know that once the doors open and real-word economics take hold.

Our hope is that a financial plan can be put in place that sees Arlington tax dollars used only to subsidize the use of the facility by Arlington residents, not to help those from outside the county. We welcome the out-of-towners, but they’ll need to be covering the full cost of their usage.

THUMBS UP: To the calendar of Barcroft Elementary School, which seems much more sensible than the traditional school calendar in use in the rest of Arlington and most of the nation.

Barcroft students will be back in

class next week, and will continue through next June with a number of two-week breaks punctuating the year.

The number of days they are in class is effectively the same as for those in other schools, but avoids the looooooooooooong summer vacation where, in many cases, much of what was learned the year before dissipates and has to be re-taught at the start of the new school year.

We’ve long said Arlington school officials could be pioneers if they would lead a charge to reform the school calendar, rescuing it from the days when students had to be off during the summer so they could tend the fields. Any farmers among the Arlington student body these days? Wethinks not.

County Staff Disrespecting Nauck Community

Editor: I attended a recent meeting of the Four Mile Run Valley Working Group, where the draft Parks Master Plan and Area Plan for the Four Mile Run Valley study area were presented. This included plans for Jennie Dean Park, which is an historically significant area for my Nauck community.

It concerned me greatly to watch the county staff ignore repeated attempts by Nauck representatives to politely correct inaccuracies in the draft documents.

When Nauck representatives spoke, there was no note-taking and there was no attempt to consider their requests. It was as if Nauck did not exist.

In contrast, when other neighborhood representatives raised issues, county staff quickly obliged them and

took notes from the podium.

This is not the first time I have observed this dismissive behavior concerning our community and its unique needs.

In fact, the most concerning issue is that the Nauck representatives asked the county to make a presentation of these draft documents at its civic-association meeting. The county staff, with County Board member John Vihstadt present, flatly refused. County staff plan to make such presentations to select commissions only.

There is a public-comment period for the draft documents, but there was no plan for the comments to be reviewed by the working group or any other public body. Why add input if there is no accountability for comments to be re-

viewed and incorporated?

Frankly, people of Nauck – an historically African American community – have had our voices silenced for generations.

Many in my community had lost hope about dealing with the county government at all. After decades of neglect, we thought this was a time we would finally be heard. It is not easy for us to confront the county and its elected officials, but this is our home we are talking about, and we want to participate as active citizens, not as guests.

The exchange I witnessed at the meeting troubles me greatly. Change is needed.

Darlene Robinson Arlington

Editor: NOVA Parks’ Paul Gilbert claimed, in a recent Sun Gazette article, that tree activists were being “misled” about the Upton Hill proposal, but he did not dispute the Arlington county manger’s report that 115 trees would be cut down for Upton Hill Park’s “renovations.”

Even if 150 new trees are planted, it will be decades before they can compensate for the loss of mature trees, some decades old, that NOVA Parks will cut down.

In the interim, stormwater runoff will increase and more harm will be done to the resource-protection area protecting

Reeves Run, which is part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

NOVA Parks’ plans for “renovating” the park are really more about increasing parking by at least 30,000 square feet than improving the park.

Josh Handler Arlington

NOVA Parks’ Stance on Tree Removal Is Disingenuous

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School Board Will Regret Opening Up This Can of Worms Editor: The Arlington School Board seems to be unaware of the scope and entwined nature the name of Robert E. Lee has with the county’s (and state’s) history, a relationship that began long before 1861.

By expunging his name from Washington-Lee High School, the School

Board also is creating a distortion of history, not only of Gen. Lee, but of Arlington County and Virginia.

The elimination of Gen. Lee’s name from Washington-Lee would negate a large portion of the county’s heritage and history, as well as open up a wider discussion concerning the removal of his name – and those of others – from

current facilities. It also would call into question the correctness of current symbols used by the county government on its official seal and logo.

To put it in plain language, School Board members will be opening a can of worms that would raise a number of broader issues beyond a school name.

Do School Board members really want

to do that without referencing a higher authority, such as the County Board or state legislature?

A more proper decision-making process should be used in order to ensure full public participation and improved due-process procedures.

Elvin “Pete” Sill Arlington

Editor: It has been fascinating to read the different viewpoints about Washington-Lee High School’s name in the Sun Gazette This is certainly an opportunity to expand upon our history; no erasures are being made. Lee will remain in the history books, and museums, no matter what happens to the name of a school.

To the letter-writer who used the example of Lee’s placement in the National Statuary Hall as a reason to keep the name, I would suggest we dig deeper into

history, and note that this placement of the statue occurred in 1909. Yes, right in the middle of the Jim Crow era.

I would submit that any consideration of changing names or removing statues should use, as an initial question, when was the name or statue installed?

Anything from the Jim Crow era is suspect to begin with.

And as for those who want the alumni to have a voice, I would ask, what about the voices of the thousands of AfricanAmerican students who were denied the chance to attend Washington-Lee, and

other Arlington schools, for over three decades. Do they get a say?

Seems to me this is a decision for our elected officials. Not an easy call, but I

think they got it right.

School-Naming Decision Was Right One by School Board

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Survey: Keep Burials Ongoing at National Cemetery The vast majority of respondents to a Department of Defense survey favor keeping Arlington National Cemetery operational for as long as possible, even if it means tightening up on those who are deemed eligible for burial there.

A total of 96 percent of the nearly 230,000 people who participated in the recent survey want the iconic cemetery to remain open to burials as far into the future as practical.

About 90 percent of both military veterans and active-duty service personnel who participated in the survey said the cemetery’s boundaries should be expanded if possible to accommodate additional burials, and agreed that eligibility could be limited in order to extend the usable life of the cemetery.

The survey, which debuted in April, was the second in two years put out by officials at the cemetery, who are attempting to find consensus on the future of a burial ground that is rapidly running out of space.

Congress directed the Department of the Army, which has oversight of the cemetery, to consider available options. The survey was part of the outreach effort.

“While no decisions have been made, we wanted to provide you a brief snapshot of initial findings,” cemetery officials said in releasing the findings of the second survey.

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lies, which was seized by the federal government during the Civil War. (The U.S. Supreme Court in the 1880s ruled the seizure illegal, but the family opted to sell the land to the government rather than return to it.)

The first soldier to be buried on the site was Army Pvt. William Christman of Pennsylvania, who was interred on May 13, 1864.

Two presidents – William Howard Taft and John Kennedy – are among the more Germany’s minister of defense, Ursula von der Leyen, lays a wreath than 250,000 people at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery buried at the cemeELIZABETH FRASER/U.S. ARMY tery. So, too, is James on June 20.

Parks, who was born lington National Cemetery is slated to run out of burial space in approximately 23 into slavery at the Arlington House planyears. Acquisition of additional land has tation and from the time of the Civil War proved challenging and would have lim- until his death in the 1920s served the War ited impact; at the current rate of funeral Department on the grounds, making him services, each new acre would extend the the only person to have been both born usable life of the cemetery by just three and buried there.

Since 1864, there have been more than months, cemetery officials said. a dozen changes to the eligibility rules Arlington National Cemetery sits on for burials at the cemetery, with the last land once owned by the Custis-Lee fami-

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Legislators Want Commemorative Coin to Honor Tomb of Unknown Soldier: The centennial of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier will be saluted with a commemorative coin from the U.S. Mint, if U.S. Rep. Don Beyer can convince colleagues of the effort’s appropriateness.

Beyer (D-8th) has joined U.S. Sens.

Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in sponsoring legislation to recognize the 100th anniversary of the iconic Arlington National Cemetery monument.

Such a coin would “help Americans learn more about the sacrifices of those brave souls interred in Arlington and elsewhere,” Beyer said in a statement.

More than 4 million people pass through the gates of Arlington National Cemetery each year, and most find their way to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to pay homage to those interred, Cotton said.

“This commemorative coin will be a fitting tribute to those heroes and to the sentinels who have guarded our Tomb,” he said.

Proceeds from the sale of commemorative coins would benefit the National World War I Museum and Memorial, and would have no net cost to the federal government, sponsors said.

President Warren G. Harding led the dedication of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Armistice Day (now Veterans Day) in 1921. The tomb initially held the remains of a soldier from World War I; in 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower presided over a ceremony adding remains of service members who served in World War II and the Korean War to the monument.

(As a result of the additional interments, the monument also has become known as the “Tomb of the Unknowns,” but the Defense Department favors the original name.)

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan presided over a similar ceremony interring the remains of a Vietnam War-era service member, but using DNA testing, military officials in 1998 were able to identify him as Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Blassie, whose aircraft had been shot down in 1972. Blassie’s remains were removed for separate burial, and the Vietnam crypt has remained vacant since.

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by Tomb Guard Sentinels, members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry (Old Guard) from Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. But this has not always been the case; for the first four years of the Tomb’s existence, it was unguarded. A civilian guard was posted there in November 1925 to shoo away picnickers using the marble plaza; a military guard followed in 1926, and round-theclock guards have been on duty since July 1937.

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“The cumulative effect of additional changes [proposed by neighboring civic associations and individuals] needs to be evaluated within the broader context of providing convenient, high-quality, patient-centered health care in a fiscally prudent way,” said Kate Bates, president of the Arlington Chamber.

“The hospital is doing everything it can to accommodate the requests of neighbors and to honor good planning principles,” Bates said in a letter to County Board members.

Hospital officials had hoped to have the development plan approved by the County Board in June, but after com-

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In the spring, a county task force looked at the design plan, forwarding its recommendations to the Planning Commission and County Board. Leaders of the three civic associations that ring the hospital site have voiced concern about the project’s scale, traffic management, the siting of a large parking structure and the precedent any approval would set for future redevelopment of the hospital campus, which dates to the 1940s.

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Local Grad’s New Play Performed at Fringe Festival BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

Emma Choi reacted to this February’s school shooting in Parkland, Fla., by engaging in a familiar activity: play writing.

After that massacre, “I felt really helpless,” said the 18-year-old Vienna resident. “It happens so often and every time we say the same things and do the same things, and nothing really happens.”

Choi’s play, “14,” alludes to the number of students killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, but revolves around the aftermath of a fictional school shooting.

The play was performed last month at the 2018 Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, D.C. The central character, Josie (played

by Mila Fox-Parola), is devastated by her boyfriend’s death during the massacre and plagued by questions of “what if” and “why didn’t I?” Fox-Parola, who has performed in many other plays, said this role probably has been the hardest.

“My acting teacher always [says] acting is cutting your chest open, tearing apart your ribs and pulling out your heart and showing it to the audience, going ‘This is me!’” she said. “This was the first role where I really felt that. This is just very intense emotional exposure . . . It’s really hard to be that vulnerable.”

Jerry Kramer, Jun and Carla Ito, Mila Fox-Parola, Carolyn Heier, Tanaka Muvavarirwa, April Lau, Emma Choi, and Jon and Jessie Roberts produced Choi’s play, “14,” at the Capital Fringe FestiPHOTO BY BRIAN TROMPETER val from July 18-28.

The show is gripping from the start, but contains a healthy helping of humor and tenderness. It’s fun to watch Josie and her boyfriend Milo (played by Jun Ito) meet, flirt and start dating.

Jerry Kramer, a 15-year-old student at Oakdale High School in Ijamsville, Md., plays the shooter, Denny, not as a raving madman but as someone who’s timid and disaffected.

“I want him to be seen as more lost,” Kramer said of his character. “He’s a lost soul.”

Following the shooting, Josie resists

being drawn out by a psychologist (played by real-life one Carolyn Heier) and is encouraged by classmate Avery (Tanaka Muvavarirwa) to attend the March for Our Lives protest.

Jun Ito’s mother, Carla, also plays Milo’s mother in the show. Choi gave the play some true-life details about the pair’s time spent living in Japan.

“I’m normally a comedic actor, so this is a change for me,” Carla Ito said. “I have two scenes, but they’re very different emotionally. It’s been a challenge and a joy.”

She especially was impressed by the

emotional range Fox-Parola was able to summon.

“She’s going back and forth within, like, a millisecond, and I’ve just been blown away by it,” Carla Ito said.

“I still get goose bumps at the end of the show, every time,” concurred Heier.

Choi graduated from George C. Marshall High School in June and will study English at Harvard University.

She has had three previously plays published and performed, but written many more.

“The first time was in third grade when there were not enough parts to go around, and I did not like that,” she said. “I wrote an extended version of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ with a bunch of real kooky characters. And I just kept going.”

But just because she’s produced a lot doesn’t mean the work was easy.

“I do love writing, but a lot of nights are just staring at a blank page or banging your head against a wall, like, ‘Why can’t I do this?’” she said. “It’s definitely very draining and when you get that vibe going, you have to drain it all out.”

Choi estimates she wrote the initial draft of “14” in two days.

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Legislation Introduced on School Calendar, Marijuana Arlington school officials would gain control of their annual school calendar if the General Assembly approves a measure by state GENERAL Sen. Amanda ASSEMBLY Chase – or one similar to it – during the 2019 session.

Chase (R-Midlothian) was the first lawmaker to introduce a bill for 2019 that would permit all school boards across the commonwealth to set their starting day as they see fit. Other legislators in both houses are likely to introduce similar measures.

Under what’s called the “Kings Dominion Rule” – more on that later – the state government theoretically requires that all school districts open for the year after Labor Day. But there have been so many waivers granted that few school systems required to follow the rules.

Arlington is among the districts that must adhere to the policy; the 2018-19 school year is slated to start for most Arlington students the day after Labor Day, even though many other public-school students in Northern Virginia will already have been in classes for a week or more at that point.

Efforts to devolve power on calendarsetting to the local level have long come close to passage in the General Assembly, but never made it to the governor’s desk.

Most years, it is the state Senate that proves the obstacle; a bill by Chase in the 2018 session died on an 8-7 vote in the Senate Education and Health Committee.

The Arlington School Board, not surprisingly, supports local authority over calendars. The Arlington Chamber of Commerce, which for many years opposed it, in recent years has softened its stance.

Why is the current state policy called the “Kings Dominion Rule”? Because, in decades gone by, the tourism industry, including the large theme park in Doswell, wanted to retain teenage workers through the Labor Day holiday weekend. While the name to describe the school-opening policy has stuck, owners of the park these days have no position on keeping or dumping the requirement.

Ebbin Again Presses for Marijuana Decriminalization: State Sen. Adam Ebbin is off to an early start in his quest to decriminalize possession of marijuana.

Ebbin (D-30th) already has introduced legislation into the 2019 General Assembly hopper to make possession a civil violation with fines of between $50 and $250 depending on the number of instances.

Currently, state law provides for a maximum $500 fine and 30-day jail stint for a first offense, with higher penalties for subsequent offenses.

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A related bill, by Del. Steve Heretick (D-Portsmouth), suffered a similar fate in the 2018 session, dying in a House committee.

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According to data from Virginia State Police, drug and narcotic arrests shot up 15.6 percent last year, with 70,974 recorded offenses. Seventy-one percent of those arrests (in which the kind of drug was known) were attributable to marijuana, with arrests related to that drug increasing by 20.6 percent.

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Those wishing to donate items but unable to attend the events can drop off donations at police headquarters, 1425 North Courthouse Road, from Aug. 116.

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Offender Aid and Restoration (OAR) has introduced “Project Backpack,” a new back-to-school initiative aimed at supporting the children of incarcerees.

The effort is designed not only to provide much-needed school supplies, but to offer another avenue for those involved in the criminal-justice system to maintain strong family bonds, officials said.

“With the community’s support, each child will receive a new backpack filled with school supplies, along with a handwritten letter from their incarcerated parent, letting the child know that they are not forgotten,” OAR officials said in announcing the initiative.

“Back-to-school season is a difficult time for many of these families. We want these children to know that their parents are always thinking of them even if they cannot physically be with them at this time,” OAR executive director Elizabeth Jones Valderrama said.

For information on the initiative, see the Web site at www.oaronline.org.

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In Fairfax, Hard Choices to Fix a Tough Intersection Roundabout Is One Option Mulled to Improve Balls Hill Road and Old Dominion Drive BRIAN TROMPETER

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County officials in 2014 allotted $200,000 for a study of the intersection, which began in 2016. The Board of Supervisors on May 15 this year unanimously authorized $20.5 million in Northern Virginia Transportation Authority funding to pay for upgrades at the crossing.

Among the options officials are considering: • A no-construction option would cost less than $20,000 not affect any surrounding properties. But it also would retain “F” service ratings for the morning and evening rush hours.

As of 2016, motorists were delayed an average of 209.3 seconds during the peak hour between 7:45 and 8:45 a.m. and 207.5 seconds in the evening peak period between 5 and 6 p.m. Under the “no-build” scenario, by 2040 those delays likely would rise to 221.1 and 210.5 seconds, officials estimated.

• Alternative A would build a pair of T-shaped intersections in place of the current crossing. Under this scenario, average morning delays would be 14.5 seconds at the northern intersection and 28.9 at the southern one; evening delays would be 21.4 and 20.5 seconds, respectively.

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Officials fielded questions from local residents during a public-information meeting June 28 at Cooper Middle School in McLean.

Gibran Abifadel of the Fairfax County Department of Transportation, who is project manager for the initiative, outlined the various proposals during a public-information meeting June 28 at Cooper Middle School in McLean.

The elongated-X-shaped intersection features poor sight lines everywhere and regularly produces traffic backups during morning and evening rush periods. Some sharp-angled turns by motorists at the intersection effectively act as U-turns, officials said.

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This option, dubbed Alternative C, would build dedicated left-turn lanes at the frequently congested crossing of Balls Hill Road and Old Dominion Drive in McLean. Fairfax County transportation officials also are considering a two-intersection option and a roundabout to fix traffic woes at the site.

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alignment between the two roads and boosting the service level to “C” during morning and evening peak periods. This $12.1 million option also would affect 13 nearby properties (including three houses now under construction at Mehr Farms), necessitate significant land grading and require a learning curve from drivers not accustomed to negotiating roundabouts.

Some residents at the meeting cited the success of the town of Vienna’s new roundabout at Park and Locust streets, S.E., in support of the concept.

• Alternative C at a cost of $12.7 million would build dedicated left-turn lanes at the intersection and cut peak-hour delays to 46.5 seconds in the morning and 55.8 seconds in the evening. But this option also would need a stormwater basin outside its right-of-way and would affect 22 nearby parcels, including the frontage of Korean Presbyterian Church.

County officials this fall hope to finalize a study of the intersection, with public input, conduct preliminary engineering between spring 2019 and spring 2023 and right-of-way acquisition during those last two years, then begin construction in 2023 and finish the project by the end of 2024.

Besides roadway improvements, the project will include drainage upgrades, about 1.5 miles of new bike lanes and 2,750 feet of walkways. Traffic would continue to flow though the intersection throughout construction, Abifadel said.

Supervisor John Foust (D-Dranesville) stressed the project’s importance.

“This is a bad intersection,” he said.

“We hope to come up with a plan to address this and improve it dramatically.”

Even former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) has weighed in on the subject, telling Foust at a Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce event in April, “I don’t know what’s happened, but that light at Old Dominion on Balls Hill is devastating. I mean, [traffic] backs all the way up to my house.”

Business Briefcase ARLINGTON BOARD CHAIR TO PARTICIPATE IN REGIONAL ROUNDTABLE:

County Board Chairman Katie Cristol will be on the dais when the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce holds its 2018 “Northern Virginia Elected Leaders Summit” on Aug. 29 at 8 a.m. at the Waddell Theater on the Loudoun campus of Northern Virginia Community College.

Cristol will be joined by the board chairs of Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties – Sharon Bulova, Phyllis Randall and Corey Stewart, respectively – at the event, which will focus on regional issues. The mayor of Alexandria also has been invited to take part.

For tickets and information, see the Web site at www.novachamber.org.

N.VA. CHAMBER TAPS 2018-19 LEADERSHIP: The Northern Virginia Chamber

of Commerce has announced officers and members of the executive committee and board of directors for 2018-19.

Jennifer Siciliano, vice president of government relations for Inova, will chair the board, while Todd Rowley, senior vice president of United Bank, will serve as vice chair. Kathryn Falk, market leader for Northern Virginia operations at Cox Communications, will serve as secretary.

New executive-committee members for 2018-19 include Joe Burke, BDO; Christian Deschauer, Transurban; Laurie MacNamara, Booz Allen; Jon Norton, Great American Restaurants; Tien Wong, Opus8; and Todd Yeatts, Boeing.

New directors for 2018-19 include Montez Anderson, Constella Solutions; Mark Carrier, B.F. Saul; Carrie Drake, OGSystems; Len Forkas, Milestone Coms; Cassie Hartogs, BDO; Morgan Higgins, JPMorgan Chase; Victor Hoskins, Arlington Economic Development; Jermaine Johnson, PNC; Jeff Kaczmarek, Prince William Economic Development; Stephanie Landrum, Alexandria Economic Development; Peter Mandanis, SunTrust; Amy Ochs, Bechtel; Rick Pearson, Neustar; David Ritchey, JBG; Buddy Rizer, Loudoun County Economic Development; Melissa Simkins, Velvet Suite; Shooter Starr, Brown Advisory; John Stephenson, Amazon Web Services; Ginger Wierzbanowski, Northrop Grum-

man; John Wood, Telos; and Todd Yeatts, Boeing.

“We are thrilled to add these celebrated individuals to our executive committee and board of directors who will assist in guiding the Northern Virginia Chamber to success,” said incoming board chair Siciliano.

“The Northern Virginia Chamber’s mission is to offer business-development opportunities to organizations interested in growth through knowledge, access and influence throughout the region,” she said. “By adding these admired individuals to our board, we are able to position ourselves and our member companies for success.”

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MALICIOUS WOUNDING: n On July 21 at 8:45 p.m., a verbal dispute in the 3100 block of Wilson Boulevard escalated when one combatant pushed the other to the ground, causing a laceration.

The suspect – 41-year-old Kenneth Griffin of Pasadena, Texas – was arrested, charged with malicious wounding and was held without bond.

al observed a man looking into a window in the 100 block of North Wayne Street, then attempt to open the window.

After being confronted by the witness and the victim, the suspect attempted to flee the scene on foot prior to police arrival.

The suspect – 33-year-old Adelino Carrillo Najarro of Arlington – was arrested, charged with peeping and drunk in public, and was held without bond. n On July 25 at 1:23 a.m., a woman in the 2900 block of 16th Road South awoke

to find a man looking into her home through a slightly ajar door. When the victim noticed the suspect and closed the door, the suspect fled.

The suspect is described as a white male, 6’3”, with a slim build and wearing dark-framed glasses.

n On July 21 at 10:30 a.m., a home in the 1700 block of 22nd Court North was burglarized. The suspect also accessed the victim’s vehicle and rummaged through it.

The suspect is described as a white male, 6’1”, 230 pounds. n On July 22 at 1:50 a.m., police responded to the 2900 block of South Glebe Road for a report of a burglar alarm.

Two suspects had gained entrance to the business, damaged merchandise and stole numerous items before fleeing.

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PEEPING: n On July 24 at 12:10 a.m., an individu-

BURGLARY: n On July 20 between 7:30 a.m. and 6:15 p.m., a home in the 1200 block of North Veitch Street was burglarized.

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Our summer quest for the best in local real estate this week brings us to something uniquely special.

Whenever an architect designs a home as his or her own personal space, you know it’s going to be a treat. And such was the case when, in the mid1980s, William Devereaux of Berkus Group Architects acquired a challenging piece of land and, working with the noted builder T.H. Green, turned it into a triumph of creative design.

While exceptional today, the parcel had proved too challenging for many prospective builders, but Devereaux was able to successfully incorporate a lovely home onto its contours.

And now, after years with just a single owner, the property – with 3,000 square feet of interior space – is set to soon come on the market, listed at $1,518,000

by Karen Close of Century 21 New Millennium.

Exceptional detailing, expansive spaces and a focus on livability are the hallmarks of this home, nestled among the trees in a deep, wooded ravine with a stream flowing by. It provides a taste of the countryside, yet you’re close to everything that’s worth being close to in Arlington’s urban-village environment.

Designed so that the exterior mixes well with the surrounding landscape, the home provides a low-key welcome, but at the same time gives a hint to the exuberance that awaits within. And from the moment we open the glass front doors and are ushered into the versatile and stylish foyer space, our sense of enchantment only grows.

The soaring living room, whose ceiling peaks at 23 feet, will be a focalpoint of daily living, with glorious vistas over the rear yard. Natural sunlight streams in, and a fireplace adds to the overall ambiance.

The dining area is adjacent to the stunning kitchen (with a color palette designed for soothing relaxation), and this area of the home provides not only a breakfast area but also access to the grand deck (with a circular staircase down to the rear yard).

Located off the main traffic flow, the step-down, soaring family room also proffers deck access, and there is a fireplace here, as well.

Proving the versatility of the design, the main level also is home to the engaging master suite, with more lovely vistas, an adjoining study, plentiful closet space and a desirable mater bath.

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Facts for buyers Address: 3131 North Monroe Street, Arlington.

Listed at: $1,518,000 by Karen Close, Century 21 New Millennium (703) 517-9477.

Schools: Jamestown Elementary, Williamsburg Middle, Yorktown High School.

The second level provides two further bedrooms plus a loft area, which again offer testimony to the flexibility and versatility of the layout.

The bulk of the lot is concentrated in the wooded rear yard, and the home’s interior offers spots where you can sit back and enjoy marvelous vistas.

Showcasing originality and creativity, this is a home for those with refined tastes who seek something unique. Well worthy of consideration.

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A/C Adds to Bottom Line for Sellers Perhaps no surprise here: Buyers are willing to spend more for the comforts of a cooler home.

A new Zillow analysis finds that homes with air conditioning sold for 2.5 percent more than homes without it, which is a premium of nearly $5,500 for the typical U.S. home.

The bonus for air conditioning is highest in San Antonio, where homes with air conditioning sold for a 5.8percent premium. Cincinnati is close behind, with a 5.7-percent premium for homes with air conditioning. Homes with air conditioning also sold for a 5-plus-percent premium in Detroit, Indianapolis and Las Vegas.

Buyers put a higher value on air conditioning than outdoor home features like a patio or deck. Air conditioning was listed as a required feature by 62 percent of buyers, while a private outdoor space was deemed essential by 48 percent of buyers, according to the 2017 Zillow Group Consumer Housing Trends Report.

Across the country, 66.1 percent of homes that sold in the past year had air conditioning. In markets with some of the hottest climates, air conditioning was in nearly every single home that sold in the past year: It was in 99.1 percent of homes sold in toasty Las Vegas, and 97.9 percent of homes sold in sultry Phoenix.

“Today’s home buyer places a premium on the once-upon-a-time luxury amenity of air conditioning,” said Zillow senior economist Aaron Terrazas.

“Individual design preferences or decorating styles might deter buyers from certain homes, but there is a strong consensus in favor of air conditioning, although in the nation’s fastest-moving markets, A/C may weigh relatively low for buyers eager to find any home they can.”

“In historically more temperate climates, some homes – especially older ones – aren’t as likely to have air conditioning,” Terrazas said. “But in places where temperatures regularly reach triple digits, it’s hard to find a home without air conditioning.”

Renters put a slightly higher premium on air conditioning, according to the survey. The typical U.S. rental on Zillow in the last year with central air conditioning rented for 2.8 percent more than rentals in the same market that don’t have air conditioning, or about $40 per month.

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Arlington retained its position at the top of the heap when it comes to persquare-foot cost of housing, but the county posted a decline in recent data while most other Northern Virginia jurisdictions showed increases.

The average cost per square foot of homes that sold in the first six months of 2018 across Arlington was $472, down a dollar (or 0.2 percent) from $473 during the same period in 2017, according to figures reported by RealEstate Business Intelligence, based on data from Bright MLS. Arlington was one of only two Northern Virginia jurisdictions where the persquare-foot cost topped $400 for the reporting period. The city of Falls Church clocked in at $434, an increase of 1.2 percent from $429.

The city of Alexandria’s averagesquare-footage cost of $391 was up 2.4 percent from $382.

Among major counties across Northern Virginia: • The city of Alexandria’s averagesquare-footage cost of $391 was up 2.4 percent from $382.

• In Fairfax County, the average cost of $317 was up 1.6 percent from $313.

• In Loudoun County, the average cost of $225 was up 4.2 percent from $218.

• In Prince William County, the average cost of $211 was up 4.5 percent from $202.

• In Stafford County, the average cost of $173 was up 3.6 percent from $167.

Among cities, the average-square-foot cost of $294 in the city of Fairfax was down from $301; the average of $207 in Manassas was up from $191; and the average of $195 in Manassas was up from $191.

Across the region outside of Northern Virginia, average-square-foot costs for the reporting area were $532 in the District of Columbia; up from $518; $296 in Montgomery County, up from $286; $222 in Howard County, up from $218; and $189 in Prince George’s County, up from $179.

Across the entire Mid-Atlantic region, the average per-square-foot cost of $240 for the first six months of 2018 was up 3.9 percent from $231.

Figures represent most, but not all, sales during the period. All figures are preliminary, and are subject to revision.

Home Sales Down, Prices Up in D.C. Inner Core: A modest increase in sales prices was offset by lower home sales across the D.C. inner core in June, according to new figures, resulting in a 2.8-percent drop in total sales volume.

A total of 5,889 properties went to closing during the month, down 4.1 percent from the 6,142 transactions in June 2017, according to figures reported by RealEstate Business Intelligence, based on data from Bright MLS. (Figures represent transactions in the

District of Columbia; Arlington and Fairfax counties and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church in Virginia; and Montgomery and Prince George’s counties in Maryland.)

While sales were down, the average sales price of $563,627 was up, albeit a scant 1.4 percent from $555,993 a year before. Sales prices were in positive territory in all legs of the market: • The average sales price of single-family homes rose 2.3 percent to $682,712.

• The average sales price of attached homes, such as townhouses, rose 0.6 percent to $446,905.

• The average sales price of condominiums rose 3.4 percent to $374,488.

A total of 543 properties changed hands at more than $1 million, including 27 at more than $2.5 million and three exceeding $5 million.

Homes that sold in June spent an average of 30 days between listing and ratified contract, an improvement from the 33 days required a year before. They garnered 99 percent of listing price, up from 98.5 percent.

Conventional mortgages represented the method of transacting sales in 3,632 cases, followed by cash (813) and FHAbacked loans (601).

Inventory remains below the already constricted rates of mid-2017, with 9,805 properties on the market at the end of June, down 6.5 percent from a year be-

fore.

Where is the market headed? Some good news: The number of homes coming under contract in June was higher than a year before. But there also is a shot of bad news: The total number of pending sales for the month is down from June 2017.

Figures represent most, but not all, homes on the market. All data are preliminary, and are subject to revision.

Chamber Preps for Mini-Golf Tourney

The Arlington Chamber of Commerce has slated its 13th annual Scholar’s Cup mini-golf tournament for Sept. 25 at Upton Hill Regional Park.

The family-friendly event will feature an afternoon of golf, dinner from Rockland’s Barbeque and Grilling Co. and music by Wayne Boyland of A Sound Plan.

All proceeds will support the Chamber’s Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!), a 21-week program that transforms local middleand high-school students into entrepreneurs who launch and operate their own businesses.

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low tax-delinquency rate,” Arlington treasurer Carla de la Pava told the Sun Gazette, with a touch of pride, after county staff this summer proposed eliminating the decal.

The little square sticker since the late 1960s has served as proof the personalproperty taxes on vehicles in Arlington have been paid. County Board members are slated to hold a public hearing on Sept. 22 to eliminate the decals in 2019, which would make Arlington the latest jurisdiction to do away with them.

Fairfax County got rid of its decals in 2006 (a move criticized at the time by the Arlington treasurer’s office). Loudoun County recently became the latest Virginia locality to eliminate them, although both Alexandria and Falls Church are among localities that still see them as useful and continue to use them.

Arlington government staff say advances in enforcement technology make the decal unnecessary, a point of view shared at least in part by Commissioner of Revenue Ingrid Morroy, whose office is adding high-tech gadgetry to hunt down those who aren’t registering their vehicles in Arlington.

By using a new license-plate-reader system being rolled out by her office, “I believe that we will be able to increase taxpayers’ compliance,” Morroy said,

predicting that her office will be able to double the number of vehicles it uncovers that should be registered (and paying taxes) but are not.

Using the license-plate-reader system “is less time-consuming” than under the current enforcement regime, where staff walk or drive through parking lots or garages to physically inspect vehicles, Morroy said.

“We will research those vehicles [flagged by the electronic system] as we have done with the manual system, and add vehicles to the tax rolls as warranted,” Morroy said.

Once the new plate-reader infrastructure is fully in place, compliance staff from the commissioner of revenue’s office will continue to focus on neighborhoods that have high numbers of out-of-compliance vehicles, based on phone calls and e-mails to the county tip lines that have been rolling in for the past decade and a half.

“As we have done during the past 15 years, data collected by my office are used strictly by this office for tax-assessment purposes, and are not shared with any other department, police or otherwise,” Morroy said.

The commissioner of revenue acknowledged that, while the tip lines will stay open, they might ultimately prove less effective because residents will only be able to report vehicles with out-of-state plates, but not those with Virginia tags but no sticker (since there will be no sticker).

And there will be other enforcement is-

Wakefield High School’s Amy Kohan, whose design won the 2017-18 decal competition, is flanked by Karen Rosales of Arlington Community Federal Credit Union and Treasurer Carla de la Pava. The treasurer’s office has held decal competitions for local students over the past dozen or so years.

sues to surmount: • Eliminating the decal also will take a tool away from law-enforcement personnel; in fiscal 2018, about 4,900 tickets were issued in Arlington for vehicles not displaying a decal.

• Elimination of the decal also will take away one tool from the treasurer’s office, which is responsible for collecting car-tax revenue. Under state law, the treasurer’s office can withhold issuing decals to those whose car-tax payments are delinquent.

According to de la Pava, the power to withhold decals is a relatively small stick compared to other tools in her office’s payment-compliance arsenal.

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ed the treasurer’s office with increasingly efficient methods of enforcement,” she said. “Wage and bank liens, for example, are particularly effective, and we also rely on Virginia state-income-tax-refund withholding, Virginia DMV registration holds . . . and vehicle seizures. These tools tend to be far more efficient and effective.”

Use of varying tools has enabled the treasurer’s office to cut the delinquency rate for vehicle taxes by 56 percent over the past decade, although they still stand at about $1.8 million (low by historic norms but still above, say, the rate of delinquency on residential and commercial real estate).

Arlington first required decals to be placed adjacent to the state inspection sticker on windshields in 1967. For nearly 20 years before that, metal strips attached below the license plate had served a similar purpose.

The 2018-19 decals – likely the last – already are being distributed to those who are registering new vehicles. Most county residents will receive the new decals when they are mailed car-tax bills in coming weeks.

Vehicle owners in Arlington annually pay $5 per $100 assessed value in personal-property tax, minus the state rebate (100 percent tax relief on the first $3,000 of a vehicle’s value and 28 percent off the next $17,000) that has been in place in various forms since 1998. The rebate is for vehicles driven for personal use only.

The $5-per-$100 Arlington tax rate has been fixed for many years, and is unlikely to change upward or downward when the decal requirement is dropped.

County staff have proposed retaining the $33 vehicle fee, which brings in about $5 million a year, even after the decals are eliminated.

Not every vehicle that is garaged in Arlington is required to be registered in Virginia; exemptions exist for some outof-state students and military personnel, as well as for vehicles owned by the federal and state governments and those registered with the U.S. Department of State by foreign diplomats.

Those who wish to retain their out-ofstate tags but do not qualify for exemptions can do so by paying the vehicle tax, decal fee and an extra $100 fee annually.

Aquatic Center’s Operating Cost Still Open Question Continued from Page 1 the survey for the Arlington government, will be mailing out the surveys in August and reporting back with results in September, said Susan Kalish, a spokesman for the Arlington Department of Parks and Recreation.

A working group set up by the county government to advise on pricing the facility is expected to provide its recommendations to county officials early in 2019, Kalish said.

The working group empaneled to look at fees for use of the aquatics center has been meeting sporadically since the spring.

(Background on the effort is found at https://projects.arlingtonva.us/long-bridge-park-feeswork-group/.)

ETC Institute has worked with the Arlington government since 2002. The firm aims to collect 800 valid responses, which it says would give a 95-percent confidence level and margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percent.

The aquatics center is slated to open in mid-2020. Last year, county staff estimated that firstyear operating revenues would be about $3.19 million and expenses

would be $4.25 million, leaving a gap of just over $1 million to be filled by taxpayers.

If that projection plays out, the financial prospects of the facility will be significantly improved from earlier iterations, which estimated the need for an annual subsidy ranging from $1.9 million to $3.8 million.

(Those figures represent only operating costs, and do not take into account the cost of paying off construction bonds, which could add an average $2.5 million to $3 million in annual expenses – more in the early years of the facility – for county taxpayers.)

Plans for a major pool complex as a centerpiece of Long Bridge Park in Crystal City long have been in the works, but the project has seen more unforeseen plot twists than a cheap detective novel.

Arlington voters by a 76-percent majority in 2004 approved a park bond that, they were told at the time, included enough funding to cover the entire cost of the Long Bridge Park project, including a multi-pool aquatics facility.

But, after a case of “mission creep” that saw the proposal bal-

Artist’s drawing shows design of the proposed Long Bridge Park aquatics center.

loon in scope and cost, county leaders in 2012 had to seek additional funding through another park bond, at a time when public discontent over what critics derided as gold-plated “vanity” projects in Arlington was beginning to gather steam.

Voters in November 2012 gave the request for more cash the green light, but the margin (63-percent support) was almost 20 percentage points lower than several other bond packages on the same ballot.

That tepid result was a foreshadowing of a nascent voter

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revolution that two years later propelled independent John Vihstadt to the County Board and, indirectly, led to the scuttling of two other major projects: the Columbia Pike streetcar, which never got past the planning stage, and the Artisphere arts center, which hemorrhaged money in its few years of operation.

After construction-cost estimates came in significantly higher than expected, then-County Manager Barbara Donnellan put the aquatics-center project on ice.

Her successor, Mark Schwartz, resuscitated it but promised the

size would be trimmed and amenities be more off-the-rack and less designer-label.

Arlington County Board members last November voted 4-1 in support of a design of the pool complex. The $54.7 million project cost – about $30 million less than the earlier incarnation – will include not just the aquatics/fitness center, but also an extension of Long Bridge Park’s esplanade, rain gardens, public art and parking.

The fact that Arlington leaders held a ground-breaking ceremony for the pool complex in late June without having firm operational-cost figures in hand is something that flummoxes Wayne Kubicki, a veteran civic activist who early on warned about the budget-busting nature of this project.

Kubicki voiced concern that the County Board’s “charge” to the group working on a plan for fees does not give them a revenue target to shoot for.

“One would have hoped that the county might have learned some lessons from the financial mess it created at Artisphere,” he said. “Let’s hope the results at the aquatics center are better.”

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Schools & Military n The game of chess isn’t a varsity sport at Wakefield High School, but the activity became popular nonetheless during the past school year.

A wide variety of students played the board game, including some varsity athletes like standout boys basketball players A’Mari Cooper and Ben Horsford.

During the past school year, Wakefield began offering chess in the school library for students and teachers to play during their lunch periods.

“We began the year with a few boards and five or six players,” said Wakefield library media assistant Daniel Redmond, who organized the events.

In time, the number expanded to 15 boards used concurrently every day in the library, with about 200 different students playing throughout the week during lunch and after school.

“It was amazing to see how chess grew in popularity here in a short period of time,” Wakefield assistant athletic director Bob Strauss said. “It’s fun to see students put everything down, gather around a board to watch or play and just communicate.”

A few times, chess tables were set up in mass at the school’s Town Hall main entrance area, which became a hot spot.

“Our kids have been excited about showing off their new skills to the larger-school community,” Redmond said.

Wakefield High School students gather to play chess in the library during the school day.

Chess became so popular that a group Web site – www.wakefieldchess. weebly.com – was established with a title of Wakefield Warriors Chess.

“I teach basic lessons to those who want instruction, then encourage students to pass the game along to their friends,” Redmond said.

Redmond explained that chess was not a club with specific meeting dates or elected leadership – rather a studentdriven program that became popular.

There was no registration or signups to play. Those who showed up and could find board time, played. Some just watched.

“I merely supply the boards, playing space and encouragement,” Redmond

said. “Playing chess helped students separate from their digital devices and socialize in-person.” n The Washington-Lee Education Foundation awarded 32 scholarship renewals to former W-L students who currently are in college, the most renewals the foundation has awarded in a single year since it was established 20 years ago.

Each renewal scholarship is for $1,000.

The 32 students awarded renewal scholarships and the colleges they attend are: Ibad Adhi, Virginia Commonwealth University; Haziel Andrade Ayala, Virginia Commonwealth University; Emnet Atlabachew, Johns Hopkins University;

Lydia Cawley, Harvard University; Nicholas Conklu, College of the Holy Cross; Ashley Euceda-Mendoza, George Mason University; Rebeckah Fussell, Haverford College; Rita Hagos, College of William and Mary; Jasmine Ben Hamed, American University; Arielle Hogan, University of Virginia; Rida Hussain, George Mason University; Hojin Kim, George Mason University; Justin McMahan, Harvard University; Geovanny Morales, Dartmouth College; Amanda Oh, Southern Methodist University; Ana Ortiz, Virginia Commonwealth University; Samuel Phelan, New York University; Hailey Ramsey, College of William and Mary; Emily Reed, Barnard College; Eleanor Ridgeway, Georgia Tech; Elisabeth Rios-Brooks, University of Florida; Dylan Schuler, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Mackenzie Scurka, Dartmouth College; Rebecca Spraggins, Syracuse University; Heaven Swinson, Virginia Tech; Shawal Tariq, George Mason University; Uuganzul Tumurbaatar, Dartmouth College; Sasha Volodin, Carnegie Mellon University; Diana Voronina, Virginia Commonwealth University; Alexandra Webster, Tufts University; Aishan Yakefujiang, Virginia Tech; and Haben Yosief, Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Arlington Takes 2nd In Region

Teeing Off

When Things Go Wrong Is Any Quick Fix Possible?

Things go wrong in sports all the time, whether during competition or just before. What’s interesting is how those situations are resolved or not, and how quickly that occurs.

14-Under All-Stars Win Three Games

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Two Arlington Senior Babe Ruth baseball teams had strong showings in Southeast Regional tournaments at different venues.

The Arlington 14-under squad finished second in FredericksBASEBALL burg and the Arlington 13s placed fourth with a 2-2 record in Hendersonville, Tenn.

“We did well in the region at 13s last year, so we felt we had a good chance to do well again this summer,” Arlington 14under manager Dan Pototsky said.

The 14s finished with a 3-2 tournament record. The losses were against Tallahassee, Fla., by 3-2 and 11-1 scores, in the winners’-bracket final then championship game, respectively.

The 14s won their opener, 1-0, over Pitts County of eastern North Carolina behind a three-hit shutout thrown by right-hander Ketz Murray. He struck out nine and walked only one, throwing 91 pitches. There were six ground-ball outs, and Arlington did not make an error.

Arlington Senior Babe Ruth 14-under pitcher Bobby McDonough helped his all-stars to a second-place finish in the Southeast Region tournament. PHOTO FROM ARLINGTON SENIOR BABE RUTH

Swimmers, Teams Excel in Post-Season Meets

As they have done for many years, the Washington Golf and Country Club Lightning won the Country Club Swimming and Division Association swim championship with a 1,424.5 point total.

Arlington rival Army Navy was second at 986 in the competition, held at Kenwood Country Club in Maryland.

Washington Golf won 13 individual races and four relays.

Kate Loper and Josie Gieseman were double winners to lead the Lightning.

Single winners were Arav Bhargava, Lucas Zidlicky, Evie Gieseman, Sydney-Cate Thornett, Jack Carman, Richard Gentry, Nick Zochowski, Caroline Otteni and Thomas Outlaw.

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Lauren Sutherland. Single winners were Sally Conroy, Adam Fischer, Shenandoah Winn, Audrey Pickard and Evelyn Meggesto.

SWIMMING ROUNDUP Washington Golf also recently won a divisional league championship, winning by 500 points.

Single winners for Washington Golf were Thornett, Gentry, Carmon, Madeline Barbee, Avery Nassetta, Sophie Yoder, Petie Nassetta, Hadley Scribner, Madeleine Steves, Sarah Clayton and William Lepre. Double winners were Keira Gutierrez and Cooper Jensen. Triple winners were Loper and Caroline Otteni. n There were numerous winners from

Arlington pools at the various Northern Virginia Swimming League’s divisional championships on July 28.

Winners from Overlee in Division 1 were Emme Yoder, Elysha York, Alexis Lee, Katherine Bailey, Anna Sullivan, Tyler Hong, Chase Rosen, Samuel Ellison, Matthew Kress, Nick Pasternak, Paul Kinsella and Sullivan Portner.

In Division 3, Donaldson Run had double winners Eleanor Wertzler, Diya Redburn and Charlie Greenwood. Single winners were Rachel Conley, Scarlett Bennett and Emily Brooks.

In Division 7, winners for Dominion Hills were Alex Munoz, Noah Swisher,

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During a recent rainy-morning outdoor swimming meet, just as the racers were bending over to take their positions at the start, one of the swimmers stood in a panic. Her goggles had broken in half. In an instant, a mom sitting pool-side jumped from her chair and handed the swimmer a plastic bag full of goggles to choose from. The problem was solved.

The rain became so heavy during a July 23 American Legion baseball tournament game, the home plate umpire finally stopped play, saying: “I could barely see that last pitch.”

Within 15 minutes, the rain cleared and play resumed. Problem solved.

Recordings for the national anthem fail all the time, or a singer forgets the words. What often happens after just a few seconds in such situations is the spectators begin singing.

A student singer once forgot the words, yet kept her composure by asking the audience for help. Hundreds happily joined the singer, so the problem and any potential embarrassment quickly were solved.

A high-school golfer once became so frustrated after missing a putt, he threw his putter into the green-side pond. After calming down, he walked into the water up to chest deep, but couldn’t retrieve the club. He finished his round putting with a two iron.

Umpires for a scheduled summer baseball game never showed. A father of a player said: “Give me a few.” He opened the trunk of his car, pulled out one of those old chest protectors, found a dirty mask, was loaned a clicker, then took his position behind home plate. The game went on.

The chain of the sideline marker at a high school football game broke.

A coach’s shoestring was substituted.

The game resumed with little delay.

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Washington Golf Continues Success in Summer Diving A Staff Report

For the 21th straight year, the Washington Golf and Country Club diving team is the champion of DIVING the Country Club Swimming and Diving Association, recording a 6-0 record this summer, then winning the league-wide title with a 136 point total, with Chevy Chase second with 85.

Army Navy of Arlington finished fifth with 69 points.

In dual meets this season, Washington Golf defeated neighborhood rival Army Navy, downed Congressional and topped Manor among its victories under the direction of Amy Kress, who has been the team’s coach for 23 years. Kress is Yorktown High School’s head swimming and diving coach during the winter.

Since 1970, Washington Golf has won 23 league diving titles overall.

Some of the top performing divers for

Baseball Continued from Page 24 Murray also had the game’s RBI, coming in the first inning.

Bobby McDonough had two hits for Arlington, which had six total. The others went to Dillon Bass, Costas Tzoumas and Landon Thomas.

In its second game, the 14s had just three hits but still outscored Lawrence County of eastern Tennessee, winning 6-3, by taking advantage of nine walks and five errors.

Murray, Michael Keefe and Alex Zur had the hits. Bass, Murray (sacrifice fly), Quinn Brennan and starting and winning pitcher Bobby McDonough (sacrifice fly) had the RBIs. McDonough worked 62/3 innings with seven strikeouts and just one walk. Arlington made only one error. Keefe earned the save.

Bass and Patrick Church stole bases.

Then Arlington lost to defending 13under Southeast regional champion Tal-

Washington Golf this summer were Lily Seymour, Sarah Clayton, Ryan Lutz, Ginger McClure, Kate Normile, T.J. Reardon,

Kate Loper, Olivia Hays, Julia Hays, Julia Francis, Kyle Peterson, Garrett Peterson, Meredith Peterson, Micayla Eisenberg,

Isabella Eisenberg, Elice Lebedev, Luke Fedorchak, Irina Bakke, Avery Nassetta, Peyton Nassetta, Harper Thornett, Peter Bratti, Merrick Carey, Lila Walters, Henry Rehr and Joseph Tramonte.

Age-group champions were Normile in 9-10 girls, Eisenberg in 11-12 girls and Thornett in 13-14 boys.

In addition, Eisenberg and Thornett set new team and league records in their respective age groups.

Rounding out champions were Landon Peduzzi, Clayton, Loper, Seymour, Lutz, Normile, Kyle Peterson, Braden Lutz, Eisenberg, Olivia Hays, Lebedev, Garrett Peterson, Fedorchak, Pamela Grace Von Seelen, Avery Nassetta, Thornett, Bratti, Meredith Peterson, Julia Hays, Rehr and Daniel Green.

Washington Golf divers also performed well at the league’s individual allstar diving meet, which ended the season for the team.

lahassee, 3-2. Arlington trailed 3-0, then rallied for two runs in the bottom of the seventh.

The game ended on a diving catch by the Tallahassee second baseman with a runner on third base for Arlington.

Arlington was hurt by four errors and had five hits. Zur had two hits and Ben Langsam had an RBI. Keefe pitched five innings with two strikeouts.

Arlington faced Pitts County again in the losers’-bracket, winning 4-3. A linedrive single by Tzoumas scored Brennan with the winning run.

Murray worked 62/3 innings for the win. He fanned three. Zur had two hits and McDonough had a hit and two RBI. In the 11-1 loss to Tallahassee, Arlington had just three hits. Bass and Zur each pitched.

Arlington trailed just 2-0 in the fourth inning.

“That game was closer than the score indicated,” Pototsky said. “We did well.

When you get into the losers’-bracket that makes it tough on your pitching. I know it sounds crazy, but I think every player on the team made a spectacular or diving

play at one time or another. So they were into it.”

Many players on the 14s were also members of last summer’s Arlington 13under all-stars that won district and state titles under Pototsky, then finished 1-2 in the region tournament.

“We did better this year in the region, so maybe they can win it next year at 15s,” Pototsky said. “The players did a nice job for sure. Our defense was really good and that was a key, along with our pitching.”

The Arlington 13s lost their first game, 4-0, to eventual champion Pitts County of eastern North Carolina to fall into the loser’s-bracket. Arlington had just three hits, going to Wade Bringham, Jaden Groome and J.J. Foti. Chase Rubin struck out six on the mound and Lorenzo Snyder fanned one.

In its second game, the 13s rallied from a 3-0 first-inning deficit to defeat Stanley County of western North Carolina, 9-3.

Trevor McAndrews (four innings) and John Farrell (three innings) combined on a two-hitter, walked just one and struck out one. McAndrews did not allow a hit.

Arlington had seven hits and took ad-

vantage of nine walks and five errors and the team stole six bases.

With the bat, McAndrews had two hits and an RBI. Groome and Tommy Devons each had a hit and an RBI, Farrell had a hit and two stolen bases, and Foti and James Thiriez had hits.

The 13s then blanked Orlando, 3-0, in their third game as Rubin threw a four-hit shutout. He struck out two, walked one and threw 88 pitches.

The 13s had eight hits, with Foti and Groome getting two each and Farrell having a double. Kegan Mahoney, Lorenzo Snyder and Bringham had RBI. Arlington was eliminated, losing to Tullahoma of eastern Tennessee the same day, 7-0, a few hours later. Arlington had just two hits, from McAndrews and Thiriez. Bringham went four innings on the mound with four strikeouts and Snyder pitched three innings with a K. For all tournament games during the summer, the 13s finished with an 11-8 record.

The team won district and state championships to qualify for region tourney play.

The Washington Golf divers gather with yet another league-championship trophy the squad won this summer. The team has won 21 straight league titles.

PHOTO FROM WASHINGTON GOLF

Swimming Continued from Page 24 Nate LeNard and Emily Larson.

Winners at the same meet for Arlington Forest were Emmy Gallion, Natalie Martin, Alex Hans and Peter Huggler.

Double winners were Eli Martin and David Gallion. David Gallion lowered his 15-18 boys butterfly record by .22 seconds, finishing in 26.63. His sister, Emily, carved .59 seconds off her 15-18 backstroke record to finish in 30.84. n At the Colonial Swimming League’s individual all-star meet, the Arlington Knights of Columbus Holy Mackerels had a strong showing with 24 top-10 finishes.

Leading the Holy Mackerels girls with 38 points was Elizabeth Pilot who fin-

Josie Gieseman of Washington Golf and Country Club swims the breatstroke during a race this season. She helped the team to another strong campaign.

PHOTO FROM WASHINGTON GOLF

ished ranked 11th overall among girls age 8 to 18. Leading the boys with 42 points each were Mac Marsh and Zach Rosen-

thal, who were tied for sixth place overall among boys aged 8 to 18.

Other Holy Mackerels finishing in the

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top 10 were Andrew Deabler, Ashley Deabler, Azmera Gebre, David Herrmann, Heidi Hilsmier, Tommy Keane, C.J. Moneymaker, Will Piester and Connor Sughrue.

Rosenthal broke a team record in the 15-18 boys freestyle and lowered his team records in the breaststroke and individual medley. Sughrue broke a team record in the 15-18 boys butterfly.

At the White Divisional Meet the week before, Hilsmier broke a team record in the 13-14 girls breaststroke and Marsh lowered his team records in the 13-14 free and fly. n Also at the Colonial Swimming League’s individual all-star meet, the lone race winner for the Fort Myers Squids was Nora Sherman.

Zach Berner finished second and third in races for For Myer.

The competiton ended it season.

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Sports Briefs SAILING TEAM ENJOYS SUCCESS:

Four sailors from Yorktown High School have been competing on the waters of Maryland and Virginia, racing two-person sailboats called Flying Juniors and 420’s in recent months.

Megan Gimple, Will Bernhardt, Colman Schofield and Matt Boothby have posted some top finishes. The team’s coach is Kelly Troy.

At the recent Mid-Atlantic Scholastic Sailing Association Silver Fleet Championships Regatta, the team tied for first in its division.

As a result of that finish, the team qualified for the Phebe King Memorial, a national-level regatta in Annapolis. The team sailed 13 races over two days and finished 10th out of 18 teams.

WATER POLO TEAM EARNS SILVER:

The Arlington-based 14-and-under Capital Water Polo team earned a silver medal in its age group at the Water Polo Junior Olympics Classic Bronze Division. The event was held in San Jose, Calif.

The Capital team won five of its nine games.

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From left: Matt Boothby, Will Bernhardt, Megan Gimple and Coman Schofield are the members of a Yorktown club sailing team, which has been racing in regattas in recent months.

“The Junior Olympics is a great opportunity to show that Capital plays competitive water polo and continues to excel,” Capital coach Miras Jelic said.

The players were Paul Lukas, Stefan Lacmanovic, Jack Cox, Pranay Vittal, Rowan Frew, Carson Bulkeley, Petar Stjepanovic, Mihailo Lemaic, Mikey O’Grady, Lukas Einberg, Michael McGuckin, Luke Baird and Isaac Ermarth.

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DOC BONACCORSO TOURNAMENT:

Rain forced cancellation of the 8-under, 11-under and 12-under age groups of the recent and annual Doc Bonaccorso Summer Classic baseball tournament, held at Barcroft Park.

The 9-under and 10-under age groups were able to play some games.

Known as “the Doc B,” the Arlington Babe Ruth sponsored event is Arlington County’s largest summer baseball tournament for youth players ages 8 to 13, drawing travel teams from Virginia, Maryland and D.C. This year, 36 teams were on tap to compete in the event, which for many has become the final tournament of the summer travel baseball season.

A July 19 game was between the 13under and 14-under Arlington Senior Babe Ruth state-championship squads was played. The 14s won, 9-2.

Each team played in Southeastern Regional competition late last week.

LEARN TO PLAY SOCCER: Arlington

County offers adult soccer classes this fall on Sunday evenings in September and October. For more information about the classes and how to register, contact Marta Cahill at (703) 228-1818 or email mcahill@arlingtonva.us.

YOUTH HOOP COACHES NEEDED:

Arlington’s recreational youth basketball program needs volunteer coaches for teams in grades 3 to 8. Practices start in mid November. The season runs through early March.

Coaches should have basketball playing experience;coaching experience is helpful. For more information, contact Marta Cahill at (703) 228-1818 or e-mail mcahill@arlingtonva.us.

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youth baseball camp is Aug. 13-17 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m, on the main campus on the new rectangular turf field and in the indoor batting cages. The cost is $340 with discounts available.

For information, contact Frank Leoni at: fleoni@marymount.edu. Online registration is at www.mubaseball. camps.com.

The camp will include stretching, throwing, skill work, batting practice, live game action, chalk talk and more.

SENIOR SOFTBALL: Northern Virginia

Senior Softball is opening for its 2018 fall season for men and women. Placement on one of the slowpitch teams is by skill assessment. Games are seven innings. Everyone bats and 11 play on defense. For more information about joining the league, visit www.nvss.org or call (703) 298-4942.

ARLINGTON TRAVEL BASEBALL ACADEMY: Arlington Travel Baseball’s 8-un-

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SOFTBALL UMPIRES NEEDED: The

Northern Virginia Softball Umpires Association is seeking individuals interested in becoming certified umpires for high school and recreational fastpitch softball. For information visit uic@nvsua.org or www.nvsua.org.

CORRECTION: The name of Davian Peretti was misspelled in a recent article about the Arlington Little League National intermediate baseball team. Peretti had key hits in district- and state-tournament play.

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REGISTRATION OPEN FOR SENIOR OLYMPICS: Registration is open for the

2018 Northern Virginia Senior Olympics, to be held in September at venues across the region. Registration is due

by Aug. 24. For information, call (703) 228-4721 or see the Web site at www. nvso.us.

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Musicians hold a folk-music sing-along on Monday, Aug. 6 at 11:15 a.m. and again at 1:30 p.m. at Lee Senior Center.

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SENIORS’ SKATING TIME OFFERED: Seniors-only ice skating is offered at Kettler Capitals Iceplex atop the Ballston Public Parking Garage on Monday, Aug. 6 from 8:10 to 9:20 a.m. The cost is $1; parking in the garage is $1. For information, call (703) 228-4771.

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Travel hosts a trip to the Hampton National Historic Sites in Baltimore on Friday, Aug. 10. The cost of $53 includes lunch. For information, call (703) 228-4748.

WALKERS HEAD TO PARK: The Arlington Walking Club travels to Long Branch Park for its weekly walk on Wednesday, Aug. 8 at 9:30 a.m. The cost is $4 for transportation from Madison Community Center. For information, call (703) 228-4403.

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August 4, 1943: n Maj. Charles Fenwick plans to continue his bid for House of Delegates, even though Army regulations may prevent him from taking his seat. n The Billy Mitchell Post of the American Legion has joined the call for Arlington officials to build a municipal swimming pool. n Miss Mary Wills, the first female bus driver for Arnold Bus Lines, said “I love it” when asked how she liked the job.

August 4, 1952: n The Soviet Union narrowly edged out the U.S. in final points standings at the Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

August 6, 1965: n County Board Chairman Joseph Fisher has sent a letter to the FAA, complaining about planes deviating from approved corridors, leading to noise in neighborhoods. n The U.S. Senate is expected this week to take up the $431 million mass-transit bill that will help fund creation of the Metro subway system. n The Virginia Department of Agriculture is backing proposals to convert to the metric system. n The Planning Commission is seeking a study of the crisis in low-cost housing. n A recent crackdown on crime in the District of Columbia may be leading criminals into Northern Virginia.

August 4-5, 1977: n The first Arlington County Fair is set to start in a few weeks. n Security concerns are being raised now that the police department is not staffing its front desk overnight. n Some Barrett Elementary School students will be transferred to nearby schools to alleviate overcrowding. n The price of all school lunches in Arlington will rise 5 cents this fall.

August 4, 1987: n A series of unrelated pipe breaks led to water-service interruptions across South Arlington. n The Virginia Department of Corrections is aiming to start growing the food it needs within prison grounds.

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Time to consider getting your real estate license!

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Maybe you’re looking for a new career with unlimited earning potential. Or maybe you’ve already decided on real estate and just need to find the place to begin. Either way, our Career Event is for you. By attending this free session, you’ll learn more about the ease of attaining a real estate license and how Weichert Arlington - 4701 Weichert Realtors can help jumpOld startDominion your career,Dr. including through: • Our industry-best training • Our robust in-office support and coaching • Our Weichert Real Estate Schools Maybe you’re looking for a new career with unlimited earninginpotenAt our Career Event, you’ll also learn many advantages of a career real estate and how Weichert can the helpchance you reach full potential.

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Tuesday, July 11 @ 6 p.m.

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RSVP to Denyse “Nia” Bagley, sales manager, by 7/10 Industry-leading training, both in class and online Get Tuesday, your Real license now!

July 17, 2018 @ 6 Estate p.m.

703-525-0812 nbagley@weichertrealtors.net At the Weichert Arlington Office

Act NOW to take advantage of our $199 Special! (includes pre-licensing course, registration fee, and textbooks)

We offer daytime and evening classes at a variety of locations.

Denyse “Nia” Bagley Sales Manager 4701 Old Dominion Drive

Great Market; Great Support For more information contact

(Lee Hwy @ Old Dominion;

FREE parking behind building)

Enroll today!

703-525-0812 nbagley@weichertrealtors.net

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