Falls Church News-Press 11-18-2021

Nov. 18 — 24, 2021

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The new “modern farmhouse” design welcomes visitors

BY AMANDA SNEAD

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After months of remodeling, the newly redesigned and renamed Birch and Broad shopping center (formerly known as Falls Plaza) is nearing completion. The project includes façade renovation, new signage and more to add to the new modern farmhouse design of the 144,000 square foot shopping center.

Stores include Giant Food, Conte’s Bike Shop, CVS Pharmacy, Plaka Grill, Starbucks, Jersey Mike’s and Road Runner Sports and the addition of Crumbl Cookies, Bolay Fresh Bold Kitchen and Aqua-Tots Swim Schools were just announced.

The project is expected to be completed soon with a grand opening, including a “grand illumination” ceremony that is expected to take place some time in the near future, likely

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Local Nonprofits and Businesses Mix at Chamber Luncheon

BY AMANDA SNEAD

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The Falls Church Chamber of Commerce held its annual Nonprofit Forum and Networking Luncheon this Tuesday. The event invited both nonprofits and

Chamber-member businesses from the community to come together and showcase their work.

Before the luncheon began, representatives from the nonprofit organizations set up tables to discuss their mission. Nonprofits in attendance ranged from those who

have been in the Falls Church area for decades to some that are very new.

The event took place just in time for Giving Tuesday, a “global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity.”

Founded in 2012, Giving Tuesday

encourages people to do something good for their community, including donating to local charities and nonprofits.

The Northern Virginia Mental Health Foundation was one of the

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Students of Creative Cauldron’s Learning Theater have spent weeks preparing for their production of the classic “Aesop’s Fables” with a modern twist. The show reimagines the stories in the 21st century.

Gray Face Acres is a local nonprofit dog rescue founded in 2016 and located in Haymarket. They work with nearby shelters to foster and adopt out dogs that are older and/or medically needy.

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Editorial............................................... 6 Letters................................................. 6 Comment .........................................7,9 News & Notes....................... 10,11,15 Crime Report ...................................... 8 Calendar ........................................... 16 Classified Ads ................................... 20 Comics.............................................. 21 Critter Corner.................................... 22 Business News ................................. 23

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Local Dog Rescue Helps Find Forever Homes for Senior Dogs in Need

by Amanda Snead

Falls Church News-Press

Gray Face Acres is a dog rescue located in Haymarket that specializes in senior dogs.

Founders Bob and Debbie Gretz created the organization in 2016 after years of fostering seniors in their own home. Since then, Gray Face Acres has rescued almost 400 senior dogs.

In 2019, the Gretzes headed to Idaho to be closer to family and have begun working on Gray Face Acres West.

Treasurer Jade Nguyen, who began as a volunteer with the group, now helps to run Gray Face Acres East alongside a dedicated group of volunteers and foster parents. They say it takes a village to raise a child and the same can be said for finding homes for older dogs.

Nguyen stressed that running

this rescue would not be possible if not for the help of volunteers, foster parents, veterinarians and donations.

Senior dogs can be anywhere from seven years old to much older. Gray Face Acres specializes not only in helping seniors but also medically needy dogs who may need some extra care— something that sets them apart from other rescues.

After arriving, dogs go into foster care before being adopted and finding their forever home. Foster parents take a dog into their care before they are adopted, making sure they are well-loved and taken care of.

Foster parents are also involved in helping to find a home that will be the right fit for the dog after getting to know them during their time as a foster.

Jani Willis has been fostering for Gray Face Acres for

LIL BEAR was rescued by Gray Face Acres in August. His coat was incredibly dirty and had to be shaved. He was also discovered to have heart disease. Even with these issues, Bear is still a happy and active pup who has recieved lots of love and care from the GFA team. (Photo: Courtesy of Gray Face Acres)

two years now after finding out about the rescue through a search on social media. She has fostered almost 30 animals, many of which came from Gray Face Acres. “[Gray Face Acres] care[s] so much about their dogs,” said Willis. “They make sure that they’re well cared for, that medical needs are addressed and they do a great job of screening applicants to find the best match for the dog and the person.

They do whatever the dog needs while still being fund-conscious and I cannot express the importance of volunteers and donors enough.”

She was drawn to fostering seniors in particular after seeing acquaintances give their seniors up to shelters for various reasons. She felt heartbroken for these animals and made it a priority to help them as much as possible.

“It’s a chance to change a dog’s life for the better or make sure their end of life is quality— which is what they deserve,” she said.

The rescue also works with nearby animal shelters in order to make sure seniors do not have to spend an extended amount of time in a shelter.

“Most of these dogs have never been in an animal shelter and have known one family for their entire lives,” said Nicole Bates from the Stafford County Animal Shelter. “When an animal comes in and they’re 10 years old or older, they’ve never been in a shelter so they don’t know us, they don’t know the environment. It’s much harder for them to adjust. It’s important for them to spend as little time here at an animal shelter as possible.”

Stafford County Animal Shelter has been working with Gray Face Acres for two years now. Bates said that the team has always been responsive and prompt. She said she worries about the seniors that get sent out but has an incredible amount of trust in the rescue to make sure they are well taken care of.

When asked if she had any advice for someone looking to adopt a senior dog, Bates said patience is one of the most important things.

“Patience is a huge part of adopting a senior because it does take them longer to adjust,” she said. “Some of them are mourn-

FLUFFY (LEFT) AND HEIDI (RIGHT) were rescued by Gray Face Acres from an animal shelter after a member of GFA saw them through a Facebook post. Fluffy is a blind 14 year old and Heidi is 17 years old with a few health issues. As the two are bonded, GFA plans to keep the two together. (Photo: Courtesy of Gray Face Acres)

ing or stressed, they might have a medical ailment that makes it harder for them to adjust to a new lifestyle. Patience, love and a warm place to live are the top three things to take a senior.

They do take a little longer than the average adult dog or puppy to adjust to your home and family. It’s just as much of a change for them as it is for you. It might take a while but it’s so rewarding.”

Nguyen said that there are no set quotas for the amount of dogs Gray Face Acres has at any given time.

“We get requests on a daily basis and if we can help then we will. We always have to keep in mind how much money we have in the bank but really, if we get a request and a dog is in need, we’ll do what we can,” she said.

The rescue makes sure that both the dogs and parents feel comfortable before, during and after adopting with their 3—3—3 check ins. Families are checked in on after three days as the dog begins to slowly settle into the home, they are

checked in on again after three weeks, three months and then six months. This helps ensure that everyone is settling in and doing well.

“When you commit [to a senior dog] and then the dog passes, you’re going to feel heartbroken,” said Nguyen, who has had many seniors of her own. “You’ll be sad for a long time. What I always tell myself, as well as other people, is that the sacrifice of sorrow at the end is your final gift to them.

You gave them everything you could while they were alive and you bear the heartache when they pass.”

Gray Face Acres is always looking for volunteers and donors as it is a 100 percent volunteer and donation based organization. More information, including a list of available dogs, a volunteer application and a foster application can be found online at https://www. grayfaceacres.org/. Donations can be made via Paypal at paypal.me/grayfaceacres or via Venmo to @GrayFaceAcres.

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Creative Cauldron Gives Classic Fables a Modern Twist

BY AMANDA SNEAD

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Aesop’s Fables are classic tales that many will remember from childhood. The fables began as an oral tradition in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE and have since been written out and passed on through generations.

But what would it be like if these fables took place in modern times? Creative Cauldron’s Learning Theater production of Aesop’s Fables does just that. The Boy Who Cried Wolf is busy playing on his phone and the Ants are snacking on Cheetos, bringing a unique 21st century twist to the well-loved classic stories along with music.

The show was put on by Creative Cauldron’s Learning Theater Ensemble, an eight week acting workshop which helps young actors learn about memorizing lines, putting on a production and more, ending with a final production— in this case, Aesop’s Fables. The youngest of the group recently turned eight years old.

As a majority of the characters in these characters are animals, costume designer Margie Jervis and a

team of volunteers set out to make incredible masks for all of the performers. The masks cover the entire face of the performer so masks can be worn underneath for an extra layer of protection along with the audience showing proof of vaccination and wearing masks for the performance.

“We were thrilled to produce our first Learning Theater production in 21 months, and begin to see families return to the Cauldron,” said Laura Conners Hull, director of the play and founder of Creative Cauldron. “We chose Aesop’s Fables because it afforded us the extra protective aspect of all the characters being in masks. And we knew that Margie Jervis, our resident Scenic and Costume Designer, would make them astonishing.”

The audience was filled with adults and children alike. For the adults in attendance, the show likely brings a sense of nostalgia to stories from their childhood but the modern twists keep it unique and entertaining. For many of the younger audience members, this may be their first time hearing these stories and they will certainly walk away from the

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The show ended with a question and answer session where audience members could ask members of the Learning Theater questions.

Members of the audience were all eager to ask questions and the Learning Theater were even more eager to answer them. Questions ranged from acting to costumes and

more with almost everyone on stage raising their hand to answer.

This is the perfect show for people of all ages. The actors in the show have put in lots of time and effort to make this production a great one and it is the first time on stage for many of them. The show closes this weekend so make sure to get your tickets and see it for yourself!

Aesop’s Fables closes this weekend at Creative Cauldron with shows on Friday, November 19 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, November 20 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, November 21 at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. To purchase tickets and find out more details on Covid protocol, visit Creative Cauldron’s website at https://www. creativecauldron.org/.

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Birch and Broad Shopping Center Prepares for Grand Illumination Continued from Page 1

before Christmas.

The renovation comes ahead of development of the new 10-acre project across the street, whose construction is about to begin.

In addition to its retailers, the Birch and Broad center will include outdoor dining spaces, including one that will be heated during the winter months ahead.

“We are pleased by Federal Realty’s new investment in the Birch and Broad shopping center. The fresh look of the facade, enhanced landscaping, and outdoor dining areas will be enjoyed by City shoppers and help Birch and Broad’s new and established businesses succeed,” Phil Duncan, Falls Church Council member and Chair of the Council’s Economic Development Committee, told the News-Press.

Located at the intersection of West Broad Street and Birch Street, the shopping center has already received lots of new traffic as new stores have begun to open.

“As we approach the completion of the renovation, we are thrilled to welcome the addition of three more notable merchants advancing Birch

and Broad to almost full occupancy,” said Deirdre Johnson, vice president of asset management for Federal in a recent press release. “The upgraded aesthetics and outdoor amenities combined with a first-rate mix of shopping, dining and service merchants enhances the experiential element of Birch and Broad creating a premier destination for our neighbors and visitors of the City of Falls Church to gather and enjoy.”

From groceries, to coffee shops, sit down restaurants and more, there is something for everyone in this redesigned space.

Said Chris Gannon, CEO and co-founder of Bolay Fresh Bold Kitchen, “We’re in a growth phase and this will be a really exciting opening for us — our first Virginia location. We hope to open our doors at Birch & Broad in summer of 2022.” Patrons of Bolay can build their own “Bol” options featuring healthy plants and proteins. “Guests can expect fine dining food at the speed and cost of fast casual — a menu with really delicious bold flavors.”

In addition to groceries and food, recreation for kids will also be available at the new Aqua Tots location

THE NEWLY redesigned shopping center features a “modern farmhouse” look.

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— a swim school that is open all year long with a heated indoor pool, teaching children from four months to 12 years old how to swim.

“This is a moment of major expansion for the franchise, and we are excited to invite local fami-

lies to register their little ones for world-class swimming lessons,” said Andrew George, owner of the Birch and Broad location of Aqua-Tots.

“There are a lot of kids in the Falls Church area, and we can’t wait to get them in the water.”

While plans for an official grand opening are still in the works and have not been finalized, there are many locations already open in the shopping center and more information on the grand illumination is expected to be announced soon.

Holiday Guide November 25th - December 23rd issues Our holiday guide this year will cover everything you need for a wonderful, enjoyable holiday with your family and friends.

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Local Nonprofits Recognized by Chamber Ahead of Giving Tuesday

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nonprofits in attendance. the Foundation partners with local mental health organizations and providers to help those with mental health concerns receive the help that they need. Established in 1993, NVMHF has since helped over 6,000 clients.

Some of the services they provide include registering clients for educational and technical courses to help them get a job, providing an outing for residents in a group home, cleaning out the house of a hoarder and many more. More information about the Foundation and ways to volunteer and donate can be found at novamentalhealth.org/.

The Lost Dog and Cat Rescue Foundation was also at the event.

Founded in 2011, owners Pam McAlwee and Ross Underwood purchased 63 acres of land in Sumerduck VA and began building The Lost Dog Ranch, a kennel facility for homeless pets with plenty of outdoor space for dogs to run and a cage-free building for cats. They have since helped to save over 40,000 animals, many of which were facing euthanasia at overcrowded shelters. Every weekend LDCRF holds off-site adoption events at local pet

stores to help animals find their forever homes. More information about the rescue, as well as ways to donate and volunteer, can be found on their website at.lostdogrescue.org/.

NOVA ScriptsCentral works to provide quality integrated pharmaceutical care and medication access to the low-income uninsured children and adults of Northern Virginia. Founded in 2004, the organization works to ensure everyone in the Northern Virginia community has access to receive often lifesaving medications, immunizations and medical care. They believe that everyone should have access to quality healthcare. NOVA ScriptsCentral is focused on working with clinic partners to achieve the ‘triple aim’ from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. The triple aim focuses on optimizing health, cost, and care for the underserved community. More information on the services they provide and ways to donate can be found online at novascripts.org/.

The Arc of Northern Virginia promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.

They work to come up with local solutions to the national crisis of families struggling to support their loved ones with disabilities. Some of the many services they offer include advocating on state and local levels to ensure quality community based services and resources, helping youth transition from school to adult life in the community, empowering advocates with self-advocacy skills through their People First and Toastmasters programs and much more. For more information on how to support their efforts, visit thearcofnova.org/.

The Falls Church Education Foundation was created in 2004 to raise, manage and distribute supplemental funds to enhance the educational experience of Falls Church City Public School students. The Foundation hosts multiple fundraisers every year in the community including the annual Home and Garden Tour and the Little City Scramble golf tournament. This past week, the FCEF presented over $51,000 in Super Grants to FCCPS Staff. To find out more about the Foundation and learn more ways to support them, check out their website at.fcedf.org/.

Columbia Baptist Church seeks

to create a safe and diverse community for people to explore their faith. They offer services in multiple languages and in different settings, from a more traditional church space to coffeehouses and other locations. On November 21, they will be holding a 5K/3K race, this annual fundraiser helps raise funds for their hunger projects, including the food pantry located in Bailey’s Crossroads. More information about the race and the church can be found at columbiabaptist.org/.

Better Together Falls Church was created to help out small businesses during the struggles of the pandemic and its impact on the community.

This apparel fundraiser uses 100 percent of the money raised to purchase gift cards to small businesses in the Little City. The gift cards then go to local charities that support the community. Tees, sweatshirts and beanies can be purchased at bettertogetherfc.org. Any items purchased now through November 29 will ship on December 7.

Creative Cauldron was founded in 2002 and is dedicated to providing affordable, enriching, and diverse experiences in the performing and visual arts to Northern Virginia and the greater Washington, DC com-

munity. The theater puts on multiple performances every year as well as hosting workshops and lessons for all ages. Currently, the Learning Theater is putting on “Aesop’s Fables,” which closes this weekend.

Their next production will be “The Christmas Angel,” beginning on December 9. To purchase tickets to their performances or find out more about volunteer opportunities and workshops, visit creativecauldron. org/.

The luncheon ended with a speech from Brian Creswick of Chartis Federal who spoke about the importance of supporting nonprofits through your business, especially in a small community such as Falls Church.

Additionally, the city of Falls Church is celebrating Live Local Month with a giveaway. Everyone who uses the hashtag #LiveLocalFC on social media when visiting local businesses will be eligible to win a $100 gift card to the local Falls Church business of their choice.

More information on the #LiveLocalFC giveaway can be found on the Chamber of Commerce website at fallschurchchamber.org as well as a full list of nonprofit organizations in the city.

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An Embarrassment Of Riches?

In what could be called a veritable “embarrassment of riches,” the Falls Church City Council will make some important decisions at its meeting this Monday on how to deploy what’s a whopping sum for a city Falls Church’s size, some $14 million in surplus funds, with another $8 million or so still to come.

The year of Covid-19 has produced this surplus, including a $3.2 million surplus in the Fiscal Year 21 year end balance and the first of two installments of the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds designed to compensate for the impact of the pandemic on jurisdictions throughout the country. But it’s not as if the City doesn’t have serious needs for these funds.

Perhaps in ways not anticipated, the pandemic has taken an enormous toll on everyone, and the City of Falls Church is no exception. At the top of the list are the needs that come under the category of “human capital.”

Notwithstanding the suffering and death (750,000 Americans dead and many more still to come) caused by the Covid-19 virus,itself, there has been a radical disruption of the life patterns of most Americans to one degree or another. The patently absurd politically-led resistance to the vaccines developed in absolutely stunning record time in the last year has seriously exacerbated the problem, keeping the threat of new waves of even deadlier strands of the virus alive. One can only imagine the shape we’d be if those vaccines were still years off, as per the expectations of experts when the challenge first confronted us. The U.S. would be totally decimated as a world power and its population ravaged on a scale barely imaginable. Yet fools or worse, motivated by disinformation from our nation’s cruellest enemies, persist.

We fully support whatever mandatory mitigation efforts our best experts might require of us, and that includes stiff penalties for any public official or influencer who stands against them on behalf of the public.

As for Falls Church’s challenges represented by its need to mitigate the effects with surplus dollars here, they clearly fall in the area of human compensation, almost completely. This is not the time to get excited about how this money can be used to fix infrastructure not in dire need or to offer merely symbolic tax relief that would be a terrible waste of government resources to implement. Not when people are hurting badly, and as always disproportionately at the lower end of the economic scale.

The funds need to be deployed to compensate for the salary and job losses of all City and school employees and for small businesses that can’t afford to hire at anything like adequate compensation levels. Such businesses need to be properly seen as co-collaborators with the wider government effort to tend to the needs of the public, and helped with the means to do that by staying in business and hiring.

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Leave the Leaves Editor, How many of us reflexively pile our leaves in the street by the curb waiting for noisy City trucks to vacuum them up, then collect leaf mulch from the City or buy bagged mulch in the spring?

How many of us realize that just 30 minutes of using a gas leaf blower can emit more pollutants than driving 3,900 miles in a Ford F-150, according to Edmunds. com?

How many of us know that, in just 2019, the City’s Public Works crews removed 308,000 pounds of debris — much of it leaves — from our stormwater system?

What if you just left your leaves in your garden? The benefits are many!

As leaves decompose, they feed your trees and planting beds, enrich the soil and act as an overwinter blanket that protects plant roots.

Leaves create habitat for overwintering or hibernating butterfly pupae and other helpful habitat insects.

Saved or bagged leaves are the perfect “browns” for a better composting mixture when spring grass clippings are plentiful.

Leaves pulverized into small pieces will decompose and feed your lawn — free lawn fertilizer!

Humans benefit from less noise and air pollution from loud gas-powered leaf blowers.

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If you must remove some leaves from your property, rake them to the edge of your yard near, but not into, the street. If you bag leaves for removal use paper yard waste bags, never plastic.

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Afforable Hosing in Falls Church Editor, I was pleased to see an article about a topic that all people living in FCC should be aware of and care about. Despite FCCs claim that they are very fair and care about disadvantaged communities, it has really only one “affordable” housing complex — the Fields Apartments. The article showed us that the management and the FCC Housing Department aren’t ensuring that these people live in safe, clean and well cared for way. Not a great way for the most affluent city in this area to show they care about disadvantaged communities. I hope the New Press continues to follow this story to ensure that this situation is rectified and explore ways the City can add more affordable housing.

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So What Just Happened? An Evaluation of This Month’s Election Results B� D���� T������

As Democrats scramble to learn the lessons of the recent election, here are a few to consider: 1. State policies matter—so talk about them. Virginia Democrats pushed and passed popular initiatives—Medicaid expansion, the ERA, minimum wage increases, gun safety measures, and, despite the rhetoric of “defund the police,” enhanced funding for law enforcement. Somehow, these got lost. Former Governor McAuliffe started his campaign heralding his bold plan for historic investments in education. That too was lost, as the campaign appeared overly fixated on Trump and his politics of division. Some voters did not focus on what Democrats were doing in Richmond—and were not sure what could happen in another McAuliffe administration. Others were angry with what Democrats were not doing in Washington.

They cared little for internecine party scrabbles between progressives and moderates.

They wanted results.

2. Schools and parents matter. Mr. Youngkin seized on Mr. McAuliffe’s remark that he didn’t “believe parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” and used it to undermine the former governor’s promise to make “historic” investments in education and teacher salaries. Into the fall, polls showed a significant increase in the percentage of voters who viewed education as their top issue, rising from 15 percent in September to 24 percent in late October. Election-day

exit polling reported that a supermajority of Virginia voters believed parents should have a voice in what schools teach their children. Youngkin’s positioning on the issue undermined a key element of the Democratic coalition — suburban women. Two counties where Democrats had gained substantially in recent years illustrate the change. In Loudoun

“Despite concerns

that a Republican governorship will mean the rollback of key Democratic initiatives, the Senate, barring death or defection, remains under Democratic control until at least 2023.”

County, McAuliffe’s 11-point win paled in comparison to Biden’s 25-point margin a year ago. Similarly, Democrats won Chesterfield by 7 points in 2020, only to lose it by 11 this year. Finally, McAuliffe dramatically underperformed with women.

3. We remain divided into our respective political tribes. There was little ticketsplitting in Virginia, and that resulted in

Democratic losses in close races up and down the ticket. Even with the massive Republican turnout, a swing of several hundred votes in three House races would have preserved Democratic control of that body. Youngkin’s victory was neither a landslide nor a mandate.

If it had occurred 10 years ago, it would have appeared to be just another Republican win. But the formerly reliable red state has changed in the last two decades — and a GOP win is therefore perceived as a disruptive outlier.

4. Voting rights matter. Virginia Democrats made voting much easier, instituting no-excuse early voting for 45 days prior to the election. It is one reason why the Commonwealth saw the largest turnout for a governor’s race in recent history — by a lot. Much of the early vote came from reliably red areas across the state. Even as McAuliffe won 600,000 more votes than in 2013 and 200,000 more than Northam’s total in 2017, Republican turnout overwhelmed the Democrats, especially in traditionally red areas, where some increases were greater than 40 percent..

5. Diversity is not Destiny. The change in the demographic mix in Virginia has been thought to be a major cause of Democratic victories in 14 of the last 21 statewide elections, wins in every presidential contest since Obama in 2008, and the election of two Democratic U.S. Senators. But this year, it was not decisive. Youngkin made inroads in the African American and Hispanic communities. Moreover, the electorate included more

white voters than 2020. White Virginians accounted for 74 percent of voters, up from 67 percent last year. And a majority of them voted for Youngkin.

6. Trump was a factor, but not in the way that was expected. Youngkin was masterful in saying enough to mobilize Trump voters while avoiding direct links to the former President. McAuliffe’s constant references to Trump may have motivated some voters to reprise their 2020 vote, but each election, especially in the states, is unique. By 2021, some of the anti-Trump energy so critical to the success of Virginia Democrats in 2019 and 2020 had dissipated, and McAuliffe’s efforts to link his opponent to the former President may have unintentionally fueled a perception that he was the divisive candidate who had little to say about state issues. In fact, exit polls showed that independents, many of whom remain extremely uncomfortable with Trump, broke for Youngkin.

Despite concerns that a Republican governorship will mean the rollback of key Democratic initiatives, the Senate, barring death or defection, remains under Democratic control until at least 2023. That should prevent the Commonwealth from moving too quickly in a conservative direction. But the Governor’s powers are extensive, and his ability to bring change, either through appointments, executive action, or the budget cannot be overlooked.

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A Penny for Your Thoughts

News of Greater Falls Church

By Supervisor Penny Gross

The Constitution of the United States (Article I, Section 2) requires an enumeration of people to determine the number of Representatives for each state. The requirements of that ancient document have been followed for more than 200 years, but perhaps with much more angst and interpretation now than in the past. At the Commonwealth level, the failure of the bipartisan Virginia Redistricting Commission to agree about anything may force the decisions about new Congressional and General Assembly districts to the Virginia Supreme Court. Surely the voters who supported the ballot question last year, which created the commission, are disappointed, but perhaps not surprised.

At the local level, the responsibility for adopting redrawn magisterial district boundaries rests with the Board of Supervisors. In June, the Board appointed a 20-member Redistricting Advisory Committee (RAC) to review the census data and make recommendations for new maps. The RAC had one member from each magisterial district, plus representatives from the NAACP, the Democratic and Republican parties, the Federation of Citizens Associations, and other recognized groups. Plans were solicited from the general public, and a total of 64 suggested maps were submitted. Most maintained nine districts, but there were some 10— and 11— district proposals, too, many more than the three plans submitted by the public in 2011. All the 2021 maps are available on-line at https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/redistricting.

Census data indicates that Fairfax County grew only by 69,139 residents during the decade.

In 2010, census data showed that Mason District had the fewest residents, 109,326; in 2020, Mason

District still had the fewest people, 119,416. For comparison, the neighboring Providence District has 139,268, probably reflecting the high residential growth in the Tysons area. In 2001 and 2011, redistricting moved a handful of precincts, and the same is anticipated this time. Although some plans suggested moving dozens of precincts, the goal of redistricting is not to disrupt, but maintain fair and proportional representation.

At the public hearing conducted at the Board of Supervisors meeting last week, many speakers advocated to stay in their current district, although several speakers made impassioned demands for a new 10th district, to encompass the Lorton area in the southern part of the county.

Mason District, most likely, will have to add one or two precincts to balance population, and Providence District is likely to lose one or two, not necessarily all to Mason. Any changes to magisterial district boundaries will not change school attendance boundaries, a responsibility of the School Board, not the Board of Supervisors.

The hearing record remains open; public comments will be accepted until December 7, when the Board is expected to adopt final maps. The RAC is being extended to consider potential name changes for magisterial districts, most likely for Lee and Sully, both named for people who enslaved others, and Springfield, which contains very little of what we know as Springfield. New boundaries would take effect immediately; district name changes would be considered in the spring.  Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@ fairfaxcounty.gov.

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C RIM E R EPO RT Week of Nov. 8 — 14, 2021 Robbery, Wilson Blvd, Nov 9, 12:55 PM, unknown suspects driving a black SUV forcefully removed a necklace from victim’s neck. Suspects described as a male, around 50 years old, and a female, around 45-50 years old, and a younger male.

Obstruction of Justice, Identity Theft, E Annandale Rd, Nov 10, 8:54 AM, a male, 53, of Dumfries, VA was arrested for Obstructing Justice and Identity Theft.

Fraud, Offutt Dr, Nov 11, 11:44 AM, an incident of fraud was reported.

Shoplifting, Wilson Blvd, Nov 14, 3:15 PM, two unknown suspects took merchandise from an establishment without paying. Suspect one

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described as a male, approximately 6 feet 2 inches tall, muscular build, wearing a black hoodie, grey sweat pants and a dark face mask. The second subject was a male, approximately 5 feet 10 inches tall, thin build, wearing a black hoodie, black jeans, white shoes and a blue face mask.

Sex Offense – Forcible Rape, W Broad St, Nov 10, 10 PM, an adult female was sexually assaulted by a suspect who has been identified. A warrant for his arrest has been issued.

Trespass, E Fairfax St, Nov 11, 8:52 PM, a male, 65, of no fixed address, was arrested for trespass.

Assault, Roosevelt Blvd, Nov 13, 4 PM, an assault was reported.

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Delegate Marcus Simon’s

Richmond Report When I was first elected to the Virginia General Assembly in 2013, I was one of 32 Democrats serving with 68 Republicans. Our small caucus was loud and scrappy, but hardly mighty.

We couldn’t even muster the votes to sustain a Governor’s veto.

When I returned from that first session, I was frequently asked how I found my experience as a first-time legislator. I answered this way, “I went down with very low expectations, and they were all met.”

Two terms later, after a wave election that brought us to within a single vote over the majority, I had a much different experience, having the opportunity to actually pass my own meaningful legislation.

For the last two years, since Democrats took the majority with 55 seats, I’ve found myself very much in the thick of the action in Richmond, chairing a committee, several subcommittees and legislative commissions, including the inaugural Virginia Redistricting Commission.

In the wake of this year’s disappointing election results, I will return to Richmond in January having recalibrated my expectations once again.

Barring a very unexpected swing in the results of two close races, I am preparing to serve in the minority caucus.

In addition to being a minority in the House of Delegates, for the first time since I joined the General Assembly, Republicans took over the top three statewide offices.

Fortunately, the Virginia State Senate retains a narrow Democratic Majority capable of thwarting most efforts to roll back the significant progress Democrats made during their two years in control of all branches of state government.

History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. In 2018 and 2019 Republicans held a very narrow majority in both the House and the Senate, but Democrats controlled the state house.

Although those two years were mostly quiet, we did have some major initiatives pass during that period, most notably the expansion of Medicaid in the Commonwealth.

So, while I suspect it will be a relatively quiet session or two with neither party in a position to bully through their own agenda, there may be opportunities to make breakthroughs on important issues.

I hope to once again be in the mix as we look for those opportunities.

The House Democratic Caucus met last weekend to elect our leadership team. Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn and Delegate Charniele Herring will

be our Democratic Leader and Caucus Chair, respectively. The Caucus also voted in Delegate Betsy Carr as Treasurer, Delegate Jeion Ward as Vice Chair of Operations, Delegate Don Scott as Vice Chair of Outreach, and Delegate Elizabeth Guzman as Sergeant at Arms. I was also re-elected as Secretary.

With a such geographically and racially diverse leadership team, we are underscoring our commitment to our progressive agenda. We will hold Republicans accountable if they try to undermine or undercut the progress we made during the recent regular session and special sessions.

For my part, I will continue to represent my district to the best of my ability, working with my colleagues and leadership to keep Virginia the best place to live, work, start a business, or raise a family. Enhance voter protections, prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, implementing tangible campaign finance reform, enacting meaningful gun violence prevention legislation, and addressing the student loan debt crisis will remain a large part of my legislative agenda.

While substantive reforms will be difficult given the make-up of the General Assembly, it will not stop me from preparing for whatever 2022 holds.

There is another cause for optimism. The most recent general fund report shows a 15.6% percent revenue increase and that 531,000 jobs were added to payrolls. In fact, the two previous reports were also revised to show a robust increase in the labor market with a three-month job increase average of 422,000. Unemployment in Virginia fell to 4.6 percent, which is the lowest rate since March 2020. This is great news for the Governor’s proposed budget that will come out later in December.

For those that may be looking for ways to be involved or at least stay in the loop on what’s going on, there are Virginia-based organizations that organize around issues and specific legislation. Equality Virginia, New Virginia Majority, and Progress Virginia are great options for those wishing to volunteer or simply get session policy updates on specific issues. The Commonwealth Institute (TCI) provides helpful economic-based reports and analyses.

Of course, if you’d like to stay in the know on what I’m working on, you can sign up for my e-newsletter (www.MarcusSimon.com) or follow me on social media.

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This Soup Called Our Universe

It has been disputed whether the comments attributed to the world’s foremost theoretical physicist Albert Einstein and quoted in this space a couple weeks ago are actually his, or the work of an imposter. Suffice it to say that if it’s the latter, we are genuinely sorry for contributing to the spread of misleading information. However, the quotes, which were reported as addressed to his daughter after many years’ being out of touch, bear an imprint of universality that, if Einstein did not actually make them, nonetheless qualify for profound words FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS on the origins and purpose of the universe.

All the quotes take Einstein’s incredible insights on the substantial universe, those embodied in and extrapolated from his e=mc2 shorthand, and substitute the word “love” for energy. Now, what’s so wrong with that?

The fundamental reality of our existence that common notions of physics fail to account for is the most mind-boggling of all our experiences, that one that can perhaps be summed up in Spinoza’s dictum, “I think, therefore I am.” Often thought of as an egregious oversimplification of Spinoza’s thought, the little phrase, on the other hand, is amazingly succinct in achieving the most important crossover separating, in our minds, the objective from the subjective. It proposes in a most radical way to integrate them.

How do we view the objective universe that we experience by looking skyward, on the one hand, and inward to the functioning of our minds, on the other? How does the experience of our cognitive mental processes inform what we observe through the most powerful of telescopes?

What is the consequence of appreciating, or experiencing, the coherence of these two factors? Their oneness?

Love, you ask? Do not the most fundamental laws of nature involve forms of attraction through what we call gravity, for example. Do energies of the universe not spin toward one another and collide? What if the human mind, your mind, dear reader, knows and experiences forms of attraction that are interpreted by our conscious assessment to be in the form of physical and emotional attractions that we associate with terms like “love?”

What is this is the “stuff” of the so-called objective universe that is so vast and beyond our ability (yet) to fully examine? There is this bizarre phenomenon acknowledged by science called “entanglement theory,” defined thusly: “Entanglement is a mechanical phenomenon in which the states of two or more objects have to be described with reference to each other, even though the individual objects may be spatially separated.

This leads to correlations between observable physical properties of the systems.”

It means that there are components of reality that are in such a seemingly symbiotic relationship with other components that they mirror each other in ways that cut right through time and space and appear as action at a distance.

Einstein, himself, called entanglement theory a “spooky” component of reality. It states this hypothesis: ”If one logically inexplicable thing is known to exist, then this permits the existence of all logically inexplicable things.”

All the old saws about love, such as “love at first sight” and inexplicable attractions of opposites can take up harbor in these “spooky” aspects to the physically measurable components of our universe and of ourselves as participants in this universe.

One can argue that with all this, the best one can do is to work on opening up sensibilities to whatever this soup is that we’ve swimming in its totality as well as its specificity. Good luck.

So no wonder that the annual survey of U.S. astronomers this year has placed at the top of its to-do list the search for extraterrestrial life.

The 614-page Nov. 4 report by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found that the most scientifically-oriented folk now think that the search for ET is a top priority.

They want to know: Is life on earth the result of a common process, or does it require such an unusual set of circumstances that we on this planet are conceivably the only living beings anywhere?

It’s now important to know, because life and love as we know them suddenly seem to really “matter.”

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Our Man in Arlington

By Charlie Clark

The well-envisioned Black Heritage Museum of Arlington is again seeking a home.

The nonprofit conceived in the 1990s to tell the story of the 19th -century African Americans who moved from slavery to Freedmans Village and upward in the 20th century has gone from drawing board, to virtual, to two sites of physical space, to limbo.

Rent prices ratcheting upward on Columbia Pike have imposed new challenges on the volunteer-run project (currently sharing space with the Columbia Pike Partnership) that has met its share of disappointing treatment from land-use authorities.

Credit the conception of this unique local resource to the late Arlington Public Schools teacher and official Evelyn Syphax, who died in 2000, and to employment counselor and Freedmans Village bridge champion Talmadge Williams, who died in 2014.

Syphax’s son Craig, who has served as president of the initially virtual museum, reminded me of the missteps in the quest for a building site. Responding to the widespread desire for a museum on the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, Congress in 2008, after a push from Sen. John Warner, R-Va., passed a bill that would authorize several Arlingtonarea projects on the site of the tagged for demolition Navy Annex.

A black history museum was among them, envisioned alongside what in 2006 opened as the Air Force Memorial and coming expanded grave space for Arlington

National Cemetery.

“We didn’t make any noise about it since we assumed that because we had legislation, it would handle itself,” Syphax said.

A citizens committee and Arlington County economic development director Terry Holzheimer began meeting at Fort Myer, recalled participant Tamara Moore, a descendant of former enslaved Arlington House worker James Parks and a retired information technology contracts manager at the Pentagon. The complex, with design help from Virginia Tech’s Alexandria staff, was to include meeting space, parking and transportation improvements.

But in the end, the need for grave space won out, which was disappointing to Arlington locals.

“Talmadge Williams went to the Army,” and promotional billboards were installed, but the project was “swept under the rug,” Syphax said.

After the Navy Annex was torn down in 2013, a coalition that included the Black Heritage Museum, the Arlington Historical Society, the county’s Historic Affairs and Landmark Review Board and the Arlington Heritage Center Task Force pushed for a new tourist welcome complex near the entrance to I-395 and Washington Blvd. Arlington County was supposed to gain four-and-a-half acres and a roadway near the Annex site, but again, the Army planners overruled it in favor of future expansion of Arlington Cemetery. “The Defense Department stole a march on Arlington and got the Navy Annex land without any offsetting or compensating property,” recalled

John Richardson, then president of the Arlington Historical Society.

That “second almost-was thing was frustrating,” Taylor said. But the current museum, which celebrated its post-lockdown reopening July 14, can stay in borrowed space until June 2022. Its backers have not given up hope. They received a $100,000 in grant from Amazon, and more from Dominion Energy and the Virginia Humanities Foundation.

The museum is on the national radar—including a recent TV interview. “People hear that segregation ended in this part of Virginia,” Taylor said. The exhibited photo of 1960s civil rights activist Joan Mulholland protesting segregation at an Arlington lunch counter, Taylor notes, “has gone around the world.” *** As more of the decades-old “Lee Highway” signs give way to installation of new ones reading “Langston Blvd.,” the county is taking one more step in the renaming process that demotes one-time Confederate homeboy Robert E. Lee. The stretch of Route 309 known since the 1950s as “Old Lee Highway” linking Waverly Hills to Cherrydale is slated to become “Cherry Hill Rd.,” as announced by the nonprofit Langston Boulevard Alliance.

Following a survey and nominations by local residents, the county board Oct. 19 approved submission of the compromise mashup name for the Commonwealth Transportation Board’s anticipated final approval in December.

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Community News & Notes Aesop’s Weekend

Fables

Closing

Creative Cauldron’s Learning Theater production of Aesop’s Fables will close this weekend.

Fun for the whole family!

“Why do we procrastinate? What should we do when we find ourselves outfoxed? And what if the Boy Who Cried Wolf had access to a smart phone?” All these questions and more are explored in this fresh adaptation of Aesop’s Fables, inspired by the classic morals of these stories and the troupe of student actors who will bring them to life. The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Tortoise and the Hare, and The Lion and the Mouse, have weathered the test of time. The Learning Theater crew bring them to life with a 21st century twist and their classic heart.

Please note: social distancing between parties and masks will be required along with proof of vaccination, or proof of negative Covid Test taken within 72 hours of visit. Accommodations available for students under 12.

Tickets can be purchased online at https://www.creativecauldron.org/aesop.html. Shows take place on Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Proposed Plastic Bag Tax for Falls Church City The City is considering a plastic bag tax, similar to what neighboring jurisdictions have approved. In short, customers of certain retailers — grocery stores, drugstores, and convenience stores — would pay five cents per plastic bag used or, pay nothing by using their own bag.

Revenue could be used only for environmental projects. Want to comment on this potential tax?

Email the City’s Solid Waste team at recycling@fallschurchva.gov. Questions? Visit the Frequently Asked Questions tab on fallschurchva.gov.

Community Center Open Gym Timeslots Available Open Gym at the Community

Center (223 Little Falls St.) is available via registration only for City residents, who can reserve a hoop and an hours-long timeslot online. Visit www.fallschurchva. gov/OpenGym to see the current schedule.

Booster Clinic at Community Center Friday The City of Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St.) is the location of a Covid-19 booster and vaccination clinic on Friday, November 19, from 10 a.m. — 2 p.m.

Appointments are preferred and doses will be limited for walkins. This clinic is provided by the Fairfax Health Department.

The clinic will primarily provide booster shots of the Pfizer vaccine. Booster doses are available to some recipients of the Pfizer vaccine at least six months after their second dose, based on the following recommendations: For individuals who received a Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, the following groups are eligible for a booster shot at six months or more after their initial series: 65 years and older Age 18+ who live in longterm care settings Age 18+ who have underlying medical conditions Age 18+ who work or live in high-risk settings For individuals who received the Covid-19 vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson (Janssen), a single booster shot is recommended at two months or more after receiving the initial vaccination for all persons 18 years of age and up.

Eligible individuals may choose which vaccine to receive as a booster dose. Some people may have a preference for the vaccine type that they originally received and others may prefer to get a different booster. Deciding which brand to use may depend on which brand is available and an individual benefit-risk assessment.

Consider talking to a healthcare provider if you have concerns about which brand of booster to take.

A ROBUST CEREMONY honoring U.S. veterans was held at the Falls Church Veterans Memorial in front of the Community Center on Veterans Day last week. (Photo: Gary Mester) In addition to boosters, the clinic will also have some first and second doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, as well as the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Third doses of Pfizer will be available for those who are immunocompromised. There will be no Pfizer child doses available at this clinic.

Appointments are preferred and available online through this unique Alberton’s link and ensure that the correct number and types of doses are available at the clinic: https://kord i n a t o r. m h e a l t h c o a c h . n e t / vcl/1616262390028.

Questions about this clinic can be directed to the Fairfax County Health Department, 703246-2411 (TTY 711).

Columbia Baptist Church 5K/3K Race to Feed the Hungry Join Columbia Baptist Church this November for their 10th Annual SPEND YOURSELF® 5K Run/3K Walk. Help them reach their goal of $75K. This year, they will have a

hybrid model, racing the streets of the Little City and allowing others to run wherever they are around the world on that day. The USATF Certified 5K course winds through the treelined streets of historic Falls Church City.

The course is a mix of hills and flat stretches, a little something for every level runner.

There will be a water stop along the course. The course also includes a 1 Mile loop for walkers. Strollers are welcome but no bicycles, skateboards, scooters, rollerblades or dogs.

All participants will receive a race shirt and other promotional items.

Columbia has been feeding people locally for 40 years and has partnered with World Vision in Haiti for a decade as well. One hundred percent of the money raised during the 5K/3K Race will benefit Northern Virginia and La Beque, their newest partner community in Haiti.

Register online on the website Run Sign Up: https://runsignup. com/SpendYourself5k

Kensington Falls Friendsgiving

Church

Join the Kensington Falls Church Team and their local partners as they gather to give back to others. Attendees will stuff the truck for friends and neighbors in need.

Drive by anytime between 12 and 6 p.m. and enjoy a little taste of Kensington Falls Church to-go.

To RSVP and see what items are needed, please visit https:// thekensingtonfallschurch.com/ events/friendsgiving/. For more information, reach out to Kayla at Kpeters@kensingtonsl.com or 703-844-1078.

Highway Marker to Honor F.C. Civil Rights Leader A new highway marker in Falls Church will honor Dr. Edwin Bancroft Henderson, a civil rights leader who introduced basketball to African Americans in D.C. in the early 1900s— giving him the name “the Father of Black Basketball.” An unveil-

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ing will be held this Saturday, November 20, at Henderson’s home at 307 S. Maple Street in Falls Church.

Virginia Hospital Center Launches Education Fund Virginia Hospital Center (VHC), a community-based hospital providing medical services to the Washington, DC metropolitan area for 75 years, has launched the James B. Cole Healthcare Education Fund in honor of VHC President and CEO James B. Cole’s retirement after 36 years with the Hospital.

The fund has raised over $700,000 toward advancing education and retaining high performers in healthcare.

“As I reflect on my time at Virginia Hospital Center, I have immense gratitude for the support the Hospital has had from the community and for the dedication of our employees to providing patient-centered, top-quality care,” said James Cole, President and CEO of Virginia Hospital Center.

“The James B. Cole Healthcare Education Fund is, in my opinion, the perfect way to recognize both our community and the VHC staff, supporting training for our wonderful employees and ensuring quality healthcare is available to area residents,” said Russell McWey, M.D., Chairman of the VHC Board of Directors.

With the healthcare industry losing more than 500,000 workers since 2020, this Healthcare Education Fund aims to assist the Hospital in recognizing high performers who aspire to careers in healthcare. Additionally, it will support professional development, certification, and the pursuit of meeting academic requirements toward earning a college degree for those who may not qualify for other existing VHC

funds.

“Investing in Virginia Hospital Center employees allows us to grow our own,” said Tony Burchard, President of the Virginia Hospital Center Health System Foundation. “Through this fund, VHC can recruit and retain highly motivated individuals who will allow us to continue to provide the best care available to our community.”

“The community that Jim Cole has built at Virginia Hospital Center is truly remarkable among healthcare institutions,” said Richard Pollack, President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Hospital Association. “The example that he has set as a leader in the field is one that truly values the contributions of employees at any level, and this fund will have a lasting impact at both Virginia Hospital Center and as an exemplar for other hospitals.”

The resounding support shown for the James B. Cole Healthcare Education Fund largely reflects the lasting impact of Mr. Cole’s tenure as President and CEO on the surrounding community. Recently recognized by the Virginia Assembly for his outstanding service, Mr. Cole has been celebrated across Northern Virginia for his visionary leadership helping VHC to grow into an award-winning medical center.

“The relationships that Jim has built with business and community leaders have had a tremendous impact on the Hospital, its patients, and its employees,” said Randy Anderson, CEO of National Capital Bank. “As co-chairman of the Hospital’s Power of Community campaign, I saw firsthand the amount of respect local leaders have for Jim, and I am honored to be able to support this Healthcare Education Fund in his name.”

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A SEND OFF for long-time Falls Church resident and esteemed statesman Richard McCall (seated, foreground) was held at Anthony’s Restaurant Monday involving friends who shared Monday lunches with him in the recent period. Left to right: F.C. Councilman Phil Duncan, Nicholas Benton, Loren Bruce, Hal Lippman, Tim Stevens, Jody Acosta, Lindy Hockenberry, Bob Young, Ken Feltman, Tom Clinton, Ed Christensen. After decades in F.C., McCall, who served as chief of staff to the head of the State Department’s Agency for International Development (AID) and locally as president of the Citizens for a Better City (CBC) is moving to Easton, Md. (P����: N���-P�����) Donations to the James B. Cole Healthcare Education Fund can be made on the VHC Foundation website. The Fund thanks their supporters at Avison Young, Kaiser Permanente, ePlus Technologies, Skanska, Shoemaker Construction LLC, Aramark, Raymond James, Commercial Condominium Management Co, and E4H.

F.C. City Hall Announces Thanksgiving Days Schedule The Thanksgiving Holiday operating schedule for the City of Falls Church was released yesterday and includes the fol-

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lowing: Wednesday, Nov. 24 — Closed is the Development Services Counter (usually scheduled closure for the last Wednesday of the month); Open will be all other City Government offices and services, including the Mary Riley Styles Public Library and Community Center, will operate normal business hours.

On Thursday, Nov. 25 — All City Government offices and services will be closed on Thanksgiving, including City Hall, Community Center, and the Mary Riley Styles Public Library.

On Friday, Nov. 26 — All City Government offices and services will be closed, including City Hall, Community Center, and the Mary Riley Styles Public Library.

Saturday, November 27, 2021 — A Very Victorian Christmas will be celebrated at the Cherry Hill Farmhouse during its open house from 10 a.m. — 2 p.m. to enjoy period decorations and learn how Christmas was celebrated by the Blaisdell family in the 1860s. Costumed reenactors welcome guests to experience popular holiday traditions.

Hosted by the Victorian Society at Falls Church.

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Certain places even offer custom creations, allowing you to give your loved ones unique presents.

The longer you wait to do your holiday shopping, the more tempting it is to purchase last-minute gifts from large online retailers that offer rapid delivery. If you want to support local businesses, avoid lineups and keep your stress to a minimum, start early. This also ensures everything you’re looking for is still in stock.

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If you want to send out cards to let your friends and relatives know you’re thinking about them over the holiday season, see if any artists or boutiques in your area sell handmade cards. These handcrafted works of art will look beautiful on a mantel, and they may even feature depictions of local landmarks.

When it comes time to decorate your home for the holidays, deck the halls with locally sourced creations. From wreaths and garlands to Christmas tree ornaments and stained-glass window hangings, the artists in your area are sure to offer handcrafted pieces that’ll imbue your home with the spirit of the season.

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Does your community host Christmas markets, parades or outdoor performances ?

These present a wonderful opportunity to spend quality time with loved ones, so make the most of visiting them. Buy a round of hot chocolate for your friends, treat your kids to seasonal snacks or surprise your partner with a little something from one of the stalls.

A new outfit will help you put your best foot forward at your upcoming holiday office party or New Year’s Eve bash. The staff at your local stores can help you put together a look from head to toe. You may also want to keep an eye out for the perfect ugly Christmas sweater or matching pajamas for the whole family.

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If you’re short on inspiration, gift baskets make ideal offerings for co-workers, housekeepers, personal trainers and your child’s teacher or babysitter. Many stores have a selection of pre-made baskets, or you can build your own with an assortment of locally sourced jams, soaps, teas, scented candles, chocolates, wine and more.

Indulge in the magic of the season with a night out at a restaurant. This can be a great way to take a break from all the cooking and cleanup that comes with hosting holiday celebrations. Plus, many establishments have live music, special menus and seasonal cocktails during this time of year to mark the occasion.

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‘Tis the season to give, and one way to show your appreciation is by leaving a generous tip for the people who help make the holidays special. This may include the staff at a restaurant, hairdresser or beauty salon, as well as an employee who offers to wrap your gifts or helps you strap your Christmas tree to the car.

Shopping online is a convenient way to quickly check items off your gift list (not to mention avoid crowded stores).

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PICTURED ON THE LEFT is baklava, a layer pastry dessert, from Yayla Bistro in Arlington. Pictured on the right is Founding Farmers “Thanksgiving at Home” meal which includes rolls and cornbread, a choice of meat or a vegan option, mashed potatoes, stuffing and a choice of dessert. (Photos Courtesy of Yala Bistro and Founding Famers)

Top Places to Dine Out for Thanksgiving in the Falls Church Area

by Patricia Leslie

Falls Church residents have plenty of options when it comes to eating out in the area on Thanksgiving Day. Prices at nearby restaurants for individual meals range from $19.95 (JV’s) to $90 (2941 Restaurant), and group dinners to serve up to 12 are available, too (Liberty Barbecue, $220).

(Or, just buy a bunch of single dinners!)

Reservations for sit down and take out are highly recommended. Dining and pickup hours vary. Restaurants featured here have carry out and delivery is available. Vegetarian, gluten-free and vegan choices are listed on several menus. Prices below do not include tax or tip.

Founding Farmers ($43, adults and $20 for children under age 13) will be open 11 a.m. — 8 p.m. Thanksgiving Day. Dine in, order meals to go or buy “Thanksgiving at Home.”

Farmers’ prix fixe includes potato rolls and cornbread; butternut squash soup or farmer’s salad; turkey, ham, prime rib, white fish, Southern fried chicken or a vegan mushroom “meatloaf”; mashed potatoes, cranberry relish, sweet potatoes, green beans, roasted vegetables, cornbread stuffing, and a choice of a dessert from apple cider sorbet, pumpkin caramel

cheesecake and a piece of pie in several flavors.

“Thanksgiving at Home” orders need to be placed by 12 p.m., Friday, Nov. 19 (while supplies last). A complete dinner for four comes with sides of cranberry relish, mashed potatoes, cornbread stuffing, sweet potatoes, green beans, roasted vegetables and a roasted turkey breast and gravy ($150), “ready-to-roast” whole turkey weighing between 10 and 13 pounds to serve between eight and ten ($200), honey glazed baked ham ($150), glazed salmon ($185), or prime rib ($220).

Need more? A la carte selections serve four and include entrees ($29-$89), desserts($25-$35), starters and sides ($12-$20).

Like chocolate?

Choose from a half page of chocolate choices on the Founding Farmers’ menu.

Founding Farmers, 1800 Tysons Blvd., Tysons 22102, ph. (703) 442-8783, www. wearefoundingfarmers.com JV Restaurant ($19.95 until 8 p.m., then, $29.95) will have a prix fixe dinner until 8 p.m. when the music and a $10 cover start. JV’s meal includes choices of turkey or ham served with green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, (optional) bread, cranberry sauce, gravy, dressing and pumpkin or pecan pie plus the music with Jimi Smooth & Hit Time who play funk, Motown,

and oldies.

JV’s will be open 4 p.m. — 12:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving.

JV Restaurant, 6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church 22042, (703) 241-9504, www. jvsrestaurant.com Pistone’s Italian Inn ($28) will be open from noon until 9 p.m. and “Chef Telly” (Bonaduce, also the owner), told us that Pistone’s will have the full regular menu available, and turkey dinner with traditional stuffing with sausage, gravy, cranberry sauce served with two choices of traditional sides (mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, string beans. spinach, and other veggies), plus a piece of pie of your choice. “We will also have specials for the non-turkey lover, seafood, fish and steak,” the chef said.

Pistone’s Italian Inn, 6320 Arlington Boulevard, Falls Church 22044, ph. (703) 5331885. www.pistoneitalianinn. com Ireland’s Four Provinces ($36.99, $17.99 under age 12 and free under age 3). This is the annual sumptuous spread offered by the City’s centrally-located and highly popular restaurant. Colm Dillon and crew also provide the option of a fully-plated traditional Thanksgiving meal to go.

Ireland’s Four Provinces, 105 West Broad St., Falls Church 22046, ph. (703) 5348999, www.4psva.com

2941 Restaurant in Fairview Park ($90 and $340 for six), will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thanksgiving Day. Its three-course meal comes with a choice of one of five appetizers (Caesar salad, King Salmon crudo, butternut squash velouté, foie gras terrine, crispy burrata), one of five entrees (turkey breast, ribeye tournedos, sea bass, turkey and lobster, or chestnut raviolini) and one serving of pumpkin custard or a chocolate pecan or apple tart.

Each six-person meal includes a half turkey and six butternut squash soups, six Caesar salads, three pomme purées, three sweet potato purées, three servings of green beans, and three servings of fricassée of winter root vegetables and gravy. More appetizers ($19-$28), sides ($10-$84) and desserts ($14) are available.

Times to pick up carry-out meals are from 4 — 8 p.m on Wednesday, Nov. 24, and from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thanksgiving Day. (“Pomme purée” is a French preparation with double the usual amount of cream mixed with whipped potatoes or 60 percent, potatoes and 40 percent, butter and cream. Oh, come on! It’s Thanksgiving.

Who’s counting calories?

Enjoy!)

2941 Restaurant, 2941 Fairview Park Dr. Falls Church, 22042, ph. 703-2701500, www.2941.com.

Yayla Bistro ($36), a Turkish and Greek bistro opens Thanksgiving Day at 11 a.m. with the last seating at 8 p.m. Its prix fixe dinner is a three-course meal beginning with a mezze platter of falafel, hummus, Greek yogurt mixed with cucumbers, homemade bread and more, followed by the second course of your choice of several variations of Mediterranean chicken, bronzino, lamb chops, penne pasta with shrimp or chicken, turlu (ratatouille) or Greek salad, finishing with “apricot delight” or baklava.

Sign up on Yayla’s email list and get a 10 percent discount on your next visit. Yayla Bistro, 2201 N. Westmoreland St., Arlington 22213, ph. (703) 5335600, www.Yaylabistro.com Other area restaurants listing Thanksgiving menus online are Liberty Barbecue ($23, $92 for four and $220 for 10 to 12) 370 West Broad St., Falls Church 22046, ph. (703) 237-8227, www.libertyfallschurch.com Open Road and Trio Grills ($85 for two, $165 for four), 8100 Lee Highway, Falls Church 22042, Open Road: ph. (571) 395-4400, www.openroadgrill. com and Trio: ph. (703) 9929200, www.triomerrifield.com Reserve and buy early since Thanksgiving comes but once a year (eat up!), sellouts are expected and, as managers say in restaurantville: “The early bird... gets the dinner!”

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School News & Notes MHS Students Selected for Chorus On Saturday, November 6, over 290 students auditioned for the District X Senior Honors Choruses. Eight students from Meridian auditioned, seven were selected for participation and one was selected as an alternate. MHS wishes congratulations to Nate Berol, Matthew Bloss-Baum, Emma Hart, Ailene Neal, Eudora Neal, Ava Risetto, Ciara Theisz and Anna Teply.

Rehearsals and performances for District X Honors Chorus will be held at Meridian February 10th12th, and students selected for District Honors have the opportunity to audition for All Virginia Honors Chorus.

FCEF Super Grants Awarded After three successful Fall events, FCEF raised enough money to fund over $51,000 in Super Grants to FCCPS Staff.

The prize patrol made their way around each of the five schools to surprise staff and students. You can find a description of each of the winning grants on the FCEF website. FCCPS says thank you to everyone in the FCCPS community for supporting the FCEF events this Fall.

Nominate FCCPS Employees for Awards FCCPS employees go above and beyond every day, and this is your chance to recognize someone who has made a difference for children and schools.

Nomination forms are available for Support Staff Employee of the Year Award, Professional Specialist of the Year Award, and the FCEF Teacher of the Year Award Please contact HR Director Amy Hall before starting a nomination to confirm that the nominee is eligible for the award.

Nominations are due Thursday, January 6, 2022. More

information can be found on the FCCPS website.

OSE Fifth Graders Launch Balloons in STEAM Under the guidance of the STEAM teacher, Ms. Tosin Adetoro, Oak Street fifth-graders launched hot air balloons into the sky this week. They have spent seven weeks working hard to prepare their balloons for flight.

Hot air balloons are based on a fundamental scientific principle: warm air rises and cool air falls.

Students get hands-on exposure to scientific buoyancy principles through this unit, construct a working model using fragile materials, strengthen their IB traits of being thinkers and risktakers, and learn the direct historical relationship Falls Church City has to hot air balloons.

MHS Composers at Convention Three Meridian High School IB Music students will have their compositions featured and performed at the 2021 Virginia Music Education Association (VMEA) State Music Conference, which will take place on November 18 — 20, 2021, in Norfolk, Virginia.

The VMEA Council on Creativity & Innovation is excited to celebrate and share the musical creativity of our state’s incredibly talented student musicians on Thursday, November 18, at 12:15 pm at the convention.

Featured are 2021 graduates, Colson Board, Joseph Carpenter, and Andrea Valderrama.

Colson Board’s piece, “Green Bossa”, is written for a jazz ensemble. Colson is now a freshman at Penn State, majoring in music.

Joseph Carpenter’s piece, “Prairie Melody”, is written for solo clarinet and piano.

Joe is now a freshman at Tufts University, majoring in computer science and minoring in music.

Andrea Valderrama’s piece, “Somewhere In the Night”, in the genre of electropop using music

THE FALLS CHURCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION awarded over $51,000 in Super Grants for the 2021-22 school year! These awards went to staff at all five schools and included some amazing and creative ways to enhance learning and teaching to our students. More details about each grant can be found on the FCEF website. (Photo Courtesy FCCPS)

technology, features Andrea performing and entering all parts using a digital audio workstation.

Her second piece, “Fly Me To The Moon”, is written for the chorus. Andrea is now at the University of Richmond, minoring in music.

PowerSchool Opt-In Required Falls Church secondary schools student information is hosted by a software called PowerSchool.

PowerSchool serves as (one of) the main comprehensive “suite” for grades, reporting, student demographics, and more. Aside from hosting information, PowerSchool offers a parent/guardian messaging service that allows the school to directly email progress reports, report cards, and other pertinent communications. This service is vital to our efficiency in providing you with real-time, studentfocused information.

Middle School Rewards for Behavior Henderson Middle School has its very own school store and only accepts one kind of curren-

cy — “Bark Bucks.” Henderson students can earn Bark Bucks by being respectful, being responsible, and being safe. In previous years, Bark Bucks were actual pieces of paper that were often lost in backpacks and lockers. This year, teachers and staff can award Bark Bucks by scanning a student’s unique QR code using an app on their phone. The rewards system keeps track of all “deposits” and “withdraws.”

Students can buy anything from an eraser to an umbrella. Megan Roth, 8th-grade science teacher, and Najla Muhammad keep the store running every week.

FCHS Winter Parent/ Coaches Meeting Falls Church High School Activities will be hosting their Winter Sports Information/ Meet the Coaches Night tonight, November 18 at 7:00 p.m. They hope at least one parent for every student athlete can attend. They will start with a general session led by the activities staff in the Auditorium. The general session will include information about the upcoming season, practices over the holidays, expectations of parents as spectators and a brief presentation by the athletic booster club. The general session

will be immediately followed by small group meetings of all of the athletic teams for the winter season.

Proof of Vaccine for FCHS Athletes Beginning November 8, FCPS will require proof of a Covid-19 vaccination for any student participating in Virginia High School League (VHSL) winter and spring sports seasons. Students should submit a copy of their vaccine card to the activities office.

You may also email a copy or picture to Katelyn Charbonneau (kmcharbonnea@fcps.edu). If you need a religious or medical exemption, please fill out the form located on the FCPS website.

Guest Readers Delight JTP Students Preschool students love when mystery readers visit their classrooms. Jessie Thackrey Preschool asked for FCCPS central office staff to fill in this role. Tricia Minson, FCCPS Chief Officer of Legal Services, was a mystery reader in a Pre-K4 class reading a few of her favorite books.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Thursday Evening Book Club.

For November, the Mary Riley Styles Library group will be discussing “Nemesis” by Philip Roth.

Need a copy of the book? Please search their online catalog or our Overdrive ebook/audiobook collection to check the availability of this book. Special book group copies are also set aside roughly one month before the discussion and can be requested on a first come, first serve basis by emailing circ@ fallschurchva.gov. (120 N Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 7 — 8 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19 DMV Connect. Can’t get to the DMV? The DMV is coming to you at Tysons-Pimmit Library.

DMV Connect mobile offices can assist you with driver’s licenses and ID cards, titles and registrations, license plates, driver transcripts, disabled parking placards or plates, address changes, testing, Virginia vital records, E-ZPass transponders, hunting and fishing licenses and much more. Please visit the DMV appointment selector online to make an appointment. Walk-ins will be considered.

When you register for an appointment, select “DMV Connect” and choose “Tysons-Pimmit Library” as your location. Registration is now open. For more information please see the DMV website at https://www.dmv.virginia. gov/general/#mobileoperations. asp. (7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church). 10 a.m. — 4 p.m.

Turkey Leaf Craft. Come join Tysons-Pimmit for a fun fall craft!

Bring your own leaves (3 — 6) or alternative craft supplies will be provided. (7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church). 4 — 5 p.m.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Falls Church Farmers Market.

The Falls Church Farmers Market runs every Saturday at City Hall, where attendees will find fresh,

local produce, meat, dairy, flowers & plants, honey, music and more. For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/547/FarmersMarket-To-Go. (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). 8 a.m. — 12 p.m.

Native American Life. Curious about the history and culture of Native Americans in Fairfax?

Join Thomas Jefferson Library to explore the material culture of Native Americans, learn about food ways, grind corn, and play games! All ages. (1545 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 10:30 — 11 a.m.

Tiny Turkey Trot. Come join Tysons-Pimmit Library for the 2021 Tiny Turkey Trot. Put on your running shoes and test your running speed on their Turkey Trot Course. Enjoy crafts, games and fun. Weather permitting, the Turkey Trot will take place outside. In the event of inclement weather, participants will run indoors. Ages 0 — 6 with an adult. (7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church). 11 a.m. — 12 p.m.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22 City Council Meeting. The City Council meets in-person in City Hall’s Council Chambers. In-person capacity may be limited due to COVID-19 safety, and all attendees must wear a mask and stay socially distant at all times. The meeting can be viewed live online (fallschurchva.gov/CouncilMeetings) or on FCCTV (Cox channel 11, RCN channel 2, Verizon channel 35).

Public comment can be made inperson or via MS Teams on any topic; sign-up by noon on the day of the meeting, fallschurchva.gov/ PublicComment. (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). 7:30 — 11 p.m.

THEATER&ARTS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Aesop’s Fables. Fun for the whole family! “Why do we procrastinate? What should we do when we find ourselves outfoxed? And what if the Boy Who Cried Wolf

SINGER AND SONGWRITER Joan Osborne will be bringing her tour to Vienna on Sunday, November 21 at Wolf Trap. (Photo: Jeff Fasano) had access to a smart phone?”

All these questions and more are explored in this fresh adaptation of Aesop’s Fables, inspired by the classic morals of these stories AND the troupe of student actors who will bring them to life. Catch the The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Tortoise and the Hare, and The Lion and the Mouse, have weathered the test of time. Our Learning Theater crew bring them to life with a 21st century twist and their classic heart. Please note: social distancing between parties and masks will be required along with proof of vaccination, or proof of negative Covid Test taken within 72 hours of visit.

Accommodations available for students under 12. November 5 — 21, 2021. Fridays 7:30 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2:00 p.m. ​ & 4:00 p.m.

Adults tickets are $20. Student tickets are $18. Get a free ticket when you sign up as a volunteer.

November 5 — 21. (410 South Maple Avenue, Falls Church). 703436-9948.

LIVEMUSIC FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Shatrel & Hume. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.

Golden Girls. Falls Church Distillers (442 S. Washington Street, Ste A Falls Church). 6 p.m.

703-858-9186.

Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime. The State Theatre (220 N Washington St., Falls Church). $20. 7 p.m. 703237-0300.

Chris Smither. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $40. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.

Paula Pondstone. The Birchmere (3701 Mount Vernon Ave, Alexandria). $55. 7:30 p.m. 703549-7500.

Gerry Timlin. Ireland’s Four Provinces (105 W Broad St., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-534-8999.

Automatic Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.

Sharif. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m.

703-237-8333.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Red House Jazz. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504.

My Generation. Falls Church Distillers (442 S. Washington Street, Ste A Falls Church). 5 p.m.

703-858-9186.

Paula Pondstone. The Birchmere (3701 Mount Vernon Ave, Alexandria). $55. 7:30 p.m. 703549-7500.

Joan Osborne. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $42+. 8 p.m.

703-255-1900.

Gerry Timlin Live and in Concert.

Ireland’s Four Provinces (105 W Broad St., Falls Church). 8 p.m.

703-534-8999.

Cactus Liquors Live. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-

9504.

Tusk: The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute. The State Theatre (220 N Washington St., Falls Church). $24. 9 p.m. 703-2370300.

Sean Tracy. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-237-8333.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Jimmy Cole: Tribute to Barry Hart.

JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 3:30 p.m.

703-241-9504.

Open Mic Night. Falls Church Distillers (442 S. Washington Street, Ste A Falls Church). 5 p.m.

703-858-9186.

Joan Osborne. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $42+. 7 p.m.

703-255-1900.

Shenandoah Run Live and in Concert. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20. 7 p.m. 703255-1566.

Paula Pondstone. The Birchmere (3701 Mount Vernon Ave, Alexandria). $55. 7:30 p.m. 703549-7500.

Wolfs Blues Jam Live. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:15 p.m. 703-2419504.

For a full list of events happening this week in Falls Church, please visit fcnp.com. Have an event coming up that you’d like to have in the calendar? Email calendar@fcnp.com.

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Meridian High School Field Meridian Football Defeats Hockey Completes Season Armstrong In Regionals

The field hockey team at Meridian High closed out its season with a loss to Tabb High School in the quarterfinals of the state tournament. Tabb went on to win the state title.

The Mustangs qualified for the state tournament for only the third time in history, advancing in the district tournament with a 1-0 victory over Fauquier High and advanced to the regionals that featured a double overtime win against Culpepper High.

Named to the all region first team were seniors Sarah Ettinger and Eleanor Gleser, while named to the second team were senior Caroline Sherard and junior Mia Meyer. Coach Anne Steenhoek was named Northwestern District coach of the year.

Meanwhile, Mustang alum Ashley Zigler is now a freshman playing at Trinity College in Connecticut which is heading to the final four tournament this weekend.

The Mustangs are headed to the regional semi-finals after a huge 45-0 win over Richmond-based Armstrong High School.

Evans Rice and George Papadopoulos scored 2 TDs each, and Ben Varner and

Griffin Harrison each added 1. Noah Holmgren went six for six on extra points and also kicked a field goal. The Mustangs will take on Goochland this Friday at home at 7 pm. Tickets will be $7 at the gate.

X-Country Season Completed

The Meridan Mustangs cross country teams battled the chilly weather filled with windy conditions. They finished their season with a strong performanace at the 3A State Meet in Salem. More than 25 schools competed on the 5K course.

The Meridan Girls’ team placed 3rd with 117 points. This was the Mustangs highest finish since 2016. Lauren Mellon paced the girls team with a 15th place. This was Lauren’s first All-State medal. Closely

behind was Molly Moore who finished in 21st place and Alexis Niemi finished in 29th place. The Lady Mustangs team had 5 come in the top 60.

The Mustang Boys raced to a 7th place finish with 191points. The Boys finish was two spots above where they placed in 2019.

Tucker Albaugh led the boys team finishing in 19th place, followed by Sean Pala in 41st place and Henry Hladky in 46th place. The boys had 4 finish in the top 70.

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A Review of George Washington Parke Custis, A Rarefied Life in America’s First Family

By Charles S. Clark

by J. Roslyn

Special To The News-Press

There are multiple reasons that Charles Clark’s biography of George Washington Parke Custis should be read by historians and anyone with an interest in American history, especially Virginians, including those living in Arlington County. First, as Clark points out, his book is “the first detailed biography of Custis, capturing all phases of his eventful life. Until now he has been sketched as a bit of a cardboard figure, making cameo appearances in dozens of treatments of George Washington and Robert E. Lee.” For whatever reason the recorders of history have “forgotten” or ignored Custis, and Clark makes short shrift of those reasons with this excellent biography.

Moreover, Clark has not presented a dry recitation of facts and dates. Instead, Clark does a yeoman’s job of describing Custis’s life as a young man in a way that depicts an increasingly exasperated Washington as a grandfather trying his best to guide Custis into becoming a decent man. Clark in turn depicts the young Custis as an extraordinary character whose antics reminds one of a modern day Eddy Haskell or Ferris Bueller.

Washington had very high hopes for young Custis. Custis’s father was Martha Washington’s child from her first marriage, and after his father’s death, he and his sister went to live with her, becoming the adopted step-grandchildren of George Washington, with Custis as his only male heir. As he grew into a young man, however, Custis seemed to disappoint everyone, especially Washington. He washed out at the College of New Jersey, later called Princeton, as well as a preparatory school in Philadelphia that later was affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania. At his last school, St. John’s College, in Annapolis, Washington expected a letter every two weeks detail-

ing Custis’s academic progress. Custis wrote that he was “pursuing the study of Natural Philosophy, and hope to distinguish myself in that branch as well as others. Arithmetic I have reviewed, and shall commence French immediately with the professor here.” Washington subsequently wrote to the head of the school, “Mr. Custis possesses competent talents to fit him for any studies, but they are counteracted by an indolence of mind which renders it difficult to draw them into action.”

When Washington was reinstated as Commander in Chief of the military in preparation for a possible war with France, Custis wrote, “Let an admiring world again behold a Cincinnatus springing up from rural retirement to the conquest of nations and the future historian in erasing so great a name insert that of the Father of His Country.” Custis’s attempts to flatter his step-grandfather at best made Washington suspicious of what Custis was not reporting. Washington wrote to Custis’s mother and stepfather, “If you . . . could by indirect means, discover the state of Washington Custis’s mind, it would be to be wished, . . .He appears to me to be moped & stupid, says nothing—and is always in some hole or corner excluded from company.” The detailed descriptions of Custis’s academic failures and his simi-

lar failures at keeping to a budget, paint a picture of a weak young man who could not be changed by his grandfather.

Clark also does great service to his “hometown” of Arlington County, where Custis’s luxurious home became “‘Arlington House—The Robert E. Lee Memorial’” which was “closed in 2017 for renovations so the National Park Service could bolster its presentation of slavery.”

There are many other Arlington County landmarks described

by Clark, including Arlington National Cemetery, that were part of Custis’s extensive land holdings or that touched his life in a meaningful way.

The slavery issue is prominent throughout the book and Clark pulls no punches on this issue. He writes that Custis “had inherited one of the nation’s largest enslaved workforces, and Custis’s handling of the peculiar institution is central to America’s tale.” Later in his life, Custis had at least one child with a slave. Slavery was an abomination that left a stain on America’s history, and its repercussions still exist today.

This book is a clear eyed look at the issue of slavery in the lives of Custis and his family, which included Robert E Lee as his son-in-law.

Clark has written a biography of an important figure in the family of one of the most important founders of this country, a figure largely ignored until now.

It is also a research and teaching tool that includes a chronology of “Key Dates in the Life of Custis,” and an extensive list with descriptions of mostly Arlington County sites where Custis lived or was affected by or he created.

These sites include: Arlington House—The Robert E. Lee Memorial; George Washington’s Mount Vernon; Mount Airy; Abingdon Plantation ruins, and Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, to name a few.

This is not a book that should gather dust in the stacks of a research library, it deserves to be much more than that and hopefully it will be.

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Electra.aero, based in Falls Church, has recently debuted the design of its hybrid-electric ultra-short takeoff and landing airplane, which is a lowemission aircraft that can transport up to 1,800 pounds of cargo or seven passengers, for up to 500 miles. The plane can take off with only 100 feet, no runway. “You start your journey, and you end your journey closer to where you are or where you really want to be, without these long detours through a conventional airport,” said CEO John Langford.

Local Taco Bamba Going National Taco Bamba began in Falls Church as a carryout restaurant in 2013 and has built up a following with locations across the region. With the seventh location set to open in Alexandria’s Landmark area in 2022, it has been approached about a major expansion – to become a national brand. Stuart Frantz, president and CEO of Investors Management Corporation (IMC) was struck by the food, music and aroma and entered into a partnership with Chef and owner Victor Albisu and are considering new markets along the East Coast.

Falls Church Tree Fest Organizing The annual tradition of Falls Church Tree Fest will continue this year with VPIS now organizing the event. Non-profit organizations, companies and individuals are sought to sponsor a decorated 4 foot tree that will exhibit during the Tree Fest during the weekend of December 3-5 outdoors at the Four Provinces. The event raises for designated charities and organizations. Please contact Lorraine O’Rourke at Lorourke1@cox.net.

Settle Down Easy Expands to Oakton Three-year old Falls Church nanobrewery Settle Down Easy is planning a second location in Oakton, Virginia at Hunter Mill Plaza in the late spring of 2022 with a 4,000-square foot taproom and a petite, one-barrel brewhouse. Announced at Settle Down Easys’ third anniversary celebration, the new space will also offer cider and wine as well as artisanal meats and more through an exclusive food partnership with The Fermented Pig. The taproom will pour wine, local ciders, Settle Down Easy beers, as well as beers on tap from other Fairfax County breweries. Settle Down Easy opened its first location in 2018 with five barrels and the second location will be the first brewery for Oakton.

Virginia Employers: Get reimbursed for bonuses The Return to Earn initiative, launched in June, is an effort to assist small businesses and organizations in finding and retaining talent while also bringing the unemployed back into the workforce. There are basic eligibility requirements and the SkillSource Group, Inc. and Virginia Career Works Northern are available to make access to this program easy and the application, enrollment, and reimbursement process as simple as possible.

The program encourages a $500 reimbursable bonus as helpful to retention and workplace morale for qualified businesses. To learn more, go to https://vcwnorthern.com/return-to-earn/.

Takumi Top Rank for Sushi DC’s Eater Newsletter has its eyes on Takumi and ranked it the 19th top sushi restaurant in the region. Takumi is known for dishes like seared scallop with yuzu and a delicate chirashi bowl. Chef Jay Yu has worked  Business News & Notes is compiled by Elise Neil Bengtson, Executive Director of the Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at elise@fallschcurchchamber.org.

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NEWS BRIEFS Fairfax Co. Health Dept. Issues Statement on F.C. Covid Data The Fairfax County Health Department, which covers Falls Church on matters pertaining to the Covid-19 pandemic, issued the following statement Tuesday regarding confusion with the data being reported about cases in F.C.: “The Fairfax County Health Dept. is aware that there is an issue with data on the VDH dashboard concerning case numbers in Fairfax City and City of Falls Church. Staff have connected with the Va. Dept. of Health to understand the cause of this anomaly.

“Local health department responders investigated, documented, and reported these cases appropriately; however, due to a technical issue they were not posted accurately to the VDH external data source. We do believe that these are actual cases that took place in these cities. However some of them are not recent and, according to our records, are several weeks old. We continue to assist VDH in the investigation and cause of this technical issue.”

Young Group Acquires 603 W. Broad Building Falls Church’s Young Group announced this week that it has acquired the old SunTrust Bank building at 603 W. Broad St., which it plans to renovate and modernize. According to Bob Young, a new ground floor tenant is nearing agreement to terms and two tenants will also be sought for the second floor.

Overall, 5,900 square feet of retail space will be provided by the building and it includes a drivethrough window.

‘One City Center’ Developers Agree to 10% ADUs In one of a number of major modifications in plans for the One City Center mixed use development adjacent the Ireland’s Four Provinces at the major Broad and Washington intersection in downtown Falls Church offered to the F.C. City Council Monday night, Andrew Painter, representing the Atlantic Realty team, said his group has upped its offer for the affordable housing component of its voluntary concessions from six to 10 percent of all residential units.

This follows similar offers of other developers in the downtown area and is a significant increase over earlier levels. The other major change, also cohering with what other recent offers have been, has been to make the affordability of the units permanent, and not limited to 15 or 20 years.

The step reflects the City of Falls Church’s recent more robust and serious push for affordable housing components to its new mixed use developments.

Painter also noted that a letter of intent has been

obtained from a grocer looking to occupy part of the ground floor retail component of the project, although the name was not disclosed. In another concession, the developers have agreed to drop one floor off of its planned parking garage.

Mayor David Tarter called the new offers “steps in the right direction,” though he said the parking garage was still too high, and a new facade needs to be put onto existing buildings that will be part of the overall project.

Councilman Ross Litkenhous was more critical of the architecture, saying the existing George Mason Square building that will be included in the project is “boring,” and needs a major facelift to “be in harmony with the rest of what’s planned there.”

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Fairfax Revives 7 Corners ‘Ring Road’ Proposal For the first time in seven years, the Fairfax County plan to modify and modernize the convoluted Seven Corners intersection adjacent to the City of Falls Church was revisited in a presentation to the Falls Church City Council this week.

It was not stated if the revival had to do with the just-passed $1.2 trillion federal infrastructure bill. Since the matter last came before the F.C. Council in September 2014, the improvement of a bridge on Wilson Blvd. at the intersection has been the only action taken.

But Monday’s presentation included the development of a “ring road” around the intersection that would have the effect of widening and reducing the number of roads leading into it from seven to four, thereby making it safer and easier to navigate.

Plans still do not involve the “ring road” passing through City of Falls Church territory, except at its fringe at the eastern parking lot of the 24 Hour Fitness location.

The first phase of the project would extend off of Route 7 and from there over Rt. 50 to the Sleepy Hollow Road and Castle Street crossings in the county.

Last week, the county held pop-up informational events at the Seven Corners transit center and in the Eden Center in F.C.

ARPA & Budget Surplus $ Votes Due This Monday The Falls Church City Council will take an initial stab at how to deploy $18 million in federal American Rescue Plan (ARPA) Covid-19 recovery funds and a $3.2 million local Fiscal Year 2021 budget year-end surplus at its meeting this week.

Funding for programs ranging from employee compensation, sidewalks, storm water mitigation, small business relief, bolstered communications and tax cuts were among the range of possibilities discussed by the Council this week.

Preliminary votes will come this Monday, and a final set of decisions are expected to come by Dec. 13.

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Despite their own warnings about potential hazards to public safety and traffic congestion, the Falls Church City Council voted Tuesday night to impose a one-week trial in early December of a plan to block off auto traffic lanes at the heavily-traveled intersection of Routes 7 and 29 (Broad and Washington).

In what could be the single most momentous change in Falls Church municipal politics in half a century, the premiere civic association, the Citizens for a Better City, is on the verge of dropping its long-held historic role of vetting, nominating and campaigning for slates of candidates running in local races.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR REVISION OF RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER BW, BRUNSWICK COUNTY POWER STATION, FOR THE RATE YEARS COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 1, 2022, AND SEPTEMBER 1, 2023 CASE NO. PUR-2021-00239 •Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion”) has applied for approval to revise its rate adjustment clause Rider BW. •In this case, Dominion has asked the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) to approve Rider BW for a rate year beginning September 1, 2022, and ending August 31, 2023 (“2022 Rate Year”), and for a rate year beginning September 1, 2023, and ending August 31, 2024 (“2023 Rate Year”).

•Dominion requests a total revenue requirement of $144,658,000 for the 2022 Rate Year, which would increase the monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.70, and requests a total revenue requirement of $120,394,000 for the 2023 Rate Year, which would decrease the monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.45, compared to the 2022 Rate Year.

•A Hearing Examiner appointed by the Commission will hold a telephonic hearing in this case on April 5, 2022, at 10 a.m., for the receipt of public witness testimony.

•An evidentiary hearing will be held on April 6, 2022, at 10 a.m., either in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, or by electronic means. Further details on this hearing will be provided by subsequent Commission Order or Hearing Examiner’s Ruling.

•Further information about this case is available on the Commission website at: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information.

On October 5, 2021, pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”) and the State Corporation Commission’s (“Commission”) Final Order in Case No. PUR-2020-00230, Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion” or “Company”) filed with the Commission its biennial update with respect to the Company’s rate adjustment clause Rider BW (“Application”). Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with the Brunswick County Power Station, a 1,358 megawatt (nominal) natural gas-fired combined-cycle electric generating facility, as well as the related transmission interconnection facilities, in Brunswick County, Virginia (“Project”).

The Company states that in Case No. PUE-2012-00128, the Commission approved construction of the Project. Dominion further states that in conjunction therewith, the Commission also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider BW, which allowed the Company to recover costs associated with developing the Project. The Company represents that it has annually updated its Rider BW rate adjustment clause. Dominion states that in an effort to reduce the administrative burden of annual rider filings, the Company proposes a biennial filing approach for Rider BW, which includes two consecutive rate year revenue requirements.

In this proceeding, Dominion has asked the Commission to approve Rider BW for a rate year beginning September 1, 2022, and ending August 31, 2023 (“2022 Rate Year”), and a rate year beginning September 1, 2023, and ending August 31, 2024 (“2023 Rate Year”). The Company states that the two key components of the proposed 2022 Rate Year revenue requirement are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor and the Actual Cost True-Up Factor. Dominion further states that the 2023 Rate Year revenue requirement comprises only the Projected Cost Recovery Factor.

For the 2022 Rate Year, the Company requests a Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $130,992,000 and an Actual Cost True-Up Factor revenue requirement of $13,666,000. For the 2023 Rate Year, Dominion requests a Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $120,394,000. The Company therefore requests a total revenue requirement of $144,658,000 for the 2022 Rate Year and a total revenue requirement of $120,394,000 for the 2023 Rate Year. Dominion requests a rate effective date for usage on and after the latter of September 1, 2022, for the 2022 Rate Year, or the first day of the month that is at least 15 days following the date of any Commission order approving Rider BW. Dominion further requests a rate effective date for usage on and after September 1, 2023, for the 2023 Rate Year.

For purposes of calculating the revenue requirements in this case, Dominion utilized an enhanced rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 10.2%. This includes a general ROE of 9.2%, which the Commission approved in Case No. PUR-2019-00050, plus a 100 basis points enhanced return, as provided for in Code § 56-585.1 A 6, for a combined-cycle electric generation facility.

If the proposed Rider BW for the 2022 Rate Year and 2023 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion, implementation of its proposed Rider BW on September 1, 2022, for the 2022 Rate Year, would increase the monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.70. Additionally, the Company represents that implementation of its proposed Rider BW on September 1, 2023, for the 2023 Rate Year, would decrease the monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.45, compared to the 2022 Rate Year.

Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for the details of these and other proposals.

TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may apportion revenues among customer classes and/or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Application and supporting documents and thus may adopt rates that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Application and supporting documents.

The Commission has taken judicial notice of the ongoing public health issues related to the spread of the coronavirus, or COVID-19. In accordance therewith, all pleadings, briefs or other documents required to be served in this matter shall be submitted electronically to the extent authorized by 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”). Confidential and Extraordinarily Sensitive Information shall not be submitted electronically and should comply with 5 VAC 5-20-170, Confidential information, of the Rules of Practice. Any person seeking to hand deliver and physically file or submit any pleading or other document shall contact the Clerk’s Office Document Control Center at (804) 371-9838 to arrange the delivery.

Pursuant to 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, the Commission has directed that service on parties and the Commission’s Staff in this matter shall be accomplished by electronic means. Please refer to the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing for further instructions concerning Confidential or Extraordinarily Sensitive Information.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled public hearings on Dominion’s Application. On April 5, 2022, at 10 a.m., a Hearing Examiner appointed by the Commission will hold a telephonic hearing for the purpose of receiving the testimony of public witnesses, with no public witness present in the Commission’s courtroom. On or before April 1, 2022, any person desiring to offer testimony as a public witness shall provide to the Commission (a) your name, and (b) the telephone number that you wish the Commission to call during the hearing to receive your testimony. This information may be provided to the Commission in three ways: (i) by filling out a form on the Commission’s website at scc.virginia.gov/pages/Webcasting; (ii) by completing and emailing the PDF version of this form to SCCInfo@scc.virginia.gov; or (iii) by calling (804) 371-9141. This public witness hearing will be webcast at scc.virginia.gov/pages/Webcasting.

On April 6, 2022, at 10 a.m., either in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, or by electronic means, a Hearing Examiner appointed by the Commission will convene a hearing to receive testimony and evidence offered by the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff on the Company’s Application. Further details on this hearing will be provided by subsequent Commission Order or Hearing Examiner’s Ruling.

An electronic copy of the public version of the Company’s Application may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Lisa R. Crabtree, Esquire, McGuireWoods LLP, Gateway Plaza, 800 East Canal Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, or lcrabtree@mcguirewoods.com. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information.

On or before March 31, 2022, any interested person may submit comments on the Application electronically by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: scc.virginia.gov/casecomments/Submit-Public-Comments. Those unable, as a practical matter, to submit comments electronically may file such comments by U.S. mail to the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. All comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2021-00239.

On or before January 7, 2022, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation with the Clerk of the Commission at: scc.virginia. gov/clk/efiling. Those unable, as a practical matter, to file a notice of participation electronically may file such notice by U.S. mail to the Clerk of the Commission at the address listed above. Such notice of participation shall include the email addresses of such parties or their counsel, if available. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company. Pursuant to 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. Any organization, corporation or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2021-00239.

On or before February 4, 2022, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission, at scc.virginia.gov/clk/efiling, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case.

Any respondent unable, as a practical matter, to file testimony and exhibits electronically may file such by U.S. mail to the Clerk of the Commission at the address listed above. Each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. All testimony and exhibits shall be served on the Staff, the Company, and all other respondents simultaneous with its filing. In all filings, the respondent shall comply with the Rules of Practice, including 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2021-00239.

Any documents filed in paper form with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, except as modified by the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.

The public version of the Company’s Application and other documents filed in this case, the Commission’s Rules of Practice, and the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing may be viewed at: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information.

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