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Planning Commission Defers Action on Sunrise Five-Hour Hearing Draws Testimony Suggesting Little Common Ground Has Emerged BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

Sunrise Development Inc.’s proposal to build a 73-room, 90-bed assisted-living facility in McLean has been controversial since its introduction three years ago – and passions still run hot, despite numerous

design changes and other concessions.

Sunrise officials said the facility would be well-screened from neighbors and help meet a growing community need. But nearby residents said the operation would exacerbate traffic problems and add to the institutional uses that already crowd the neighborhood.

After a five-hour public hearing with 49 listed speakers, which began March 8 and lasted until 1:30 a.m. the next day, the Fairfax County Planning Commission deferred its decision to March 29.

“Based on my experience, it’s neither appropriate nor wise to make a decision at the end of a long public hearing late

at night with a number of speakers,” said Planning Commissioner John Ulfelder (Dranesville District).

Sunrise Development Inc. is requesting a special exception to build the facility on 3.7 acres at 1988 Kirby Road, at that Continued on Page 25

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Students, faculty and parents of the STAMP (Science, Technology, Art, Music and Philanthropy) committee at Waples Mill Elementary School in Oakton were among those participating in the 8th annual Give Together event, sponsored by Volunteer Fairfax. Families made blankets, pet toys, stress balls and valentines. The initiative was supported by Access National Bank and NOVEC Energy Solutions.

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Incumbents the Only Filers in Vienna Town Council Race BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

The slate of candidates for the May 2 Vienna Town Council election will be identical to the one in 2015, with the same three candidates seeking three seats.

Vienna Town Council incumbents Carey Sienicki, Howard Springsteen and Tara Voigt were the only candidates to meet the March 7 filing deadline for the election, Fairfax County election officials said.

Sienicki, an architect and former Vienna Planning Commission member who joined the Council since 2011, said she enjoys serving the town.

“I feel like it’s been an honor to have served the community,” she said. “I take it as a great responsibility. I want to give back to the community that has given back to our family for so many years.”

The Town Council recently has scored some successes, including approval of the first redevelopment in the new Maple Avenue Commercial [MAC] zone, Sienicki said. She added she looks forward to the town’s installation of a bronze statue honoring late Mayor M. Jane Seeman and the reopening this fall of the renovated and expanded Vienna Community Center.

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Springsteen, who joined the Town Council in 2009, said he was pleased with the recently completed Follin Lane, S.E., reconstruction project and especially proud of the mini-roundabout at Park and Locust streets, S.E., which opened to traffic last summer.

“We’ve been working on that issue for five or six years,” he said. “It’s been a problem intersection.”

Springsteen said he eagerly anticipated getting the Vienna Community Center up and running again after its renovations are completed this summer, and said he looked forward to addressing parking needs in the town and renovating and expanding Vienna Police Headquarters.

The Council is geared toward solving problems without political rancor, he said.

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“The nice thing about the Town Council is all the seats are nonpartisan,” he said.

“There are no Republican or Democratic potholes in Vienna – it’s a town pothole.”

Springsteen is a logistics manager for the Fairfax County Department of Vehicle Services. He is a former president of the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department and formerly served on the Vienna Transportation Safety Commission.

A former Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia, Springsteen earned a bachelor’s degree in American history from Farleigh Dickinson University and a master’s in public administration from New York University.

Voigt first was elected to the Council in 2015 after coming in fourth place in the previous year’s election, which had six candidates vying for three seats.

She said she learned much during her first term and was happy with the town’s progress on several issues, including “We’ve started to work on the MAC

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Voigt helped craft the town’s budget in 2016 and said she feels more confident tackling the task again this year.

“I think the first couple of months were a big learning curve, trying to figure out how the Council works,” she said of her early tenure. “As long as you do your homework, everything seems pretty straightforward.”

Voigt previously served on the Vienna Transportation Safety Commission for seven years, then served for several months on the Planning Commission before being elected to the Council.

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Legislators Detail the Highs and Lows of 2017 Session BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

Outnumbered slightly in the state Senate and big-time in the House of Delegates, local Democrats serving in the General Assembly have had to live by an old adage: You can get a lot done if you don’t care who gets credit.

Del. Marcus Simon (D-53rd), who did not get any bills passed under his name in this year’s session except for honorary resolutions that members usually approve without demur, had other lawmakers carry some of his legislation to passage.

His victories included a bill that provides interjurisdictional reciprocity for people who have given physicians “do not resuscitate” orders and one that allows spouses and dependents of U.S. military or Virginia National Guard personnel to terminate some service contracts if the Armed Forces members are deployed elsewhere for at least 90 days.

Lawmakers “get along much better in the Senate,” Simon said March 9 at the Greater McLean Chamber of Commerce’s annual session wrap-up. “When [the Republican-Democrat split] is 21-19, you’ve got to be nice to each other. When it’s 64-36” – as it is in the House – “they don’t have to pay attention to you.”

Simon said his role in the last session was to play defense and help kill bad bills.

Del. Kathleen Murphy (D-34th) had to console herself with having some bills passed vicariously – by the opposition party.

“If a Republican sees a bill and likes it,

they kill your bill and then put their name on it,” she said, predicting “some of my bills will come up with Republican names on them next year.”

Murphy touted a few successes, including a bill that requires proper disposal of prescription drugs.

“It’s really bad for the water because you can’t get it out,” she said.

Another of Murphy’s passed bills requires school systems to disclose their teacher-pupil ratios at the middle- and high-school levels, instead of only for elementary schools.

The key to passing bills when you’re in the minority? “You have to work on both sides of the aisle,” Murphy said.

State Sen. Barbara Favola (D-31st), whose “nice, diverse district” sprawls along the Potomac River between Arlington and Loudoun counties, said the General Assembly did well this year to close a $1.5 billion budget gap.

Lawmakers protected funding for K12 education, reduced previous cuts for higher education, gave 3-percent raises to state employees and put money into mental-health services, she said.

Having a Democrat in the Governor’s Mansion also kept many bad pieces of legislation from making it into law, Favola contended. For example, Gov. McAuliffe vetoed a Republican-sponsored bill to defund Planned Parenthood, she said.

Democrats also opposed GOP efforts to have local law-enforcement agencies take part in enforcing federal immigration laws. Local police chiefs also were against the proposal, Favola said.

Favola lamented that Republicans

Del. Kathleen Murphy, flanked by state Sen. Barbara Favola and Del. Marcus Simon, on March 9 tells Greater McLean Chamber of Commerce members her thoughts on the recently ended PHOTO BY BRIAN TROMPETER General Assembly session.

killed many firearm-related bills, including one calling for universal background checks for gun purchasers, something she said 80 percent of Virginians support.

“It continues to be a bright dividing line between the two parties,” she said of the gun-rights issue.

Favola defended her submission of a bill calling for a study of the efficacy of registering certain kinds of firearms – the prospect of which usually galvanizes the pro-gun lobby toward fervid opposition.

“My bill was a study to see if there was a public-health interest,” said Favola, who later withdrew the legislation.

Simon, who chairs the McLean chamber’s board and runs a title company in McLean, said he views legislation from a business owner’s perspective.

Business people get nervous when legislative bodies try to effect a social agenda and some – such as PayPal in North Carolina – decamp if discriminatory policies harm their ability to recruit employees, Favola said.

“They won’t come to a state where they feel unwelcome,” she said, adding that lawmakers should “get off of the social agenda and deal with issues that really matter.”

dience. “In six months, you think, ‘What about all the things we said?’ We’re being invited to dream, but there’s also a bank account [to consider].”

Calhoun acknowledged that there would never be enough money to do everything the community or university might want to, but said comments during the planning session would not be forgotten.

“We don’t want that to happen this time,” he said.

Mason’s Arlington campus sits on 5.2 acres in the Virginia Square community in the center of the Rosslyn-Ballston

corridor. The university acquired what was then 11 acres in the late 1970s when it merged with the International School of Law; about half the parcel later was sold to the federal government.

The Arlington campus includes the old Kann’s building (the only remnant from the 1970s-era purchase) along with 1998’s Hazel Hall and 2001’s Founders Hall.

Arlington officials have met with Mason leaders to discuss the future of the site, but the university will take the lead in any redevelopment plan.

At the March 8-9 meeting, participants were encouraged to stay involved and make their voices heard throughout the process.

“In 25 years, you can come back and say ‘I helped set this in motion,’” Knickmeyer said.

GMU Preps Community Conversation on Fairfax Campus SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

George Mason University officials say they aim to soon start a community-based effort to look at the long-term future of the university’s main campus in Fairfax.

Several dozen buildings – plus parking, athletic fields and open space – are part of the campus, located just north of Braddock Road.

Tom Callahan, the university’s vice president of facilities, said the process was likely to start in May, and would look at near-term and long-term options for the campus.

It will come as Mason officials already are working on a similar planning process on the university’s Arlington campus.

“This is the beginning of a step . . . that will get us to an action plan,” Callahan said during a two-day retreat held March 8-9 at Founders Hall on Mason’s Arlington campus.

More than 185 education and community leaders participated in the planning process, which was designed to brainstorm ideas for Mason’s growth in Arlington over the next quarter-century and beyond.

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meyer of the planning and architectural firm HDR Inc., who helped lead the planning effort. “There’s going to be disagreement [over priorities]. We’re trying to take a realistic sense of how long things do take.”

Short-term, participants said one of the key needs is improved wayfinding on the compact but at times confusing Arlington campus.

Others pointed to the need to publicize offerings of the Arlington campus in the broader community, and to make the large open courtyard fronting Fairfax Drive more user-friendly.

Long-term, issues range from finding the right mix of undergraduate and graduate students in Arlington to determining the future of the former Kann’s Department Store building, which originally served as Mason’s law school but today sits largely empty while university officials decide what to do with it.

The two-day retreat effort received generally good reviews from attendees, but a few voiced fear that, intentionally or not, planning efforts would be mostly for show unless cash and effort were forthcoming to turn goals into reality.

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Our View: Leadership Means Being Able to Say ‘No’

Last week’s news that leaders of the Alexandria publicschool system had decided to shut down for a full day on short notice to accommodate staff who wanted to attend another in a series of anti-Donald Trump marches led us to think back, somewhat wistfully, to an era when hardnosed leaders ran local school systems, and didn’t cave to the latest whim of parents, students or teachers.

You have to go back a ways to recall the days when Robert “Bud” Spillane ruled the roost at Fairfax County Public Schools from the 1980s into the 1990s, at which point the School Board finally tired of his sometimes jack-booted, but very often effective, management style.

Spillane, who died in 2015, had his detractors, and his autocratic behavior (not far afield from that of legendary New York City autocrat Robert Moses or Al “I’m in Charge Here” Haig) was hardly what they likely teach these days at education-leadership seminars. But his top-down, myway-or-the-highway approach kept a rapidly growing school system moving inexorably forward at a time when,

under less capable leadership, it would have spiraled out of control.

How would Spillane and his corps of central-office administrators have handled the requests of staff who wanted to take the day off, en masse? Let’s just say that they’d have been on the job that day. Fear of retribution can be a great motivator, after all.

To their credit, today’s Fairfax school officials were strong enough not to cave; schools were open and teachers, for the most part, were on the job. As it should be.

As for Alexandria? No doubt the episode gave the school-system employees who forced the day off some sense of self-righteous satisfaction in having done so. But the sad reality is, the very next morning dawned with Alexandria’s students yet another day academically further behind a billion or more kids across the globe living in countries that take education assuredly more seriously than our own.

All we can do is roll our eyes and sigh.

Don’t Solve Fairfax County Budget Crunch on the Backs of Rank-and-File Police Staff Editor: As we have heard for many years now, Fairfax County is once again in a budget crunch.

Since the economic crisis of 2007 and 2008, like many people, Fairfax County employees have seen their buying power shrink substantially. Pay grades have been decimated by the county’s inability to consistently pay market rate adjustments, and the scales are tipping, with 26 percent of general county employees’ salaries falling behind inflation.

All of this could have been prevented if not for the insatiable appetite to grow county government beyond its revenue streams.

The Fairfax County Executive proposed budget states in part; “$2.71 million for pay scale leveling for uniformed police and sheriff pay scales.” The unpleasant part of this statement is that many citizens and even board members do not know that the words “Pay Scale Leveling” do not describe what is actually about to occur.

This so called “leveling” is necessary, because, for many years, Fairfax County has avoided the growing problem of recruiting police officers. As the issue has become more acute in recent months, Chief Roessler stated at the December 2016 public safety meeting, “We’re just keeping our heads above water right now. ” Fairfax County leaders now realize

that they can no longer ignore the low salaries of its police force if they expect to hire individuals who have clean backgrounds, are able to perform under the pressures of the work environment, accept the danger, and maintain their integrity, while displaying professionalism in ever evolving situations.

Under the proposed budget, each police pay grade will be altered to provide even progression through pay steps. This change provides a small financial increase of less than $700 for each rank, which is necessary. However, five new grades are being proposed that happen to fall within the range of command and administrative staff officers.

These ranks will see raises as much as $11,862.40.

What does this do for recruiting? Absolutely nothing.

Adding to the dismay of many, Fairfax County Police Department majors and captains have in recent years already received large raises outside established Fairfax County human resources practices, all while the Fairfax County Police Department is unable to recruit a full academy class of new police officers.

Every rank within the police department should be brought within Fairfax County’s philosophy of market rate, just like any other county agency. The department cannot boast about strong leadership while supporting a plan that favors 5 percent of the agency’s employ-

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ees and tells the other 95 percent “we’ll get to you later.”

Policing has become extremely dangerous, highly litigated, and requires technical skills and abilities. Because of these environmental issues, policing is quickly becoming a profession that demands higher pay. Without higher pay, many jurisdictions will continue to suffer from recruiting issues and worse yet, civil litigation due to poorly trained and/or underperforming officers.

Residents of Fairfax County rightfully expect continued service by well trained, professional and ethical officers who have, and will always fulfill the duties they have sworn to uphold. Adoption of the proposed pay plan would represent selective treatment and would negatively impact morale among the rank and file, who would feel resentment, frustration and a lack of support from Fairfax County administrators.

Joe Woloszyn Fairfax Woloszyn is president of the Fairfax County chapter of the Virginia Police Benevolent Association.

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Comstock Must Speak Out About GOP Health-Care Proposal Editor: I feel like I am in an alternative universe when I hear Republicans in Congress advocate for a plan that will take away health-insurance coverage for approximately 11 million people, with no opposition from U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock.

Their plan is to give tax cuts to the rich and cut benefits to the poor, and Comstock refuses to fight it.

In addition to significant cuts in coverage for health care, the Republican plan would allow insurance companies to charge older enrollees up to five times

as much younger customers. The current Affordable Care Act (ACA) limits charges to just three times the younger rate.

The Republicans’ plan would be a boon for insurance companies and a huge hit on older enrollees. Again, Comstock has yet to speak out against this nightmare.

Some popular provisions from the Affordable Care Act are included in the GOP plan, but not enough to provide adequate primary-health care to middle- and low-income families.

Finally, it is hard to believe that a

“fiscally conservative” party is bent on passing this bill without waiting for a cost-impact analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.

Barbara Comstock should be urging her fellow Republicans in Congress

to slow down on this bill to allow a full exploration of its impact on the health and welfare of our fellow Americans and its impact on the U.S. Treasury.

Roy Baldwin Oakton

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Hold Comstock Accountable for Record Editor: In the last several months, I have waited in vain, hoping to see an editorial calling on U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock to hold a public town-hall meeting to explain her votes and answer constituent questions in person.

You endorsed her for re-election even though she lied about being a bipartisan representative. As a study of her voting pattern in the last Congress shows, she voted with her Republican Party 95 percent of the time.

Hardly bipartisan.

In one of her recent votes, drastically affecting the federal workforce in her district, Rep. Comstock spoke against

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This is a pattern she followed as a state delegate – lying about her votes concerning transportation, women’s health care, etc.

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I have lived in the district for over 20 years. I used to see U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf all the time. As for Rep. Comstock, the only time I have ever seen her was once at a restaurant.

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Fairfax Sees Increase in February Home Sales, Prices

Modest increases in both total sales and average prices led the Fairfax County real-estate market to a solid if not spectacular February, according to new figures.

A total of 846 properties went to closing countywide last month, according to figures reported March 10 by Real Estate Business Intelligence, an arm of the local multiple-listing service. That’s up 1.4 percent from the 834 transactions a year before, in what traditionally is one of the slowest months for local real estate.

The average sales price of $535,760 was up 2.9 percent from $520,770, with increases in all three segments of the market: • The average price of single-family homes was up 5.5 percent to $740,783.

• The average price of attached homes, such as townhouses and rowhouses, was up 0.7 percent to $366,969.

• The average price of condominiums was up 3.5 percent to $287,734.

Homes that sold in February spent an average of 68 days between listing and ratified sales contract, a big improvement from the 82 days required a year before, and garnered 97.1 percent of listing price, up from 96.3 percent.

Forty-nine properties changed hands for more than $1 million during the month.

Add up the sales and average prices,

and the total volume for the month stood at $453.3 million, up 4.4 percent from $434.3 million.

Conventional mortgages represented the method of transacting sales in 513 cases, followed by cash (117) and VAbacked mortgages (97).

Inventory continues to tighten, with the 2,144 properties on the market during the month down 14.5 percent from 2,508 a year before.

Where is the market headed as winter transitions into spring? Pending sales and homes coming under contract during the month saw modest increases from a year before.

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

D.C. Inner Core Sees Big Boost in Volume: A boost in both sales and average prices across the D.C. inner core resulted in a year-over-year rise of just under 17 percent in total sales volume, according to new real-estate figures.

A total of 3,098 properties went to closing last month, according to figures reported March 10 by RealEstate Business Intelligence, an arm of the local multiple-listing service. That’s up 7.8 percent from 2,874 properties that sold in February 2016.

(Figures represent 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 of $512,631 was up 5.2 percent from $473,538, held back slightly be a smaller-than-usual number of single-family homes that were part of the overall sales mix.

Average sales prices were up in all three segments of the market, rising 12.2 percent to $626,695 for detached homes, 5.2 percent to $425,688 for attached homes and $367,687 for condominiums.

Total sales volume for the month stood at $1.59 billion, up 16.7 percent from $1.36 billion a year before.

Homes that sold in February spent an average of 59 days on the market between listing and ratified sales contract, an improvement from the 69 days needed a year before, and garnered 97.4 percent of listing price, up from 96.7 percent. Conventional mortgages represented the method of transacting sales in 1,606 cases, followed by cash (573) and FHA-backed mortgages (512).

Inventory was down 6.5 percent from a year before, the a total of 7,503 properties on the market.

Where are things headed as winter begins its transition into spring? There was an increase in homes coming under contract in February, but the total number

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of pending sales was down from a year before.

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

New Judge Joins Fairfax Circuit Court Richard Gardiner will be presented his official commission as a Fairfax Circuit Court judge on Friday, March 17 at 4 p.m. at the Fairfax Courthouse, Courtroom 5J, 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax. The public is invited to attend.

At the ceremony, Del. Tim Hugo will present the official commission and retired Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Stanley Klein will ceremonially administer the oath of office.

Before joining the Circuit Court, Gardiner was a judge of the General District Court from July 2013. Beginning in October 2010, he was a substitute judge for General District Court and Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. Prior to taking the bench, Gardiner was a sole practitioner based in Fairfax focusing his practice on civil litigation and criminal defense in state and federal courts.

Proposed Vienna Town Budget Would Maintain Tax Rate BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

Vienna Town Manager Mercury Payton’s proposed fiscal year 2018 budget would hold the town’s real estate tax rate steady for the third consecutive year while increasing employees’ salaries.

The $36 million budget proposal, which town officials publicly released March 8, would be 6.6 percent more than the previous year’s total, courtesy largely of higher real estate assessments.

“It’s a conservative approach to the budget forecast, given the budget constraints we have,” said Payton, noting the budget allots only $19,200 for unmet needs.

Payton’s budget calls for the real estate tax rate to remain at 22.5 cents per $100 valuation, but the average household’s bill would rise about $44 because of increased assessments. Property taxes account for 45 percent of revenues for the town’s $23.9 million general fund.

Vienna residents also pay Fairfax County’s real estate tax, which the Board of Supervisors this year has advertised at a rate no higher than the current $1.13 per $100 value. As with Vienna, higher assessments would boost the average homeowner’s county real estate bill by an estimated $40.69. Supervisors will adopt the county’s fiscal 2018 budget May 2.

Assessments of existing residential

properties in Vienna went up an average of 3.2 percent this year; existing nonresidential property assessments rose 3.66 percent.

Payton has proposed giving all 183 town employees a 1.1-percent pay boost, plus another 1.5 percent raise for workers who had been on the job at least one year and met performance expectations.

About 91 percent of those employees would qualify for the merit increase, said Finance Director Marion Serfass.

In addition to the $397,000 needed for employee pay hikes, Payton’s budget requests $104,900 to pay for health-insurance hikes and $120,000 for increased landfill fees. Most of the latter expense is attributable to construction spoils, so town initiatives such as composting programs likely would not offset those fees much, Serfass said.

The town will have to spend nearly $887,000 more on its water-and-sewer fund, due largely to a $590,000 increase in sewage-treatment fees from the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority.

That rate will hold steady for three years, Serfass said.

Vienna will make up some of those costs with about $41,000 more in proceeds from county stormwater fees, which officials expect to rise to $313,170 in the next fiscal year.

Town Council members will hold budget work sessions March 18 at 9 a.m. and

March 20 at 7:30 p.m., plus another April 3 if needed. The Council will advertise the proposed budget and water-and-sewer rates March 30 and April 6 and advertise the real estate tax rate March 23.

After holding April 17 public hearings on the budget and water-and-sewer rates, and an April 24 hearing on the tax rate, the Council is expected to finalize the budget plan May 8. Fiscal year 2018 begins July 1.

Council member Howard Springsteen said he looks forward to reviewing the proposed budget in detail, department by department, at the work sessions.

“I find these sessions an excellent way for the Town Council review and suggest adjustments if needed,” he said. “My initial review is I am pleased the proposed fiscal year 2018 town tax rate is the same as last year’s.”

Mayor Laurie DiRocco also was pleased with the prospect of holding the tax rate steady and said the town, aided by a low inflation rate, had done a good job holding down expenses within its departments.

The proposed budget offers little leeway for maneuvering, and Council members likely will wrangle over comparatively small line items, the mayor predicted.

“We’ll argue over $5,000,” she joked.

“We’re really thoughtful on how we spend taxpayers’ money. There are some unmet needs the town will have to look at, but I

think the Council is supportive of keeping the tax rate flat. We will live within [revenues generated by] the assessment increases.”

The assessed value of taxable real property in Vienna has risen to nearly $4.94 billion, an all-time high. The figure stood at $4.04 billion in 2009, then dipped to $3.61 billion in 2010 and has been climbing steadily since.

The town’s commercial-vacancy rate of 9.8 percent is significantly less than Fairfax County’s 16.3-percent rate. The difference largely can be attributed to Vienna’s much smaller commercial area, said Serfass, who added, “We think we’re a more desirable location.”

The vacancy-rate listing is new to Vienna’s budget and will allow town officials to monitor those trends, Payton said.

“We want to have that on our radar,” he said.

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Community Center Is Set to Host Sculpture in Vienna BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

A bronze sculpture called “Taking Flight,” the first project undertaken by the Vienna Public Art Commission, will be located just outside the lobby of the town’s renovated community center, the Vienna Town Council decided March 13.

The sculpture, which will depict a boy and girl playing atop a stack of five books, will be installed in memory of late Mayor M. Jane Seeman and community volunteers.

Council members on March 13 also approved a $35,100 contract with artists Seth and Missy Vandable to produce the sculpture.

The town will pay the artists half the contract amount this month after they have begun pouring wax for the sculpture, and will supply the remaining moneys in June when the artwork is ready for delivery.

Vienna officials last December authorized a 10-percent deposit of $3,900 for the project and will pay about $8,000 more for town employees to build a base for the artwork. The project is being financed with donations.

The artists already have made two other versions of the sculpture with taller book stacks, which are installed in Southlake, Texas, and Livermore, Calif.

Vienna officials originally considered placing the artwork at the Town Green, but there was some disagreement over whether Seeman would have wanted a memorial at that site.

Council member Linda Colbert, daughter of Mayor Seeman and her late husband, Council member Rodger Seeman, noted her mother’s name is on a dedication plaque at the Town Green and she also had been honored nearby at a mini-library set on a pedestal outside the town’s original library building.

Rodger Seeman’s photo graces the lobby of the community center’s auditorium and his name is on the building’s side entrance, so with the sculpture placed outside the center’s front entrance near the Washington & Old Dominion Regional Trail, the Seeman family will bookend both sides of the facility, Colbert said.

“As [former Council member] Maud Robinson said, ‘Jane and Rodger will be together,’” Colbert said.

Town officials have not set a date for the sculpture’s installation and dedication. Soil work still must be performed at the community center to ensure the ground will support the artwork and its 3-foot-tall, 50-by-50-inch concrete base.

Vienna Town Council OKs Contract for Updated Software in Police Cruisers: The Vienna Police Department soon will receive upgraded New World computer

version would be shorter, perhaps by half as much. The town will pay for the software with seized-asset funds, he said.

Bowman House to Receive New AccesArrow at top center shows the location of the sculpture honoring the late sible Lift: Town Vienna Mayor M. Jane Seeman and volunteers at the Vienna Community Council memCenter. bers on March 13 unanimously software for its vehicles.

The Vienna Town Council on March approved a $20,589 contract with Total 13 approved a $95,685 contract with the Mobility LLD to replace the Bowman company to provide Version 10 of its soft- House’s vertical lift.

The building’s existing vertical lift has ware, which is used for computer-aided dispatch, records management and the not been functional for two and a half years, rendering the site inaccessible to vehicles’ mobile-data systems.

Town police currently use Version 7 of people with disabilities.

The new lift’s price was higher than the software. The new version will streamanticipated because the equipment had to line data-entry work for officers and remeet additional code requirements, said duce instances of multiple case reports for Vienna Parks and Recreation Director one incident, town officials said.

Another helpful feature will be the Leslie Herman.

The Bowman House, located at 211 software’s ability to show officers the Department of Motor Vehicles photos of Center St., S., served as the town’s first drivers they have stopped, said Vienna school and now hosts a studio for pottery and art. The town government moved the Police Chief James Morris.

While the department has used the cur- 1890 building from its original site to its rent software package for a decade, Mor- current location next to Vienna Police ris predicted the useful life of the latest Headquarters.

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After Entering Guilty Plea, Ex-Mayor Sent Directly to Jail BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

Former city of Fairfax Mayor Richard Scott Silverthorne, who was arrested last August while arranging to trade methamphetamine for sex at a Tysons hotel, pleaded guilty in Fairfax County Circuit Court March 13 to one felony count of distributing methamphetamine.

Silverthorne will be sentenced June 9.

The charge carries a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison and a fine of up to $500,000. Under the plea agreement, the prosecution agreed to drop a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.

Dressed in a gray suit, white shirt and blue tie, Silverthorne told Judge Grace Burke Carroll he had entered the plea agreement freely and voluntarily. The judge had Silverthorne confirm knowledge that by pleading guilty to the felony charge, he would lose his right to vote and own or possess a firearm or any type of concealed weapon.

Because parole has been abolished in Virginia, the defendant would have to serve at least 85 percent of his sentence, the judge said.

Fairfax County police arrested Silverthorne and two Maryland men Aug. 4 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Tysons after Silverthorne told an undercover detective he could provide methamphetamine for

sexual encounters.

Silverthorne, 51, first came to the attention of Fairfax County police detectives last July, said Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Kathleen Bilton. A detective contacted the defendant via the Web site Bareback Real Time, where Silverthorne’s profile name was “Another Fun D.C. Bottom,” Bilton said.

Silverthorne asked the detective what sexual practices he was “into” and whether he had any supply of drugs. The defendant then arranged for a group-sex session, Bilton said.

Detectives agreed to pay Silverthorne $200 for the drug and arrested him after he pulled out a container that had suspected crystal meth, Bilton said.

Silverthorne later told investigators he had used methamphetamine in the past and planned to smoke or take it intravenously at the rendezvous in Tysons, Bilton said.

Queried by a detective about the significance of a “Schedule 1” narcotic, Silverthorne said, “You know what it is. It’s not good,” the prosecutor said.

Silverthorne told the judge he was working in the hardware business. His lawyer, Brian Drummond, said the case marked Silverthorne’s first brush with the law and that he was gainfully employed and posed no risk of flight or danger to the community.

But Judge Carroll, saying the court had

to take into account the severity of the offense committed, revoked Silverthorne’s bond and remanded him to the custody of the Sheriff’s Office.

A brown-uniformed bailiff immediately walked over to the defendant, handcuffed him and led him out a side door of the courtroom. Seeing this, a woman seated in the gallery said, “Oh, my God!” Drummond said afterward he also had not expected Silverthorne to be taken into custody immediately.

“I’m extremely surprised that [the judge] would incarcerate him today,” he said. “I’m going to be honest with you. I

didn’t see this coming.”

Silverthorne, a former Fairfax City Council member who had been elected May 3 to his third term as mayor, resigned from that post following his arrest.

The City Council subsequently appointed Steven Stombres to serve as acting mayor and in a Feb. 7 special election, city voters elected Council member David Meyer as mayor.

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Schools & Military

n Claudia Greco of Vienna, a graduate of Georgetown Visitation Day Prep; Konrad McKalip, a graduate of Potomac School; Lindsey Wiley, a graduate of Flint Hill School; and Gordon Denis, a graduate of Heights School have been named to the dean’s list with distinction for the fall semester at Colgate University. n Marin Lebowitz of McLean, Jenna Walter of McLean and Katherine Brittin of McLean have been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Colgate University. n Camilla Mecagni of McLean has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Marist College. n Corinne Green of McLean, Adam Heilbrunn of Great Falls, Sean Herman of McLean, Abby Kreutzer of Vienna, Zachary Olmested of Vienna and Joseph Olmsted of Vienna have been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Rochester Institute of Technology. n Sarah Carlson of Vienna is a member of the Symphonic Band at Wheaton College, where she plays trumpet. n Local students finished atop all contenders in the Northern Virginia chapter area at the Northern Virginia Regional Mathcounts Competition, held Feb. 4 at

George Mason University.

More than 420 sixth-graders through eighth-graders from 49 schools participated in three regions in the competition, sponsored by local chapters of the Virginia Society of Professional Engineers.

In the Northern Virginia chapter competition, Lawrence Shi of Longfellow Middle School won, followed by Austin Shi of Longfellow, Austin Feng of BASIS Independent McLean, Sam Wang of Haycock Elementary School and Kevin Zhang of Longfellow.

Among teams, Nysmith School finished second and Kilmer Middle School third in the Fairfax chapter competition, while BASIS Independent, Longfellow and Hayock finished 1-2-3 in the Northern Virginia chapter competition.

The statewide Mathcounts competition will be held on March 18 in Glen Allen. n The Potomac School’s speech and debate team has seen success at multiple tournaments this year.

Senior Quentin Levin and junior Will Thompson kicked off a year of successes by winning the Georgetown University Public Forum Tournament last October.

That tournament included 75 teams from nine states.

In February, sophomores Jessica Kwon and Max Shenkman took first place in the junior-varsity division of the Harvard

Debate. At a recent international tournament in Dallas, the school’s team defeated teams from Argentina and Canada.

The teams are coached by Harry Strong, who serves as Potomac School’s director of public speaking and joined the faculty last July after serving as director of forensics at Battle Ground Academy in Tennessee. In 2014, when he was a faculty member at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa, he was named National Speech and Debate Coach of the Year by the National Speech & Debate Association.

Potomac School sophomores Max Shenkman and Jessica Kwon recently won first place in a forensics tournament held at Harvard.

National Forensics Tournament. The pair was undefeated and seeded second out of 263 teams in the preliminary rounds.

Also in February, junior Tom Rollins won the Washington-Arlington Catholic Forensic League metro finals in extemporaneous speaking. The victory qualified him to compete in the Catholic Forensic League’s national championships, which will take place in Louisville over Memorial Day weekend.

In addition, Potomac School students have excelled in the international style of high-school debate, called World Schools

n Nate Shomaker, a prospective Eagle Scout in Troop 128 in McLean, and his fellow scouts and volunteers, recently completed construction on a 15-foot chimney swift tower benefiting the nature center at Riverbend Park.

“Chimney Swift birds are losing their habitat,” Shomaker said. “They used to make nests in chimneys, but now people put caps on chimneys, so they are losing their homes. This tower is a bird house for them. It is made of strong construction so it will be a part of River Bend Park for a long time.

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Schools & Military Continued from Page 12 fice and McLean Hardware. n Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women, the organization’s Northern Virginia almunae club, the Arrow Foundation and Fairfax County Public Schools’ Family & School Partnership Early-Literacy Program recently teamed up to donate 20,000 new age-appropriate books to children, families and groups across the Washington area.

The distribution took place as part of Pi Beta Phil’s Fraternity Day of Service on Feb. 25. As part of the effort, members of the Fairfax County Police Department served as “celebrity storytellers” at an event held at Lee High School in Springfield.

“There was nothing more rewarding than to see the faces of the children and representatives of the recipient groups when they saw the stacks and stacks of

new books awaiting them,” said Jaime Ryan and Lisa Doll Tovar, co-chairs of the local day-of-service event. “The smiles were even bigger when they walked out the door with their books.”

The goal of the effort was to help instill a life-long love of reading in young people, Ryan and Tovar said.

For information, see the Web site at www.pibetaphi.org. n Verizon recently presented a $5,000 check to the “STEM All-Stars” at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology for winning the Verizon App Challenge, a statewide competition.

“The students’ accomplishment shows how our Verizon Innovation Learning programs and support for STEM education are motivating Virginia students to build STEM skills and become future creators,” said Mario Acosta-Velez, Verizon’s director of state-government affairs, at the March 6 presentation.

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Public-Safety Notes RABIES TEST COMES BACK POSITIVE ON FOX: A rabies test on the fox that bit a

71-year-old woman and attacked a house cat in the Great Falls area on March 7 has returned positive, Fairfax County police said March 10. The Health Department is working with the woman to provide appropriate care and the cat continues to be quarantined, officials said.

Animal-protection police officers responded March 7 at 3 p.m. after the fox bit the woman as she was walking in the 600 block of Ad Hoc Road in Great Falls.

The fox approached her from behind and bit her multiple times in the lower body.

She turned to fight off the fox and was bitten a few more times, police said.

After successfully fighting off the fox, she went to a nearby neighbor’s home and called police. She was taken to the hospital for treatment of serious, but non-lifethreatening, injuries.

About one hour later, police received another call about a fox that was attacking a cat in the 400 block of Chesapeake Drive, about 3 miles from Ad Hoc Road.

The cat’s owner, a 54-year-old woman, kicked the fox away from her cat, and with her husband’s help, they trapped the fox and held it until officers arrived.

The cat, a 9-year-old brown tabby, did not require medical attention but was quarantined. The cat owner was not harmed. Authorities collected the fox, euthanized it and took it to the Health

Department for rabies testing. Police believe the same fox was involved in both incidents.

In Fairfax County, residents also should report animal bites, as well as sick or injured animals, immediately to Animal Control Services at (703) 691-2131.

SUSPECTS SOUGHT IN ASSAULT, ROBBERY: Fairfax County police are looking

for six people who were involved in assaulting and robbing a man March 3 in the 6600 block of Lawndale Drive in the Falls Church area.

The victim left his apartment at 7:06 p.m. and was walking to a nearby service station when he was approached by two men, one of them black, the other Hispanic. The suspects threatened the victim and demanded that he give them his wallet and cell phone, police said.

The victim refused and both suspects then assaulted him, police said. Four additional suspects eventually joined in the assault and the suspects took jewelry and electronics form the victim.

Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department personnel treated the victim at the scene. There was no further description of the suspects, police said.

FIREARM DISCHARGED OUTSIDE TYSONS RESTAURANT: Fairfax County po-

lice dispatched officers to the 8600 block of Westwood Center Drive in Tysons on

March 6 at 2 a.m. responded for a call of shots being fired in the parking lot of Babalu Global Mediterranean Restaurant and Lounge.

According to police, a fight broke out and a black male suspect fired several rounds from a handgun into the air. The suspect then got into an unidentified car and left the scene.

Nobody was injured during the incident. The suspect was in his 20s and had long dreadlocks, police said.

UNATTENDED FIRE PIT STARTS CABANA FIRE IN GREAT FALLS: Fairfax

County Fire and Rescue Department units responded March 5 at 3:36 p.m. to a reported outdoor fire at a house in the 800 block of Leigh Mill Road in Great Falls.

Arriving units reported fire showing in a cabana about 15 feet from the house.

Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire and prevented it from spreading to the home.

The homeowner discovered the fire and called 911. All occupants of the home safely evacuated as a precaution due to the close proximity of the fire. There were no reported firefighter or civilian injuries.

The occupants declined Red Cross assistance.

Fire investigators determined the blaze was accidental and started outside in an unattended fire pit and extended to the cabana. The fire caused about $80,000

worth of damage, officials said.

VEHICLE DAMAGE DONE AT WATERS FIELD: A Vienna Parks and Recreation

Department employee told town police that sometime between March 1 at 4:30 p.m. and March 2 at 4:30 p.m. someone damaged the artificial turf at Waters Field, 130 Cherry St., S.E., by driving a vehicle over it.

COUNTERFEIT BILL FOUND AT VIENNA PHARMACY: An employee at Rite Aid,

215 Maple Ave., W., told Vienna police on March 6 at 3:23 p.m. that a customer in the store was trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill.

Officers spoke to the customer, who believed she received the bill as change while she was shopping in the area of Leesburg Pike near Vienna the previous day and she was not aware it was counterfeit.

VIENNA LOUNGE EMPLOYEE CITED FOR NOISE VIOLATION: A local resident

told Vienna police March 5 at 11:30 p.m. that loud music was coming from Bey Lounge, 303 Mill St., NE. When officers arrived, they could hear the noise.

Police issued an employee a summons for violating the town’s noise ordinance and released the 31-year-old Reston man on his signature.

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For information on the home, contact the listing agent. For information on having a house reviewed, contact the Sun Gazette’s real estate advertising department at (703)738-2520.

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Address: 9697 Mill Ridge Lane, Great Falls (22066).

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Sales of New Homes Seeing Gradual Rise Sales of newly built, single-family homes rose 3.7 percent in January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 555,000 units, according to newly released data by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau.

“This increase in new home sales is in line with our forecast for a steady, gradual recovery of the housing market,” said Granger MacDonald, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder and developer from Kerrville, Texas.

“However, the pace of growth may be hampered by supply-side headwinds, such as shortages of lots and labor,” MacDonald said.

“We can expect further growth in new home sales throughout the year, spurred on by employment gains and a rise in household formations,” said NAHB chief economist Robert Dietz.

“As the supply of existing homes remains tight, more consumers will turn to new construction.”

The inventory of new home sales for sale was 265,000 in January, which is a 5.7-month supply at the current sales pace. The median sales price of new houses sold was $312,900.

Regionally, new-home sales increased 15.8 percent in the Northeast, 14.8 percent in the Midwest and 4.3 percent in the South. Sales fell 4.4 percent in the West.

Sales of existing homes also saw a solid January, according to figures reported by the National Association of Realtors.

Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said January’s sales gain signals resilience among consumers even in a rising interest rate environment.

“Much of the country saw robust sales activity last month as strong hiring and improved consumer confidence at the end of last year appear to have sparked considerable interest in buying a home,” he said. “Market challenges remain, but the housing market is off to a prosperous start, as home-buyers staved off inventory levels that are far from adequate and deteriorating affordability conditions.”

The National Association of Realtors has voiced concerns that the lack of new-home inventory at moderate price levels is one of the reasons prospective first-time buyers can’t get into the market.

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Vienna/Oakton Notes SPRINGTIME STREET-SWEEPING TO BEGIN IN VIENNA: The Vienna town

government’s public-works department will kick off its annual street-sweeping program on March 20.

For purposes of sweeping, the town is divided into eight quadrants. Two passes will be made throughout the spring.

Signs will be placed on streets in advance of the sweeping of each area, and detailed information will be available on the town government’s Web site at www. viennava.gov/sweeping.

For additional information, call the public-works department at (703) 2556380.

THEATER TROUPE PAYS HOMAGE TO CLASSIC RADIO: The Vienna Theatre

Company’s second edition of radio plays, titled “In Living Sound,” will be presented March 31 and April 1, 7 and 8 at the Flame Room at the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department.

The line-up of four short radio plays harkens back to a staple of early-20thcentury American entertainment.

“It’s very kid-friendly and, with all the mechanisms and contraptions on stage making the sounds, a lot of humor is added to each play,” said Jessie Roberts, who directs the production. “It also represents a special place of American history, a pastime that today’s children may not get another chance to enjoy.

Performances on Fridays, March 31 and April 7 begin at 8 p.m.; tickets are $14. Performances on Saturdays, April 1 and 8, are $25 and include dinner at 7:15 p.m. and the show at 8 p.m.

For tickets, see the Web site at www. viennava.gov/webtrac. For information, see the Web site at www.viennatheatrecompany.com.

HISTORIC VIENNA INC. TO HOST MEMBERSHIP MEETING: Vienna resident

Donald Bishop highlights the next membership meeting of Historic Vienna Inc., speaking on “The Colonel and His Bride in Her Little Gum Boots: Charles Russell Lowell and Josephine Shaw Lowell in Civil War Vienna.”

The meeting will take place on Wednesday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. at Vienna Town Hall. For information, see the Web site at www.historicviennainc.org.

CHURCH TO HOST ENVIRONMENTALOUTREACH EFFORT: Unitarian Univer-

salist Congregation of Fairfax will host an environmental stewardship fair on Saturday, March 25 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the church, 2709 Hunter Mill Road in Oakton.

For information, see the Web site at https://uucf.org/.

CHURCH FORUM TO FOCUS ON HOME MAINTENANCE: “Demystifying Home

Maintenance” will be the topic of discussion on Monday, March 20 at 7 p.m. at Andrew Chapel United Methodist Church, 1301 Trap Road in Vienna.

The program is part of a free series of community seminars presented by the church. The public is invited.

Monday, March 27 at 1 p.m. at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 2589 Chain Bridge Road in Vienna.

The program will feature “Getting to Know Your Fellow Members Through Their Love of Plants.” The community is invited.

AMERICAN LEGION TO HOST BREAKFAST BUFFET: American Legion Post

‘CAPITOL STEPS’ TO SUPPORT MADISON’S CREW PROGRAM: The Capitol

180 will hold a breakfast buffet on Sunday, March 19 from 8 a.m. to noon at the post, 330 Center St., N., in Vienna.

Omelets, scrambled eggs, blueberry pancakes, bacon and more will be on the menu. The cost is $9 for adults, $3 for children 12 and under.

For information, call (703) 938-6580.

Steps will perform a fund-raiser in support of the James Madison High School crew program on Sunday, March 19 at 4 p.m. at the high school.

Tickets are $30 for adults, $25 for students and seniors in advance, $40/$35 at the door. For tickets and information, see the Web site at www.madisoncapitolsteps. brownpapertickets.com.

VIETNAM VETERANS TO GATHER:

Chapter 227 Vietnam Veterans of America will meet on Thursday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m. at Neighbor’s restaurant, 262D Cedar Lane in Vienna.

The guest speaker will be Volko Ruhnke, who will discuss how his board game Fire in the Lake: Insurgency in Vietnam contributes to the understanding of the Vietnam War for succeeding generations.

The community is invited. For information, see the Web site at www.vva227. org.

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McLean/Great Falls Notes WORKSHOPS FOCUS ON REAL-ESTATE TAX RELIEF: The Fairfax County govern-

ment will host a tax-relief workshop on Tuesdays, March 21 and 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the McLean Governmental Center, 1437 Balls Hill Road.

Real-estate tax relief is available for eligible seniors and those with disabilities; renters and vehicle owners also may be eligible for tax relief.

For information, call (703) 356-0551 or see the Web site at www.fairfaxcounty. gov/dta.

FILING DEADLINE APPROACHES FOR GOVERNING BOARD RACE: Friday,

March 17 at 5 p.m. is the filing deadline for the 2017 McLean Community Center Governing Board election. Three adult and two youth seats will be on the ballot, with voting taking place on McLean Day, May 20, at Lewinsville Park.

For information, call (703) 790-0123 or see the Web site at www.mcleancenter. org.

ing Board will be held at the conclusion of the public forum.

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

COMMUNITY FORUM TO FOCUS ON GEORGETOWN PIKE TRAIL: The Fair-

fax County Department of Transportation will host a community forum related to the third and fourth phases of the Georgetown Pike Trail project on Wednesday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m. at Great Falls Library.

For information on the project, see the Web site at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/fcdot/ pedestrian/georgetownpiketrail.htm.

Written comments will be accepted through April 14.

The event is free, and the community is invited.

COMMUNITY FORUM ON PUBLICSAFETY ISSUES IN THE WORKS: The

WORK DAY SET FOR LEWINSVILLE PARK: The McLean Trees Foundation

Greater McLean Chamber of Commerce, McLean Citizens Association, Great Falls Citizens Association and Fairfax County Federation of Citizens Associations will host a community forum on public-safety preparedness on Wednesday, March 29 at 7 p.m. at American Legion Post 270, 1355 Balls Hill Road in McLean.

The event will feature representatives from all levels of local government, along with a panel focused on businesses.

is sponsoring a work day at Lewinsville Park on Saturday, March 18 from 9 a.m. to noon.

Volunteers are needed to help edge, mulch and prune 30 trees along Chain Bridge Road. No experience is required, but participants should bring tools and gloves and wear appropriate footwear.

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MCA TO LOOK AT COUNTY BUDGET ISSUES: The McLean Citizens Association

will host a discussion of topics related to the budgets of the Fairfax County government and Fairfax County Public Schools on Thursday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the McLean Community Center.

Speakers will include Supervisor John Foust (D-Dranesville) and Joe Mondoro, chief financial officer for the Fairfax County government.

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GREAT FALLS CITIZENS ASSOCIATION TO DISCUSS IMPLICATIONS OF GOLF TOURNAMENT: The Great Falls Citizens

Association will host a community meeting on Monday, March 20 to discuss the potential impact of the 2017 Senior PGA Championship, to be held in May at Trump National Golf Course in Potomac Falls.

For information on the meeting, see the Web site at www.gfca.org.

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MCC TO HOST HEARING ON PROGRAMMING FOR FISCAL 2019: The McLean

Community Center Governing Board will hold a public hearing on programming for the fiscal 2019 budget on Wednesday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the center, 1234 Ingleside Ave. The fiscal year runs from July 2018 to June 2019. Comments will be taken related to programming at the center, the Old Firehouse Teen Center and the Alden Theatre. (Some fiscal 2019 programs will be held off-site while the center is being renovated, but programming is expected to return to the center in the fall of 2018.)

Those who wish to speak should call the center at (703) 790-0123 to be added to the speakers’ list. Residents also can submit comments by mail, e-mail (to george. sachs@fairfaxcounty.gov), fax (703-5560547) or in person for up to seven days after the forum.

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The rain/snow date will be Sunday, March 19.

TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR FASHION SHOW: Tickets are on sale through March

19 for the New Dominion Women’s Club’s annual Spring Fling fashion show and fund-raiser, to be held on Sunday, March 26 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at Bloomingdale’s in Tysons Corner.

Beneficiaries of the event include

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SHARE Inc., the Safe Community Coalition, McLean Project for the Arts and Friends of Pleasant Grove.

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

McLEAN STUDENTS FEATURED IN ART SHOW: The 36th annual Youth Art Show,

sponsored by McLean Project for the Arts, will run from March 15 to April 2 at MPA@ChainBridge, 1446 Chain Bridge Road.

Works by students in the Langley High School pyramid will be on display from March 15-21, with an opening reception slated for Thursday, March 16 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Works by students in the McLean High School pyramid will be on display from March 25-April 2, with an opening reception slated for Tuesday, March 27 from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Admission is free; registration for the opening receptions is requested. For information, see the Web site at www. mpaart.org.

TEEN CENTER TO CELEBRATE ST. PATRICK: The Old Firehouse Teen Cen-

ter will present at St. Paddy’s Day Party for students in fifth and sixth grades on Friday, March 17 from 7 to 9 p.m.

The event will feature music, dancing, games, food, videos and various attractions.

The cost is $25 for McLean residents,

$35 for others. For information, see the Web site at www.mcleancenter.org.

ABSTRACT PAINTER FEATURED AT MEETING OF ARTS SOCIETY: Joyce

McCarten, a painter of abstract oils, will be the featured presenter at the monthly meeting of the McLean Art Society, to be held on Friday, March 24 from 10 a.m. to noon at Dolley Madison Library.

McCarten will demonstrate her technique. The community is invited.

CHURCH TO HOST ‘ASK THE PASTOR’ AT DINER: Dranesville Church of the

Brethren will host an “Ask the Pastor” luncheon on Wednesday, March 22 at 11:30 a.m. at Juke Box Diner, 46900 Community Plaza in Sterling.

The event will give the community a chance to learn about the church.

For information and to R.S.V.P., call the church at (703) 430-7872 or e-mail Joy Trickett at joygoodshepherd@verizon. net.

CHURCH SERIES TO FOCUS ON HUNGER, POVERTY ISSUES: Christ the King

Lutheran Church in Great Falls has inaugurated “Meals that Heal,” a series of gatherings during Lent drawing attention to hunger and poverty in various global locations.

The series will be held Thursdays through April 6 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the

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The March 16 program will feature Christ the King’s new pastor, Rev. Hank Langknecht, who will bring attendees a fresh perspective on the West Bank drawn from a recent trip to the area.

The church is located at 10550 Georgetown Pike.

For information, call (703) 759-6068 or see the Web site at www.gflutheran.org.

RAPTORS DISCUSSED AT GARDEN CLUB: The McLean Garden Club will

meet on Wednesday, March 15 at 11 a.m. at Lewinsville Presbyterian Church, 1724 Chain Bridge Road.

Kent Knowles of the Raptor Conservancy of Northern Virginia will discuss “Raptors in Our Gardens.”

The community is invited. A reception will follow the program.

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Garden Center hosts a forum on “Shrub Standouts” on Saturday, March 18 at 10 a.m. at the center, 8132 Lee Highway.

Plant specialist Joel Cooke will look at distylium, edgeworthia, ternstroemia and other unusual plants that made for wonderful additions to any landscape.

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In review, the 2016-17 high school basketball season was a big success for boys and girls varsity teams in the Sun Gazette’s coverage areas.

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Team Shoots 26%, Never Had a Lead DAVE FACINOLI Staff Writer

Three key things that needed to occur for the Oakton Cougars to win the 11 state BASKETBALL March championship game, according to their head coach, did not happen.

Oakton (26-5) never led and lost to the Colonial Forge Eagles, 52-38, in the 6A final of the Virginia High School League’s state tournament at the Siegel Center in Richmond.

Cougars coach Fred Priester said his team needed to shoot well, limit turnovers and handle the Eagles’ pressure defense. Oakton shot 26 percent from the floor (19 from three-point range), had 16 turnovers and struggled at times against that defensive pressure.

Colonial Forge had nine steals, with some leading to fastbreak baskets. The Eagles were led by 21 points and nine rebounds from Camille Downs, who had 14 points (three three-pointers) in the first period.

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Oakton High School’s Kailyn Fee takes a long jump shot during the girls 6A state tournament championship game against Colonial Forge on March 11 in Richmond.

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Connolly’s Shooting Led Oakton in State Play DAVE FACINOLI Staff Writer

To say Delaney Connolly was a hot shooter in the Oakton Cougars’ three of the BASKETBALL games girls state basketball tournament, all on different courts, would be an understatement.

From the floor, the senior forward shot 68 percent (26 of 38). She was 75 percent from the foul line (15 of 20).

Against the Langley Saxons in the March 4 semifinals of the Virginia High School League competition at Robinson Secondary School, Connolly made her final six shots from the floor, including two three-pointers. She also made six straight free throws in a stretch.

Overall in all three games and from the floor and line, the senior was 41 of 58 shooting (71 percent).

Connolly totaled 70 points in the three games, a single-game career high 31 against Langley and 22 the night before against Ocean Lakes on a different floor at Lake Braddock Secondary School. She also totaled 15 rebounds.

In the state final loss to Colonial Forge, 52-38, March 11 at the Siegel Center in Richmond, she scored a team-high 17.

Connolly said she didn’t take any extra shooting drills or make any adjustments to her shot prior to the games.

“I don’t really even remember the shoot-around,” she said about the pregame session prior to the Langley contest. “We were concentrating on the

game plan so much, I don’t even remember shooting that much. My teammates did a good job of helping me and getting me the ball in good spots to shoot and score. I shot well in both games.”

The Oakton coaching staff explained that Connolly’s shooting is no accident.

“No one works any harder than Delaney,” Oakton head coach Fred Priester said. “She had a magnificent game [against Langley].”

The coaches said Connolly doesn’t end practice until she makes a series of different shots in a row from different places on the floor.“She ends every practice like that,” Priester said.

In the state tournament, the changing venues didn’t cool Connolly’s shooting.

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Overall, it was one of the best campaigns in recent years.

There were 15 teams that had winning or .500 records and combined for five postseason tournament championships, with the Langley girls (25-5) and Madison boys (23-7) each earning conference and region crowns. Five more were playoff-tourney runnerups, nine earned state-playoff berths, and seven won 20 or more games.

There were third-place region finishes by the Wakefield boys (22-6) and Oakton girls, (26-5), who went on to finish second in the Virginia High School League’s 6A state tournament, nearly earning the season’s biggest prize of all.

The Wakefield boys won a conference crown, with the Oakton girls finishing second in its league tourney.

The Potomac School girls (22-8) won their most games in a season, finished as A Division league tourney champs, and won their first state-playoff game in program history.

The Bishop O’Connell girls (15-15) and boys (20-11) squads made it to state tournament semifinal games.

The Wakefield girls (24-6) had their biggest accomplishments with seconds in conference and region tournaments, earning a state berth for the first time, and winning a season-best 24 times.

The Marshall girls (16-8) and Oakton boys (13-9) had their finest campaigns in years, and the McLean girls (13-12) finished strong, including a five-game win streak after a 2-6 start.

Playing in a tougher league this season, the Flint Hill girls held their own, earning a 16-14 record.

The Langley boys (14-11) hung in despite injuries to multiple starters, and the Marshall boys (19-8) and Madison girls (14-12) had runner-up conference achievements.

That was pretty good playing.

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Oakton High School’s Mini Mora drives between Colonial Forge defenders Camille Downs, left, and Olivia Gaither on her way to the basket during the state championship game March 11.

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“We didn’t shoot as well as we would have liked or hit the shots we needed to hit,” Priester said. Downs “made us pay early, and they hit shots when they needed to hit shots and they got rebounds when it counted, and they converted them. They upped their defense a little bit, kept us at bay some and outsized us a bit.”

Upping that defense had to be the plan, according to Colonial Forge coach Lashaun Cook.

“We saw that every team that plays them allows them to set up and get into their halfcourt offense and get the shots

they want,” Cook said. “We wanted to disrupt that early. We got our hands up and in the passing lanes.”

The Eagles’ 6-foot-6 center, Shakira Austin, blocked three shots and changed the trajectory on others.

“You tend to shoot it a little bit differently against her,” Oakton senior guard Kailyn Fee said.

Colonial Forge (25-6) took quick 5-0 and 8-2 leads, was ahead 14-10 after the first quarter, 25-20 at halftime, 41-28 after three periods, then was comfortably in control the rest of the way.

Senior forward Delaney Connolly led Oakton with 17 points and nine rebounds. Mina Mori had five points, eight rebounds and three assists, Maddie Royle scored six, and Fee, Oakton’s second-leading scorer, had just four points

Oakotn HIgh School’s Delaney Connolly splits defenders Alex Sullivan and Jamise Shellington PHOTOS BY DEB KOLT on her way to the basket during the March 11 state championship game.

to go with three steals, but did not shoot well and fouled out early in the fourth quarter. Meghan Kenefick had four points, four rebounds and three assists.

“We are disappointed we didn’t win,” Connolly said. “We got over the state semifinal hump, we just couldn’t pull it out [in the final]. We are proud of how far the team came.”

Oakton lost in the state semifinals the past two seasons.

Priester praised his team for persevering and overcoming an early-season situation when multiple players were suspended for up to five games for breaking team rules during a holiday-tournament trip to Arizona.

Junior varsity players were promoted to the varsity during the suspensions.

Once all of the disciplinary actions end-

College Roundup

CARLYN BALDWIN: Former Flint Hill School student and University of Tennessee women’s soccer player Carlyn Baldwin will join the BSC Young Boys women’s pro soccer club team, which plays in Switzerland’s highest National League A women’s competition.

Baldwin never played for the Flint Hill girls soccer team because she was heavily involved with her club soccer squads during those years.

The Oakton native played three full seasons at Tennessee. The midfielder totaled six goals, four assists and 16 points, including career highs with four goals and 10 points this past season.

Baldwin was named to the SEC allfreshman team in 2014 and has extensive experience with the U.S. Women’s Under-18, Under-19 and Under-20 National teams. Her crowning achievement at the national-team level came in 2014 when she played for the United States

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ed, some of those junior varsity players remained with the varsity.

Priester said the coming and going of the players and changing lineups was like starting the season over multiple times. At that point he said it was “5050” what kind of finish Oakton would produce.

“Every season in my 37 years of coaching has had one special moment,” Priester said. “This season had all kinds of moments. There was a lot of stuff.

I’m very proud of how they were able to overcome that adversity.”

NOTES: Oakton was 2-1 in the state tournament and finished second for the third time. The Cougars won their only crown in 2012. For stories on Oakton’s other two state-tournament games, visit www.insidenova.com/sports/fairfax.

League Soccer since 2013. He played in 18 games this past season, with nine starts.

MADEIRA GRAD MAKES DEVELOPMENT TEAM: Madeira School grad-

For Flint Hill student Carlyn Baldwin will play professional soccer in Switzerland.

Madeira grad Natalie Konerth will play field hockey for the U.S. Development Team.

at the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup. Baldwin is the second student from Flint Hill to play for a professional soc-

cer team in recent years.

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uate Natalie Konerth will trade her red, white, and blue jersey at American University for the red, white, and blue jersey of the United States after being selected to join the 2017 United States Women’s National Development field hockey squad.

Konerth garnered multiple accolades during her tenure at American. At Madeira, Konerth was a team captain, all-league player and the team’s leading scorer. She was selected as the 20122013 Madeira Athlete of the Year her senior season.

Her sister, Kita, was also a Madeira player and 2016 graduate and now plays at the University of Connecticut.

High-School Roundup POTOMAC SCHOOL WRESTLERS: Potomac School wrestlers Will Ayres, Taylor Hosmer, Ted Tierney and Farris Sepulveda made all-state this season and qualified to compete in the National Prep Wrestling Championship.

As a team, Potomac School finished sixth and earned the state Sportsmanship Award at the state tourney.

At the earlier Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships five Potomac School wrestlers won titles. They were Will Duryea (113), Sepulveda (132), Tierney (138), Hosmer (170) and Sam Lu (182).

Also, Tim Fahlgren (145) and Ayers (152) finished second. Ely Lettow (126) was fourth.

Ayers and Sepulveda finished in the top 24 in their weight classes at nationals, while Hosmer and Tierney wrestled despite injuries.

Two other Potomac School wrestlers making all-state were Lu and Fahlgren.

OAKCREST SENIOR SIGNS: Great Falls resident Etta Davis, a senior at Oakcrest School in McLean, recently signed a national letter of intent to play Division III college lacrosse at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

In addition to playing lacrosse at Oakcrest, Davis played girls volleyball, ran cross country and played for the basketball team, where she helped lead the squad to the conference finals.

“As a founding and cornerstone member of Oakcrest lacrosse, Etta has been an integral part of our team since its inception,” Oakcrest coach Michele Bulger said. “Her love and enthusiasm for the sport is infectious and inspir-

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road’s intersection with Westmoreland Street. The site currently is home to the 4,100-square-foot Surge Community Church building.

County code classifies assisted-living developments as medical-care facilities and requires they be located on at least 5 acres.

Sunrise representatives noted the Board of Supervisors had made exceptions for all 10 similar cases filed in the past; opponents said most of those cases were located next to commercial or industrial areas, not surrounded by residential neighborhoods.

If not used for the assisted-living facility, the site would accommodate 11 singlefamily houses, which likely would generate about 111 vehicle trips daily, county staff said. The Sunrise facility will produce about 249 vehicle trips per day, but company leaders said work shifts would be adjusted to avoid peak traffic times – something that would not occur with a residential development.

ing.”

In the fall of 2017, Oakcrest will open the doors to its permanent campus in Vienna. Construction is nearly complete at the 23-acre site.

A LACROSSE HALL OF FAMER: Potomac School girls lacrosse coach Claire Bordley Berg recently was inducted into the Potomac Chapter of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

ALL-STAR BASKETBALL GAME: The

fourth annual DMVStream.com Nova Challenge is Sunday, March 19 at Riverside High School in Leesburg.

The boys high school basketball event showcases the top public-school seniors from the counties of Loudoun, Fairfax, Arlington and Prince William and the city of Alexandria in two allstar games, a slam-dunk contest, and three-point-shooting competition.

The event begins at 2 p.m. with the Prince William team playing Fairfax.

The three-point and dunk contests follow at 4 p.m., and the nightcap features a 5 p.m. game with Loudoun County facing Arlington/Alexandria.

Players from local Sun Gazette teams in the game are Sami El-Rafey and Chas Battaglia from Langley High, Johnny Corish from Madison and Jordan James and Jake Foley from Marshall. In all, 53 players have signed up to play.

lic Panthers, the Madison Warhawks in third and the defending 6A state champion Chantilly Chargers in fourth.

Chantilly defeated Battlefield in last year’s 6A state championship game.

Rounding out the Top 10 is Lake Braddock in fifth, followed by West Springfield, Kettle Run, Marshall, Briar Woods and Patriot.

The Langley Saxons and Oakton Cougars, which are in the Sun Gazette’s coverage area along with Madison and Marshall, received votes.

The season begins for most teams this week.

POTOMAC SCHOOL ICE HOCKEY: The

combined Potomac School and Hayfield Secondary School ice hockey team finished with a 7-1-2 record in the Capital Scholastic Hockey League and won the South Division.

The team earned a bye in the first round of the playoffs, then lost to George Mason, 5-4, in its first playoff skate.

Potomac School’s effort was led by seniors Will Schmidt, Jimmy Logan and Owen Westerheim. Logan was named to the all-star team and Westerheim was named to the league’s all-academic team. The team returns seven players next year.

MADISON ICE HOCKEY TEAM MAKES PLAYOFFS: The Madison High School

Calem and Jeff Hunter. Madison overcame a 2-1 deficit.

Madison scored the go-ahead goal late in the third period. Madison finished the regular season with an 8-2 record.

WARHAWK GIRLS LACROSSE CLINIC:

The Madison High School girls varsity lacrosse team will host a developmental clinic on Friday, March 24 for girls in grades 1 to 8 at Madison from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. The clinic will incorporate drills and games to improve passing, catching, shooting and game sense. Participants must provide their own stick, mouth guard and goggles. Register at http://warhawkglax.eventbrite.com. The cost if $50.

ATTEND MADISON GAMES FOR FREE:

Vienna Youth League players wearing a team jersey can enter specific Madison High School home athletic events for free this spring accompanied by a paying adult.

The games are boys soccer on March 15, baseball March 24, boys lacrosse March 24, girls softball April 21, girls lacrosse April 28 and girls soccer May 1.

Visit www.warhawksports.org for schedule changes and weather cancellations.

WASHINGTON-LEE HALL OF FAME NOMINATIONS: Arlington’s Washing-

PRESEASON BASEBALL RANKING: The

preseason Top-10 high school baseball poll compiled by NovabaseballMagazine.com was released on March 9.

The Battlefield Bobcats are ranked No. 1, followed by the Paul VI Catho-

ice hockey club team earned a playoff berth as division champions thanks to a recent 4-3 win over McLean.

Goals were scored by forwards Kamron Sarmadi and Luke Pohlman with two each. Assists came from Jason

ton-Lee High School Athletic Hall of Fame is accepting nominations. Call the W-L athletic department at (703) 2286207.

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Sunrise’s building would be nearly 22.2 feet tall and have 60,000 square feet of gross floor area spread out over three floors. Two of those levels would be cut into the hillside and count as cellar space.

Not counting those two floors, the building’s floor-area ratio (FAR) is a modest 0.13; counting them, the FAR rises to 0.37. The standard FAR for that residential zone is 0.25, Ulfelder said.

The facility would have a central courtyard and 55 parking spaces, 33 of which would be located in an underground garage. Residential units would be located on each floor, and about 40 percent of those dwellings would be for memorycare residents.

Only one floor would be visible along Kirby Road, while two and a half floors would be seen from Westmoreland Street.

The site would contain 68 percent open space and offer plenty of vegetative screening, said Stuart Mendelsohn, an attorney for Sunrise.

“I keep saying to the community that this is the most beautiful building in McLean that nobody is going to see, because it’s so well-screened,” he said.

The Sunrise facility would accommodate up to 90 residents and a maximum of

90 employees, no more than 25 of whom would be on-site during peak shifts.

Institutional uses in the neighborhood already abound, opponents said, citing Haycock Elementary and Longfellow Middle schools, Temple Rodef Shalom, Chesterbrook Residences, Vinson Hall Retirement Community, Powhatan Nursing Home, Kent Gardens Recreation Club and some athletic and trail facilities. Six other assisted-living facilities are available within a 2-mile radius of the site and 18 are within Sunrise’s service area, said Nina Un, president of L’Ambiance of McLean Homeowners Association.

Sunrise representatives noted numerous concessions made during three years’ worth of community discussions, but some residents said the plan’s latest incarnation is the worst yet.

“With the retaining walls surrounding the building, your grandmother can be in the basement now – a new feature,” scoffed neighbor Russel Jones.

Joseph Davoli of the Autumn Chase Homeowners Association said Sunrise’s proposal would be destructive to the community.

“Sunrise proposes to create a black hole in the midst of our community in

which they would swallow into storage 90 employees who have no tie to our community,” he said. “If we wanted to daily expose our children to strangers, we would live in a city.”

L’Ambiance resident Katherine Alexander worried about the facility’s traffic impacts and framed the dispute in Davidvs.-Goliath terms.

“It demonstrates a level of corporate hubris on the part of Sunrise Corp., a belief that because they have seemingly unlimited wealth and influence, they are entitled to have their way,” she said.

But Surge Community Church pastor Dwaine Darrah said when church leaders were preparing to sell the property, county officials said an assisted-living facility might be a good use for the site.

“Given that the community has won on all the points, I’m surprised that opposition still exists,” he said. “In my estimation, there’s a fear of change that pervades this neighborhood.”

County planning staff support approval of Sunrise’s proposal.

After the Planning Commission renders its decision – expected on March 29 – the Board of Supervisors will make the final decision.

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Business Briefcase WEEKLY WAGES UP IN FAIRFAX: Yearover-year weekly wages among those working in Fairfax were up 5.6 percent in the third quarter of 2016, according to new federal figures, slightly higher than the average national increase.

The average weekly wage of those employed in the county (no matter where they live) was $1,546 for the quarter, according to figures reported March 7 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The figure was good enough to rank the county 10th highest among the nation’s 345 most populous counties.

But in terms of percentage year-overyear growth, Fairfax ranked in the middle of the pack, coming in 168th out of 345.

Nationally, the average weekly wage of $1,027 was up 5.4 percent from a year before.

The highest average weekly wage in the third quarter of 2016 was reported in Santa Clara County (Calif.) at $2,260, followed by San Mateo County (Calif.), $2,098; San Francisco, $1,892; New York County (Manhattan), $1,879; the District of Columbia, $1,728; Suffolk County (Mass.), $1,660; Arlington, $1,648; King County (Wash.), $1,582; Middlesex County (Mass.), $1,555; and, in 10th position, Fairfax County.

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average weekly wage in the third quarter was $1,447 in Alexandria (up 5 percent); $1,155 in Loudoun County (up 3.5 percent); $1,124 in Richmond (up 3.2 percent); $1,030 in Norfolk (up 3.4 percent); $995 in Newport News (up 3.6 percent); $992 in Henrico County (up 5 percent); $913 in Prince William County (up 6.5 percent); $877 in Chesterfield (up 5.4 percent); $812 in Chesapeake (up 6.4 percent); and $729 in Virginia Beach (up 3.7 percent).

Full data can be found on the Web site at www.bls.gov.

NORTHERN VIRGINIA CHAMBER ADDS NEW MEMBERS: The Northern Virginia

Chamber of Commerce has welcomed the following new members: Citi (banking), McLean; Citrin Cooperman (accounting, tax and business consulting), Bethesda; Financially Fierce LLC (professional development and training), National Harbor; iHeart Media (mass media), Rockville; Kachadorian Consulting LLC (financial consulting), Reston; Nova Nordisk (health care), Davidson, Va.; Richmond International Raceway (raceway), Richmond; Sentara (health care), Woodbridge; The Shade Store (retail), Fairfax; and Wilmington Trust (financial services), District of Co-

lumbia.

For information on the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce, see the Web site at www.novachamber.org.

VIENNA GOVERNMENT ISSUES BUSINESS LICENSES: The Vienna town gov-

ernment recently issued business licenses to the following businesses: Crepes & Karak Café (restaurant), 280 Cedar Lane; Looks (skin care), 320 Maple Avenue, E.; Once Upon a Dream (children’s entertainment), 527 Maple Ave., E.; Rice or Noodle (restaurant), 330 Maple Ave., W.; and Salon Nuvida (beauty salon), 320 Maple Ave., E. VIENNA GOVERNMENT NOTES BUSINESS ANNIVERSARIES: The Vienna

town government recently noted the following business anniversaries in town: 45 Years: Home Building Trades Association.

30 Years: Re/Max Preferred Properties.

25 Years: Tuscarora Valley Beef Farm.

15 Years: KWE, ParcelPlus.

10 Years: Accuprep Tax & Accounting, Vienna Animal Hospital.

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– From Staff Reports

Local history Items taken from the archives of the Northern Virginia Sun. March 21, 1945: n Flu cases are down across the region, but cases of measles are on the rise. n At the movies: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan and the local area’s own Forrest Tucker star in “The Westerner.”

March 20, 1961: n The national leadership of the Episcopal Church wants an end to capital punishment, and has criticized FBI director J. Edgar Hoover for his criticism of opponents of capital punishment. n Seven elementary-school principals from Fairfax County are headed to a national conference in Atlantic City. n Spring arrived with rain and belowaverage temperatures. President Kennedy stayed at the White House, as weather kept him from joining Mrs. Kennedy at their home in Middleburg.

March 20-21, 1966: n The School Board has adopted a $64.7 million budget proposal, up $10.9 million from the current spending package. n U.S. Sen. A. Willis Robertson, DVa., has kicked off his campaign for a fourth term.

March 20, 1969: n The House of Delegates has rejected a proposal to allow Virginia’s governors to serve consecutive terms. n Passenger traffic at Dulles Airport in January was up 39 percent from a year before. n Supervisor Martha V. Pennino (DCentreville) wants an ordinance created to regulate the number of cows on a property in Fairfax. n Northern Virginia Community College will introduce new courses in real estate and insurance. n McLean’s team looks ready to vie for the Great Falls District baseball crown.

March 20, 1976: n Virginia officials have filed suit to block the District of Columbia’s effort to impose a “commuter tax” on those who live in the suburbs and work in D.C. March 19, 1993: n “Mr. Rogers” is being honored for 25 years teaching children on television.

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