Sun Gazette Arlington Community Guide 2016

IN ARLINGTON

SEPTEMBER 2016

T TIME: STARTING AT 5:30 A.M.

Older swimmers are masters of the morning DAVE FACINOLI

hey can be called the masters of the early morning. The very early a.m., to be exact.

They begin arriving before sunrise at 5:30 a.m. at indoor and outdoor pools throughout Northern Virginia and the D.C. region to participate in the yearround program named Lane4 Swimming. It is the largest masters swimming program, beginning 31 years ago, in the U.S., with 940 members.

“They don’t mind the early morning; that’s when swimmers swim,” said Sandy Veatch, a coach with the program for 22 years. “They arrive ready to go, they are enthusiastic and they enjoy their time in the water.”

The swimmers typically swim for 90 minutes or so, sometimes longer on the weekends.

Some 30 swimmers were on hand for a recent earlymorning Labor Day practice at the outdoor Old Keene Mill pool in Burke. That venue is preferred by the masters because it is one of the area’s rare 50-meter pools, allowing for longer swims with fewer turns.

The age of swimmers ranges from the youngest being recent college graduates to the oldest in their 80s. All ages and abilities are accepted. Prospective new swimmers can join for up to three workouts at no cost.

“One of the things that makes our program unique is it is all-encompassing,” said Frank Marcincowski, the head coach and founder of the program. “We take people of all ages and abilities, and we have good coaches and well-run practices. People know that and want to join and remain members.”

When the program began in 1985 there was one facility, Burke Racquet & Swim Club, and some 20 members, falling to only seven a couple of years later. Now, Lane4 Swimming uses more than 12 pools throughout the D.C. region. A member can swim at any of the venues.

During the summer months, three Northern Virginia outdoor pools are used along with the year-round indoor facilities, including Spring Hill, Oak Marr, Providence, Claude Moore and Audrey Moore recreation centers in Fairfax County and Chinquapin in Alexandria.

The most popular practice is in the early morning, leaving participants time to get to work. Marcincowski said the swimmers enjoy the outdoor pools during the summer months, despite the changing weather and pool variables.

The masters swim for various reasons: to train for competitions and the swimming portion of triathlons, or to just keep physically fit. Beginners are part of the program.

“Many swim to cross-train, rehab from an injury or for health and recreation reasons,” said Marcincowski, who explained the 35-to-40 age group is the most popular in Fairfax County.

Added Veatch: “Some don’t participate in any competitions, they just come to swim and enjoy.”

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Baseball diamonds are alive early Sunday mornings DAVE FACINOLI

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hile some sleep in and others take a casual approach to lazy Sunday mornings, baseball fields across the D.C. region are alive and active with adult games in the Ponce de Leon Baseball League.

That’s been the case for 26 years, with contests for players ages 30 and over beginning as early as 8 a.m. in an organization more casually referred to as the Sunday-morning league.

The league has three seasons – spring, summer and fall – and offers a one-week winter camp in Florida. Games are nine innings with a three-hour time limit. Pitchers can only throw five innings, and there is a four-run limit per inning in the early frames.

Arlington resident Bill Murray, 68, has been playing during the spring season for 16 years. Despite two knee replacements, he wants to continuing playing as long as possible.

“I don’t want to stop,” Murray said. “In baseball you are still reacting to things. I like that and the team camaraderie.”

Murray has pitched, caught and played infield positions during his time in the league.

George Madison is another Arlington resident. Though he no longer plays in the league, having become more serious about golf, he has fond memories.

“I really enjoyed it,” Madison said. “You had a lot of

‘washed-up’ guys of all ages who still like the game and [slowpitch] softball didn’t do it for us. Everybody who played just wanted to get back out there. It’s a strong and well-run organization.”

Parking lots at game sites are full of the type of vehicles typically driven by male baseball players – Jeeps, SUVs and muddy pickup trucks.

“We don’t get a lot of fans,” Murray acknowledged.

Players are of varying shapes and sizes and ages, with the competition being stiff and the games played quickly. Pitchers throw the ball, taking little time between pitches.

Games are played at Barcroft Park and Yorktown High School in Arlington. There are many venues in Fairfax County, such as Waters Field and Nottoway Park in Vienna, Langley Forks, Nike Park and George C. Marshall High School.

“I’d reserve the field at Yorktown from 9 to 12 on Sunday mornings so our team could always have home games and cut down on travel,” Murray said.

There are games also played in Montgomery County.

Teams play about a 10-week regular season schedule, then all make the playoffs.

For more information about the league or to register, see the Web site at www.leagueone.com or e-mail poncedeleonbaseball@gmail.com.

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T TIME: 9:45 A.M.

Sentencing Day Combines Justice and Mercy SCOTT MCCAFFREY | STAFF WRITER

hey wait nervously, either in the courtroom or in a holding cell nearby. This particular Friday morning indeed could be considered the first day of the rest of their lives.

For the 17th Circuit Court, which has jurisdiction over felonies in Arlington and Falls Church, Friday is sentencing day. And this day, it is Chief Judge William Newman Jr. behind the bench in Courtroom 10A at the Arlington County Justice Center.

“Judge Newman today? All right!” one attorney says as he chats with staff from the sheriff ’s office.

Others mull what the day’s court proceedings might bring. Small-talk runs amok.

“Another day in paradise,” a defense attorney chuckles.

“I’ve got all these suits in the closet, I needed somewhere to go,” chimes in a third.

Before Newman makes an appearance, activity is busy – lawyers working out last-minute details of agreements, checking with the clerk on details of cases, and in some instances frantically trying to get ahold of clients due to face the judge.

It’s a serious affair; judges are expected to preside with dignity and enforce decorum, come what may. In remarks earlier this year to the Kiwanis Club of Arlington, Newman said any Virginia judge who behaved in the courtroom like TV’s Judge Judy wouldn’t be on the bench very long.

READY, SET, GO At 9:45 a.m., the stage is set.

“All rise!” comes the order, and the judge – who has sat on the bench for the past 23 years – digs into the day’s docket.

Bad news: The very first person up for sentencing is missing in action.

“He thought it was next week,” his attorney sighs as Newman prepares a bench warrant for the absentee.

A second case is called, with no defendant on hand, then a third, then a fourth. Newman suggests his clerk

Circuit Court Judge William Newman Jr. has served on the bench since 1993, and has been chief judge since 2003.

check with attorneys to see whose clients are in the building, and move those cases up on the agenda.

First to face the judge is a young man who has been in jail for six months after a major violation of probation.

“He was living where he wasn’t supposed to be living, then he shut off contact,” an exasperated assistant commonwealth’s attorney tells the judge.

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acknowledges his defense attorney, who blames immaturity.

The question before the judge: Should the defendant be let free in an effort to get him into the Phoenix House drugtreatment program, or should he remain incarcerated and go through a treatment program in jail?

“I’m more willing than I’ve ever been to change my life,” the defendant says, hoping he will be let out for treatment.

Newman, however, leans the other way.

“You have not followed through,” he tells the defendant, before turning to his lawyer. “I’ve given him two chances, and he failed.”

The defense attorney gives it one more try, perhaps pushing the judge too far.

“We’re not engaged in conversation now – we’re going forward,” Newman tartly replies. “I appreciate you don’t agree with me, but it’s my decision.”

The defendant heads back to lock-up, where he will be assigned to the drugtreatment program.

“If he is as serious as he says, he will get through,” Newman says.

Next up: Another defendant who has had multiple violations of the terms of release. Again, the judge is not happy – the last time the two met in the courtroom, Newman was clear that there’d be no more second chances.

“I gave you another break . . . [then] I gave you another break,” the judge said.

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After more than a half hour, there is finally some good news in the courtroom.

An inmate has completed the in-house drug program, and is asking to be let out.

Newman is pleased with the progress he sees. “You did a good job,” he tells the incarceree while agreeing to release him with a three-year probation period attached.

“This is just the first step,” he reminds the man in front of him, sending him off with “good luck to you” – something Newman tells each of those who come before him.

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L TIME: 11:15 A.M.

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ike most dogs, Zoe loves to do tricks. But hers come with a purpose behind them.

It’s 11:15 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in Room 525 atop the Arlington Mill Senior Center. Gathered in a semi-circle of chairs is a group of nearly two dozen seniors on hand for the monthly therapy-dog session featuring Zoe, a Yorkshire terrier owned by Chuck and Patty Toftoy of Arlington.

“She loves people – when we put the equipment in the car, she’s ready to go,” Chuck Toftoy said of their dog, who is a familiar face not just at Arlington Mill, but at other venues across Northern Virginia where seniors and those with disabilities gather.

After showing off her set of tricks, those who attended had the chance to hold and cuddle Zoe, who remained remarkably at ease throughout the entire event. And she has plenty of energy; “she’s just turned 7 but, boy, she acts like she’s 3,” Chuck Toftoy said.

Not every trick always goes off as practiced. Patty Toftoy points to the day that no coaxing would get Zoe to make her way through a special tunnel.

“One time, she just laid down and wouldn’t come out,” she said.

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But even when the occasional trick went awry, there was no dimming of enthusiasm from the audience.

“We love dogs – anything with dogs,” said Jim Werner, who with his wife Pat enjoyed the 45-minute program. “And I love the idea of therapy dogs. It really works.”

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TIME: 1:00 P.M.

Support group a key for mothers with cancer SCOTT MCCAFFREY | STAFF WRITER

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hey gather in the library at the Cancer Resource Center at Virginia Hospital Center one Friday a month, providing mutual support and sharing stories – sometimes emotionally charged, sometimes practical, sometimes even funny – as they continue their journey back to full health.

This group, seated in a semi-circle around a coffee table, has a specific focus: It centers on breast-cancer patients with young children at home, adding another dimension to the challenges of dealing with cancer treatment.

“It’s hard to have those conversations with kids – it’s all very complicated.

How do you explain to a toddler that mommy’s sick?” said Julie Van Alstine of Falls Church, one of four members of the group who sat down with the Sun Gazette Sept. 9 to give outsiders a glimpse of what the support group was like.

In the month since participants had last met, Van Alstine had regained much of the hair she had lost during chemotherapy. The other participants had been through the same thing, and their shared experiences have helped forge deep bonds.

“We’ve celebrated birthdays, we’ve seen people passing away. We’ve been through a lot,” said Stacey Smouse of McLean.

“I wanted to talk to other people who had gone through it, other young moms,” said Jessica Ganzer of Arlington.

“These women have become my friends.

I haven’t missed a group since I started.”

Support groups sponsored by the Cancer Resource Center are part of the hospital’s patient-navigator effort, providing cancer patients with a support network that can help guide them through the myriad details that accompany modernday health care.

The two breast-cancer-specific navigators “are always in contact” with patients, said Mirian Campos, who heads the patient-navigator effort at the Arlington hospital. Individuals can receive a host of support, including counseling sessions, at no charge.

The support can start from the earliest stages of treatment.

“I had reached out – my husband did – as soon as I was diagnosed,” Ganzer said.

“There’s a lot of questions that come up, and you can bounce things off them.”

“It helped a lot,” Smouse said of the patient-navigator effort, particularly in the early stages of treatment, when she had many questions and didn’t want to constantly burden her oncologist – “every time I went into her office I was a wreck” – but found the navigator a good source of information.

Campos said the Friday-afternoon session has attracted a core group of participants, with some other attendees filter-

ing in occasionally.

In the group sessions, emotions can get intense and participants bring up subjects related to cancer treatment and its side effects that might be difficult for the uninitiated to sit through.

“There’s a lot of talk in here that would make people uncomfortable,” acknowl-

edged Allison Ibrahim of Arlington.

The mothers said they work to provide their young children with honest, ageappropriate information about the nature of their disease. During periods of treatment, there are added burdens.

“I felt guilty – I was missing out [on their lives],” Smouse said. “I felt so

terrible and weak.”

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taking it one step at a time toward recovery.

“One day, you’ll wake up and [having cancer] won’t be the first thing you think about,” said Van Alstine said.

But it’s not a quick process; Van Alstine said it took her a year to move to that stage, since cancer “defines you for a certain amount of time.”

But it also can provide new perspectives on marriage and families.

“When you’re put against a wall, life changes so quickly,” Ganzer said. “It makes you stop and think.”

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Local airports see improvements in on-time departures SCOTT MCCAFFREY | STAFF WRITER

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t’s 4 p.m. on a weekday afternoon.

You’ve braved traffic, arrived to the airport with time to spare, made it through security and are seated at the gate.

And now the key question: Will your flight leave on time?

On the micro level – one flight at a time – it’s a roll of the dice. A late-arriving aircraft, crew-scheduling program, air-traffic-control issues and weather all can lead to schedule hiccups.

But on the macro level – taking into account the big picture of all flights departing during the first six months of the year – the news for local travelers was generally positive.

All three of the region’s main airports experienced improvement in on-time performance in the January-to-June period, according to figures reported by the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

The biggest boost came for travelers departing Washington Dulles International Airport, which saw on-time performance rise from 74.7 percent of flights during the first half of 2015 to 83.4 percent in 2016, and saw the airport rise from 22nd of the largest 29 in the nation to ninth.

At Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the 2016 on-time rate was 82.1 percent, enough to rank the airport 15th among the 29 largest, and up from 80 percent a year before. At Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, the 2016 figure of 80 percent was up from 73.1 percent a year before, and ranked the airport 20th nationally. (“On-time” departures, in federal-government lingo, represent flights leaving the gate within 15 minutes of scheduled departure time.)

Comparing the first half of 2016 to a year before, the top four airports remained unchanged in the ranking. Salt Lake City was tops with an on-time-departure rate of 88.3 percent, followed by Portland, Ore. (87.9 percent), Seattle (86.8 percent)

and Minneapolis-St. Paul (86.4 percent).

Detroit was fifth in 2016 at 84.9 percent, jumping from 11th a year before and supplanting Charlotte, which dropped from fifth in 2015 to 10th in 2016.

Miami International had the worst ontime performance in the first half of 2016, at 76.8 percent, followed by New YorkLaGuardia (76.9 percent), Fort Lauderdale (77.1 percent), San Franscisco (77.8 percent) and Newark Liberty (77.9 percent). A year ago, the worst-performing airport among the largest 29 was Chicago-O’Hare, which this year bumped up to 24th. LaGuardia, Chicago-Midway, Dallas-Fort Worth and Newark-Liberty also were in the bottom five last year.

Counting all airports nationally, the on-time-departure rate of 82 percent for the 2.8 million flights during the first six months of the year was up from 77.7 percent a year before and the best since the 83.7 percent recorded in 2012. Over the past 22 years, the national on-time performance for January to June has been above 80 percent four times.

When it comes to on-time arrivals, Washington Dulles ranked 10th nationally for the first half of the year at 84 percent, with BWI 13th at 83 percent and Reagan National 23rd at 78.4 percent. Salt Lake City and Atlanta-Hartsfield-Jackson topped the list, with LaGuardia and San Francisco at the bottom.

Reagan National serves 85 destinations with 410 daily departures, according to the latest figures from the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. At Washington Dulles, there are 252 daily depatures to 77 destinations for domestic travel, plus an additional 462 weekly departures to 49 destinations internationally, according to the figures.

United Airlines is the dominant carrier at Washington Dulles, while American Airlines (through its merger with US Airways) is the dominate carrier at Reagan National. Southwest Airlines is the dominant carrier at BWI.

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Next up, another inmate gets a break. A jury had recommended an 11-month sentence for an earlier conviction. Bond has been revoked, but his attorney is trying to keep his client out of jail for at least enough time to get his affairs in order, and perhaps out of lockup altogether.

The last option was not on the table this day. “There is going to be some jail time he’s going to do,” Newman said.

The judge, however, agrees for supervised release for a short-term period. With a warning attached.

“I’m giving you the chance – don’t make us have to come get you,” Newman intones in his stage-trained voice (he has acted professionally, including a role in the acclaimed motion picture “The Butler.”)

Later on the docket was the case of a man who went to his former place of employment (an Arlington restaurant) wearing a ski mask and stole $200.

Unfortunately for the suspect, several restaurant employees readily identified him. Even more unfortunately, conviction on a robbery charge in Virginia could mean 20 years in state prison.

After earlier negotiations between

the commonwealth’s attorney and defense attorney, an agreement was reached to reduce the charge to grand larceny. The defendant agreed to a deal, although he opted to enter an “Alford plea” – contending he is innocent of the crime, but admitting that enough evidence exists to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Newman runs through a series of questions with the defendant to determine whether he was agreeing to the plea deal voluntarily and understood all the ramifications. Those preliminaries out of the way, the judge weighs his options.

In the end, Newman imposes a sentence of five years – with all but four months suspended – along with a lengthy probation period and a requirement the defendant have no contact with the restaurant.

Two hours down, a few more to go.

DEEP ROOTS FOR NEWMAN Newman was serving on the County Board when he was elected to the Circuit Court by the General Assembly in 1993, and a decade later was chosen by his colleagues to serve as chief judge. Today, he is the senior member of a bench that also includes Judges Louise DiMatteo and Dan Fiore II.

They follow a line of jurists that include William Winston and the legendary Walter McCarthy, who in some ways may have been the most powerful figure in Northern Virginia for much of his tenure.

McCarthy was a mere 32 years old in 1930 when he was named judge for a circuit that included Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax and Prince William, and went on to spend 42 years as an active judge, later hearing cases in retirement. Even U.S. Supreme Court justices held him on a pedestal.

An Arlington native, William Newman Jr. came up at a time of segregation – and as an African-American, he was on the wrong side of the dividing line.

But there was a passion burning inside him for justice, said several who spoke at a 2013 event in which Newman was presented with the William L. Winston Award, the highest honor of the Arlington legal community.

“He could have turned back from the experience [of segregation] very bitter, but that’s not who Judge Newman is,” said David Oblon of the law firm Albo & Oblon, then the president of the Arlington County Bar Foundation, at the awards ceremony.

(According to legend, when

12-year-old “Billy” Newman learned that the U.S. Congress in 1964 had passed the Civil Rights Act, he jumped on his bicycle, traveled to a drugstore down the way in Arlington, went directly to the lunch counter – where black patrons previously hadn’t been permitted to sit – and ordered a hamburger.)

In his nearly quarter-century on the bench, there have been small cases and very large cases. Many have left an impression.

Paul Sheridan, a retired Circuit Court judge, recalled a case overseen

by Newman, where the guilt of the defendant was never in doubt but the question of punishment – life or death – rested in his hands.

As chief judge at the time, Sheridan asked Newman if he could handle the possibility that he might have to sentence the defendant to die; Newman replied that he had told members of the General Assembly that he would carry out the law, and that he would do so.

“I saw the soul of the man, the agony,” Sheridan said of Newman’s efforts in that episode to balance mercy and justice.

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The 395 Express Lanes Extension Project

Providing direct access to the Pentagon and Crystal City The 395 Express Lanes will enhance access around Eads Street in Arlington with direct ramps from the Lanes to both Crystal City and the Pentagon. As part of the project, a portion of the toll revenues will be used for annual funding for transit, like improving bus service.

By extending the 95 Express Lanes for eight miles north to the D.C. line, the 395 Express Lanes will significantly reduce congestion in the I-395 corridor and increase capacity by adding an additional HOV lane to make three reversible lanes on I-395.

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