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N.Va. Real Estate Closing Out a Healthy 2016 Regional Sales Likely to Be the Highest Since Onset of Recession Nearly Decade Ago SCOTT McCAFFREY

Advocate of Fairfax Trees Presses Case For Change

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BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

Technically, the housing-development site in Great Falls pointed out

by Fairfax County Tree Commission chairman Robert Vickers meets the county’s standard for tree-canopy coverage. But from the street, it just looks like barren dirt and sky above, with every tree cut down.

“It appears to me they clear-cut the lot,” Vickers said. “If they met the tree-canopy requirement by leaving those few trees along the perimeter, then the rule isn’t working.”

He pointed to siltation fencing at the rear of the steeply sloped property and noted how stormwater runoff had crested the barrier and entered a nearby stream.

“To me, this was an outrage,” said Vickers, a longtime Great Falls resident.

Keith Cline, director of the county’s Urban Forest Management Division, said he understood Vickers’

Great Falls resident Robert Vickers has represented Dranesville District on the Fairfax County Tree Commission since 2007.

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Final figures won’t be released until Jan. 10, but the Northern Virginia real estate market appears likely to report its best sales year since before the recession hit.

Average sales prices, however, could post their first decline – albeit a small one – for the first time in six years.

With 11 of 12 months reported and just the December figures to go, a total of 20,070 properties have gone to closing across the local area, according to figures reported by the Affordability, Northern Virginia As- interest-rate sociation of Realtors increases (NVAR). could lead to That’s up 5.3 perheadwinds cent from the 19,063 in new year. transactions during – Page 18 the first 11 months of 2015, and is just 239 sales below the overall total for the last calendar year.

Surpassing 2015’s total is all but a given; December may not be the strongest month for real estate across Northern Virginia, but last year there were 1,623 sales, nearly seven times the amount December 2016 would require to top 2015’s total.

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A Year of Voter Rebellion, Community Milestones BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

2016 saw the election of Republican billionaire Donald Trump to the White House, the defeat of Fairfax County’s proposed meals tax, important milestones reached by community groups, approval of numerous development projects and deaths of some local notables.

JANUARY: • Authorities charged 34-year-old Falls Church resident Santos Narcisco Osorio in connection with the Dec. 25, 2015, murder of Edgar Armando Serrano, 23, of Annandale. Serrano died of wounds inflicted with a sharp instrument, police said.

• Fairfax County police announced Jan. 5 that officers from the Brewster (Mass.) Police Department on Dec. 15, 2015, had arrested a 27-year-old Brewster man wanted by multiple law-enforcement agencies in Northern Virginia for robberies of area gas stations and a gun store.

Brewster police arrested the suspect, Michael Sletzinger, at his home and found a pair pistols that allegedly were stolen Dec. 11, 2015, from NOVA Firearms in McLean.

• Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce leaders announced Jan. 6 that the

group was renaming itself the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce in order to serve as a more effective voice for the region’s businesses.

• Fairfax County supervisors effusively praised former Supervisor Elaine McConnell (R-Springfield), who died Jan. 10 at age 88.

“Elaine McConnell was a great lady, a great friend,” said Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova (D). “She had a huge heart, [was] a generous person and she really made a difference in the community and the world. She was a wonderful person.”

• Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library closed Jan. 31 for an 18-month renovation period. Library officials set up a smaller temporary branch at 7700 Leesburg Pike to serve customers in the interim.

FEBRUARY: • Vienna officials in early February said a series of complications would boost the Vienna Community Center’s expansionand-renovation costs by nearly $1.16 million over the original $10.4 million price and delay the project’s completion by three or four months. The Vienna Town Council on Feb. 22 agreed to appropriate $620,000 from the town’s reserves to cover some of the project’s increased costs.

• Fairfax County police Capt. John

Trace in early February assumed command of the department’s McLean District Station after Capt. Paul Norton moved on to his next posting.

• Contract workers on Feb. 8 began work to reduce erosion, slow water flow and install native plant species along a 2,000-foot stretch of Hunters Branch in southwest Vienna.

• Fairfax County’s Student Advisory Council on Feb. 9 elected Vienna-area resident and Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology junior Laura Chu to serve as the School Board’s 46th student representative. She began her oneyear term July 1.

• Dozens of Vienna and Reston residents expressed outrage Feb. 18 regarding a proposal by Fairfax County officials to relocate the Colvin Run Septage Receiving Site in Great Falls to the Fairfax County Park Authority’s Lake Fairfax Park in Reston.

• The McLean Community Center Governing Board voted Feb. 24 to retain the facility’s Maffitt Hall for public use following upcoming renovations and to reduce the proposed size of the facility’s administrative suite.

• Kilmer Middle School government and history teacher Corey Thornblad in late February was named Fairfax County Public Schools’ 2016 Outstanding Teach-

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MARCH: • Vienna officials said in early March that Vienna Town Council member Linda Colbert had undergone surgery for Stage 1 breast cancer.

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Levy: Live Theater Offers a Keen Glimpse at Various Facets of Humanity BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

Is live theater doomed in an Internet age that dangles endless and instant electronic distractions in front of harried consumers?

Alex Levy, artistic director of 1st Stage theater in Tysons, does not consider those attractions to be theater’s main competition. Instead, it’s age-old gathering places such as churches, synagogues and mosques.

“People come to theaters to come together in an isolated world and have their souls touched and renewed in ways religious institutions do,” he said. “It’s part of what it is to be human.”

1st Stage has found critical success since its founding in 2008, winning six Helen Hayes Awards, and continues to evolve, with more space and new programs in the offing.

Levy in September 2014 became the non-profit theater company’s director, succeeding founding artistic director Mark Krikstan.

“It’s been wonderful, a great place to come to work every day,” Levy said. “A lot of our audience members weren’t frequent theatergoers before this. Word of mouth has gone very fast, but we’re still a secret to some people.”

About two-thirds of 1st Stage’s audience comes from Northern Virginia and the rest from Maryland and Washington, D.C., he estimated. The company’s fare typically consists of contemporary plays.

“We have a commitment to a diverse set of programming, from new works to modern classics,” Levy said, adding that Vice President-elect Michael Pence (R) – who got a hostile reception while viewing “Hamilton” on Broadway – can stop by anytime.

Levy, who has a long list of theatrical credits in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, said D.C.-area theater watchers include experts in every field.

“We have a very smart audience and a special obligation to give them works to chew on,” he said.

1st Stage occupies a 6,500-square-foot space at 1524 Spring Hill Road in the Spring Hill Business Center in Tysons.

The theater is within walking distance of Spring Hill Station on Metro’s Silver Line, but is not an obvious landmark, Levy said.

“We are hard to find and you don’t notice us walking or driving by,” he said.

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1st Stage artistic fellow Rocky Nunzio, general manager Emily Wall and artistic director Alex Levy say working in the close confines of this bookPHOTO BY BRIAN TROMPETER lined office has helped the team bond well.

looking an auto shop’s parking lot. A chain-link fence guards pedestrians from a long plunge to the asphalt below, and signs remind smokers not to fling their extinguished cigarettes over the fence, lest they land on new and vintage Porsches parked underneath.

Levy shares a small front office with several people, which allows for better collaboration. The space’s upper wall areas are lined with books featuring all manner of plays. Levy joked that staff members had wanted to discard some of the old volumes, but learned to their dismay that he is a bookworm.

1st Stage in January will expand into an adjacent 4,000-square-foot commercial space, which will provide separate places for rehearsals, dressing rooms and storage, plus more bathrooms, Levy said. The cramped space until now has forced the company to perform multiple functions in the same space and “go dark” between productions, he said.

While the company will combine the two spaces, the performance area will stay largely the same, he said. 1st Stage’s leaders like the company’s intimate 110seat theater and are not tempted to seek a larger venue, Levy said.

But such close quarters can lead to too much familiarity with the audience.

Some patrons wandered onto the set of the most recent production, Neil Simon’s “Broadway Bound,” to inspect magazines and other items.

“We had to ask them to please not do that,” he said.

1st Stage’s home is not permanent, as Tysons is redeveloping rapidly and space near Metro stations is at a premium. The group’s leaders been talking with developers about obtaining space elsewhere in Tysons before the wrecking ball comes to their current spot, Levy said.

Levy is excited about Tysons’ prospects, but added the new urban center needs more than just skyscrapers, businesses and residences.

“For the community to be what they want it to be, it also needs the arts, culture and places for the community to come together,” he said.

Education is a key focus for the organization. 1st Stage now holds adult-education programs, “Community Conversations,” after most matinee performances and provides space, guidance and technical expertise to youth-theater companies, which put on shows there.

The company recently held an improvisation group for children, and in February will begin an engineering-and-design program for youth.

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1st Stage also will host the Logan Festival of Solo Performers from July 6 through 16 next year. The event is aimed at a younger audience and will touch on a wide range of topics, from lesbian rights to the gun-culture dichotomy between urban and rural areas, Levy said.

Upon Levy’s arrival in 2014, 1st Stage began offering artistic fellowships to help nurture the next generation of theatrical talent. Those selected – there have been three so far – have tailored their activities to fit their career paths.

The company’s current fellow, Rocky Nunzio, is studying stage managing and directing, while its first fellow, Emily Wall, focused chiefly on theatrical administration and now is its general manager.

“It’s a really flexible, supportive fellowship,” she said. “They provided as many benefits to me as I did to them. There’s an energy and environment that’s warm and welcoming.”

For more information, visit www.1ststagetysons.org or call (703) 8541856.

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Our View: A Dedicated Tax for Metro? Mmm, No.

It would be hard for any person, place or thing to match the annus horribilis that was 2016 for Hillary “I’ve Got This Election in the Bag” Clinton. But in the local area, the Metro system comes close in the bad-year sweepstakes.

Passengers have been abandoning the system in droves, and likely aren’t coming back. The board of directors has moved from merely dysfunctional (where it has languished for decades) to truly farcical. The general manager has proven adept at identifying problems but has a more uneven track record in offering workable solutions. Employees of the transit system fall into two categories: those who are working hard (and are rightly demoralized about the state of chaos) and those who are hardly working (and didn’t care much in the first place).

The year ends with those that are part of the system’s 1960s-era “compact” – particularly local and state governments – being asked to fund a large increase in operating costs next year and in those to follow, with a concurrent increase in capital costs following close behind.

It looks like local governments are on the hot seat, as the legislatures in Maryland and Virginia are controlled by those outside the metro area, with no particular love for the region or transit, and will be owning up to their own budget woes in their 2017 sessions.

Virginia’s governor is almost out the door, and Maryland’s is only partially supportive of placing a high priority on transit funding when he has to come up with the cash for a host of other pressing needs.

Whenever there’s a slow news day, media across the area trot out the idea that a regional sales tax to fund Metro would solve many of the problems. Yet the idea, even if it made sense (and we will explain why it doesn’t in the next paragraph), is not going to happen.

What the Metro system requires is iron-fisted management (think back to New York City’s Robert “Take No Prisoners” Moses) to get this mess under control, not a revenue stream that guarantees it cash even as it sinks further into irrelevance for so many of us who once admired the system but now are close to giving up on it.

Ridiculously over-the-top employee benefits and goldplated retirement plans must be reworked, and the transit system’s goals and ambitions need to be (in the parlance of the day) “right-sized” for this new era. And until then, the fiscal golden rule – “he who has the gold, makes the rules” – still applies.

If the federal government wants to take over the system and run it (and with Donald Trump, who knows?) while absorbing all the costs, so be it. But if local governments are expected to provide a spiraling subsidy, local residents should not for a second agree to give away control of the purse strings to a funding stream they can’t control.

And if local residents no longer choose to serve as the unlimited ATM card of their elected officials – as was suggested Nov. 8 when Fairfax County’s meals-tax bombed – then Metro’s top leadership will need to deal with that reality, or find other gainful employment.

Elizabeth Warren Has Right Message for 2020

Editor: Now that the general election of 2016 has come and gone, Democrats need to start thinking about 2020.

Atop my wish list as the new standard bearer would be Elizabeth Warren, primarily due to the fact she already has a strong populist following within the party, and that’s what will be needed to combat a populist Republican in Trump. Her primary message of income inequality, was carried by Bernie Sanders to great success in the primaries.

Messaging and building a coalition would be the two major factors going

forward for any Democratic challenger in 2020. The message would be a starting point, as Hillary Clinton learned you can’t win without one. If nothing else, Donald Trump had a clear message addressing poor white inequality.

Meanwhile, Clinton’s message seemed to be MIA. The coalition formed by Trump seemed to reach across geographic, gender, and organizational bounds. Even more astounding this coalition enabled him to breach the blue wall of states such as Pennsylvania and Michigan; while peeling off union support from

the Democrats. Elizabeth Warren has a powerful populist message of her own made up of the growing income inequality felt by all middle class and poverty stricken Americans.

The message conveys a way forward by holding the greedy accountable, fixing Washington, standing up for fair trade, raising the minimum wage, and protecting people’s entitlement benefits.

Best of all it strikes all racial, cultural, and gender specific boundaries, in which case there is a greater ceiling to this coalition.

R.J. Narang, Vienna

Law Enforcement Needs to Understand Latino Names Editor: I assure you the Fairfax County Police Department is going to have a lot of problems finding the alleged rapist Ronald Fabricio Herrera Contreras if they are looking for “Ronald Fabricio Contreras.”

“Contreras” is the last name of his mother, and his passport and other documents – if he has them – will be

under the name of “Ronald Fabricio Herrera.”

The use of both the father’s and the mother’s last name is a common practice throughout most Spanish-speaking countries. The criminal illegal aliens know the mistake of police departments, and are using the error to evade the authorities and their attempts to locate them.

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Northern Virginian Is Set to Shine in New Show on FOX Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny and Brittany O’Grady are three young adults trying to make it in the competitive world of show business in the new musicaldrama “Star.”

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A year after work began on the pilot for the new FOX Broadcasting series “Star,” the public will have a chance to render a verdict.

And no one will be awaiting the decision of the viewing audience more than Brittany O’Grady of Arlington, who has a key role in the musical-drama conceived

by Lee Daniels, best known as the creator of “Empire,” and Tom Donaghy.

“I’m very excited to see how people react,” O’Grady said as the days ticked down to the Dec. 14 debut.

The yearlong period from pilot to airing, with production of additional episodes in between, has “been pretty crazy . . . and it’s still all crazy,” O’Grady said.

“Star” is a headline vehicle for Queen Latifah, but puts its emphasis on the lives of young women with aspirations of success in the cutthroat world of show business. O’Grady, the daughter of Mike and Monique O’Grady, portrays a youngster who dreams of the day her sister (played

by Jude Demorest) will rescue her from the abusive life she has lived. Ryan Destiny portrays the third of the three young women the plots revolve around.

“The show touches on a lot of real issues that are going on in the lives of women,” O’Grady told the Sun Gazette, “with a magical twist – that Lee Daniels magic.”

The pilot was shot in late 2015; Fox later commissioned 12 episodes, of which eight currently are completed, to air in 2017. The series is being produced by 20th Century Fox Television.

In between completing the pilot and returning to Atlanta to film the series, O’Grady spent time in China.

The eight-day-per-episode shooting schedule is “really hectic” with long hours, but O’Grady praised the working environment.

“Queen Latifah is incredibly patient and focused . . . very reserved, in a good way,” she said. Benjamin Bratt “is very passionate, open to working with newbies.”

O’Grady has been acting since age 4.

Her breakout year was in 2007, when she segued from a role on “Twelve Dancing Princesses” at The Children’s Theatre (now Encore Stage & Studio) to a featured performance in Signature Theatre’s musical “The Witches of Eastwick.” A review of the latter in the Sun Gazette called the sixth-grader “both polished, and a hoot.”

O’Grady is a product of Arlington Public Schools, having attended Drew Model, Thomas Jefferson Middle and Washington-Lee high schools. Her academic prowess was saluted on several occasions by the Civic Coalition for Minority Affairs.

After graduating from WashingtonLee in 2013, O’Grady ventured to Los Angeles, but is happy to be working in the Southeast. “I love Atlanta. It’s close to home, a quick flight away,” O’Grady said.

She will have a little time back in Arlington over the holidays before returning to Atlanta to wrap up filming on “Star” for the season.

The show will take its place on the FOX lineup on Wednesdays beginning Jan. 4 at 9 p.m., replacing “Empire” (which will return to that time slot in the spring). Featured guest stars on the show include Lenny Kravitz, Naomi Campbell and Tyrese Gibson.

For O’Grady, 2017 is shaping up to be a busy year; she will appear in her first feature film, the thriller “Above Suspicion,” slated for release in the new year. Filming took place earlier this year in Kentucky.

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Military Veterans Urged to Think Dynamically, Adapt in Order to Achieve Success in Workforce BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

Veterans often are hardworking, loyal, conscientious and punctual workers, but they sometimes have a hard time switching from the disciplined, hierarchical military into the freewheeling U.S. workforce.

“In the military, things are very clearcut. Your chain of command is very clear and so are the repercussions and accountability,” said Amy Bennett of Booz Al-

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“In civilian organizations, there are lot of unwritten rules, a lot of subtleties and relationship handling, ‘managing up’ and all those other corporate terms,” Bennett said. “[Veterans] say, ‘Tell me what I need to do to succeed.’ We need to make them feel empowered to be the architects of their success.”

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Panelists at the event, which was moderated by Dori Ramsey of Washington Gas, told chamber members how to aid and benefit from employees who have served in the military.

Part of maximizing veterans’ potential is getting them to recognize the myriad skills they acquired in the Armed Forces, and show employers how these can be applied to civilian professions, said U.S. Navy veteran Richard Ferry, Northern Virginia regional program manager for Virginia Values Veterans.

“Overlooking the diamond in the rough is a common mistake,” he said.

To ensure veterans feel wanted, needed and respected, employers should institute employee-resource networks and celebrate military holidays and the birthdays of the various service branches, Ferry said.

About one-third of Booz Allen Hamilton’s employees have connections with the military, Bennett said.

The Department of Defense “is in our DNA,” she said, touting the company’s extensive mentoring efforts to help veterans.

But smaller companies have more flexibility to take advantage of veterans’ professionalism and attention to detail, Ferry said.

“Utilize your agility to your advantage,” he urged small-business owners in the audience. “You don’t have to go through the bureaucratic process.”

Contracting requirements sometimes mandate that workers have four-year college degrees, but when such strictures are not in place, employers should add “or equivalent” on their job applications so as not to discourage non-college-educated veterans, panelists said.

Veterans working as supervisors in the workforce may have to take a different leadership approach when communicating with entry-level employees and Millennials, said Marisa Krafsig, senior human-resource director for IntelliDyne.

Veterans “have a mentality of they give directions and expect it to get done,”

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she said. “Some of our newer workforce may want to talk about it. They want you to engage in a dialogue, they want you to explain why you’re asking them to do things.”

Some facets of hiring veterans should go without saying, such as not asking them about how many people they have killed or how they obtained visible injuries, panelists said.

The incidence of veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder is no higher than in the general population, Bennett said.

“The majority of veterans don’t have it,” she said. “They feel frustrated that they’re kind of being painted with a broad brush, that they might go off or one day lose it at work.”

Some veterans voluntarily will reveal medical issues such as mental-health concerns, autoimmune disorders and cancer, she added.

“If they don’t self-disclose, it can be little harder to work with them,” Bennett said. “But if they do self-disclose . . . it is incumbent upon the employer to be very understanding and ask questions [such as] ‘How can we make it easier?’”

Panelist Desiree Wagner, a U.S. Air Force veteran who owns a DetailXperts auto-detailing franchise in Fairfax County, recounted two experiences she underwent since joining the private sector.

One company for which she worked gave her Election Day off, but not Veterans Day, which she would have preferred.

Another business technically retained Wagner after she went on a reserve deployment, but gave her former job to the person she had trained. The company then cut her new position two months later, which galvanized her to become an entrepreneur.

“I’d rather take the risk of me becoming successful than waiting on someone else to play with my livelihood,” Wagner said. “I want to be better than some of the people I’ve worked for in the past.”

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MPA Displaying Haunting, Moody Landscapes BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

Photographers usually document the world straightforwardly, content with the subject matter in front of them.

Alexandria artist and teacher David Douglas takes a different tack, bending the medium to his will, combining and manipulating disparate images of familiar Northern Virginia landscapes to produce moody, dark, outsized artworks.

“They’re metaphors for who we are, where we are, how we react to the land we walk across,” he said. “Depending on where you are, it speaks to you.”

A selection of Douglas’ works, “Moving Through,” is on display through Jan. 21 at the McLean Project for the Arts’ (MPA) satellite location at 1446 Chain Bridge Road in McLean.

The images, mostly black-and-white but with some color accents, typically measure several feet in each direction and evoke a wide range of emotions.

Empty, unkempt back yards are the setting for many of the images, and they’re usually filled with stark, gnarled, leafless trees and parts of white clapboard buildings.

Douglas, who holds a bachelor of arts degree from Virginia Intermont College and master of fine arts degree in painting from James Madison University, started out as a painter. He began photographing

as part of his career as a teacher. is that little girl wandering in the yard, The 58-year-old Alexandria native – why is she there and what is she thinking? now a drawing, painting and photography Is the boy in swim trunks lying face down teacher at on the lawn Episcocrying or pal High just in a School deep sleep?

– long “These has trodworks are den the deeply enPotomac gaging and R i v e r elementall a n d ly familiar, scapes comforting featured and disin MPA’s quieting, exhibit. moments He has of life worked lived into on the by artist photo and viewer series for alike,” about 15 MPA’s exyears. hibitions “Caution” is among the large-scale photographs by David Douglas P a r t that now are on display at McLean Project for the Arts’ satellite lo- d i r e c t o r of the cation at 1446 Chain Bridge Road in McLean. The exhibition runs N a n c y p h o t o s ’ through Jan. 21.

Sausser emotionwrote in al resonance for local viewers comes from her introductory essay about the show. those river locales, such as Jones Point While some photographers are unrein Alexandria. The trees, buildings and pentant gearheads, slavishly buying the stone-lined riverbanks all feel familiar, latest techno-gizmos in hopes of obtainbut not exactly as one remembers. ing a slight creative edge, Douglas shoots The images have a spare, somber feel most of his images with an odd collection and prompt questions from viewers. Who of tools: view and pinhole cameras and

inexpensive cameras bought online or at antique stores.

The artist photographs various subjects, scans rocks and other items he has brought back to the studio, and combines them for the final images he desires.

Douglas reworks parts of the images with pencils, pens and colored wax, and builds the photos through many layers in Photoshop. He blurs some areas of less visual interest to focus viewers’ attention on key compositional elements.

“I’m building these landscapes with all these things,” he said. “It’s often a view from many different vantage points. I use those liberties to build that composition using my artistic instincts.”

He prints the images in large sections, then coats them with layers of polymer and hangs them like wallpaper on panels.

Douglas has plenty of experience doing that, as his family operated a business that hung handmade wallpapers.

Some of the works feature ropes and a hose that are looped in ways that resemble nooses. The effect is ambiguous, but not intentionally macabre, Douglas said.

“It’s perfectly fine with me that people view the work and have that interpretation to it,” he said.

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Pent-Up Demand Helps to Propel State Home Market Pent-up demand and fears – now becoming realized – of rising interest rates helped propel buyers to take the plunge in a major way across the Virginia real estate market in November.

Sales for the month totaled 8,269, up a whopping 17.8 percent from the 7,020 homes that went to closing in November 2015, according to figures reported Dec. 22 by the Virginia Association of Realtors (VAR).

“Buyer motivation and confidence intersected with loosened inventory to drive exceptional market performance for the month,” said incoming VAR president Claire Forcier-Rowe.

The market strength was aided by “the strong anticipation of imminent interestrate increases,” Forcier-Rowe said. That helped limit the traditional October-toNovember drop in sales to 6.5 percent, compared to a 20.3-percent dropoff during the same period last month.

(The question going forward will be: Were some of November’s home sales in place of sales that would have taken place in December or January anyway, or will the momentum of November carry forward?)

The median sales price of all homes

that sold during the month statewide was $265,000, up 5.2 percent from $251,958 a year before and, bucking norms, slightly higher than October’s media price.

Total sales volume across the market for November was $2.66 billion, up just under 20 percent from a year before.

Homes that went to closing in November spent an average of 70 days on the market, down from 78 days needed a year before. “The relative speed of transactions reflects sustained urgency among buyers,” VAR officials said.

As had been anticipated for months, interest rates began to feel upward pressure in November, although compared to the long-term norms, the cost of borrowing remains low.

The average interest rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage in November was 3.77 percent, according to Freddie Mac. While higher than the average had been since February, it remains lower than the end of February, when rates were hovering right below 4 percent.

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

For information, see the Web site at www.varealtor.com.

D.C., Inner Core See Healthy Monthly Real Estate Results Home sales across D.C. and the inner core were up significantly in November, compared to a year before, while prices were generally flat.

A total of 3,899 properties went to closing throughout the corridor last month, according to data reported Dec. 12 by RealEstate Business Intelligence, an arm of the local multiple-listing service. That’s up 16.5 percent from the 3,347 transactions recorded a year before.

(Figures include sales in the District of Columbia; Arlington and Fairfax counties and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church in Virginia; and Montgomery and Prince George’s counties in Maryland.)

The average sales price for all homes that sold during the month was $494,679, a decline of 1.8 percent fueled in part by the 1.2-percent drop in single-family prices, which dipped to $584,290. The average price for attached homes, such as townhouses and rowhouses, was down 2.2 percent to $420,256, while the average price

for condominiums was up 0.5 percent to $352,742.

There were 270 sales of more than $1 million during the month, and the total sales volume of $1.93 billion was up 14.4 percent from a year before.

Homes that went to closing in November spent an average of 50 days on the market, a slight improvement from the 51 days required a year before, and garnered 97.2 percent of listing price, up from 96.9 percent.

Conventional mortgages were the method of transacting sales in 2,147 cases, followed by FHA-backed mortgages (614), cash (602) and VA-backed loans (275).

Inventory at the end of the month stood at 9,147 properties, down 14.4 percent from a year before.

The market’s short-term future looks uneven, as pending sales are down but the number of homes coming under contract are up.

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Politics, Snowstorm Were Among Key Issues of Year Continied from Page 3 of Transportation handled the “Snowzilla” snowstorm of Jan. 22 and 23. The snow-clearing efforts were a vast improvement over those of the back-to-back “Snowmageddon” storms in 2010 and the blizzard of 1996, supervisors said.

• McLean resident Madeline “Maddy” Clark, a 17-year-old senior at Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C., on March 4 won the Young Songwriter prize at the second annual Bernard/Ebb Songwriting Awards.

• Fairfax County Republican Committee members on March 12 elected Matt Ames to serve a second term as chairman.

Ames overcame a challenge from committee member Tim Hannigan of Oakton, who edits the conservative newspaper Fairfax Free Citizen and serves as a Sully District precinct captain.

• Fairfax County officials announced March 16 that homelessness in the Fairfax County-Falls Church area had decreased by 42 percent since 2008, with about 776 fewer people now homeless. The annual “Point-in-Time Count,” conducted Jan. 28, found 1,059 homeless people living in those areas, including 482 single adults and 577 families with children. This year’s homeless count was down 145 people from 2015’s total.

• The Fairfax County Park Authority’s

board of directors on March 23 unanimously adopted a resolution to exchange the agency’s Langley Oaks Park for Langley Fork Park, a National Park Service property. No final timetable for the land swap was determined, but Park Authority officials said they would work with the National Park Service to make the deal a reality.

APRIL: • Two local women took home the top two prizes April 3 at the 2016 Miss Teen Pageant Competition in Hopewell, Va. Elisabetta Cantatore, 19, of Great Falls was crowned the winner and received an all-expenses-paid trip to the national contest in Orlando, Fla., in December 2017. McLean resident Taylor Burchfield received the First Runner-Up trophy and the chance to attend the national pageant.

• The Board of Supervisors on April 5 broke from the years-long trend of approving high-rise apartment buildings and gave the thumbs-up to a proposal by Cityline Partners LLC to build between 100 and 140 condominium units in a tower up to 25 stories or 300 feet tall.

• Vienna’s American Legion Post 180 on April 6 honored Pfc. Blake Tremont as its 2015 Town of Vienna Police Officer of

the Year.

• Demolition crews in early April began tearing down a former Exxon service station at 9901 Georgetown Pike in Great Falls, three years after the business ceased operations. The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality conducted a cleanup effort at the station after the discovery that leaked fuel at the site may have contaminated groundwater. A TD Bank branch now is being constructed at the site.

• McLean Community Foundation leaders on April 7 celebrated the 35th anniversary of the organization’s first grant.

• Fairfax County supervisors on April 19 approved a $7.5 billion fiscal year 2017 budget that ratcheted up the real estate tax, provided more money to the school system and financed raises for county employees. Supervisors boosted the county’s real estate tax rate by 4 cents to $1.13 per $100 assessed value, which cost the average homeowner about $304 more in 2016.

• The Great Falls Historical Society on April 21 gave its Jean Tibbetts History Award to Great Falls native Betty Nalls Swartz for her community activism and educational programs that teach local students about the village’s agrarian past.

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• Voters on May 3 re-elected Vienna Town Council members Linda Colbert and Pasha Majdi and selected Vienna Planning Commission member Douglas Noble for the third available Council seat.

Colbert received 1,096 votes, Majdi 1,007 and Noble 798. Also running in this year’s election were Roy Baldwin and C. Craig Burns, who received 671 and 382 votes, respectively.

• A 74-year-old man struck by a vehicle May 4 at Silver Diner in Tysons died May 17 from complications of injuries he sustained in the crash. Andrew Sheren was walking into the restaurant when he was struck by a vehicle driven by Samuel Ovie Abutoh, 59, of Springfield, Fairfax County police said. Abutoh intentionally drove the vehicle into the building several times and later poured liquid on his body and lighted himself on fire inside the vehicle, police said.

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• Vienna officials announced at the May 9 Town Council meeting that Public Works Director Dennis Johnson recently had retired after eight years’ service to embark on a life of travel and hobby fulfillment.

• Following a May 9 public hearing, Vienna Town Council members voted 61 to hold the town’s real estate tax rate steady at 22.5 cents per $100 assessed valuation.

• A year and a half after approving the town’s Maple Avenue Commercial (MAC) zone, the Vienna Town Council on May 9 unanimously approved the first project under the new ordinance. Vienna Car Wash LLC will replace the current Flagship Carwash at 540 Maple Avenue, W., with a Chick-fil-A Restaurant on the lower level and an enclosed car wash on the upper level of a 42-foot-tall building.

• Speaking at George Mason University’s May 14 commencement in Fairfax, Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) told how as a 14-year-old entrepreneur he had seen an adult laboring to seal a driveway and gone into business for himself, securing six jobs within one day. “Think big, take chances and never be afraid to fail,” he said.

• A Fairfax County Circuit Court

judge in mid-May issued bench warrants charging 35-year-old Vienna resident Kimhoang Pham LaRocque with seconddegree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony in connection with the shooting death of her husband, Eric John LaRocque, 33, at their home on July 31, 2015.

• The Board of Supervisors on May 17 unanimously approved a proposal to build a 180-by-360-foot athletic field adjacent to the Capital Beltway in Tysons.

Meridian Science 7980 LP will build the field and a parking garage on a 5.75-acre parcel at 7910 and 7900 Science Application Court.

• Leaders of The JBG Cos. joined local and state officials May 25 in breaking ground for The Signet, a mixed-use development in downtown McLean. The project, now being built at 6900 Fleetwood Road near Elm Street, will provide 123 one-level luxury condominiums and about 5,000 square feet of restaurants and streetfront stores, plus underground parking.

JUNE: • Lori Carbonneau, who had served since April 2015 as the McLean Project for the Arts’ director of information strategy, membership development and special events, in early June succeeded the

organization’s former executive director, Susan Corrigan.

• Just weeks before stepping down after 14 years in office, Vienna Town Council member Edythe Kelleher summed up her experience at the Council’s June 6 meeting. “I have discovered the secret to becoming the elder statesman and that’s just to stick around longer than everybody else,” she joked.

• Vienna Market, a mixed-use rezoning proposal in central Vienna, failed June 6 to obtain the necessary supermajority of Vienna Town Council members. Developer Doug D’Alexander had proposed to build 49 townhouse-style condominiums atop 28,000 square feet of retail space and a 105-space underground parking garage at Maple Avenue and Pleasant Street, N.W. Five of the seven Council members supported the project, but because at least 20 percent of the 11 adjacent property owners had filed petitions opposing the rezoning, the project did not achieve the minimum of six votes, as required by town code.

• Oakton resident Robert F. Dorr, author of more than 80 books on aviation and thousands of magazine articles and newspaper columns, died June 12 at age 76. Dorr had donated most of his 140,000-image photo archive to the Glenn

L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum; written online tributes to mentors who had shaped his life; and worked on a follow-up to his second novel, “Crime Scene: Fairfax County.”

• A raft of new policies adopted June 21 by Board of Supervisors will boost the Fairfax County Police Department’s transparency with the public and ensure more thorough disclosure of facts following incidents, supervisors said. The 202 recommendations came after eight months’ work by the Ad-Hoc Police Practices Review Commission, formed in 2015 after county police shot and killed unarmed Kingstowne resident John Geer in 2013.

• County supervisors on June 21 unanimously approved $4 million more in federal funds to support the Jones Branch Connector project, which will vault over Interstate 495 to connect eastern Tysons with western McLean. Construction on the project will begin in 2017.

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A resolution calling for decriminalization of marijuana use in Virginia didn’t get out of the starting gate Dec. 6, as delegates to the Arlington County Civic Federation sent the measure back for more work.

Federation president Stefanie Pryor acknowledged that “people have some concerns” about the resolution, which was backed by the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and had won the support of the federation’s legislative committee.

The two biggest sticking points: Contentions that statements in the resolution may not be backed up by facts, and that the measure spoke about medical use of marijuana but went on to call for a blanket abolition of criminal penalties for everyone caught using it.

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Not that a resolution from any organization is likely to sway the legislature.

Olivere predicted there was “not a chance in hell” members of the General Assembly would do much, if anything, to loosen Virginia’s restrictions on marijuana possession.

One facet of the proposed resolution that may find traction calls for an end to automatic loss of driver’s licenses for those found in possession of marijuana, even if the transgression did not occur in a vehicle.

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Former Candidate Fiorina: Shake Up the Status Quo BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and Republican presidential aspirant Carly Fiorina long has advocated for the advancement of women, but she credits two male co-workers for jumpstarting her career ambitions.

The men told Fiorina, who then was working for Kelly Services in the mid1970s, that she was capable of doing much more than just secretarial work. She took their advice, earned a master’s degree in business administration and began her rise in the corporate world.

“I have never forgotten that every single one of us needs somebody to take a chance on us and somebody to see the potential in us,” Fiorina said during a Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce luncheon Dec. 5 at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner.

There are two kinds of people at work, she believes: Those who see all the various limitations and reasons why things can’t be done and those who discern myriad opportunities for accomplishment.

When hiring, Fiorina looks for courageous risk-takers who have solid character and collaborate well with others.

“Everything worthwhile is a team effort,” she said.

Risk taking inevitably results in mistakes, but often maintaining the status

quo is the worst decision, she added.

After graduating from Stanford University with what was, by her own admission, a less-than-practical degree in philosophy and medieval studies, Fiorna briefly attended law school and found she loathed it.

Following stints with AT&T and Lucent, Fiorina spent six years as CEO of Hewlett-Packard. She insisted on objective performance evaluations of the company’s divisions and required managers to recruit a diverse selection of potential employees before hiring.

“You can’t leave any potential on the table,” she said. “You can’t waste it.”

Fiorina, who now chairs the non-profit organization Good360, was one of 17 candidates who vied for the Republican presidential nomination this year. She suspended her campaign in February.

While she touched on the dissatisfaction with government that persuaded many to vote for the eventual winner, Republican Donald Trump, Fiorina did not mention him by name. The Trump administration likely will be friendlier toward businesses and may strip away outmoded regulations that are hampering the commercial sphere, she said.

Fiorina indicated her support for Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie, saying he will “make a great leader” for Virginia. The state has slipped in several rankings in recent years and is

making insufficient p rog re s s, she said.

B e fore the election, about 80 percent of Americans polled said the federal government is incompetent, corrupt and allows problems to fester. Those in charge of the political structure have held concentrated power for too long and this inevitably leads to abuses, Fiorina said.

She touched briefly on two personal challenges: her bout with breast cancer and the death of her stepdaughter, Lori Ann, who had been an addict.

The latter experience heightened her empathy, reaffirmed the strength of her religious faith and showed her the kindness of strangers.

“It’s good to remember how good people are capable of being,” she said.

Machelle Williams, senior director for diversity and corporate social responsibility at Volkswagen Group of America, introduced Fiorina and led the questionand-answer session afterward.

Asked by Williams about the wage gap

between men and women, Fiorina said much of that difference is because women aren’t being given opportunities for the same jobs as men. If women experiencing wage discrimination in the workplace, they should pursue every available recourse to correct the problem, she said.

Fiorina related how a male colleague once met one of their clients in a Washington, D.C., strip club and, to show she was not intimidated, she went along, too.

“Don’t get waylaid by the people who don’t see what you have to offer,” she advised. “Other people’s comments do not define you.”

Linda McKee, a professor and program director at Christopher Newport University’s Luter School of Business, said Fiorina’s speech carried important messages about the need for positivity.

“I liked the comments about looking at the world for possibilities, not limitations,” she said.

Fiorina’s remarks were “right on target,” said Pat Wirth, executive director of the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial.

“Carly is a remarkable woman who understands the challenges that women in business have,” Wirth said. “She’s endured them throughout her career and so she continues to be an advocate for women in business. We appreciate someone who has been able to rise through the ranks, to acknowledge the challenges that she’s faced and overcome.”

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Schools & Military n Tristan Evans of Great Falls, Leslie Fingerhut of Great Falls, Nicholas Brown of McLean, John Eklund of McLean and Arthur Kapplow of Vienna have earned bachelor’s degrees during recent commencement exercises at the University of Alabama. n Charlotte Gabriel of McLean has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Belmont University. n Benjamin Clines and Tracy Fennessy of McLean have been inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi academic honor society at Virginia Commonwealth University. n Sophie Clarke of Vienna, a student at Wheaton College, performed in “And It Was Good,” the annual fall dance show presented by Zoe’s Feet Dance Ministry at the college.

Members of the Students for Environmental Action (SEA) Club at James Madison High over the past two years have been conducting watershed assessments and water-quality analysis in streams from Harrisonburg to Culpeper.

The work is part of the Trout in the Classroom (TIC) initiative, and aims to determine whether or not brook trout – Virginia’s state fish – can be reintron

duced to establish a trout population in local streams.

Madison’s SEA Club serves to scout release locations in Northern Virginia.

The Catharpin Creek headwaters on Bull Run Mountain in Prince William County have been the focal point of these field efforts.

This scientific investigation is led by Madison science teachers Dick Gongaware and Kirk Smith.

In June, members of the club met with Gov. McAuliffe and Secretary of Natural Resources Molly Ward to brief them on this initiative, which directly correlates to the type of work the governor was hoping to produce when established the Virginia Environmental Literacy Challenge. n Michael Burbidge, the Roman Catholic bishop of Arlington, honored members of the diocese for their volunteer service at an awards dinner held Dec. 13.

At the ceremony, Marymount University’s Sr. Patricia Helene Earl, IHM, received the Ex Corde Campus Ministry Award for her exemplary service, and student Sarah Hall received a Volunteer of the Year award.

Sister Patricia is the director of Marymount’s Catholic School Leadership Program. Prior to coming to Marymount, she taught in elementary and

Quentin Levin of The Potomac School recently was honored with a Youth Leadership Award from the Greater McLean Chamber of Commerce. The presentation was made at the Chamber’s annual “Suits & Sneakers” celebration. Levin is flanked by Paul Kohlenberger and Marcus Simon.

secondary Catholic schools, served as principal of Marymount Junior School, and was assistant superintendent of schools for the Arlington Diocese for 13 years.

Hall, a senior education major from Mechanicsville, serves on Marymount’s Campus Ministry team. She has been on three alternative spring break trips, volunteering in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. She also volunteers

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Robert Vickers of the Fairfax County Tree Commission would like to change development rules that allow virtual clear-cuttings of trees in the center of development sites, such as at this one PHOTO BY BRIAN TROMPETER in Great Falls.

Trees Continued from Page 1 viewpoint, but added it’s difficult to preserve trees on the interiors of lots being redeveloped, especially if the sites are small.

“A lot of times, in our view, preserving more trees on the perimeter of a site is good because they’re more likely to survive and serve as a buffer for neighbors,” he said.

County officials work hard with developers whenever possible to save healthy trees on sites, Cline said. Officials must balance an array of competing, and sometimes contradictory, environmentalprotection rules, he added.

“A lot of the time, tree-canopy and stormwater [regulations] go hand-inhand,” Cline said. “Other times, more trees need to be cleared to put in stormwater facilities.”

Fairfax County’s tree ordinance allows officials to protect noteworthy “specimen” trees with conservation easements, provided someone nominates the tree and the Board of Supervisors assents, Cline said.

While some trees recently have been nominated for such easements, Cline said he could not recall an instance where the county had taken such measures.

Vickers has represented Dranesville District on the Tree Commission since 2007 and spent the last three years as its chairman. The volunteer group meets once per month and advises the Board of Supervisors.

The public can push developers for greater tree-canopy coverage during rezoning cases, as with the Brooks Farm cluster development in Great Falls that supervisors approved this year, but options are more limited with by-right developments, Vickers said.

The Brooks Farm developers will preserve most of the existing trees by putting 7.5 acres of the 52-acre site into a conservation easement and another 5 aces in a resource-protection area, he said.

Cluster developments can be a good way of preserving trees, but they result in more houses on smaller lots, Vickers said.

Construction activity can kill trees, with heavy machinery crushing root systems. Such equipment should be permitted no closer than a tree’s drip line to avoid root damage, Vickers said. Some builders figure the proper distance using a height-based formula, he said.

Developers, who must replace a site’s existing tree canopy within a decade, favor using species native to Virginia. Red maple, in particular, grows quickly and is inexpensive, Vickers said.

Some developments turn out better than expected. Vickers pointed to a home on Utterback Store Road, where developers built a home behind a majestic white oak tree and made it the focal point of the surrounding driveway and front lawn.

The Tree Commission in late January or early February will give awards to property owners who have protected their trees, he said.

Trees prevent erosion, hold water, retain soil, provide shade and wildlife habitats, remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen into it, and capture airborne dust on their leaves and trunks, Vickers said.

Great Falls residents especially love oaks, as the community is home to 14 of Virginia’s most noteworthy specimens, he said.

Property owners sometimes are shocked when developers of adjacent properties fell large stands of trees to make room for houses, Vickers said.

“People say, ‘Look at my back yard.

All those trees!’” he said. “Yeah, but you didn’t own them.”

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Located just up the hill from Chain Bridge, we have selected to close out the year’s worth of home profiles with an enchanting, fourlevel colonial that exceeds all expectations and showcases a location close to the parkland of historic Salona.

Elegant throughout yet also emphasizing comfort, the fenced property is ready to handle soirées of all kinds.

And in the rear, both a pool and a tennis/sport court await.

The property currently is on the market, listed at $3,100,000 by Lilian Jorgenson of Long & Foster Real Estate.

Dramatic spaces soaring to the heavens are combine with some charming touches like intricate lace mouldings to emblazon a special ambiance about this property.

Highlights are found throughout the main level, with the formal living and dining rooms each featuring copious space to go with glorious natural sunlight and marvelous fireplaces. The kitchen compound is a standout, perfect for serious chefs, and features a morning-dining area.

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The first upper level features the showstopper master retreat, with its own living room plus grand bath and plentiful storage. A second master suite offers twin dormers for added ambiance, and two additional bedrooms suites are found here, as well.

The top floor is home to a retreat/ studio space, plus another bedroom and several alcoves.

On the lower level can be found a variety of informal, fun spaces, from the

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The exterior is as delightful as what we’ve found indoors, and the location puts you close to everything, yet still set back in a world of serenity.

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Affordability Issues Will Come Into Play In New Year Existing-home sales are forecast to muster only a small gain in 2017 because of increasing mortgage rates and shrinking consumer confidence, according to new consumer survey findings and a 2017 housing forecast update from the National Association of Realtors.

In NAR’s fourth-quarter Housing Opportunities and Market Experience (HOME) survey, respondents were asked about expectations for 2017.

The survey found that a majority of households believes now is a good time to buy a home, but that confidence has retreated by a considerable amount amongst renters.

Fifty-seven percent of renters said now is a good time to buy, which is down from 60 percent in September and 68 percent a year ago. Seventyeight percent of homeowners (unchanged from September; 82 percent in December 2015) think now is a good time to make a home purchase.

Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, says declining affordability in many parts of the country is behind the weakening morale.

“Rents and home prices outpacing incomes and scant supply in the affordable price range has been a prominent headwind for many prospective buyers this year,” he said. “Making matters worse, the unwelcoming reality of higher mortgage rates since the election is likely further holding back confidence.”

Younger households, renters and those living in the costlier West region – where prices have soared in recent months – are the least optimistic about buying, Yun said.

Even with this year’s slow dip in buyer enthusiasm, existing-sales are still expected to close 2016 about 3.3 percent higher than 2015 and reach around 5.42 million, the best year since 2006 (6.47 million).

In 2017, sales are forecast to grow roughly 2 percent to around 5.52 million. The national median existing-home price is expected to rise to around 5 percent this year and 4 percent in 2017, according to the survey.

As has been the case all year, respondents in the West continue to be the most likely to think now is a good time to sell, while also being the least likely to think it’s a good time to buy.

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Veterans Continued from Page 8 Employers also should not neglect military spouses as potential workers,

even though they often have to relocate according to the service members’ new assignments, panelists said.

“If you have a dedicated employee for two to three years, how great is that?”

Bennett asked. “They’re well-educated.

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

Total sales volume is likely to surpass 2015, when it totaled $11.4 billion. For the first 11 months of 2016, it was $11.15 billion.

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Bennett, a member of that contingent herself, cited her experiences working for George Mason University, Home Depot and Victoria’s Secret.

“I learned more from selling bras and underwear to women than I have at almost any other job in my life,” she said.

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All in all, leaders in the local real-estate community seem pleased with how 2016 has turned out.

Jill Landsman, a spokesman for the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors, said the prospect of higher interest rates is drawing more potential buyers into the market, even during what traditionally is a softer time of year.

Over the long haul, average housing prices in the region have outstripped inflation – when taking it into account, average prices (in 2015 dollars) were $259,124 in 1975, $249,512 in 1985 and $328,748 in 1995, to pick three dates.

Looking back on 40 years of sales data from across the suburbs, the average price has grown from $58,739 in 1975, surpassing the $100,000 mark for the first time in 1981, the $200,000 mark in 1991, the

$300,000 mark in 2002 and the $400,000 mark in 2004 before peaking at just above $538,000 in 2007.

It then dropped for two years, to $431,018 in 2009, before starting a rebound.

In terms of total sales, the market peaked in 2004, when 32,735 properties went to closing.

While sales have bobbled up and down, they have totaled more than 20,000 in 12 of the last 19 years.

The all-time high in sales volume was reached not in 2004, when sales peaked, but a year later in 2005, when sales were down 10 percent from a year before but average prices ballooned 20 percent. Sales volume that year was $15.7 billion.

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Public-Safety Notes SUSPECT ARRESTED IN CAR-VANDALISM CASE: A woman told Vienna police

on Dec. 11 at 12:22 a.m. that a man she knew just had vandalized her vehicle in the 400 block of Nutley Street, N.W. An officer located the man in the area and the suspect approached the officer in an aggressive manner, police said.

The officer tried to calm the man, but he continued his aggressive behavior. Another officer helped arrest the man.

Rescue personnel responded and evaluated the man at the scene. Police then transported the 26-year-old Vienna man to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, where authorities charged him with two counts of felony assault on a police officer, felony destruction of property, obstruction of justice and being drunk in public. Authorities held the man without bond.

VIENNA MAN CHARGED WITH DWI AND MORE: A Vienna police officer on Dec. 11

at 2:35 a.m. observed a motorist commit a series of traffic violations and initiated a traffic stop in the 500 block of Glyndon Street, S.E. Upon interacting with the driver, the officer detected possible signs of impairment. Police offered the driver a series of sobriety tests, which he refused. The officer tried to place the man under arrest, but he resisted, police said.

Once the officer had the man in cus-

tody, police transported him to Vienna Police Headquarters and offered him the opportunity to provide a sample of his breath for analysis, which he refused.

Police transported the 23-year-old Vienna man to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, where authorities charged him with driving while intoxicated, refusing to take a breath test and obstruction of justice. Authorities set a $2,500 unsecured bond for the man and held him until he was sober.

Dec. 17 at 5:25 a.m., officials said.

The engine, from Fire Station 21 in Fair Oaks, was responding to a call when the crash occurred. There were no reported injuries. Icy road conditions were a contributing factor in the crash, officials said.

An additional unit was dispatched to the original call. Fire officials subsequently urged drivers to stay off the roads until workers could apply treatments and temperatures rose.

VIENNA MAN ARRESTED ON OUTSTANDING WARRANT IN PENNSYLVANIA: A Vienna police officer on Dec. 12

SUSPICIOUSLY BEHAVING MAN BANNED FROM W&OD TRAIL: Vienna

police, along with the Fairfax County Police Department and the Washington & Old Dominion Regional Trail’s park manager, on Dec. 8 at 1:16 p.m. served a trespass notice on a man who has been acting suspiciously on the trail.

The notice bans the man from the trail for one year. Officials advised the man he could be charged with trespassing if he violates the notice, police said.

at 4:32 p.m. observed a motorist commit a traffic violation and initiated a traffic stop in the 1000 block of Fairway Drive, N.E. The officer performed a check of the man’s driver’s license and learned there was an active warrant for him in Pennsylvania.

Police arrested the 27-year-old Vienna-area man and transported him to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, where authorities charged him with being a fugitive from justice and held him pending an extradition hearing.

MOTORIST CRASHES WHILE PARKING IN VIENNA: A motorist whose vehicle had

been having mechanical problems was parking the vehicle in a space at Ocean Cleaners, 237 Maple Ave., E., on Dec. 2 at 6:24 p.m. when the vehicle lurched forward, causing the driver to lose control, Vienna police said.

The vehicle struck a parking sign, then

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traveled over the sidewalk and into the door of Ocean Cleaners, police said.

MOTORIST FALLS ASLEEP IN VIENNA, HITS LIGHT POLE AND TREES: A mo-

torist was traveling westbound on Maple Avenue and approaching Glyndon Street, S.E., on Dec. 5 at 4:28 a.m. when the driver fell asleep and drifted into oncoming traffic lanes, then off the left side of the road, Vienna police said.

The vehicle went up onto the curb and struck a light pole and two trees before coming to a stop, police said.

Police issued the driver a summons for failure to pay full time and attention.

COMMONWEALTH’S ATTORNEY CLEARS SHERIFF’S DEPUTY ON HOSPITAL SHOOTING: Fairfax County

Commonwealth’s Attorney Raymond F. Morrogh has informed the county’s police chief, Col. Edwin Roessler Jr., that he had found no basis for criminal liability on the part of a county sheriff’s deputy who used deadly force against a 29-yearold man Aug. 15 on the campus of Inova Fairfax Hospital, police announced Dec. 16.

At 1:55 p.m. on Aug. 15, a uniformed patrol officer in a marked police cruiser was parked in front of a gas station in the 7100 block of Little River Turnpike in Annandale when a man, whom police later identified as Jovany Martinez of no fixed address, approached the officer and engaged him in conversation.

During that conversation, the officer became concerned that Martinez either experiencing a medical emergency due to the extreme heat conditions and/or suffering from some form of mental-health issue. The officer then requested that medics from the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department respond to assess Martinez.

When medics arrived at 2:04 p.m., they assessed Martinez and subsequently transported him to Inova Fairfax Hospital for further evaluation. The officer also went ti the hospital to ensure hospital staff could provide a mental evaluation in case the officer needed to transport Martinez to the Merrifield Center for help.

Once medical staff advised the officer that Martinez was not in mental distress, the officer concluded the medical-transport investigation at around 4 p.m. and left Martinez in the care of medical staff.

Martinez eventually was discharged from the hospital later that evening and security staff assisted him in locating the bus stop for transportation.

A short time later, the security staff received reports of a suspicious man at the bus stop and that is when they observed Martinez apparently in mental crisis with the signpost he eventually used to strike one of the security guards. The Fairfax County Department of Public Safety Communications (DPSC) at 9:57 p.m. received a 911 call from hospital security advising that there was a man with a bladed weapon at the bus stop for the hospital’s “Green” parking garage.

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The sports year for 2016 was overflowing with competitive events and filled with numerous athletic achievements, championships and near-championships by teams and individuals specific to the Sun Gazette’s various coverage areas.

YEAR IN REVIEW There were multiple state and region champions and various conference winners in high school, as well as other significant titles won in youth sports.

Following is a list of what our paper’s sports staff ranked as the top 20 highlights from 2016, which were reported in our paper.

1. MARSHALL GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY

Led by individual standout Heather Holt, the Marshall High School girls cross country team had a dominating performance during the fall, winning conference, region and state championships. Holt won all three individual titles as well, then finished second in the Foot Locker South Region meet and 27th in the Foot Locker nationals.

2. MADISON BOYS CROSS COUNTRY

The Madison High School boys cross country team had its best season in history, winning conference, region and state championships. The region and state titles were the team and program’s, girls or boys, first in school history.

3. McLEAN HOTSPURS GREEN

The McLean Hotspurs Green boys 15-under soccer team won a national championship, becoming the first McLean Youth Soccer team to achieve such a national standing.

4. LANGLEY GOLF TEAM

The Langley High School golf team won conference and state championships and finished second in the region.

The team set a conference scoring record, multiple players recorded 18-hole scores in the 60s, the team broke the 300 mark many times, and overall won some six tournaments.

5. STATE CHAMPION DIVERS

Senior divers Grayson Campbell from Madison High School and Bryce Shelton from Marshall won region and state championships to conclude their standout high school careers and head on to dive for Division I college teams.

The Marshall High School girls cross country team, led by Heather Holt, won multiple championships in 2016.

6. McLEAN GIRLS SOFTBALL

The McLean Little League age 10-11 girls softball all-stars won district and state championships, then traveled to Tennessee to win a Tournament of State Champions competition.

7. VIENNA LITTLE LEAGUE MAJORS

The Vienna Little League Major All-Stars won district and state baseball championships and advanced to the Southeast Regional Tournament.

8. LANGLEY, OAKTON HOOPS

The Langley High School girls basketball team won a conference championship and finished second in the state tournament. The Oakton girls squad won conference and region titles, then lost to Langley in the state semifinals.

9. WRESTLING CHAMPS

Wrestlers from Madison and McLean high schools combined to win multiple region and state championships, in addition to finishing first in the Liberty Conference.

12. LANGLEY, OAKTON VOLLEYBALL

The Oakton High School girls volleyball team won the Concorde Conference, then the 6A North Region Tournament for the first time, before losing in a state semifinal match. The Langley Saxons won the girls Liberty Conference, were second to Oakton in the region, and lost in the state semis.

13. MARSHALL GIRLS LACROSSE

The Marshall High School girls lacrosse team (16-3) finished second in the Virginia High School League’s 5A state tournament. That was after winning the Capitol Conference and finishing second in the 5A North Region tourney.

The Langley High School girls tennis team won the Liberty Conference, 6A North Region championship, then finished second in the Virginia High School League’s 6A state competition.

Langley lost just one match.

15. POTOMAC SCHOOL SOCCER

The Madison High School girls softball team (24-5) finished second in the Liberty Conference, 6A North Region and 6A state tournaments, falling to Osbourn Park in both the region and state finals.

11. FLINT HILL GIRLS VOLLEYBALL

16. MADISON BOYS TENNIS

The Flint Hill School girls volleyball team repeated as conference and city champions, then took second in the Division I private-school state tournament.

North Region Tournament, then lost in the semifinals of the state tourney.

17. LANGLEY FIELD HOCKEY

The Langley High School girls field hockey team lost to Fairfax in the title games of both the Liberty Conference and 6A North Region tournaments, then lost in first-round state action.

18. PAT DEEGAN WINS 700TH

Former Madison High School girls basketball coach Pat Deegan, now the girls head coach at Fairfax, won his 700th career game in the Rebels’ 201617 season opener.

19. LANGLEY SWIM TEAMS 14. LANGLEY GIRLS TENNIS

The Potomac School Panthers in boys high school soccer pulled off one of the biggest Cinderella stories of the 2015-16 season. Barely making the field as the 10th seed, the Panthers upset their way to the Division I state private-school tournament championship match, where they lost in overtime.

10. MADISON GIRLS SOFTBALL

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Another Cinderella story during the spring high school campaign occurred when the Madison Warhawks in boys tennis, a No. 3 seed from the Liberty Conference, finished second in the 6A

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The Langley High School boys swim and dive team won the 6A North Region championship then was second in the state meet. The Langley girls were second in the region.

20. MEGAN BYRNES

Oakton High School swimmer Megan Byrnes finished second in the state in the 200 and 500 freestyle races, after strong performances in region and conference competitions.

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n The Chesterbrook Tiger Sharks won the summer’s Northern Virginia Swimming League’s Division I title. n The Vienna American 10-11 Little League baseball all-stars won a district title and were second in the state. n Vienna 180 won a fifth straight American Legion District 17 crown. n Langley High’s Andrew Shapiro broke three world pull-up records.

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Warhawks Keep Winning With a Title in Hilton Head DAVE FACINOLI Staff Writer

The Madison Warhawks’ pre-holiday trip to Hilton Head, S.C., was a championship journey.

The boys high school basketball team won the Sonesta Seahawks HoliClassic with BASKETBALL day a 3-0 record to improve to 8-2 overall and up its winning streak to eight.

Madison defeated Rock Ridge of Loudoun County, 56-44, in the championship game by making eight first-half three-pointers and nine for the contest.

Johnny Corish led Madison with 13 points and four three-pointers, John Finney scored nine, Nick Hugie eight and two threes, and tournament Most Valuable Player Riley Jorgenson six on

two three-pointers. Daniel Gerke added a three-pointer. Corish made the alltournament team.

Madison led 33-15 at halftime behind hot shooting.

“We shot the ball really well,” Madison coach Kevin Roller said. “When we shoot it well we are a balanced team.

Making eight threes in the first half was a good run. We’ve been having some good runs like that in games of late.”

Madison defeated Bourbon County from Kentucky, 63-43, in the semifinals and St. James of South Carolina, 4435, in the first round. Jorgenson had 21 points with five three-pointers against St. James and Corish scored 11.

“We had fun and it was a good trip,” Roller said.

In the win over Bourbon County, Jorgenson had 15 points, Hugie 13 and

The Madison Warhawks gather after winning a tournament championship in Myrtle Beach with a 3-0 record last week to up its winning streak to eight games.

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Corish 11.

During its winning streak, the most points Madison allowed in a game were 50, with three teams scoring only in the 30s.

Madison resumes play on Jan. 3 against the host Fairfax Rebels in Liberty Conference action. Madison is 2-0 in the Liberty and is in first place in the conference.

nine against Cardinal Gibbons and Preston Bacon 10 against Cypress Bay and eight against Cardinal Gibbons.

Justin Law had 11 in that loss. n The Oakton Cougars improved to 6-1 with a non-conference 55-53 win over Broad Run in boys action.

Joe Briggs had 14 points, including four three-pointers, for Oakton. Micah Johnson-Parrotte and Braeden Johnson scored 10 each. The Cougars made seven three-pointers. n The Flint Hill Huskies (1-5) lost to Paul VI Catholic, 83-54. Dowar Jioklow had 12 points in defeat, Nick Wright scored 10, Justin Taylor eight and Isaiah Moore seven.

against teams from Loudoun County, including four in a row. n The Langley Saxons (7-0) nipped the host Bishop O’Connell Knights, 48-47, in a non-conference girls game.

Elizabeth Bucy and Ellie Buckley had 12 each for Langley and Olivia Augustini nine.

Langley was outscored, 20-11, in the fourth quarter. n In a non-conference girls game between teams that have played multiple close games in their annual showdown, the host Flint Hill Huskies (5-2) defeated the McLean Highlanders (2-5) by a 55-51 score.

Elizabeth Dufrane had 22 points with four three-pointers for McLean, Hannah Smith added 13 and Mariane Auza seven.

For Flint Hill, Cami Lamont scored 17, Tori Herman 11, Claire Miller nine and Madison Jordan and Whitney Wiley eight each.

During the 2014 season, Flint Hill defeated McLean, 48-41, and McLean won by 37-30 and 53-43 scores the previous two meetings.

Marshall Finishes 2-1 in Tourney; Langley, Oakton Still Perfect A Staff Report

A number of local high school basketball teams were in action last week, some playBASKETBALL ing regularseason games and others involved in pre-holiday tournaments.

Results and highlights from those games are below. n The Marshall Statesmen (6-4) finished 2-1 at the Shootout by the Sea Tournament in Myrtle Beach last week.

The Statesmen defeated Byrnes, 47-28, in their first game, lost in the semifinals to eventual champion Loudoun Valley, 63-36, then won the consolation game to finish third with a 66-47 victory over Calhoun County.

Jordan James led Marshall by making the all-tournament team. He had 10 points and 10 rebounds in the consolation game. Also in the consolation game, Joe Lampman scored 20 and Jack Foley 18.

In the win over Byrnes, James had 20 points and Jack Foley 13.

In the loss to Valley, Lampman had

19 points and James seven. Valley led 36-16 at halftime.

“That game was a combo of things, but they are very good and a well-oiled machine right now,” Marshall coach Dan Hale said in regard to Loudoun Valley.

BASKETBALL: The Langley Saxons (3-4) lost to Battlefield, 67-33, in non-conference boys action. Chas Battaglia had 10 points, including two three-pointers, in defeat, and Sami ElRafey scored nine and Colter Carton added seven. n The Potomac School Panthers (7-3) finished 1-2 at the Kreul Classic in Coral Springs, Fla. The boys team defeated Cypress Bay, 46-30, in the first round, lost to Cardinal Gibbons, 60-58, in the semifinals of its bracket, then fell to Lakota East, 57-37, in the consolation game.

For Potomac School, Devon Flowers scored 35 points in the tournament, including 13 against Lakota. Nate Martin had 23 points, Mike Grimes had 13 against Cypress Bay, Zach Harris had BOYS

GIRLS BASKETBALL: The Oakton Cougars entered the holiday week undefeated at 8-0 with a 73-31 victory over Broad Run in non-conference action.

Maddie Royle had 22 points, including four three-pointers, Kailyn Fee made three threes and had 15, Delaney Connolly scored 14 and Peyton Peirne eight.

Oakton led 30-5 after the first quarter.

Five of Oakton’s wins have been

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ALL-STATE VOLLEYBALL: Langley High School junior Elena Shklyar and Oakton High junior Grace Cozad were first-team selections to the Virginia High School League’s 6A girls all-state volleyball team.

Both players helped their team reach the 6A North Region Tournament championship match, that Oakton won for the first time in school history. Both teams then lost in first-round state tournament matches.

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Langley was the Liberty Conference Tournament champion and Oakton won the Concorde tourney.

Local players making second-team 6A all-state were Langley senior libero Sarah Maebius, Langley junior Allison Franke, Madison senior Emily Calhoun and McLean junior Maddie McArthur.

WELLS FARGO CUP: Through the fall

season of high school sports, the Langley High School athletic program was the leader in the Virginia High School League’s 6A Wells Fargo Cup with 125 points.

Langley received 50 points for the golf team winning the 6A state championship, 37.5 points for its girls field hockey team reaching the state tourna-

ment, and 37.5 points for its girls volleyball team also qualifying for the state tourney.

Oakton High School was tied for second with Lake Braddock with 117.5 points. Oakton amassed 80 points from its boys and girls cross country teams placing high at the state meets, and 37.5 points for the girls volleyball team reaching the state tourney. Madison High School was fourth with 112.5 points. Its cross country teams earned 95 points and 22.5 points came from the football team.

MADISON ICE HOCKEY: The Madison

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Luke Pohlman and Kamron Sarmadi had two goals each. Additional goal scorers were Brendan Fielman, Keegan Sweeny and Jeff Hunter. Assists went to Sammy Thompson and Nick Willey. Madison goalie Alex Tudan turned away 21 of 23 shots.

In another game, Madison defeated Freedom, 6-3. Calem scored three goals and goalie Dean Kern pushed aside 27 of 30 shots. Assisting on those goals were Pohlman, Hunter, Johna Ezzard and Kamron Sarmadi.

Madison was tied for second place in the Northern Virginia Scholastic Hockey League when the week began.

Some Local Prep Football Players Amass Impressive Stats A Staff Report

With the high school football season complete, there were some notable amassed FOOTBALL statistics worth highlighting by a few local players in the Sun Gazette’s coverage areas.

One was the work of Flint Hill School running back Mark Lewis. In the Huskies’ 10 contests, Lewis ran the ball 250 times for 1,790 yards and he rushed for 14 touchdowns to help the team earn a state playoff berth and a final No. 2 ranking in Division I. Twice, Lewis ran for 307 yards in games, and had 284 in another contest.

What’s interesting, is Lewis wasn’t supposed to be the Huskies’ featured back this fall. He was going to be one of the team’s top wide receivers. However, a near season-ending leg injury to sophomore Jordan Houston in the second quarter of Flint Hill’s opening game against Paul VI changed everything.

Houston, who rushed for nearly 2,000 yards in 2015, suffered a broken leg on his fifth carry against Paul VI, a 14-yarder giving him 90 yards. Lewis took over from there.

He finished with 132 yards on 19 carries, making a strong debut at that position for Flint Hill. n Another private-school running back who amassed big yardage was Potomac School’s Ricardo Facey. He ran for 1,349 yards on 195 carries and scored 17 touchdowns.

Facey started the season strong with 189 yards in his opening game, then had a season-high 247 in game three. n Langley High School senior quarterback Danny Hosley had never played organized football until this season. He did quite well.

Hosley was a dual 1,000-yard performer. He rushed for 1,039 yards as a quarterback and 17 touchdowns. In the air, he threw for 1,067 yards and six TDs.

Quarterback Danny Hosley had a big season statistically for the Langley High School football team this fall.

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Hosley’s season high for rushing was 213 yards.

Hosley also is a standout catcher for Langley’s baseball team. n Madison High School senior quarterback Jacob Chotka passed for 1,793

yards and 18 touchdowns to lead the Warhawks to a 9-1 regular-season record and a No. 2 seed in the 6A North Region Tournament where the Warhawks lost in the semifinals to eventual champion Westfield. n Flint Hill senior quarterback Walker Venable had 1,148 yards passing and has thrown 10 touchdowns entering the playoffs. n Versatile Oakton High School senior place kicker Matt Prosser booted nine field goals entering the playoffs.

In addition to kicking, Prosser was Oakton’s punter, returned kicks, rushed for 91 yards on 10 carries and a touchdown, and was a starting defensive back.

In addition, he punted 37 times for a 31.6 average. Prosser averaged 16.9 yards per kickoff return and 9.8 on punt returns. As a defensive back this season, Prosser had two interceptions. Also, Prosser was the team’s leading scorer with 57 points.

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December 30, 1942: n The Sun’s editor tells readers to “forget right now any hopes you may have that the war will end in 1943,” and notes that the new year needs to be “the greatest year in our history.”

19. *Cookie’s drama

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December 31, 1957: n The Toys for Tots effort brought in nearly 16,000 toys for Fairfax youths this season. n Northern Virginia road deaths for the year total 37, up 50 percent from a year before. n Some activists are still promoting the idea of incorporating Northern Virginia into one big city. n Pope Pius XII has hailed strides in commercial aviation, in a meeting with newsmen. n With 14 college bowl games on the schedule tomorrow, West Virginia University holds onto its top ranking.

December 30, 1961: n Fairfax County was the most smogcongested locality in the region in November, a report says. n Traffic across the new Woodrow Wilson Bridge so far has been well below the span’s 12,000-vehicles-per-day capacity. n Northern Virginia Methodists plan to significantly increase the number of Sunday school programs.

January 3, 1972: n Five new members join the Board of Supervisors this week. One of the body’s most pressing concerns: How to deal with sewage-system limitations that could delay projected growth in the northwestern part of the county. n Gov. Holton is preparing to submit what will be the first Republican budget of the century.

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Fairfax County Notes GOVERNMENT OFFICES CLOSED FOR HOLIDAY: Fairfax County government

offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 2 in observance of New Year’s Day. See the Web site at www.fairfaxcounty. gov for a complete list of what is open and what is closed over the holiday period.

ABC STORES OPEN ON NEW YEAR’S DAY: For the first time, Virginia’s Alco-

holic Beverage Control (ABC) stores will be open on New Year’s Day. The liquor stores will be open from noon to 6 p.m. – normal operating hours for a Sunday – after the General Assembly earlier in the year lifted the prohibition on opening the first day of the new year.

The commonwealth’s 364 ABC stores will be open their regular schedules on New Year’s Eve. For information, see the Web site at www.abc.virginia.gov.

‘SOBERRIDE’ EFFORT IN EFFECT FOR HOLIDAYS: Drivers ages 21 and older who

may have had too much to drink during the holiday season can avail themselves of a free (up to $30 fare) cab ride home as part of the SoberRide initiative of the Washington Regional Alcohol Program.

The Holiday SoberRide program will be offered from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. nightly from Dec. 16 to Jan. 1. During those hours, those who have been imbibing can call (800) 200-8294 (TAXI) from jurisdictions across the Washington region. A SoberRide call operator will direct your request to the correct participating cab company.

For information, see the Web site at www.wrap.org/soberride/.

SALES-TAX DISTRIBUTIONS DOWN, BUT THERE IS A REASON: Sales-tax re-

ceipts distributed to the Fairfax County government by the state government in November totaled $12.7 million, a decline of just under 15 percent from a year before, with the drop due to a refund of $2.5 million in taxes paid by the state to the locality previously.

The November figure represents retail purchases made in September.

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The flood-inundation mapping tool is a collaborate effort between the National Weather Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Geological Survey and National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. Other local, regional and national agencies collaborated as part of the District of Columbia Silver Jackets Team, an interdisciplinary effort to identify and mount solutions to reduce flood risks in the region.

“The release of this tool is exceptionally timely, as, this year, we marked the 80th anniversary of the devastating Potomac River flooding of 1936,” said James Lee, meteorologist-in-charge for the local area at the National Weather Service.

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