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Neighborhoods Could Get A Quicker Plow Response Under Revised Battle Plan SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

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The Patrick Henry building, located adjacent to the Arlington Career Center north of Columbia Pike, could then take in Montessori students from Drew, freeing up about 400 seats at the latter school to ease elementary-school overcrowding

Residential streets will be higher on the priority scale the next time a major snowstorm hits Arlington, under a new strategy by the county government to rebound from a January snow response that generated middling grades from residents.

County officials announced March 15 that, in cases where large amounts of snow fall in a concentrated period, they will deploy plows in neighborhoods earlier than has been the case in the past. Previously, neighborhood streets got attention only after all arterial routes were passable.

That change, and other efforts under consideration, “may require some additional resources,” Deputy County Manager James Schwartz said in a presentation to County Board members. But county staff will not be asking for additional funds in the fiscal 2017 budget, hoping to rely on other revenue sources, including the federal government.

The Jan. 22-23 storm, which dropped 2 feet or more of snow on Northern Virginia, cost the Arlington government about $4 million in response costs, County Manager Mark Schwartz said. County officials are hopeful of recouping about half the cost

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Yorktown High School’s Gordon Coates has his eye on the Langley goal during the Liberty Conference boys lacrosse game on March 17 in Arlington. Langley’s Michael Levetown is defending Coates. Yorktown won, 9-8, in the second overtime on a goal by C.J. Stowell. See a game story in Sports, along with coverage of other spring high-school sports.

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Superintendent Backs So. Arlington Plan

Student Body at Patrick Henry Would Move to New Building in 2019 SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Arlington Superintendent Patrick Murphy has announced his support for a proposal to move students currently attending Patrick Henry Elementary School to a new building nearby, then move Montessori students attending

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Murphy on March 17 announced staff backing for proposals made in 2015 by the South Arlington Working Group, recommending that Patrick Henry students be relocated to the new school, set to be built adjacent to Thomas Jefferson

County Aims to Make Up for Loss of Pike Supermarket SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

The chairman of the Arlington County Board says she wants to find a way for residents of the westCOUNTY ern end of Columbia NOTES Pike, especially the immigrant community, to have easy access to groceries during the redevelopment of a major parcel.

The existing Food Star supermarket at the intersection of Columbia Pike and South George Mason Drive will fall to the wrecking ball to make way for a mixeduse development approved by County Board members in February. While a new

supermarket is slated to replace it, the immediate community could be left without a close-by food store for two years of construction.

“I’m worried about that,” said County Board Chairman Libby Garvey. “We need to figure out a way to keep [access to] some of the products people need – high-quality, low-cost vegetables and meats.”

At a recent campaign event held on Columbia Pike, Garvey said county officials had been making overtures to property owners in the vicinity, to see if a food store – even a small one – could be placed nearby. She suggested that one Central America-based grocery chain is showing an interest in coming in.

The Food Star is a lifeline to those on the western end of Columbia Pike who do not own vehicles and would have to rely on mass-transit to get to other options.

But it doesn’t just serve that largely immigrant community, Garvey said.

“I go there, my daughter goes there – I like it,” said Garvey, a Fairlington resident.

The new project set for the corner will include 365 apartment units spread over six stories, a 50,000-square-foot grocery store, 31,000 additional feet of groundfloor retail and a public square and open space. There also will be 604 parking spaces, some at the surface and some in a three-level, underground parking garage.

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Rendering of planned redevelopment on Columbia Pike at South Walter Reed Drive.

The redevelopment is taking place at a time when government officials are facing criticism from some that too much of Arlington’s affordable-housing effort is being targeted at the west end of Columbia Pike, rather than at other neighborhoods throughout the county. The apartments approved as part of the new project – tentatively dubbed “Village Center” – will all be market-rate, rather than subsidized.

County Officials Buy Property to Augment Parkland: The Arlington government will spend nearly $900,000 to acquire and clear a quarter acre of land for expansion of Chestnut Hills Park in the Yorktown neighborhood.

The latest acquisition proves “Arlington is serious about looking for opportunities to add to our parkland and open space,” County Board Chairman Libby Garvey said after the unanimous vote on March 15 to spend $820,000 to acquire an older home and the land it sits on.

Government officials expect to spend an additional $5,000 on closing costs and about $50,000 to tear down the house and remove construction debris.

It’s the second time in a year that the government has made a deal with a landowner to acquire an existing home, tear it down and add the open space to the 4.4-acre park. County officials obtained three other parcels adjoining the park in the 1990s.

County Board Members Make Appointments: County Board members on Feb. 23 made the following appointments to advisory boards and commissions.

Christine Schaubach and Anne O’Brien were reappointed to the Arlington Partnership for Children, Youth and Families. Caroline Romano was reappointed to the Commission on the Status of Women. Frank Haltiwanger has been appointed to the Community Services Board. George Bailey was reappointed to the Civil Service Commission. Lincoln Cummings have been reappointed to the Community Development Citizens Advisory Committee. Vivek Shinde Patil and Michael Weiss have been appointed to the Economic Development Commission.

Wayne Kates has been appointed and Darnell Carpenter, Benjamin Barksdale, Mark Treadaway, John Welsh and Brian Frickie have been reappointed to the Fire Prevention Code Board of Appeals. Stephen Baker and Paul Holland have been reappointed to the Fiscal Affairs Advisory Commission. Carmela Hamm and John Peck have been appointed to the Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board.

Thomas Gibson has been appointed to the Tenant-Landlord Commission.

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Rockin’ Chairs Bring Back Tunes from the ‘50s and ‘60s SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

If your taste in music runs to the classics – and by “classics” we mean Elvis, the Beatles, Rick Nelson, the Platters, Bobby Darin, Roy Orbison and girl groups like the Shirelles – head to Lee Senior Center at 10 a.m. on the first and third Wednesdays of the month.

Grab a seat and enjoy an open rehearsal of The Rockin’ Chairs, the in-house band that focuses on the 1950s and ’60s – with some surprises thrown in.

“We do a lot of rehearsing; every once in a while, something works and it sounds OK,” chuckled Chuck Vasaly, a retired attorney and organizer of the group, which brings together musicians who share a common love for the era they specialize in.

Having been performing for about a year, The Rockin’ Chairs are a relative newcomer to the senior center, which hosts other musical groups featuring seasoned citizens, focusing on everything from country to blues.

But it’s the pop tunes of the early rockand-roll era that drew folks on the morning of March 9.

“This is our music,” said Myrna Manolis, a staffer at the senior center who considers herself a big fan of The Rockin’ Chairs.

“They’re not getting paid – just with

Above left: Joann Hutchinson (vocals and keyboard) and Kim Kline (vocals and guitar) are among members of the Rockin’ Chairs, a group that performs at Lee Senior Center. Above right: Bob Fishburne provides percussion. Below: Chuck Vasaly is a versatile member of the group.

our admiration,” Manolis said.

The morning’s warm-up song was “In the Still of the Night,” a song that reached a modest No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1956 but later became a staple of the doo-wop genre.

Later on in the bill came bigger hits like “Dream Baby” by Orbison, which hit No. 4 on the Billboard pop chart in 1962 and has been covered extensively since.

Every once in a while, “we sneak songs in that go back a little further,” said Vasaly, pointing to “That Lucky Old Sun,” a 1949 hit for Frankie Layne that later was covered by, among others, Ray Charles and Johnny Cash.

Among the bandmates, there is plenty of interplay and at times robust debate related to what works and what doesn’t.

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Tempos are tried faster and slower, with different accompaniments.

“I like the upbeat stuff,” said Joann Hutchinson, who plays keyboard and sings in the band.

But the discussions never get heated. “We’re our own fan club,” joked Vasaly, who is the definition

of a multi-tasker; he plays guitar, saxophone and harmonica, sings and runs the board.

The rehearsals are designed to ready the group for gigs, including one at a senior-living center at Tall Oaks in Reston next month.

Other musical groups based at Lee Senior Center include Just Playin’ Country (which meets the first and third Mondays and Fridays of the month), Caroleers (Fridays) and Blues Kats Boomers (second and fourth Mondays).

“There’s quite a bit of musical opportunities for people,” Vasaly said.

In addition to Vasaly and Hutchinson, members of The Rockin’ Chairs include, among others, Bob Fishburne, Louise Ingram, Jim Kline and Jeff Slottow.

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GOP Candidates Try to Emerge at Beyer Alternative

Also: Republican Contenders for Convention Delegates State Their Preferences SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

The putative front-runner for the Republican nomination to take on U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-8th) is not hiding frustration at his intra-party challenger, as the two candidates gear up for the GOP’s district convention in May. “We need to be focused on the issues that matter,” Charles Hernick said during March 16 remarks in front of the Arlington County Republican Committee.

Hernick, who seems to have the backing of many in the 8th District Republican leadership ranks, took the stage after his opponent, Mike Webb, delivered a somewhat stream-of-consciousness stump speech calling on the party faithful to rally to him rather than Hernick.

“Some people just like to complain,” Webb said, saying that for Republicans to have a chance in the district, “we’re going to have to stand on our tippy-toes and get a little bigger.”

Republicans will decide which of the two will move on to the general election during a May 7 district convention.

Either way, odds are stacked against the GOP. Republicans generally pick up about 35 percent of the vote in the 8th District’s congressional races, and Democrats are united behind Beyer, who won an easy victory in 2014 to succeed U.S. Rep. Jim Moran.

Hernick, an energy consultant, has laid out a platform focused on small business and economic freedom. He said it was his campaign, not Webb’s, that could broaden the tent to draw support away from Democrats.

“We’re getting more people involved in the race,” Hernick said. “We’ve got to bring that can-do attitude to Washington.”

Webb, a U.S. Army veteran, called on Republicans to “reach for the sky” and take a chance on his bid for office.

For information on the convention, to be held at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, see the Web site at http:// vagop8cd.org/2016-8th-district-convention/.

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Mike Webb (left) and Charles Hernick are vying for the Republican nomination to take on U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-8th).

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But 2016 is not most years, as the Republican National Convention is potentially headed to a contested battle for the first time since 1976.

“Who knows what we will face when we get to Cleveland?” said Douglas Faulkner, one of 19 candidates seeking three delegate slots from the 8th District at the national convention, to be held July 18-21 in the swing state of Ohio.

At the March 16 Arlington County Republican Committee meeting, prospective delegates received two minutes to make their pitch. The three delegates will be selected at the 8th District Republican Convention, to be held May 7 at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington.

No matter their personal preferences, those elected as delegates will be required to cast their votes on the first ballot based on results of the March 1 Virginia Republican primary. Donald Trump won statewide, although he trailed Marco Rubio and John Kasich in the 8th District.

Should either Trump or Ted Cruz score the needed 1,237 delegates when the first roll-call vote arrives in Cleveland, the process ends and a nominee is crowned. If not, delegates will be able to vote as they see fit – so long as they adhere to election laws imposed by their home states.

The convention rules themselves could be a moving target all the way up to, and during, the convention.

“It’s very complicated – there has been change after change imposed,” said Morton Blackwell, who since 1988 has represented Virginia on the Republican National Committee.

Blackwell – who was the youngest delegate pledged to Barry Goldwater in the 1964 Republican convention at San Francisco’s Cow Palace – is critical of existing rules, enacted in 2012, that don’t permit delegate votes to be counted for any presidential candidate who hasn’t won a majority of delegates from at least eight states. (That rule was put in place by backers of Mitt Romney in order to keep

Rand Paul’s name from being placed in nomination four summers ago.)

That rule, which Blackwell tried but failed to get changed at an RNC meeting in January, has “a very important effect that people do not realize,” he said.

So far, only Trump has met the threshold, with Cruz likely to do so before the nomination season is over.

Blackwell doesn’t like the rule, but said at this point it would be wrong to change it.

“It would be widely, and correctly, viewed as a way to change the result” of the will of voters in primaries and caucuses, he said.

Trump may have the most delegates nationally, but he was not getting any love from those vying to be delegates from the 8th District.

The New York developer “does not support conservative values,” said Charlie Keller, who first supported Rubio and is now behind Kasich. He called the Florida senator and Ohio governor “commonsense conservative candidates who have a vision for the future.”

“I’m going to support a conservative candidate who can win,” Keller said.

Tom Bolvin, who previously served in the House of Delegates representing Fairfax County, is a Cruz-booster.

“Ted is the only true conservative who can win in November,” he said.

Bill Cleveland, a former vice mayor of Alexandria whose motto in this campaign is “Send Cleveland to Cleveland,” took a broader view of which candidates he could support. “Anyone but Donald Trump,” he said.

Cleveland told the GOP rank-and-file he wasn’t losing sleep over the potentially negative consequences of a drawn-out nomination fight. “We’re going to win” in November, he predicted.

Also vying to be delegates to the convention are Susan Allen, Sam Amber, Erin Anderson, Grace Chung Becker, Jack Blakely, Barbara Bowie-Whitman, Scott Cameron, Gerry Chandler, Ford Chinworth, Michael Maibach, Dan Rinzel, Daniel Runde, John Scally, Tommy Valentine and Angie Youngen. In addition to the three delegates, the 8th District also will send three alternates to the national convention.

Contested conventions used to be the norm in politics. The 1920 Democratic convention, held in San Francisco, needed 44 ballots to nominate James Cox for president and Franklin Roosevelt for vice president, but the party outdid itself four years later at Madison Square Garden in

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Morton Blackwell, a member of the Republican National Committee, discussed the state of planning for the Republican National Convention at a recent meeting of the Arlington County Republican Committee.

New York, requiring a record 103 ballots to nominate John Davis and Charles Bryan. Cox was defeated by Republican Warren G. Harding and Davis by Republican Calvin Coolidge in the 1920 and 1924 general elections.

While Democrats had some of the longest convention battles, Republicans had the most recent: Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan battled for delegates throughout the spring of 1976, with the outcome still in doubt when the party convened that summer in Kansas City.

In the end, though, the GOP required a single ballot to nominate President Ford, who scored 1,187 delegates to 1,070 for Reagan. Ford went on to close a huge gap against Democrat Jimmy Carter, only to fall just short in the general election.

Four years later, Reagan – after surviving a bruising primary season – went on to crush Carter and serve two terms.

MORE COVERAGE

There’s a great deal on the political horizon: Democratic nomination battles for School Board and County Board; 8th District Democratic and Republican conventions; state and national political conventions; and then the start of the general-election campaign.

The Sun Gazette is on top of the news with coverage in print each week, and updated information in the “Politics” section of the Web site at www.insidenova.com.

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Our View: Get the Metro System Back on Track

Whether safety actually necessitated the total shutdown of the Metrorail system for 29 hours March 16-17 has been, and will be, debated at length.

The broader question, however, is the overall health of the troubled agency that oversees regional rail and bus service. There are two relatively predictable, and at first glance incompatible, points of view: • The system has been a mismanaged mess for years, has lacked sufficient oversight, is resistant to change and, as a result, should not have a single extra dollar put into it until the endemic problems have been wrung from the system.

• Many of the troubles of the Metro system are the fault of a paucity of funding on infrastructure, which has let the transit network deteriorate. More funding – and lots of it – is what is needed.

Three paragraphs above, we described these two points of view as seemingly incompatible. But they’re not. In fact, they both are correct.

Voters and the politicians who hold the purse strings rarely put transportation infrastructure at the front of the line at budget time, and it shows. Roads, bridges, tunnels and mass transit all are aging, and the cost of addressing problems continues to rise.

At the same time, critics – and they are as disparate as U.S. Reps. Barbara Comstock (R-10th) and Gerald Connolly (D-11th) – are right to suggest that a large part of the problems specific to the Metro system is a culture that, nearly from the beginning, has never focused on accountability. Staffing costs are bloated and those employees who are customer-focused (and we applaud them) often find themselves swamped

by a culture that does not reward their efforts.

It should come as no surprise that jurisdictions throughout the suburbs are working as fast as they can to cut costs by moving transit service to the local level (replacing Metrobus routes with Fairfax Connector, Arlington Transit of DASH, for instance). In nearly every case, doing so saves a bundle and provides for more local accountability.

The Metro system, with some new board members and a pricey new general manager in place, needs to make many more reforms before there should be serious thought to expanded capital investment. Thus, we agree with those who say more money is not the answer until reforms occur.

If starving the patient in the short term is the best medicine to return it to long-term health, so be it.

Work Together to Ease Fears of New Gun Store

Editor: We are all agreed that there is too much gun violence in America, too many shooting tragedies, far too many guns in the hands of irresponsible individuals. How do we solve the problem?

By cultivating responsible gun culture, or by prohibiting gun shops altogether?

The new gun shop on North Pershing Drive in Lyon Park has awakened the ire of the community and perplexed the County Board. The Lyon Park Citizens Association voted to oppose the newcomer. Members of Arlington’s legislative delegation have penned a letter to the shop’s landlord, accusing the gun shop owner of “potential nefarious and illegal activities.” All of this without even discussing the issue with gun-shop owner Dennis Pratte!

I have spoken with Mr. Pratte. Nova

Armory is a family owned and operated business. Mr. Pratte and his family are as concerned with gun safety as you and I. They will be holding classes in gun safety and responsible gun use. They hope that by contributing to a responsible gun culture, they can help counteract gun violence.

No individual will ever purchase a gun from Nova Armory without first passing the federally mandated background check and fulfilling the waiting period. This is the law.

No out-of-state buyer shall ever exit the shop with a newly purchased firearm. Federal law requires that Nova Armory ship that purchase to a gun dealer in the buyer’s home state, a gun dealer who is actively registered with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. There is nothing careless or

underhanded about the process.

The idea of strangers from urban centers up and down the East Coast showing up in Arlington to make illicit purchases of firearms from Nova Armory is simply wrong. That isn’t going to happen.

The shop has extensive security features. All merchandise shall be locked in a steel gun-safe at night. The shop’s employees come from the military and law enforcement.

We who live in Arlington can expect protests on opening day (set for March 26), since the public is divided on the issue of Second Amendment rights.

Hopefully, working together, the community can minimize any unpleasantness.

Ken Suskin Arlington

Turn to Each Other to Build a More Prosperous Future Editor: On a recent walk, I saw a bright white eagle in the clouds looking down on us, and it eased my mind. It reminded me that we are a nation of laws and opportunity and that we, as a nation, will survive whatever president we get at the next election.

Except the American Indians, we are all immigrants searching for an opportunity to make our lives better and set up the opportunity for our children and grandchildren to make their lives hap-

py and worthwhile. There is no royalty here, there is no place for us to “go back to”; we are this country, and it is us.

To make it better, we need to look to each other. Help those who can’t help themselves, inspire our children to do exceptional things in their lives; but, at all times, respect others and try to understand why they believe the way they do. This will make a better world.

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have been hard to understand, because it seems people are forgetting that our nation is a mixture of many faiths, politics and social standards. We are a nation of individual states, and one state or faith can’t expect to make all the others follow the ways of their community or faith.

As long as we follow the laws, we should be able to have a successful and strong country.

Laurel Wessman Arlington

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School Officials Mull Options as High-School Crowding Hits SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Is a 4 a.m. wake-up call on the horizon for some future Arlington high-school students?

As the school system works to address both increasing enrollment and evolving needs of a diverse SCHOOL student body, one that continues BOARD idea to percolate is to run NOTES classes from early morning to late evening, with students either taking classes in morning and afternoon shifts, or dropping into classes throughout the morning, afternoon and evening.

County Board Chairman Libby Garvey said she’s interested in finding ways to have schools run from as early as 5 a.m. to 11 p.m., allowing facilities to be used to their maximum advantage.

“We’re going to have to change the model of what we do – make it flexible [for students],” the board chairman said at a recent campaign event.

Garvey is not without some skin in the game: She spent 15 years on the School Board before being elected to the County Board, and the body she now chairs is responsible for funding about 80 percent of the nearly-$600-million-a-year cost of the county school system.

She said running classes earlier in the day would benefit those, including immigrant students, who needed to work in the afternoons and evenings. And using classrooms longer during the day might help avoid the need to build a new high school, especially at a time when government debt levels already are approaching self-imposed limits.

School Board members say the idea is not totally far-fetched, and is one of many being considered as the school system looks at updating its capital-improvement program to address enrollment issues.

“We are thinking about it, and we already do it to a certain extent,” said School Board Vice Chairman Nancy Van Doren, pointing to the early-hours “zero period” offered to some students.

Among those who have the option of early-morning classes are those at Washington-Lee High School, which currently is the most crowded of Arlington’s three main public high schools.

To respond to that crowding – which is expected to continue unabated for the near term – the Washington-Lee PTA recently surveyed families of current and future students, as well as teachers and other staff, to discern what options they’d like to see considered.

Extending the school day won the support of about a quarter of the respondents, while double-shifting (having one set of students in the morning and another in the evening) scored lower.

Building a new high school to address the overcapacity was supported by far

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more respondents, but both finding the cash (perhaps $200 million) and the land would be major obstacles.

School Board members say they are keeping an open mind as efforts to address looming high-school crowding move forward.

“We are planning to consider and discuss a number of non-capital strategies with our professional staff and community over the next few months,” School Board member Barbara Kanninen said.

As for an 18-hour academic day for school buildings? “This one will be considered, though I cannot say right now whether it’s likely to garner much interest,” Kanninen said.

The Arlington school system currently is experiencing a population boom at the elementary-school level, and one doesn’t have to be studying rocket science at the planned Arlington Tech Academy to recognize those elementary-schoolers are soon to move up to middle school and then high school.

Van Doren, for one, says everything should be on the table during the community conversation in coming months to find ways to address the situation.

“It’s going to have to be a combination – we have to be flexible,” she said. “It bodes well that people are flexible in their thinking.”

County Board Takes on Historic-Designation Process for School Facilities: Arlington County Board members say they will not simply rubber-stamp schoolsystem renovation and expansion projects that might infringe on historic-preservation issues, now that they have given themselves authority to oversee such projects.

Board members voted 5-0 March 15 to strip authority of the Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board (HALRB) related to the designation of school facilities as local historic districts, and also to remove the panel’s oversight of schoolrenovation projects within such districts.

Henceforth, such projects will go directly to the County Board, rather than the HALRB. The action is the result of School Board complaints that HALRB oversight of the one school currently in an historic district (Swanson Middle School) led to delays and cost concerns for relatively routine improvements to the building, and concerns that much bigger problems could arise during the renovation and expansion of the Stratford school site, currently home to H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program.

The Stratford site is expected to see a major renovation as it is prepared to be returned to its original function as a community middle school once the H-B Woodlawn program decamps to a new building in Rosslyn in 2019.

HALRB members will retain their current authority over all other buildings ei-

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County Republicans Vote to Support New Gun Store SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Angered by what they see as bullying tactics of the Arlington County Board and county’s POLITICAL legislative delmemPOTPOURRI egation, bers of the Arlington County Republican Committee went on record March 16 in support of the owners of a new gun store in Lyon Park.

“We’re behind them,” said Andrew Loposser, a leader in the Arlington-Falls Church Young Republicans and a field director for the Republican Party of Virginia, who sponsored the resolution backing Nova Armory.

The high-end gun dealer is expected to open in late March in a storefront along Pershing Drive. The planned opening has sparked opposition from some in the neighborhood and broader community.

It wasn’t that opposition that bothered Republicans – “I’m for people exercising their liberty,” Loposser said – but rather comments made by both County Board members and legislators, acknowledging that the store was within its legal rights to open, but suggesting it did not meet “Arlington values.”

Using government resources to oppress a legitimate business is inappropriate, backers of the resolution said, and demanded pushback.

“We’ve been railroaded by this Arlington cartel time and time again,” Loposser said. “We’re not afraid to go toe-to-toe with them.”

Caught in the crossfire at the monthly Republican Committee meeting was Del. Patrick Hope (D-47th), who had attended to present a commemorative resolution honoring retiring Republican Electoral Board member Allen Harrison Jr., then stayed to give the GOP an update on the 2016 General Assembly session.

Hope opened it up to questions, and the first one out of the box asked why he used his office to get involved in the gunstore debate.

Acknowledging that the state government has no standing in the matter of Arlington zoning, Hope said the question was a bigger one.

“The issue is, was this the right fit” with the neighborhood, he said. “I feel strongly in representing the views of my constituents.”

Hope had signed a letter to the owner of the space where Nova Armory is locating, asking that the store not be allowed.

Also signing the letter were state Sens.

Barbara Favola (D-31st), Adam Ebbin (D-30th) and Janet Howell (D-32nd) and Dels. Alfonso Lopez (D-49th), Rip Sullivan (D-48th) and Mark Levine (D-45th).

A number of Arlington County Board members also have expressed their concern about the location, but said their hands are tied by state law from acting on

Obituaries

CHARLES W. COVEY

Charles W Covey died at Shenandoah Valley Westminster - Canterbury Retirement Community in Winchester, Virginia on March 6, 2016 at the age of 97. He is survived by his daughter, Catherine Maffett and her husband Wayne Maffett of Hedgesville, West Virginia, and Washington, DC, granddaughter Sharyl Covey of Ashburn, Virginia, grandson David Covey and his wife Kristine Covey of Alexandria, Virginia and brother, Gilbert, of Tampa, Florida.

He was predeceased by his wife of 63 years, Mary Ruth Covey and by his son, Charles C. Covey.

He lived in McLean, Virginia for 24 years.

Mr. Covey was recognized for his 55 years of accomplishment in business publication management, editing and technical writing in the field of industrial instrumentation and oceanography.

He was co-founder of Compass Publications, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, publishers of Sea Technology. Mr. Covey was associated with Compass for 37 years. Prior to that employment, he was editor of the Instrument Society of America Journal in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for eight years.

Following his retirement in 1985 as senior staff program specialist at the National Ocean Service of NOAA, in Rockville, Maryland, he continued as a consultant from his home in Culpeper, Virginia.

His early career included development and management of instrument training programs for the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and instruction to Army and Navy pilots during World War II. Mr. Covey was a founding member of the Marine Technology Society, and held numerous positions with the National Instrument Society of America. He received the Jessie H. Neil Editorial Achievement Award and was listed in ”Who’s Who in America.”

He was graduated from Lincoln Memorial University of Harrogate, Tennessee, in chemistry and physics, and was inducted into the University’s Professional Hall of Fame in 1996. Mr. Covey was a native of Middlesboro, Kentucky.

A memorial service will be conducted at Shenandoah Valley Westminster Canterbury in Winchester, Virginia on April 9th at 2PM. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Charles W. and Mary Ruth Covey Scholarship Fund at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee 37752-1901.

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their personal beliefs.

The Republican resolution was adopted without audible dissent.

Republicans and Democrats Laud Departing Electoral Board Member: What else can you say about a man who (a) presided over the wedding of Henry Kissinger and (b) once hitched a ride to Egypt on a jet chartered by the Grateful Dead?

Turns out there’s plenty more to tell, as retiring Arlington Electoral Board secretary Allen Harrison Jr. received a bipartisan salute March 16 as he wrapped up 29 years of service on the body.

Democratic Electoral Board chairman Charlene Bickford and vice chairman David Bell traveled to the monthly Arlington County Republican Committee – a first for Bell – to celebrate passage of a General Assembly resolution honoring Harrison’s tenure.

The measure was patroned by Del. Patrick Hope (D-47th) and had the backing of the entire (all-Democratic) county legislative delegation.

The effort to keep the celebration secret from Harrison was a success.

“I was surprised,” Harrison told the Sun Gazette, not suspecting anything unusual “until I saw Charlene and David at the meeting.”

Hope said he was happy to cross the party divide to honor Harrison.

“This is a pretty amazing person,” he said. “We wanted to celebrate this occasion.”

An attorney, Harrison represented Arlington in the House of Delegates from 1970-71, and chaired the Arlington County Republican Committee in 1972.

In 1987, when a vacancy on the Electoral Board needed to be filled by Republicans, Circuit Court Chief Judge William Winston turned to party chair Scott McGeary for recommendations.

“I instantly recommended Allen,” McGeary recalled, saying Harrison was not only a “gentleman’s gentleman” but “a superb specimen of sartorial splendor.”

(Translation: He’s always well-dressed.)

Harrison defied long odds to survive nearly three decades on the Electoral Board, since members of those bodies in Virginia often find themselves bumped off when control of the Governor’s Mansion changes. State law requires that the threemember bodies be filled with two from the political party in power, one from the other party.

Bickford, Bell and even McGeary himself found themselves removed from Electoral Board slots over the years, yet – through an amazing run of luck – Harrison’s slot never was the one that came up for removal.

Harrison last month was appointed by Circuit Court Chief Judge William Newman Jr. to a new three-year term, but it was understood the appointment was only to allow him to serve through the March 1 presidential primaries. Harrison then submitted his resignation, dated March 18.

Newman will appoint a successor, with input by county Republican leaders. McGeary seems an odds-on favorite.

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Allen Harrison is shown in an English bowler he loaned the Arlington elections office for a drawing to determine ballot position in the 2015 County Board Democratic primary.

The Electoral Board oversees director of elections Linda Lindberg and her staff. Unlike some of their counterparts across the commonwealth, the three-person body tends to operate in a unified, bipartisan spirit whether Republicans or Democrats hold the majority.

Owner of Freddie’s Beach Bar to Receive Equality Award: The owner of Freddie’s Beach Bar in Crystal City will be honored as a 2016 OUTstanding Virginian by Equality Virginia.

Freddie Lutz is among six individuals and a group singled out for inclusion in the pantheon of equality boosters across the commonwealth.

The induction will be held at the 13th annual Commonwealth Dinner, slated for April 16 in Richmond. Comedian, writer and actress Carol Leifer will be the keynote speaker at the black-tie-optional event.

In addition to Lutz, OUTstanding Virginian awards will be presented to Charles Britt, Dr. Charles Ford, Rev. Dr. Robin Gorsline, Shannon McKay and Dr. Christine Robinson, along with ROSMY, a Richmond-based youth organization.

Young Democrats’ ‘Date Auction’ Will Benefit AFAC: Arlington Young Democrats will host the organization’s 15th annual Charity Date Auction on Tuesday, March 29 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Clarendon Grill, 1101 North Highland St. A portion of the proceeds will go to support the Arlington Food Assistance Center, or AFAC. “AFAC is a vital part of making our community a better place,” said Young Democrats president Praveen Meyyan.

“We are happy to help support an organization serving our neighbors.”

Guest auctioneers Matt Brown and Kate Petersen will auction off a host of rising bachelors and bachelorettes from Arlington, Alexandria and the District of Columbia. There also will be special prizes.

Admission is $20 for current Arlington Young Democrats, $25 for others, including a drink ticket. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

For information, see the Web site at www. arlingtonyoungdems.org.

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Arlington Notes DOMINION STAGE, ARLINGTON PLAYERS PICK UP AWARDS: Dominion

Stage’s production of “The Great American Trailer Park” picked up six awards and The Arlington Players’ production of “Peter Pan” garnered one in the annual Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (WATCH) Awards program.

A total of 110 productions (72 plays and 38 musicals) by 30 community-theater troupes across the Washington area were judged as part of the 2015 competition. Awards were presented March 6 at the Birchmere in Alexandria.

Dominion, which is based at Gunston Arts Center, had been nominated for 20 awards. Its winners included David Moretti (Outstanding Set Design in a Musical), Hector Lorenzini (Outstanding Set Construction in a Musical), Jeffrey Stevenson (Outstanding Set Decoration and Set Dressing in a Musical), Rebecca Harris (Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical), Helen Bard-Sobola (Outstanding Properties in a Musical, in a tie with Maria Littlefield of Damascus Theatre Company) and Rachel Barlaam (Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical).

The Arlington Players, which picked up five nominations, saw Megan Peter Lin honored for Outstanding Special Effects in a tie with Jummy Stubbs of Silver Spring Stage.

Honored as Outstanding Play was “Venus in Fur” by Silver Spring Stage, and winning Outstanding Musical was “In the Heights” by Little Theatre of Alexandria.

LEADERSHIP ARLINGTON DEBUTS NEW WEB SITE: Leadership Arlington

and the Leadership Center for Excellence have unveiled a new Web site.

The new site – www.leadercenter.org – replaces the existing www.leadershiparlington.org.

DETAILS RELEASED FOR ‘WALK FOR THE ANIMALS’: The Animal Welfare

League of Arlington’s annual “Walk for the Animals” will be held on Saturday, May 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Bluemont Park.

Participants will leash up their pups, put on their walking shoes and take part in one- and three-mile walks in the community.

The event “demonstrates the way pets enrich our lives, and generates funds to help us sustain community programs and services offered through the League,” said Neil Trent, the organization’s president and CEO. “We encourage people to walk with or without a dog, in memory of a beloved pet or in honor of their cat or other companion animal,” Trent said.

The cost is $30 in advance, $40 on the day of the event, with all those preregistering receiving a 2016 Walk for the Animals T-shirt and, for dogs, a free bandana.

For information, see the Web site at www.awla.org.

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50th-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATE SET FOR OUTDOOR LAB: The Arlington

Outdoor Education Association has announced plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Arlington Outdoor Lab on Saturday, June 4 from 7 to 10 p.m. with a celebration at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association conference center in Ballston.

The event will feature music from Still Standing, catering by Lebanese Taverna and an interactive dance program led by Bowen McCauley Dance.

The lab was established in 1967 by Dr. Phoebe Hall Knipling for Arlington students to learn about science and nature in a hands-on outdoor environment.

The facility is located on 225 acres of land in Fauquier County, and each year draws about 9,000 Arlington students.

Donations to support the 50th-anniversary celebration are being accepted.

For information and to support the effort, see the Web site at http://outdoorlab.org/.

BORROMEO HOUSING SEEKS DONATIONS FOR AUCTION: Borromeo Hous-

ing has announced plans for a its annual Springtime Soirée, to be held in April at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, and is seeking donations for its silent auction.

Funds raised through the event support after-school programs, tutoring, college assistance and other efforts for at-risk mothers and children.

Donations are being accepted through April 10. For information or to donate, see the Web site at https://borromeohousing.org/.

ART EXHIBITION TO BENEFIT LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: An art show

and silent auction to support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society will be held on Thursday, March 24 from 2 to 5 p.m. at Carlyle Grand, located in the Village at Shirlington, 4000 Campbell Ave. The event will feature “The Ladies,” a private art collection chosen by Arlington artist and teacher Blanche Kirchner.

Mrs. Kirchner has resided in Arlington for 80 years and has taught in the county for more than half a century. Her art is collected locally and abroad, and several of her formal portraits are found in the Arlington County Courthouse.

Donations to support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society will be accepted from March 24 to June 4. For information, see the Web site at www.mwoy.org/ pages/nca/dcmetro16/lkirchner.

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Arlington Notes II ARLINGTON ORGANIZATIONS PICK UP UNITED WAY FUNDING: Five Arling-

ton non-profit organizations will share $100,000 through the 2016 Community Impact grant program of United Way of the National Capital Area.

Grants are being given to the Arlington Free Clinic, Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing, Arlington Pediatric Center, Arlington Street People’s Assistance Network, Bridges to Independence, CASA and Offender Aid and Restoration.

The organizations “exemplify not only the best of the community, but the best of the region,” said Rosie Allen-Herring, who heads the regional United Way organization.

The grant funding is part of a fiveyear, $10 million regional United Way initiative, “investing in programs that create the greatest impact” on the community safety-net, Allen-Herring said during a March 15 presentation before the County Board.

The event, which drew representatives from the recipient agencies, came with only one procedural hitch: The large ceremonial check slated to be handed over at the ceremony was stuck in traffic.

“What really matters [to grant recipients] is the little check that comes in the mail,” Allen-Herring chuckled.

INPUT SOUGHT ON FAIRLINGTON PARK RENOVATION: The Arlington County

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Theatre will take the stage at Gunston Arts Center from March 31-April 9 with a pair of shows featuring adult actors with intellectual disabilities.

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Playthings” features toys that come to life and work together to save a family-owned toy store.

Both shows will be presented at each performance, to be held Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 2 p.m. They are presented in partnership with Educational Theatre Company.

Assisted by theater professionals and volunteer mentors, the actors create their own characters and develop scenes as the shows come to life.

Tickets are $12.50 in advance, $15 at the door. For information and tickets, see the Web site at www.art-stream.org.

FINANCIAL PLANNER FEATURED AT LIBRARY: Central Library will host a pre-

sentation by financial planner Ric Edelman on Tuesday, March 29 at 7 p.m.

Registration is not required, but seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

For information, call (703) 228-5999 or e-mail afox@arlingtonva.us.

SERIES LOOKS AT PEACEFUL END TO MIDDLE-EAST CONFLICT: “Voices from

the Holy Land,” a five-part film series looking at issues surrounding the IsraelPalestinian conflict, will be presented on Sundays throughout April and early May at Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, 4444 Arlington Blvd.

The series is supported by a coalition of 20 religious and other organizations desiring to promote a non-violent solution to the issues raised in the films.

The series begins with “The Dream: Martin Luther King in Palestine” on April 3, and continues with other screenings on April 10, 17 and 24 and May 1 at 2:30 p.m.

Admission is free, and the community is invited. For information, see the Web site at www.uucava.org.

PARK PROGRAM FOCUSES ON CARNIVORES: Long Branch Nature Center

hosts “Pups in the Park: The Carnivore Way” on Saturday, March 26 at 10 a.m.

The program, designed for adults with their dogs, features a walk through Glencarlyn Park and a discussion of what defines a carnivore, and how they survive in the wild.

The program is free; for information and to register, call (703) 228-6535.

NATURE CENTER HOSTS SEARCH FOR AMPHIBIANS: Long Branch Nature

Center hosts “Spring Amphibian Hunt,” a one-hour program for ages 6 to 10, on Saturday, March 26 at 1 p.m. at the park, 625 South Carlin Springs Road.

Participants will search ponds, streams and woods for salamanders, frogs and toads.

The cost is $5. For information and registration, call (703) 228-3403.

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Millennials Increasingly Buying Homes in the Suburbs A growing share of home-buyers are Millennials, and more of them are purchasing single-family homes outside of urban areas, according to the 2016 National Association of Realtors Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trends study, which evaluates the generational differences of recent home buyers and sellers.

The survey additionally found that although student-loan debt is more prevalent among Millennial buyers, they aren’t the generation with the largest student debt balances.

The share of Millennials buying in an urban or central city area decreased to 17 percent (21 percent a year ago) in this year’s survey, and fewer of them (10 percent) purchased a multi-family home compared to a year ago (15 percent).

Overall, the majority of buyers in all generations continue to purchase a single-family home in a suburban area – and the younger the buyer, the older the home they purchased.

Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, says while Millennials may choose to live in an urban area as renters, the survey reveals that most aren’t staying once they’re ready to buy.

“The median age of a Millennial home-buyer is 30 years old, which typically is the time in life where one settles down to marry and raise a family,” Yun said. “Even if an urban setting is where they’d like to buy their first home, the need for more space at an affordable price is for the most part pushing their search further out.”

“Furthermore, limited inventory in Millennials’ price range, minimal entry-level condo construction and affordability pressures make buying in the city extremely difficult for most young households,” Yun said.

For the third straight year, the largest group of recent buyers were Millennials, those born between 1982 and 2000, who composed 35 percent of all buyers (32 percent in 2014), more than the combined amount of younger and older Baby Boomers (31 percent).

Generation X, which represents the group between the youngest Baby Boomers and oldest Millennials, were 26 percent of buyers, and the Silent Generation, those born before the Baby Boom, made up 9 percent.

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“Public-school facilities are unique,” County Board member John Vihstadt said. “Public schools are not just historic timepieces or museums . . . [they] have to adapt to contemporary times.”

While agreeing to the change, several County Board members said they would take seriously their duty to protect the historic provenance of any buildings that come before them.

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Schools & Military n Kerry Kuntz of Arlington earned a master of science degree in environmental science during recent commencement exercises at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Gretchen Durning, the daughter of Timothy Durning and Barbara Wagner of Arlington and a graduate of Lexington Christian Academy, has been named a Winthrop Scholar, the highest academic honor bestowed by Connecticut College.

Durning was one of 13 seniors recognized as 2016 Winthrop Scholars during a recognition ceremony Feb. 25. All also are the first members of their class selected for membership in the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. n

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Arlington, a graduate of Washington-Lee High School; Anna Santiago of Arlington, a graduate of Washington-Lee High School; and Katherine Keane of Arlington, a graduate of Yorktown High School, have been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Colgate University. n Megan Linquiti of Arlington has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Washington University in St. Louis. n Local students attending James Mad-

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Elise Strongin of Arlington traveled to California to volunteer with APLA & Being Alive. Darci Law of Arlington traveled to Florida to volunteer with the Nature Conservancy. Helen Land of Arlington traveled to Florida to volunteer with St. Joseph Bay. n Bilguunzaya Battogtokh and Megan O’Briant of Yorktown High School were named grand-prize winners at the Northern Virginia Regional Science and Engineering Fair, and will move on to compete at the will compete at the International Science and Engineering Fair, to be held in Phoenix in May. Battogtokh’s project was “Photodeg-

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O’Briant’s project was “Power of Touch: Challenges in Designing Haptic Sensing and Feedback for Neural Controlled Robotic/Prosthetic Hand.”

Victoria Graf, a student at Williamsburg Middle School, was named tops in the competition among seventh- and eighth-graders with her project, “Evolutionary Approach to the Analysis of Classical Music Entropy.” n Arlington Public Schools students won three top awards in art and one in writing as part of the National Scholastics Art and Writing Competition, sponsored by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.

Across the U.S., more than 320,000 works were submitted for judging at the regional level, with top award-winners moving on to national competition.

National gold-medalists from Arlington include Cole Goco of H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program (comic art), Eyerusalem Meaza of Wakefield High School (photography), Emily Villatoro of Yorktown High School (ceramics and glass) and Elizabeth Woolford of Yorktown High School (poetry).

H-B Woodlawn student Lucia Ferlauto garnered an American Visions Medal in photography, while 14 Arlington students received silver medals.

Four Arlington Public Schools’ students have been accepted into the All-Virginia Bands and Orchestra, with concerts to take place April 9 at the Center for the Arts at George Mason University.

Megan Grieco (bassoon) of Yorktown High School was selected for All Virginia Concert Band. Hannah James (piccolo) of Yorktown High School was selected for All Virginia Orchestra. Caeley Niess (trumpet) of Yorktown High School was selected for All Virginia Symphonic Band. Sabrina Shuster (alternate violin) of Washington-Lee High School was selected for All Virginia Orchestra.

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Yorktown Prevails in Overtime

Teeing Off

Do Early-Season Results Have Lasting Meanings?

The spring season is still very young, but there already have been some significant, if not surprising, scores and results of local high school sporting events that could make the rest of the 2016 campaign quite interesting.

Patriots Have Two Noteworthy Wins

Dave Facinoli

DAVE STEINBACHER For the Sun Gazette

With a pair of notable one-goal victories, the Yorktown Patriots could be biggest LACROSSE the story of the 2016 boys high school lacrosse season campaign.

Yorktown (2-1) opened with a 10-9 victory over the 2015 state runner-up Chantilly Chargers on March 15, followed by a 9-8 overtime win March 17 over the Langley Saxons, a state finalfour team last spring.

Chantilly and Langley (2-1) each have won region and state championships in recent seasons.

“There are eight, nine, 10 teams that could win the region this season,” Yorktown coach Greg Beer said. “It is going to be a fun year. We want to be a contender.”

Against Langley, the score was tied at 8 after regulation and the first overtime. Yorktown won less than a minute into the second OT. Yorktown midfielder Connor Boyle scooped up the ball and made an outlet pass to C.J. Stowell, who took a leftContinued on Page 17

Yorktown High School’s Mark Geizner, front, tries to push past Langley’s Michael Killion during PHOTO BY DEB KOLT last week’s Liberty Conference game in Arlington.

Patriots, Warriors Open Seasons With 1-1 Marks DAVE FACINOLI Staff Writer

In a Liberty Conference high school baseball game last week, the Yorktown (1-1) BASEBALL Patriots opened their season with an 10-3 road win over the Fairfax Rebels.

Yorktown did not win a conference game last season, going 0-7. Secondyear Yorktown coach John Skaggs said his team is much improved this spring.

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much more aggressive and we will be much more hard-nosed this season. We have a lot of potential.”

The Patriots rallied from a 1-0 deficit.

Senior right-hander Park Denny was the starting and winning pitcher, with Alec Glasser working two innings in relief. Denny did not allow an earned run in five innings. He struck out four.

Joe DiConsiglio had three hits for Yorktown, Michael Lowen had two hits and three RBI, and Vince McGean had two hits. Yorktown stole a half-dozen bases.

In its next game, Yorktown was

blanked 10-0 at home by the defending 6A state champion Madison Warhawks.

Yorktown had three hits. Lowen, DiConsiglio and Pat Guylas had the hits.

Nine walks, three wild pitches, a hit batter and four errors were costly for Yorktown.

Madison broke the game open with six runs in the sixth inning, aided by a dropped fly ball, to move in front 8-0.

“If we make the plays, we could have been out of that inning still being 2-0,” Skaggs said. “We just couldn’t get our offense going, and they took away our speed.”

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In boys lacrosse, the Yorktown Patriots nipped the Langley Saxons, 9-8, in overtime last week. The win was notable because it proved that Yorktown’s emergence as a serious region and state champion contender in recent seasons continues. Langley has won multiple conference, region and state titles in recent years.

The victory was one of Yorktown’s biggest in school history.

In baseball, the Wakefield Warriors routed opening-day opponent Field School, 21-1, as the team keeps improving under second-year coach Mike Ruck. Wakefield was defeated

by Field last spring.

Also in baseball, the Yorktown Patriots won their opener by downing Fairfax, 10-2, in Liberty Conference action. Yorktown was 0-7 in the Liberty in 2015. Like Wakefield, the Patriots have already shown improvement, also under a second-year coach.

In girls lacrosse, the WashingtonLee Generals began with a 12-11 triumph over the Marshall Statesmen.

The Generals lost to Marshall, 19-9, a year ago. Washington-Lee has been improving in girls lacrosse the last couple of seasons, and appears to be continuing that trend.

In girls soccer, Yorktown blanked Lake Braddock, 1-0, on March 14.

The Patriots are 4-1-1 against once perennial state power Lake Braddock the past few seasons, proving that Yorktown itself continues as a perennial state contender.

Also in girls soccer, the Madison Warhawks defeated the Oakton Cougars, 1-0, to end a five-season winless streak (four losses and a tie) against its Vienna rival.

Will those results lead to more success for those team? Time will tell.

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Third Game Produces Needed Win for Washington-Lee DAVE FACINOLI Staff Writer

Their third game was a winning charm for the Washington-Lee Generals, who badly needed a victory after a rough 0-2 start.

Senior right-handers Noah Winslow and Teddy Herbert combined for the and save March BASEBALL win 18 as W-L (1-2, 1-1) defeated the host Langley Saxons, 3-1, in Liberty Conference high school baseball action.

“We really needed a win, any kind of win,” Washington-Lee coach Doug Grove said. “Any win is big, and this is good for us. We haven’t won over here [at Langley] in a while.”

With the game tied at 1, Washington-Lee scored the go-ahead two runs in the top of the seventh without a hit.

Will Stengle and Mile Dulman were hit by pitches to start the inning. Stengle then scored on a fielding error following a sacrifice bunt by Chris Brady. Dulman came home on Foster Gray’s suicide squeeze.

“Those two bunts were very big there.

We got them down well,” Grove said.

Herbert, the ace of the staff, pitched a perfect and dominating seventh inning with three strikeouts and needing only 11 pitches to earn the save. The effort was redemption for Herbert, who struggled on the mound a few days earlier in W-L’s lopsided 14-3 season-opening loss to McLean.

“I like closing like that,” said Herbert, who will play at Christopher Newport. “It was exciting to come in after we scored those two runs. I really wanted the ball in that situation.”

Winslow (1-0) started and pitched six innings to earn the victory. He scattered seven hits, allowed an earned run in the sixth, struck out five, walked two and threw 105 pitches.

“I felt good out there,” Winslow said.

“I got my two-seamer [fastball] to run on them pretty well. I wish I had thrown fewer pitches so I could have finished.

But it was nice to have Teddy come in at the end.”

Added Grove: “Noah was very good and huge for us. We needed a lot of in-

nings from him.”

Washington-Lee won despite having just two hits, both in the fourth inning on a Herbert single, then Stengle’s misplayed RBI double to give W-L a 1-0 lead. Langley tied the game in the bottom of the sixth.

W-L catcher T.R. Sheehy threw out a base-stealer at third, second baseman Will Burgess made two nice plays on tough ground balls, and Brady made a good running catch in center.

On March 19, Washington-Lee routed the visiting George Mason Mustangs, 16-6, in six innings at Quincy Park behind a 16-hit attack.

Collins had three hits, Herbert had two hits and three RBI, Burgess had two hits and two RBI, Stengle had two hits and pitched two innings in relief with three strikeouts, Gray singled and doubled and knocked in two, and Brady had a three-run triple, as 10 different players had hits.

Washington-Lee turned two double plays and did not make an error for the second game in a row.

In the March 15 home loss to

McLean, the Generals struggled from the start, allowing 10 hits, walking 10 and hitting two.

McLean scored a run in the first, then sent 11 batters to the plate in both the third and fourth innings when the Highlanders plated five and seven runs, respectively, to blow the game open.

For Washington-Lee, senior Burgess, who will play at Division II Shepherd, was 3 for 3 with a two-run single in the fifth. He hit the first pitch his first two times at bat and the second pitch on his third trip. Herbert had an RBI double in the fifth. Dulman had two hits and Tyler Spicer and Andy Collins singled. Washington-Lee had eight hits.

For a full story and more details about Washington-Lee’s home loss to McLean, visit www.insidenova.com/ sports/arlington.

In its second game last week, Washington-Lee lost on the road to the Westfield Bulldogs, 8-2. Ryan Edelstein started and pitched well, according to Grove.

Burgess had two hits, Brady and Collins doubled and Dulman and Edelstein had hits.

Patriots were nipped by the Chantilly Chargers, 21-20, in overtime, in girls lacrosse. Yorktown trailed at halftime, 13-9, then rallied. The Patriots tied the game on a goal by senior Kate Grattan, with an assist from junior Laura Crawford. Chantilly scored first during the three-minute sudden death overtime to win.

Defensively, Gigi Richardson and Maddi Reicherter forced key turnovers for Yorktown, and Laura Crawford and Emma Thurman each had interceptions.

Goalie Sydney Stropes had 13 saves.

Crawford had five goals, two assists, and four draw controls. Thurman had four goals, three assists, and three draw controls; Grattan had four goals; Claire

Kuwana had three goals and three assists; MacRae Knight had two goals; Sarah Bloomquist had one goal and two draw controls; and Katie Calvo and Maddi Reicherter had one draw control each.

Yorktown lost its second game to the host Langley Saxons, 16-9, on March 17.

In that loss, Thurman scored her 100th career goal. Stropes had 11 saves.

Crawford had three goals, Kuwana had one goal and two assists and Grattan had two goals.

over W.T. Woodson.

The boys won 3-1 on goals by Jose Argueta, Lucas Mendes and Maycol Nunez. The girls won 3-0. n The Yorktown Patriots are 2-0 in girls soccer, with a 1-0 win over Lake Braddock on a goal by Cadyn Westhoff with an assist from Gillian Schiffer, and a 5-1 victory over George Mason.

In that win, Kiely Westhoff scored two goals and Emily Talotta, Marisa Fitz and Schiffer one each. Westhoff had two assists, and Olivia Tripodi and Mary Helsper the others.

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Yorktown led 5-4 at halftime and 7-6 after three periods.

In the fourth, Yorktown took an 8-6 lead on a goal by Pearson Savarino (three goals). Langley’s J.M. Duley (four goals) scored twice to tie the score at 8.

“We were down by a little, but we have the ability to score,” Duley said. “I thought that I could kick-start the offense by scoring. We’re a good team. We made mistakes in the beginning and the end of tonight’s game, but we will learn from it.”

For Yorktown, Matteus Jaramillo, Stephen Glagola, Conor Shears and

Gordon Coates each scored one goal and Stevie Picot had two assists.

“We wanted to spread the ball around,” Beer said.

Goalie Mason Pollack made 16 saves for the Patriots.

“Our defense [Conor Shears, Sutton Coyle and John Aldinger] made it easy for me, especially in OT,” Pollack said.

First-year Langley head coach Bo Ingalsbe did not want to comment, having assistant Brian Laskowski to speak instead.

“We played pretty good overall,” Brian Laskowski said. “We ran our offense

pretty well. It was a difficult matchup with Yorktown. It was tough to give up the final goal in transition – but we will learn from it.”

“This season is not a sprint, it’s a marathon,” Stowell said. “We have to keep improving with each practice.”

Yorktown won the battle of faceoffs 12-9. Against Chantilly, Stowell had four goals and one assist and Coates and Ethan Chase scored two each. Pollack made 13 saves. Yorktown rallied from two-goals down at the end of the third period. Yorktown lost its third game to Robinson.

n The Wakefield Warriors opened their 2016 high school baseball season with a 21-1 home win against Field School on March 17. It was Wakefield’s first win on opening day since 2006.

Wakefield scored 11 runs in the first inning, eight in the second and two in

the third.

Jamie Segui allowed three hits and struck out four for Wakefield.

With the bat, Colton Poythress was 3 for 5 with two RBI, Jake Karton was 3 for 5 with four RBI, Ethan Heckler had a hit and an RBI, and Brody Karton

was 2 for 4.

Wakefield lost its second game to Marshall, 11-1, in five innings. Karton scored Wakefield’s run and Heckler had the only hit.

Wakefield has two games scheduled this week.

High School Roundup W-L FOOTBALL PLAYER HONORED:

Washington-Lee High School football player Ceneca Espinoza was chosen as the Liberty Conference 6 Player of the Year by the Northern Virginia Football Hall of Fame.

Espinoza was recognized at the Hall of Fame’s recent banquet.

GIRLS LACROSSE: The Washington-

Lee Generals nipped the Marshall Statesmen, 12-11, in overtime in recent action.

Meghan Fox had five goals for W-L, Caroline Laybourn had three goals and one assist, and Emma Vogel and Amelia Martin had two goals each. n In its first game, the Yorktown

Lacrosse Continued from Page 16 handed shot and scored the game winner.

“There was a loose ground ball,” Boyle said. “I ran through three people.

I looked up, saw C.J. and got him the ball. He went downfield and finished.”

Said Stowell, who scored two goals: “Their goalie [Patrick Dunn] was playing a great game. I decided to go high with the shot and I stuck it.”

Baseball Continued from Page 16 Yorktown catcher Cole Wykoff threw out two runners trying to steal third.

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in other South Arlington elementaries.

Barbara Kanninen, who represented the School Board as a liaison to the South Arlington Working Group, was appreciative of the superintendent’s support for its proposals.

“I’m certainly pleased,” she said.

Kanninen said one important component of the proposal is to focus on the Montessori program’s move, with an eye on finding efficiencies that would lower per-pupil expenditures.

“We want this program to be similar in costs to our other schools,” she said. “We need to start that conversation.”

Currently, Drew Model School is split

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Continued from Page 1 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but the county manager said the check would not be in the mail soon.

“We may not see any of that money for quite a while,” perhaps several years, he said.

The January storm was the largest concentration of snow to hit the Washington area since twin storms in February 2010.

The public’s view of the countygovernment’s performance during the

between regular classes for students in the surrounding neighborhood and a Montessori program that is open to students countywide. Boosters of the Montessori program have long pressed for a school to call their own.

“They have waited so many years,” School Board Chairman Emma ViolandSánchez said.

But the focus on the Montessori move irked board member James Lander, who told his colleagues not to forget the bigger picture.

“This isn’t about Montessori – this is about our children,” Lander said. “This is about achievement and what is the best for them.”

Lander complained that the neighborhood-school component of Drew has been deprived of attention while the focus has been on the Montessori side of the

school.

“It’s been far too long that students who attended Drew have gotten our full resources,” Lander said. “Our work is not done.”

School Board members on March 17 also filled most of the slots on the 32member building-level planning committee that will oversee development of the new elementary school on the Thomas Jefferson site.

The panel will include representation from PTAs from surrounding schools, seven civic associations and other groups, plus school-system staff. Kanninen will serve as School Board liaison to the body.

Superintendent to Respond in April to Pentagon City Proposal: Arlington school officials in early April will present their views on a proposal to build a new

elementary school in the Pentagon City area, aimed at addressing student growth in that corridor.

Construction of a new elementary was among proposals of the South Arlington Working Group, which presented its report to school officials last year. The recommendation calls for a new elementary school in Pentagon City sometime after 2019, once a new elementary school adjacent to Thomas Jefferson Middle School is opened.

The recommendation went beyond the group’s purview, but school officials have agreed to consider it.

Superintendent Patrick Murphy’s recommendation on the proposal is slated to be detailed at the April 7 School Board meeting, with a written response available as early as April 1 on the school system’s Web site at www.apsva.us.

January storm fell short of “world-class”: Only slightly more than half of the 3,000 respondents to an online survey set up by the government were either satisfied or neutral on the response effort.

It’s a figure that “could probably be a little higher,” James Schwartz acknowledged, and County Board members used the March 15 meeting to reiterate concerns they had heard from the public after the storm.

Board member Katie Cristol pointed to “snow mountains” left in crosswalks and on sidewalks by plows.

“We try to be a pedestrian-friendly, a disability friendly community,” but then

make it impossible for many to move around after storms, Cristol said.

Staff suggested with thousands of tons of packed snow to deal with, there’s no easy solution.

“In the early phases of the storm, there’s only so many places we can put [the snow],” James Schwartz said. While promising to “heighten our sensitivity” to the matter, he said that in those early stages, plow drivers are “looking for any opportunity” to deposit snow that had been removed from roadways.

“It’s not a perfect process,” said Mike Moon, deputy director of operations for the Department of Environmental Servic-

es, which has oversight over snow-clearing operations on county roads except for highways and primary roads, which are the responsibility of the Virginia Department of Transportation.

County Board Chairman Libby Garvey, who praised plow drivers extensively during and immediately after the storm, acknowledged the overall response had been a mixed bag in January.

“In some neighborhoods, we got incredible praise” at the mindfulness of plow drivers, she said. But in others parts of the county, not so much.

“Clearly, we’re going to get better,” Garvey promised.

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THE 1920s

© StatePoint Media ACROSS 1. Incited 6. Presidents’ Day mo.

9. Pig trough stuff 13. “The Stars and Stripes Forever” composer 14. *“Happy Days Are Here Again,” ____ Reisman and His Orchestra 15. *Josephine Baker’s turf 16. Blood fluid 17. Will Ferrell’s Christmas character 18. Conical dwelling 19. *First Winter Olympics country 21. *Female pioneer 23. Uh-huh 24. Classic sci-fi video game 25. Boxer’s punch 28. Hoodwink 30. Noble gas 34. Exclamation of sorrow 36. Lord’s servant 38. Muslim ruler honorific 40. Central Time ____ 41. North Pole workforce 43. Dwarf buffalo 44. Some sorority girls 46. South American monkey 47. Like gum after novocaine shot 48. Poisonous plant 50. Fill beyond full 52. Epitome of easiness 53. Satellite TV provider 55. Final, abbr.

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DOWN 1. Sixth sense

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22. Salmon on a bagel 24. Ascetic Muslim monk 25. *____ Age 26. Healing plants 27. Swahili or Zulu 29. Fox’ coat 31. Indian restaurant staple 32. Come clean 33. One of the Judds 35. Clothes line 37. Cheese on Peloponnese 39. *Iconic baseball player 42. Abdominal exercise 45. Equestrian’s seat 49. Foreign intelligence service 51. Provoke 54. Irish playwright John Millington ____ 56. Cease-fire 57. Toothpaste holder 58. Consumer 59. Eurozone money 60. “Without,” in French 61. Striker’s foe 62. Part of eye 63. Be a snitch 66. *Hairstyle 68. Shag rug

55+ News TRAVELERS HEAD TO CASINO: Arling-

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TAKING UP PHOTOGRAPHY AS HOBBY IS DISCUSSED: Photography as a hobby

is the topic under discussion on Sunday, March 27 from 3 to 5 p.m. at Arlington Mill Senior Center. Participants should bring their cameras. For information, call (703) 228-7369.

R&B BAND PERFORMS IN CONCERT:

Lee Senior Center hosts a concert of rhythm-and-blues music by the center’s newest band on Monday, March 28 at 10:30 a.m. For information, call (703) 228-0555.

PROPER BALANCE IS TOPIC OF HEALTH FORUM: The importance of

balance to prevent falls will be discussed on Monday, March 28 at 1 p.m. at Culpepper Garden Senior Center. For information, call (703) 228-4403.

NIGHT OF MUSIC FEATURES VINYL PLATTERS: A night of vintage vinyl

record-playing is slated for Wednesday, March 30 at 6:30 p.m. at Arlington Mill Senior Center. For information, call (703) 228-7369.

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USING NUTRITION TO BEAT DIABETES DISCUSSED: Effective ways to prevent

diabetes with good nutrition will be discussed on Wednesday, March 30 at 11 a.m. at Arlington Mill Senior Center.

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WALKERS AMBLE AMONG CHERRY BLOSSOMS IN MARYLAND: The Arling-

ton Walking Club travels to Kenwood, Md., to view cherry blossoms on its weekly walk on Wednesday, March 30.

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ONE-ON-ONE LEGAL COUNSELING OFFERED: Legal Services of Northern

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RETIREMENT HEALTH-CARE COSTS DETAILED: Planning for health-care

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SUDOKU-SOLVERS SET TO GATHER:

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TRAVELERS TAKE IN NATIONAL SYMPHONY PERFORMANCE: Arlington

County 55+ Travel hosts a trip to the Kennedy Center for a morning concert of the National Symphony Orchestra on Friday, April 1. The cost is $18. For information, call (703) 228-4748.

WORKSHOP ZEROES IN ON GRATITUDE: The “attitude of gratitude” phi-

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PROGRAM LOOKS AT TWITTER OPTIONS: “Twitter for Beginners” will be

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

March 28, 1941: n Work is set to start on widening Columbia Pike from Route 1 to the Fairfax County line from its current 18 feet to 30 to 40 feet, depending on location. The cost is estimated at $275,000. n The Arlington County Police Department has hired two new officers. n Arlington, Alexandria and Falls Church residents are paying the lowest electric rates in Virginia, according to a new survey. n County Girl Scouts sold 9,000 pounds of cookies during the recent sales spree. n Virginia State Police officials say they will arrest drivers who allow passengers to ride on the runningboards of vehicles.

March 24, 1959: n The Planning Commission wants large swaths of Columbia Pike rezoned in an effort to spur development. n William Lightsey, president of the Northern Virginia PTA, will seek the Arlingtonians for a Better County endorsement for County Board.

March 23, 1965: n More than 44,000 Northern Virginia residents have signed a petition calling for the enactment of fair-housing legislation. n The Washington Redskins will play a group of media-all stars in basketball at Washington-Lee High School, to raise funds for the Boys Clubs of Greater Washington. n Jack Benny will appear with the National Symphony Orchestra on April 8 at Constitution Hall. n On TV tonight: Joey Bishop, Red Skelton, “McHale’s Navy,” “Peyton Place” and “The Fugitive.”

March 25, 1971: n While the County Board has put off final adoption of the fiscal 1972 budget, board members will leave the existing real estate tax rate of $3.83 per $100 unchanged. n State GOP leaders plan to introduce legislation this month in Richmond to ratify the federal constitutional amendment lowering the voting age to 18. n The Arlington Soccer Association opens registration on Saturday.

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CANASTA PLAYERS HAVE PLACE TO GATHER: Arlington Mill Senior Cen-

ter hosts a revival of canasta on Friday, April 1 at 1 p.m. For information, call (703) 228-7369.

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