McLean/Great Falls Notes FIELD SET FOR MCC GOVERNING BOARD RACE: Six candidates will vie for
three seats on the McLean Community Center Governing Board in balloting to take place in May. The contenders qualifying for the ballot are all non-incumbents: Cecilia Duran, Elizabeth John, Raj Mehra, Brittany Oates, Julie Waters and Alicia Plerhoples. The top three finishers in the voting will garner three-year terms for the body that oversees the McLean Community Center, Alden Theatre and Old Firehouse Teen Center, using revenue generated from a surtax on the real estate tax rate for resi-
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dents living within the boundaries of the small-tax district funding the community center. Voting will take place on McLean Day, to be held on Saturday, May 20 at Lewinsville Park. Absentee voting will run from April 10 to May 17. Top finishers will formally be appointed to their posts by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. The Governing Board includes nine adult positions, elected in rotation over a three-year cycle. In addition to the adult posts, there are two candidates (Alex Camus and Brian Kim) running for the one-year youth position from the Langley High School attendance area, and four (Caroline Brunner, Nolan Fitzsimmons, Nikhil Jivan and Emily Simons) running for the youth position from the McLean High School attendance area. In all races, write-in candidates are allowed. Full details of the election are available on the Web site at www.mcleancenter.org. INTERFAITH PROGRAM LOOKS AT PASSOVER: An interfaith conversation
on “The Celebration of Passover” will be held on Thursday, April 13 at 7 p.m. at Charles Wesley United Methodist Church, 6817 Dean Drive in McLean. Rabbi Stephanie Bernstein of Temple Rodef Shalom will discuss the importance of Passover and the Seder meal.
The New Dominion Women’s Club hosted its 10th annual Spring Fling Fashion Show on March 26 at Bloomindale’s in Tysons Corner to raise funds for a number of local groups, including Friends of Pleasant Grove, McLean Project for the Arts, Safe Community Coalition and SHARE Inc. Above, models Monica Gibson, Lisa Lannin, Erika Keough, Laura Warren and Irene Tennant showcase colorful ensembles. Below, event co-chair Jennifer Salopek is shown with master of ceremonies Bill DuBose, state Sen. Barbara Favola (D-31st) and New Dominion Women’s Club PHOTOS BY MITCH JONES president Desi Woltman.
The community is invited. For information, call (703) 356-6336 or see the Web site at www.thehungerchurch.org.
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phony will present a Palm Sunday concert featuring organ, choir and orchestra on April 9 at 7 p.m. at Vienna Presbyterian
Church, 124 Park St. N.E. The event will feature works by Williams, Handel and Rimsky-Korsakov, with opening remarks by Rev. Peter James. For tickets and information, see the Web site at www.mclean-symphony.org. COMBINED CHOIRS TO PERFORM IN CONCERT: St. John’s Episcopal Church
in McLean will host a choral performance of “Dies Israe” from “Requiem” by Charles Villiers Stanford on Good Friday, April 14, at 7:30 p.m. at the church, 6715 Georgetown Pike in McLean. The event will feature the concerts of St. John’s and St. Francis Episcopal Church in Great Falls, with organ and string quartet. It will be preceded by a brief Good Friday liturgy. The community is invited; no tickets are required. For information, call (703) 356-4902 or see the Web site at www.stjohnsmclean. org.
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CHYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY LOOKS AT PRUNING: The Old Dominion Chrysan-
themum Society will present “Secrets of Spring Pruning,” a community forum, on Sunday April 9 at 2:30 p.m. at the Falls Church Community Center, 223 Little Falls St. The speaker, Roger Zinn, is a horticulturist at Merrifield Garden Center. The program is free, and the community is invited. For information, call Jim Dunne at (703) 560-8776.