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Projected APS Growth Rate Is Scaled Back Slightly

But Officials Are Still Predicting 30,000 Students Will Be in Classrooms by 2021 SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Arlington school officials have throttled back slightly on enrollment projections, but say the system remains on track for record numbers down the road.

“We still have high growth, but we’re not expect-

ing as many students,” School Board member Abby Raphael noted after a Nov. 16 briefing with staff.

New enrollment projections for the 2016-17 to 2024-25 school years all came in lower than similar estimates made a year ago, but the trend continues upward: The current enrollment in pre-kindergarten to 12th grade of 25,238 is expected to reach 30,000 by the start of the 2021-22 school year.

All that growth will be on top of growth of 35 percent since 2007-08, when enrollment stood at 18,684.

“It’s been almost 10 years since we’ve seen anything close to normal growth,” School Board member James Lander said. (“Normal” in this case Continued on Page 22

MORE School Board members next week are likely to formally designate Thomas Jefferson Middle as the preferred site for a new elementary. Page 8.

SALUTING SERVICE IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY Previous recipients of the Man of the Year and Woman of the Year accolade of the InterService Club Council of Arlington gathered for a group photo Nov. 18 at Washington Golf & Country Club, as the Inter-Service Club Council celebrated its 75th anniversary.

The organization serves as a coordinating body and sounding board for the community’s service clubs, whose members each year donate more than 100,000 hours of service and countless thousands of dollars to charitable initiatives in Arlington.

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County Officials Say Investment in Ballston Will Pay Off SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Arlington government officials say their planned investment of about $56 million in the redevelopment of Ballston Common Mall will pay off in COUNTY increased tax revenues the corBOARD throughout ridor.

County Board NOTES members on Nov. 17 voted unanimously to approve a public-private partnership with Ballston Common’s owner to move forward with a $300-million-plus makeover of the moribund mall.

The county government’s direct contribution will total about $10 million, with the remainder coming from a bond to be issued by a newly-formed community development authority. Payments on the bond will be made using a share of expected increases in property taxes, sales taxes and meals taxes in the corridor.

Approval of the specifics is expected in early 2016. If adopted, it will be the first public-private partnership of its kind in Arlington’s history.

County Board members on Nov. 17 also approved a package of site-plan changes allowing Forest City Enterprises to move forward on its mall renovation.

Among the pieces approved by County Board members is authorization to tear down the Macy’s Furniture Gallery store (which is not connected to the Macy’s Department Store) and replace it with a 22-

story, 406-unit residential building with two levels of retail space.

Ballston Common Mall was developed in the 1980s to replace the Parkington Shopping Center. The revamped space will be known as Ballston Quarter.

County Manager to Establish Committee on Military Personnel, Veterans: Acting Arlington County Manager Mark Schwartz on Nov. 17 announced creation of a military-and-veterans-affairs committee.

“Arlington has always honored and paid tribute to our men and woman in uniform, but the time has come to do more,” Schwartz said in announcing the committee, whose members will be appointed by him rather than the County Board.

The expected membership will include representatives from local government, military commands, the business community and service organizations, along with the U.S. Navy’s USS Arlington.

Members are expected to be appointed and an inaugural meeting held by the end of the year.

Comcast, County Agree to Extend Negotiating Period: Arlington County Board members have agreed to extend for six months the regulatory authority for Comcast to operate cable service in the county.

It is another in a series of temporary extensions approved since 2013, as the county government and Comcast continue negotiating extension of the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.

The action moves the expiration date

from Dec. 31, 2015, to June 30, 2016.

County Board Members Make Appointments: County Board members on Nov. 17 made the following appointments to government boards and commissions: Clifton Gruver Jr. and Michael Foster have been reappointed to the Building Code Board of Appeals. Lola Lomard has been reappointed to the Commission for the Arts. Bessy Blanco has been appointed to the Human Rights Commission. Dan Laredo has been appointed to the Information Technology Advisory Commission. Andrea Walker has been appointed to the Park and Recreation Commission.

Scott Dicke and Steve Baker have been appointed and Terri Prell and Bill Staderman have been reappointed to the Public Facilities Review Committee.

Caroline Verrecchia, Ryan Huaman, Christina McBride, Ethan Chase, Farhad Hossain, Natalie Arandia, Natalie Reich, Natalie Zur, Noah Robertson, Victor Escarate, Emma Westerhof, Sissy Davis, Kareem Mohiyuddin, Simmer Choudhary, Sophie Bracy, Leah Kappel, Bilegtuvshin Battagtokh, Haziel Andrade, Dareen Alshehri, Natalie Warnke, Megan Coleman, Sarah Jane Robertson and Sylvain Chassageneux have been appointed to the Teen Network Board, with Verrecchia designated chair and Huaman vice chair. Arlington Police Capt. Brett Butler was appointed to the Towing Advisory Board. Taylor Pool was appointed to the Urban Forestry Commission.

Swearing-In Ceremony Set for New

County Board Members: They will not take office until Jan. 1, but a swearing-in ceremony for new Arlington County Board members Christian Dorsey and Katie Cristol has been set for Dec. 14 at 5:30 p.m. at the County Board room, located on the third floor of 2100 Clarendon Blvd.

Dorsey and Cristol, both Democrats, were elected to four-year terms on Nov. 3.

They will succeed Walter Tejada and Mary Hynes, who are retiring after service of 13 and eight years, respectively.

A reception will follow the ceremony.

County Board Members Set 2016 Meeting Schedule: Arlington County Board members have adopted a meeting schedule for 2016, which will begin with the traditional New Year’s Day organizational meeting.

Regular and recessed meetings are slated for Jan. 23 and 26; Feb. 20 and 23; March 12 and 15; April 16 and 19; May 14 and 17; June 18 and 24; July 16 and 19; Sept. 24 and 27; Oct. 15 and 18; Nov. 5 and 10; and Dec. 10 and 13.

The county government’s budget and tax-rate hearings have been set for March 29 and 31.

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Arlington officials have fingers crossed that the winter of 2015-16 won’t be a budget-buster like the one of 2014-15, let alone a monster like 2009-10.

County officials have budgeted $1.3 million to deal with removal of snow and ice during the coming year. That’s a normal amount, although Mother Nature’s wrath last year required county officials to spend $2.7 million.

The budget, and the crews, may benefit from a winter that is forecast to be warmer than average, at least early in the season, although those same prognosticators are suggesting it will be wetter than usual, due to the climate condition known as El Niño.

The county government is responsible for 974 lane-miles of secondary roads (with the Virginia Department of Transportation responsible for primary roads and highways). This season will see 92 drivers and 46 trucks augmented by contract workers as necessary, County Board members were told in a Nov. 17 briefing.

Arlington is stockpiling additional salt – 9,200 tons, up from 8,000 last year – and also will have 22,000 gallons of brine on hand to treat roadways. The government’s goal is, when confronted with snowstorms of 12 inches or less, to clear all major roads within 12 to 24 hours, then finish residential coverage within 48 hours.

County Board Chairman Mary Hynes asked the public to do its part in helping crews perform their jobs.

“There are parts we can’t control, either because of the weather or the way people

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Nov. 20 reported the above surface temperatures of the world’s oceans, which are in a classic (and extremely strong) El Niño pattern – suggesting a wet, but not necessarily white, winter season for the Washington region.

behave,” Hynes said.

According to the National Weather Service, the average snowfall per season is 16.6 inches at Reagan National Airport (the official recording station for D.C. totals) and 22.8 inches at Washington Dulles International Airport.

The earliest snowfall in a season across Washington came on Oct. 5 (1892), with the latest arriving on May 19 (1906). The largest single-storm snow total in the region was recorded in January 1922 at 28 inches, although a storm in January 1772 is

believed to have dumped 36 inches.

What about that record-setting winter season of 2009-10? A total of 16.4 inches fell at Reagan National on Dec. 18-19, 2009, almost equaling the seasonal-average snowfall. But then, after a cold and slightly snowy January, two whoppers arrived: 17.8 inches on Feb. 5-6, 2010, followed by 10.8 inches Feb. 9-10, marking the first time since 1884 the Washington region had seen two double-digit snowfalls in the same month.

2009-10 proved to be the snowiest sea-

son in regional history, with 55.9 inches having fallen at Reagan National and higher accumulations nearly everywhere else.

During 1972-73, only 0.1 inch of snow fell the entire season, according to the National Weather Service. (Full data is at www. weather.gov/lwx/winter_DC-Winters.)

The Washington area has a patchwork of rules, on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis, on whether property owners are required to clear snow and ice. Arlington officials held out from imposing such rules until 2010.

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Arlington Election Officials Start Looking to ’16 New Voting System Passes Muster, But Some Tweaks Are on the Horizon SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Arlington election officials give themselves a passing grade for performance during the 2015 general election, but say tweaks are on the POLITICAL way to handle significantly POTPOURRI the higher crowds likely to turn out in November 2016.

While “things have gone very smoothly” with the introduction of a new, paperbased voting system this year, county elections chief Linda Lindberg on Nov. 17 told County Board members that a number of issues cropped up during the first major test of the new machinery on Election Day. “It’s a matter of all of us getting used to a new system,” Lindberg said, noting that the biggest concerns voiced by voters were of privacy when filling out, and then scanning in, ballots.

The new-for-2015 voting system replaced the familiar touch-screen voting that had been in place in Arlington for years.

State election officials, under a mandate from the General Assembly, are requiring localities to use equipment that provides a paper trail during the voting process.

The Arlington Electoral Board opted to scrap the entire existing voting system for the 2015 election, to give voters and pollworkers a chance to get used to the new system during a low-turnout election.

(The county election office is funded, in part, by the county government. But its operations are overseen not by the County Board, but by a three-member Electoral Board appointed by the Circuit Court.)

Among the lessons learned in the 2015 election? Despite instructions that arrived with the new machinery that voters should carefully fill out the ovals to designate their choice of candidates, completeness in doing so “doesn’t really matter,” Lindberg said. A check mark or “X” in the oval is picked up by the new equipment. Communicating that to voters may help speed up

the process in coming elections, Lindberg said.

Despite the lack of meltdowns in equipment, staff or voters on Nov. 3, County Board Vice Chairman Walter Tejada expressed fears that unfamiliarity with the new system could lead to backed-up lines during the 2016 general election – which could see three times the turnout of 2015.

“I am concerned,” said Tejada, urging elected officials to “reach out to all folks . . . double, triple outreach. We need to think about the worst scenario.”

Over coming months, election officials are likely to bring forward a host of proposals, including the acquisition of more voting machines and the rejiggering of some precincts, to gear up for November 2016. Lindberg predicts a record-setting local election, meaning more than 118,233 county voters (the number who cast ballots in 2012) would be headed to the polls.

But before the general election will come Republican and/or Democratic presidential primaries, set for March 1. Candidates have until early December to file paperwork to get on the primary ballots in Virginia.

Arlington GOP to Swap Chairs: The chairman of the Arlington County Republican Committee announced Nov. 18 he would not seek a second two-year term, and tapped the party’s precinct-operations chief as his preferred successor.

“It’s been my honor to serve. We’ve done a lot – shifted the political landscape in Arlington,” Matt Wavro told the GOP rank-and-file, saying he would step down as chairman at the conclusion of his term in February.

At the Republicans’ monthly meeting, Wavro made a pitch for Jim Presswood, who in the recent election cycle handled precinct operations for the party, to succeed him.

“I think he would make a great chairman,” Wavro said. “He knows the committee inside and out; he knows the county inside and out.”

Presswood came to public attention

The Arlington County Republican Committee recently presented its annual awards. Jim Presswood (left) received the Delyannis-Finta Award for Distinguished Community Involvement, while Sue Arnold was lauded with the Alice Sayre-Commonwealth Club Award for her service to the Republican Committee. At right is Arlington GOP chairman Matt Wavro.

over the past year as a leader in the effort to preserve open space on the campus of Thomas Jefferson Middle School.

Despite the Arlington GOP’s limited track record of success in the county in recent years, Presswood professed optimism going forward.

“We’ve got a lot of great people, done a lot of great work,” he said. “I want to build on that.”

It’s possible other candidates could turn up between now and the party’s reorganization in February.

Wavro, who succeeded Charles Hokanson as Arlington County Republican Committee chairman in 2014, in 2012 ran for County Board under the GOP banner. He finished second in a three-candidate race, falling to Democrat Libby Garvey.

Republicans to Offer Associate Membership: In an effort to capture supporters who may not be able to give full time and attention to party matters, the Arlington County Republican Committee has approved “associate membership” as a new option.

“There are a lot of people who can’t necessarily commit to every single meeting . . . but still want to be involved,” said Jessica Talbert, the GOP’s vice chairman. “This is a different way for people who want to be active.”

The proposal was adopted unanimously at the organization’s Nov. 18 meeting.

Under existing bylaws, regular members are removed from the Republican Committee if they miss more than two meetings in a row without submitting a proxy. Associate members will face no meeting-attendance requirements.

Associate members also will pay a little less – $25 a year compared to $40 for regular members.

The proposal also gives the party a way to increase its membership ranks above the 127 slots it has been allocated by the Republican Party of Virginia.

Scott McGeary, a former party chairman, was among those supporting the measure.

“It’s inclusive, it gives people another option,” McGeary said.

Rep. Wittman Urges GOP to Be Wary of Syrian-Refugee Influx SCOTT McCAFFREY www.insidenova.com

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A member of the Virginia congressional delegation used an appearance at the Arlington County Republican Committee’s annual awards dinner last week to urge vigilance against unilateral acceptance of refugees from Syria into the U.S. “Forty percent of them are fighting-age males,” said U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman (R-1st) at the Nov. 18 event, calling for “a pause” before deciding

how best to move forward in accepting refugees from war-torn countries.

“We must stop this effort,” Wittman said. “We have a constitutional obligation to protect our land and protect our citizens.”

Wittman, who serves as chairman of the readiness subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, made his remarks a day before the House of Representatives voted to add more hurdles for Syrians attempting to claim refugee status and come to the U.S. Several dozen Democrats voted with Republicans backing the effort.

Speaking to about 50 Arlington Republicans, Wittman said he was looking to the next president to provide leadership he believes President Obama had failed to exert.

“We have to get back to leading again,” Wittman said. “Leading from a position of power . . . provides for a peaceful world, deters aggression.”

Wittman served as mayor of Montross, on the Westmoreland County Board of Supervisors and in the House of Delegates before being elected to U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman Congress in 2007.

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SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

It took the votes of two lame-duck members to secure passage, but the Arlington County Board on Nov. 19 gave the McAuliffe administration what it had come seeking – support, if encumbered by a number of caveats, for its proposal to add tolls to Interstate 66 inside the Beltway.

The position, adopted on a 3-2 vote, puts Arlington somewhat at variance with Fairfax County and more significantly at odds with Loudoun and Prince William counties, all of whom have expressed differing views on the tolling proposal.

Count just the Arlington board members who will be on the dais in 2016, and

the County Board vote would have been 2-1 to reject backing the state plan, with Jay Fisette in favor but John Vihstadt and Libby Garvey saying too many questions remain for them to support the proposal at the present time.

It was the votes of Chairman Mary Hynes and Vice Chairman Walter Tejada – whose terms expire Dec. 31 – that provided the majority.

In a statement after the vote, Hynes suggested that Arlington risks having its voice lost if it does not get on board with the Virginia Department of Transportation’s tolling proposal.

“Changes are coming to I-66 inside the Beltway, and is important that Arlington be at the table to ensure those changes

work for our community,” she said.

The McAuliffe administration plans to bring the proposal to the Commonwealth Transportation Board on Dec. 9. While the support of localities may be helpful, the roadway is under control of the state government, and the jurisdictions through which it runs do not have veto power over any changes being sought, including tolling.

While localities may not hold a veto, the General Assembly could. Legislation already has been introduced for the 2016 that would effectively scuttle the plan for tolls, which has drawn fire from outersuburb legislators. Such bills conceivably could pass through both houses of the legislature; whether they could survive Gov.

McAuliffe’s veto pen is another matter.

Arlington’s support is not simply the result of a divided vote, but also comes with strings attached. Most notably, it says VDOT should not pursue “any widening” of I-66 eastbound inside the Beltway until at least 2025. That puts the county at odds with outer jurisdictions, which want any widening done more quickly, if not immediately.

VDOT’s proposal includes transferring funding collected through tolls to the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, which could funnel them either to directly support transportation-improvement projects in the region, or use the revenue stream to leverage bond sales for large-scale improvements.

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No Appointments Made Yet on Fire Station #8 Task Force

Volunteers pose for a group shot before the sixth annual winter-coat giveaway begins at Drew Model School on Nov. 21. The event is sponsored by the Nauck Community Services Center, with donations from across the community helping to provide winter apparel.

Arlington County Board members met three times over the past two weeks, but one item left unaddressed was appointment of members of the task force slated to advise board members on the future location of Fire Station #8.

“We want to have all the members set and voted on at once, and we are not quite there yet,” said County Board member Libby Garvey, who will serve as the board’s liaison to the task force.

Board members in October approved creation of the body, and crafted the “charge” that will guide its deliberations.

At issue: Should a new fire station be built on the existing Lee Highway site; should it move to Old Dominion Drive, as favored by fire officials; or is there a third option the County Board should consider.

County officials have $12 million budgeted for a new fire station. County staff want the move to take place in order to reduce response times to far northern parts of the county.

Under the charge – which presumed appointment of members in November – the task force is expected to complete its efforts

by March 2016.

Volunteer Effort Aims to Help Offer Warm Clothing for the Winter Season The holiday season will be a little warmer for some families across Arlington, thanks to the sixth annual winter-coat drive sponsored by the Nauck Community Services Center.

Hundreds turned out to Drew Model School on Nov. 21 to take their pick of donated coats, scarves, gloves and hats. New and gently used clothing had been donated over the preceding month throughout the community.

Rules were simple: Everyone who turned up and could show Arlington residency had the opportunity to pick out one coat, plus one accessory item.

Clothing was grouped by gender and by size, for easy searching, and there were mirrors to see how items looked.

The Nauck Community Services Center is an outreach effort of the Bonder and Amanda Johnson Community Development Corp.

The transportation committee of the Arlington County Commission on Aging is set to hold a public forum on the county government’s 10-year development plan for bus service, with a focus on the Columbia Pike and Crystal City-Pentagon City corridors.

The meeting is slated for Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 1 p.m. in Conference Room D on the lower level of the Department of Human Services headquarters, 2100 Washington Blvd.

The community is invited to take part in the discussion.

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Our View: Defer Action on I-66 Tolling Proposal It may be, when a complete vetting is completed, that the McAuliffe administration’s proposal to add tolling to Interstate 66 inside the Beltway proves to be a smart move.

The premise appears reasonable: Capture revenue by using excess capacity (due to the highway’s current HOV restrictions during rush hour) and allowing single-driver vehicles to use the road, while doing so in a way that maintains a smooth flow of traffic.

The problem for both McAuliffe and the Virginia Department of Transportation is that its messaging on this project over the past six months has been so muddled, incomplete and contradictory that nobody, from residents to elected officials, seems to know the current game plan. Indeed, the plan seems to change week by week.

Elected leaders and staff from Northern Virginia localities have not helped bring about clarity. They have spent the past few months way too deep in the weeds, having not unearthed from state officials answers to the two threshold questions: • What problem are we trying to solve, and how will this plan do it?

• Why the rush – what negative implications are there, if any, if consideration requires more time?

The governor and his folks seem hell-bent on pushing this project through as quickly as possible, and are seeking approval at a Dec. 9 meeting of the Commonwealth Transportation Board.

Anyone with a degree of common sense already has concluded that the proposal simply isn’t ready. One can surmise the only reason for such a

heavy-handed push through the regulatory and oversight process is related to concerns by the plan’s proponents that, upon more detailed examination from the public, opinion will turn more sour on the proposal.

The 17 members of the Commonwealth Transportation Board should do the region a favor: Defer any action on the I-66 plan, allowing more time for the details to be worked through, and demand that state transportation officials be more coherent in their goals for the project.

The plan for tolling Interstate 66 might work. But given a choice between doing it fast and doing it right, most reasonable people would opt for the latter.

The question is: How reasonable is the Commonwealth Transportation Board?

Highs & Lows THUMBS UP: To recipients of this year’s James Hunter III HumanRights Awards, to be presented by the Human Rights Commission of the Arlington County government.

The theme for 2015 is immigration, and those to be honored – Leni Gonzalez, Hogar Immigrant Services, Nauck Civic Association and Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church – have worked long and hard to support immigrants in the community.

A large, and sometimes rancorous, conversation is taking place nationally about immigration. But setting that broader context aside for a moment, it’s important that, in

the local community, we treat im- on the economic-development migrants with respect and dignity. front.

The award recipients have worked But board members undermine to do just that. themselves by inserting left-leaning policy proposals that have zero THUMBS DOWN: To County chance of being taken seriously in Board members, who just don’t Richmond. Then they wonder why seem to get it when it comes Arlington’s reputation in the legto the annual legislative pack- islature has been at a low ebb for age whipped up prior to the start of many years. each General Assembly session.

It will be an interesting test of the The county government has a incoming board members – Chrisrelatively small, and sometimes tian Dorsey and Katie Cristol – and eminently reasonable, list of policy those who remain in office in 2016 priorities each year. One example is and beyond to see if they start exresurrection of the taxing authority orcising the progressive talking on hotel stays to help pay for tour- points from future legislative packism promotion. Another is provid- ages, and focus on nuts-and-bolts ing localities with additional tools matters of concern.

County Seems Over-Optimistic About Ballston Mall Editor: As usual, Arlington’s economic planners don’t seem to have a great grasp on economic reality.

When it comes to projecting the return on Arlington’s proposed investment in the redevelopment of the Ballston Common Mall, they should not be basing their overly optimistic projections of the return on investment on average gross incomes of the Ballston area.

It is the net incomes – after taxes, housing and other living expenses – that will determine the Mall’s success, not the gross incomes.

More specifically, it is the discretionary spending portion of the net incomes

and how the residents of the area plan to save or spend that money which will determine the success of the call enterprise.

I strongly suspect a serious and statistically sound evaluation of these determinants will paint a much less optimistic appraisal of the return on investment.

It might also help to look at other area trends as well. For example, the failure rate and steady turnover in restaurants and entertainment in the area as whole, which brings into doubt whether the new emphasis for the call is sustainable. The loss of the National Science Foundation’s economic draw of visitor’s to the Ballston area, the loss of Millennials living in Arlington, the growth of

competing town centers in the region, the shift of employment to the outer-burgs, the stagnation of area incomes, and the dramatic rise in the area’s cost of living may also have some small impact on the ability of the mall developers to repay a massive debt load that is to be taken out on their behalf by the county government.

Perhaps we should get a lien on the mall’s property to protect the Arlington taxpayers. At least then the county will have some public space to utilize in the future when the developers default, as might be expected.

Stephen Carey Arlington

SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

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of legislation in the 2016 General Assembly hopper among Arlington’s legislative delegation.

Sullivan (D-48th) on Nov. 17 introduced a measure that aims to take politics out of congressional and legislative reapportionment.

Passage of the measure “would make sure that voters choose their elected representatives, not the other way around,” Sullivan said in a statement.

A similar measure made it through the state Senate last year, perhaps largely because lawmakers there understood any attempts to push it through the House of Delegates would be fruitless. As they

proved to be.

Offered on the first day of filing for the January-to-March legislative session, Sullivan’s bill was the first from Arlington’s members of the lower house, and 26th overall.

A federal appeals court is requiring that Virginia’s congressional-district map be redrawn, because the most recent redistricting violated the federal Voting Rights Act. But another appeals-court panel ruled that seats in the House of Delegates, while gerrymandered for political purposes, are legal because they do not violate the rights of any protected class within the Voting Rights Act.

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Arlington County officials have been rebuffed – maybe “ignored” is the better word – by the General Assembly in the past on the RICHMOND issue of taxing single-use 2016 grocery bags, but they may ask the county’s legislative delegation to try again in 2016.

The County Board’s draft legislative package asks the General Assembly to give localities the power to “impose a small fee” on consumers who use either paper or single-use plastic bags at retail establishments within their borders.

The measure has been brought forward before, often with a 5-cent-per-bag fee as the target figure, but has not found traction in Richmond. Under past proposals, funds raised would have gone to support water-quality efforts in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

In an effort to make the proposition a little more palatable to legislators, the County Board says it makes sense to allow exceptions for specific items, including dry-cleaning, newspapers, prescription drugs and alcoholic beverages.

The proposal is included in the County Board’s draft legislative package. The wish list will be finalized Dec. 12 and forwarded to the seven members of Arlington’s legislative delegation, who will do with the individual proposals as they see fit.

School Board Mulls Adding Gun Proposal to Legislative Package: Should Arlington School Board members ask the General Assembly for new legislation placing restrictions on guns near school campuses?

“We’ve got legislators who would put the legislation in,” said Lilla Wise, who represents the School Board in Richmond during legislative sessions. “You’d be sending a message that this is what you believe.”

But Wise, no neophyte to the halls of the Virginia Capitol, held out little hope for any such measure gaining traction.

“As far is it having any effect at all? The Virginia House of Delegates is very, very pro-gun,” Wise told board members on Nov. 5.

School Board member James Lander was more blunt. Any such measure would be “dead on arrival” in Richmond, he said.

“There’s no realistic chance those things will ever see the light of day,” Lander said of any measure that might put new restrictions on gun ownership.

The School Board discussion came several months after the owner of a gun store abandoned plans to locate in Cherrydale, and after outcry from some in McLean over the relocation of a gun store from one part of the community to a site that backs to an elementary school.

The location violates no state or federal

law, and the recent protests may have backfired: Republicans who control both houses of the legislature dismissed complaints against the gun shops as election-eve political pandering by Democrats.

Lander said one possibility would be finding a legislator from downstate – preferably a Republican – who could be convinced to introduced gun legislation.

The Arlington legislative delegation and others in representing Northern Virginia face “abnormal resistance” from powerbrokers in the General Assembly, Lander noted.

School Board Seeks to Fix Loophole on School-Bus Passing: Members of the Arlington School Board will press the General Assembly to expand powers of localities to issue a summons to motorists who improperly pass stopped school buses.

Arlington officials over the summer began using cameras on the arms of some buses, and at the start of the school year county police began issuing citations to drivers allegedly breaking the law.

But the effort came to a halt when Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring ruled that while localities do have the authority to issue the citations, they were not given the power by the General Assembly to send them out by mail. Under existing law, they must be handed over in person.

Because of Virginia’s status as a “Dillon Rule” state (where local governments have virtually no inherent powers), it will take an act of the General Assembly to make any change.

The request for such authority is contained in a draft of a two-page legislative-priorities list being considered by the School Board. County Board members have put a similar item on their own draft legislative package.

The School Board’s draft package calls on the state government to pay its full share of school funding; seeks creation of a statewide School Health Advisory Board to advise the General Assembly on schoolrelated health issues; and, in a perennial request, asks that localities be given power to set school calendars.

Once adopted, the package will be forwarded to the seven members of the Arlington legislative delegation in preparation for the 60-day General Assembly session, which starts in January.

Lilla Wise, who represents the school system in Richmond during the legislative session, on Nov. 5 told School Board members that “tremendous progress” had been made during the 2015 General Assembly session on issues of importance to school boards across the commonwealth.

Among positive steps, Wise said: Reducing the number of Standards of Learning tests and allowing students to retake them if they failed, and changes to how local schools and school districts are accredited.

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Jefferson Site Still at Top of the List for New Elementary SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Arlington School Board members are set to vote Dec. 3 on their preferred site of a new South Arlington Elementary School, and appear likely to SCHOOL follow the advice of task force and SuBOARD aperintendent Patrick Murphy in sending NOTES their recommendation for County Board action.

Murphy on Nov. 16 recommended that board members designate space adjacent to Thomas Jefferson Middle School for the new elementary, projected to open in late 2019. The recommendation follows a similar one from the South Arlington Working Group, which spent five months reviewing options across the southern tier of the county before delivering its recommendation in early November.

Jefferson also happens to be the site that School Board members in 2014 designated as their choice for a new school. But County Board members earlier this year put the process on hold, directing school officials to consider other options more extensively before moving forward.

The site proposed by the working group and superintendent is similar to the original choice, sitting where a parking lot is now found on the northwest quadrant of the Thomas Jefferson campus.

Assuming the School Board votes on Dec. 3, there is time for the County Board

to vote on the request by the end of the year.

Under the proposal likely to be sent to the County Board, the school system would pay the cost of construction, with the county government picking up the tab for structured parking and some other site costs.

Thomas Jefferson Middle School was built in the 1970s in conjunction with a community center sharing the same name.

One recommendation of the South Arlington Working Group is to move students at Patrick Henry Elementary School, en masse, to the new school in 2019, then move the Montessori program currently at Drew Model School to Patrick Henry to free up space at Drew for a growing corps of elementary-schoolers in more southerly portions of the county.

School Board OKs Concept Design for Middle School: Arlington School Board members have approved a concept design turning the H-B Woodlawn and Stratford programs back into a neighborhood middle school, adopting a budget of up to $36.3 million to do the job.

Options on the table during the initial design process ranged from $31.3 million to $47.5 million.

The Nov. 16 vote moves the project another step toward planned opening in time for the start of the 2019-20 school year, when the Woodlawn and Stratford programs would shuffle eastward to a new building in Rosslyn.

The renovation project would add

about 35,000 square feet of new space on three levels to the existing campus, and provide for about 1,000 middle-schoolers.

The School Board will pay the cost of the renovation, and will split the cost of some community improvements – including road and signal upgrades – with the county government.

Still in flux is whether the building will fall under a local historic district, as proposed by the Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board. The final say on such a proposal rests with the County Board.

School Officials Aim to Mark Historic Provenance of School Building: Arlington School Board members have promised to spend up to a quarter-million dollars reminding students and the public of the historic importance attached to the current home of the H-B Woodlawn Secondary Project.

As part of the concept design to turn the Vacation Lane facility back into a neighborhood middle school, officials have agreed to supply the funds to provide commemorative artwork and interpretation at the building, “to be developed in collaboration with senior community leaders.”

The funding comes as school leaders try to convince the Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board (HALRB) that the building should not necessarily be denoted as a local historical district. Such a designation could hamper school officials’ efforts both at the proposed $30-plus-million renovation, but also would add hurdles for any future exterior changes to the

school.

Historic-preservation advocates say the site is important for two reasons – its architecture and its history – although the historic-interpretation effort is likely to focus mostly on the latter.

On Feb. 2, 1959, four black students were admitted to what was then Stratford Junior High, an all-white school, under court order. Along with the desegregation of a school in Norfolk the same day, the integration marked the beginning of the end of Virginia’s “massive resistance” policy against mixing races in public schools.

The event is marked by a metal plaque near the entrance to the school, but members of Arlington’s African-American community and preservationists have argued that it is too little. School officials, perhaps somewhat belatedly, agreed with that sentiment.

If there is a renewed effort to capture the school’s history for public display, it will be the most significant recognition of the integration since a ceremony celebrating its 50th anniversary held in February 2009.

At that event, then-Gov. Tim Kaine honored the four students – Ron Deskins, Gloria Thompson, Lance Newman and Michael Jones – for playing a role in history.

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Arlington Notes ARLINGTON GOVERNMENT CLOSED FOR HOLIDAY: Arlington County govern-

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For information on what is open and what is closed in the county government throughout the holiday weekend, see the Web site at www.arlingtonva.us.

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An avid traveler, Jenkinson brought students back items from her trips, like Florida oranges, and created her own lesson plan to teach students how to read maps. She developed a scavenger hunt and taught the students how to use rulers to find their schools and other local landmarks.

Jenkins says she thoroughly enjoys the students’ enthusiasm and said she “wished every child in Arlington could have the opportunity to experience an after-school program like AHC’s.”

Jenkinson is one of a large number of boosters who work with students at the non-profit-housing developer’s properties across the area.

“AHC is so fortunate to have hundreds of wonderful volunteers who work oneon-one with students who benefit greatly from their close attention and encouragement,” said Jennifer Endo, AHC’s director of resident services. “Their commitment and enthusiasm is inspiring and has made such a difference to students’ overall success.”

Talia Farrell-Rosen, a high-school senior, was honored as student volunteer of the year for her work with students at Gates of Ballston, sharing her love of dancing with younger students and helping them with activities and homework.

“Talia was consistently patient and understanding, and has been a wonderful addition to our volunteering team,” said Lotus Chen of AHC. “Team Estephani” – consisting of Anne Blacksten, Jim and Terry Burridge and Carl Dohrman – was honored for its work supporting Estephani Santander, who graduated from high school last spring with multiple scholarships, and credited her “dream team” of tutors for much of her success.

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“The consistency helps to build relationships between volunteers and students, which can be key to making a difference in the student’s attitudes towards school.”

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CHAMBER DETAILS PLANS FOR ANNUAL MEETING: Technology leader Aneesh

Chopra has been announced as keynote speaker of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce’s 91st annual meeting, to be held on Friday, Dec. 11 at the Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel.

Chopra formerly held top technology posts for both the Virginia and federal governments, and is co-founder and ex-

ecutive vice president of Hunch Analytics.

At the meeting, the Arlington Chamber also will present its annual awards.

The Leadership Center for Excellence, an initiative of Leadership Arlington, will receive the Chair’s Award; David Kinney of Kinco LC will receive the President’s Award; and the Membership Engagement Committee will receive the Committee of the Year Award.

Tickets are at $55 for Chamber members, $70 for non-members, and sponsorship opportunities are available. The registration deadline is Dec. 3.

For tickets and information, call (703) 525-2400 or see the Web site at www.arlingtonchamber.org.

AARP EFFORT PROVIDES VISITS FOR THE HOLIDAYS: AARP Virginia is invit-

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“The Holiday Project” works to provide excursions to those in nursing homes, hospitals and similar facilities. Volunteers can join with an existing team, start their own team or register to participate as a group.

The effort began in the 1970s and has grown nationally.

“The holiday season is full of special gifts, and The Holiday Project takes pride in providing the opportunity for volunteers to give a very special gift – and receive a gift that truly epitomizes the spirit of the holiday season,” organizers said.

For information on participation, call (703) 370-0370 or see the Web site at www.holiday-project.org.

HOST LIONS CLUB TO OFFER CITRUS, NUTS FOR SALE: The Arlington Host

Lions Club will hold its annual holiday citrus sale from Dec. 3-6 in the parking lot at Wells Fargo Bank, located at the corner of Lee Highway and North Glebe Road.

Club members will be selling grapefruit, oranges, tangerines, maple syrup, Virginia peanuts, pecans, cashews and mixed nuts.

Proceeds from the sale will benefit initiatives supported by the Lions Club.

The Arlington Host Lions Club also is seeking new members and volunteers to support its community-service initiatives. Club members meet the first and third Tuesdays each month at Washington Golf & Country Club.

For information on the fruit sale or membership, see the Web site at www.arlingtonhostlions.org.

HOWARD EDUCATOR TO SPEAK ON CIVIL WAR TOPIC: The Arlington Commit-

tee on the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War will present Edna Greene Medford of Howard University speaking on Sunday, Dec. 6 at 6 p.m. at Central Library.

The presentation coincides with the 150th anniversary of ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery.

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‘SCAN’ HONORS FOUNDATION’S EFFORTS TO SUPPORT CHILDREN: Stop

Child Abuse Now (SCAN) of Northern Virginia recently presented the Vicky Collins Charitable Foundation with its 2015 Cleary Award.

During her life, Vicky Collins suffered a life-altering stroke leaving her quadriplegic; she was unable to talk, and could hear and see only with difficulty.

While recovering from her stroke, Collins became committed to the idea of using her estate to help disabled children who did not have the resources for basic human comforts, as well as adequate health care and therapy for their disabilities.

Collins set up a charitable foundation to provide help and resources for indigent and needy disabled children.

Since her death in 2003, the foundation has awarded more than $2 million in grants to help children with special needs in the Washington area.

“The impact of Vicky’s legacy lives on,” said Sonia Quinonez, SCAN’s executive director. “We are celebrating Vicky’s life and her legacy of caring for children in our community.”

The award was presented at SCAN’s 13th annual Toast to Hope fundraiser, which on Nov. 7 drew 225 people to Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington.

The event raised more than $80,000 to support SCAN’s child-abuse-prevention programs.

Mark Cummings, one of those entrusted by Collins to administer the foundation, was among those on hand to receive the award.

“Vicky’s desire to provide a boost to children living in crisis situations is embodied in the foundation’s support for SCAN’s CASA [Court Appointed Special Advocate] Program,” Cummings said. “CASA volunteers are dedicated, selfless individuals, just like Vicky. Together, Vicky’s legacy and the dedication of SCAN’s volunteers today give voice to the needs of very vulnerable children here in our own community.”

“The foundation’s support of our Alexandria/Arlington CASA Program has helped hundreds of children over the years, giving them a voice when they might otherwise not be heard,” Quinonez said.

The Cleary Award was created to honor SCAN’s founder, Dave Cleary, and recognize both individuals and organizations whose dedication and commitment to children and families stand out in ways that make a positive difference in the lives of children in Northern Virginia.

For more information on SCAN of Northern Virginia, see the Web site at www.scanva.org.

Animal Welfare League of Arlington is offering those who adopt animals from Nov. 27 to Dec. 23 a spin of the “prize wheel,” which offers discounts on adoption fees plus discounted and free items from the organization’s retail store.

“We have more than 100 cats, kittens, dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs and gerbils currently at the shelter or in foster care, and

we expect many more to arrive throughout the month,” said Neil Trent, president and CEO of the free clinic.

Counselors will be on hand throughout the holiday season to match prospective adoptees with pets that suit their lifestyles and expectations.

“We encourage people who want a new best friend to bring love and joy into your home by adopting,” Trent said.

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Hours will be Mondays through Thursdays from 2 to 8 p.m., Fridays from noon to 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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The family-friendly production runs one hour and 45 minutes, including intermission. Performances are Dec. 3 and 4 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5 and 6 at 1 and 5 p.m.

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COLUMBIA PIKE LIBRARY HOSTS HEALTH-CARE FORUM: Columbia Pike

Library will host a workshop for those seeking information on health-care options on Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 6 p.m. (English) and 7 p.m. (Spanish).

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Dave Cleary, founder of Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) of Northern Virginia, presents the annual Cleary Award to Vicky Collins Charitable Foundation representatives David Sher, Mark Cummings and Paul Lanzillotta at SCAN’s annual “Toast to Hope” fundraiser, held Nov. 7.

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Inter-Service Club Council Celebrates 75th Anniversary SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

The Inter-Service Club Council of Arlington celebrated 75 years during a Nov. 18 luncheon at another county institution: the Washington Golf & Country Club.

“It’s pretty amazing when you think how far back this organization goes,” president Joe Lott said at the luncheon.

Next to the podium was proof: A blownup front page of the Northern Virginia Sun of Oct. 11, 1940, with perhaps the first article ever written about the then-new organization.

The goal of the council, then as now, is to serve as a coordinator and sounding board among the county’s service clubs and those in their membership ranks.

Today, 17 different service clubs – Lions, Jaycees, Kiwanis, Zonta, Optimist, Rotary, The Links and the like – are represented.

Combined, the groups provide about 100,000 hours of volunteer services, and perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial contributions, annually to support efforts at the local, national and international levels.

County Board member Libby Garvey,

who delivered brief remarks, said the collective efforts of the groups deserve “a huge round of applause,” and their members are “wonderful people who make this community what it is.”

Honored as the organization’s Man of the Year was Richard Knight of the Optimist Club of Arlington. He was described by award presenter Tom Grantham as “a quiet and tireless worker who just gets things done.”

A member of the Optimist Club since the early 1980s, Knight since 2000 has chaired the local organization’s oratorical contest, which provides scholarships to local students. He also has been active in the Optimists’ annual Christmas-tree sale, set to kick off just after Thanksgiving.

Knight also is active with St. Andrews Episcopal Church.

Honored as Woman of the Year was Marion Spraggins, a member of The Links Inc. She was lauded by presenter Sandy Newston as “an action-oriented, committed leader . . . with integrity.”

A retired principal of Washington-Lee High School who spent more than 30 years in Arlington Public Schools as an educator, Spraggins’ efforts with The Links have

Former Inter-Service Club Council of Arlington Men of the Year George Towner and Bankhead Thornton Davies chat after the 75th-anniversary celebration, held Nov. 18 at Washington Golf & Country Club.

ranged from promoting heart-health initiatives to teaching robotics to aiding the international fight against Ebola.

Her work has been “transforming the lives of thousands,” Newton said.

As part of the commemorative luncheon, the Inter-Service Club Council presented its annual grant of $1,000 to Leadership Arlington. The funds are used by

the organization’s summer youth program, whose members visit non-profits across the county and determine which one should receive the support.

Working with groups like that is a way to “try to make sure we let younger people know about the importance of service,” said Lott, a member of the Rotary Club of Arlington.

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Who would’ve thought that all of the well known and loved fairytales have been told wrong all these years?

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The show was written by Don Zolidis and puts a modern twist on Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s fairy tales; told by two narrators and an acting company, which attempts to combine all of the fairy tales into one huge fable with one huge family tree.

Bounding onto the stage comes the two narrators, Ekaterina Gaetjens and Pranav Ravikumar. Their high energy and enthusiasm sets the pace and the first act starts out very strong.

Flint Hill’s cast incorporated the audience by bravely breaking the fourth wall and calling out certain audience members.

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Gaetjens and Ravikumar stayed engaged throughout the whole performance, reacting to the action on stage as well as reacting to the audience. Their little side quarrels enriched the story line and added comedy during the slower moments. Ravikumar and Gaetjens played off of each other with good familiarity, making their arguments all the more realistic.

Another notable actor was Brandon Lessard. Lessard played the Frog Prince, aka Dwarf 1, aka Mac, with consistent gusto. Whether he was begging the princess for a kiss, or changing the whole plot of Snow White, Lessard sent the audience into peals of laughter. Keeping his characters different and distinct, Lessard stole whatever scene he was in.

The story line wouldn’t have been complete without the feminist Enchantress, played by Elena Morely. Morely’s hilarious and spontaneous feminist rants were entertaining and cracked the audience up every time. She kept the ball rolling throughout all of her scenes, and was an asset to the cast.

While she was only in one scene the Fisher girl, performed by the talented Sydney Baffour, was no doubt the most comical character. Baffour’s delivery was hysterical and received the most laughs in the play. She gave a much needed break from the sassiness the princesses. Baffour proved that no part is too small.

Another talented actor was Henry Jeanneret. Jeanneret’s performance of a drug addicted Hansel was top-notch. Jeanneret made fun of peer pressure in a way that was funny, but not inappropriate. Jeanneret hit the ball out of the park and stole his story.

(While the cast received many laughs, some actors did not allow enough time for laughter. This resulted in their next couple lines unheard by the audience.)

Flint Hill started out the first act with high energy; however by the second act, the enthusiasm slowed down a bit. It was picked up by some of the consistently

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Elena Morey, Sayeed Akhtar and Adam Hillman were among those performing in “The Brothers PHOTO BY TOM KINDER/VICTOR O’NEILL STUDIOS Grimm Spectaculathon” at Flint Hill School.

energetic actors like Lessard and Sayeed Akhtar, who played the Devil.

Flint Hill’s production of “The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon” engaged the audience and kept the laughter rolling throughout.

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Juan Hill” (that is, climbing the stairs), and excited helpfulness in “digging the locks in Panama” (that is, digging the graves in the basement).

Be sure, when concocting great comedy, to include terrific costumes, sets and lighting – Bishop Ireton did a great job of stirring in these elements. The costumes seemed to be accurate to the time period, and many were hand made. Some of the most remarkable costumes belonged to the aunts; their dresses reflected their personalities and were intricately detailed. The set was crammed full of detail – from the frying pan behind the door to the kitchen to the picket fence outside the front door, to

the pictures hanging on the wall.The lighting was skillfully designed, with working wall sconces; even in the darkened scenes, a clever use of “moonlight” made it possible to see the movements on stage.

Every recipe can have its glitches. Although a few issues with diction in the first act slowed down the momentum, and some scenes didn’t quite feel natural, the show kept the audience laughing, and technical issues were minimal. The actors worked well together, creating larger-thanlife personalities onstage – culminating in an outrageous curtain call, where all of the bodies down in the cellar also came up to take their bows.

With all the necessary ingredients for having a good time, Bishop Ireton’s production of “Arsenic and Old Lace” cooked up the perfect way to spend an evening.

After all, who doesn’t love a bit of murder, especially when it’s seasoned with laughter and elderberry wine?

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Out will pop the tongue-in-cheek, laugh-out-loud “Arsenic and Old Lace,” performed by Bishop Ireton High School.

“Arsenic and Old Lace,” Joseph Kesselring’s most popular work, opened on Broadway in 1941, featuring Boris Karloff playing a killer who looked remarkably like . . . Boris Karloff. In 1944, the movie premiered starring Cary Grant – garnering critical acclaim and becoming a staple in American cinematic culture for the next 60 years.

This black comedy hasn’t grown stale. In Bishop Ireton’s production, Mor-

timer Brewster (Nicholas Beane) discovers that his two elderly aunts, Abby (Katherine Beutner) and Martha (Juliana Mitchell), have been quietly murdering lonely old men and burying them in the cellar. When Mortimer’s psychopathic brother Jonathan returns with his own dead body in tow, Mortimer’s problems only get more complicated.

To make a deliciously fun comedy, be sure to include talented, entertaining actors. For instance, Kevin McNerney (Dr. Einstein, Jonathan’s accomplice) stayed in character the entire time: from the moment he carried poor, dead Mr. Spenalzo to the cellar, to his palpable relief as he slipped away from the police, he consistently maintained his German accent and projected his lines distinctly.

Mixing in Beutner’s great character choices really spiced up the show: it was difficult not to laugh as she portrayed sweet, murderous Aunt Abby through strong, believable facial expressions, quavering voice, and shaking hands.

Ethan Ladd (Teddy Brewster) was hilarious in his portrayal of the brother who believed himself to be Teddy Roosevelt, with crisp gestures, enthusiastic “charges up San

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Schools & Military n Phuc Truong of Arlington has been inducted into the McDaniel College chapter of the Alpha Lambda Delta national honor society. n Erik Wagner, the son of Karl Wagner of Arlington, has been named to the dean’s list for the first quarter at Randolph-Macon Academy. n John Dominguez, a student at Yorktown High School, received a Silver Award in the community-service category as part of the Regional Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards, sponsored by the Hispanic Heritage Association. n Arlington School Board members on Nov. 16 honored Williamsburg Middle School sixth-grade social-studies teacher Patricia Carlson, who has been named teacher of the year by the Virginia Council for the Social Studies.

A teacher in the school system since 1990, Carlson “inspires students to have a passion for social studies,” Superintendent Patrick Murphy said.

Carlson, who began with the county system as a student-teacher, said that “behind all great teachers are wonderful support systems, and I have that,” and praised her “amazing, rock-star colleagues” at Williamsburg Middle.

“I take this job . . . very seriously,” Carlson said. “It’s very important for me that kids are loving what they’re learning.

It’s even more important to me that I’m helping to build the future citizens of this country.”

Carlson now goes on to compete in national competition. n Arlington Public Schools is one of 17 school systems across the commonwealth achieving “Platinum” status in the Virginia School Boards Association’s 2016 Green Schools Competition.

The “friendly competition” is designed to encourage implementation of environmental policies and procedures. This is the seventh year awards were given out.

Winning the annual competition in various size categories were Prince William County Schools, Shenandoah County Public Schools and Middlesex County Public Schools. n Marymount University has been named recipient of the 2015 Jessica Burmester Volunteer Award from The Arc of Northern Virginia, for the school’s support of a series of workshops that help students with intellectual and developmental disabilities transition from high school.

The award was presented at The Arc’s annual membership meeting at the Columbus Club of Arlington.

“With their incredible support, we have been able to provide almost 150 families with valuable programs for both parents and students,” said Diane Monnig, The Arc’s transition manager. “We would never be able to offer such a successful program without the staff and students at Marymount.”

The award was accepted by Dr. Lois Stover, Marymount’s School of Education and Human Services dean, and Dr. Clara Hauth, assistant professor of special edu-

Arlington School Board members on Nov. 16 honored Williamsburg Middle School sixthgrade social-studies teacher Patricia Carlson, who has been named teacher of the year by the Virginia Council for the Social Studies. See item at left.

cation.

The second year of the Transition Series concluded recently at Marymount’s main campus.

“It’s an important time in the life of a person with an intellectual or developmental disability,” said Rikki Epstein, executive director of The Arc of Northern Virginia.

“For a lot of families, it feels like falling off a cliff. The transition series is a chance to share a huge amount of information on housing, employment and other kinds of things.”

The full-day workshops were held monthly from September to November.

Parental topics included special-needs trusts, Medicaid waivers, public benefits, employment, post-secondary options and transportation. The student track, for ages 14-26, offers a variety of skill-building activities, such as social and life skills, employment and travel training.

Hauth said Marymount education students practice skills such as lesson planning and teach practical things, like how to ride the Metro.

“It’s a great way for our students to be involved in the community, and many of them have said it’s been a life-altering experience,” Hauth said. “Our students are learning just as much as the families and their students. It’s all part of Marymount’s commitment to community engagement and outreach.” n AHC Inc. is seeking volunteers to serve as tutors for middle- and high-school students in AHC apartment properties across the community.

Tutors work with students on homework one hour per week, on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday evenings. Volunteers also help to develop a mentoring relationship.

For information on the initiative, e-mail Cindy Rozon at rozon@ahcinc.org or see the Web site at www.ahcinc.org.

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sive deck (more on that area later).

The dining room and the family room also feature access to the deck, making it an integral part of the home’s design.

The kitchen, as mentioned, is a standout, while the family room features a mirrored bar that adds to the ambiance, and hosts the home’s second gas fireplace.

Upstairs, find the comfortable and creative master suite, plus two additional bedrooms.

Having several times mentioned the deck, we now return to it – it’s a wonderful spot, with an open outdoor kitchen with bar, gas grill, refrigerator and sink, and there also is a gas fire pit and hot tub overlooking a waterfall. All this, and you are surrounded by tall trees for complete privacy.

Bellevue Forest is one of our favorite Arlington neighborhoods, as it’s set back in a world of privacy and enchantment, but still provides easy access to every-

thing of importance.

A stellar home awaits your consideration. Wouldn’t it make the perfect gift (to yourself) for the holidays?

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Set on a verdant lot of nearly a halfacre amid the bucolic setting of sought-after Bellevue Forest, this week’s featured property is an exquisite contemporary that has benefited from an inspired renovation.

From the gorgeous cherry hardwoods on the main level, to the soaring stone gas fireplace in the sun-filled living room, to the gourmet kitchen with every desirable accoutrement, the home is designed both to provide a glorious backdrop for entertaining while also offering everything needed for modern living.

The property currently is on the market, listed at $1,299,999 by Peggy Richardson of Long & Foster Real Estate.

A tremendous curb appeal hints at all the features awaiting our inspection. And after a greeting in the foyer, we visit the well-proportioned living room, with its aforementioned fireplace, and note the French doors leading out to the expan-

(StatePoint) – Fireplaces mean warmth, comfort and ambiance, and there’s no better time of year to enjoy one than when loved ones are gathered together for the holidays.

To make the most of the experience, consider these tips: Safety First: With some precautions in mind, the fireplace can be the centerpiece to your festivities.

Keep clothing, furniture, draperies and flammable materials at a safe distance. Stockings hung by the chimney with care sound nice, but should be avoided in practice – there are plenty of safe alternatives for this traditional holiday display, such as the banister or the windows.

Don’t be shy about using your fireplace while you have holiday visitors.

Just be sure guests know that it can be very hot during and after use, and remember that children and pets should always be supervised. Keep the remote control (if your unit has one) out of reach.

Factory-provided safety screens, aftermarket freestanding screens and barriers help reduce burn risk, as they prevent skin from coming into direct contact with hot glass.

What to Know: A new fireplace can be the perfect gift you give yourself this season, and smart technologies are making them more versatile than ever before.

Different needs will guide your choice. Do you want a fireplace that’s more decorative, or are you interested in high heat output? How do you want to start a fire – with a wall switch, a log, a remote control or a thermostat?

Do your research before making any decisions.

Free online resources, available at www.heatilator.com, can help you determine what fuel choice and style is right for your home, whether you are looking for a modern or traditional design in a wood-burning, gas, or electric fireplace.

Deck the Mantel: The fireplace can be one of the top areas of the home to showcase your decorating skills, especially during the holiday season.

Save your most treasured trimmings for the mantel. Display frames filled with holiday photos of family and friends, scented candles, garlands with dried berries, flowers and festive ribbons and bowls of seasonal fruit.

White, silver, and gold color schemes are beautiful and appropriate for the season too. Just be sure all decorations are safely away from heat and flame.

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Real Estate 2016: A Look Ahead to Next Year’s Trends

Ready or Not, Millennials About to Impact Market SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Oh, those quirky Millennials. Can’t live with ’em, and if you’re in the real-estate business, pretty soon, can’t live without ’em.

Not since the Baby Boomers burst upon the home-buying scene in the 1960s and ’70s has such a large demographic wave approached. With the first of the Millennial generation set to hit age 35 soon, the group numbers some 87 million and, in key ways, has radically different views on the homebuying experience.

“We should think like Millennials – respond to these consumers on their terms,” said Jonathan Corr, CEO of Ellie Mae, which provides technology that helps process more than 2 million residential mortgages each year.

Corr was among speakers at the National Association of Realtors’ annual convention, held Nov. 13-15 in San Diego.

About 20,000 real-estate professionals attended the event.

The Millennial group, which is larger than the Baby Boom generation and far larger than other age-specific demographic waves of the past century, already is coming into its own – and already has a different set of expectations.

“They live to be connected,” Corr said, urging the real estate industry to “create products and services . . . so Millennials can access them how they want, when they want.”

Some at the conference might have been

quietly mumbling that it’s a generation without strong interpersonal skills, but several speakers said traditional methods of interacting remain important.

“If you make a face-to-face contact and gain that trust, that is what consumers are looking for,” said Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors.

“You have to be high-tech, but also high-touch,” Corr added.

The potential market is immense. Cris deRitis, senior director of consumer economics for Moody’s Analytics, noted that almost 25 million of those between ages 18 and 34 currently are living with their parents, often because their employment situation remains tenuous.

But with a slowly improving economy, “more and more of these individuals are going to be moving out,” said deRitis.

Some will move on to rental housing.

Those attempting the plunge into starter homes will find headwinds, Yun said, ranging from a lack of inventory at lower price levels and competition from those who pay all cash, to stringent loan requirements and the impact of student-loan debt.

All those hurdles make it difficult not just for Millennials, but for all hoping to enter the housing market: Only 32 percent of home-buyers this year will be first-timers, the lowest rate since 1987.

“The real solution is bringing in more supply – that’s how we get first-time buyers into the market,” Yun said.

But home-builders are focusing more on upscale construction, aiming not at starter

homes but at properties for existing homeowners who have seen their equity grow as the market has rebounded.

The good news for the real-estate professionals? The younger segment of the Millennial generation, those ages 18 to 24, seem to have a strong attraction to ultimately owning a home.

A survey by the National Association

of Realtors found that 91 percent of those in that age group have the desire of homeownership, compared to 87 percent among all those surveyed.

“These are huge numbers – they associate owning a home with the American Dream,” Yun said.

(The complete survey results will be reported in December.)

Prediction: Market Largely on Track for Continued Growth SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Lawrence Yun earns his living forecasting where the national real estate market is headed. His prognosis for 2016 is mostly upbeat.

Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, is projecting total existing-home sales of 5.4 million to 5.5 million next year, a slight increase from the expected 5.3 million in 2015, and anticipates price growth of about 5 percent nationally.

That growth, if it materializes, would

represent the continuation of “a decent recovery year” in 2015, Yun said – but its fate could be impacted by a host of factors.

“We are beginning to see some loss of momentum,” Yun said to hundreds gathered for his predictions on the first day of the National Association of Realtors’ annual conference on Nov. 13 in San Diego.

On the horizon is likely to be a succession of interest-rate increases from the Federal Reserve. While home-mortgage interest rates do not always react proportionally to increases by the Fed, the combination of higher rates and, potentially, a revival of modest inflation could impact

the market.

“Let’s see what happens,” Yun said.

A new round of government regulations on everything from closing documents to mortgageloan requirements, ostensibly designed Lawrence Yun to help consumers and protect the real-estate market, may be having a negative impact.

“How in the world [are regulations]

helping the consumer if we have a 50-year low” in the rate of home-ownership, Yun asked, predicting the home-ownership rate will continue to drop until ways are found to get the up-and-coming Millennial generation into the market.

At the forum, Yun looked back to his prognostications of a year before. He was right on the mark with his prediction of 5.3 million existing-home sales, but acknowledged being too conservative in projections of new-home sales and of price appreciation in the existing-home market, while simultaneously being overoptimistic in the number of housing starts.

At the same time, deRitis said, trends can be expected to remain “moving in the right direction” so long as substantial headwinds do not develop.

“We do have some risks out there, but they’re mostly manageable,” deRitis said, serving up “a fairly optimistic forecast: slow and steady, fairly sustainable” for the next two years.

On the positive side, deRitis pointed to a chipping away at rates of unemployment and under-employment; the start of wage growth after years of stagnation; and the Millennial generation’s beginning to make its substantial presence known in the mar-

ket.

On the down side? Tight lending rules are holding some prospective buyers back; Americans have $1.3 trillion in accumulated student debt that further constricts borrowing power; and interest rates are sure to rise. Global concerns – from military to economic to environmental – also have the potential of upsetting the market.

But the short-term prognosis of deRitis is upbeat, if not quite exuberant: He expects a “little burst” of increased buying, perhaps up to 6.1 million annually, counting both new and existing homes, over the next two years, before a “gradual retreat”

in 2018-19.

Moody’s also expects median prices to continue rising, up an average of 3.3 percent per year over the next two years – slower than over the past few years, when prices have been outstripping wage growth.

Distill it down to a sentence? DeRitis put it this way: “Things are moving in the right direction . . . [but] there’s still more work to do.”

Bad news on the local level: Moody’s expects Virginia to be the only state in the nation where median home values actually decline over the next two years, dropping a projected 0.5 percent.

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“At the moment, there’s a lot of things to be anxious about in the economy – a lot of things to be worried about,” said Cris deRitis, senior director of consumer economics at Moody’s Analytics, during a program on economic trends held Nov. 13 as part of the National Association of Realtors’ annual convention.

Va. Homes Data Suggests Improving Conditions Leaders in the commonwealth’s real estate industry say healthy year-over-year growth in the third quarter suggests Virginia’s economy is moving in the right direction. “When we look at the double-digit growth in sales from this time last year, along with increased revenues to the state through the recordation tax, we have confidence in Virginia’s improving housing market and its positive impact on our overall economy,� Virginia Association of Realtors (VAR) president Deborah Baisden said after her organization on Oct. 28 reported data relating to sales and prices in the July-to-September period.

A total of 31,176 properties went to closing statewide during the third quarter, up 11.3 percent from 28,008 sales during the same period in 2014.

Year-over-year sales were up 15.3 percent in July, 6.5 percent in August and 11.8 percent in September, and “almost every region of the state experienced a relatively strong third quarter,� noted the Virginia Center for Housing Research at Virginia Tech, which provides data analysis for VAR. Of the seven large reporting areas across the commonwealth, only one – the Central Valley – saw a decline in sales, dropping 7.2 percent to 1,678 for the quarter.

Every other corridor posted increases:

Sales were up 18.8 percent to 2,636 in Roanoke/Lynchburg/Blacksburg; up 16.3 percent to 399 in Southwest Virginia; up 14 percent to 7,308 in Hampton Roads; up 13.1 percent to 5,262 in Central Virginia; up 10.7 percent to 13,374 in Northern Virginia; and up 3.8 percent to 514 in Southside Virginia. (“Northern Virginia,� in this usage, includes a swath of land incorporating not only the inner and outer suburbs of Washington, but also jurisdictions running west to the West Virginia line and south to Fredericksburg.)

The median sales price of all homes that sold during the second quarter statewide was $265,000, rising 2.3 percent from $259,000 a year before and up 6.9 percent from $248,000 in the third quarter of 2014.

The increase from 2014, while modest, marks a significant achievement. “An increase in median price from the second quarter to the third quarter is unusual in recent years,� the Virginia Tech researchers noted.

Unlike the relatively strong region-byregion sales growth, median prices were more uneven across the various geographic areas of the commonwealth.

In Northern Virginia, the median sales price of $375,000 was down 1.3 percent from a year before, and declines also were

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posted in Central Valley (down 2.3 percent to $215,000) and Roanoke (down 0.6 percent to $164,000). Increases were seen in Southwest Virginia (up 9.5 percent to $115,000); Southside Virginia (up 9 percent to $89,250); Hampton Roads (up 4.7 percent to $225,000); and Central Valley (up 3.3 percent to $216,000).

Despite the ups and down, VAR statisticians concluded that home prices remain “relatively stable� statewide. They also remain about 10 percent above the national

median sales price, a spread that has remained relatively steady throughout the year.

Total sales volume for the third quarter was $10.1 billion, up from $9.1 billion a year before.

Homes that went to closing during the third quarter spent an average of 68 days on the market between listing and ratified sales contract, an improvement from the 73 days required a year before.

The average interest rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage nationwide in the third quarter was 3.95 percent, up for the second month in a row but still low by historic standards. Within the quarter, the highest average interest rate was found in July, at 4.05 percent.

Sales figures represent most, but not all, properties on the Virginia market. All figures are preliminary, and are subject to revision.

For full data, see the Web site at www. varealtor.com/homesales/

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A Private and Serene Retreat with 11 Acres

Contemporary-Style Home Is Nestled in Woods, Offers River Access

Described as Loudoun County’s bestkept secret, our monthly featured property for November is a stunning contemporary, set in the woods toward the end Goose Creek Lane with nearly 11 acres of wooded and cleared grounds and creek frontage.

Guaranteed privacy is the watchword here, while guests will be enchanted with the stunning architecture that seems to bring nature inside. With three bedroom suites, the home is perfect for overnight guests or a long-term visitors.

The property currently is on the market, listed at $659,000 by Joyce Gates of Long & Foster Real Estate.

The original chalet-style home was constructed in 1978, with major additions in the 1990s and 2005.

First, a bit of history is in order.

“Angel’s Nest” is nestled half-way between the historic towns of Leesburg, Aldie and Middleburg, with easy commuting yet set back in a world where bald eagles, red fox, palliated woodpeckers and wild turkey share the landscape.

Because of its location – alongside the north branch of Goose Creek, where the Catoctin Mountain ridge line meets the Piedmont – the area is pristine and has changed little from the days when the lower section of the land was owned by John Hughes, personal surveyor to Lord Fairfax, in the mid-1700s.

But history dates back even earlier, to the thousands of years Native Americans traversed the property (the home’s current owner recently found a 2,000-year-old quartz arrowhead near the property).

With this much historic provenance, the landscape was sure to have seen its share of strife. A battle between the Catawba and Lenape tribes was recorded in

the early 18th century, and in June 1863, a series of cavalry clashes between Confederates under J.E.B. Stuart and federal troops occurred. The Union troops were passing Goose Creek on their way to engage Gen. Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg.

The pristine surroundings long have drawn the famous to the vicinity. The retirement home of President James Monroe (Oak Hill) is nearby, with both Oatlands and Camp David not far off.

With that background in place, it’s time to explore the domains.

The exterior features cedar siding as well as Catoctin Green stone taken from the property. It provides an exceptional introduction for all that will follow.

The first floor is home to formal and informal spaces for daily living and entertaining in style, and perhaps there is no better introduction to the sumptuousness than in the two-story Great Room, which was added to the original property and features, among its amenities, a wood-burning fireplace with a floorto-ceiling stone hearth, built from native stone, along with a hand-hewed, red-oak mantel created from wood found on the grounds.

This space also has four skylights and three sets of sliding-glass doors leading to the deck and patio.

The sun-drenched kitchen features floor-to-ceiling windows, hardwood flooring, a large eating area, knotty-pine cabinetry, ceiling fan and access to the deck and screened porch, as well as access to the loft area.

A den outside the master suite showcases vistas of the flagstone patio, and features decorative carpeting.

The first-floor master retreat occupies a wing of the home, and is a testament to

gracious and creative design. Here, you can find beamed and vaulted ceilings, lush carpeting, sliding-glass doors that lead to a flagstone patio, and zoned air conditioning for comfort.

The master bath is a study in excellence. Bathed in earth tones, it features a Jacuzzi-type tub for two, separate shower stall and double vanity.

A loft-area bedroom suite is perched above the kitchen, with five closets, wood flooring and extended outdoor views, along with a bathroom that features a two-person, dual-head shower stall.

The highlights continue in the walkout lower level, with a media/theater room featuring high-quality projector system (available for purchase separately) and a screen mounted over a wall of native stone and flanked by built-ins.

The home’s third bedroom suite is found here, with built-in shelves and sliding-glass doors leading to the patio.

An exercise room with sauna offers windows and glass doors with access to a patio and hot tub.

The lower level is completed with a home office and storage areas.

Bonuses abound throughout our exploration of the home, from the cast-iron, porcelain-footed tub to the screened-in porch with access to the side yard, fire pit and hiking trails beyond.

Updates are plentiful, and the home pays heed to quality of living with a security system, Energy Star furnace, highquality (and high-efficiency) windows and a brand new, oversized two-car garage with cedar siding and stone exterior.

While set back in a world of serenity, this area also features a true neighborly feel; homeowners volunteer donations to maintain the main portions of Goose

Creek Road, providing for a sense of belonging in this visually stunning part of Loudoun County.

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Facts for buyers Address: 38465 Goose Creek Lane, Leesburg (20175).

Listed at: $659,000 by Joyce Gates, Long & Foster Real Estate (540) 7717544.

Police Beat

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY: n On Nov. 17 at 8:11 p.m., two men approached an individual from behind in the 2900 block of South Glebe Road and attempted to steal his briefcase.

The victim was able to spray one of the suspects with pepper spray, causing both suspects to flee.

The suspects are described as Hispanic males, 5’5”, 200 pounds.

EXPOSURE: n On Nov. 13 at 6:55 p.m., a man exposed his genitals to a woman in the 2600 block of Clarendon Boulevard.

The suspect is described as a black male, in his 20s, 5’9”, 160 pounds with short,

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ATTEMPTED MALICIOUS WOUNDING: n On Nov. 15 at 12:38 a.m., a 22-yearold man was followed and threatened by an individual brandishing two machetes in the 5000 block of Columbia Pike, police said.

The suspect – 29-year-old Steven Erick Kindred of Arlington – was arrested and charged with malicious wounding and brandishing. He was held without bond.

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cropped hair. n On Nov. 13 at 10:30 p.m., a man approached a woman in the 2000 block of Wilson Boulevard with his genitals exposed.

The suspect is described as an Hispanic male, 5’7”, with a medium build.

BURGLARY: n On Nov. 10 between 8:15 a.m. and 6:10 p.m., a home in the 1100 block of North Utah Street was burglarized. Numerous items of value were taken. n On Nov. 13 between 8:05 a.m. and 5:45 p.m., a home in the 1300 block of North Troy Street was burglarized. Several items of value were taken. n On Nov. 14 at 4:45 p.m., two individuals entered a home in the 2100 block of 2nd Street South and stole an 18-pack of beer and a NASCAR sweatshirt, police said.

Two Fort Myer men – 21-year-old Benjamin Wilson and 19-year-old Alexander Heintz – were arrested and charged with destruction of property and larceny from auto.

They were held on a military detainer, Arlington police said.

Transportation Notes

AIRPORTS POST STRONG PASSENGER TOTALS: Strong activity at Ronald Rea-

END OF THE LINE NEAR FOR PAPER METRORAIL CARDS: More than 90

percent of Metrorail users already have SmarTrip cards to pay for their rides, but by sometime in 2016, that total will be up to 100 percent.

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) officials are phasing out the sale of traditional paper farecards on a station-by-station basis.

The change already has occurred at a growing number of stations, and is being implemented at others as equipment is upgraded. The last paper-farecard-dispensing machines are slated to be gone

by January.

“SmarTrip is faster, safer, more reliable and less costly than paper fare media,” said Jim Bongiorno, a Metro executive, who also predicted travelers will see faster entries and exits at fare gates once everyone uses SmarTrip cards.

Metro will save money through reduced maintenance costs and cost efficiencies that come with having a single way to pay, Bongiorno said.

SmarTrip cards cost $2 to purchase, but since Metro charges $1 more per rail ride for those currently using paper farecards, the cards will pay for themselves after a single round-trip, Metro officials said.

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gan Washington National and solid, if more restrained, growth at Washington Dulles International in September sent overall passenger growth up 7.4 percent from a year before at the region’s two main airports.

All told, 3.8 million travelers passed through the doors of the two facilities during the month, according to figures reported Nov. 17 by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.

At Reagan National, the 1.89 million passengers represented an increase of 12.7 percent from a year before, and put the airport on solid footing to report another record year in 2015. American Airlines, the dominant carrier, posted a 4.7-percent year-over-year increase, while Southwest, Virgin America and JetBlue all posted significant jumps in passenger counts.

At Dulles, the passenger count of 1.85 million was up 2.5 percent from a year before, as load factors at dominant carrier United made up for a decline in capacity. Dulles also benefited from the arrival of Alaska Airlines last spring, and from increased service by Delta Air Lines.

Both airports saw a growth in domestic passengers – up 13 percent at National and 4.5 percent at Dulles – and slight declines in international travelers (down 3.4 percent at National and 1.5 percent at Dulles).

The overall growth rate at the two airports slightly outpaced the 7.2-percent jump nationally in September, according to figures reported by the Airlines for America trade group.

At Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, which

is operated by the Maryland state government, September’s passenger count of 1.93 million was up 6.8 percent from a year before. Southwest is the dominant carrier there.

For the first nine months of 2015, Reagan National has seen a year-overyear increase of 11.1 percent to 17.2 million, while Dulles is up 0.4 percent to 16.4 million.

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Experts Tout Trade Options Across United Arab Emirates BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

Americans might be inclined to dismiss the Middle East as a violence-prone powder keg, but solid investment opportunities abound in the region, a pair of international-trade experts said Sept. 24.

The panelists, who spoke in Tysons Corner as part of the Sahouri Speaker Series, focused their remarks largely on the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a conglomeration of seven emirates that they said is among the most stable, diverse and tolerant in the region.

“They’ve always been a way port on the Silk Road,” said panelist Danny Sebright, leader of The Cohen Group’s Middle Eastern market and president of the U.S.-UAE Business Council. “They’re now a center and focus for connecting east and west, north and south. This ability to connect people across continents is the New World Order.”

The emirates are a gateway to companies seeking to do business in the Middle East, said panelist Saud Al Nowais, commercial counselor with the UAE Embassy’s Trade and Commercial Office.

“We have experienced local businessmen who can hold your hand and help you,” he said.

UAE is the largest U.S. export market in the Middle East and North Africa, and has bought more than $20 billion worth of U.S. military equipment and services over the last decade.

The emirates are a bulwark against extremism, serving as “the pointy end of the spear,” Sebright said.

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Enrollment in Arlington’s public schools now is at about the same amount as in 1969, when students of the Baby Boom generation were filling county classrooms.

Enrollment in Arlington then declined through the 1970s – a time in which school officials closed and, in some cases, sold off school buildings – before flattening out for much of the 1980s. Modest growth levels from 1990 to 2003 were followed by several years of dips and then a renewed growth spurt.

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The United States and UAE exchange about $28.6 billion worth of goods and services annually, with the vast bulk of that total exported by U.S. companies, Al Nowais said.

Despite the region’s oil exports, about 70 percent of UAE’s economy is based on non-petroleum-related industries, such as aerospace, tourism and finance, Sebright said.

The emirates learned the importance of economic diversification decades ago when its economy, which before the discovery of oil consisted largely of the pearl and diamond trade, was rocked by the invention of cultured pearls in Japan, Al Nowais said.

UAE leaders are trying to make it easier for start-up companies by removing the requirement that they rent an office, Al Nowais said.

The emirates also have special economic zones where service-related foreign companies can operate and still maintain 100-percent ownership, he added.

Sebright urged U.S. business people not to blunder into the UAE expecting immediate results. Instead, they should begin forming relationships, as the culture there dictates, he said.

The panel discussion was sponsored by Sahouri Insurance & Financial, which has had UAE as a client since 1978. Former U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-8th) moderated the proceedings, which drew a standingroom-only crowd of business people who posed detailed questions to the panelists.

UAE is a group of nation states that are “prosperous, stable allies,” Moran said.

“They’re looking for entrepreneurial opportunities for economic growth and a bet-

ter quality of life.”

Moran likened UAE’s economic role and geographical location to those of Singapore and Hong Kong, which serve as gateways to the Chinese economy.

The former congressman related that on a trip to Dubai while in office, a sheik had asked him how Old Town Alexandria’s economy had grown so much during Moran’s tenure as mayor there in the 1980s and early ’90s.

“Liquor licenses,” was Moran’s frank answer.

The sheik pursued other economic-development means in that Muslim nation, but finding a drink now is not difficult in the UAE, Al Nowais said. Because about 80 percent of the emirates’ population con-

sists of foreign workers, the society pursues tolerant policies, he said.

“You can walk into a hotel and get a drink,” Al Nowais said.

The U.S. government’s recent overtures to Iran may open up considerable business opportunities, but the panelists urged investors to use extreme caution until all details of the detente have been finalized.

While the Obama administration soon will allow U.S. companies to begin discussions about future business in that Persian Gulf nation, economic sanctions against Iran likely will not be lifted until six months after an agreement is signed, Sebright said.

“Don’t do anything with Iran until you’ve talked with your attorney first,” Sebright advised.

Today’s elementary-schoolers will be the high-schoolers of the 2020s, and school officials envision that wave rippling through the system. By 2025, the projected number of high-school students will be 50 percent higher than today’s enrollment; growth is expected to be 29 percent at the middleschool level and 14 percent at the elementary-school level during the same period.

Enrollment can be a tricky business, even just a year out, as school officials found out this year – the actual enrollment of 25,238 students was 440 below the number estimated 12 months before. For 2014-15, the actual enrollment had been 376 students above the projection 12 months before.

School leaders say the “accepted standard” for fast-growing school systems is a 2-percent error rate in 12-month-out projections, which the school system has met each of the past three years.

It has been “a remarkable job with accuracy,” Raphael said.

The new data, with its slightly lower projected enrollment, had a ripple effect at the Nov. 16 School Board meeting, as Raphael and board colleague Barbara Kanninen pressed for an option that would reduce the capacity of the new Stratford Junior High School from 1,000 to about 850.

School officials aim to renovate the current H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program back into its original use as a neighborhood middle school, and cutting the size would also cut the cost.

Kanninen said a smaller Stratford would provide more money for other projects in the pipeline.

“We’re looking at $190,000 per seat for these seats; we have to be able to look at the voters and explain why we’re willing to spend this kind of money,” she said.

With the school system pushing up against the county government’s debt limit, “we need to dig in as a board and figure out where we’re going to get funds,” Kanninen said.

But a board majority of Lander, Nancy Van Doren and Chairman Emma ViolandSanchez pushed back, saying the extra capacity was essential to deal with overcrowding.

“We still need 1,000 seats at Stratford,” Van Doren said. “It’s time for us to give significant relief to Swanson and Williamsburg. Those schools are overcrowded. They are absolutely overcrowded.”

Efforts by Kanninen and Raphael to postpone a decision on the concept plan for redeveloping the Stratford campus for two weeks were batted back by other board members, with the 1,000-seat concept design approved on a 3-2 vote.

at 7 p.m. at Kenmore Middle School and Dec. 16 at 7 p.m. at Williamsburg Middle School, with a joint county-school budget forum set for Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. at Washington-Lee High School.

“We always encourage folks to come out,” Superintendent Patrick Murphy said.

School Board members are slated to proffer budget guidance to Murphy on Dec. 17. The superintendent will come back with a draft spending package in February, with School Board passage of a final budget in the spring.

The adopted budget will go into effect

July 1, 2016.

APS Picks Up Communications Awards: Arlington Public Schools’ Department of School and Community Relations recently picked up five awards in a communications competition sponsored by the Chesapeake chapter of the National School Public Relations Association.

The school system was one of just three in the region to receive an Award of Excellence, which honored the “Space of Her Own” Partners in Action video.

Arlington Public Schools also received four honorable-mention awards for its print and digital outreach efforts.

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A final decision on whether the school grounds are incorporated into an historic district will rest with the County Board.

School System Sets Budget Workshops: Arlington school officials will hold three upcoming forums for community members to provide input into the fiscal 2017 budget.

Budget forums are slated for Dec. 1

Fuad Sahouri, who founded a speaker series to education business leaders about the United Arab Emirates, receives praise from former U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-8th) during the recent forum.

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Whether its cleaning out locker rooms, looking over film one last time, collecting those final uniforms, or reorganizing weight rooms, FOOTBALL the preparations for the 2016 football seasons has already begun for Arlington’s four high school programs.

Other than the Capitol Conference champion Wakefield Warriors (8-3), the 2015 campaign was not the best for the other three teams. The Washington-Lee Generals made the playoffs and finished 5-6. The Yorktown Patriots were 3-7 and the Bishop O’Connell Knights 1-9.

Each team graduates key players, but have some important returners as well.

“We lose a lot, but we’ll have a lot back to give us a good starting point,” said Wakefield coach Wayne Hogwood, whose team enjoyed consecutive winning seasons and playoff berths for the first time in school history.

Wakefield returns its quarterback and a number of other starters.

Washington-Lee also returns its starting quarterback and some key linemen, but with holes to fill at other skill positions.

Yorktown had its first losing regular season in years this fall. From that team, the Patriots are expected to return some

Andrew Malone, right, is expected to return as the starting quarterback for the Washington-Lee PHOTO BY DEB KOLT Generals when the 2016 high school football season begins next fall.

key linemen but lose many of its skill players, including the starting quarterback.

O’Connell was a young team this fall and had a first-year head coach in Colin Disch. That meant there were learning curves in 2015.

With many returning players expected

next fall, the Knights’ record is expected to improve and tighten a defense that allowed a lot of points this fall.

The coaching staffs of all four teams are already busy working on, and thinking about, what needs to be done and improved upon for the upcoming 2016 season.

Wakefield Senior Achieves Goal, Runs in State Meet DAVE FACINOLI Staff Writer

earlier.

“Her big goal all along was to make it to the state meet,” Wakefield coach Bob Strauss said. “That was success for her, and icing on the cake. She worked extremely hard in the offseason and during the season to get to states.”

Said Dunbar: “It’s rewarding because this doesn’t happen a lot at Wakefield.”

Dunbar finished the state meet despite getting a cramp early in the race. “The cramp stayed with me and hurt, but I kept pushing,” she said.

Dunbar qualified for state by placing 18th at the 5A North Region meet on the Panorama Farms course in 20:58.

“She ran hard at regions on an extremely tough course,” Strauss said.

Prior to that race, Dunbar was fifth at the Capitol Conference championships at Burke Lake Park in 19:39, reaching a career-long milestone by breaking the 20-minute mark, and qualifying for the region meet for the first time.

“Lydia stepped it up at the conference meet, and really started believing in herself,” Strauss said.

That performance made the runner refocus her goals. “That gave me confidence, and I started thinking about qualifying for the state,” Dunbar said.

Strauss praised the runner for sticking with the sport. She joined Wakefield’s team as an eighth-grader.

“She stayed with it and kept improving every year,” Strauss said.

That was the case in Arlington County this fall, when five unique achievements were reached by either high school teams or individuals.

Among them. n For the first time in school history, the Wakefield High golf team qualified to play in a region tournament and made a solid showing. n For the first time in many years, a golfer from Washington-Lee, freshman Jae Song, qualified to play in region competition, which was a different classification than Wakefield’s. Song shot 78-76–154 to tie for 18th. He missed qualifying for the state tournament by just a couple of strokes. He said his goal next year is to earn a state berth. n In football, the Wakefield Warriors qualified for the playoffs for the second year in a row, which was a first for the program, as was the conference championship the team won. The Warriors finished first in the Capitol Conference with a perfect 6-0 record, including two shutouts. Wakefield lost its first-round game in region playoff action. n In boys soccer, the top-seeded Bishop O’Connell Knights reached the championship game of the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association’s Division I state tournament for the first time in school history. The Knights lost in overtime to Paul VI to finish with a 2-1 record in the tourney.

Before this season, O’Connell had never even reached the semifinals of the state competition.

“That was one of our big goals, to do well in the state. We thought we had the team to do so this year,” O’Connell coach Chris Jennings said. n In girls cross country, senior Lydia Dunbar became the first female runner from Wakefield to qualify and run in a state meet since at least the 1989 season, according to longtime Warriors’ head coach Bob Strauss. Dunbar qualified with strong performances at conference and region meets.

During the state meet, Dunbar developed a cramp early in the race, but ran through the discomfort to finish.

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Highlighted by running in state and region cross-country meets for the first time, CROSS COUNTRY L y d i a Dunbar’s senior season was her best over a five-year career for the Wakefield Warriors.

Dunbar concluded her high school cross-country career with a 58th in 21:20 at the Virginia High School League’s 5A girls state meet on the Great Meadow course in The Plains. As a result, Dunbar became the first female runner from Wakefield to participate in a state crosscountry meet since at least 1989, maybe

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High School Roundup WAKEFIELD FOOTBALL PLAYERS HONORED: There

were four Wakefield High School football players on offense and five on defense chosen first-team all-Capitol Conference for their performances this season.

Heading the first-team offensive players was Offenive Player of the Year Leon Young, a senior runnning back.

He rushed for 1,948 yards this fall.

Others on the first team were linemen Kerby Miles, Ryan Jones and Julius Johnson.

First-team players on defense were linemen Maurice Gaskins, Anthony Tham and George Brooks, along with linebackers Chris Robertson and Kevin Greenwell.

Second-team on offense were lineman Ian Harris, tight end Lamont McDowell, receiver Elijah Weske and kicker Alex Hendel.

Making second-team on defense were linebacker Trent Howard and defensive back Mingo Peterson.

Honorable-mention players on offense from Wakefield were Robertson as a receiver and quarterback Colton Poythress.

WASHINGTON-LEE ATHLETES SIGN: Washington-Lee

High School seniors Emma Mobley and Will Burgess recently signed college letters of intent to play at the Division II levels during a recent signing ceremony at the school.

Mobley will play women’s volleyball at Fairmont State University. Burgess, an infielder, will play baseball at Shepherd University.

Both schools are in West Virginia and compete in the Mountain East Conference.

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Washington-Lee HIgh School’s Emma Mobley and Will Burgess signed college letters of intent.

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ICE HOCKEY RESULTS: The Washington-Lee Generals Wakefield High’s Leon Young was chosen as the Capitol Conference Offensive Player of the Year.

PHOTO BY DEB KOLT O’CONNELL ATHLETES SIGN: Nine Bishop O’Connell

High School athletes recently signed college letters of intent during a ceremony at the school to play sports in college.

Boys basketball player Ako Adams will play at Rice University; Janiya Clemmons (basketball), Columbia University; Randall Gaskins (basketball), St. Francis University; Olivia Giaquinto (softball), Harvard University; Alicia Gonzales (basketball), Case Western Reserve University; Austin Kunde (baseball), Virginia Military Institute; Patrick Ryan (baseball), College of William and Mary; Jasmine Taylor (basketball), Boston College; and Raffi Vazquez (baseball), Coastal Carolina

are off to a 2-0 start after defeating Robinson, 6-2, in their most recent match.

Goals by Spencer Brown, John Petrich and Logan Ehrlich gave the Generals a 3-1 lead after the first period. Ehrlich and Petrich added other goals, and senior Cole Praver recorded his first goal of the season in the victory. n The Yorktown Patriot opened their season with a 2-2 tie against the Langley Saxons.

Langley took the lead in the first period, 1-0. Yorktown scored the only goal in the second period, on a Matt Neuman tally, assisted by Joe Patterson. Langley took the lead 2-1 in the third. Yorktown countered when Nick Puglisi scored on assists from Teddy Dahlquist and Frank Lackey. Goalie Dylan Ambrogi faced 20 shots for Yorktown.

UNITED BLUE WIN SOCCER TOURNAMENT: The Ar-

lington United Blue under-15 boys soccer team won the Superior Division at the Capital Fall Classic in Richmond.

The team defeated Liberty Elite from North Carolina, 3-0, in championship game. The United Blue was 2-0-1 in pool play, scoring 10 goals.

The players were Liam Matheny, Dylan Kalten, Ryan Gallant, Luke Wallace, Peter Scarborough, Matthew Lesstrang, Tommy McInerney, Matias Dieguez, Saul Molina, Bryce Wilkom, Joseph Purvis, Israel Rivera, James Delaney, Bryan Moreno, Garrett Cox and Casey Teter. The coach was Danny Wadeson.

ARLINGTON RESIDENTS COMPETE IN AQUATHLON:

Arlington residents Anne and Donn Viviani competed in the World Aquathlon Championship in Chicago in September. Anne won the bronze medal and Donn was 11th in the 65-69 age category.

In October, Anne and Donn each won silver medals at the National Aquathlon Championship in Oklahoma, and qualified to compete in the next year’s World Championships in Mexico.

The Aquathlon usually consists of a one-mile swim and 10K run.

ARLINGTON SPORTS HALL OF FAME NOMINATIONS:

The Arlington Sports Hall of Fame, established in 1958, is accepting nominations for induction in 2016. Candi-

The United Blue won the Capital Fall Classic in Richmond.

dates may be living or deceased. The deadline to enter a nomination is Dec. 1.

People interested in nominating an athlete, coach, contest official or other sports-related person can obtain an official nomination form at www.arlsportshof.org or by writing: Executive Director, Arlington Sports Hall of Fame, P.O. Box 101321, Arlington, Va. 22210.

ARLINGTON BABE RUTH NEWS: Registration is open

now for girls and boys ages 4 to 12 and at all skill levels at the Arlington Babe Ruth Web site at www.arlingtonbaberuth.com.

Scholarships and financial aid are available. Register

by Dec. 31 for the early-bird discount. Practices begin in early March and games will begin in early April.

FOOTBALL KICKOFF WITH AUTHOR: There will be a free football kickoff at Arlington’s Central Library on Dec. 3 at 7 p.m.

Anne and Donn Viviani competed in the recent World Aquathlon Championships and had strong finishes.

People of all ages can gather for an evening of football and fun with Suzy Beamer Bohnert, author of Game-Day Youth: Learning Football’s Lingo. Admission is free.

BASKETBALL COACHES NEEDED: Volunteer basketball

coaches are needed for grades 3-5 in Arlington’s youth basketball program for both boys and girls teams. Those interested can call (703) 228-1818 or e-mail mcahill@arlingtonva.us. Coaches can register at www.youthleaguesusa.com/arlington/registration.html.

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M.J. STEWART: Yorktown High School

graduate M.J. Stewart is a sophomore defensive back for the University of North Carolina football team this fall.

Stewart has played in eight games. He has three interceptions, has broken up 12 passes, forced one fumble, has a sack, and has made 18 tackles.

DREW POWELL: Wakefield High School

graduate Drew Powell was chosen as the Offensive Player of the Year of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association in Division II college football this fall.

Powell was a 6-foot-3, 225-pound senior quarterback for Livingstone College in Salisbury, N.C. For the season, Powell passed for 2,166 yards and 15 touchdowns, and he ran for 614 more yards and eight scores. He completed 184 of

315 passes. Powell was 28 of 35 passing for 364 yards in one game, and 35 of 62 for 380 and 53 rushing in his final game.

KAMRIN MOORE: Bishop O’Connell

High School graduate Kamrin Moore is a sophomore defensive back for the Boston College football team.

In eight games, Moore has broken up four passes and made 25 tackles, includ-

ing two for losses.

JOE McBRIDE: Yorktown High School

graduate Joe McBride was a freshman quarterback for the Division III Randolph-Macon College football team this fall.

McBride played in six games. He was 46 of 72 passing for 477 yards and two touchdowns.

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Washington-Lee players and fans celebrate after a victory over Arlington rival Yorktown.

Washington-Lee’s Ceneca Espinoza runs through a hole during a game against Yorktown.

Wakefield’s George Brooks grabs a quick drink during a time out against Potomac Falls.

Bishop O’Connell’s DeJuan Ellis hands off to Nick Shaw during a game against McDonogh.

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Washington-Lee’s Ethan Hall pulls down Thomas Richardson short of the end zone.

Wakefield High School’s Leon Young breaks through a hole in the defense against Potomac Falls during a 5A North Region Tournament playoff game.

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Items taken from the archives of the Northern Virginia Sun. Find out more on local history at the Web site www.arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org.

November 29, 1944: n Next Tuesday is the deadline for payment of county taxes. So far, about 36 percent of tax bills have been paid, the treasurer says. n The county health officer estimates that about 10,000 gallons of milk are consumed each day in Arlington. n County Democrats are leading a petition drive to have the Circuit Court redistrict Arlington voting precincts. n Gov. Darden wants to use state funds to shore up the teacher retirement system.

November 25, 1959: n The Netherlands Carillon could be completed and chiming away by Christmas, a gift to the U.S. from the Dutch people. n Washington-Lee and Wakefield French students have to raise about $300 per person for airfare, hotel and tours for a planned spring trip to Paris. n The 25th annual Old Oaken Bucket football game between Washington-Lee and George Washington high schools is set for tomorrow. n Virginia’s attorney general and his wife are leading a state delegation on a 13-day “goodwill cruise” through the Caribbean and to Bermuda.

November 26, 1968: n U.S. Rep. Joel Broyhill (R-10th) says 1968 brought “crime, discontent, disorder, confusion, continuous street incidents, school disruption and chaos” to the District of Columbia this year, and is urging President-elect Nixon to sack D.C. Mayor Walter Washington. n The Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority’s plans for its newest park, Potomac Overlook, call for leaving much of the 65 acres in a natural state. n On TV tonight: “Hazel,” “Julia,” “Mod Squad,” “The Doris Day Show,” “The Red Skelton Show” and “60 Minutes.”

November 25, 1977: n State liquor authorities have banned the sale of Billy Beer in Virginia, saying it promotes the endorsement of alcohol by celebrities. n Food prices in Northern Virginia are rising more rapidly than in the rest of the nation. n Community members are concerned about a state plan to require closure of Arlington Hospital’s maternity ward.

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MYTHICAL CREATURES © StatePoint Media ACROSS 1. Gang 6. “Back To The Future” actress 9. Femme fatale 13. Bader Ginsberg and Babe 14. Like Mother Hubbard 15. Small, olive-gray bird 16. Abraham’s sacrifice 17. E.T. transporter 18. It happens at a given place and time 19. *Mythic oceanic temptress 21. *Flying stallion 23. Heat unit 24. Doe’s mate 25. *Number of heads on Ravana in Hindu mythology 28. Dripping faucet sound 30. Worn by train station porter 35. Done after you sow?

37. Curved molding 39. Voice of Lamb Chop 40. Face-to-face exam 41. Shamu and such 43. Highest point 44. Flax flower genus 46. Republic of Ireland 47. Laughing on the inside via text 48. Class action 50. ____ a coin 52. *A Cyclops does it out of only one eye 53. Like a gossipmonger 55. Last letter 57. *Much-hunted ungulate 61. *Only half man 65. Green side

66. Hole puncher 68. *Witch’s condemnation 69. Serpentine 70. Civilian aviation agency 71. Utopia, e.g.

72. One of three Rs 73. Funerary vase 74. Like kale and spinach greens

DOWN 1. “____ and proper” 2. British river 3. Night shooter 4. Emotional punishment 5. Protective embankment 6. *Like the voice of mythic Greek Stentor

7. *Pointy-eared creature 8. Choose and follow 9. ____ la Vida 10. *God of war, son of Zeus 11. Carte du jour 12. Chef’s vessel 15. Chills on the couch 20. Inuit shelter 22. *A Hobbit’s is slightly pointed 24. Point out 25. *Big-haired Scandinavian 26. Like Halloween night 27. Indian breads 29. *Manlike man-eater 31. Lentil soup 32. Head of crime syndicate, pl.

33. Mountain ridge 34. *Dust-sprinkler 36. Positive sign 38. ____ of Sandwich 42. Carpe in “Carpe diem” 45. Poet’s death lament 49. And not 51. Writing implement 54. Mix-up 56. Chopin’s composition 57. Brezhnev’s domain 58. Back of the neck 59. Pelvic bones 60. Joker, e.g.

61. Reunion group 62. A in A = b x h 63. Sky defender 64. Count on 67. *The son of Hera was the god of ___

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55+ News SENIOR CENTERS CLOSED FOR HOLIDAY: Arlington County government se-

nior centers will be closed on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 26-27, in observance of Thanksgiving.

TRAVELERS HEAD TO CHRISTMAS PRODUCTION: Arlington County 55+ Travel

will offer a trip to the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas for a performance of “Chanticleer Christmas” on Saturday, Nov. 28. The cost is $62. For information, call (703) 228-4748.

TRAVELERS HEAD TO LEESBURG OUTLET: Arlington County 55+ Travel will

host a trip to the Leesburg Outlets on Wednesday, Dec. 2. The cost is $8. For information, call (703) 228-4748.

WORKSHOP DISCUSSES WAYS TO FIND INSPIRATION: Ways to find inspiration

and motivation will be discussed on Wednesday, Dec. 2 at noon at Arlington Mill Senior Center. For information, call (703) 228-7369.

SING-ALONG SLATED: A sing-along with

guitarist Jim Klein will be presented on Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 11 a.m. at Culpepper Garden Senior Center. For information, call (703) 228-4403.

Dreaming of a New Job but Don’t Want the World to Know?

will host a card-writing effort to troops overseas on Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 10 a.m.

For information, call (703) 228-5722.

FORUM LOOKS AT MAKING HOLIDAYS HEALTHIER: Healthy holiday treats will

be discussed on Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 1 p.m. at Walter Reed Senior Center. For information, call (703) 228-0955.

SAFETY TIPS FOR HOLIDAYS DETAILED:

Holiday safety trips for the home will be discussed on Thursday, Dec. 3 at 10 a.m. at Walter Reed Senior Center. For information, call (703) 228-0955.

FUNERAL PLANNING DISCUSSED: Funeral planning is the topic of discussion on Thursday, Dec. 3 at 1 p.m. at Walter Reed Senior Center. For information, call (703) 228-0955.

BENEFITS OF JOURNALING DETAILED:

The benefits of journaling will be discussed on Friday, Dec. 4 at 1:30 p.m. at Aurora Hills Senior Center. For information, call (703) 228-5722.

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