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Would Local Control Benefit Lee Highway?

Leaders of Redevelopment Effort Mull Asking State Officials to Turn Over Road SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

As the community process to re-imagine the future of the Lee Highway corridor through Arlington begins to take shape, civic and political leaders will have any number of questions to address.

Among them? Should the county government do what it did with Columbia Pike: Seek permission to take control of Lee Highway from the Virginia Department of Transportation?

“It’s an intriguing idea,” said County Board Vice Chairman Katie Cristol, but is one that, said Cristol and others inter-

viewed, is not quite ready for a public vetting.

A planning effort to chart the future of the key east-west corridor through North Arlington is slated to kick off later in the year and run through 2018. The future of the road itself will be a part of those discussions, said Sandra Chesrown, presi-

dent of the Lee Highway Alliance, a group of civic-association leaders working with county and state officials on planning efforts.

“Our long-term mission is to transform the corridor into a walkable, vibrant, Continued on Page 25

An artist’s rendition of the proposed new Lubber Run Community Center. A $37 million construction contract is slated for approval this week.

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Lubber Run Community Center Project Is Moving Forward Arlington County Board members this week are expected to approve a preliminary design and award the construction contract for the $46.5 million new Lubber Run Community Center.

James G. Davis Construction Corp. has been deemed by staff the lowest responsive bidder on the project at $37 million. The contract requires the con-

2016 bond referendums. The new facility will feature up to 55,000 square feet of interior space spread over up to four levels, with underground parking.

County Board members in the fall will consider any final changes to the architectural design and construction materials. The project was designed by VMDO Architects.

As part of the project, some offices of the Department of Parks and Recreation will be relocated to Lubber Run from Four Mile Run, but County Board members have directed that any office use remain “subservient” to community use.

County Board members were slated to vote on the contract July 18.

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Funds to replace the 60-year-old community center on North Park Drive were approved by voters in 2014 and

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Exotic-Pet Ban Could Come with Big Daily Fines SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Those who violate Arlington’s stilla-work-in-progress ban on exotic pets would face fines of $250 – per day – that they are out of compliance, according to a revised proposal forwarded by staff to the County Board.

Board members plan to consider the revamped policy in September; it has been the subject of back-and-forth contention for months between not only the Arlington community but also outside advocates for specific types of non-traditional animals as pets.

As expected, the new draft includes a grandfather clause for exotic pets already in Arlington, although it would require owners to register them with county officials.

Arlington has had regulations on domestic and wild animals and fowl since the 1930s, but the rules have been broadbased rather than specific.

Under the revision set for action in September, wild/exotic animals would be defined as non-human primates, raccoons, skunks, wolves, coyotes, squirrels, foxes, leopards, panthers, tigers, lions, bears, bobcats, lynx, caracals, other wild cats, crocodiles, venomous snakes, venomous reptiles, any other warm-blooded mammal that normally can be found in the wild, most scorpions and some spiders.

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Among those exempted from the rules: Born-and-bred-in-captivity rabbits, rats, mice, ferrets, hamsters, gerbils, chinchillas, hedgehogs, sugar gliders (possum-like marsupials) and guinea pigs, along with many birds, non-venomous snakes and non-venomous reptiles.

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large section on the transport of non-venomous snakes and reporting that must occur when one escapes from its captivity. It also requires that snakes over 25 pounds have a microchip implanted for tracking.

Violations of the proposed code revisions would be classified as Class 4 misdemeanors, with fines up to $250 per day.

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Decision Time at Hand for Crystal City Station

Virginia Railway Express’s Preference Could Be to Move Station to the South

A Virginia Railway Express photo shows passengers lining up for a train at the Crystal City station. VRE officials are considering moving the station slightly.

SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Arlington County government officials and community members will have input into – but not final say on – the future location of an expanded Virginia Railway Express (VRE) platform in Crystal City.

“In the best of all worlds, we’re [ultimately] all on the same page,” County Board Chairman Jay Fisette said after a late-June briefing from VRE officials, who are considering three options for the Crystal City area: keeping the platform where it is now or relocating it to one of two areas slightly to the south.

It appears the current location is running last among potential options. VRE staff later this month will present their first choice to the agency’s operations board, which, along with two regional transportation bodies that oversee the system, will have final say on the placement.

VRE is aiming to double the length of the Crystal City platform to more than 800 feet and move from one to two tracks, for the day when the system will be operating each direction all throughout the day.

Currently, VRE trains run from points west and south to Arlington and the District of Columbia in the morning, and reverse the route in the afternoon.

“We feel we can do more,” said T.R. “Tom” Hickey, chief development officer for Virginia Railway Express. He would like to see the 38 current “slots” – spaces allotted to VRE by the railroads that own the track – grow to as many as 92 in coming decades.

“We need more capacity,” said Hickey, acknowledging that will only occur if the track owners along the route – CSX, Norfolk Southern and Amtrak – can move forward to upgrade their infrastructure.

VRE officials aim to have a final loca-

tion formally selected by later in the year, but that solves only half the issue. “We do not yet have funding for final design and construction,” said Sonali Soneji, who is heading up the project.

The rail system’s CEO, Doug Allen, said he hopes that all parties will be on board with a final decision.

“Arlington is a key part of the success of VRE,” he said. “We are interested in the viewpoints and insights of Arlington County . . . the neighbors, the businesses community.”

The Arlington Transportation Commission plans to hold a public hearing on the matter in mid-September.

While Arlington elected officials peppered VRE officials with questions ranging from the use of train horns at the station to the potential for a pedestrian bridge leading to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Fisette seemed to acknowledge that final decisions didn’t

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rest with the County Board.

“I’m not here to question, criticize or redesign your process,” he said.

VRE runs trains two lines, one from Union Station to Broad Run and the second from Union Station to Spotsylvania.

The two lines each stop in L’Enfant Plaza, Crystal City and Alexandria before splitting.

More than 20,000 people ride the system each weekday. Of those who get off at Crystal City, nearly 70 percent are able to walk to their final destination, VRE officials said.

Arlington is a member of the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, one of two regional transportation bodies (along with the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission) that oversee the rail system.

County Board Vice Chairman Katie Cristol represents Arlington on the VRE operations board.

Arlington May Seek VRE’s Help to Alleviate Horn Noise SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Under the theory it never hurts to ask, Arlington officials are seeking help from rail giant CSX to reduce the need for trains to blow their horns in Crystal City.

At a meeting discussing Virginia Railway Express’s plan to expand and potentially relocate its Arlington stop, county officials acknowledged that they’ve already received some help from CSX, which owns the tracks and sets operating rules for all trains that use them. But they’d like to get more.

County Board member Christian Dorsey said county officials hoped to get changes to the horn policy “to make it less intrusive as well as standardized.”

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sound their horns when approaching the passenger station during normal VRE operating hours, but at other times, crews are not required to sound the horn, but can do so if there are safety concerns.

“They’ve already had some flexibility,” said T.R. “Tom” Hickey, chief development officer for Virginia Railway Express.

“It’s possible that they could relax them further,” said County Attorney Stephen MacIsaac, who also serves as attorney for the VRE board. MacIsaac said Arlington and VRE have “approached it delicately” with CSX officials.

“This is their railroad,” MacIsaac said.

“They’re always going to be reluctant to relax [safety regulations]. It’s really a judgment call of the railroad.”

Rob Doolittle, assistant vice president for media and communications for CSX, said railroad officials “would consider

a broader discussion that balances both community impacts and safety.”

“While CSX works to minimize the impact of our operations on local communities, we must also prioritize the safety of those communities and our employees,’” Doolittle said.

Rail service through what is now Crystal City dates to establishment of a line by the Alexandria and Washington Railroad in January 1858. For much of that period, the corridor was industrial in nature.

Over the past 50 years, though, Crystal City (which got its name in the 1960s) has been developed with both commercial and residential projects, and is being prepped for a wave of upcoming redevelopment.

On July 15, County Board members approved a 302-unit apartment building, with ground-floor retail, at 2351 Jefferson Davis Highway.

While sharing concern about excessive

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noise, Hickey said the public needs to understand the bigger picture.

“The railroad is a dangerous place, and sometimes we lose sight of that,” he said.

(The late-June meeting between Arlington and VRE officials came just a day after two CSX workers were killed after being hit by an Amtrak train just north of Union Station. The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Railroad Administration are investigating the accident.)

Conversations between the parties over ways to mitigate noise will continue, but final decisions will rest with CSX, Hickey acknowledged.

“Every railroad has their own rules. We have no control over it,” he said. “When they tell us to stop talking, we’ll hang up the phone.”

County Officials: Forget About a Moratorium on Development SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Arlington government officials laid a little Virginia Governance 101 on the public July 15, COUNTY saying that if they imposed NOTES a moratorium on new development in the county, they wouldn’t have a legal leg to stand on.

“Jurisdictions are required to allow applications for development to come forward,” County Attorney Stephen MacIsaac said. “Virginia is very much a private-property-oriented state, both at the General Assembly level and the Supreme Court level.”

If the county government truly wanted to slow the pace of redevelopment – and there is no discernible indication it does – the proper avenue would be to rewrite the Comprehensive Plan, which guides zoning regulations, MacIsaac said.

His comments came after vocal local activist Jim Hurysz used his regular spot during the County Board’s public-comment period to call for a halt to development.

Hurysz accused the county government of “packing as many people, vehicles, activities and events into as little space as possible, with little thought of consequences.”

County Board Chairman Jay Fisette and board member John Vihstadt said shutting down redevelopment opportunities would have legal ramifications for the government.

“We can’t tell a property owner . . . what they can do, except what we’ve built into our rules and regulations and guidelines,” Fisette said.

And that regulatory power generally only extends to developments that seek a change in zoning or other regulations affecting the parcel. For developments done by-right under existing zoning, “you simply come in and get your permits,” MacIsaac said.

County Officials to Look at Impact of Insurance Requirements on Civic Groups: Arlington officials say they will look into ways to lessen the financial burden on county civic associations seeking to use county-government facilities.

County Board members and staff made the comments July 15, after receiving a request for help, particularly on the issue of insurance requirements, from the Arlington County Civic Federation.

“We cannot let liability insurance stifle citizen participation,” said Duke Banks, recently elected to lead the Civic Federation.

In a resolution adopted on a 40-1 vote in June, the federation expressed concerns in two areas: • A county-government requirement that some users of its facilities carry liability insurance for the event.

• The high cost of directors-and-officers insurance, which can protect leaders

of civic associations from lawsuits related to their service.

County officials said there wasn’t much they could do on the second matter, and there are only limited options to address the first.

“An easy fix would be simply for the county to provide insurance [for groups holding events on county property] . . . but that’s not something we can do,” said County Attorney Stephen MacIsaac.

The hitch, MacIsaac said, is that the county government’s insurance carriers would require county staff to provide a significant level of supervision for those civic events, in order for the government’s insurance to be valid.

Currently, the county government requires organizers of events using government facilities to provide proof of insurance – at least $1 million per incident and $2 million per event – before facilities are made available.

There is an exception: Events that attract fewer than 150 people, do not include vendors and would include no (or limited) closures of streets do not need to carry insurance.

County Board member Christian Dorsey said that general-liability insurance for these instances “shouldn’t break the budgets” of civic groups. He acknowledged that the cost of directors-and-officers insurance, which can run into the thousands of dollars, was a more complex issue.

County Board members directed staff to follow up on the Civic Federation resolution.

“It is certainly something we can sit down and scrub further,” MacIsaac said of existing policies. “It may be wise to take another look.”

County Board members suggested that the Virginia Association of Counties and Virginia Municipal League might have strategies to help.

“We’re following up,” County Manager Mark Schwartz said. “We’ll report back.”

Replacement of Synthetic-Turf Field in the Works: Arlington government officials are moving forward with a $850,000 project to replace the synthetic-turf field at Thomas Jefferson Community Field.

The turf has been used for eight years and is “worn beyond reasonable repair,” county parks officials said.

The project’s cost will be split between the government and the school system, with the latter chipping in 30 percent of the cost. Construction is anticipated to begin upon completion of the Arlington County Fair in August, and be wrapped up by the end of the year.

The project will move forward as the county school system begins construction of a new elementary school on the northwest corner of the Thomas Jefferson Middle School parcel. The field is on the other side of the school.

The field surface will be ethylene propylene diene monomer, which resembles crumb rubber, county officials said.

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Our View: Give Metro’s Proposals a Fair Airing

The challenge in finding long-term solutions to systemic problems is that you have to get through the short term first.

And so, we feel for those running the Metro system, who have trotted out a number of proposals – from selling naming rights to stations to making those parking in its lots on weekends pay for the privilege – to bring in a few bucks as the agency tries to come up with a long-term plan for sustainability and viability.

Some of the proposals already have been attacked as myopic thinking. “The solution to Metro’s money problems doesn’t lie in peddling its assets or other nickel-anddime fixes such as increasing parking fees. Congress and the system’s regional partners need to establish a dedicated revenue stream for Metro,” one editorial page (not this one) noted last week.

Well, good luck with that. And even if it does occur, it’s

not going to happen overnight. Metro needs to deal with its immediate problems, immediately.

Beggars can’t be choosers, and the local region – having decided from the very beginning of the transit system decades ago that it would be run as a political football – reaps what it sows.

If that means the Vienna Metro station (which already has had “Fairfax/GMU” tacked onto its name) and others get corporate sponsorships, that’s the price to be paid for years of public neglect and indifference. Same for plunking down cash to use parking lots on weekends and holidays.

It’s not our habit to be defending leadership of the Metro system – which has problems galore – but when the agency trots out ideas to bring in some extra revenue, the region’s opinion leaders owe the agency more than a reflexive “no.” The ideas may be nickel-and-dime in nature, but they might add up to some breathing room.

Go to Transferable-Voting for Local Races Editor: In a recent Editor’s Notebook column online, you called attention to an issue in Santa Monica, Calif., where there is a dispute between some activists and the city government over how City Council members are elected: at-large or in districts. And you note that the late Sherman Pratt of Arlington raised the same issue here in the 1970s.

Arlington precinct-election results do NOT encourage the idea that shifting to ward-based elections of County Board members would do much to change the tendency towards uniformity on our County and School Boards. But it’s always fun to bang the drum for vote reform, and I’d like to suggest a change which would give Arlington communities of interest (could be condo-dwelling Millenials, Republicans, Latinos, African-Americans) a chance to back a candidate responsive to their concerns even though they are not concentrated

by location.

The result of Arlington’s current system of electing County Board and School Board members at-large and for staggered terms has been, generally, that the members were elected by the same electorate, since same positions are attractive to that electorate from year to year.

This system generally failed to recruit people not part of the existing inner circle into public office (the last few years have been exceptions, because of voter reaction against the Columbia Pike trolley).

A solution would be single-transferable voting, in which voters rank their choices and candidates must meet a certain percentage threshold to be elected.

When candidates exceed the threshold, their excess votes are reallocated to candidates under instructions from the voters.

Going to single-transferable voting

is a strategy that, if used for multi-member elections choosing all five board members at once, coupled with shortening the term to two years, could give all voters a reasonable shot at influence on choice for School Board and County Board, and would ensure that any moderately large ideological/political group in the county would get some representation on the boards. It’s used successfully in Cambridge, Mass., and widely in New Zealand and Australia.

Cambridge is a lot like us: an overwhelmingly Democratic town where the political action tends to be intra-Democratic and Republicans win only if the Democrats are truly fratricidal. When I was a Cambridge voter, I thought single-transferable voting was very successful in ensuring that everyone had a good chance at having someone on the City Council who represented their views.

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Editor: While I appreciate Robert Herring’s concerns about the time involved with traditional interscholastic sports leagues, I think he’s missed a unique opportunity that comes with each smaller school. [“New, Smaller High Schools Face Sports Challenges,” Letters July 13.]

These new smaller high schools, as they form, can chart their own course and choose whether or not to endure the long road trips, etc., that Herring talks about. For some kids, it’s a great

adventure. It can be a great team-building project.

Truth be known, there’s no need for interscholastic sports – intramural sports, with teams drawn strictly from within the school itself, are more inclusive. At one school I attended, you were automatically made a member of a specific team and membership was based solely on your last name.

This creates an open environment where everyone can give a new sport a shot and play to the best of their ability.

The best thing is that who wins or loses

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is less important than who participates.

A good measure of sportsmanship, that.

Besides, especially talented students can always participate in the “big leagues” at the high schools they originally were slated to attend.

Whether these new schools need to participate in the long road trips, expensive bus services, etc., that come with interscholastic sports is something that each school should decide.

Andrew White Arlington

Winners, Losers Likely as Senior-Tax Plan Advances SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Arlington County Board members appear firm in their support for continuation of the local government’s policy of providing exemptions and deferral of property taxes for some older county residents. With some caveats.

“It’s the right thing to do – under certain circumstances,” County Board member John Vihstadt said of the tax-relief program, which has been in operations for years but recently went under the microscope of a task force empaneled by County Manager Mark Schwartz.

Who will end up being winners and losers as the policy undergoes revisions in the coming months remains to be determined.

That 12-member task force delivered its report to County Board members earlier in July, calling for a host of administrative changes to streamline the process, to go with changes to income and asset levels that could affect some of the hundreds currently in the program.

“We felt we were not affecting that many folks,” said Paul Holland, who headed the task force, but he acknowledged that some residents who currently get tax exemptions would see them removed if proposed lower income thresholds are approved.

Currently, some seniors in households with incomes nearly touching $100,000 a year are eligible for at least a partial exemption of real estate taxes, which for a typical single-family home can run $6,000 per year or more.

The proposal forwarded to County Board members would trim the high end of the salary limit, resulting in the removal of some from the exemption list or reducing the amount of exemption they receive – although they could still apply for deferral of taxes until after their homes are sold.

The annual program provides about $4.2 million in benefits to participants, said Anita Friedman, director of the county government’s Department of Human Services, which administers it. While the “majority of households” are at the lower end of income and asset thresholds, Friedman said that 38 percent of those in the program live in homes valued at more than $600,000, with seven of those homes assessed at more than $1 million.

(One of the proposals bandied about, but not formally adopted, by the task force was putting a limit on the amount of a property’s value that could be exempted from taxes, although that could be taken up as the matter moves forward through the regulatory process.)

Board members waded into some of the specific recommendations, but are not likely to come back to the measure in a serious way until Schwartz presents his fiscal 2019 budget next February. There are

still some “murky areas” to be explored at the staff level, the manager told board members.

County officials say they expect to adopt the changes for the 2019 calendar year, not earlier.

“We need that time,” said Deputy County Manager Michelle Cowan. “We’re really affecting people’s lives.”

Assuming that the total dollar amount of overall subsidy is unlikely to change significantly up or down, the question for elected officials is where to target their efforts.

County Board member Christian Dorsey said he thinks the rebate program should “provide the bulk of the help for people who have a clear need.” But data suggest that cohort may in fact not be reaping the benefits; the number of homeowners qualifying for full exemptions, based on low income and assets, dropped from 837 in 2011 to 629 in 2016, according to county statistics.

There seems relative unanimity among board members that the county government needs to do a better job publicizing and explaining the program, and will need to focus significant efforts on those whose status will change.

“We have a strong responsibility” to work with those impacted, County Board Chairman Jay Fisette said.

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The habitual offenders include two from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, two from Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and one from Washington Dulles International Airport. They are among 175 flights nationally that were late more than 60 percent of the time during May. They included: • ExpressJet (United Express) Flight 4416 from BWI to Newark-Liberty International Airport, slated to depart at 4:22 p.m. It was late 18 of 24 times during the month (75 percent), and when it was late, the average delay was 134 minutes.

• ExpressJet (United Express) Flight 4234 from Reagan National to Newark, slated to depart at 6:30 p.m. It was late 22 of 30 times (73 percent), with an average delay of 117 minutes.

• ExpressJet (United Express) Flight 4081 from Reagan National to Newark, slated to depart at 8:30 p.m. It was delayed 18 of 25 times (72 percent), with an average delay of 119 minutes.

• Spirit Airlines Flight 141 from BWI to Los Angeles International Airport, slated to depart at 8:34 a.m. It was late 22 of 31 times (71 percent), with an average delay of 94 minutes.

• JetBlue flight 1808 from Dulles to John F. Kennedy International Airport, slated for an 8:16 p.m. departure. It was late 17 of 27 times (63 percent), with an average delay of 110 minutes.

It is perhaps no surprise that four of the five flights are afternoon and evening departures headed into the New York City metropolitan area, as later flights tend to see more delays than earlier ones, and are more prevalent in crowded corridors such as the Northeast.

For the month, the single most delayed flight nationally was ExpressJet Flight 3904, which runs from Syracuse to Newark. It was late 19 of 21 times (91 percent), with an average delay of 108 minutes.

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A total of 827,746 passengers traveled between Washington Dulles International Airport and London’s Heathrow Airport in 2016, according to new federal figures, making the route the eighth busiest transAtlantic service from a U.S. airport.

Year-end figures recently were reported by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, an arm of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The Dulles-to-Heathrow service, operated by a variety of airlines, posted a 2percent decline in passenger totals from a year before.

As historically is the case, the largest number of passengers traveling the Atlantic on a point-to-point basis are those jetting between John F. Kennedy International Airport and Heathrow. In 2016, nearly 2.9 million people made the trip in one or both directions, down 4 percent from a year before.

Another 917,000 passengers used Newark-Liberty International Airport to get to and from Heathrow, ranking seventh in 2016 and bringing to 3.8 million the total traveling to and from New York airports.

Second on the trans-Atlantic route was Los Angeles International Airport’s service to and from Heathrow, at 1.52 million, followed by Kennedy to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris at 1.42 million.

Each posted declines of about 5 percent from a year before.

(Heathrow also was represented in the top 10 with service to Chicago-O’Hare, Miami, San Francisco and Boston. Also in the top 10 was service from Kennedy to Dubai, ranking ninth and, with a 7percent growth rate, the fastest expanding service among the 10 top routes.)

Kennedy was, by far, the largest U.S. gateway for international travelers in 2016, up 6 percent to 31.3 million fliers.

Rounding out the top five were Los Angeles International (22.2 million, up 10 percent), Miami International (19.7 million, down 2 percent), Chicago-O’Hare (11.9 million, up 4 percent) and San Francisco International (11.8 million, up 7 percent).

Dulles ranked 10th at 7.1 million, behind the top five as well as Newark-Liberty, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International, Houston Intercontinental and Dallas-Fort Worth International airports.

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Gov. McAuliffe was on hand July 11 for a ceremony at Northern Virginia Community College Annandale to celebrate the partnership between Virginia and six Vietnamese provinces. It marked the first such agreement between local governments in Vietnam with a U.S. state.

“Virginia has a great trade relationship with Vietnam, and with a significant population of Vietnamese immigrants living in the commonwealth, this is an important step toward further growing our partnership,” the governor said at a networking luncheon that drew a delegation from Vietnam, as well as that country’s ambassador to the U.S., Pham Quang Vinh.

Episodes like the one on July 11 are “vivid examples of the comprehensive partnership between Vietnam and the U.S., in the interests of both countries,” the Vietnamese ambassador said.

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“This is how you grow your economy,” said Gerald Gordon, president and CEO of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority. “These relationships take some time to nurture, but I think we’re already seeing results.”

The memorandum of understanding signed between Vietnamese and Virginia officials will serve as a platform for cooperation across a host of areas, including energy, information-technology, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and tourism.

The six participating provinces – Ha Noi, Ba Ria Vung Tau, Đong Nai, Long An, Quang Tri and Thái Nguyên – are spread across Vietnam. They are among 63 provinces, plus five metropolitan areas, that comprise regional governance in the nation of 90 million.

Representing Arlington at the event was senior business ambassador Sindy Yeh of Arlington Economic Development.

“It’s always a positive development to meet with international business and government leaders, and after this agreement, we see some real opportunities for possible collaboration with the Vietnam government, particularly in the areas of IT, hospitality and higher education,” Yeh said. “We look forward to continuing the conversation.”

Following the 1975 fall of South Vietnam, an influx of Vietnamese refugees settled in the Washington area, many of them gravitating first to Arlington (where a slew of shops were established in Clarendon) and then farther out into the suburbs.

“You’re in a very good location,” Gordon told the Vietnamese delegation. “It’s a natural fit, because many [prospective firms] are well-funded and highly skilled in comparable technologies.”

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local chambers of commerce have announced plans for the 2017 Northern Virginia Regional Elected Leaders Summit, to be held on Wednesday, Sept. 6 at Founders Hall on the Arlington campus of George Mason University.

The board chairs of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties and the mayor of Alexandria will discuss issues related to the regional business climate, and how localities are partnering with the business community on economic development.

The Alexandria, Arlington, Loudoun, Northern Virginia and Prince William chambers of commerce and the Northern Virginia Regional Commission will host the event. Tickets are $30 for members of those organizations, $50 for others.

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

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Arlington Notes COMMUNITY FOUNDATION TAPS NEW BOARD CHAIR: Kevin DeSanto, co-

founder and managing director of the investment-banking firm KippsDeSanto & Co., has been tapped to chair the board of directors at the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia for the 2017-18 year.

DeSanto has served on the Community Foundation board of directors for seven years, serving as vice chair and on a number committees. He succeeds Paul Leslie, CEO of Dovel Technologies, who chaired the board for two years.

“I am looking forward to the continued focus on our capacity to respond to critical need and seed innovation in the Northern Virginia region,” said. “As we approach our 40th anniversary in 2018, it is an exciting time for the Community Foundation, and I look forward to continuing to support our mission and our work.”

Bernard Mustafa, CEO of Pleasant Valley Business Solutions, will serve as vice chair for the coming year. In addition, the Community Foundation has welcomed Mitch Weintraub of Cordia Partners to its board of directors.

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Year-over-year sales rose and the average sales price of single-family homes that sold across Arlington topped the million-dollar mark in June, according to new data, even as the market continues to struggle with a dearth of inventory.

The 357 properties that went to closing last month represented an increase of 5.6 percent from the 338 a year before, according to figures reported July 11 by RealEstate Business Intelligence, an arm of the local multiple-listing service.

The overall average sales price of $687,652 was up about a half-percent, but only the single-family market ($1,007,044, up 2.7 percent) posted an increase. The average price of attached homes, such as townhouses and rowhouses, was down 4.6 percent to $434,065, while the average price of condominiums was down 5.2 percent to $386,769.

Add up the sales and prices, and total sales volume for the month stood at $245.5 million in Arlington, an increase of 6.2 percent from June 2016.

Homes that went to closing during the month had spent an average of 31 days on the market, a brisker pace than the 37 days required a year before, and garnered 98.3 percent of original listing price, down a tick from 98.4 percent.

A total of 61 properties changed hands for more than $1 million.

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method of financing transactions in 243 cases, followed by cash (51) and VAbacked loans (42) Inventory, which has been on the low side for months, stood at 561 available properties in June, a decline of just under 15 percent from a year before.

Where is the market headed? Both pending sales and new pending sales were up during the month, as were homes coming under contract, suggesting continued strength as the market makes it transition from summer to autumn.

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

Home Sales, Prices Up Across N.Va.: Year-over-year home sales were up across all regions of the Northern Virginia core in June, according to new figures, in part because of worries by prospective purchasers that the market may be leaving them behind.

“Renters have awakened and entered the sales market in fear of losing out on the historically low [interest] rates and taking advantage of the home-mortgageinterest deductions,” said Nicholas Lagos, broker/owner of Century 21 Gawen Realty.

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figures reported July 13 by the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors (NVAR).

That’s up 7.6 percent from 2,527 transactions a year ago.

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

There has been improvement in consumer confidence at the national level, said NVAR chair Bob Adamson, and “local buyers and sellers share that confidence.”

But prospective purchasers are not going into the process blind. Adamson said they “have been careful about each listing’s location, price and condition.”

“They also pay attention to the home’s age, updates and likely commute times,” he said.

All of the five jurisdictions comprising the survey saw year-over-year sales increases in June, and all but the city of Falls Church posted increases in median sales prices. Overall, the median sales price of $535,000 was up 1.9 percent from a year ago, while the average sales price of $602,045 was up 1.5 percent.

Northern Virginia’s summer market traditionally is the high point of the year, where both monthly sales and prices peak before sliding down through the end of the year.

While inventory levels remain below 2016’s totals, the number of new listings during June – 3,232 – was just a handful fewer than the same time last year.

Home-mortgage interest rates, which are expected to rise from what have been historically rock-bottom levels, will impact the ability of some buyers down the road to get into the homes they want.

“With a 1-percent increase in interest rates, it can decrease a purchaser’s borrowing power by approximately 10 percent,” Lagos said.

The June report closes out the first half of the year for the Northern Virginia real estate market. For the first six months of 2017, sales totaled 11,321, up 8.1 percent from a year before, while the average sales price of $578,407 was up 3.4 percent. Sales volume for the six-month period was $6.55 billion, up 11.9 percent from a year before.

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

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By New $2 Pill Proven pain reliever no longer requires painful and expensive injections; new pill boosts the same lubricating joint fluid without using a needle. Users report dramatic relief from swelling, pain and stiffness without side effects and expense.

By: E. M. Abrams Health News Syndicate HNS - A popular needle injection for people with joint pain is now available in an inexpensive non-prescription pill. The breakthrough came when researchers discovered a way to deliver the injected “relief molecule” through the digestive system.

Top US clinics have used these needle injections for years because they deliver powerful relief. Unfortunately, the shots are painful and expensive. They also only work on the joint being treated.

The new pill, called Synovia, delivers the same “relief molecule” as the injections. However, it has some impressive advantages. First, it’s inexpensive and non-prescription. Also, relief is delivered to every joint in the body because it enters the bloodstream through the digestive system.

This gives it the ability to reduce a much wider variety of pain. Users report greater flexibility and less stiffness in their knees. Hands and shoulders move pain-free for the first time in years. Even neck and lower back pain improve dramatically.

All this without spending over $600 on needle injections and taking trips to the doctor every week.

The medical community is very excited about this new breakthrough. Dr. Jacob Moss says, “Synovia is a great option for those suffering from Osteoarthritis. Injections are usually a last resort because of the pain and expense. However, Synovia should be taken at the first sign of pain.”

New Discovery The needle injection procedure has been given to hundreds of thousands of patients over the last several years.

Doctors use the shots to boost a critical element of the joint called synovial fluid. This lubricating fluid is found between the cartilage and bones of every joint.

According to the firm’s head of R&D, Mike McNeill, “Researchers have been working for years to find a way to boost this fluid noninvasively. The problem was the molecule used in the injections was too large to absorb into the bloodstream.”

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One example is a landmark study out of Europe. In the study the active ingredient in Synovia was compared to a popular NSAID pain reliever. The goal was to see if it could reduce pain and swelling around the knee. The results were incredible!

After just 30 days, more than 8 out of 10 people who took Synovia’s active ingredient had NO swelling. However, only 2 out of 10 people who took the NSAID experienced reduced swelling.

The study also looked at cases of severe swelling. Amazingly, zero cases of severe swelling were detected in the group taking the active ingredient found in Synovia. This means it was 100% effective for the cases of severe swelling!

In contrast, 9 out of 10 people taking the NSAID still had severe swelling.

McNeill points out, “The impressive thing about this study is the active ingredient wasn’t tested against a fake pill. It was up against one of the most popular NSAIDs people use every day.

It’s easy to see why people in pain are excited to get relief without an injection.”

The New Way It Delivers Relief Getting relief without injections has big advantages. The most obvious is avoiding being stuck by a large needle every week for 5 weeks.

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NO MORE NEEDLES: A popular needle injection pain-killer for joint pain is being replaced. The key molecule in these injections can now be delivered by taking a new low-cost pill called Synovia.

around for years because they work. Being able to get the same relief molecule through a pill is amazing. Injections may be a last resort, but I’d recommend Synovia at the first sign of pain,” said Dr. Marie Laguna.

Dr. Gerardo Pereira, a renowned surgeon from Florida says, “Injections aim to boost synovial fluid, which lubricates the joint.

Those suffering from joint pain usually have very little of this fluid. Synovia helps relieve pain by boosting this key lubricant without needles.”

Dr. Moss adds, “The research behind the active ingredient in Synovia is very exciting.

This product is a great choice for those who haven’t had success with other joint pain treatments.”

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“There’s only one reason why we can offer such a guarantee,” said Michael Kenneth, President of the Applied Scientific Research Labs — the makers of this new joint pill.

“Synovia works for those who use it. It’s as simple as that,” he added.

Here’s how it works: Take the pill exactly as directed. You must enjoy fast acting relief from sore, stiff and swollen joints. You must also enjoy more flexibility and freedom of movement with greater ease and comfort.

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Another downside of injections is the doctor can “miss”. The needle needs to be inserted into a precise spot in the joint to work. Otherwise, you risk the treatment being ineffective.

Today marks the official release of Synovia in Virginia. As such, the company is offering a special discounted supply to everyone who calls within the next 48 hours.

In contrast, boosting your lubricating joint fluid by taking a pill is painless. Also, delivering the relief molecule orally benefits all your joints, not just one.

A Regional Order Hotline has been set up for local readers to call. This is the only way to try Synovia with their “double your money back” guarantee.

According to the firm’s Director of Marketing, Sara Thornton, “This is why Synovia has sparked such a frenzy of sales. People want relief in more than just one joint. They don’t like needles. And everyone likes to save money.”

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Of 1950-era vintage, the home has been guided through the years with TLC. It offers an updated, designer kitchen, along with newer windows and roof. Parquet floors throughout the main rooms are a special added touch.

Room sizes are ample and traffic flow is quite good. The separate, one-car garage provides additional storage space, making it a versatile part of the overall package.

If you remember the very first scene of the “Mary Tyler Moore Show,” you’ll recall that Lou Grant told Mary that she had spunk – but that he hated spunk.

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Address: 4781 Williamsburg Boulevard, Arlington (22207).

Listed at: $799,000 by Maribeth Clissa, Long & Foster Real Estate (703) 310-9509.

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

The fine folks of Nampa, Idaho, have some new bragging rights: That city has been declared the best-run in the nation, according to a new survey

by WalletHub. The firm took a look at 33 key performance indicators to rate 150 of the nation’s cities based on operating efficiencies. The ranking combined quality of services with per-capita budget to determine the best.

Joining Nampa (at 80,000, the second most populous city in Idaho) in the top five were Provo, Utah; Boise, Idaho; Missoula, Mont.; and Lexington, Ky. The next five were Las Cruces, N.M.; Billings, Mont.; Bismarck, N.D.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Louisville.

(The Old Dominion’s only entry in the top 20 was Virginia Beach, coming it at #17 between Nashua, N.H., and Lincoln, Neb.) Some additional findings: Fort Worth had the highest high-schoolgraduation rate of any city survey; Fargo (N.D.) had the lowest unemployment rate; Warwick (R.I.) had the lowest rate of violent crime; and Fremont (Calif.) had the lowest share of the population living below the poverty line. Chesapeake, Va., which came in 38th overall, had the highest average annual income when adjusted for cost of living.

Several academics said that while there are a number of types of local governments, the specific format is less important than the people who occupy positions of authority.

“The form of government matters less than the leadership qualities of those who govern,” said Terry Clower, professor of public policy and director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University. “Forms of government just provide a framework for leading. Successful cities seem to be able to identify and put in place the kind of leaders they need for a given set of circumstances.”

“The most important factor in how well-run a city is seems to be the consistent engagement of a well-educated, ideologically moderate electorate,” added Jason Sorens, a lecturer in government at Dartmouth College. “Cities where the leaders are responsive . . . tend to do better than those where leaders are essentially little autocrats.”

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the hopes and dreams of its next owners. Sited on a level lot Beautiful location…gorgeous house!!! on one of the prettiest streets in Bellevue Forest, the property Just a block from thetonew is located an easy walk threeDiscovery Arlington parks: Potomac Elementary and close to Williamsburg Overlook, Zachary Taylor and Gulf Branch. Site work is already and Yorktown schoolswalls andleveling Lee & the left side of the lot. done with rear retaining Harrison While you shops dream, and live inrestaurants. comfort withFAMILY these updated amenities: RM opening to updated KITCHEN with • New kitchen appliances granite, newer cabinets. 4 BEDROOMS, Newer HVACUpgraded and duct work 3• ½ BATHS. custom windows.

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Eagle Scout Nolen Wine, a member of Troop 111 in Arlington, is shown with his parents, Bill and Kristin Wine, and his grandparents, Edd and Anita Nolen, during the Court of Honor ceremony held June 10. See item below.

Xinye Liu of Arlington earned a master of science degree in polymer science during recent commencement exercise at the University of Akron. n

n Alex Place of Arlington, a graduate of Yorktown High School, earned a bachelor of science degree in physics during recent commencement exercises at California Institute of Technology. n Randee Miller of Arlington, a 2013 graduate of Bishop O’Connell High School, earned a bachelor of health sciences degree in clinical leadership and management during recent commencement exercises at the University of Kentucky.

ate of Yorktown High School, ascended to Eagle Scout rank during a Court of Honor ceremony held June 10.

A member of Boy Scout Troop 111, sponsored by St. Agnes Catholic Church, Wine’s Eagle Scout project was to design and construct raised garden beds at Resurrection Lutheran Church, with the resulting food being donated to the Arlington Food Assistance Center.

Wine, who will attend St. Olaf College in the fall, is the third member of Troop 111 to reach Eagle Scout status this spring, joining Alex Hilten and Austin Park. The troop also presented a Spirit of the Eagle award to the parents of Jayant Tripathi, who died in April.

Trevor McManus of Arlington has been named a recipient of the Heroes Legacy Scholarships for Children of Fallen or Disabled Service Members.

McManus attends Salisbury University. n

Dylan Gates of Arlington has been named to the president’s list for the spring semester at the State University of New York-Oswego. n

n Brigid Ueland of Arlington has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Benedictine College. n Nicolai Dominguez of Arlington has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Rochester Institute of Technology. n Nolen Wine, the son of

Bill and Kristin Wine of Arlington and a 2017 gradu-

n Abby Lewis, a student at Washington-Lee High School, has been awarded a YES Abroad scholarship and will spend the coming academic year living with a host family in the Philippines.

Lewis is one of 60 students receiving a scholarship from the U.S. Department of State to participate in the KenendyLugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program.

Arlington to Purchase Building For County’s Head Start Program The Arlington County government will commit $10.5 million to purchase and rehabilitate a South Glebe Road commercial property for use as the county’s Head Start day-care facility.

County officials will spend nearly $3.9 million to purchase the existing building and more than $6 million more to convert it for use by the 200-plus children ages 3 to 5 who participate in the federal preschool program, administered locally by Northern Virginia Family Service.

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The program currently is housed on land owned by the county government that is expected to be ceded to Virginia Hospital Center as part of a land-swap agreement. County officials hope to be out of the current building (located on North George Mason Drive) and into the new one by 2018.

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Police Beat ATTEMPTED ARMED ROBBERY: n On July 12 at 11:10 p.m., officers responded to the 2600 block of 12th Street South for a report of an attempted armed robbery.

According to police, the victims were inside a parked vehicle when a male suspect approached them on foot, displayed a knife and demanded cash.

When the victims said they did not have any cash, the suspect fled.

The suspect is described as a black male, 30 to 40 years old, with a thin build.

cious wounding, wearing a mask in public, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and preventing a 9-1-1 call.

Warrants also were obtained for the two juvenile suspects.

INDECENT EXPOSURE: n On July 10 at 3:40 p.m., a man exposed himself to a woman at Key Boulevard and North Queen Street.

The suspect is described as an Hispanic male, in his early 30s, 5’6”, 160 to 180 pounds.

MISSILE INTO OCCUPIED DWELLING: n On July 7 at 12:50 p.m., a man discharged a BB gun in the 1100 block of North Glebe Road, shattering a residential window, police said.

The suspect – 35-year-old Benjamin Casey of Arlington – was arrested, charged with destruction of property and missile into an occupied dwelling. * On July 7 at 10:40 p.m., an individual threw and object at a residential window in the 5300 block of 8th Road South, causing it to shatter.

No injuries were reported. n On July 8 at 11:04 p.m., a subject or subjects threw an object at a residential window in the 1200 block of South Buchanan Street, causing it to shatter.

A short time later, another resident in the area reported their window had been

ROBBERY: n On July 4 between 1 and 1:30 a.m., a man was approached from behind and assaulted in the unit block of North Glebe Road. The assault was not reported to police until July 10.

The suspects are described as black males, in their 20s, 5’7” to 5’8”. n On July 9 at 10:04 p.m., three male suspects assaulted an individual and stole his belongings in the 900 block of South Dinwiddie Street, police said. The suspects then fled the scene.

Arriving officers established a perimeter and a K9 track was conducted. Three suspects were taken into custody after a brief foot pursuit.

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LARCENY: n Sometime between July 9 at 9 p.m. and July 10 at 5:30 a.m., someone forced entry into at least eight vehicles in the area of the 2700 block of South Adams Street and stole airbags.

BURGLARY: n Sometime between June 24 at 10 a.m. and July 6 at 3 p.m., a home in the 1800 block of North Highland Street was burglarized.

ARREST MADE IN ATV INCIDENT: n Arlington County police, with the cooperation of Metropolitan Police, have taken into custody a suspect in an April incident involving a band of all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes riding illegally on county roads.

According to police, the incident occurred on April 9 at around 7:14 p.m. on Arlington Boulevard near North Courthouse Road. A large number of dirt bikes and ATVs were driving in formation.

A police officer activated his in-car camera system and monitored the group.

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Head Start Continued from Page 18 Services told County Board members that purchasing the building at 2920 South Glebe Road is “cheaper than all other identified options,” even though the $3.885 million purchase price far exceeds the $2.4 million value placed on the property by an appraiser hired by the county government.

“The seller is unwilling to accept less” than the $3.885 million, Raiden said in a memo to County Board members.

According to county-government documents, the 15,600-square-foot building changed hands in 2006 for $5 million and then in 2015 for $2.1 million. The county government assessed the parcel for tax purposes at $3.52 million in 2016, but the owner appealed and, upon review, the assessed value was knocked down to $2.2 million.

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More on the Web n College roundup. n Youth sports highlights.

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1st Round Defeat for Arlington

Teeing Off

Disconnecting Hotlines Will Be a Wrong Decision Starting this month, the athletic hotlines at Fairfax County’s public high schools are no more. They have been disconnected, and won’t be used when classes resume in August.

Season Ends for 4th-Seeded Team

Dave Facinoli

DAVE FACINOLI Staff Writer

Despite getting nine hits and having multiple scoring opportunities, the seaended for ArBASEBALL son lington Post 139 on July 15 with a first-round loss in the American Legion District 17 baseball tournament.

Arlington (9-16) was the No. 4 seed and lost to No. 5 seed McLean Post 270, 4-3, in 10 innings in a single-elimination game at Waters Field in Vienna.

“We knew McLean would be tough, because they have good players and they have been playing well,” Arlington manager Bob Romano said.

Arlington never led, falling behind 1-0 and 3-1, but tied the score at 3 in the bottom of the eighth on a two-run double by Austin Carroll, who was 2 for 5 with two doubles and all three RBI. McLean scored the winning run in the top of the 10th on a passed ball, after that runner had walked, stole second Continued on Page 23

Arlington Post 139 catcher Austin Carroll heads to third in an American Legion District 17 playoff game against McLean Post 270 on July 15 at Waters Field in Vienna.

PHOTO BY DEB KOLT

Perfect 5-0 Marks Possible for D. Run, Overlee A Staff Report

With victories on July 15 to improve to 4-0, the Donaldson Run Thunderbolts of Division 4 and the Overlee Flying Fish of Division 1 are in position to earn outright championships by winning their final Northern Virginia Swimming League regular-season meets on July 22.

For Donaldson Run, that would reverse its finish of a year ago, when the Thunderbolts were 0-5 in Division 2.

Overlee will be trying to win its 30th Division 1 crown. The 2015 champion Flying Fish will enter the home meet tied for first with 2016 title holder Chesterbrook.

In those July 15 road meets, Donaldson Run defeated Crosspointe, 237-184, 22

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and Overlee topped Tuckahoe, 217-203, n For Donaldson Run, Charlie Greenwood broke his team record for a fourth consecutive week with a time of 31.43 in the boys 9-10 freestyle.

SWIMMING ROUNDUP Double winners for Donaldson Run were Greenwood, Rachel Conley, Sean Conley, Thomas Rodman, Jack Tsuchitani and Grace Jansen.

Single winners were Peter Madden, Charlie Taylor, Andrew Meighan, Miles Nelson, Elsa Leichty, Emily Brooks, Hayden Hill, Evie Maloney, Braylon Meade, Drew Harker, Anna Trainum, Huck Browne, Cole Montgomer, Ella Rigoli and Matt Vance. n For Overlee, double winners were Moira Kinsella, Billy Weber, Nick Pas-

ternak, Ryan York and Evan Ingraham.

Single winners were Charlotte Wilhite, Sofia Hess, Elysha York, Alexis Lee, Mary Kate Reicherter, Buddy Sleighter, Sophia Grabman, Kayle Park, Molly Kinsella, Ashley Park and Ellie Ridgeway.

After the individual events, Overlee needed to win just four relays to secure the victory. It clinched the win with a girls 13-14 medley relay victory.

On July 12, Donaldson Run and Overlee won division relay carnivals.

See that story at www.insidenova.com/ sports/arlington. n In Division 7 NVSL meets July 15, the visiting Arlington Forest Tigers (1-3) lost to Kent Gardens, 226-194, and

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That’s the wrong decision, which will make the task of seeking necessary information much harder to find.

To get updates instead, and good luck with this, that information is supposed to be posted on the schools’ athletic Web sites. Problem is, history suggests that probably won’t happen in a timely fashion.

Some of the schools that had already dropped those hotlines have not followed through with timely Web site updates, despite indications that would occur.

When used properly, those hotlines were absolutely the best way of communicating. Yes, the constant updates, especially on weather-alert days, could be labor intensive and annoying for those doing the updating.

However, that information and service was so valuable on the other end, it was worth all the effort from those updating. Simply call a number and listen for what’s needed.

Those phone lines were so user friendly. Now, searching those Web sites in hope of finding the same information somewhere – bouncing around between Twitter and Facebook pages – will be another story, probably ending in frustration. That will cause those in athletic offices to field more phone calls for information seekers.

For now, Wakefield and Yorktown high school in Arlington continue to have their hot lines. That’s good, and please don’t stop. The bad news is that Arlington’s Washington-Lee and Bishop O’Connell no longer use hot lines, having cut them off months ago.

Also, the info line at private Potomac School in McLean is still in use, but not at Flint Hill in Oakton.

Hopefully, frustration and enough negative response will force the schools to reconnect those hot lines.

Find daily updates on the Web at www.insidenova.com. Stay in touch through Twitter (@sungazettespts) and Facebook (sungazettenews).

Two Arlington Senior Babe Ruth Teams Win State Titles DAVE FACINOLI Staff Writer

With a 4-0 record, the Arlington Senior Babe Ruth 13-under All-Stars won state baseball BASEBALL the tournament at Barcroft Park, defeating Stafford, 8-2, in the July 16 championship game.

“I thought we had a chance to do well because we had won one tournament and done well in others leading up to the state,” Arlington 13s manager Dan Pototsky said. “We were well prepared.”

In the victory over Stafford, Ketz Murray was the winning pitcher, fanning four in six innings, and Simon Romano did the catching. Murray, a right-hander, was 3-0 in the state, batted .480 and had eight RBI. Bobby McDonough pitched in all four games.

“Both are good pitchers and can hit their spots,” Pototsky said.

Getting big hits against Stafford were Murray (four RBI), McDonough, Landon Thomas and Michael Keefe.

In earlier state-tournament games, the 13s defeated Augusta, 8-1, Northern Fairfax, 15-0, and Lane, 5-4. Murray fanned four in 62/3 innings to get the win against Augusta. Romano and Alexander Zur had two hits each and Keefe and Dillon Bass drove in runs.

McDonough and Keefe combined for a no-hitter against Northern Fairfax, pitching three innings each. Both added two RBI. Thomas had four hits and five RBI, and Bass and Keefe had two hits each. Arlington had 15 hits.

Against Lane, Arlington scored two runs in the top of the seventh to take a

The Arlington Senior Babe Ruth 13-under All-Stars gather with the state-tournament banner.

5-4 lead, with Bass having the game-winning hit. Murray was the winning pitcher in relief and had two hits, as did Zur and James Tallon. Bass, Keefe and Tallon had RBIs. Other players who contributed for Arlington were Ben Langsam, Quinn Brennan, Zach Moss and Adam Astacio.

Tyler Spicer was a coach.

Entering the state tournament, Murray had thrown two no-hitters this summer.

“He throws hard and has control,” Pototsky said.

Next for the 13s is the Southeast Regional tournament in Ocala, Fla., starting July 26. n The Arlington Senior Babe Ruth 15under All-Stars won the state tournament in Mount Crawford with a 4-0 record, defeating Nottoway, 10-0, in five innings in the July 17 title game.

Right-hander Ryan Salsburg pitched a five-inning perfect game for Arlington with five strikeouts. Arlington scored four runs in the top of the first inning and was on its way. Josh Jones had a hit and drove in four runs, and Neal Carroll had two hits.

See a story on the game at www.insidenova.com/sports/arlington.

The all-stars blanked Greene County, 18-0, in their first game, defeated Loudoun, 7-3, in their second, then nipped Nottoway, 8-6, in their third to advance to the championship game.

“All 14 of our players have contributed in roles that are signficant,” Arlington 15s manager Mike Krulfeld said. “We’ve had timely hitting and timely defensive outs that have assisted us to stay in the lead in close games.”

Arlington picked three runners off second. Krulfeld said Sean Werfel, Will Por-

Swimming

Weiner and Lily Woodward.

Bridget Morris-Larkin lowered her team record in the 11-12 girls butterfly to 33.26. The girls 11-12 freestyle relay of Maya Aguirre, Clara Smith, Sarah Newman and Bridget Morris-Larkin swam 59.78 to set a team mark. n In July 15 Colonial Swimming League White Division meets, the visiting Arlington Knights of Columbus

Holy Mackerels (1-3) lost to Chinquapin, 233-211, and the host Fort Myer Squids (3-1) defeated Manograte, 251.5192.5.

For the Holy Mackerels, Mac Marsh and Zach Rosenthal were triple winners and Arriam Gebre, Heidi Hilsmier and Drew Morgan were double winners. Single winners were Knox Brittain, Azmera Gebre, James Miller, Jane

Miller, Lily Miller, John Parfomak and Maggie Sughrue.

Marsh broke a 35-year-old league record in the 11-12 boys butterfly with a time of 27.64, in addition to breaking league records in both the freestyle (24.80) and breaststroke (30.74). Rosenthal bested a 34-year-old team record in the 15-18 boys freestyle (23.14) and broke three more team records in the breast (28.79), the fly (25.33) and the individual medley (56.43). Gebre set a record in the 8-under girls IM (1:49.27).

Lila Sherman and Nora Sherman each won four races for Fort Myer.

Other multiple winners were Claire Mowery, Anais Beauvais, Cyrus Beauvais, Vincent DiLeonardo, Kai Green, Patrick Jiminez and Patrick Vorathiankul. Single winners were Jack Mowery, Tristen Lee, Jonathan Malatesta, Miles Wright, Grayson DeWitt, Melody Jones, Charleston Couture and Stephanie Spranger.

take the loss. He had a perfect game through three innings, wound up with 11 strikeouts and gave up six hits with two walks.

“Alec Glasser has been pitching very well for us,” Romano said.

With the bat for Arlington, leadoff batter Dylan Anderson, Jake Ruge and

Ethan Heckler (double) each had two hits and Ryan Edelstein had one.

Arlington had the bases loaded with no outs in the bottom of the ninth but did not score. The threat ended when McLean recorded its third double play of the game. Double plays also ended innings and Arlington threats in the

third and fifth innings.

Post 139 stranded seven runners.

Arlington scored its first run in the seventh when Heckler and Carroll had back-to-back doubles.

After first-round action, four teams remained in the double-elimination portion of the tournament.

Continued from Page 22 the host Dominion Hills Warriors (1-3) fell to Orange Hunt, 259-161.

For Arlington Forest, double winners were Quinn Bryer, Eli Martin, Leo Goco, Alexander Hans, David Gallion and Mia Cachion. Single winners were William Hans, Natalie Martin, Brooke Weiser, Emily Gallion, Gabriela Valencia and Rylee Neumann.

Emmy Gallion lowered her freestyle record to 28.47. The previous record was set July 10, the same night sibling David Gallion broke the 15-18 fly record, finishing 27.18.

For Dominion Hills, double winners were Anna LeNard, K.J. Morris-Larkin and Mae Seward. Single winners were Luke Anzaldi, Keaghan Fahle, Bridget Morris-Larkin, Sarah Newman, Eric

Post 139 Continued from Page 22 and advanced to third on a ground out.

Left-hander Alec Glasser started and pitched into the 10th inning to

ter and Evan Rotker were among players making timely defensive plays, and added that the pitch calling by assistant coach Graeme Fineman was a key factor.

Against Greene County, Will Cantwell had two hits and five RBI and Jones and Miles Rusco each had two hits and three RBI. Will Fineman and Werfel had hits.

Fineman was the winning pitcher. Hunter Spicer pitched in relief.

Against Loudoun, Rusco had two hits and three RBI and Porter had two hits.

On the mound, Eric Shellhouse went six innings for the win and Jones had two strikeouts. Arlington had 10 hits.

In the first win over Nottoway, Salsburg had four hits and two RBI. Jones and Carroll were among others with RBI. Fineman pitched five innings and Jones two. They both struck out three. n The Arlington Senior Babe Ruth 14-under All-Stars finished 2-2 at the state tournament in Emporia. Arlington topped South Hill, 8-6, in its first game, hung on to down Augusta in its second, 7-6, lost to Southwestern Youth, 5-2, in its third. In its fourth game, Arlington fell to Winchester, 8-4, and was eliminated.

Against South Hill, Oliver Grove drove in three runs, Jack Mallett had two hits and Luke Rubin had an RBI and walked three times. Ryan Upton, Henry Watson and Sam Dozier pitched. Arlington had just four hits.

Against Augusta, Dozier had two hits, Mallett had a hit and two RBI and Gideon Fenster drove in two runs. Watson and Graham Lynch did the pitching, with Watson striking out four.

See a story on the game at www.insidenova.com/sports/arlington.

Bridget Morris-Larkin swims the butterfly during a meet for the Dominion Hills Warriors.

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The Arlington Travel Blue team won a recent baseball tournament.

average and six RBIs. Evans led Storm pitchers with no earned runs in more than six innings of work.

Other players were Joey Greenhaus, Grant Buckley, Luke Harnishfeger, Sean Guffey, Brooks Bare and Nathan Menard. The coaches are Aaron Sacks, Scott Buckley and Mike Bodnar. n The 12-under Arlington Babe Ruth baseball team finished fourth with a 2-2 record at the state tournament.

BLUE WIN BASEBALL CROWN: The Arlington Travel Baseball 11-under Blue won the 2017 Fruitland Baseball Firecracker Tournament with an undefeated record.

Arlington cruised to a 10-0 victory against the previously unbeaten Kent Island Bucs in the championship game.

The players were Eric Ito, Easton Belongia, Mason Bull, Andy Palma, Isaac Hobbs, Jack Rucker, Ethan Van Sice, Charlie Grove, Jonah Carlson, Gavin Dougherty, John Sharkey and Paul Matechak.

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Lee Hwy Continued from Page 1 complete street,” Chesrown said. “Having county control of decisions that impact Lee Highway’s physical design might improve the corridor’s ability to preserve existing resources and attract positive economic development in the future.”

That’s the same viewpoint that carried the day along Columbia Pike in South Arlington; in 2010, the Arlington County government convinced state transportation officials to cede control of the roadway to the local government.

The results there have led County Board Chairman Jay Fisette to be supportive of doing it in other corridors.

“It is much better for Arlington to have control of arterials where we expect to be doing lot of improvements,” he said.

“The savings of staff costs and time are substantial and far outweigh the relatively modest cost borne by Arlington to maintain the roadway.”

At the time of the Columbia Pike ownership switch, Arlington officials were planning to run a streetcar through the heart of the Columbia Pike corridor, but that proposal fell apart in 2014.

County Board member John Vihstadt, whose election triggered collapse of the streetcar effort, is among those in the wait-and-see brigade when it comes to Lee Highway’s future.

“I’d like a rigorous cost-benefit analysis before the county considers assuming

control over another major corridor,” he said. “Even with county control over the Pike, recent history shows the continued challenges of securing effective coordination on everything from streetlights to transit with various federal and state government entities, neighboring jurisdictions, Dominion-Virginia Power and other stakeholders.”

Lee Highway (U.S. Route 29) in Arlington stretches from East Falls Church to Rosslyn. For most of its length, the frontage features low-scale commercial buildings, mostly with two travel lanes in each direction.

The stretch through Arlington includes access to Interstate 66; a number of connections to arterial roadways (Glebe Road, Old Dominion Drive, George Mason Drive and Washington Boulevard among them); and a vast network of perpendicular feeder streets leading to residential neighborhoods.

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“As long as the state controls the policies governing Lee Highway, the overriding priority will be to move as many cars as possible as quickly as possible,” he said. “It will result in eight-lane-wide intersections like the ones at Veitch Street and at Kirkwood Street . . . these intersections are deadly for pedestrians. They are also deadly for the kind of street life that is found in Clarendon and even along Columbia Pike and in Westover.”

If the Arlington government controlled the highway, “we could consider things like street parking in all the areas that are three lanes wide,” Harnik said. “Signage could be better regulated and made more appropriate. Speed limits could be reduced. Bicyclists could be better accommodated and protected.”

In virtually all Virginia counties, the Virginia Department of Transportation owns and maintains most roadways. Arlington is different: The county owns most of its secondary roads and some primary roads, handling maintenance in exchange for an annual payment from the state government.

Occasionally, the county government asks the Commonwealth Transportation Board and VDOT to cede ownership of stretches of roadways; Columbia Pike is one example, and this month, the government is asking to be given sovereignty over a stretch of Route 237 (10th Street North and North Fairfax Drive).

Fisette said he’d like to get the Route 237 matter behind the county before mov-

ing forward on any proposed ownership change of Lee Highway.

Having ownership of Lee Highway would give the county government more control and flexibility, but would come at a price. Arlington spends, on average, about $28,000 per lane-mile to maintain its roads, but receives only about $18,000 per lane-mile in reimbursement from the state government.

State Sen. Barbara Favola (D-31st), who earlier served on the County Board, said she supports localities like Arlington pursuing options that create a specific sense of place.

“In Arlington’s case, this means establishing multi-modal transportation options and a more pedestrian-friendly environment,” she said.

But in the same breath, Favola added that Arlington’s wishes would have to be weighed against the overall regional and state transportation network.

“Lee Highway crosses so many jurisdictions – all the way to Charlottesville,” she said. (U.S. Route 29 then continues south to Danville, a total of 248 miles in Virginia from the Key Bridge to the North Carolina line.)

Favola is among those believing that time will provide clearer insights. “At this point, the idea needs more evaluation and study,” she said.

That seems to be the overall consensus.

“Good groundwork is being laid,” said Cristol, who is likely to serve as County Board chairman in 2018. “We’ll end up with recommendations; we’ll see what we want to do.”

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THOSE WITH INTEREST IN GENEALOGY TO GATHER: A monthly genealogy class

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July 25 at 11:30 a.m. For information, call (703) 228-0555.

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Arlington Mill Senior Center presents ballroom dancing on Friday, July 28 at 1 p.m. For information, call (703) 2287369.

CROQUET AFICIONADOS TO CONGREGATE: Walter Reed Senior Center hosts

games of croquet on Friday, July 28 at 10 a.m. White attire is optional. For information, call (703) 228-0955.

WALKERS TO AMBLE ALONG MOUNT VERNON TRAIL: The Lee Walkers of

Lee Senior Center will travel to the Mount Vernon Trail on Friday, July 28 at 10 a.m. The cost is $3 for transportation. For additional information, call (703) 228-0555.

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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.

July 23, 1936: n Arthur Godfrey was the featured speaker as Arlington Democrats rallied at Washington-Lee High School to support U.S. Rep. Howard “Judge” Smith. n Circuit Court Judge Walter McCarthy has received a $1,000 supplement from the Arlington County government to his $4,500 state salary, and also has received a $500 supplement from Fairfax County officials.

July 21-22, 1955: n Arlington planners are seeking to create uniform standards for swimming pools in the county. n Leaders of the Presbyterian Church in Virginia have come out in favor of integration.

July 21-22, 1960: n Arlington business leader Stuart Baker has filed to run as an independent against U.S. Sen. Willis Robertson (D-Va.). n An Arlington teen wants the state government to lift its ban on motor scooters.

July 21-22, 1967: n The School Board has tapped Edward Kingman as chairman for the coming year. n Andrew Ferrari has been named an associate judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. n The average annual salary for county residents in now above $14,000, and local unemployment remains under 2 percent. n Kemper Elementary School in Green Valley is expected to be turned into a childcare center.

July 23, 1971: n The School Board is continuing to work on a plan for the desegregation of Drew Elementary School. n The inaugural use of a DC-10 in commercial service will occur when a United Airlines flight from San Francisco arrives at Dulles Airport.

July 23, 1984: n A Sun story suggests that the selection of Geraldine Ferraro as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee could not only help Walter Mondale in Virginia, but also could assist Democrat Edythe Harrison in her effort to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. John Warner.

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