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VOLUME 82 NO. 28 JUNE 15-21, 2017
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Exotic-Pet Proposal to Be Heard in September
YORKTOWN SOCCER TEAM WINS STATE TITLE
Yorktown High School’s Lauren Flynn, No. 16, and Kellam High School’s Maria Donnelly tangle as they battle for the ball during the Virginia High School League’s girls Group 6A state tournament championship soccer game June 10 at Westfield High School. Yorktown won, 1-0, to capture its first state crown. See full coverage in Sports. PHOTO BY DEB KOLT
WWI Task Force’s Agenda to Focus on Outreach
County Official: Changes to Segregated Memorial Will Not Be Part of Effort SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer
Time is ticking, but the head of Arlington’s World War I Commemoration Task Force is affirming her call to use the centennial to look at contentious issues – including those relating to race – that continue to resonate today. Allison Finkelstein said her goal for the nascent commemoration effort re-
rial, erected in the 1930s and, following traditions of the era, listing the World War I dead of Arlington by race. “We have an opportunity . . . to investigate the war’s racial legacy,” said Finkelstein, an historian with the U.S. government’s Citizenship and Immigration Services. She said the community would be “fulfilling a duty” to investigate Continued on Page 20
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mains to “focus on individual people . . . take them out of the history books and translate them into terms our community can understand.” Finkelstein spoke at a June 6 program sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society and held at Army Navy Country Club.She reiterated remarks made when she was appointed by the County Board earlier this year that one of her goals will be to look at the Clarendon War Memo-
It likely will be September when County Board members next take up proposed changes to Arlington’s rules on exotic animals, as county staff say they’re not yet ready to bring the measure for final action. Staff had been tasked in March to come back in June with revisions to an earlier incarnation, one that had been deferred after concerns were raised about a number of provisions. The latest proposal is “almost complete,” county officials said in a memo to board members, but will not be ready in time for the board’s June 17 meeting. (Ironically, it was County Manager Mark Schwartz who initially sought the June deadline. “I wouldn’t want to stretch it out much longer than that,” he told County Board members in March.) Currently, county ordinances only prohibit venomous reptiles and pigs from being kept by Arlington residents. Northern Virginia jurisdictions are far from unanimity in regulating animals. Some localities already have bans on certain exotic pets, while others jurisdictions take a more laissez-faire approach, with few if any specific prohibitions. When the original revisions to Arlington’s pet ordinance were first proposed, the county government received more than 400 responses – albeit most from outside the community. But a March public hearing on the matter drew just a handful of speakers.