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DORSEY: ‘That’s Something We Don’t Want to Do in an Underhanded Way’ SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer
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The Arlington County government’s efforts to rename its portion of Jefferson Davis Highway could face familiar legislative roadblocks in 2019. But County Board members say they have no interest in forcing a confrontation with the General Assembly on the matter. As part of its 2019 legislative package, County Board members are asking the General Assembly for permission to rename Arlington’s portion of Jefferson Davis Highway as “Richmond Highway.” That would align Arlington with the city of Alexandria, which recently made the name switch. Under the vagaries of Virginia law, Alexandria had the power to rename its portion of Jefferson Davis Highway, but Arlington has to seek permission of ei-
State Sen. Adam Ebbin (D30th) told Arlington officials he will only promote legislation to rename Jefferson Davis Highway if he can get Republicans on board in Richmond.
ther the General Assembly (which named the roadway after Davis in the 1920s) or the Commonwealth Transportation Board. State Sen. Adam Ebbin (D-30th) told County Board members that he wasn’t going to Continued on Page 2
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Arlington school officials are taking steps to make sure the average age of their library materials don’t exceed the average age of students. Officials with the school system’s libraries say they are working to ensure that, by the end of the school year, the average age of materials in their print collections is no more than 10 years old. “Our students deserve the most current fiction and non-fiction resources, and this goal helps to ensure that,” the school system’s library-services staff said in a report delivered last week to School Board members. Despite an increasing emphasis on digital materials, the Arlington school
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waste time on the issue during the 46-day session unless there was some likelihood of success. “The only way I’ll put it in is if it has any chance of passage,” said Ebbin, who told Arlington officials he had been polling some of his Republican colleagues to get their views on the matter. County Board Chairman Katie Cristol said Arlington officials last year had informally approached the Commonwealth Transportation Board on the renaming issue, but “there was not an appetite” on the part of members of that body to act. That put the issue back in the hands of the General Assembly. As he has in the past, Del. Mark Levine (D-45th) proclaimed that Arlington should replace the road signage itself and dare state officials to do something about it. “Just change the street signs. There is zero in Virginia law that requires that highway to have those street names,” said Levine, who considers to be flawed an advisory opinion by the office of the state attorney general that argues the opposite. The reaction from County Board members – who finally appear to realize that their work sessions with legislators attract an audience from across the commonwealth through the magic of the Internet – asked Levine to hush up. Politely, at first. “You have a slightly different legal interpretation than the one given to us,” Cristol said. When Levine persisted, County Board Vice Chairman Christian Dorsey pushed back harder. “We’re interested in not figuring out what we can get away with, but how we can absolutely get the right . . . to name our roads,” he said. “That’s something we don’t want to do in an underhanded
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system holds more than 700,000 print titles. Library officials told School Board members they would focus on “a balance of digital and print materials” in the future – although the placement of the word “digital” first in that sentence might give an indication of which way the winds are blowing. Library officials also told School Board members they have been working to bring a more diverse array of authors to schools. “Librarians are more cognizant of how powerful it can be for students to see authors who look like them and write about experiences they can relate to,” the report noted. – Staff Report way, a backhanded way. We want to be up front about it.” A Mississippian, Jefferson Davis never achieved the iconic status of the likes of Confederate military leaders Robert E. Lee or J.E.B. Stuart; had no direct ties to Virginia; and never worked to reconcile the nation after the Civil War. Nonetheless, in 1922 the General Assembly was successfully lobbied by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to formally name a highway in his honor. Toward the tail end of the 2014-18 McAuliffe administration, an online petition to change the name generated several thousand signatures, and a spokesman for the then-governor said McAuliffe would sign name-change legislation in the unlikely event it crossed his desk. It did not. At the time, the effort couldn’t pick up much backing even from reliably liberal members of the legislature. One of them – Scott Surovell, a Fairfax Democrat – sniffed that there were not “whole lot of people clamoring about it except coffeeshop liberals in Arlington.” But the action by Alexandria to rename its portion of the road as Richmond Highway (as it also is known in Fairfax County) may boost chances of a bill’s passage in 2019. Hurting the effort could be the Arlington School Board’s decision to strip the name of Robert E. Lee from Washington-Lee High School, a decision that has many conservative downstate legislators channeling Ronald Reagan’s famous line: “There you go again.” Ebbin suggested that Arlington officials try to enlist the support of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce and Crystal City Business Improvement District in the highway renaming effort. But, Ebbin noted, he wasn’t expecting Amazon – which plans a major influx into the Route 1 corridor – to get involved. “I don’t think they’ll be taking active political positions” until their economicincentive package with the state government and local governments is finalized, Ebbin said.
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Middle School Named for Local Civil-Rights Activist SCOTT McCAFFREY
After an advisory panel was unable to reach a consensus, the Arlington School Board on Dec. 20 opted to name the county’s next middle school after a leader in the community’s civil-rights struggles. “Dorothy Hamm Middle School at the Historic Stratford Building” will be the new name when the facility – which currently houses the H-B Woodlawn and Stratford programs – reverts to its original function as a neighborhood school in coming years. The 5-0 vote came after a renaming task force was unable to reach a consensus choice, with the panel splitting between naming the school after Hamm and naming it Stratford Middle School. The Superintendent’s Special Committee
on Historic Interpretation at the Former Stratford Junior High School and the Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board each supported the “Stratford” name. Hamm (1919-2004) and her family were active in civil-rights struggles in Virginia. She and her son, Edward Hamm Jr., were part of a court case that, when combined with others, in 1959 resulted in the integration of what until then had been the all-white Stratford Junior High School. Later, Hamm and her husband, Edward Hamm Sr., participated in efforts to overturn Virginia’s poll tax, as well as end segregation of theaters and sports teams in Arlington. Hamm, who lived in Arlington until retiring to Caroline County in 1987, also wrote books and plays discussing her own
The Arlington Committee of 100 will focus on the potential impacts of Amazon’s decision to locate a portion of its “HQ2” offices in the Crystal City area of Arlington during its monthly meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 9. The forum will feature Victor Hoskins of Arlington Economic Development and Stephen Moret of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership looking at the ramifications of the move, which could
bring more than 10,000 employees to the local area over the course of the next decade. The meeting will be held at Phelan Hall on the main campus of Marymount University. There is no charge to attend the program, which begins at 8 p.m.; the cost for dinner (7:30 p.m) is $28 for Committee of 100 members, $30 for others, and registration is required by Jan. 6 at www. arlingtoncommitteeof100.org.
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experiences and the broader struggles of African-Americans. Stratford Junior High School opened in 1951 and in February 1959 became the site of one of the first scenes of school integration in Virginia public schools, when four black children were escorted in under guard to begin classes with white children. With Arlington student population declining in the 1970s and ’80s, the building was later repurposed to serve as home to H-B Woodlawn, an alternative program for students in grades 6 to 12. Woodlawn is slated to decamp soon to a new facility in Rosslyn. But recent growth in Arlington’s student population has put pressure to create additional space. Hamm Middle School will join Gunston, Thomas Jefferson, Kenmore, Swanson and Williamsburg
middle schools when it opens in the fall of 2019. The school’s construction has been hampered in recent months by recordsetting rainfall, said John Chadwick, the school system’s facilities czar. “We have encountered some issues – we’re working very hard to recover from that,” Chadwick said. At the same Dec. 20 meeting, School Board members formally received the two names proposed by a task force for Washington-Lee High School. The primary recommendation was for “Washington-Loving High School,” to honor a downstate couple involved in a landmark 1960s court case related to interracial marriages, while the secondary recommendation was for “WashingtonLiberty High School.” A final vote is set for Jan. 10.
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In Valedictory, Vihstadt Presses for More Progress
Defeated County Board Member Lauds Renewed Focus on Core Services SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer
As he wrapped up four and a half years on the Arlington County Board, John Vihstadt urged his colleagues – and his successor – to keep moving forward with reforms. “Let’s not kid ourselves. We still have a long way to go,” Vihstadt said during a valedictory address held after the last Saturday board meeting of his tenure. While praising changes that have taken place since he was swept into office on a wave of voter discontent in 2014, Vihstadt singled out a number of areas where he believes further improvement is necessary, including greater transparency and a stronger sense of fiscal discipline. “Hear all voices. Consider all sides of every issue,” Vihstadt urged members of the 2019
County Board. Vihstadt, a Republican-leaning independent, was elected to the County Board in the spring of 2014 following the resignation of Democrat Chris Zimmerman. Riding a wave of voter unease – focused both on extravagant government spending and on the perceived arrogance of the allDemocratic County Board – he went on to win the subsequent general election. In the ensuing four years, Vihstadt said, there had been a number of improvements in county governance. “We’ve given renewed focus to core services, like public-schools capacity, shoring up Metro and Columbia Pike transit, augmenting our parks, fields and green space, boosting public-safety pay, speeding our street paving and holding up our social safety net,” he said. (And perhaps as a going-
away present from his colleagues, County Board members late in 2018 agreed to hold back 75 percent of the previous year’s surplus for future needs, rather than spending it on one-time initiatives as had been the case in Arlington since time immemorial. “Finally,” said Vihstadt, who long had pressed for the change.) During his tenure in office, Vihstadt seemed to take the approach immortalized in the words of Lyndon Johnson that he could be more effective inside the tent [tinkling] out, rather than the other way around. He voted for a tax-rate increase and backed the county government’s fight against two country clubs on assessments and taxation, to cite two examples. “There was compromise, give and take, and negotiation along the way,” Vihstadt said of his relations with board colleagues.
“Like ingredients in a salad bowl, we complemented each other.” Unlike in 2014, when Vihstadt embraced the support of the Arlington County Republican Committee and Arlington Green Party (plus disaffected Democrats), in the 2018 race he avoided getting too close to those political parties.
In the end, his effort to survive the 2018 Democratic onslaught came up short, as Vihstadt was defeated by relatively unknown Democrat Matt de Ferranti by a six-point margin. He was the first County Board member defeated for re-election since Republican Mike Lane lost to Democrat Charles Monroe in 1999, and the first since the early 1980s to be ousted after having served at least a full term. Relations between Vihstadt and de Ferranti during the campaign proved relatively amiable, and Vihstadt said he hoped his successor will end up asking as many questions of county staff and fellow board members as he gained a reputation for doing. “I’m grooming my successor . . . to be as inquisitive as I am,” Vihstadt chuckled. “And just in case, I’ve got a bunch of Freedom of Information Act requests ready to go.”
how to make the most efficient use of those resources, Wiedefeld said. “For bus [transit] to be competitive, it needs to have a time reward for the customer,” he said. In 2019, all Metrobuses will gain the ability to transmit signals that would extend traffic lights, reducing delays, he added. WMATA is evaluating potential capital projects that would be built a decade or two hence, notably another Metro tunnel in Rosslyn and running Metro trains across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, Wiedefeld said. Projects that would expand the Metrorail system likely would have to undergo a thorough public debate and voter referendum, he predicted. In addition to maintaining strong security – “We are the largest target in the world,” Wiedefeld said of the capital region – WMATA must hire people who buy into the agency’s mission. “About half of our people entered our agency as bus operators,” he said. “A lot of those people became managers and superintendents. That tends to be our culture.” Wiedefeld defended WMATA’s “Back to Good” marketing campaign, saying the concept
originated with customers who wanted results, not hyperbole. Despite its foibles and challenges, WMATA provides a valuable service for the region, he said. “We’re more than just moving people,” Wiedefeld said. “We reduce [traffic] congestion by about 25 percent. We tend to forget how important we are to the air quality of this region and what that means for our economic development.” Public feedback on the Silver Line has been “very mixed,” said Sol Glasner, CEO and president of the Tysons Partnership. “There’s great appreciation that it’s here, but let’s also recognize that for some of our constituents, it doesn’t go long enough in the day,” he said. “We have spoken directly to the hotels and restaurants, who are saying they cannot recruit and retain service staff, in large part because the transit network is not providing adequate service.” Despite the public’s grumblings about Metro’s safety, service and reliability, Wiedefeld has been receiving high marks for his performance, McCartney said. Wiedefeld demurred and cited an e-mail he’d recently gotten from an area resident. “I absolutely despise everything you’re doing to Metro,” the message read.
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WMATA Chief Touts Successes, Seeks More Funding BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) must continue to select high-impact capital projects, improve the safety and reliability of its services, and modernize the agency’s culture, its leader says. “We can continue the way we are or we can start to aim for higher things,” WMATA General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said during a Dec. 5 interview with Washington Post correspondent Robert McCartney. The forum, titled “Tackling Metro’s Challenges,” was sponsored by the Northern Virginia Transportation Alliance and held at the WGL building in Tysons. Several times during the interview, a Metro Silver Line train could be seen passing 12 floors below. Officials from Virginia, the District of Columbia and Maryland this year pledged to dedicate $500 million per year to the Metro system. One reason Metro received the extra funding is because the public remembered how good the system was before it deteriorated, Wiedefeld said. “I think there was a point when they said, ‘Wait a minute, we cannot let this $40 billion investment to crumble beneath our 4
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feet,” he said. Wiedefeld WMATA had been delivering said. In fisbetween $700 million and $800 cal 2018, the million per year in capital projagency elimects and now the system must inated 700 prepare to do about $1.5 billion p o s i t i o n s, worth annually, Wiedefeld said. but opportuBut in 10 months, $150 million nities for furper year in federal funding will ther cuts are disappear, he added. diminishing, WMATA’s new budget is prohe said. posing additional service that Wiedefeld Under will cause it to exceed the new federal law, WMATA may not 3-percent maximum funding in- privatize the existing Metrorail crease under the current agree- system, but the agency may seek ment with local jurisdictions, such competition for the Silver he said. Wiedefeld has asked for Line’s Phase 2, which will run $20 million above the 3-percent from Reston to Loudoun Councap to improve service on Met- ty. ro’s Red and Yellow lines, extend WMATA serves about 1 milrush-hour service and use only lion passengers daily – or as eight-car trains. many in three weeks as WashingWMATA officials will ask ton Dulles International Airport localities for $32 million more does all year, he said. About 40 in fiscal 2020 to ramp up for percent of those passengers ride operations of the Silver Line’s buses, so officials are examining second phase, which will extend how best to provide that service west from Reston into Loudoun in the future. County. “The marketplace around us “We have to start hiring, for has changed dramatically,” he instance, police officers,” Wie- said. “The bus system of old, defeld said. “That takes a year- of the 1950, ’60s and ’70s, is not plus for training. Then you have what is going to carry us into the the additional mileage and sta- future.” tions.” WMATA has about 1,500 WMATA’s costs had been in- buses, nearly 5,000 people who creasing at about 6 percent per operate or maintain them and year, but officials lately have kept nine major bus-maintenance fathat figure to around 1 percent, cilities. The agency is examining www.sungazette.news
Legendary Developer Presses for New Infrastructure BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer
John “Til” Hazel spent decades at the epicenter of Northern Virginia’s headlong redevelopment, but says regional officials and area business leaders must confront infrastructure and housing challenges for that success to continue. “This area always grew and it was assumed it would always grow because of the presence of the federal government,” Hazel said at the Greater McLean Chamber of Commerce’s inaugural Honors Luncheon Dec. 4 at Vinson Hall Retirement Community in McLean. “We now know that the federal government is not going to continue to make progress for this area,” he said. “We’re going to have to be sure to do these things ourselves, and to do that, the business community has got to be involved very aggressively.” Hazel pressed local officials to address highway needs, especially that of a new Potomac River bridge. The region’s success could falter soon because the American Legion Bridge, which was designed to handle 75,000 vehicles per day, now is straining under nearly 250,000 daily, he said. Hazel also warned about the ongoing lack of affordable housing, saying it would “require a major effort by the business community to be sure that the hous-
ing progress is made.” Chamber leaders at the event presented Hazel with a Lifetime Business Achievement Award. Chamber board chairman Bruce Potter said Hazel “has done more to shape the Northern Virginia region than probably anyone.” Hazel was born in Washington, D.C., in 1930, grew up in Arlington and went to Harvard University, where he earned a history degree in 1951 and a law degree in 1954. He served with the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, then joined an Arlington law firm, where he helped obtain land to build Interstate 495. After working with the late Gerald Halpin to rezone land for Tysons’ redevelopment, Hazel founded his own law firm, which in 1999 merged with Reed Smith. Hazel helped companies develop both major shopping malls in Tysons and in 1971 founded Hazel/Peterson Cos., which developed residential and commercial projects throughout the county. Hazel arrived at Vinson Hall for the chamber’s awards ceremony via Old Dominion Drive, and he recalled first being on that road more than 75 years ago. His family used to own a dairy farm a couple of miles to the west. Hazel told how his father in 1939, anticipating World War II and having survived food shortages in World War I, decided to ramp up production on the farm.
Fairfax County was decidedly rural when the Hazel family arrived – “Tysons Corner was a two dairy farms, a stone quarry and a beer joint,” he said – but during the 1960s there arose a conflict between residents who opposed encouraging more people to live in the county and those who wanted the local area to grow and prosper. Hazel castigated county supervisors who served between 1972 and 1976, saying they opposed population growth. The county had about 150,000 people in 1956, but the population had risen to about 500,000 by the early 1970s, he said. Hazel and his law partner decided that dealing with the politicians was a waste of time – “sometimes I still think it is,” he said – and instead pursued litigation to allow development to occur. “The county had tried to shut down most everything,” Hazel said. “The only thing that we didn’t succeed in doing was keeping the transportation plans on the map.” Between 1972 and 1976, the Board of Supervisors stripped off the transportation plans a pair of new beltways and a
new Potomac River bridge, which the area now desperately needs, he said. “The theory of the board was, if you don’t have any roads, you won’t have any people,” Hazel said. “And that couldn’t be more fallacious or detrimental to the county. We are still suffering from the fact that a very good road system was stripped from the plans.” Support from the area’s business community recently helped secure dedicated regional funding of $500 million per year for the Metrorail system, the needs of which had been neglected by the political system for four decades, Hazel said. Hazel complimented the service of former George Mason University president George Johnson, whom he credited with fostering the university’s success and, as a consequence, that of the surrounding region. “Mason has been the key to much of the progress in this county,” said Hazel, a founding member of the university’s board of visitors who also helped found its law school. He cited predictions by another famous Mason eminence, economist Stephen Fuller, who has issued dire warnings for Fairfax County unless it encourages growth. Without involvement from local businesses, “the political world will sink back in a sublime and ridiculous way and not grow and not want to grow,” Hazel said.
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Our View: The Future Is Keeping an Eye on Us Back in 897, Pope Stephen VI ordered that the corpse of a predecessor, Pope Formosus, be exhumed from its tomb, placed on the papal throne and “put on trial” for the proposed transgressions of his papal reign. It went down in history as the “Cadaver Synod.” It seems we keep moving closer to that era – where one generation imposes its judgments on those who came before, without any interest in understanding the nuances of their lives and the world in which they lived. In that vein, it seems Arlington’s latest dance of the seven veils – this one focused on the new name of Washington-Lee High School – is about to be wrapped up. The renaming task force, empaneled and marched grimly toward a pre-ordained conclusion with all the subtlety (yet none of the panache) of a Soviet show trial, has provided the Arlington School Board with a recommendation that Washington-Lee High School be renamed “Washington-Loving.” That switcheroo on the last part of the name would be to honor of Richard and Mildred Loving, who were participants in a court case of the 1960s led the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down state bans on interracial marriages. Now, we could get behind that name change if the Lovings had anything to do with Arlington, much as we did
with the decision to name a new elementary school in honor of Arlington educator Alice West Fleet. But the Lovings were residents of far-away Caroline County. What’s the connection? Oh, got it: Substituting “Loving” for “Lee”, borrowing the word of one prominent local Democrat who not surprisingly does not covet attribution, has been “contrived” to keep “W-L” as “W-L” in an effort to blunt further community anger. If/when it goes through, the name change surely will make the committee, staff and School Board feel warm and snuggly in the way only self-righteousness can. Of course, it’ll also make Arlington look like, mmmmm, its usual showboating self to the leadership (Democratic and Republican) of the rest of the commonwealth, and serve up another nail in the coffin of the county government’s General Assembly agenda for 2019. It would be a small price to pay, name-change boosters might wrongly argue. But beware the lesson of Formosus and Stephen VI: A society that judges the past by its own standards invites judgment by the standards of the future. And when the future digs up (one hopes merely symbolically) those of us who lived in the first half of the 21st century to cast its unflinching judgment, it could be an interesting show.
Consider Short-Term Rent Control for County Editor: Amazon’s announcement that Arlington and Long Island City will split the spoils of Amazon’s new headquarters, HQ2, has sparked much discussion, particularly among worried residents. In a letter to Arlingtonians, County Board Chairman Katie Cristol claims that Amazon’s decision is a “a validation of our community’s commitment to sustainability, transit-oriented development, affordable housing and diversity.” But can Arlington commit to these ideals and Jeff Bezos at the same time? Let’s look specifically at affordable housing. An independent study commissioned by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership studied the economic and fiscal impacts of HQ2. The study focuses on housing affordability for the expected influx of new tech workers, providing useful insight into the priorities of the county. The study estimates that HQ2 will generate a demand for 7,139 to 8,054 net new households, but Arlington has only committed to building 1,000 new affordable housing units. But fear not – “households that cannot find a unit in their desired price range may shift from ownership to rental units, as possible, or downsize to a less expensive building type in order to live in the county.” While this may be feasible for Amazon employees, low-income Arlingtonians do not share this luxury.
Amazon has promised that the 25,000 jobs they create will have average annual incomes of $150,000, plus benefits. But for the one in two Arlingtonians with incomes at or below the median of $108,706, rent increases will be detrimental. With an inevitable increase in demand, original residents, particularly low-income minorities, will fall victim to displacement to serve transient newcomers who would just as easily move to New York or Seattle if the opportunity arose. Homeowners, who are predominantly white and upper-middle-class residents, will be happy to see increases in their home value. But renters are left in the dust. Renters in Arlington are disproportionately low-income minorities, representing the diversity that Cristol touts. If nothing is done to protect them, Arlington will become yet another example of the disastrous effects of gentrification. It seems that with the rebranding of Arlington as “National Landing,” the county is rebranding itself as a subservient of big business with no commitment to local, hardworking residents. There is a way to avoid this. When used as a temporary stopgap measure, rent control can help alleviate the initial market stress that an influx of new residents can have on housing markets. Opponents may worry that rent control might damper Arlington’s economy and deny incentive for new developers to
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build more property. Yet rent control only affects current residents, allowing developers to profit heavily from rent increases from newcomers. Further, as opposed to disincentivizing development, it encourages developers to diversify from luxury high-rises to incorporating more affordable, family-friendly dwellings that will benefit Arlington in the long run. It is essential to note that rent control should only be used as a temporary measure in times of population-influx crises. Any future policy should study and clearly define a time period for the measure to be enacted. Efforts to expand rent control past the specified period should be shut down. Rent control only puts a Band-Aid on the real issues, but it is a necessary stop gap for periods of transition. Amazon should not be allowed to throw out hard-working, engaged and loyal residents for transient newcomers. Arlingtonians should demand temporary rent control when the economic-development agreement goes to a final open vote in the spring. We have the opportunity to mitigate a crisis before it arises. Sachi Cooper Arlington Cooper, a graduate of Washington-Lee High School, currently attends UCLA.
N.Va. Realtors Install Leadership, Laud Hall-of-Famers The Northern Virginia Association of Realtors (NVAR) recently made four new inductions into its Hall of Fame. Those enshrined into the pantheon were honored during the trade organization’s appreciation and installation ceremony, which also saw Christine Richardson of Weichert, Realtors, succeed Lorraine Arora of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices PenFed Realty as president. New hall-of-famers are Renee Brown (NVAR director, education); Lisa DuBois (Re/Max by Invitation), Jill Parker Landsman (NVAR vice president, communications); and Sarah Louppe Petcher, S&T Law Group. In addition, Mary Bayat of Bayat Realty was presented with an honorary life membership, while Fred Westerlund of MBH
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Settlement Co. was named 2018 Affiliate of the Year. Joining Richardson and Arora on the 2019 NVAR lead-
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Heather Embrey, Shelia Jackson, Gary Lange, Ava Nguyen, Peter Nguyen, Marc Pina, Marriah Unruh and Ann Yanagihara.
County Officials Aim for Low-Key Success in Richmond SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer
Discretion is the better part of valor, and perhaps in hope of a change in the majority folGENERAL lowing elecnext ASSEMBLY tions N o v e m b e r, Arlington County Board members appear aiming to fly under the radar screen during the 2019 General Assembly session. “We are very cognizant of Arlington’s reputation in the General Assembly and around the commonwealth,” County Board Chairman Katie Cristol said during a 90-minute meeting with the county’s legislative delegation, held in early December. The annual gathering was in preparation for the upcoming legislative session, which starts in mid-January and is slated to run 46 days. Cristol, who was wrapping up her year-long stint as board chair, said “preservation of critical funding streams” was the county government’s key priority for the coming session. It was a comment echoed by other
board members. “This is the year we stay the course,” said board vice chairman Christian Dorsey. He was speaking specifically about transportation, but the comment could be extrapolated to other topics. Cristol told legislators that local governments bear the brunt when the state leadership imposes mandates on education, transportation and social services that aren’t adequately funded at the state level. She urged the delegation to do its best at “holding back any mandates . . . that don’t come with any support.” But Northern Virginia, which remains outnumbered about three to one in both the state Senate and House of Delegates, often gets the short end of the financial stick, said state Sen. Janet Howell (D32nd). There is a “belief that ‘oh, Northern Virginia is so rich, we should send [funding] somewhere else’ – that will be part of the ongoing battle,” said Howell, the most senior member of the Arlington delegation and a member of the powerful Senate Committee on Finance. Arlington’s delegation to the General
Assembly in 2019 will be unchanged from 2018: Sens. Howell, Barbara Favola and Adam Ebbin and Dels. Patrick Hope, Mark Levine, Rip Sullivan and Alfonso Lopez. Each is a Democrat, and each – to varying degrees – is sympathetic to most of the legislative priorities espoused by
the County Board. “Our delegation has been our champion,” Cristol said. Should Democrats win control of one or both houses of the legislature after the 2019 elections, Arlington and other leftleaning communities potentially could see more success in Richmond.
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Schools & Military n Biruktawit Assefa of Arlington, a student at Yale University, is one of 82 students nationwide to share upwards of $7 million in funding to support their graduate-school studies through the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. Each of the Cooke Graduate Scholarship recipients are eligible to receive up to $75,000 in graduate-study support from the foundation.
Adriana Ercolano of Arlington earned a master of library and information science degree during recent commencement exercises at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. n
n Briana Walkin-Haske of Arlington has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Coastal Carolina University. n Katherine Brophy, Grace Burgess and Heather Ribolla of Arlington have been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Belmont University. n Six Arlington Public Schools students have been selected to receive fouryear, full-tuition scholarships through the Posse Foundation. Students also will receive comprehensive support services during their time in
n Three Arlington Public Schools students have been named QuestBridge Scholars and will receive full four-year scholarships. Selected students include Jose Pomarino Nima of Wakefield High School, who will attend Columbia University; Mignote Tasesse of Washington-Lee High School, who will attend Rice University; and Gelila Kassa of Washington-Lee, who will attend Williams College. n Calista Garcia, a senior at H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program, has been selected as one of 28 student songwriters nationwide to be honored as a 2019 YoungArts winner. It is the second year in a row she has been selected for the honor, based on a blind-adjudication process. Garcia, who also is a Strathmore artist-in-residence, has been invited to attend the YoungArts regional awards program, to be held in Miami in February. For information on the program, see the Website at www.youngarts.org/winners.
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ond video that inspires other teens to use money wisely and promotes the value of saving. As a Virginia participating bank, Burke & Herbert Bank was responsible for accepting and judging entries across the region. “We were amazed by the caliber of this year’s video submissions and happy to see that more teens and more schools got involved,” said Terry Cole, executive vice president at Burke & Herbert Bank. “Teens have the opportunity to use their creativity and have fun while delivering important messaging about the value of saving.” Hocker received $350 gift card for winning at the regional level. n Julie Trapanese and Wills Boggess of Arlington have been named commended scholars for the fall term at Mercersburg Academy. n Arlington Public Schools is asking the public to consider nominating local crossing guards for Virginia’s Most Outstanding Crossing Guards competition. The awards program is part of the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Safe Routes to School initiative. In 2018, Arlington crossing guard Almaz Abebe of Kenmore Middle School was one of six statewide recipients. (Arlington’s crossing guards are employees of the police department.) Nominations are open through Jan. 25. For information, see the Website at https://bit.ly/2rPQCTO. n The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia’s Business Women’s Giving Circle will provide $52,500 in grant funding to four non-profit organizations that provide STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] programs to girls and young women across Northern Virginia. “These programs provide innovative and essential opportunities to spark STEM interest and expand the STEM skills of girls and young women in our region, and we are delighted to invest in their work,” said Amy Kay, co-chair of the grants committee. Grant recipients include RESET, Space of Her Own, TrailsforYouth and Wesley Housing Development Corp. Funds will support “an innovative outlet for our youth residents to explore STEM learning and gain the technical skills needed for the 21st-century workforce in a new, fun and engaging way,” said Darryl Leedom, director of resident services for Wesley Housing. Currently with 58 members, the Business Women’s Giving Circle brings together engaged women who want to support positive change for girls and young women in our community. Annual membership in the Business Women’s Giving Circle is $1,100 and includes a vote in the annual competitivegrant cycle. All contributions are pooled for a greater collective impact.
Police Beat ASSAULT ON LAW ENFORCEMENT: n On Dec. 20 at 10:13 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 1100 block of South Hayes Street for a report of a disorderly female, police said. Upon arrival, police said, the woman was yelling and acting disorderly. As an officer approached her, the suspect grabbed the officer, punched him with a closed fist and kicked him multiple times, police said. The suspect refused to provide information and was booked as a Jane Doe on charges of assault-and-battery on police and failure to ID. She was held without bond. CARJACKING: n On Dec. 22 at 2:19 a.m., police responded to a report of an armed carjacking in the 2600 block of Crystal Drive. According to police, a driver was idling his vehicle when another vehicle pulled up behind him. Two men approached his vehicle, one brandishing a firearm and the other a knife. They ordered the victim out and took his vehicle. The suspects are described as black males, 5’5” to 5”7” tall, both thin with short black hair. BRANDISHING: n On Dec. 22 at 10:23 a.m., a resident of the 1200 block of South Courthouse Road heard a knock on the door from a person apparently irate at the noise being made inside an adjacent apartment. According to police, the suspect continued yelling before returning to his own apartment. Shortly thereafter, the victim went to the suspect’s residence to apologize when the suspect allegedly brandished a firearm, police said. The suspect – 26-year-old Jason Bauder of Arlington – was arrested and charged with brandishing a firearm. ROBBERY: n On Dec. 21 at 1:31 a.m., police were called to a store in the 3000 block of Columbia Pike for a report of two shoplifters in custody following a physical altercation with an employee that ended when a bystander intervened and the suspects were
detained, police said. The first suspect – 19-year-old Bernart Rivas of Alexandria – was arrested and charged with robbery. Petitions for robbery were sought for a juvenile. n On Dec. 21 at 5 p.m., a man entered a business in the 2100 block of 15th Street North and began to conceal merchandise in a backpack. An employee confronted the suspect and told him to pay for it, then the suspect brandished a knife and fled the store with the merchandise, police said. The suspect is described as a black male, 22 to 25 years old. n On Dec. 21 at 9:49 p.m., a delivery driver in the 300 block of South Taylor Street was attempting to make a delivery when a suspect brandished a firearm and demanded cash. The victim provided cash, and the suspect fled. He is described as a black male. n On Dec. 23 at 5 p.m., a man was reported to have entered a business in the 1600 block of Crystal Drive and started taking cash from the open cash register. The suspect pushed an employee out of the way and then fled. The suspect is described as a black male, 5’10” to 6 feet tall, 220 to 230 pounds, with short, curly hair that was either red or orange. BURGLARY: n On Dec. 21 between 12:15 and 2:50 a.m., a business in the 900 block of North Kenmore Street was burglarized. Cash was taken. n On Dec. 23, a resident of the 4700 block of Dittmar Road told police that a neighbor had reported a large number of people in the home while the family was away, leaving a “large mess” and taking items, police said. Two vehicles were taken, as well, police said. Police were able to make contact with a suspect – 19-year-old Devonta Corbet – was arrested and charged with burglary, unauthorized use of a vehicle and motorvehicle theft. n On Dec. 26 between 3:30 and 4:45 a.m., a business in the 1300 block of South Joyce Street was burglarized. Cash and items were taken and damage was caused. Meet Rob: the award-winning real estate pro who people trust to get their deal done. • Coach, dad, Arlington neighbor and die-hard Virginia Tech fan! • Fierce negotiator • Dedicated and caring Realtor® Call Rob at 703-532-2808 and you’ll become a client for life (even if you’re not a Hokie!).
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Transportation Notes GARVEY TO TAKE OVER ON AIRPORTNOISE ISSUES: The new year brings a
new Arlington County Board point person on airport noise. “At the moment, it’s me,” chuckled board member Libby Garvey, who is taking over from her colleague John Vihstadt, who was voted out of office. But Garvey said she has faith a second County Board member will sign up to share the workload. “I’m hoping to be inviting somebody to join me. It’s a very complex issue, and it’s important to have somebody else up to speed,” Garvey said. The battle between local residents and airport noise even predates the opening of National Airport in 1941 (two other airports previously had operated in the county). Arlington has partnered with Montgomery County on a noise study, which is set to kick off early in the new year. While residents have legitimate concerns about noise – “it’s extremely frustrating,” Vihstadt said – there’s not necessarily an easy solution. “I think we have to appreciate how difficult the issue is,” Vihstadt said, pointing to restricted airspace that forces airplanes and helicopters to travel over residential neighborhoods. In some ways, local residents have never had it so good, as noise from newgeneration aircraft is considerably lower
than those that came before. But the airport’s close-in location always has served up friction with those living nearby; jets were prohibited at the airport until the late 1960s in part due to noise concerns, and every proposed change to traffic patterns in recent years has brought out the public. The issue (at least as far as Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport) almost solved itself after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as some homeland-security officials in the Bush administration mulled closing the airport altogether and shifting flights to Washington Dulles International Airport and Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to provide more security to federal offices in the District of Columbia. But in an inspired piece of sleight-ofhand, then-U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-8th) successfully bluffed the Bush administration into believing he had the votes in Congress to keep the airport open, even before he had secured all the needed support. By the time administration officials figured out they had been had, their passion to close National had cooled. Control of aircraft take-off and landing routes at airports nationally is under the aegis of the Federal Aviation Administration; legal efforts by local residents in the Washington area and other parts of the country to reduce some of the FAA’s power in the matter largely have proved
unsuccessful. COUNTY MANAGER PANS ‘ART’ BUS SERVICE: Arlington’s county manager
got a little blunt recently when discussing the Arlington Transit (ART) bus system. “The ART bus performance, recently, stinks,” Mark Schwartz said during a meeting with Arlington County Civic Federation delegates. Schwartz acknowledged “lagging” performance on the local bus service, which for years had been heralded as a more user-friendly and cost-efficient alternative to expanded Metrobus service in Arlington. “It has not been adequate. We’re very concerned about that; it’s not acceptable,” Schwartz said. The bus service is subsidized by the county government but operated by a private contractor; if service levels don’t rise, the government seriously will be looking at alternatives the next time the contract comes up, Schwartz told Civic Federation delegates. In the second quarter of 2018, on-time performance dropped to 83 percent from 92 percent a year before, according to data provided to the county government’s Transit Advisory Committee. Ridership in that quarter was down 14 percent from a year before, but ridership numbers for bus services across the region have been skewed upward and downward in recent
years due to periodic shutdowns of Metrorail service, which sends some riders temporarily to bus service. Takis Karantonis, a Civic Federation delegate from the Columbia Pike corridor, said those figures are playing out in a real-world environment. “The ART system, performance-wise, is a little bit lagging,” he said. “We have more complaints, ridership is decreasing.” Problems along the Columbia Pike corridor may serve to only inflame residents there more, as the corridor was promised both more and better service (from Metrobus and ART) after Arlington County Board members in 2014 killed off the proposed streetcar system that was slated to whoosh up and down the Pike and environs on a five-mile dash from Pentagon City to Skyline. So far, incremental improvements in bus service throughout the corridor have occurred, but county officials acknowledge they have not taken place as quickly as had been anticipated. The Sun Gazette welcomes your submission of items for inclusion in the newspaper and online at www.sungazette.news. Items can be sent by regular mail, e-mail or online. Find contact information on Page 6 each week.
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County Civic Federation on Jan. 8 will tackle two proposed resolutions related to open-space issues. A resolution weighing in on the county government’s Public Spaces Master Plan, which had been slated for consideration in December, was pushed back a month in part due to a heavy schedule for that meeting. A resolution focused on the future of Upton Hill Regional Park also was postponed; Civic Federation leaders will attempt to get a representative from the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority (NOVA Parks), which has embarked on a renovation/development plan at the park, to address delegates. The Jan. 8 meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Hazel Auditorium at Virginia Hospital Center. For information, see the Website at www.civfed.org. A third pending resolution – on decriminalization of marijuana in Virginia – has been pushed back to the February meeting at the request of the introducer, Civic Federation president Duke Banks said. “There are still some issues they are trying to resolve,” he said. COUNTY BOARD TO HOLD HEARING ON PROTECTED STATUS FOR TREE:
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Cocina VA, an Arlington-based non-profit that works to provide job-training skills to the unemployed, many from immigrant communities, is embarking on the public phase of a fund-raising campaign for its Zero Barriers Training and Entrepreneurship Center. The new facility will permit the organization to train up to 120 individuals a year in the culinary arts, as well as provide opportunities to launch a catering service as an income-generator. In 10 months of fund-raising before the effort went public, La Cocina VA raised $1.6 million toward its $2.5 million goal for the new facility, to be built on the ground floor of Gilliam Place, an afforable-living apartment community on Columbia Pike. “We are so close to reaching our goal, and need your support to help us get there,” said Paty Funegra, founder of the organization, who noted that the mission was “to use the power of food to transform society.” For information on the fund-raising effort and La Cocina VA’s programs, see the Web site at www.lacocinava.org.
Arlington County Board members later in the month are expected to designate an American elm located at 905 South Randolph St. as a “specimen tree,” which will provide it with some protection against removal or destruction. The tree has been nominated for inclusion by the property owner under Arlington’s tree-preservation ordinance. A County Board vote will take place after a public hearing slated for Jan. 26. The tree has a circumference of nearly 149 inches and stands nearly 65 feet tall, county officials said. Under the tree-preservation ordinance, removal or destruction without permission of the county government would result in a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500.
Brown Planetarium will hold its annual meeting on Saturday, Jan. 12 at 5:30 p.m. at the planetarium, located adjacent to Washington-Lee High School on North Quincy Street. The event will include the election of board members, brainstorming new ideas and approving a budget. A dome show will follow. For information, see the Web site at www.friendsoftheplanetarium.org.
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A new year brings new opportunities as our quest for the best in Arlington real estate continues. And we start off with a bang – a Georgian-inspired showplace set on a 20,000-plus-square-foot cul-de-sac lot not far from the Potomac River and Potomac Overlook Regional Park, featuring exceptional standards and privacy all around. Visually appealing outside, the home is a stunner indoors, from the exceptional rotunda that bids us welcome to touches like the woodwork trim and the private balcony overlooking a perpetualconservation area. Many spaces have been recently remodeled, providing a forward-looking property that showcases elegance throughout. The four-level property currently is on the market, listed $2,350,000 by Susan Joy of Long & Foster Real Estate. An open house is slated for Sunday, Jan. 6 from 2 to 4 p.m. You’ll be enchanted from the moment you enter the rotunda, an area dominated by a large crystal chandelier. The living room, dining room, kitchen, family room and library all radiate off this area, making for wonderful traffic
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Can 2019 Include Faster Play and Drier Weather? Throughout the year, the Sun Gazette will cover a lot of high school sports. Here’s a wish list of things that hopefully will occur during 2019.
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Wakefield High School’s Brody Karton takes a floater in the lane in a recent road game against Marshall. Wakefield finished second in its annual holiday tourney last week. PHOTO BY DEB KOLT
O’Connell Teams Go 2-1 in Tourneys, Girls 2nd A Staff Report
The Bishop O’Connell High School girls and boys basketball teams finished 2-1 reBASKETBALL with cords, and placed second and third, respectively, in recent tournament action. The girls team (8-3) lost in the championship game of the Crescom Bank Invitational Holiday Tournament/Brittain Resort Bracket in Myrtle Beach, 48-46, to George Washington Carver in Florida. The boys fell in the semifinals of the Emerald Coast 16 tourney in northern Florida to Wheeler of Georgia, 72-56, then won the consolation game, 57-51, 16
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over Porter House of Florida to finish third in the marquee bracket. The boys are playing in the Beach Ball Classic in Myrtle Beach this week. For the O’Connell girls in their competition, Ajia James scored 36 points in the three games and Adrianna Smith tallied 31. Anna Hovis scored 14 against Carver, Alyssa Hayashi had 13 and Simone Edmundson eight in a 76-44 semifinal win over Hickory Ridge. Hovis had 10, Alexandria Lee seven and Maura Leverone six in a 65-35 first-round win over North Myrtle Beach. Maikya Simmons contributed to the scoring. For the O’Connell boys, Charlie Weber
was chosen to the all-tournament team, being among the Knights’ top scorers and rebounders. Marcus Dockery, Ayan Teel, Jahmal Banks, Brayon Freeman, Wes Peterson and Jake Berry also were among top scorers and contributors. O’Connell opened the tournament with a 64-63 win over John Marshall of Virginia. Weber had 17 points in that victory. In its next competition, the O’Connell boys (9-3) played in the long-running Beach Ball Classic in Myrtle Beach, having a 2-1 record through Dec. 30 action. See more details on that tournament about O’Connell at www.insidenova.com/ sports/arlington.
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For the third straight year and sixth time overall, the host Wakefield Warriors finished second in their own George Long Holiday Hoops Tournament. Wakefield finished 2-1 in this year’s boys high-school basketball event, losing to the Flint Hill Huskies, 65-50, in the Dec. 29 championship game. The Warriors (8-4) routed West Springfield, 61-42, in the first round, then downed Colonial Forge, 78-66, in the semifinals, leading from start to finish. Wakefield was playing in the final for the sixth year in a row, last winning the title in 2015, its fourth crown overall. “This competition always has strong teams and this year was no different,” Wakefield coach Tony Bentley said. “It’s hard to win this.” Chris Warner, Brody Karton, Jared Watkins, Robbie Starkey, Gabe Tham, Aaron Queen and Xavier Evans were among Wakefield’s top scorers, rebounders and producers in the three tournament games. Queen and Warner made the alltournament team. For a full story on Wakefield’s play in the tournament, visit www.insidenova. com/sports/arlington.
After coming close in recent seasons, at least one girls basketball team from the coverage area breaks through and wins a state title this winter. n The Madison Warhawks win a girls state soccer championship this spring, after coming so close in the 2017 and 2018 state finals. n Drier weather. n Move boys and girls public-school soccer seasons to the fall, helping to ease a too crowded spring campaign. n All four varsity football teams in Arlington amass winning records and earn playoff berths. That has never happened in the same season. n The selection committee grants a deserving state-tourney football playoff berth to the Potomac School Panthers, not slighting and shortchanging the team of such an appearance, as it did the past two seasons. n Pass-happy spread offenses in football are de-emphasized in favor of running the ball more instead. n The speed of play in all sports improves. For various reasons, play has consistently slowed over the years. n Those many dim lights in highschool gyms are replaced. n High schools properly use and update athletic Web and Twitter sites with event results in an immediate fashion, not hours or days later. n The Virginia High School League finally admits its error and returns to the once long-running and highlypopular alignment of teams in AAA, AA and A classifications in all sports, shelving forever the far-too confusing and unpopular setups of the past four or five years. n Postseason tournaments in all sports return to designated sites instead of having top seeds host. n More media coverage, rather than the recent trend of less of deserving local athletes. n
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All-Arlington High School Grid Teams Offense
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Player of the Year: Grant Wilson (Yorktown) Coach of the Year: Colin Disch (Bishop O’Connell)
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5-11, 190 6-1, 190 6-4, 185 5-10, 185 5-11, 275 6-0, 220 5-6, 180 5-10, 175 5-11, 155 5-9, 145 5-9, 160 5-10, 170 5-10, 170 5-10, 155
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Player of the Year: Jack McCool (Yorktown)
Honorable Mention: From O’Connell: Kim Thompson (sr. DB). From Honorable Mention: From O’Connell: Aidan McGowan (sr. QB), Jalen Hag- Wakefield: Luis Aliaga (jr. DL), Reese Creadon (jr. DL): From Washington-Lee: gler (jr. WR), Patrick Schauf (sr. TE), Will Stoney (so. WR/RB), Rodney Jackson (jr. RB). From Wakefield: Cason Poythress (jr. QB), Jack Perkins (so. QB), Lukai Hatcher (so. WR), Jaleel Praither (sr. RB), Luis Aliaga (jr. OL), Donte Clark (so. RB), Camryn Johnson (jr. RB), Reese Creadon (jr. OL), Izaiah Lang (so. WR), Luis Pinto (sr. PK). From Washington-Lee: Liam Anderson (jr. WR), Owen Potts (sr. OL), Elvis Granados (sr. OL). From Yorktown: Nick Warnement (sr. WR), Tajuan Perry-Elem (sr. RB), Charlies Connally (jr. OL).
Elvis Granados (sr. DL), Ahmad Williams (so. DB), Anzel Files (sr. DB), Bryson Files (so. DB): From Yorktown: Max Patterson (so. DB), Sawyer Monticello (sr. LB). The 2018 players were chosen from the four high school teams in Arlington: Bishop O’Connell, Wakefield, Washington-Lee and Yorktown.
Yorktown Players, O’Connell Coach Were Season’s Finest A Staff Report
Arlington’s most successful high school football team during the 2018 season was the Yorktown Patriots. They finished 6-5, second in the Liberty District with a 4-1 mark for the second year in a row, and earned a Northern Region D playoff berth. The county’s other three varsity teams had losing records. As a result of the Patriots’ success, Yorktown junior quarterback Grant Wilson and senior linebacker Jack McCool have been chosen as the Sun Gazette’s Players of the Year on offense and defense, respectively. The 6-foot-3, 205-pound Wilson completed 134 of 212 passes for 1,770 yards and threw 15 touchdown passes this past fall. Wilson ran for another
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well as a top run-stopper and pass defender. McCool had 98 total tackles, of which 48 were solo, had 22 tackles for losses and amassed 17 sacks. The Bishop O’Connell Knights won just three football games during the 2018 campaign, but the bottom seed upset the top seed in the conference playoffs, before losing in the championship game. Playing a tough schedule and suffering injuries to many key starters, causing them to miss games or ending their seasons, O’Connell coach Colin Disch kept the team competitive and improving as the season progressed, never giving up. For those reasons, Disch is the Sun Gazette’s 2018 Coach of the Year. January 3, 2019 17
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Arlington history Items taken from the archives of the Northern Virginia Sun. Find out more on local history at the Web site www.arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org. January 2, 1936: n The County Board has reappointed Roy Braden as county manager. n Congress is considering establishment of a power plant to harness the Potomac River flow at Great Falls. n U.S. Rep. Howard Smith wants Congress to decide, once and for all, on the boundary between Virginia and the District of Columbia. n The new ABC liquor store in Clarendon opened Dec. 20, and is doing big business. n Local state senators say they will oppose plans for a statewide sales tax. n Virginia’s unemployment rate of 4.9 percent is well below the national average of 7.1 percent. n The Sun’s editorial page is complimentary of the establishment of the 170,000-acre Shenandoah National Forest. January 2, 1965: n New County Board Chairman Joseph Fisher said getting the proposed regional subway system moving forward is a key priority for the new year. n A wave of church construction has hit Northern Virginia. January 2, 1967: n Arlington’s postmaster blames teens for a rash of mailbox-vandalism incidents. January 2, 1973: n New County Board Chairman Everard Munsey says Arlington could create a redevelopment authority to deal with upcoming construction efforts. Also serving on the County Board for 1973: Joseph Fisher, Joseph Wholey, Kenneth Haggerty and John Purdy. January 2, 1982: n Gov. Robb has appointed Joseph Fisher as his Secretary of Human Resources. n Democrats are working to find a candidate to take on U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-10th. n Half of all of the commonwealth’s rabies cases last year were reported in Northern Virginia.
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