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County Board Punts on Field-Lighting Issue

Fisette on 5-0 Vote: ‘There’s Disappointment in the Room, All the Way Around’ SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

A divisive community controversy that might have been put to rest Sept. 16 was not, as Arlington County Board members

kicked the can down the road on a decision relating to lighting athletic fields at Williamsburg Middle School.

In a unanimous but far from cheerful vote, County Board members rebuffed, for now, a staff proposal to add lighting to

two synthetic-turf fields, which would extend their usability into the evening hours and help address a shortage of field space for growing youth leagues in the county.

The vote was a (perhaps temporary) win for some residents living near the

school and in the neighborhood, who in recent years have voiced multiple objections to the lighting proposal.

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LEADERSHIP CENTER’S CLASS OF 2018 DEBUTS

Members of the Class of 2018 signature class of the Leadership Center for Excellence gathered for a retreat to start the program, which over the next nine months will provide them insights into the region and its issues while also burnishing professional skills. Find out who was selected for participation in the program on Page 17.

Lubber Run Community Center’s Concept Design OK’d SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Arlington County Board members on Sept. 16 voted to approve the conceptual design for a new $47.9 million Lubber Run

late meeting to catch a flight out of town.

The project, which began life with a projected $28 million budget, grew during two years of planning with the addition of underground parking, a gymnasium and parkland amenities. But even board

member John Vihstadt, who positions himself as a budget hawk, suggested the extra cost was worth it.

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Young Professionals Participate in Leadership Training The Leadership Center for Excellence recently welcomed the new class of its Young Professionals program, who gathered for a day-long retreat.

Bean, Kinney & Korman PC hosted the launch session for the four-month program, which focuses on civic and philanthropic awareness to promote a deeper level of community engagement throughout the metro region.

Twenty participants were selected to engage in the 11th session of the program. Upon completion, they will join 1,400 leaders representing more than 600 organizations that have participated in Leadership Center programs.

“Our Young Professionals Program, offered in the fall and spring, provides a launchpad for up-and-coming leaders to expand their leadership footprint in our region,” says Liz Nohra, chief operating officer at Leadership Center for Excellence. “These young professionals also connect with other leaders in their peer group, as well as established leaders from the private, public and nonprofit sectors.”

Nohra said one side benefit of the program has been to encourage young professionals to stay in the Washington area, rather than relocate to other communities across the nation.

Among members of the fall class, there are: Malek Ben-Salem, Accenture; Matt Blunt, Arlington County Fire Depart-

ment; Danielle Bush, Arlington County Treasurer’s Office; Deborah Cordo, Chain Bridge Bank; Kate Floyd, Arlington Commons; Melen Hagos, Greater Washington Community Foundation; Tselote Hailemariam, Council on Foundations; Berkley Jenkins, Accenture Federal Services; William Jones, Arlington County Department of Environmental Services/ Transit Bureau; and Marty Kahsar, Vir-

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Also, Kelsey McCarthy, CAF America; Julia Michaels, Council of Graduate Schools; Banjo Obayomi, Metronome; Maija Paegle, Arlington Department of Parks and Recreation; Ibrahim Pashaei, Northern Virginia Landscaping; Cate Reich, Accenture/FusionX; Aisha Salazar, Arlington Food Assistance Center; Yasmin Serrato-Munoz, Accenture

Federal Services; Tori Simms, Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce; Leo Yilmaz, Arlington County Fire Department; and Tiffany Young, The Art Institute of Washington “They have the talent; we help them tap into that talent, build upon it and develop additional skills and resources to become agents of change,” said Leadership Center CEO Betsy Frantz.

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Regional Leaders: Preparedness a 2-Way Street At Chamber Forum, Elected Officials Press Community to Focus on Readiness SCOTT McCAFFREY

Elected local officials from across Northern Virginia gave themselves generally positive grades for emergency preparation during a recent regional forum, while acknowledging their work will be graded based on future efforts rather than past ones.

“There’s good cooperation” in the emergency-preparedness arena, said Corey Stewart (R), chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, during a Sept. 6 roundtable sponsored by local business groups. The event came after Hurricane Harvey ravaged Texas and as Hurricane Irma was threatening Florida.

“The most effective thing for an elected official to do is communicate, communicate, communicate – having the communication tools available and well-honed, and having an engaged community,” said Sharon Bulova, chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.

The gathering was held at the Arlington campus of George Mason University, and Arlington’s board chairman said his community learned much from the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon.

“We got even better,” said Jay Fisette (D), who also was serving as board chairman in 2001 when terrorists crashed a plane into the Pentagon.

Regional cooperation in the days after that event was strong, Fisette said, and the region acquitted itself well.

“This is a critical function of government,” he said of emergency preparedness. “It’s all about planning.”

But when a calamity such as a powerful hurricane or damaging derecho strikes, “Mother Nature reminds us who’s in charge,” said Alexandria Mayor Allison Silberberg (D).

Silberberg said her community had taken steps – and would take more – to alleviate chronic flooding in Old Town Alexandria. But she acknowledged that not every problem can be fixed.

“We’re a city on the river,” she said.

Phyllis Randall (D), chairman of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, said local officials need to be up to speed on the many ways of communicating in the social-media era.

“Do it on all platforms,” she said, in an effort to catch all age groups and demographics.

Fisette encouraged residents to get involved through programs like the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) initiative available in several localities.

Stewart said residents needed to practice self-reliance, and be prepared to be without basic necessities for three days at a minimum.

“We can’t get to everybody,” he said.

“People need to be prepared to survive.”

The Arlington real estate market paused to catch its breath in August, with prices essentially flat and sales down.

The result was a nearly 5-percent drop in total sales volume from a year before, according to data reported Sept. 12.

In August, a total of 261 properties went to closing in the county, down 4.4 percent from the 273 homes that changed hands a year before, according to RealEstate Business Intelligence, based on data from Bright MLS. The average sales price for all homes that sold during the month was $635,522, a decline of 0.5 percent. Dips were felt in all three segments of the market, with average prices declining 2.5 percent to $932,150 in the single-family market; dipping 2.6 percent to $457,182 in the attached segment; and dropping 3.4 percent to $416,270 in the condominium market.

There was still enough mojo at the top end of the market, however, for 31 properties to change hands at more than $1 million.

Add up the sales and prices, and total sales volume for the month stood at $165.87 million, down 4.9 percent from a year before.

Homes that went to closing in August spent an average of 45 days on the market, higher than the 42 days required a year before, and garnered 97.8 percent of original listing price, up from 97.4 percent

a year ago.

Among homes that went to closing, conventional mortgages were the method of financing transactions in 194 cases, followed by cash (29) and VA-backed mortgages (23).

At the end of the month, there were 569 properties available for the serious (or just curious) to peruse, a 5.2-percent decline from August 2016.

Where is the market headed? A solid first half of the year may give way to some softness in the second half, as the number of pending sales and homes under contract both were down in August from a year before.

Figures represent most, but not all, homes on the market. August 2017 figures are preliminary, and are subject to revision.

Lack of Inventory for First-Timers Remains Issue in N.Va. Homes Market: With first-time, entry-level prospective purchasers finding their options limited, the Northern Virginia real estate market either took a breather or – depending on your perspective – lost some steam in August.

While average prices were up among all types of houses, year-over-year sales declined just over 4 percent to 2,018 in August, according to figures reported Sept. 12 by the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors (NVAR).

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Corey Stewart and Sharon Bulova, the board chairs of Prince William and Fairfax counties, discuss issues at the Northern Virginia Regional Elected Leaders Summit, held in Arlington.

And when in doubt? “The primary message for most, in most instance, is stay put,” Fisette said.

The morning’s discussion, moderated

by Peggy Fox of WUSA-TV, steered largely away from contentious national topics, avoiding the legacy of the Confederacy entirely and only tangentially referencing immigration issues. But on the preparedness issue, Randall said localities needed to pay attention to the potential impacts of climate change.

“These storms are coming fast and furious,” she said of the 2017 hurricane season.

The elected-leaders summit, now in its second year, is a chance for the business community to hear from top elected leaders of five jurisdictions. The event drew a thumbs up from Deborah Johnson, a government-affairs specialist for Dominion Energy, which was a sponsor of the two-hour program.

The gathering provided “lots of good information and dialogue,” Johnson said.

The top elected positions in each of the five jurisdictions are elected by voters except for in Arlington, where the County Board chairmanship rotates among board members on an annual basis.

Figures represent sales in Arlington and Fairfax counties and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church.

“The missing ingredient in a full housing recovery, locally and nationally, is housing inventory for first-time homebuyers, and our region feels the pinch,” said NVAR CEO Ryan Conrad.

The figures bear him out: With 4,217 homes on the market at the end of the month, overall inventory is down about 7.6 percent from a year before. And, outside of condominiums, there is virtually nothing on the market under $300,000 and constrained supply under $400,000.

(On the flip side, there were 169 transactions of more than $1 million, and about one in four homes currently on the market in the region is listed in the seven-figure range.)

The average sales price for all homes that went to closing in August across the region was $579,969, up 3.7 percent from a year before. Among various legs of the real-estate stool, average prices were up 3.4 percent to $773,551 in the single-family market; up 2 percent to $410,157 in the townhouse/rowhouse sector; and up 3.2 percent to $331,200 in the condominium segment.

Add up the sales and prices, and the total sales volume for the month of $1.17 billion was down a fraction of a percent from August 2016.

Historically, August tends to mark a turn in the real-estate market across the region, a segue from the more active sales period of spring and summer to the latesummer-to-late-winter market, which tends to be progressively more dormant as the weather begins to chill.

Ann Yanagihara, a Realtor with Century 21 Accent Homes, said there remains a backlog of prospective purchasers who could not find a match in the spring and early summer. While the potential buyers are still benefiting from low mortageinterest rates, they are held back by low inventory and what Yanagihara said remained a competitive market.

Yanagihara said the fall market – a transition between the highs of summer and the lows of winter – could see healthy activity due to the backlog of past potential purchasers, coupled with those new to the market who hope to be in their next home by the holidays or start of the new year.

Homes that sold in Northern Virginia in August spent an average of 42 days on the market, an improvement from the 48 days required a year before, and garnered and average of 97.8 percent of original listing price, up from 97.2 percent a year before.

Figures represent most, but not all, homes on the market. August 2017 figures are preliminary.

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On Immigration, Quiet the Rhetoric, Craft a Solution

The hyperventilating screeds over President Trump’s decision to phase out the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program were predictable, and equally predictably, they (perhaps purposely) obfuscated the central issues in a wave of emotional outbursts, calling the decision everything from heartless to fascist.

Viewed in a more sober light, the president’s action in overturning his predecessor’s constitutionally-dubious, election-year (2012) usurpation of legislative authority puts responsibility for crafting a solution to this issue back where it belongs: in the hands of Congress.

The intent of President Obama’s policy was laudable; we believe those immigrant youth who were brought here as children are deserving of special consideration without the fear of random deportation to countries they really do not know. The “Dreamers” – with some exceptions – are net contributors to our society, and we should be happy to have them in our midst.

That said, President Obama went about addressing the matter the wrong way, and no tugging at the heartstrings or rewriting the historical record is going to change that fact. The matter now rests on the correct end of Pennsyl-

vania Avenue.

It’s time for members of Congress to leave the political posturing at the door, roll up their sleeves and finally start earning those $174,000-a-year paychecks and golden benefits that come with the job title “member of Congress.” If they can’t get the job done, dump them (Democrats and Republicans alike) and start fresh.

The public is watching, and those caught in the middle – those who had been covered by DACA – deserve responsible behavior, not tacky gamesmanship, from those in positions of authority. It would make for a nice change. n n n

And, perhaps because we’re in a cranky, crabby, cantankerous and crusty mood (we consider those to be some of our most endearing traits ...), we’ll add to the comments above that we’d happily live without the showboating by Arlington County Board and School Board members on the subject.

If the 10 members of those two bodies want to impact the national discourse, they can always run for Congress.

Otherwise, they’d be best advised to focus on local issues, as there are more than enough to keep them occupied.

Don’t Force Arts District on Land for Parks Editor: What happens when an advisory group appointed by the County Board ignores the public will and instead promotes narrow vested interests?

Answer: the County Board makes a wrong-headed decision that angers and alienates most of its constituents.

That’s the outcome we now risk with the Four Mile Run Valley Working Group, on which I serve as liaison from the Park and Recreation Commission.

The County Board has charged the working group to reimagine the Four Mile Run Valley area of South Arlington in which Jenny Dean Park is located. Over the past decade or so, the county government has increased the park space through the acquisition of neighboring properties, with the expectation the area “will be developed as an important recreation, cultural and environmental resource to serve” the adja-

cent neighborhoods.

These longstanding plans for the park comport with what Arlingtonians want.

In survey after survey, residents repeatedly have clamored for more parks providing active and passive recreational opportunities and open space. During both a multi-day visioning workshop for the Four Mile Run Valley Initiative last December and an open house this July, numerous residents publicly urged the county government to update and expand Jenny Dean Park.

Ignoring these preferences, some members of the working group are pressuring the County Board to repurpose the acquired properties as an “arts district” (whatever that might include and entail). However, no one credibly has explained what an arts district would contain, who would pay to create it, and how it would sustain itself financially.

More critically, no one has explained

why it now makes sense to reverse years of planning an expanded Jenny Dean Park, or how to justify changing the properties’ use to investors who purchased park and recreation bonds.

Fellow residents, if you care about preserving park and recreational space in Arlington County, I urge you to write the County Board imploring it not to approve repurposing these park properties into an arts district.

Instead, Jenny Dean Park should be decoupled from the working group’s process. The park should be updated and expanded through a robust planning process unfiltered by a working group or similar subset of individuals.

Let the working group continue to study creating an arts district, provided it’s located outside the Jenny Dean Park Master Planning Area.

Michael Grace Arlington

Editor: The Sept. 5 Arlington Civic Federation candidates’ forum offered the usual false political choice to voters – faced with a problem, we must choose between ever increasing spending or doing nothing.

On non-social issues, from fixing Metro to expanding school capacity, the candidates spoke almost exclusively on

spending levels, while largely failing to discuss alternative or complementary non-fiscal solutions.

Take health care. Candidates for the 49th District House of Delegates spoke solely about Medicaid expansion, ignoring all the non-budgetary areas where state-level health-care reforms could be made. Voters would be better served by honest debate over issues like “certificate

of public need” laws that control facility construction, regional provider monopolization, legal limits on nurse practitioner- and pharmacist-provided services, Medicaid copayments, telemedicine, price transparency, neighborhood clinics, direct primary care and wraparound insurance. The list goes on.

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Get Creative to Corral Traffic

Editor: The traffic I typically see and experience in the stretch of Lee Highway from North Harrison Street to North Sycamore Street can be compared to a speedway you visit at any racing event.

It is the traffic in between the lights that is most concerning to myself, and probably most who live here.

How do we fix this dilemma? Divert our police force away from higher priorities, like thefts, assaults, etc.? Not the wisest decision to make, considering the small police force we have.

Isn’t Lee Highway a state-owned road? Could we seek additional resources to help protect and enforce the traffic on our roadways?

Would “speed humps” be necessary like we see in residential areas, or per-

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Likewise, the discussion on affordable housing was dominated by talk of creating more funds and increasing revenue. Regarding affordability, why is there so little discussion on zoning, land use, building codes and permitting?

These major policy levers at the county and state levels have large effects on housing availability and costs. (County Board candidates Audrey Clement and

haps adding flashing speed-limit signs (radar units embedded in the sign itself)?

I read somewhere that some communities are using solar powered “flashing blues” (simulated police cars) on their streets.

How about using the parking-enforcement folks to conduct selective enforcement? (They may not be happy with that, come to think about it.)

I’m sure there are numerous ways we can “adjust” the speed of those drivers that feel it’s necessary to accelerate into warp drive.

But I’ll leave that to our government officials here, along with the leadership in law enforcement and emergency services, to perhaps consider what I offer.

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“Leadership Center for Excellence looks forward to bringing this group of leaders together in order to build social and intellectual capital for the D.C. metropolitan community within this leadership group – this next generation of trailblazers,” organizers said.

Recipients were selected based on their professional and civic accomplishments.

The awards program is conducted in conjunction with the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, Arlington Community Foundation, Arlington Economic Development and Sun Gazette.

Award recipients for 2017 include Robert Blake, Blake Willson Group; Wilmer Castro, Arlington Career Center; Hector Cendejas, City of Manassas Park; China Dickerson, NARAL Pro-Choice America; Maribel Duran, The Aspen Institute; Nikki Ferraro, HITT Contracting; Jennifer Fioretti, Arlington Department of Parks and Recreation; Lynsi Garvin, Virginia Hospital Center; Amina Gilyard James, Influence by AG; Phillip Green, Green Powered Technology; Karim Guirguis, American Bankruptcy Institute; Katharine Hale, Gunston Middle School; Molly Haines, Hoffman-Boston Elemen-

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Arlington Notes Cleveland “Bubby” James Jr. and Wanda Pierce were saluted by the Nauck Civic Association with Gold Star Awards for their contributions to the local community during a ceremony held as part of Nauck Civic and Community Pride Day on Sept. 16.

NAUCK SALUTES CONTRIBUTIONS OF LONGTIME RESIDENTS: The Nauck

Civic Association honored two stalwarts of the community and a longtime business with its annual Gold Star Awards for 2017.

The presentation was made at the Sept.

16 Nauck Civic and Community Pride Day, held at Drew Community Center.

At the ceremony, Wanda Pierce was lauded for her tenure leading the Arlington Community Foundation. Pierce retired earlier this year after serving as executive director for close to a decade.

“It’s quite and honor; it was a surprise,” Pierce said of receiving the award.

Pierce has been a Nauck resident for 29 years; “I’m considered a newcomer, a newbie,” she joked.

Pierce was honored, in part, for building a bridge between the foundation and the Nauck community. It was the support of the foundation that helped support the work of California artist Walter Hood, who is leading design of the Nauck Town Center.

Pierce also saluted “the late, great Joan Cooper” as a mentor. “I want to make sure I lift her name up,” Pierce said at the ceremony.

Cleveland “Bubby” James Jr., another longtime resident, was honored for his work with the youth and young adults of Nauck and the entire county.

Years back, James served as a lifeguard at the Veterans Memorial YMCA in Nauck, and today serves as administrator of the county school system’s Langston High-School Continuation Program.

“It’s an honor – I’m accepting this for all those who made Nauck what it is,” James said.

The event also included a scholarship presentation to a trio of Wakefield High School graduates.

The historically African-American Nauck community, located between Columbia Pike and Shirlington, traces its roots to the pre-Civil War era, when freedmen were able to purchase homes there.

After the war, many newly freed slaves moved to the community, and a number of churches became beacons of the area.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES HONOREES FOR ANNUAL GALA:

Mark and Brenda Moore, namesakes of the Mark and Brenda Moore Foundation, will be recognized with the 2017 Community Leadership Award by the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia at the organization’s annual gala, to be held Oct. 6 at the Hilton McLean

Tysons Corner.

The Moores are being honored for their history of passionate leadership and philanthropy.

“What make their gifts of philanthropic leadership unique is their level of activism and engagement in the causes they care about – they volunteer their time, energy and resources to organizations throughout our region and beyond,” said Eileen Ellsworth, president of the foundation.

The black-tie event will feature a cocktail reception and silent auction followed by dinner, a live auction and the awards presentation.

Tickets are $300, and sponsorship packages are available. For information, see the Web site at www.cfnova.org/gala.

‘CLARENDON DAY’ CELEBRATION ON THE HORIZON: The annual Clarendon

Day celebration will be held on Saturday, Sept. 23 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., with a host of events for adults and children.

Sponsored by the Clarendon Alliance, the event raises funds for Portico Church Arlington and Arlington Independent Media.

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

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A reception begins at 4 p.m., followed by the webcast at 5 p.m. R.S.V.P.s are requested at (703) 509-8057 or register@ arlnvil.org.

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fordable Housing (APAH) will honor former County Board member Mary Hynes at its 2017 “Celebrate Home” benefit, to be held on Thursday, Oct. 5 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Clarendon Ballroom, 3185 Wilson Blvd.

The annual event raises funds to support APAH’s efforts providing housing and resident services in the county.

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Club of Arlington recently donated funds to the Arlington Philharmonic, to be used in support of the organization’s Crescendo chamber-music initiative for students.

The $650 contribution will provide a full scholarship for a Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology ninth-grader to participate in the program.

“We are so grateful,” said the philharmonic’s executive director, noting that the student receiving the support is “very, very talented.”

Crescendo places secondary-school students in chamber-music quartets comprised of two violins, a viola and a cello, and gives the exposure to both instruction and performing.

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The film spotlights on the ways political interests have drawn political-district lines in North Carolina, and the impact of the gerrymandering on politics in the state.

A question-and-answer session with local leaders will follow the screening.

The program is free, but registration is requested. For information, see the Web site at https://www.lwv-arlingtonva.org/.

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27 at 7 p.m. with a discussion of “Tools for Titans” at Central Library. Additional programs in the series will be held on Oct. 25, Nov. 29 and Jan. 24.

For information, see the Web site at https://library.arlingtonva.us/calendar/ event_search=business+book.

‘SOCIAL-JUSTICE BOOK CLUB’ TO MEET AT CHURCH: The social-justice

book club at Clarendon United Methodist Church will host a discussion on “Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting By in America” by Barbara Ehrenreich on Tuesday, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the church, 606 North Irving St. The book looks at low-wage Americans’ fight for survival and dignity.

For information, e-mail Laura Bishop at ljbishop1@gmail.com.

RECEPTION SET TO OPEN NEW MARYMOUNT GALLERY: Marymount Univer-

sity will welcome the community to its new state-of-the-art Ballston Gallery with a free reception on Thursday, Sept. 28 from 6 to 9 p.m.

The event will offer the opportunity to meet artist Molly Springfield, whose drawings are featured in the new exhibit, “Excerpts.”

The exhibition runs through Oct. 21 at the gallery, located at Marymount’s Ballston campus, 1000 North Glebe Road. Hours are Thursdays through Saturdays from 1 to 6 p.m.

For information, see the Web site at www.marymount.edu.

‘CIVIL WAR DISCOVERIES’ SERIES CONTINUES: Fort C.F. Smith Park’s

“Civil War Discoveries” series for ages 7 to 11 continues with two programs on Saturday, Sept. 23.

From 9 to 10 a.m., participants will use replica wood rifles and drill as infantry. At 11 a.m., participants will load and aim a replica Civil War cannon and talk about different types of artillery while “bombarding” a replica fort.

The cost is $5 for each program. The fort is located at 2411 24th St. North.

For information, call (703) 228-7033.

NATURE CENTER FOCUSES ON BLACK BEARS: Long Branch Nature Center will

host a family program to separate the facts and myths about black bears on Saturday, Sept. 23 at 7 p.m.

The cost is $5 per person. For information, call (703) 228-6535.

NATURE CENTER GOES BATTY IN CAMPFIRE PROGRAM: Long Branch

Nature Center will host a family campfire program focused on bats on Friday, Sept.

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Wakefield Educator Named Virginia Teacher of the Year SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Michelle Cottrell-Williams, a social studies teacher at Wakefield High School, on Sept. 18 this week was named Virginia’s teacher of the year, and will be the c o m m o n w e a l t h ’s SCHOOL representative in the 2018 national educaBOARD tor-of-the-year comNOTES petition.

Cottrell-Williams was announced as the winner during a ceremony at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. A week ago, she had been named one of eight regional finalists.

The selection was announced by Virginia Secretary of Education Dietra Trent and Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven R. Staples.

Cottrell-Williams received a $5,000 award and a commemorative ring from the Apple Federal Credit Union Education Foundation, as well as a host of other prizes.

The 2018 National Teacher of the Year will be announced next spring at a White House ceremony. Two previous Virginia teachers – Mary Bicouvaris (1989) and Philip Bigler (1998) – went on to be named National Teacher of the Year.

All APS Schools Receive Full Accreditation from State Government: All of Arlington’s public schools have won full accreditation for the 2017-18 school year, according to state officials, making the school district one of 65 out of 123 divisions with 100-percent accreditation.

All county schools had been fully accredited for the past three years.

The Virginia Department of Education reported accreditation results on Sept. 13.

Statewide, 1,573 of the commonwealth’s 1,823 public schools are rated as full accredited for the coming year. The 86-percent accreditation rate is an improvement from 81 percent a year ago.

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A total of 61 schools received partial accreditation, while 88 schools were denied accreditation. An additional 92 schools are awaiting further review for their status, and seven new schools received conditional accreditation.

Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven Staples saluted students, teachers and staff across Virginia “for their hard work and dedication to helping students meet the commonwealth’s high expectations for learning and achieve-

ment.”

For a school to earn full accreditation, students must achieve pass rates of at least 75 percent in English and at least 70 percent on assessments in mathematics, science and history. High schools must also meet graduation requirements.

In June, the Virginia Board of Education preliminarily approved revisions to the Standards of Accreditation that will place increased emphasis on closing achievement gaps between student groups – and continuous improvement in all schools – while providing “a more comprehensive view of school quality,” state school officials. A final vote on the revised standards by the board is expected in November.

Full data for schools and districts, both for the 2017-18 school year and previous years, can be found on the Web site at www.doe.virginia.gov.

Deadline Approaches for Prospective TJ Applicants: Northern Virginia eighth-graders have until Sept. 29 to get their applications in for consideration as a member of the Class of 2022 at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology.

Those who properly submit all materials will be able to move forward in the admissions process, including the opportunity to participate in required testing in November.

Results of those tests will help winnow the applicant pool to finalists, who then

will be judged on additional information, including grade-point averages, teacher recommendations and an essay.

Final decisions will be announced April 30. About 480 students are expected to be offered admission, with others placed in the “wait pool” for possible offers of admission later.

Thomas Jefferson is overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools; students in participating school districts, including Arlington, are eligible to apply.

Full information on the application process is available through middle-school guidance offices in participating jurisdictions.

All Arlington 6th-Graders Arrive with Needed Inoculation: Arlington Public Schools hit 100-percent compliance among incoming sixth-grade students who had been inoculated with the Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) vaccine in time for the first day of school on Sept.

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A Reimagined Split-Level Stands Tall Bellevue Forest Standout Showcases Elegance and Versatility

Clever design and abundant craftsmanship are the hallmarks of this week’s highlighted property, which was featured – under the headline “Split Personality” – in the March 1996 issue of Remodeling magazine.

Indeed: the creative minds of Mark IV took the original “Gene May” splitlevel design and turned it into a showplace that features plenty of space without significant changes to the original footprint.

The result is an all-seasons, all-ages home in an always-in-fashion Bellevue Forest location, ready to meet the needs and exceed the expectations of its next owner.

The property currently is on the market, listed at $1,200,000 by Kevin Love of Re/Max Allegiance. An open house is slated for Sunday, Sept. 24 from 1 to 4 p.m.

Sited on a 12,366-square-foot lot, the home showcases more than 3,500 square feet of interior space spread out among four levels. The addition not only provided more space, but also accentuated informal elegance and traffic flow, making it perfect for entertaining as

well as for daily living.

The two-story foyer is an impressive light and bright spot for welcoming guests.

The main level puts everything close at hand, with a large living room with fireplace, separate dining room, adjacent kitchen/breakfast room combination with everything close at hand and its own personal sense of élan.

Located off the main traffic flow, a study provides a place for cerebral rumination and features a large bay window. A detached two car garage with breezeway is a personal favorite.

Upstairs features five bedrooms and three full baths. The master retreat is sumptuous and features a vaulted ceiling and a large interior window set high on the wall adding both ambiance and light. Stunning refinished hardwoods throughout add elegance.

The walkout lower level is light and bright, perfect for informal family gatherings inclusive of a forth full bath.

Additional features include updated systems, double-pane windows, ample storage, fenced enclosed yard, new paint and carpeting. Situated in Bellevue

Forest, close to Military Road and walking distance to Gulf Branch trail and the Potomac River. Still in close proximity to urban-village life of Arlington, and one traffic light to D.C. Our featured property, with roots in the Eisenhower era of the 1950s complemented by a delightful update and expansion is ready to celebrate 21stcentury style with its next owners Well worthy of consideration.

Articles are prepared by the Sun Gazette’s real estate advertising department on behalf of clients.

For information on the home, contact the listing agent. For information on having a house reviewed, contact the Sun Gazette’s real estate advertising department at (571) 333-6272.

Facts for buyers Address: 3911 Roberts Lane, Arlington (22207).

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Almost one in 20 residential ZIP codes nationally meets Zillow’s definition of a “$1 Million Neighborhood,” meaning at least 10 percent of the homes there are worth seven figures, according to a new Zillow analysis.

That equates to 346 new $1 Million Neighborhoods in the U.S. since 2014, as the housing market continues its push toward fully recovering.

Zillow analyzed residential ZIP codes across the country, looking for places where at least 10 percent of homes in the area are worth $1 million or more, making it a $1 Million Neighborhood. About 4 percent of all ZIP codes analyzed had enough $1 million homes to qualify.

There are now a total of 1,280 $1 Million Neighborhoods in the U.S., up from 958 in 2014.

U.S. home values are at a record high as the housing market continues its recovery from the Great Recession.

As a result, an increasing number of ZIP codes are finding themselves on the $1 Million Neighborhood list. West Coast metropolitan areas, where home values have bounced back fastest, saw the greatest increase in the number of $1 Million Neighborhoods over the past three years.

Nearly 74 percent of all ZIP codes in the San Francisco metropolitan area meet the $1 Million Neighborhood benchmark. One in five San Francisco ZIP codes have been added to the $1 Million Neighborhoods list since 2007.

The San Francisco metropolitan area has gained 36 $1 Million Neighborhoods over the past three years, second to New York, which gained 53.

“As home values reach new peaks, $1 million homes are increasingly common, even in neighborhoods once considered middle-class,” said Zillow’s chief economist Dr. Svenja Gudell.

“The U.S. median home value is just over $200,000, but in San Francisco, Los Angeles and other expensive cities, homes are worth much more.”

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Arlington Again Is Tops in Va. in Spending by Tourists

When it comes to tourism spending in the Old Dominion, Arlington last year retained its position atop the heap, but neighboring Fairfax County nibbled away at its lead, according to new data.

Arlington garnered $3.11 billion in domestic-tourism spending in 2016, according to new data from the state government. That’s up 2 percent from 2015, and was good enough to lead all 133 Virginia cities and counties.

Figures represent both traditional

tourism and business meetings, such as conventions, and cover travel to Virginia from locations at least 50 miles away.

“Tourism continues to be an incredibly vibrant sector in Arlington’s economy,” County Board Chairman Jay Fisette said after the figures were released, calling it “a key to our economic growth.”

While Arlington’s domestic-tourism receipts saw growth from 2015 to 2016, the rate was below the statewide average of 3.3 percent (rising to $23.7 billion) and

was below all four other communities at the top of the ratings.

Fairfax County saw tourism spending rise 3.4 percent to $3.03 billion, while Loudoun County posted an increase of 2.9 percent to $1.69 billion. Rounding out the top five were Virginia Beach, up 6.2 percent to $1.49 billion, and Henrico County, up 3.2 percent to $880 million.

Those five jurisdictions accounted for 43 percent of domestic-tourism spending in the commonwealth during the year, a

Arlington elected officials say they will do what they can to help the South Arlington Lions Club move forward with its traditional COUNTY Christmas-tree sale this year.

NOTES The club long has held the month-long sale on a parking lot at the FoodStar at the intersection of Columbia Pike and South George Mason Drive. But that parcel is now a construction zone, and the club’s effort to use county-owned land for the sale resulted in a turn-down by county officials.

“It’s not a reflection on the Lions Club,” said Robert Sharpe, the government staffer who made the determination that county land couldn’t be used for the sale.

Rather, Sharpe said, it was a case of being consistent and fair.

“We do not offer [government] land for fund-raising for non-profits,” he told County Board members on Sept. 16. “If we’re going to provide this to one nonprofit, we’d have to provide it for all.”

But for the Lions Club, which lost precious planning time on the assumption the county government would be able to provide support, it was a bitter pill.

“I was really disappointed,” said Lloyd Bell, a member of the club who brought the issue to the County Board.

Bell said the club’s drop-dead deadline to find a location already had passed, which will require a scramble for located a space.

N ARLINGTON/WOODBURY HEIGHTS $319,000 “The trees are coming,” Bell said.

“Hopefully somebody’s going to come

through for us.” county,” he said of the club’s attendance Emily Carnes, another organizer of at the meeting. the tree sale, said after the board meetSecond Phase of Washington Blvd. ing that the club has made inquiries for Trail Project OK’d: Arlington County several potential parcels. “We really want Board members on Sept. 16 approved a to keep the activity in South Arlington, if $2.5 million construction project to conpossible,” she said. tinue moving forward with a trail project County Board members, who (some- along Washington Boulevard. times) know a prospective PR nightmare The project, jointly funded by the when they see it, said they would work to county government and Virginia Departfind a location for the sale. ment of Transportation, will create a 10“This is a solvable problem,” board foot-wide trail adjacent to Washington member Christian Dorsey said. Board Boulevard from South Walter Reed Drive chairman Jay Fisette promised to “put to South Rolfe Street and 9th Street South. our collective heads together” to come up It will connect to an earlier segment of the with an alternate location. trail, built a decade ago, between Walter ...inviting home! Boulevard.

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percentage unchanged from 2015.

“Virginia’s tourism industry is a critical component of the new Virginia economy, providing jobs for our citizens and funneling millions of dollars back into our community,” Gov. McAuliffe said in a statement accompanying the data.

According to the survey, conducted by the U.S. Travel Association, domestictourism spending brought in $89.3 million to Arlington’s local tax coffers, by far the largest amount in the commonwealth.

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Leadership Center Welcomes Signature-Program Members Leadership Center for Excellence recently welcomed its 50-member Class of 2018, which will spend nine months developing a deeper understanding of the region while developing personal and professional skills.

As part of the program participants will engage in learning focused on regional topics such that include economic development, health and human services, education, public safety, justice and art.

Participants also will travel to Richmond during the General Assembly session.

To date, Leadership Center for Excellence has graduated more than 1,600 leaders representing over 600 organizations across the region.

Members of the Class of 2018 include: Pratibha Agarwal, Agarwal Law Group; Ayana Bellamy, Arlington Street People’s Assistance Network; Christine Bond, X-CEL Group; Angela Bovier, Kaiser Permanente; David Bowers, Arlington County Sheriff’s Office; Kathleen Branch, NOWCC; Scott Brideau, Little; Dr. Thomas Broughan, VOHRA Wound Physicians; Denise Bruner, Denise E. Bruner, MD and Assoc. PC; Wendy Chan, Accenture Federal Services; Tara Claeys, Design TLC; Christina Clark, Marymount University; Jewelyn Cosgrove, HDA; Emily Craig, IBM; Michele Espada, Freddie Mac;Karyn Ewart, The Sycamore School; Tina Fox, Cobalt Settlements; Catherine Fritts, Arlington County Office of the Treasurer;

Michelle Gentry, Fundraising/Development Consultant; Renee Gentry, Shoemaker, Gentry & Knickelbein; Grace Greenan, Virginia Hospital Center.

Carroll Hebron, Comcast Business; Michael Howard, U.S. Army, Joint Base MyerHenderson Hall; Drew Jenkins, Center for Personal Protection and Safety; Cheryl Johnson, Arlington County Department of Parks & Recreation; Joan Kelsch, Arlington County Department of Environmental Services; Wais Khairzada, Bozzuto; Patrick Kunze, GHT Limited; Evan Lacopo, Wydler Brothers Real Estate; Kurt Larrick, Arlington County Department of Human Services; Holly McCullough, Arlington Arts Center; Erin McKenney, Just Neighbors; Lourdes Morales, Arlington Economic Development; Jeanette Norton, Bridges to Independence.

Beth Offenbacker, Waterford, Inc.; Catherine Roper, Ballston Business Improvement District; Bill Roske, SAP Services; Cheryl Rosenblum, CNA; Danielle Schefer, Drive Society; Julie Shedd, George Mason University, School for Conflict Analysis & Resolution; Joseph Simonelli, Warrior Centric Health; Chris Smith, ChangeSmith Management Consultants; Lauren Stienstra, Arlington County Office of Emergency Management; Candace Vanderwater, Volunteers of America, Chesapeake; Carter Waddell, Eagle Bank; Diana Waller, Chasing Dragons; Dawn Wilson, TTR Sotheby’s International Realty; Lynne Wright, Oakridge Elementary School; Ginny Wright, Body by Ginny Fitness; and Steve Yeatman, AHC, Inc.

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state-highway system, as it cross Interstates 5, 15, 25, 35, 55, 65, 66, 71, 75, 80, 81 and 95. But if you stick to U.S. 50 for the entire trip, you’ll come across farms of the Midwest, urban areas (D.C., St. Louis and Cincinnati) and the mountains and lonely deserts of the West.

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rlington Boulevard: Arlingtonians probably best know Arlington Boulevard as a major east-west thoroughfare, and the dividing line between addresses that begin with “North” and those with “South.”

And while Arlington’s portion of the roadway is relatively modest – 10 miles from Seven Corners to the Potomac River – it is part of a massive highway (U.S. Route 50) that spans 3,000 miles from sea to (almost) shining sea.

In the 1930s – a time when the state and federal governments were beginning to think seriously about improving highways that were in even worse shape than today – Route 50 was conceived as one of the major east-west routes. Like the interstates that would come starting in the 1950s, it used portions of existing roads and incorporated new construction.

Today, it begins (or ends, depending on your point of view) in West Sacramento, Calif. After traveling across California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia and the District of Columbia, you will reach the terminus in Ocean City, Md. If you take that drive, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to connect to the inter-

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oot: One of life’s rules, especially in Arlington, is – pay your parking tickets.

If your vehicle has three or more outstanding tickets, it may be immobilized with a wheel “boot,” according to the Arlington County Police Department.

And if you don’t pay your tickets – along with the boot fee – within 24 hours of your vehicle’s immobilization, your vehicle will be towed, and you’ll incur additional fees.

To retrieve booted vehicles, individuals must go to the treasurer’s office during regular business hours or the police department’s customer-service counter after hours.

For all the details, see the Website at https://police.arlingtonva.us/parking/ booted-vehicles/. But to avoid the hassle, make sure those tickets are paid.

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randall Mackey: At the dawn of the 20th century, the Rosslyn community abutting the Potomac shoreline was a far different place than it is today.

Horse racing? Check. Prostitution?

Check. Gambling? Check. Other assorted activities of ill-repute? Absolutely. Murder? Occasionally. (One part of the community was known as Dead Man’s Hollow, and not for nothing.)

But the election of a young lawyer as commonwealth’s attorney was about the change all that.

Crandall Mackey had been elected on a platform that including cleaning up the vice den that was Rosslyn, and he had the backing of many local residents, who were concerned about the reputation of their growing community being tarnished by such a place.

And so, in 1903, Mackey led the offensive to rid Rosslyn of all its ills. He was joined by a posse that went from venue to venue, smashing things along the way if they had to.

(At the time, Arlington was known as “Alexandria County,” but besides sharing

a border with the city of the same name, was a completely separate entity. It would be renamed “Arlington County” in 1920.)

Mackey had seen combat before; he had served as an officer in the SpanishAmerican War. And his efforts paid off, as Rosslyn soon became less scandalous, if perhaps a tad less fun for those seeking illicit pleasures.

Mackey remains something of an enigmatic figure to historians; even the spelling of his name is in dispute – whether it was “Crandal” or “Crandall.” On his grave at Arlington National Cemetery, where he was buried in 1957, it is spelled “Crandall.” Arlington has commemorating his memory by naming a park in his honor.

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ecal Competition: Most Virginia jurisdictions use decals affixed on the windshield adjacent to the state inspection sticker to show that personal-property tax has been paid on the vehicle. But Arlington raised it to an art form.

It was 13 years ago that then-county Treasurer Frank O’Leary, whose office collects the tax and distributes the decals, hit upon the idea of a competition to choose the design of decals, generic versions of which had been used since the 1960s.

Today the competition, which is limited to high-school students, draws more

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Amy Kohan, a student at Wakefield High School, won the 2017-18 Arlington County decal competition. She is flanked by Karen Rosales of Arlington Community Federal Credit Union (a sponsor of the competition) and Treasurer Carla de la Pava, whose office oversees the annual decal contest.

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than 100 entries each year. A group of community notables winnows the design submissions to a manageable number of finalists, then the community votes.

(The Sun Gazette has been a partner in the project since its inception.)

After O’Leary’s retirement, his successor – Carla de la Pava – has continued the contest, which is held late each year.

A photo montage featuring the David M. Brown Planetarium bathed in the light of a full moon is the centerpiece of the 2017-18 car decal, selected in a community vote that featured record turnout.

“It’s an iconic part of Arlington,” said Wakefield High School student Amy Kohan, when her depiction of the planetarium was selected in January from among more than 200 submissions by Arlington high-schoolers.

Kohan’s design will be displayed on a total of 160,000 vehicles garaged in Arlington. While decals have been phased out by some Virginia jurisdictions, de la Pava says they remain a vital enforcement tools that help the treasurer’s office keep delinquency rates low and pull in $80 million in personal-property-tax revenue per year.

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scalator at Rosslyn Metro Station: At 207 feet, the escalator at the Rosslyn Metro station qualifies as second longest in the transit system and among the longest in the world.

(For those keeping score, the length of the Wheaton station’s elevator is 230 feet.)

It takes about three minutes to be whisked up or down, for those not walking (on the left). The other option – an elevator – takes just 17 seconds, not counting waiting time. But it’s never seemed nearly as much fun.

The Rosslyn station opened in July 1977 with service along the Blue Line; a year later, it also was incorporated into the Orange Line.

In 2016, an average of 13,195 passengers entered the Metro system via the Rosslyn Metro station on a given weekday, according to Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority data. That’s down from a weekday peak of 18,122 in 2010.

Franklin Roosevelt, the nation’s 32nd president, made final decisions on the location of Washington National Airport and the Pentagon.

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ranklin Roosevelt:Pop quiz: Name the only candidate for president who won the vote in Arlington a record four times? It was Franklin Roosevelt, who bested Herbert Hoover in 1932, Alf Landon in 1936, Wendell Willkie in 1940 and Thomas Dewey in 1944, not only in Arlington but across the nation.

(Another pop quiz: Which candidate won the Arlington vote three times? Believe it or not, it was Richard Nixon, who garnered the most county votes in 1960, 1968 and 1972. But we digress.)

Roosevelt makes the A-to-Z list not because of his electoral prowess, strong though it was, but because he was the final decision-maker in determining the location of two of the county’s most important landmarks: Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and the Pentagon.

In each case, selecting a location for a new air terminal for the nation’s capital and the headquarters of the nation’s military found itself bogged down in bureaucratic infighting. And also in each case, Roosevelt stepped in.

It was in 1938 that FDR used a press conference to announce the location of the new airport, which would replace two dilapidated fields. Two years later, he laid the cornerstone, and in June 1941, presided over the opening of the facility.

That same year, 1941, Roosevelt mediated a dispute among military men over where the War Department headquarters should be built. When word came that several Arlington locations were in the mix, county leaders went ballistic, some in Congress were furious and some of the nation’s top generals was infuriated that Roosevelt appeared to prefer a site south of what until then had been the top contender, a location near Memorial Bridge.

Roosevelt, who by 1941 already had served as president longer than any other, picked the southern site, reportedly reminding Army brass that “I’m still commander in chief.”

A fast-paced construction effort got the world’s largest office building up and running within two years, as thousands of personnel, from generals to enlisted, moved in to help finish the war effort. Although urban legend suggests that federal officials planned to turn the building into a records-storage facility after World War II, it has served as the central nervous system of the American military since the day it opened.

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I Gloria Thompson, Ron Deskins and Michael Jones in 1959 participated in the integration of all-white Stratford Junior High School. They are shown at a 2009 forum commemorating the 50th anniversary of the event.

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then rattled off victories in 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2013 before deciding against seeking a sixth term this year.

(Had he run and won, Fisette would have been on pace to equal the record of his immediate predecessor, Ellen Bozman, who served an all-time high of 24 years on the County Board from 19731997. Fisette succeeded Bozman on Jan. 1, 1998, meaning the seat has had only two occupants over the past 44 years, a period that saw nine presidents, nine Arlington county managers and 27 different County Board members.)

When it comes to the Virginia Department of Elections, Fisette is known a number of ways: “Jay Fisette,” “Gerald Norman Fisette Jr.” and “G.N. ‘Jay’ Fisette Jr.” all pop up in its database.

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“It’s really pretty simple,” Fisette told the Sun Gazette in what might be the first time a media outlet has asked how he came to be known as “Jay.” Fisette’s father – Gerald Norman Fisette Jr. – was known to the family as “Jerry,” so that was out as a nickname for his son.

“Jay” was what his family chose to call him.

“I didn’t pick it; that was my nickname from early on,” said the native of Pittsburgh, who came to the local area

erald’: You may know him as Jay, but his bank, the DMV, voter-registration office and credit-card companies know him by his full birth name: “Gerald Norman Fisette Jr.” And now, as he prepares to leave office after two decades on the Arlington County Board, Fisette opens up about the origin of both his birth name and his nickname.

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Nobody, whether family or friends, ever called him by his birth name. But officialdom still knows him that way. “If you look at my checkbook, it’s Gerald,” he said.

Fisette was largely unknown in local political circles when he first sought elected office in 1993, winning backing of the Arlington County Democratic Committee but losing a County Board special election to Republican Ben Winslow. He

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Minor Hill (alternately known as Minor’s Hill and Minors’ Hill) occupies strategic ground at the western edge of the county. It was important to Native Americans in the pre-colonial era, and was one spot where President Madison fled as the British were burning Washington in 1814.

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During the Civil War, the site’s strategic location saw it being fought over and occupied at various times by both sides.

Federal troops established a watchtower and had a telegraph line installed so they could communicate with troops at Chain Bridge.

For much of the ensuing 75 years, the parcel (which took its name from onetime owner George Minor) remained largely undeveloped, but today it is home to a large number of bucolic residential properties. There also is a community park and a county reservoir.

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In Arlington, four black students were escorted to the previously all-white Stratford Junior High School, where they had been admitted under court order, dealing a death knell to Virginia’s “massive resistance” to desegregation of public facilities.

But that was just the start of a long process. In fact, it would take more than

a decade – until the early 1970s – before integration had occurred across the county school system.

But it all began in 1959, a day chronicled in the documentary “It’s Just Me,” which is available on the school system’s Web site at www.apsva. us.

The film, created by Arlington Educational Television staff for the 50th anniversary of the integration of the school, saw a boost in interest after a 2016 community forum that brought together three of the four black students who integrated what was then Stratford Junior High School.

The building currently houses the H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program, but in 2019 will revert to its original use as a community-based middle school.

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online. Neither blood tests nor witnesses are required. Both parties must be at least 18 years old or emancipated minors.

Those who were previously married must present a certified copy of a court-issued decree of divorce.

The license fee is $30, and the license is Let’svalid change to Aug. 4 – up to 60the days date after issuance. oined in Matrimony: The 6th. ofThe clergy, minister or other person fice of the Clerk of the Circuit performing the marriage must be authoCourt is the go-to spot for mar- rized by a Circuit Court in Virginia to celriage licenses in Arlington. While there ebrate the rites of matrimony for the marare no residency requirements, the mar- riage to be valid. The clerk’s office keeps riage (civil or religious) must take place in a list of civil celebrants who perform cerVirginia for the license to be valid. emonies for a $50 cash fee.

Licenses are issues in the clerk’s ofFor full details, see the Website at fice from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. during regular https://courts.arlingtonva.us/circuitworkdays; the application can be filled out court/marriage/.

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The facility opened in 2006 as “the world’s best,” Capitals majority owner Ted Leonsis said a few years later in addressing the Arlington Chamber of Commerce.

“Kettler has far exceeded our expectations,” Leonsis said. “It is such a natural and open place, with a friendly environment. Ask the players. They love it.”

Not only do the Caps hold practices at Kettler, which includes a spacious room where team memorabilia is sold; the rink has become a huge part of the ice-hockey community in Northern Virginia, as well. Many youth and high-school teams Aug. 5 since we are closed on Augu hold games and practices at Kettler.

Because many of the team’s players live in Virginia, it made sense to put training facilities there, Leonsis said. “With the Capitals, we wanted to build a culture and closeness with the community, and Kettler has been such a big part of that,” the owner said.

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“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: The Official Script Book of the Original West End Production” by Jack Thorne was second in total circulation, followed by “Commonwealth” by Ann Patchett, “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr and “The Whistler” by John Grisham.

Stepping back to 2016, the mostchecked-out book of the year was “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins.”

The previously mentioned “All The Light We Cannot See” was second, followed by “Go Set a Watchman” by Harper Lee, “Fates and Furies” by Lauren Groff and “Rogue Lawyer” by Grisham.

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ovies & TV: Arlington has produced its share of those who have gone on to find success in front of and behind the cameras on movies and TV. Yorktown High School grade Katie Couric grew up in the county, found fame at the “Today” show and has gone on to several high-profile jobs since.

On the big screen, Warren Beatty, his sister Shirley MacLaine and Sandra Bullock all came out of Washington-Lee High School before finding fame. Another W-L grad, from an earlier era, was Forrest Tucker, who starred in multiple movies and was a lead in the 1960s TV comedy “F-Troop.”Behind the scenes, Greg Garcia (a Yorktown grad) has had success as a TV writer, director and producer, with his work including “My Name Is Earl,” “Raising Hope,” “Family Guy” and “Family Matters.”

And while she didn’t grow up in the community, silent-film star Pola Negri did make her home in Arlington for some years after her retirement from Hollywood.

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auck Town Square: The Nauck community, nestled between the Columbia Pike corridor and Shirlington, is one of Arlington’s historically African-American communities. Freedmen purchased lots and build houses there even before the Civil War, and after the war, newly freed slaves and their descendants called the community home.

Over time, the community stagnated, only to see both the pluses and minuses of gentrification over the past two decades.

But in a few short years, the community will have a centerpiece to call its own: the Nauck Town Square, located where 24th Street South, South Kenmore Street and South Shirlington Road come together “I want people to see this place. I want it to be visible,” said Walter Hood, a California artist and landscape designer hired by the Arlington County government to lead the transformation, when he met with Nauck residents several years ago to plan the project.

The proposed highlight of the town square would be a 40-foot-tall sculpture vertically spelling out “FREED,” which would pay tribute both to the free African-Americans who lived in the Nauck area before the Civil War, and also those who moved in after emancipation.

County voters approved bond funds to support the $4 million project, which has an expected completion date of 2018. The town square is being designed to accommodate community festivals and farmers’ marketplaces, as well as serving as a gathering point.

Located where 24th Street South, South Kenmore Street and South Shirlington

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No team has won more division championships, 29, than Overlee in the popular summertime NVSL. In addition, the Flying Fish have 13 second-place finishes, as Overlee has become the league’s standardbearer for excellence and championships, all after finishing 1-4 in its initial season back in 1958.

During a current 12-year stretch dating back to 2006, Overlee has finished either first or second in Division 1, last winning the title in 2015. The Flying Fish were second to McLean rival Chesterbrook this summer and last.

From 1980 to 1986, Overlee won a record seven straight Division 1 crowns, then won six in a row from 1993 to 1998.

The team’s longest stretch without winning a division crown was from 1999 through 2005.

Such stretches can get coaches replaced, as Overlee doesn’t like not winning championships on a regular basis.

The team’s lone winless campaign (0-5) on record was in 2003.

Overlee has been in Division 1, the NVSL’s highest division, for 55 straight seasons, another league record.

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But you don’t have to be a showman to speak to elected officials. The County Board holds a public-comment period at its meetings, generally starting at 8:30 a.m. on Saturdays. Anyone who submits a speaker to the clerk by 9 a.m. can have his or her say, unless the topic to be discussed is on that day’s agenda.

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public-comment periods at its meetings.

The public gets its say at approximately 7 p.m.; most (but not all) meetings are held on Thursdays.

There are some differences in procedures among the two bodies: County Board members do not limit the number of speakers, while the School Board puts a cap of 30 minutes for the total speaker time. County Board members generally respond to issues raised; School Board members usually do not.

Information on how to participate can be found on the respective Websites: www.arlingtonva.us and www.apsva.us.

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There are six starting signal-callers this season because two teams, the Washington-Lee Generals and Yorktown Patriots, rotate a pair of players at the positions.

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year starting quarterback. For Washington-Lee, Branden Shackelford and junior Ryan Dodds have shared the positions.

Same at Yorktown, where junior Will Porter and sophomore Grant Wilson alternate taking snaps, usually two in a row throughout the game, before yielding to the other.

Junior Kim Thompson is the first-year starter for the Bishop O’Connell Knights.

In past years, some Arlington quarterbacks have enjoyed success at higher levels of play.

Wakefield graduate Drew Powell, a former Sun Gazette Offensive Player of the Year, was a Division II college standout and team record-setter at Livingstone College in Salisbury, N.C. He now quar-

terbacks the Nebraska Danger of the professional Indoor/Arena Football League.

Former O’Connell starter Gibran Hamdan was drafted in the seventh round by the Washington Redskins in 2003 and, overall, was on the roster of five NFL teams. In 2006, Hamdan was NFL Europe’s Offensive Player of the Year, and has played in the Canadian Football League.

Former Yorktown signal caller Tim Reynolds became a team record-setter at Division II Ferrum University. Washington-Lee graduate Sam Appel is a senior quarterback at Kenyon College. Former Wakefield quarterback Riley Wilson is a tight end for the College of William and Mary.

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It’s the Rixey Mansion, which stands on North Glebe Road at Marymount’s main campus. And when the first freshmen at Marymount Junior Women’s College – 13

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of them – arrived to begin classes in 1950, they and their teachers from the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary could all be accommodated in the building.

The religious order of nuns had purchased the home and grounds on North Glebe Road in 1948 in preparation for opening their new school. It became known as the “Main House,” and while Marymount grew up around it, the white Georgian structure remains something of the heart of campus, housing the office of the president and hosting receptions honoring outstanding students as well as alumni and distinguished guests.

According to the university’s history, the mansion house was constructed in 1919-20 for Dr. Presley Rixey, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral who had served as personal physician to Presidents McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

After Dr. Rixey’s death in 1928, the estate was sold to one Mrs. Ida K. Polen, who used it as what historians diplomatically call a “tea house.” The office of Marymount president Matthew Shank occupies what had once been one of the bedrooms of the ladies who may, or may not, have been plying a certain profession there. (Crandall Mackey would not have approved.)

In 1937, the mansion was pressed into action as the restaurant for Washington Golf & Country Club, after a fire destroyed the neighboring clubhouse.

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ister Cities: The international Sister City program was established in the aftermath of World War II, and in the 1950s was embraced by the Eisenhower administration in order to promote people-to-people interactions across borders. But the concept goes back much further: cities in present-day Germany and France became “twins” almost 1,200 years ago.

Arlington was a late bloomer when it came to the effort, but these days has five Sister City relationships: Coyoacán, Mexico; Aachen, Germany; Reims, France; San Miguel, El Salvador; and IvanoFrankivsk, Ukraine.

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Flowering dogwood, white oak and red maple are among the most common types of trees found in the county, according to the survey.

The survey also concluded that Arlington’s trees help to reduce surface runoff by about 10.7 million cubic feet per year.

Their shading capacity helps to reduce total energy consumption by about $1 million a year in the county.

For information on the county’s trees, see the Web site at https://environment. arlingtonva.us/trees/.

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It was on May 24, 1861 – not long after Virginians voted to secede from the Union – that federal troops occupied the community.

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Also, our Family Fun drop-in events are held on the first Friday of the month (Oct. - May) from 6:30 - 8 p.m. On Oct. 6 we’ll feature an inflatable bounce house, a take home craft and space to get your sillies out.

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Gen. Charles W. Sandford occupied the Arlington Heights and troops set to work fortifying the area around the vacated mansion home of Robert E. Lee and his family.”

One of the impacts of the occupation was a denuding of the tree cover, as wood was used for building forts, providing heat and because the Union Army feared trees would provide cover for Confederate forces and renegades. As a result, much of Arlington’s current treescape is less than 150 years old.

Another impact was the seizure of Arlington House, owned through marriage

by Robert E. Lee. In what was seen as a

punitive move, the federal government took the house and grounds, ostensibly for non-payment of taxes, and began the first of what would be thousands of burials at what became known as Arlington National Cemetery.

The U.S. Supreme Court in the 1880s ruled that the seizure had been illegal, but with burials continuing, Lee’s descendants agree to take $180,000 in cash – a huge sum at the time – and relinquish control of the plantation house and rounds.

The war era also saw the construction of Freedman’s Village, located near where Columbia Pike can be found today, to provide housing for recently emancipated slaves. Some of Arlington’s most prominent African-American families descend from the residents there.

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In Virginia, voter-registration rolls close 21 days before the election. Virginia does not register voters by political party; voters can participate in the staterun primaries of any party, but if two or more parties hold a primary on the same day, the voter can only participate in one.

For complete details on registering to vote in Arlington, see the Website at https://vote.arlingtonva.us/voter-registration/. For information on the Arlington County Democratic Committee, see the Website at www.arlingtondemocrats. org. For information on the Arlington County Republican Committee, see the Website at www.arlingtongop.org. For information on the Arlington County Green Party, see the Web site at www. greensofarlington.org.

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The upgrade to the facility, whose costs have been borne borne by residential and commercial sewer customers

in Arlington and parts of Alexandria, Falls Church and Fairfax County, has expanded treatment capacity to 40 million gallons per day, a third more than previously possible.

Fifteen years ago, before the upgrade was launched, the facility routinely became overwhelmed, leading to the release of wastewater that hadn’t been fully treated. The relatively large number of times this happened caught the attention of state regulators, and helped spur county officials to embark on a major rehabilitation – the largest capital project ever undertaken by the Arlington government.

The construction effort wasn’t free of controversy; neighbors complained about construction noise and some of the smells emanating from the plant. Fiscal hawks derided efforts to spruce up the facility with parkland and public art.

And while upgrades are an ongoing process, county officials are hopeful that they won’t need to embark on the next full-scale rehabilitation of the facility for several decades.

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Practice for the current season began Aug. 28.

The Stallions are an organization providing middle school and high school players the opportunity to learn and participate in the sport in Arlington Heights and neighboring areas.

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Arlington NFL Flag Football started a few years ago with just a couple dozen players. Now the league has exploded to more than 1,000 youth participants. Earlier this year, one girls team won a national championship. Teams play a fall season.

Pickleball is basically tennis played with a Wiffle ball on a smaller court and with a smaller racket. It has become very popular in Arlington, mainly for middle-aged to to senior-age players. The second-annual 2017 Mid-Atlantic Open Pickleball Tournament, a doubles competition, in Arlington at the Thomas Jefferson Community Center is Sept. 30 through Oct. 1.

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school grid coach for 38 years, including the first six at Wakefield from 1974 to 1979.

Through Aug. 31 games this season, Hanson had 245 career victories, which ranks sixth highest on the Virginia High School League’s list of all-time winning head football coaches.

Hanson already has been inducted into the Arlington Sports Hall of Fame and the Northern Virginia Football Hall of Fame.

Hanson, who played high school foot-

ball in Montgomery County, Md. then attended the College of William and Mary, had a 215-134 record at Yorktown as of Aug. 31, and was 30-28-2 at Wakefield. He also was an assistant at Chantilly and W.T. Woodson high schools in Northern Virginia.

Hanson’s Yorktown teams have won two region championships, multiple district crowns and unofficial Arlington County titles, and have had only six losing seasons.

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Unfortunately, there always seems to be a shortage of such officials, sometimes forcing games to be played on alternate days and nights.

The top game-officials organization for football in the area is the Northern Virginia Football Officials Association, for basketball it’s the Cardinal Basketball Officials Association, for girls softball the Northern Virginia Softball Umpires Association and for baseball the Northern Virginia Baseball Umpires Association.

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clubhouse. It is really a resource for the entire county,” Vihstadt said.

Voters approved funding for the project in a 2016 bond referendum.

The County Board’s action closed one chapter of what had been a somewhat lengthy, and at times contentious, public process.

The process “was flawed – it really did not feel like engagement,” said local resident Eric Lotke.

That said, there seemed to be the feeling of satisfaction among those who participated in the process that this stage had come to an end.

“I’m unhappy with the design – [but] I’ve made peace with it,” Lotke said.

The project includes a construction budget of $37 million; County Manager Mark Schwartz announced Sept. 16 that

negotiations had fallen through with the construction firm that had been awarded the contract, but that he expected to conclude an agreement with another bidder shortly.

A number of issues remain up in the air: • A final traffic study has been completed but not made public; county officials say it will be released in October, and they will hold a community meeting in November to address traffic and street improvements on and adjacent to the site.

• The budget does not include funds for amenities such as an indoor track and net-zero energy consumption, both of which some County Board members want to pursue.

In addition to use as a community center, the facility will include space for a new senior center, and also will house offices for about 70 members of the Department of Parks and Recreation staff, many of whom now work out of offices in Shirlington.

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Schools & Military n Andrew Norville of Arlington earned a master of real estate development degree during recent commencement exercises at Clemson University.

– From Washington-Lee High School: Christopher-Thomas Cordero, Johnston French, Jack Horton, Jayaprakash Kambhampaty, Benjamin McCracken, Kerry Meade and Lillian Wieland.

– From Yorktown High School: Reagan Briere, Cassius Close, Elizabeth Discenza and William Golovaha-Hicks.

– From Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology: Quinn Ciccoretti, Leo Desruelle, Caroline Hatcher, Max Judish, Dylan Klapper, Justin Laske, Sarkis Ter Martirosyan and Grace Young.

Three types of Merit Scholarship awards will be offered in 2018: National Merit $2,500 scholarships, corporatesponsored scholarships and college-sponsored scholarships. Recipients will be announced in the spring.

n Elliot Grace of Arlington and Tara Yazdi of Arlington earned degrees during recent commencement exercises at Bates College.

Daniel Whitaker of Arlington, a 2012 graduate of Yorktown High School, earned a degree in international affairs and modern languages, with distinction, during 2016 commencement exercises at Virginia Military Institute, and in January received a commission as an ensign in the U.S. Coast Guard.

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More than 250 newly arrived Marymount University freshmen received a hands-on lesson on the university’s commitment to service when they packaged 10,000 meals for Rise Against Hunger, an international relief organization that distributes food and aid to the world’s most vulnerable.

The effort was part of the Marymount’s annual “Saints Serve” day, held recently at the Lee Center on the university’s main campus.

Each meal contained a grain, soy and a vitamin package. Students sealed all n

n A total of 19 Arlington Public Schools students were among 16,000 students nationwide to have been named National Merit Semifinalists for 2017-18, and will compete for 7,500 scholarship awards worth $32 million.

Semifinalists were selected from the more than 1 million members of the Class of 2018 who took the PSAT/NMSQT qualifying exam over the past year.

Among students from the Sun Gazette coverage area who were named Merit Semifinalists:

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meals and boxed them for shipping both to support hunger-relief efforts globally and in support of hurricane-relief initiatives in the U.S. “It was a great way for our students to work with and meet new people,” said Linda Pratt, coordinator of commuter and graduate student services at the university. “Everyone really got into it.”

Students were split into two groups, each working 90-minute shifts. Joe Gauthier, an Ashburn-based representative of Rise Against Hunger, talked with

each group about world hunger and the organization’s work.

One of the three pillars of Marymount’s vision, service to others is an integral part of the university’s tradition, dating back to its founding order, the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary.

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ment leaders again have rebuffed a request from a civic activist to use a Carter-era executive order in an attempt to attract and retain federal agencies to the county.

For years, Bernie Berne has argued that the presidential order from the 1970s gives the District of Columbia and Arlington priority in the location of federal agencies in the Washington area.

A number of federal agencies have moved from the inner core of the region to suburbs further out, as the General Services Administration puts a focus on controlling leasing costs. The county is “losing a tremendous opportunity” by not holding the federal government to the standard set in the executive order.

As has been the case when this has been brought up before, county officials say it’s not quite that simple.

“Many of these executive orders are in conflict with one another,” said County Board Chairman Jay Fisette, who noted that Berne has brought the subject to his attention for about 15 years now.

County Attorney Stephen MacIsaac praised Berne for “coming up with something creative,” but said the language of the executive order was not binding on the federal government, and that Arlington would have no legal standing to challenge it.

Board member Christian Dorsey said Arlington’s focus needs to be putting the idea of lawsuits aside and focusing on convincing the GSA and federal agencies that Arlington is where they want to be.

“What’s most prudent for us is to make the best possible case,” he said.

COUNTY ADDS TOOL TO ALLOW PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS: You’ve

got to know your PPEAs from your PPTAs for this to make much sense, but the Arlington County government now has another development tool in its toolbox.

Board members on Sept. 16 adopted a policy to use the Virginia Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructre Act of 2002 – that’s the “PPEA” – allowing for public-private development partnerships.

Signing on to the policy would allow private entities to come to the county government – solicited or unsolicited – and propose joint infrastructure projects for everything from new recreation centers to building upgrades.

The policy was approved as part of the board’s consent agenda on Sept. 16, without public comment. It “will give the county another procurement tool that can provide access to private-sector expertise and innovation,” said Michael Bevis of the government’s Department of Management and Finance.

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ready are participating in the PPEA, as is Arlington Public Schools.

Whether the action will have a significant impact as the Arlington government works to maximize use of its dwindling open space remains an open question.

County staff tell the Sun Gazette they know of no private entities that are preparing proposals for submission.

The guidelines allow the county government to charge a “review fee” of $5,000 to $50,000 in order to cover costs associated with taking a look at any proposal that is submitted.

In 2012, the County Board signed on to the state’s Public Private Partnerships for Transportation Act of 1995 – that’s the PPPT – which allowed for public-private partnerships in the transportation arena. In the ensuing five years, however, no such partnership proposals have come forward, staff said.

FISETTE SAYS ARLINGTON CAN BE USED AS RESOURCE ON AIRBNBSTYLE REGULATION: The chairman of

the Arlington County Board says his jurisdiction is willing to share its expertise with surrounding localities, including Fairfax County, as they work to legalize Airbnb-style rentals.

“So far, we’ve felt pretty good,” board chair Jay Fisette (D) said of Arlington’s regulation of short-term home stays.

Board members last December set in

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So far, about 70 Arlington property owners have filed paperwork to pay requisite taxes on short-term stays. That’s a far cry from the roughly 1,600 apartments and houses Arlington officials think are being let out for occasional stays, but Fisette said as word gets out on the new rules, he expects the public to cooperate.

“They will, over time, come into compliance,” he said.

The board chairman made his remarks at the 2017 Northern Virginia Elected Leaders Summit, held Sept. 6 and hosted by a coalition of chambers of commerce as well as the Northern Virginia Regional Commission.

The General Assembly in 2016 passed legislation prohibiting localities from collecting taxes on homestead rentals, but the measure was vetoed by Gov. McAuliffe so the issue could be studied further.

In the 2017 legislative session, localities successfully lobbied to retain the power to regulate such rentals.

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Police Beat MALICIOUS WOUNDING: n On Sept. 13 at 5:24 p.m., police were dispatched to the 2200 block of Crystal Drive for a report of a fight in progress.

According to police, a man entered a restaurant, approached a female patron, placed his arm around her neck and threatened her with a pair of scissors.

Witnesses came to the aid of the woman, detaining the suspect until officers arrived, police said.

SEXUAL BATTERY: n On Sept. 13 at 2:07 p.m., officers were dispatched to the intersection of Lee

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Highway and North Lynn Street for a report of sexual battery.

According to police, a woman was running on the Mount Vernon Trail several hours earlier when a male suspect approached her from behind and touched her inappropriately. The suspect fled when the victim called out for help.

The suspect is described as a lightskinned Hispanic male, 30 to 40 years old, 180 to 220 pounds with an average to medium build.

ROBBERY: n On Sept. 10 at 8:43 p.m., a man was walking in the 1100 block of South George Mason Drive when he was approached by three men who asked for a dollar.

When the victim removed cash, he was assaulted by one of the suspects.

The suspects fled the scene on foot. The victim was transported to a local hospital in non-life-threatening condition.

The suspects are described as black males, 18 to 21 years old, with average builds. n On Sept. 12 at 11:30 a.m., a man in the 2100 block of Wilson Boulevard was approached by a man who asked for a cigarette.

When the victim was removing the cigarette, the suspect shoved him to the ground and stole his personal belongings, police said.

The suspect is described as a black

male, 5’9” to 5’11”, with black hair and a medium build. n On Sept. 13 at 2 p.m., a man was approached by a known male suspect at South Four Mile Run Drive and Columbia Pike. According to police, the suspect asked the victim for a beer, and when the victim refused, the suspect assaulted him and stole cash.

The suspect is described as an Hispanic male, 35 to 40 years old, 5’2” to 5’4” with a heavy build.

The victim was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

BURGLARY: n On Sept. 12 at 8:29 a.m., a woman living in the 2300 block of 6th Street South was awakened by noise, and when investigating, she discovered a known individual in the house.

The suspect fled the scene. Warrants for burglary were obtained. n Sometime between Sept. 12 at 3 p.m. and Sept. 13 at 4:57 p.m., a home in the 6400 block of 16th Street North was burglarized. It was unclear if any items were taken. n On Sept. 13 between 10:30 and 11:59 a.m., a home in the 6700 block of 25th Street North was burglarized. Numerous items were taken.

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MASS’ FOR FIRST-RESPONDERS: n The Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington on Sept. 16 held its annual “Blue Mass” in honor of public-safety personnel from around the diocese.

The event was held at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington.

“Our first-responders offer daily and dedicated service to protect us and our community,” Bishop Michael Burbidge said in a statement. “We are most grateful for the selfless sacrifices they make, and pray that God will bless and watch over them always.”

Arlington Deputy Police Chief Daniel Murray was among those who planned to attend. “We are very appreciative of the diocese recognizing the important functions the first-responder community performs,” he said.

The Blue Mass is a tradition that began in 1934 at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. The Arlington diocese has been holding one for the past 14 years.

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Two Teams Play Better Over Final Five Contests For any sports team, getting off to fast starts to begin a season is important. Finishing strong, though, is maybe even better.

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W-L Junior Earns Top-20 in Varsity A A Staff Report

For a second straight weekend, local runners enjoyed success at a large multiteam high school cross country meet.

Arlington’s top finisher in any varsity race Sept. 16 at the Oatlands Invitaat CROSS COUNTRY tional Oatlands Plantation in Leesburg was Washington-Lee junior Eva Smith-Perry. She finished 16th in the girls varsity A race in 20:14 for the Generals. The winning time was 18:52.

Bishop O’Connell senior Ryley Howard was 25th in that same race (20:44) and her freshman teammate Tess Brinkman was 39th in 21:01. For the Yorktown girls, junior Catherine Whitehouse was 55th, senior Cate Spirgel 91st and senior Savannah Landefeld 98th.

In the boys varsity A race, O’Connell junior Max Greczyn was 47th in 17:26.

In the boys varsity B race, Wakefield senior Amanuel Haileselasie was 12th (18:30) and junior Jackson Ringger was right behind in 13th (18:31).

The meet consisted of dozens of teams and hundreds of runners.

Yorktown High School runner Catherine Whitehouse and the Patriots participated in the multiteam Oatlands Invitatonal boys and girls meet this past weekend.

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Yorktown Rallies to 3-0; Wakefield Now 2-1 DAVE FACINOLI Staff Writer

The home-field advantage worked for two of Arlington’s three public high school varsity FOOTBALL football teams the night of Sept. 15, as the Yorktown Patriots and Wakefield Warriors were victorious.

Yorktown (3-0) defeated the W.T. Woodson Cavaliers, 32-27, in a seesaw contest, and Wakefield (2-1) downed Eastern of Washington, D.C., 26-12.

The Washington-Lee Generals (0-3) also played a home game, losing to the undefeated Mount Vernon Majors, 79-27, after taking a 7-0 lead.

For Yorktown in its win, the Patriots

gained 368 total yards, of which 233 were passing.

The winning touchdown came in the third quarter when Will Porter (9 of 14 passing for 168 yards and three touchdown passes) threw 31 yards to Tanner Wall to give the Patriots a 32-27 lead.

Wall caught nine passes for 103 yards, including a 25-yard scoring strike from Grant Wilson (6 of 15 for 65 yards) in the first half. Wall rushed for 32 yards.

Davis Patterson (four catches for 75 yards) caught touchdown passes of 30 and 21 yards from Porter.

Adam Luncher had 119 yards rushing for Yorktown and a touchdown, he caught a pass for 25 yards and kicked two extra points.

Yorktown survived four intercep-

tions. On defense, Yorktown’s Wes Saulnier recovered a fumble.

“It was an exciting game and we had our passing game working,” Yorktown coach Bruce Hanson said. “It was back and forth, and a good win.”

The 3-0 start is Yorktown’s best since 2012. With the win, Hanson now has 247 career victories.

Wakefield led 6-0 at halftime in its victory, as the Warriors played without injured starting senior quarterback Colton Poythress, who is out for the season with a knee injury. Rodney Lee played most of the game at quarterback in his place.

Lee ran for 163 yards on 38 carries

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Two high school football teams in the Sun Gazette’s coverage areas have done just that for a number of seasons now, often securing playoff berths as a result.

In Arlington, the Washington-Lee Generals have been notorious for playing well over the final five games since Josh Shapiro took over as head coach in 2007. In Oakton, the Flint Hill Huskies have done the same for even a longer period of time.

During Shapiro’s tenure, the Generals have a 10-year regular-season record of 29-21 over their final five contests. Four times W-L has gone 4-1 in its last five and has gone 3-2 in four other seasons, earning playoff berths in six of those campaigns.

Each of the last two seasons, the Generals completed the regular season 4-1 in their last five to qualify for the postseason after 0-2 and 1-4 starts.

“Sometimes it takes us a while to get things figured out and everyone in the right place,” Shapiro said. “Then we start playing better and winning more games.”

The Generals are hoping the same occurs this fall, because they lost their first two games.

During that same 10-year stretch from 2007 to 2016, Flint Hill’s record over its final five games is 38-12, with two 5-0 finishes and five 4-1 endings.

The Huskies also have earned six playoff berths during that period.

The 2014 season was the lone campaign Flint Hill did not have a winning record in its final five (2-3).

The Huskies’ strong finishes have come under two different head coaches – Tom Verbanic and previous coach Michael Wright.

Like Washington-Lee, the Huskies build momentum and play better as the season progresses. Those final five games have been the proof.

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High School Roundup GIRLS FIELD HOCKEY: The Washington-Lee Generals have won six straight games beginning this week, have a 7-3 overall record and were second in the Liberty District with a 4-1 mark behind the undefeated Langley Saxons. The Generals have three shutouts.

Last season, Washington-Lee had just one district victory and won five games overall.

“We are pretty young, with three sophomores starting, but we are playing well,” said W-L coach Beth Prange, in her 11th year. “We have some strong forwards and a good defense.”

In its most recent three games, Washington-Lee nipped McLean, 1-0, and Arlington rivals Yorktown, 2-1, and Wakefield, 3-1. The winning streak began with a 5-1 win over Stuart, then a 1-0 overtime victory against Herndon for its second straight.

The Generals’ leading goal scorers are Alexis Park, Lily Byer and Dakota Klapper. Sarah Superata scored a goal in the win over Yorktown.

On defense, Isabella Frymoer has been in goal and Avery Dick has made three defensive saves, including one diving stop behind the goalie, which have prevented goals.

Other top defenders have been Bree

Meyer, Rebecca Stewart, Caroline Morley and Donna Corina. n The Wakefield Warriors (3-3) blanked the Stuart Raiders, 6-0, then nipped the Marshall Statesmen, 3-2, in double overtime for their second straight win.

Meghan Anderson scored two goals against Stuart. The others were scored

by Jessy Lemus, Lucy Greenfield, Madison Holt and Reina Cooper.

In the win over Marshall, Cooper tied the game at 1 in the second half.

Wakefield senior goalie Lente Huiskens made some key saves in the win.

Holt and Anderson scored in Wakefield’s 4-2 loss to the Edison Eagles. n The Yorktown Patriots (4-5) started the season with a 2-1 win over McLean and have been playing well ever since.

Seniors Rebecca Joskow and Katie Calvo lead the team with six goals each.

Joskow also has four assists and Calvo three. Junior Maggie Shipley leads the team with five assists.

Audrey Engle leads the defense.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL: The Yorktown Patriots are off to a 7-0 start in regularseason action, including a 3-1 victory over the Madison Warhawks, a perennial district, region and state contender,

and a 3-0 victory over defending 6A North Region champion Oakton.

In a preseason tournament, Yorktown finished second in the Northern Virginia Volleyball Association’s invitational, losing to Madison in the final.

“This is the toughest team physically and mentally I have had in a long time,” Yorktown coach Sheena Eldred said.

“We have been working really hard on our mental game over the last few years, and it is really paying off. The team is naturally athletic. We are so ready to see what else the season brings our way, and we are trying to be a huge factor in the region.”

One of Yorktown’s top players is senior setter and four-year varsity player Melanie Hanclich. She will play beach volleyball next season at the University of Alabama Birmingham.

“She runs the court so well and is a huge factor in our success,” Eldred said.

Another top player is Erin McShane, who Eldred calls a strong blocker and attacker.

Hitters Anna Nachmanoff, Adrienne Miller, Cat Vacarro and Natalie Denny, another four-year varsity player and a two-year captain, are others having strong seasons. Vacarro also is a four-

year varsity player and is maybe the team’s hardest hitter. She will play in college at Loyola University of Maryland. n The Washington-Lee Generals are 4-1, including a 3-1 win over T.C. Williams and a 3-0 victory over Annandale on Sept. 14.

Some of W-L’s top players have been senior captain Leonie Alder, junior captain Ginia DeLancey, junior Jackie LaPointe and sophomores Jasmine Green and Kate Sheire.

GOLF: The Yorktown Patriots defeated

South Lakes, 156-168, McLean, 167181, and top two teams, Herndon and Stone Bridge, in a third match in recent golf action.

Against South Lakes, Jack Ogden shot 37 to lead Yorktown. Michael Muth carded a 39, Lacey McCormack shot 40, Grady McCrery 43 and Patrick O’Brien 44.

Against McLean, Ogden had 41, Muth, Chris Rita and Charlie Finn all shot 42, O’Brien 47 and McCrery 49.

Ogden shot 38 against Herndon and Stone Bridge.

Yorktown and Washington-Lee are playing n the Liberty District Tournament this week.

Sports Briefs SAGE SECOND IN SOFTBALL TOURNEY: The 12-under Arlington Sage girls fastpitch softball team finished second in the recent 16th-annual First Responders Cup tournament at Barcroft Park.

The tournament is open to teams of all levels from all across the region. The Sage, only recently promoted to B-level status, defeated a field of A-level teams in advancing to the championship game. In the final, the Sage were defeated by the Lady Lightning from North Carolina.

In six tournament games, the Sage team received strong pitching from Mary Conner, Meijin Patil, Maya Anbinder and Madison Keelen. Key hits were provided by Anna Smith, Shannon Burns, Avery Miller, Riley England, Nora Roche and Trinity Gaither.

The defensive star was Autumn Criswell, who sealed the semifinal victory by making a diving stop at third base and then throwing from her knees to first to tally a crucial out in the game’s final inning.

The team was coached by Matt Keelen and Paul Conner.

CYCLIST INVITED TO NATIONAL CAMP: Yorktown High School sophomore Alex Kasch has been invited to attend the USA Cycling National Talent ID camp in Colorado Springs. The camp serves as talent identification for the U.S. National Cycling team. Kasch is a member of the National Capitol Velo Club, which is a regional cycling team.

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The Arlington Sage were second in the First Responders Cup. GYMNASTICS SPACE DOUBLES AT CENTER: Arling-

ton County Board Chairman Jay Fisette participated in a Sept. 13 ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Barcroft Sport & Fitness Center. The gymnastics space at the center has been doubled in size.

As a result, the gymnastics program will be expanded. The gymnasts will have larger areas to practice and boys registration may increase.

WIFFLEBALL TOURNAMENT: Registration is open for the Arlington Wiffleball Tournament on Saturday, Oct. 28 from 9:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. for $40 per player.

The tournament is open for all ages and abilities. For information, visit www.leaguelineup.com/arlingtonwiffleballtourney or contact arlingtonwiffleballtourney@gmail.com

Dowell each had one catch.

On special teams for Wakefield, Isaiah Mefford blocked a punt in the first quarter for a touchdown. On defense, Lamont McDowell ended the scoring with seconds to play on a 54-yard fumble return for a Wakefield TD. Wakefield’s Alex Postma had a fum-

Arlington’s Alex Kasch competed in a recent competition.

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ble recovery on defense.

In Washington-Lee’s loss, Larry Carpenter caught two touchdown passes and Liam McBride another for 54 yards. Braden Shackelford threw those scoring strikes, and he also ran for a touchdown.

Mount Vernon (4-0) led 24-21 at the

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end of the first quarter and 52-27 at halftime, scoring on almost every possession.

“They have a couple of really good players and we had trouble tackling them,” Washington-Lee assistant coach Adam Moyer said. “We just couldn’t stop them.”

Two Dozen Teams Compete in Annual Softball Tourney The 16th annual First Responders Cup girls softball tournament was held earlier this month at SOFTBALL Barcroft Park in Arlington, and the competition included 24 teams at various age levels.

Teams competed for a couple of days and champion were crowned at each of the age levels.

Here is the list of this year’s team champions and the second-place finishers.

12-and-under: Champions, Lady Lightning Gold Uprising; Second, Arlington Sage.

14-and-under: Champions, Fielders Choice ’04; Second, Virginia Glory.

16-and-under: Champion, Virginia

Legacy Elite; Second, Vienna Stars Premier.

18-and-under: Champions, Ashburn Shooting Stars – McCarty; second, Loudoun Storm.

Prior to the action, the Maroon Crush from Roanoke visited Fire Station 5, which was the first station to respond to the Pentagon on the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

The Maroon had permission from New York City Fire Department to wear the name of one firefighter lost at the World Trade Center on a player’s jersey during the tournament.

The oldest player in this year’s tournament was just 2 years old at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The Old Guard performs as players and participants listen during opening ceremonies.

Plans are already being made to host the 17th annual tournament next fall,

again in Arlington. The competition will include multiple teams and age levels.

RACIM BADSI: Wakefield High School graduate Racim Badsi, a member of the men’s soccer team at Northern Virginia Community College, was named to the NJCAA Region 20 all-academic team this past season.

He has helped the team to a strong start this season, as it began the week with a winning streak.

college baseball this coming spring season at Ohio Christian University near Columbus. Gray will be a junior for the team.

The outfielder/pitcher played as a freshman and sophomore for Lancaster Bible College in Pennsylvania and had some significant success.

Gray did not attend college this past school year, taking a gap year to get in better shape for the upcoming college season or his new team.

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HUNTER GRAY: Washington-Lee High

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School graduate Meghan Fox was a standout freshman on the Division III women’s lacrosse team at York College in Pennsylvania during the spring.

Fox was chosen as the Rookie of the Year in the Capital Athletic Conference along with making first-team all-CAC. In 20 games, the 5-foot-9 attack led York in scoring with 39 goals, 11 assists and 50 points. She gathered 18 ground balls. She was a standout when Fox played at Washington-Lee.

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KIERAN BURNS: Washington-Lee High School graduate Kieran Burns played in 17 games and scored a goal and took 11 shots as a sophomore midfielder for the men’s lacrosse team at the University of Mary Washington this past spring season.

Yorktown High School graduate Alec Turner played in 13 games for Mary Washington this past spring. He gathered five ground balls.

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County Board Punts on Williamsburg Lighting Continued from Page 1 flicting recommendations from advisory panels, County Board members pushed a decision into 2018, instructing the county manager to consider other options and report back.

The vote came after hours of testimony, admittedly inelegant wordsmithingon-the-fly by board members, and some decidedly frayed nerves.

“Sometimes when you get to the end and nobody’s happy, you think you’ve succeeded. Somehow that’s eluding me at the moment,” County Board Chairman Jay Fisette sighed as he moved the body from discussion to a vote.

“There’s disappointment in the room, all the way around,” Fisette acknowledged.

During discussion among board members, there appeared to be at least two firm votes ready to support the field lighting.

In the end, board members agreed that more work would be a net plus.

Board member Christian Dorsey acknowledged the matter had at times been caricatured as greedy sports groups taking on NIMBY neighbors, but said the matter was far more complex and deserving of additional conversation.

“There’s a lot of nuance here,” Dorsey said.

That said, Dorsey was among those leaving the unspoken but clear impression

that the years-long process had gone off the rails.

“There’s room for improvement,” he said diplomatically of how the effort had evolved.

At the same time, there was concern raised that the issue might again spiral out of control.

“What more information does this board need in order to make a decision?” an exasperated Vice Chairman Katie Cristol sighed at one point. “What do we do with five years of community input?

We’re simply going to throw that out and start with a new process?”

Not necessarily. And in one sense, the delay will not have a tangible effect, since funds for the field-lighting currently are not allocated, and since several community processes, including zoning changes, still have to play out before they could be put up.

The delay, said board member John Vihstadt (who does not favor lighting the fields), could provide time to consider alternatives and weigh the matter in a broader context.

“We need more lighted fields. We need more fields. We need more land acquisition to find fields,” he said. “We also need more objective criteria.”

Vihstadt’s colleague Libby Garvey, who supports lighting the fields, suggested more discussion would not change the basic facts of the matter.

“We’ve already talked about it a long time,” she said. “With proper mitigation, [the impact to the neighborhood] is not going to be very high.”

Garvey pointed to similar field-lighting at Wakefield High School, which was accepted by its neighbors with fewer undercurrents of discontent than the Williamsburg proposal brought out.

“They do not have a whole lot of spill,” Garvey said of lights’ visual impact on homes surrounding the Wakefield fields.

Current county-government policy calls for eventually lighting all syntheticturf fields in an effort to get more use out of them. Arlington now has 32 lighted fields, some in urban corridors and others in single-family neighborhoods.

Under the proposal made by staff, sports leagues would have been allowed to use the Williamsburg fields up to 9:30 p.m., with lights out by 9:45 p.m.

The plan anticipated between 125 and 150 additional vehicle trips would be generated per day; county officials said lighting emanating from the 80-foot poles, which would be 89 feet from the nearest residence, would not pose any significant public-health issues to the surrounding community.

The staff proposal, and those who supported it, contend that lighting synthetic fields is not just existing county policy – it is a way to stay ahead of growth in youthsports participation, which has seen a 67-

percent increase in six years.

The staff proposal was met by a mix of often contradictory responses as it worked its way through Arlington’s civicengagement process: • The Sports Commission supported lighting; the Environment and Energy Conservation Commission did not.

• The Park and Recreation Commission, on a split vote, came out against lighting, while the Planning Commission essentially recommended a delay before any action was taken.

• A working group that spent 18 months studying the issue could not come to a definitive recommendation, and issued what were, in effect, two separate reports.

Fisette, who announced he was ready to support lighting the fields but ended up voting for the delay, said he was OK with the action to move forward cautiously.

“As inartful as this was, I think we’re at a reasonably good place,” he said.

Fisette’s 20-year tenure on the board ends in December, so this is an issue he won’t have to contend with again. But the other four board members, and Fisette’s eventual successor, likely have many hours on this topic ahead of them.

“We’ll all be back again – someday,” Vihstadt said.

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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.

September 28, 1945: n An effort is underway to ban hunting in the county, due to dangers to children. n The County Board is set to decide if Arlington should regulate taxi service, and if fares should be based on mileage or zones. n The county reported 23 traffic accidents in August. n The new Dolley Madison Junior High School opened Sept. 17 with 435 students. n Some Arlington residents are upset about the odor of chickens some residents are keeping. n Spring is six months off, but cherry trees have started to bloom.

September 24, 1957: n Five possible cases of the feared Asiatic flu have been reported in the county.

Health officials expect vaccines to be available in 45 to 60 days. n Flights operated by National Airlines have been disrupted due to striking workers at National Airport and other airports along the East Coast. n Enrollment in the county’s adult-education classes is up 60 percent over last year. n The county will commemorate the 350th anniversary of the Jamestown landing with an interfaith service at Memorial Amphitheatre.

September 24, 1962: n The Interior Department has withdrawn its opposition to construction of the proposed Three Sisters Bridge across the Potomac. n The Virginia ABC Board has revamped rules under which alcohol can be given as a gift. n The County Board has asked the General Assembly for permission to hire a private firm to collect back taxes, saying the sheriff’s office is overburdened with other duties. n Nearly 30 people were killed on Virginia roads over the weekend, “one of the bloodiest on record.”

September 24, 1975: n State budget cuts will impact school funding up through the college level, state officials say.

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GARDEN CLUBBERS TO GATHER: The Walter Reed Senior Center garden club hosts its monthly meeting on Monday, Sept. 25 at 1 p.m. For information, call (703) 228-0955.

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Understanding Medicare benefits will be the topic of discussion on Monday, Sept. 25 at 1 p.m. at Lee Senior Center.

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24. One always busy and moving 25. *“Batman” foe 26. Idealized image 27. Rupert ____ from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” 29. *Wonder Woman’s nemesis 31. *Thor’s brother 32. Dump truck quantities 33. End of a poem 34. Camelot to King Arthur 36. Reason to cram 38. Delhi dress 42. Early computer language 45. *What villains of the Suicide Squad did 49. “The Murders in the ___ Morgue” 51. Native Am. sacred objects 54. Rainbow swimmer 56. Fictitious prose 57. Love-____ relationship 58. 43,560 square feet 59. Street in Anytown, USA 60. Like word of mouth 61. Fils’ father 62. Strong desire 63. Flight segment 64. Yoga accessory 66. Wear and tear

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FORUM WORKS TO DIFFERENTIATE TYPES OF FATS: “Good fats” vs. “bad

fats” is the topic of a health discussion on Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 1:30 p.m. at Aurora Hills Senior Center. For information, call (703) 228-5722.

EMOTIONAL-HEALING SESSION SET:

A session for those who are suddenly single through death or divorce will be presented on Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. at Langston-Brown Senior Center.

For information, call (703) 228-6300.

WALKERS HEAD TO ROOSEVELT ISLAND: The Arlington Walking Club

travels to Roosevelt Island for its weekly walk on Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 9:30 a.m. The cost is $4 for transportation from Lubber Run Community Center.

For information, call (703) 228-4403.

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

ginia offers free, one-on-one counseling sessions for eligible seniors on Thursday, Sept. 28 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Langston-Brown Senior Center. For an appointment, call (703) 778-6800.

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Another stunning property by A & G Homes sited on a lovely lot in North Arlington’s picturesque Rock Spring neighborhood. Enjoy 4,500 sqft. of well appointed space, an open concept floor plan offering 5 BR’S, 4.5 baths, a “Top Chef” worthy kitchen, comfortable living rooms and fabulous entertaining areas, an amazing master retreat, top-notch finishes, wood work & trim, two fireplaces, an envious recreation room with wet bar, plus a home office or gym a screened-in porch too! All located just minutes from Chain Bridge for easier commuting in and out of the city.

4836 33rd Road N.

Open and airy mid-century modern inspired condo at the Lorcom House. This corner unit offers 1,025 sqft. of living space, a welcoming entry foyer with closet, two generous sized bedrooms, open concept living and dining, oversized windows, a beautifully updated stainless/granite “on-trend” white kitchen, a covered balcony, an updated bath, fresh paint throughout, wood floors, new carpet in both bedrooms, and assigned parking. Located in an all utility inclusive building that allows in unit washer & dryers. Super convenient locale...Metro bus at the corner, just one block from the popular shops, cafe’s & boutiques at Lee Heights Center and just over one mile to Ballston and Metro-rail.

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To update and add value to your home, consider replacing old, outdated kitchen appliances with affordable stainless steels (not top of the line).

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