Falls Church News-Press 3-10-2022

March 10 - 16, 2022

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Downtown F.C. Set to Undergo Big Dig

‘Stangs In State Title Game

Whole Food Site Due For Demolition at Last

by Nicholas F. Benton

Falls Church News-Press

There is something akin to a dark shroud now covering half of the four-story Robertson Building at the City of Falls Church’s central intersection of Broad and Washington. Its appearance ostensibly marks the beginning of an extraordinary new stage in the economic development boom underway in Falls Church.

The Insight Group is getting its massive project at that corner of downtown Falls Church’s central intersection underway at last, with the anchor of the project to be a mega-Whole Foods supermarket, a new home for the Creative Cauldron theater and 339 rental apartments.

But there are still a lot of unknowns, however, as Insight has not been forthcoming with its plans even as the City is hoping for a slight delay in the plans to mitigate the impact on

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FALLS CHURCH’S POWERFUL Meridian High School Mustangs varsity girls basketball team has advanced to the Virginia Class 3 Championship Game in Richmond where today they’re slated to play in a semifinal game at 6. It will be live streamed on a big screen at the high school for all who want to see. (Photo: News-Press)

Meridian Girls in State Title Game Today in Richmond

by Ryan McCafferty

Falls Church News-Press

Falls Church’s Meridian High School girls varsity basketball team has exploded in the Virginia State High School post-season playoffs with lopsided home court victories

in the past few days over New Kent and Lakeland, and as a result will be traveling to Richmond for the Division 3 Final Championship game today, Thursday, March 10.

It will be at 6 p.m. today that the Mustangs will tangle with the Cavaliers of Carroll County High

at the Virginia Commonwealth University’s Siegel Center. The game will be live streamed on the NFHS network, and the game will be carried live for the public to see on the big screen at the Meridian High learning stairs.

It promises to be a titanic battle

for the state title. The Mustangs have won 20 in a row and haven’t lost a competition since early December.

The Cavaliers are 24-1 and also haven’t lost since early December.

The atmosphere was electric this

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Inside This Week Senior Living in and Around the Little City

There are a wide variety of different options when it comes to senior living communities. Whether you or your loved one wants to live indpendently but downsize their space or needs some extra help.

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Where to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Falls Church

St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, taking place next Thursday and there are plenty of places to go — just make sure you’re wearing green! Live music and plenty of drinks can be found nearby.

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Index

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NEWS BRIEFS Mary Riley Styles Library Cuts Back Hours The hours open to the public of the newly-renovated Mary Riley Styles Public Library have been reduced, the F.C. City Council learned Monday.

Library director Jennie Carroll announced the change, OK’d by the library’s Board of Trustees.

The new hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and 10 a.m. to 3 p,m. Saturday and Sunday.

The total of 54 hours a week open is greater than the 43 hour national average and more than any other public library in the area, Carroll noted.

She said that the library has been short-staffed for “quite a few years.” While City Manager Wyatt Shields said the library “is one of our most loved City services,” operating costs are up, and the new schedule, which went into effect this Monday, keeps the library open seven days a week.

I BUMPED INTO ORLANDO as he was exiting Cherry Hill Park with his dog on a very warm and windy day. Originally from Albany, NY; Orlando has called Falls Church home for the last two years. Currently working for a consulting agency, his parting words to me were from the preface of “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman, “re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul.”(Photo: J. Michael Whalen)

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Falls Church Ranks No. 1 in Virginia For Charitable Giving The City of Falls Church ranks highest among all jurisdictions in Virginia and fifth nationally on an index of charitable giving, according to a new study released this week by the SmartAsset website.

Steve Sabato reported, “Tax season is upon us once again, and any person filing an itemized tax return is tallying up how much money they have donated to charitable causes in the previous year. Certain places in the U.S. account for a greater share of those donations than others, and SmartAsset analyzed the most recently available IRS data to determine which counties were donating the most.”

The City of Falls Church ranked No. 1 in Virginia with 2.30 percent of incomes as reported to the IRS dedicated to charitable giving, with 27 percent of reported induviduals contributing.

The City finished ahead of, in order, Loudoun County, Fairfax County, Fairfax City, Goochland, Alexandria, Prince William, Fauquier, Arlington and Stafford counties.

Beyer Introduces Misinformation Prevention Legislation Tuesday, Falls Church’s U.S. Rep Don Beyer introduced legislation to educate and protect Americans against mis- and disinformation.

Stating it is inspired by Finland’s K-12 program to protect Finns from Russian propaganda, the “Educating Against Misinformation and Disinformation Act” would, if passed, improve Americans’ recognition of and resilience to misand disinformation, Beyer said.

“Russian misinformation before and during their invasion of Ukraine is shining a spotlight on the urgent need to defend our country against the threat posed by these malign influence operations,” said Beyer. “Even before the current conflict in Ukraine, widespread state-sponsored misinformation campaigns designed to shape distorted narratives of reality posed a major challenge to countries including the United States.

This is a clear national security risk, and we must do more to build up our public defense to meet the needs of the present era of information warfare.”

The “Educating Against Misinformation and Disinformation Act” would establish a commission to support information and media literacy, and address misinformation and disinformation.

The commission would be charged with analyzing the status of education about misinformation and disinformation, reporting on that status annually, creating a national strategy to promote information and media literacy with a particular focus on mis- and disinformation. It would report on how misinformation and disinformation are spread; and report to Congress after 18 months on the status of the commission and an assessment of education to address mis- and disinformation.

It would also establish a grant program to improve the American public’s resilience to disand misinformation, establish a study on the extent of information and media literacy among the American public,and to make recommendations to Congress on how to improve it. It would also require an assessment from the Department of Education of the commission’s effectiveness three years after enactment.

Ceca Foundation Announces Caregiver of Year Awards Co-founded by Falls Church resident Matt Lawlor, the Ceca Foundation has announced its Caregiver of the Year awards going to April Eckman, patient and guest representative for the Baptist Health Medical Center in Conway, Don Okusaga, a licensed practical nurse for the Stoddard Baptist Nursing Home, and Rick Price, chaplain of West Virginia Caring.

Nathan Hamme, a Falls Church native and president of Ceca, wrote this week, “A special thank you to all of the amazing caregivers in our midst for your dedication and commitment not only to those you serve, but to your teams and the healthcare industry. To those that have survived these last few years and keep going, We appreciate you! At Ceca, we strive every day to recognize your work, and the Ceca Award is given out to hundreds of caregivers throughout the year for that purpose. We look forward to reading the heartfelt nominations submitted throughout the year, and we recognize the impact that you make every day.”

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Details of Downtown Falls Church Demolition Not Yet Set

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neighboring restaurants, especially if the developers are planning to put a chain link fence around the perimeter of the site.

It is not known, for example, if or when the Robertson Building might be demolished and what that might look like.

This project, a long time in the making, has remained controversial because of objections from neighbors on that block, including the Clare and Don’s Beach Shack, the fancy Thompson’s Italian restaurant and the live music venue State Theater.

But as problems were ironed out over time, the Insight’s kicking off of the demolition has elicited new worries that a useful cut-through way of getting to the City-owned parking lot behind the Beach Shack and Thompson’s will be cut off.

Also, another issue that still remains is the need for a left-turn option for traffic coming south out of Arlington onto Park Place that also feeds into that City lot. VDOT has agreed to make the cut, but it has yet to happen.

Still, a major positive move

ahead was the announcement that the Kaiser Clinic will allow free public parking weekday evenings and weekends on the top two levels of its structured parking garage across the street.

Becky Witsman of the City’s Economic Development Office told the News-Press that eight new big signs have been prepared to steer cars looking for parking in that block to the Kaiser option. Witsman said the City is committed to doing all it can to mitigate the impact of the construction on folks trying to use restaurants and services in the area, but added that the City is not in complete control of all it would like to be.

It’s been a year since the F.C. City Council gave a final unanimous OK to the Insight project in January 2021, and the history of the plan goes back much further. It was in January 2015 that news first broke of the acquisition of the 2.5 acres at that site, inclusive of the Robertson Building and the location of the former Applebee’s.

It was even longer ago in that, prior to the Great Recession of 2008, that Atlantic Realty got the OK from the City for a major redevelopment of the corner catty-corner to the

Insight location where the popular Ireland’s Four Provinces restaurant currently is. Now, at long last, a slightly scaled back project there, going under the title of “One City Center,” is approaching final approval from the Council with 268 residerntial units on 5.2 acres there.

The overall neighborhood will be impacted for the next two years not only by the construction of the Insight property, but by the Atlantic Realty’s One City Center plan too.

That project is also slated to have a grocery (though more modestly sized) and its 268 residential units.

That project awaits an expected final OK from the F.C. City Council later this spring.

Add to that the impending final OK for the so-called Founders Row 2 plan for 280 residential units at the intersection of W. Broad and S. West Street (the site of the now-abandoned Rite Aid) and the completion of its Mill Creek compliment across that intersection, and the massive 10-acre construction slated to get underway at the site of the now-demolished high school further west on Broad, adjacent the newly-completed new Meridian High School, and the City

is going to be rocking with construction virtually from end to end that will dominate the commercial strip on Broad Street from Washington Street (Route 29) to west all the way to the City limits for the next four years or more.

The City’s 2.2 square miles will be teeming with new construction, and the hundreds of happy new residents that will fill the new mixed-use projects, in addition to the 14,300 who already live in the City, will be dodging all the construction’s impacts for years.

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Mustangs Crush This Week’s Foes to Make Title Game Continued from Page 1

Monday night in a packed Meridian High School gym as the Mustangs hosted the Lakeland Cavaliers that followed by just three days a lopsided win over New Kent.

Both games were “standing room only” on the Mustangs’ side of the gym and marked a perfect introduction of the new gym component of the newly constructed high school, open for business for the first time this season.

In the Lakeland game this Monday, the visitors opened the scoring on a shot from Jamauri Demeil in the opening minute, only to not score again until the second quarter as Senior guard Bella Paradiso’s layup sparked a 22-0 run for the Mustangs.

Meridian once again set the tone by playing a gritty, aggressive, and focused brand of basketball that created offense from its defense throughout the contest, and it was simply too much for Lakeland to overcome.

Disrupting the opponents’ rhythm early and often proved the difference as the Cavaliers managed to stop the bleeding following that

first quarter avalanche, outscoring the home team by one in the next frame to take a 29-10 deficit into the half.

But the damage was done, and the Mustangs only expanded their lead after the halftime break, leading 42-16 after three quarters before cruising to a final score of 65-33.

Senior guard Zoraida Icabalceta led the Mustangs’ offensive attack with 22 points, including 13 in the fourth quarter, while hitting five three-pointers.

Junior guard Peyton Jones and Junior forward Elizabeth Creed each poured in 15, while the Cavaliers were led by Kemonye Canady’s nine and Kianna Gray’s eight. Lakeland was limited to only three first half field goals as they struggled to score the ball, and more than half of their points came during the fourth quarter.

In addition to the big win, several Mustangs earned All-Regional recognition, as was announced at halftime. Icabalceta was named Regional Player of the Year while Jones and Creed both joined her on the All-Region First Team, and Bella Paradiso was named to the AllRegion Second Team. Additionally,

head coach Chris Carrico was named Regional Coach of the Year, leading his squad to a record of 24-1-1 as they head into State Finals.

The Mustangs’ victory Monday followed an equally lopsided win the previous Friday night against the New Kent Trojans. Senior guard Megan Tremblay began the scoring with a three pointer, and the Mustangs never trailed en route to a dominant 75-33 victory.

The score was 5-4 in favor of the home team before a 12-0 run broke it open, as the Mustangs’ relentless full court pressure on the defensive side of the ball forced a slew of Trojan turnovers, many of them generating easy opportunities for uncontested layups.

The lead only grew from there – by halftime the score was 34-15, and any chance the visitors had of climbing back into the game quickly evaporated as Meridian expanded its margin to 62-23 by the end of the third quarter. It eventually climbed to a 51 point deficit for New Kent before a 9-0 run by the visitors in the closing minutes cut it to a final score of 75-33.

Five Mustangs scored in double figures. Junior guard Peyton Jones

MUSTANG SENIOR Bella Paradiso fires up a jump shot in Monday’s state semifinal game at the new Meridian gym. (P����:

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led the way with 19 points, including 13 in the first half. Megan Tremblay had 16 and Senior guard Bella Paradiso had 14. Zoraida Icabalceta, another Senior guard, scored all 12 of her markers in the second half while sinking three three-pointers, and Junior forward Elizabeth Creed had 11.

The Trojans were led by Katelyn Warren’s 14 points, the only member of the visiting team who scored more than five. New Kent was held

to only eight made field goals over the course of the game, five of which came from Warren. The visitors’ lone three-pointer of the contest didn’t come until Jakiera Thomas knocked one down from deep in the fourth quarter.

The win was the 19th straight for the Mustangs, who have not lost since December 10th when they dropped a 53-49 decision in Yorktown (notwithstanding a contest against Brentsville on February 8th).

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Dear China: Whose Side Are You on in Ukraine?

by Thomas L. Friedman New York Times

With every passing day, the war in Ukraine becomes a bigger tragedy for the Ukrainian people but also a bigger threat to the future of Europe and the world at large. There is only one country that might have the power to stop it now, and it’s not the United States.

It’s China.

If China announced that, rather than staying neutral, it was joining the economic boycott of Russia — or even just strongly condemning its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and demanding that it withdraw — it might shake Vladimir Putin enough to stop this vicious war.

At a minimum, it would give him pause, because he has no other significant ally aside from India in the world now.

Why would President Xi Jinping of China take such a stand, which would seemingly undermine his dream of seizing Taiwan the same way Putin is attempting to seize Ukraine? The short answer is that the past eight decades of relative peace among the great powers led to a rapidly globalizing world that has been the key to China’s rapid economic rise and the elevation out of poverty for some 800 million Chinese people since 1980. Peace has been very good for China. Its continued growth depends on China’s ability to export to and learn from that world of steadily integrating and modernizing free markets.

The whole Faustian bargain between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese citizenry — the CCP gets to rule while the people get to be steadily better off economically — depends to a significant degree on the stability of the global economy and trading system.

To Chinese strategists caught up in old-think — that any war that weakens modern China’s two primary rivals, America and Russia, has to be a good thing — I would say the following: Every war brings with it innovations (new ways to fight, win and survive), and the war in Ukraine is no exception.

We have already seen three “weapons” deployed in ways we’ve never seen before or not

seen in a long time, and China would be wise to study them all.

Because if China doesn’t help stop Russia now, these weapons will either ultimately hammer Putin into submission — which means they might be used against China one day, should it seize Taiwan — or damage Russia so badly that the economic effects will radiate everywhere. These weapons might even prompt Putin to do the unthinkable with his nuclear arms, which could destabilize and even destroy the global foundations on which China’s future rests.

The most important innovation in this war is the use of the economic equivalent of a nuclear bomb, simultaneously deployed by a superpower and by superempowered people. The United States, along with the European Union and the United Kingdom, have imposed sanctions on Russia that are crippling its economy, critically threatening companies and shattering the savings of millions of Russians at an unprecedented speed and scope that bring to mind a nuclear blast.

Putin has now figured that out — and said so explicitly Saturday: The U.S.- and E.U.-led sanctions are “akin to a declaration of war.”

(Vladimir, you haven’t felt the half of it yet.)

Second, because the world is now so wired, superempowered individuals, companies and social activist groups can pile on their own sanctions and boycotts, without any government orders, amplifying the isolation and economic strangulation of Russia beyond what nation-states are likely to do.

These new actors — a kind of global ad hoc pro-Ukraine-resistance-solidarity-movement — are collectively canceling Putin and Russia. Rarely, if ever, has a country this big and powerful been politically canceled and economically crippled so fast.

The third weapon is both new and old, and it’s a spiritual and emotional one: The West has rediscovered its voice. Faced with the raw, primitive onslaught by Russia against a flawed but aspiring democracy like Ukraine, the free world has been aroused. America and liberal societies in general can

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Our Man in Arlington

By Charlie Clark

Of all the Supreme Court justices who resided in our sainted parish (Warren Burger, John Paul Stevens), the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist was probably the best schooled in local history.

I base this on a speech he delivered to the Arlington Historical Society banquet April 27, 2001, to mark the 200th anniversary of the congressional act that established us.

A former Rehnquist staffer assures me that the jurist did his own hometown research. That Rehnquist loved Arlington was also confirmed to me by his friend Herman Obermayer, the late editor-publisher of the Northern Virginia Sun. Obe’s 2009 book (four years after Rehnquist’s death in 2005) evoked their time together at Washington Golf and Country Club playing tennis with other “over 50” conservatives.

But judge the judge for yourself. At the banquet, the justice began on a skeptical note. He quibbled over whether 2000 or 2001 was the bicentennial year, acknowledging that Congress’s new law took effect in 1801, but underlining (as a textualist) that the word “Arlington” appears nowhere in the statute. (Back then we were Alexandria County.)

He recounted how George Washington Parke Custis created and named Arlington House, how Custis’s daughter Mary then married Robert E. Lee, whose later-life decision to fight for the South in the Civil War prompted the home

to be confiscated

by Union troops.

Then there was the matter of Lee’s son Custis challenging federal tax collection policy and going to the Supreme Court in 1882 to win restitution. “This was good news for Lee, who had a good claim to the property, but bad news for the law, since the decision confused the doctrine of Sovereign Immunity well into the twentieth century,” Rehnquist said.

He described the retrocession of Alexandria County from the District in 1846-47, and the subsequent confusion between Alexandria City and county.

That lead to the 1920 change to Arlington. “So, if we were to be technical, and insist that an entity be in existence at its birth date, we would have to say that 2001 is not the bicentennial of Arlington County, but the 71st anniversary,” he opined. “But I do not propose to be a specter at the feast, and so I will in effect stipulate that this is the 200th year of Arlington County’s existence.”

Rehnquist said he lacked expertise on why Arlington grew from 1,000 in 1800, to 1300 in 1846, to 57,000 in 1940 to 190,000 in 2001. But one reason was the flight to suburbia.

So we needed bridges: Chain Bridge (eight versions!), the Long Bridge, the Aqueduct and (later) Key, Theodore Roosevelt, Memorial and the four-span “strictly utilitarian” 14th St Bridge.

As early as 1837 Daniel Webster quoted President Andrew Jackson’s wish that a bridge ‘’with

arches of enduring granite’’ be built across the Potomac as a symbol of the union of the North and the South.” That became Memorial Bridge in 1932.

Arlington is “a county with many advantages and few disadvantages. A relatively low real property tax rate, many good public schools, an excellent public library are some,” Rehnquist concluded. “Probably the most indisputable advantage…. to employ real estate terminology, is ‘location, location, location.’ If you want to live in an area of mostly single-family residences, many parts of Arlington afford the easiest commute from Northern Virginia into the District of Columbia.” *** Four ways our county is helping the invaded Ukraine: The county board Feb. 28 passed a resolution of solidarity with one of Arlington’s sister cities, IvanoFrankivsk. “We’ve hosted government officials, students, and others from Ukraine, and we cannot sit by and do nothing,” said chair Katie Kristol.

More concretely, former board chair Jay Fisette spearheaded a Facebook fund-raiser for the humanitarian charity Razom Organization, with responses approaching $8,000 The Ballston pedestrian bridge was officially decked out in blue and yellow colors of Ukraine’s flag.

And anonymous Arlingtonians mounted Ukraine flags on eastbound sides of the overpasses over I-66 (since removed by VDOT as against safety rules).

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Women’s History Month Right Here

It is apropos a lot that Falls Church’s Meridian High girls basketball team is dominating our local headlines as it heads to Richmond for the State Title Game in its class this week. It is because, among other things, it’s Women’s History Month, with a special event marking it scheduled for Sunday, March 20, here.

It’s also relevant because with the Putin genocide underway in Ukraine, the talk again arises how women, if they were in charge, would find ways to avoid the death and destruction now going on. Many mothers in Ukraine have taken up arms to fight against Putin’s slaughter, and we wholeheartedly agree with the likes of E.M. Forster and Meryl Streep cited in Nicholas Benton’s essay this week that women are strongly inclined to find real alternatives to war.

It is not simply a man versus woman issue, as we see the countless baby-faced young men being thrust into the slaughter by Putin, facing almost certain serious injury or death. They do not know why they’re being sent into this meat grinder and would much rather conduct their lives under the loving influence of their mothers rather than their clueless and cruel fathers.

This solution is about enlightened women and mothers and, for that matter, men, too. But the key ingredient is empathy, a powerful force in history that the psychologist Carl Jung said is the chief means by which humanity has attained its consciousness. It’s not just a nice idea, it is the critical, indispensable element to the advance of, or the very existence, of civilization.

It becomes clear that when empathy is lacking, respect for human life becomes a mere symbol at best, slammed aside in the assault on the lives of innocents the way it is occurring today in Ukraine. Yes, it can be argued that people like Putin and Trump lack souls because they lack genuine empathy. In the case of Trump, what a sad legacy that as he lingers on, being so lacking in any meaningful personal relationships. What does that matter in terms of the big picture, you ask. It is everything. The image of Putin and Trump are the same, hollow shells lacking the capacity for genuine tears.

Remorse and failure can be good things in life. They are the elements of redemption and forgiveness, of frolicking in an open field like a calf in clover. They cleanse, they reset, they affirm the values more important to the long-term survival of our planet and our universe than any autocratically enforced regime change anywhere because they contribute to an ability to see the virtue of a true democracy composed of real living, breathing, crying, laughing and loving, truly amazing fellow human beings.

The new Webb telescope may reveal the existence of massive amounts of intelligent life in the universe, as we predict. But so what, there is nothing more amazing than the intelligent, loving life we have right here on earth.

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Russia and Oil Imports

Editor, You might have noticed this week, in the local ABC store, all the Russian vodka has been removed.

This is an empty move by Governor Youngkin to make it seem like he cares about Russian oligarchs’ profits. In reality, if he cared about imports from Russia he would do more to lower demand for the 400,000 barrels of oil a day the US is importing from Russia. Instead, in Senate Bill 657 and House Bill 1261, he has elected to remove citizen advisory boards’ roles in decision making around water and air pollution; placing it behind the closed doors of the Department of Environmental Quality. Why does the party of “small government” always seek to remove citizen control and take power away from local groups every time they get the chance? Especially around local environmental issues.

Regardless, if you really want to stick it to the oil-rich oligarchs (Russian or otherwise), ride a bike or walk the next time you would take a short drive. Driving less will have a big impact on our foreign oil imports, and the sustainability of Falls Church.

Joseph Schiarizzi Falls Church

Standing with Ukraine Editor, I am very pleased, and heartened, to see the cover page of today’s paper with Ukrainian flag prominently displayed. This is the least we can do— stand in support with Ukrainian people who are fighting a brutal dictator.

My wife, Elsie, has extended family in Ukraine and is very worried about their welfare. Her grandparents came from Ukraine about 100 years ago.

Thank you very much for expressing and exhibiting your support.

Murli Gupta Falls Church

Accessibility in the City of Falls Church Editor, The City of Falls Church has installed a handicap access ramp for a crosswalk that leaves the handicap person trapped on the corner piece once they cross the street. The corner

with the access ramp was made to connect to a sidewalk on both ends.

There is no sidewalk to connect to at Fairfax and Yuccatan. Once you come up on the access ramp you have no way of getting off the curb except to turn around and cross back over to the other side of the street.

Looks like someone didn’t go into the field and see what was needed for this project. Looks like they just put down a regular corner access ramp that connects to two sidewalks on either side. But there are no sidewalks on this corner to connect to.

Eavon Mobley Falls Church

Stadium Would Burden Taxpayers Editor, Thank you for your stance against the Washington Commanders coming to Virginia.

People fall over themselves for the “glory” of having a pro team in their state — why? Considering that this bill would let the team keep revenue from food and merchandise sales, where would the money to keep this complex going come from?

The taxpayers, of course. If Dan Snyder can buy a Mount Vernon estate for $48 million cash, he can build and subsidize his own ego trip.

I urge everyone who opposes this stadium to contact their legislators.

They need to know that Virginians, already struggling with inflation — higher food and gas prices every week — should not and will not support this gift to a tainted organization.

How dare they even consider this in times like these.

Carolyn Clemente Arlington

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Editor, With the House of Delegates and Governorship currently under Republican control, the party is trying to repeal the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and thereby, eliminate the current funding for the Community Flood Preparedness Fund (CFPF). If successful, Virginia stands to lose its membership in the RGGI and its goal of reducing Green House Gas (GHG) emissions and a built in funding mechanism for the CFPF that benefits many parts of the state. Gov.Youngkin’s Executive Order 9, issued the day of his inau-

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This Is Not a War, It Is a Genocide Nicholas F. Benton FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS

“I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.” E.M. Forster “War does not determine who is right, only who is left.” Bertrand Russell “There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy.

There is nothing good in war, except its ending.” Abraham Lincoln “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” Benjamin Franklin “I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women

in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.” Meryl Streep “War doesn’t make winners, only widows” Unknown These are among the many quotes, famous and otherwise, that get chosen to chastise humanity for the inhumanity of war. So we find ourselves now again in such a situation.

But let me be clear, what is happening in Ukraine in recent weeks is not a war, it is a slaughter of innocents, as described in the Bible when King Herod sent out his forces to kill the messiah whose birth had been foretold. This genocide is indeed of Biblical proportions, akin to the tyrant obsessed with killing his arch enemy, God’s chosen one. It is not a war between contending armies.

The Meryl Streep quote echoes what British author E.M Forster said decades earlier, but is best in this age coming from a woman.

The International Women’s Day celebrated this week was a good occasion for dialing up on YouTube Streep’s timeless 2010 commencement address at Barnard College. She continues as one of the most relevant voices of our age, one next to whom Putin, like Trump, shrinks to the level of J.R.R. Tolkein’s “Lord of the Rings” fantasy character in his end days, Gollum.

Tolkein invented Gollum around the time that Hitler invaded Poland kicking off World War II and perhaps the greatest genocide, of six milion Jews, in history.

It was on September 1, 1939 that poet W.H. Auden penned his famous poem named for that infamous date which only in the ensuing years did humanity learn was just the opening shot of a grievous world war.

“I sit in one of the dives on 52nd Street uncertain and afraid,” Auden began. “As the clever

hopes expire of a low dishonest decade. Waves of fear and anger circulate over the bright and darkened lands of earth, obsessing our private lives. The unmentionable odor of death offends the September night.”

He blamed the start of the war on “the error bred in the bone of each woman and each man craves what it cannot have.”

Auden later said he despised this poem of his because of its fake optimism at the end evoking humanity’s “affirming flame.”

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine appears an ominous echo of Hitler’s invasion of Poland to start World War II. There is nothing in what Putin seeks that is justifiable. He has made himself into the architect of pure evil.

I remain astounded by how leaders of the Republican Party in the U.S have bought in to Putin’s aggression. They set the stage for it, with all their praise for Putin

and attacks on the President Biden.

Only after the invasion began did they begin to sing a different tune, because of the overwhelming public response generated largely due to President Zelensky’s resolve, but by then their work had been done.

Never forget the people at the CPAC convention in Florida last week chanting, “Putin, Putin, Putin!” They, of course, changed only when the world began to see how horrendous the Putin assault on Ukraine was becoming.

So now they blame Biden for not doing enough. These disgusting traitors will soon be exposed for who they really are, craven enemies of the U.S. The entire Republican Party will now be held accountable in what will become the biggest U.S. popular mobilization in history to end the war and rid this nation of its pro-Putin menace once and for all.

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often look and act dumb and divided — until they aren’t. Ask Adolf Hitler.

These three weapons should be enough to get China’s attention. So let’s look closer at how they work in practice.

The Biden administration, in an effort to deter Putin, assembled a powerful package of deep and broad economic sanctions and warned the Russian leader that if he invaded Ukraine, he’d be betting his whole farm — the economic viability of his country and regime.

Tragically, Putin bet the farm, and the results have been swift and merciless.

The Russian ruble-based stock market has been closed ever since Russia’s major financial institutions were either placed under sanctions or thrown off the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) system, Barron’s reported, but “the dollar-denominated secondary listings of Russian companies in London are still trading.

The destruction of market value is astonishing.” It added that shares in Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, “have collapsed more than 99 percent since mid-February, when its stock traded at around $14.” Last Wednesday in London trading, Barron’s noted, “the shares bottomed out at 1 cent.”

On Thursday the rating agencies Fitch and Moody’s “downgraded Russia by six notches to ‘junk’ status, saying Western sanctions threw into doubt its ability to service debt and would weaken the economy,” Reuters reported.

Ever since Putin faced sanctions in 2014

for annexing Crimea and fomenting rebellion in eastern Ukraine, he has been amassing reserves of foreign currency and gold — some $630 billion worth — to try to insulate Russia from more global sanctions by giving his central bank all the ammo it needed to protect the value of the ruble. Or so he thought.

“It turns out that Russia’s foreign reserves strategy had a major flaw: About half of the money was held overseas in foreign banks — and now Russia can’t get to it” because of the sanctions, noted Fortune. So the ruble savings of many Russians are being ravaged.

Now add the sanctions, boycotts and pressure points coming from the superempowered nonstate actors. My favorite is Jack Sweeney, a 19-year-old University of Central Florida student who created a Twitter account — @ RUOligarchJets, or Russian Oligarch Jets — that tracks the private jets of Russian billionaires close to Putin. “While the 19-year-old is hardly the only person to offer such services,” noted Bloomberg, what makes his account different is its “easy accessibility and the enticing window” it offers on the lives of Putin’s cronies.

The account garnered 53,000 followers in just a few days, and it now has almost 400,000; a single individual, Sweeney is making it more difficult for Putin’s pals to hide their often illgotten wealth.

This is the globalization of moral outrage: It goes from watching a short video online showing Russian soldiers firing on a Ukrainian nuclear energy facility to an employee posting that video on his or her Facebook page to

a group of employees emailing their bosses or going on Slack — not to ask their CEOs to do something but to tell them they have to do something or they will lose workers and customers.

It is happening in companies all over the world. Shortly after Putin invaded Ukraine, BP, on its own, said it was quitting its operations in Russia after working with an oil firm there for roughly 30 years. For Russia to lose the petroleum engineering talent of BP is a huge blow.

Russia and Russians are now being canceled from every direction — from ballerinas to soccer teams to companies to orchestras — and it is being driven increasingly by superempowered individuals and small groups. And when the cancel juggernaut gets going globally, it acts without mercy. As The New York Times reported last week, “A day after organizers of the Paralympic Winter Games announced that they would allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to take part in the competition, the board made a stunning reversal and barred athletes from both countries on the eve of the opening ceremony.”

There are two big dangers, though, with these innovations. If the economic nuclear bomb that the United States and its allies just detonated in Russia crushes its economy as quickly and deeply as I suspect it will, there is a danger, however remote, that Putin will go to greater, even unthinkable extremes, like launching a real nuclear weapon.

The second danger — and China, in particular, should keep this in mind — is that while nation-states may choose to lift their sanctions

at some point for hard-core realpolitik reasons, the nonstate actors may not. These are highly decentralized organizations.

When Anonymous, the global hacker consortium, announced that it was attempting to take down Russian websites, that was not by government order; it just acted on its own. Who does Russia call to get Anonymous to accept a cease-fire?

Putin was a total ignoramus about the world he was living in, and so he bet the farm in the 21st-century casino of globalization, where, in the end, the house always wins — or there is no house left.

There are signs that China recognizes some of these new realities — that no country is too big to be canceled in the wired world. But its initial instinct seems to be to try to insulate itself from that reality, rather than step up to help reverse Putin’s aggression. To which I say: Good luck with that. China cannot be connected and disconnected at the same time.

So I hope not only that China’s leaders don’t bet their farm on a quick grab of Taiwan.

I hope Beijing joins instead with the West and so much of the rest of the world in opposing Putin. China would emerge as a true global leader if it did that. If it chooses instead to ride with the outlaws, the world will be less stable and less prosperous for as far as the eye can see — especially China.

What will it be, Xi?

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A Penny for Your Thoughts

News of Greater Falls Church

By Supervisor Penny Gross

Another step in the county budget process took place on Tuesday, when the Board of Supervisors authorized advertisement of proposed tax rates for the Fiscal Year 2023 budget, which becomes effective on July 1, 2022.

The current real estate tax rate is $1.14 per $100 valuation; the Board may adopt a lower rate but, once advertised, cannot set a rate above that cap. County Executive Bryan Hill’s proposed budget is built on the $1.14 rate, but also contains nearly $80 million in unallocated revenue. That provides flexibility for the Board to reduce the rate, by at least three cents and perhaps four cents, prior to adoption of the budget on May 10. The proposed budget fully funds the school system’s operating transfer and provides a 4.01 percent compensation increase for county employees, plus merit and longevity increases for qualified employees.

What is unknown at this point is the amount of revenue that may be generated by the Personal Property Tax, known familiarly as the “car tax.” Longtime readers will recall the No Car Tax pledge made by former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore in his campaign for governor in 1997. It didn’t take long for the Commonwealth to discover that eliminating the personal property tax blew a huge hole in the state budget, so it capped the funding to a statewide total of $950 million, which fixes Fairfax County’s share at 22.24 percent, or $211 million. The JD Power (formerly Blue Book) figures on vehicle values are not yet available, but owners of used cars were surprised to learn of higher valuations last year, which affected their share of the car tax, and early indications are that used car values may be even higher this year, a partial outgrowth of the global “chip” shortage which has hindered manufacture of new vehicles.

The annual Mason District Budget Town Meeting will be held on Thursday, March 10, 2022, from 7 until 8:30 p.m., at the Mason District Governmental Center, 6507 Columbia Pike in Annandale. Chief Financial Officer and Budget Director Christina Jackson will discuss the proposed budget, with a question-and-answer period following her presentation. The meeting is open to all Mason District residents.

Another item on the Board’s agenda on Tuesday was

a once-in-ten-years adjustment of precinct boundaries, following the 2020 Census. Local magisterial, Virginia House of Delegates, State Senate, and Congressional election districts were redrawn to reflect changes in population distribution. The Board of Supervisors adopted new district boundaries by moving just seven precincts; redrawing the state and congressional boundaries was punted late last year to the Virginia Supreme Court when the citizen committee charged with preparing new district maps was deadlocked. The court’s maps created numerous split precincts which, under Virginia Code 24.2-307, must be eliminated before the June 21 primary election.

Changes, including data entry, must be completed by March 21, requiring Board of Supervisors’ adoption of the changes to be completed sooner than originally scheduled.

In Mason District, 501 Baileys #1 and 531 Baileys #2 are recombined into one precinct, 501 Baileys, which will continue to vote at the Bailey’s Community Center.

Likewise, 516 Weyanoke #1 and 531 Weyanoke #2 are recombined into 516 Weyanoke, and continue to vote at Holmes Middle School. 506 Holmes #1 and 530 Holmes #2, both small precincts that were split many years ago because of Congressional redistricting, are combined into 506 Holmes, voting at Woodrow Wilson Library.

Portions of 508 Masonville and 511 Ravenwood west of Sleepy Hollow Road are merged into 512 Sleepy Hollow, which votes at Beech Tree Elementary School, and the southern portion of 508 Masonville will continue to vote at Mason Crest Elementary School. A small portion of 511 Ravenwood near Justice High School, and the western part of the former 530 Holmes #2, around Lake Barcroft, are merged to create a new precinct, 530 Tripps, which will vote at Bailey’s Elementary School. Voters do not need to re-register in their new precincts; those affected by the boundary changes will receive notification by U.S. mail later 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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CRIM E R EPO RT Week of Feb. 21 — 27, 2022 Drunk in Public, E Annandale Rd, Mar 1, 5:22 PM, a male, 65, of no fixed address was arrested for Drunk in Public.

Drunk in Public, W Broad St, Mar 3, 12:44 AM, a male, 65, of no fixed address was arrested for Drunk in Public.

Stolen Vehicle, Rollins St, between 11 PM, Mar 2 and 5:45

AM, Mar 3, unknown suspect(s) took an unsecured Jeep Cherokee.

Larceny from Vehicle, Rees Pl, between 6:15 PM, Mar 2 and 1:58 PM, Mar 3, unknown suspect(s) took items of value from a vehicle.

Drunk in Public, Wilson Blvd, Mar 3, 8:03 PM, a male, 41, of Woodbridge, VA, was arrested for Drunk in Public.

Sex Offense, Wilson Blvd, Mar

5, 4:41 PM, unknown suspect touched a female inappropriately.

Suspect described as a male, 6`2 , 200 pounds, 30 to 40 years of age, wearing a red pullover hoodie, black pants, gray jacket, sunglasses, and carrying a red bag. Investigation continues.

Trespass, W Broad St, Mar 6, 2:56 AM, a male, 31, of Temple Hills, MD, was issued a summons for trespass.

Trespass, W Broad St, Mar 6, 6:35 AM, a male, 31, of Temple Hills, MD, was issued a summons for trespass. www.FCNP.com

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Delegate Kaye Korys

Richmond Report There have been quite a few bills presented and passed that give me great concern.

Rather than making a list, I will mention a particular bill, SB657.

Senate Bill 657 essentially curtails the power of two citizen boards and shifts a significant measure of their authority to the staff and Governor-appointed Director of the Department of Environmental Quality. The Boards in question are the State Air Pollution Control Board and the State Water Control Board.

To quote the “Impact Statement” attached to the bill, “[The bill] limits the authority of the Air Pollution Control Board and the Water Control Board to issuance of regulations [only] and transfers the existing authority to issue permits and orders to the Department of Environmental Quality.” Senate Bill 657 was passed by the Senate and given final approval and passage by the House of Delegates yesterday, February 28th. It will now go to Gov. Youngkin, whom I have no doubt, will gladly sign it.

You may be aware that these two citizen boards have come under much scrutiny in the past few years, as they have been involved and responsible for the permitting decisions made about the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

While the Boards have not been “a brick wall” protecting environmental and social justice advocates’ interests, they have listened to the public in public and made reasonable decisions. Most of those decisions delayed the construction of the pipeline, which was planned to be built in protected parkland and towns historically socially and economically disadvantaged and much of the land owned by people of color.

The Boards are composed of citizen members appointed by the Governor. Even though they are technically political appointees, the Boards’ members have been very independent in their actions and decisions. The Boards are the only established citizen input mechanisms into air pollution control decisions and water quality control decisions legally recognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Governors and legislators from both parties have sought to limit the authority of the Boards over the years that they have been in existence. Most recent and most notable was Governor Northam’s

abrupt dismissal of two members of the Air Pollution Control Board as they considered a crucial permit decision to allow a compressor station for Dominion Energy’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline to be built at Union Hill, a predominantly Black community settled by freed people and those formerly enslaved.

The Board’s statutory authority included the ability to evaluate the “suitability of the activity to the area in which it is located”. And according to one of the dismissed Air Pollution Control Board members, “moving the station would not address the larger questions about the stringency of the proposed air permit, the need for the pipeline and the pipeline’s public health and environmental consequences”--all critically important questions needing to be responded to before a final decision was made.

Between 2006 and 2010 the Kaine administration and the legislature “regularly undermined the Board when we chose to deviate from DEQ’s permitting and regulatory recommendations and adopt tighter standards,” said a former State Air Pollution Control Board member.

Briefly: the State Water Control Board is responsible for administering the Virginia Water Control Law, enacted in 1950, And the Ground Water Control Management Act of 1992 underscores the need for this Board “pursuant to the groundwater Act of 1973, the continued unrestricted usage of ground water is contributing and will continue to contribute to pollution and shortage of ground water, thereby jeopardizing the public welfare, safety and health....the right to reasonable control of all ground water resources within this Commonwealth belongs to the public, and that in order to conserve, protect and beneficially utilize the ground water of the commonwealth and to ensure the public welfare, safety and health, provision for management and control of ground water resources is essential.” The Water Control Board and the Air Pollution Control Board protect the public welfare, safety and health in the most democratic way possible — by oversight from citizen Boards in the public view of all citizens.  Delegate Kory represents the 38th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. She may be emailed at DelKKory@house. virginia.gov.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION’S REGULATIONS GOVERNING NET ENERGY METERING CASE NO. PUR-2021-00251 The Regulations Governing Net Energy Metering, 20 VAC 5-315-10 et seq. (“Net Energy Metering Rules”), adopted by the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) pursuant to § 56-594 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”), establish the requirements for participation by an eligible customer-generator in net energy metering in the Commonwealth. The Net Energy Metering Rules include conditions for interconnection and metering, billing, and contract requirements between net metering customers, electric distribution companies, and energy service providers.

Chapter 266 of the 2021 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I (“Chapter 266”), amended the definition of “[s]mall agricultural generator” in Code § 56-594.2 as follows (with changes noted in italics): “Small agricultural generator” means a customer that: ...

2. Operates a small agricultural generating facility as part of (i) an agricultural business or (ii) any business granted a manufacturer license pursuant to subdivisions 1 through 6 of § 4.1-206.1; ....

The added language generally refers to types of manufacturing licensees issued to businesses by the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority pursuant to Code § 4.1-206.1, including distilleries, limited distilleries, breweries, limited breweries, wineries, and farm wineries. The current Net Energy Metering Rules must be revised to reflect this change.

On November 12, 2021, the Commission docketed Case Number PUR-2021-00251 and issued an Order Establishing Proceeding seeking to amend the Net Energy Metering Rules in keeping with the expanded definition of “[s]mall agricultural generator” in Chapter 266. The Commission Staff prepared a proposed amendment to Rule 20 VAC 5-315-20 of the Net Energy Metering Rules (“Proposed Amendment”). The Proposed Amendment is appended to the Order Nunc Pro Tunc issued in that docket on November 16, 2021. The Commission subsequently entered an Order Modifying Notice Requirements and Procedural Schedule.

TAKE NOTICE THAT on or before May 27, 2022, any interested person may comment on, propose modifications or supplements to, or request a hearing on the Proposed Amendment following the instructions on the Commission’s website: scc.virginia.gov/casecomments/Submit-Public-Comments. Those unable, as a practical matter, to submit such documents 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 such documents shall refer to Case No. PUR-2021-00251. Individuals should be specific in their comments, proposals, or supplements to the Proposed Amendment and should address only those issues pertaining to the amendment of Code § 56-594.2 pursuant to Chapter 266. Issues outside the scope of this amendment will not be considered. Any request for hearing shall state with specificity why the issues raised in the request for hearing cannot be adequately addressed in written comments. If a sufficient request for hearing is not received, the Commission may consider the matter and enter an order based upon the comments, documents or other pleadings filed in this proceeding.

The Commission takes judicial notice of the ongoing public health issues related to the spread of the coronavirus, or COVID-19. The Commission has taken certain actions, and may take additional actions going forward, that could impact the procedures in this proceeding. In accordance therewith, all comments and other documents and pleadings filed in this matter shall be submitted electronically to the extent authorized by Rule 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), as modified and described in the Order Establishing Proceeding. Confidential and Extraordinarily Sensitive Information shall not be submitted electronically and shall comply with Rule 5 VAC 5-20-170, Confidential information, of the Rules of Practice. At this time, 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.

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 Establishing Proceeding, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.

An electronic copy of the Order Establishing Proceeding, Order Nunc Pro Tunc, Order Modifying Notice Requirements and Procedural Schedule, and the Proposed Amendment may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for [name of electric distribution company], [name and title of counsel, mailing and e-mail addresses].

An electronic copy of the Proposed Amendment itself may be obtained by submitting a request to Michael A. Cizenski in the Commission’s Division of Public Utility Regulation at the following email address: mike.cizenski@scc.virginia.gov. An electronic copy of the Proposed Amendment can be found at the Division of Public Utility Regulation’s website: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Rulemaking.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice, the Order Establishing Proceeding, Order Nunc Pro Tunc and Proposed Amendment, and the Order Modifying Notice Requirements and Procedural Schedule may be viewed at: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information.

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School News & Notes Masks Now Optional For Students & Staff For the first time since last summer, the Covid-19 Community Level has dropped into the “low” category. As a result of actions of the CDC last week and the School Board and Superintendent Peter Noonan last week, the following is in effect beginning last Friday and continues while in “low”: Masking is now optional for all students and adults, indoors and outdoors — even on school buses. No Opt-Out form is required.

People with symptoms, a positive test, or exposure to someone with Covid-19 will follow health guidance for masking.

Routine Pre-Pandemic Operations — School operations resume in ways consistent with little to no threat of any infectious disease.

The Falls Church School Board held a special meeting to revise its Policy JA — Public Health and Pandemic Policy.

Under the policy, FCCPS will follow the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Fairfax County Health Department regarding health events. The Superintendent will implement practices or policies to meet that guidance.

You can read Noonan’s full newsletter at fccps.org/article/674681.

MHS Wind Ensemble Performs for Districts The Meridian High School Wind Ensemble performed for District X Assessment with Fairfax County and Alexandria City schools on Friday night at Hayfield High School at 8:15 pm for four adjudicators from across the country.

The ensemble received straight superior ratings from four adjudicators earning A’s and A+’s in all categories while performing the highest level of difficulty in their musical performance. The ratings included a stage performance and sightreading performances where the group performed music they had

never seen before. The program included an opener Sousa march, followed by an Algerian piece entitled “Baksheesh and Puszta,” a setting of four Hungarian gypsy dances. The preparation for this results from numerous after-school rehearsals with an intense focus on the fundamentals and details of the pieces. The group celebrated at IHOP after the event.

ViSSTA Testing Resumes This Week If your student is enrolled in the ViSSTA program, you should have received an email from the new vendor to re-enroll on Feb 24. You can enroll or re-enroll in the ViSSTA weekly free Covid Screening program at my.primary.health/l/fallschurch-city-public-schools Note: Please remind your Middle School and High School students on Testing Days -— Tuesdays and Thursdays. The school will no longer send individual reminder emails to students.

Kindergarten Info Night This Month To be eligible for Kindergarten, students must be five years of age by September 30, 2022, and a resident of Falls Church City. Pre-registration for Kindergarten will open in March.

Mount Daniel’s Principal and staff will present a virtual Kindergarten Information Night for Parents of prospective kindergarten students on Thursday, March 24 at 7:00 p.m. They will offer a brief overview of the school day, curriculum, daycare program, and registration requirements.

Please pass this information along to new neighbors and friends. They can call (703) 248-5644 or email Nora Pishner at pishnern@fccps.org with any questions.

Buy Mulch to Support Meridian Athletics Order top quality doubleshredded hardwood mulch in individual bags (3 cubic feet).

THE MERIDIAN WIND ENSEMBLE performed for District X Assessment where they earned A’s and A+’s in all categories which included a stage performance and sight-reading performances where the group performed music they had never seen before. (Photo: FCCPS) $5.50 per bag.

For orders of 20 bags or more, they will provide free delivery to those local addresses within the City of Falls Church.

All other orders can be picked up at Meridian High School, at the back parking lot (just past the tennis courts, near the upper turf practice field).

Visit mustangfanshop.com/ collections/mulch-spring-only/ products/yard-mulch to learn more and place your order. The deadline to order is March 23, 2022.

FCCPS School Board Chair Office Hours FCCPS School Board Chair Laura Downs and Vice-Chair Tate Gould will be holding “office hours” at Pizzeria Orso (400 South Maple Ave) on Wednesday, March 16 from 6:00-8:00 pm.

Community members may drop by (no registration required) to ask questions and offer feedback in a casual environment.

As this will not be a private setting, community members who prefer to have a private exchange with the School Board can locate members’ email addresses on their website: https:// www.fccps.org/page/schoolboard

Scholarship Deadlines Coming Soon The Falls Church Education Foundation stewards a number

of scholarships for Meridian High School students. Applications for the scholarships are due on Friday, March 25, except where noted, and are awarded in May. Scholarships stewarded by the Falls Church Education Foundation (FCEF) are solely intended for use by current and/or continuing FCCPS students. For a full list of scholarships, including links to applications, please see the latest MHS College and Career Newsletter at smore.com/ jhva4.

Women’s History Month: Tosin Adetoro Tosin Adetoro is a STEAM teacher at Oak Street Elementary School. She shares her story in the latest “Our Story Matters:” “The Tosin we all see today is all thanks to my father and mother. My parents groomed me to be caring, open-minded, and a thinker, which are all IB learner traits that I commonly share with scholars in my classroom....”

Read more about what inspires her as a teacher and as a woman in Thursday’s edition of the Morning Announcements.

Read Across America Day at Schools Oak Street and Mt Daniel celebrated Read Across America Day last Wednesday to promote reading motivation and awareness. This annual day was established by the National Educa-

tion Association (NEA) in 1998 to help get kids excited about reading. Students and teachers shared the joys of reading by listening to a book read by Principal Kasik, sharing favorite books, reading with flashlights, and researching authors.

MHS Ice Hockey Team Competes for Title Last week, the Meridian club ice hockey team played in the High School Championship.

Sadly the team lost 3-2. But Meridian High School was the runner-up for the 2022 Capital Scholastic Hockey League. Meridian student players include Jack Biggs, Jack Ettinger, and Joe Donovan.

‘Disney’s H.S. Musical’ Tonight The Henderson Middle School production of “Disney’s High School Musical” will be performed tonight (Thursday), Friday and Saturday at the Meridian High School auditorium.

Showtimes are at 7 each night.

Admission is free.

Celebrating School Social Work Week This week and every week, FCCPS appreciates the work done by School Social Workers: Sarah Coughter, Robin Borum, Colleen Hoover, Ghada Khalaf.

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The Modern ‘Senior’ One Size Doesn’t Fit All!

by Alex Russell

Falls Church News-Press

In your ‘senior’ years, where will you live? What will you do? What will be your biggest needs? Because Americans are living longer, we have seen many changes in how life goes on in ‘senior’ years. Not everyone has the same needs, wants and desires.

Luckily for those in the greater Falls Church area the options are numerous.

How exactly is a senior defined?

“Seniors” are a hot topic as the American population continues to age. Some define a ‘senior’ as someone over the age of 55, while others note that the word ‘senior’ should be adjusted to today’s standards. One hundred years ago, the life expectancy was only 60 years. Today many Americans can expect to not only reach 60 but live long past that reaching their 80th and even their 90th or 100th birthdays. With that said not all communities are right for everyone.

There are many factors that come

into play as you age. Is it you and your spouse? Just you, or maybe it is your parents or a loved one? How do you have the talk or start the process with transitioning your house or a family member to Senior living?

This can be a very sensitive subject. The best approach is to gather as much information as possible.

Start by researching different Senior Living communities in your area that offer the services you or your loved one need. Try to get the timing right and wait for the right time to bring up the subject of moving into Senior Living. Be patient when bringing up the topic of moving into senior living.

Don’t be discouraged, as there are many options for everyone.

Finally, consider scheduling a meeting with a retirement home representative so you or your loved one can understand the term ‘Senior Living Community. What exactly does that mean?

“Senior living community” is a broad term that defines communities designed to suit various types of lifestyles. That could include medi-

cal care, independent/retirement living, assisted living, and memory care facilities.

Within Independent living are age-restrictive communities. These options include communities with more freedom such as Founders Row “Verso” in Falls Church which caters to 55 plus and is expected to open this summer.

Verso Founders Row defines itself as “centrally located in picturesque Falls Church, VA, providing you with a unique space and community to call your own while placing you within a dynamic, mixed-use retail destination with something new to discover every day of the week. Dwelling spaces are featurerich, emphasizing smart technology and accessibility.”

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City. She said they chose Founders Row for various reasons like location, the brand new building, and the fact it is pet friendly: “We love it here; the apartment is wonderful, plenty of room, the amenities are fantastic, the staff is wonderful and everyone loves our dog Chewie.....it’s a great place to live and we get to walk to most places around here.” Shari and her husband and Chewie moved into the Modera building although they are over 55 because Verso was under construction. Verso, the 55 plus apartment building at Founders Row is scheduled to open in Summer 2022.

And Verso states “It’s not downsizing- it’s rightsizing! With Its spacious amenity areas and full-time lifestyle director, you have the freedom to live your next chapter exactly how you’d like.”

Then there is The Mather in centrally located Tysons Corner which caters to 62 plus. and boasts they are “at the intersection of luxury, sophistication, convenience, and comfort.”

Along with extensive amenities, services and programs, they also are a Life Plan Community, which is an age-restricted, retirement residence where people live independently, with additional health care services

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Life Plan communities offer the added peace of mind to help seniors “age in place.”

While other ‘Seniors’ may need some more features and access to healthcare this is the next phase which we will define as “assisted living.” This phase can be defined as a residence for those with disabilities who require help with some of the routines of daily living as well as access to medical care when needed.

Paragon Assisted Living is a local Assisted Living Facility with locations in Falls Church and McLean.

Juan Tuason of Paragon discovered, “Home care is not the solution for everybody, especially for people without family members” nearby.

Even though a person gets the necessary physical and medical assistance and guidance, Tuason stresses that this is “not the same as social interaction and engagement.”

“Most of the people” who arrive at Tuason’s care centers are those “who tend to get lost in the shuffle” of those bigger facilities. Paragon’s “niche,” as Tuason explains, lies in providing a “personal atmosphere” for their residents, while simultaneously addressing their cognitive or mobility-related issues.

One thing that Tuason expressed pride in was the fact that a resident

will not miss breakfast even if they tend to wake up later than others.

There is not one overarching time frame in place for all residents which dominates activities like the taking of medication or when meals take place, so the nuances that are present in an individual’s day-to-day routines are maintained and nurtured.

For Tuason, one of the main goals for Paragon is “operating true homes,” and “not just facilities.” (www.paragonhomecare.com) Rembrandt Assisted Living is another senior living facility that offers assisted living. René Willems, the owner-operator of Rembrandt Assisted Living, shares a passion for making sure his residents get exactly the care and attention they need on an individual basis. Willems’ assisted living center combines his decades of experience in the fields of physical therapy and geriatric home care, as well as his wife’s background in the hospitality business, into a senior living environment that supports the individuality and freedom of each resident.

Rembrandt Assisted Living “is not a nursing home” or “a health care facility,” with many of the residents there already benefiting from their own health care provider. “We’re not taking over their lives,” says Willems.

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However, Willems’ set-up provides a variety of important amenities, helping residents with their “shopping, cooking…laundry” as well as with whatever problems they may have with carrying out the various “activities of daily living.”

Residents get assistance with their medication, as well as with “getting up…moving around…taking a bath in a safe way,” among many other facets of daily life. The facility is “monitored 24/7” and benefits from a “home doctor and geriatric specialist.” (https://www.rembrandtassistedliving.com)

Another senior care assisted living facility is Chesterbrook Residences.

Chesterbrook prides itself on offering beautiful views while maintaining an active assisted living community. It offers cultural pursuits, exercise, shopping trips, music, and the option of sitting by the fireplace.

Residents can choose from one- or two-bedroom apartments and there are four levels of personalized care to ensure the right level of independence. They have on-site rehabilitation, access to licensed nurses 24/7 (chesterbrookres.org).

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The last form of Senior living is Memory care facilities, which provide a safe, structured environment and offer routines to lower stress for people with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia.

One facility that offers memory care assistance is Goodwin House.

Goodwin House, with two locations, one in Alexandria and the other in Bailey’s Crossroads, is a senior living and health care nonprofit center with a hospice program, a home health therapy pro-

SE NI O R LI V I NG gram, an “aging in place” financial coverage program called Goodwin House at Home, and a brain health program developer serving older adults in Virginia.

Goodwin’s Lyndsay Hutter, Chief Strategist and Marketing Director emphasizes the importance of the StrongerMemory program offered at their residence. StrongerMemory is a curriculum designed to stimulate the brain’s prefrontal cortex, which governs the ability to retrieve memories. Whether the diagnosis is mild cognitive impairment or earlystage dementia, or simply wanting

to ensure better brain health as we age, this innovative program is valuable too. Participants spend just 20 to 30 minutes a day engaged in simple reading, writing, and math activities (goodwinhouse.org).

Another Memory Care facility located right in the City is Kensington Falls Church. It offers two levels of memory care, which provides support to seniors with any degree of memory loss. Each tier addresses challenges unique to specific phases of disease progression. Connections is for residents coping with early to middle stages

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of loss, and Haven is for residents experiencing later stages. Both are secured environments, which provide 24-hour security that prevents unsafe wandering. Programs and activities focus on strengths, maximize comfort, and relieve anxiety.

Also, ongoing support is available for families.

One type of Home Healthcare service for seniors that many are unaware of is in-home help. Home Instead, with an office right in Falls Church City, and another office in Annandale offers several types of health care services for

folks in all stages of the aging process. They include everything from companionship, personal grooming assistance, Alzheimer’s and dementia care, hospice support, home helpers, and more (www.homeinstead.com).

So there is no shortage of senior living options in our area.

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Community News & Notes Beyer Volvo of Falls Church Held Donation Day for Ukraine A massive, single-day donation drive at Beyer Auto Falls Church (1119 W Broad St.) resulted in a caravan of brand new Volvos heading up to St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Silver Spring, Maryland this past Friday, Mar. 4. The church has begun sending donations to Ukraine to help keep warm those who have been affected by the war.

General Manager Pete Kesterson explained that “It all started with Nataly Kliuchko,” a salesperson originally from Ukraine, “asking me if she could have a couple of hours off to bring some clothes, blankets, jackets, towels, etc. to her Ukrainian Church. She said if she got it there today, it would get on the plane tomorrow.”

Kesterson promptly posted on social media, letting people know about the donation effort.

“It didn’t take long and people started dropping off donations. It started with just six bags and by the time we got to the end of the day, we had 5 SUVs, a minivan, and a pickup truck loaded to the gills with donations for the people of Ukraine.

“It was truly heartwarming to see the outpouring of support from our community.” This donation drive only lasted one day, but was appreciated by those whose families are currently being affected by the fighting. Those interested in contributing to various relief and donation efforts to help Ukrainians in need can check with local churches to find a donation center nearest you.

the amount to $25,000. The bake sale proceeds are to be donated to Save the Children.

Acton Academy Falls Church To Host Children’s Business Fair This event, free and open to all, and sponsored by the Acton Academy, the Acton Next Great Adventure, Acton Academy Falls Church, TimberNook Falls Church, and the support of their donors and volunteers, will focus on teaching children ages 6 —14 how to apply their talents and skills on becoming successful entrepreneurs.

Participation is free and children get to keep all their proceeds from the day of sales.

Registration required for a sales booth; children will practice creating a product or service, developing their brand, building a market strategy, and conducting a one-day market. Parents are prohibited from assisting their children in the set-up or sales process. Prizes will be awarded in each of the three age groups (6 – 8, 9 – 11, and 12 – 14) for “Highest Business Potential,” “Most Original Business Idea,” and “Best Presentation/ Creativity.”

The fair will host up to 40 young entrepreneurs at Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave, Falls Church) on Saturday, Mar. 19, from 9 a.n. — 12 p.m. For more information, contact Dr. Barbara Jauregui Wurst at (202) 6155552 or bjauregui@actonfallschurch.org. Participants can apply at childrensbusinessfair.org/ fallschurchva-acton.

F.C. Bake Sale to Raise Money for Ukraine

Annual Spring Artfest at Fort C.F. Smith Park

American Embassy families, recently evacuated from Kyiv, Ukraine, held a bake sale to raise funds for the children, now refugees, of Ukraine on Saturday, Mar. 5, at the Falls Church City Farmer’s Market. They offered an assortment of home baked goods and drew a large crowd. Between cookie and cupcake sales, they raised about $9,000; in addition, donations from friends, classmates, and neighbors have upped

The annual “Spring Artfest” Art Show and Sale is coming back to historic Hendry House at Ft. C.F. Smith Park, presented by the Arlington Artists Alliance.

The event will feature artwork by over 30 top Arlington-based artists. Visitors will see paintings of various genres, ceramics, jewelry, glasswork, artist’s cards, unframed works and much more.

The Artfest will open on Friday, Mar. 25, from 2 — 8 p.m with

AS UKRAINE FACES WAR, citizens from across Northern Virginia, have come out in showings of support for the people of Ukraine. Fundraisers, like the one above, or donation drives (following page) are just some of the ways everyday people have been pitching in at this crucial time.

Pictured here are children who evacuated Ukraine who raised over $25,000. (Photo: FCNP). an opening wine reception from 6 — 8 p.m. The event will also be open to the public from 10 a.m. — 5 p.m. on Saturday, Mar. 26 and from 12 p.m. — 4 p.m. on Sunday, Mar. 27. Free to all; no registration required to attend.

(2411 24th St N, Arlington, VA 22207.) Learn more about the Arlington Artists Alliance at arlingtonartistsalliance.org/.

AAUW Falls Church Seeks Item Donations for Used Book Sale The Falls Church Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) is collecting gently used books now through Apr. 9 at the book collection bin in the Falls Church Community Center. The collected books will be featured in the Annual Used Book Sale, which will run from Apr. 28 – 30 at the Community Center.

The profits will fund scholarships for local high school girls and grants to local organizations helping educate girls. The book bin is inside the Center.

(223 Little Falls St.) For larger donations, contact fallschurcharea-va@aauw.net or call 703536-2235. All kinds of books are welcome: children’s books, hard covers, paperbacks, novels,

non-fiction, cookbooks, etc. No damaged books, magazines, text books or encyclopedias.

Mulch Madness Returns Courtesy of Meridian HS Mulch Madness returns Saturday, Apr. 2. Sponsored by the Mustang Athletic Boosters Association, which supports the athletic programs offered at Meridian High School. Top quality, double-shredded hardwood mulch will be available in individual bags (3 cubic feet) at $5.50 per bag. For orders of 20 bags or more, mulch will be delivered free to local addresses in the City of Falls Church. Orders will be available for pick-up at Meridian High School, in the back parking lot (121 Mustang Alley).

Ordering deadline is Wednesday, Mar. 23. Visit mustangfanshop. com to order.

Parkinson’s Communication Club at The Kensington Sponsored by The Kensington, The Parkinson’s Communication Club takes place every Monday through Zoom in order to maintain health and safety during Covid-19. Led

by Susan I. Wranik, a Board

Certified Speech-Language Pathologist, the Communication Club establishes a wellness and prevention program for individuals with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners with a focus on communication skills maintenance.

As opposed to therapy, the Club is an exercise group designed to improve volume; the approach helps people speak loudly and clearly in order to make themselves heard. The Club’s seminars utilize the group setting and highlight the benefits of teamwork and mutual encouragement.

The Parkinson’s Foundation Communication Club encourages participants to make their voice heard. Vocal exercises and socialization is the best medicine for living successfully with Parkinson’s. Exercise your voice as well as your body. This group is appropriate for anyone desiring to improve volume or verbal expression. The Kensington is an assisted living and memory care residence open to Northern Virginia in the heart of The Little City. The Club takes place online every Monday, 3 — 4 p.m. Email Keyla Peters at kpeters@kensintonsl.com for more information.

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urchchamber.org/ for more information.

Retirement Planning Course for Adults Ages 50 – 70 This online course, consisting of two 2-hour sessions, is designed to help older adults prepare for retirement. Attendees will learn how to eliminate debt and improve cash flow, properly convert their IRA to a Roth IRA, plan their retirement income, and many other useful financial skills. Wednesday, Mar. 16 and Wednesday, Mar. 23, from 6 — 8 p.m. Advance registration required.

There are three ways to register: make a check payable for $49 to MML Investors Services, LLC (Retirement Course Registration, Attn: J.L. Hicks Financial Group, 1593 Spring Hill Rd., Suite 500E, Vienna, VA 22182); call 703-9352829 and register over the phone; or go online to rsvp.courses (the registration designation for this seminar is Course ID # YN7PY1).

Conducted over Zoom.

Judy Carmichael To Perform at the Alden on Mar. 27 The Alden in McLean presents Grammy-nominated pianist and vocalist Judy Carmichael for a single performance at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Mar. 27. Tickets are $25/$15 for tax district residents. The Alden is housed inside the McLean Community Center at 1234 Ingleside Ave. Carmichael is celebrating her 21st year producing and hosting “Judy Carmichael’s Jazz Inspired,” which is broadcast over National Public Radio and 170 stations throughout North America and abroad.

Carmichael was the first jazz musician sponsored by the United States Government to tour China. She has played in a

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variety of venues from Carnegie Hall to the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, and has worked with a host of celebrities, including Joel Grey, Michael Feinstein, Steve Ross and the Smothers Brothers. Her memoir, “Swinger! A Jazz Girl’s Adventures from Hollywood to Harlem” was published in 2018. For more information visit aldentheatre.org or call 703-790-0123, TTY: 711. For ADA accommodations, contact Patron Services Manager Evelyn Hill at evelyn.hill@fairfaxcounty.gov or call 571-2968385.

Falls Church Women’s History Walk Join the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation, Falls Church Elected Women, and the Falls Church Women’s History Group on Sunday, May 2, from 11 a.m.

— 2 p.m., for a loop through the City, starting at one of three locations: City Hall, the Tinner Hill Historic Site, or Big Chimneys Park, making your way on-foot through stations and signs that include historic markers, community group displays, “Her-Story” stations, and other points of interest.

Creative Cauldron’s “Passport to the World” Concert Series Join Creative Cauldron on a musical tour of the world in their intimate cabaret space with a diverse musical line up specially curated by Ken Avis and Lynn Veronneau of the WAMMY Award-winning jazz samba group Veronneau.

Listeners will enjoy blues, jazz, Latin, fusion, bluegrass, folk and a musical experience only the well-traveled know. Creative

JUST ONE DAY culminated in eight vehicles full to the brim with jackets, blankets, and other articles of clothing, donated by members of the F.C. community for Ukrainians in need. The donation drive was put together by Beyer Auto Falls Church General Manager Pete Kesterson and salesperson Nataly Kliuchko, who is originally from Ukraine. (P����: C������� B���� B�����).

Cauldron’s 11th installment of the “Passport to the World” concert series will feature another first-rate music festival that will allow the audience to travel the world without ever leaving Falls Church. Sponsored by Ken Trotter, J.D. Realtor, TTR Sotheby’s International Realty.

Shenandoah Run, the eightmember ensemble presenting traditional and contemporary folk music, along with a wide selection of Americana from the acoustic 60’s and 70’s, will appear Friday, Mar. 11 at 7:30 p.m.

The “Local Cream” Songwriter Showcase, highlighting an evening of stories and song with four of the D.C. area’s finest songwriters— Nicole Belanus, Tom PrasadaRao, Annette Wasilik, and Kevin Dudley—will appear on Saturday, Mar. 12 at 7:30 p.m.

Raymi, the D.C.-based band led by Juan Cayarampoma, brings the sounds and mystic power of the Andes to the rest of the Americas and the world.

Raymi uses traditional instruments such as Zampoñas and Quenas while also exploring the

possibilities that the bass, guitars and drums can have together with the Andes tradition.

They will perform on Sunday, Mar. 13 at 4 p.m.

Note: All patrons must wear masks; social distancing between parties and proof of vaccination or negative Covid-19 test within 24 hours of the performance is required for everyone age 5 and over.

General admission tickets are $30; tickets for a table for 2 with wine are $80; tickets for a table for 4 with wine are $160; livestream tickets are $15 each.

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FALLS CHURCH CALENDAR LOCALEVENTS THURSDAY, MARCH 10 The D.C. Center’s Fresh Produce Program (All Day). To fulfill one of their mission targets of empowering their community, the D.C. Center for the LGBT Community has partnered with Hungry Harvest to provide those in need with fresh farm produce. Registration for a weekly spot is required as produce is limited. Registration opens every Monday at 12 p.m. To maintain fairness with who receives boxes, the Center is using a lottery system. People will be informed on Wednesday at 5 p.m. if they are eligible to receive a produce box that week. No proof of residency or income is needed. Face masks are required to enter the building; a mask will be provided for those without one. Register at thedccenter.org/. For questions, email: supportdesk@thedccenter. org or call 202-682-2245. (2000 14th St NW #105, Washington, DC 20009.)

Pastel & Gouache: Mixed Media Painting. Join instructor Richard Levine in learning to use these two compatible art mediums together. Students will work from reference photos and still life, learning to use a variety of basic techniques for the successful integration of both. Final finishing and framing will also be explored.

Registration is $180; visit fallschurcharts.org for more information (700 W. Broad St, Falls Church).

1 — 3 p.m.

District Trivia. Thursday night trivia returns to Clare & Don’s Beach Shack. Bring your friends and show off your trivia chops. (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church).

7 p.m.

Solace Outpost Trivia Night. Join Solace Outpost for trivia every Tuesday and Thursday, presented

by Pour House Trivia. First place

teams win a $30 gift card. Second place teams win a $20 gift card.

(444 W. Broad St., Falls Church).

7 — 9 p.m.

FRIDAY, MARCH 11 Fish Fry Fridays at Dogfish Head Alehouse. All are invited to try out a rotating selection of fried fish dishes during the month of March, featuring the return of an old favorite: the fried grouper sandwich with beach fries. Email fallschurch@dogfishalehouse. com or call 703-534-3342 for more information. (6220 Leesburg Pike.) 11 a.m.

SATURDAY, MARCH 12 Falls Church Farmers Market.

Every Saturday, visitors can find fresh, local produce, meat, dairy, flowers & plants, honey, and so much more. Please review and abide by the Covid-19 health guidelines. (300 Park Ave, Falls Church). 9 a.m. — 12 p.m.

Wine Tasting at Dominion Wine & Beer. A variety of wines is featured every Saturday at Dominion Wine & Beer, presented by an industry professional. Call (703) 533-3030 for more information.

Located in the back parking lot; no reservations required. First come first serve. (107 Rowell Ct.) 1 p.m. — 4 p.m.

Paws to Read With Lucy. Read aloud to Lucy, a trained therapy dog, at Thomas Jefferson Library.

Bring your own book or choose one from the library. Walk-ins welcome. Ages 6 — 12. (1545 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 2 — 3 p.m.

SUNDAY, MARCH 13 NOVA Central Farm Markets.

Located at the Church of the Holy Redeemer in Vienna, visitors will find fresh pork, chicken, fish, produce, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods to go, eggs, flowers, and ice cream. Table seating will

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be available, as well as live music, kids’ activities, chef demos, and other events. For information, visit nova.centralfarmmarkets. com. (543 Beulah Road, Vienna, VA 22180.) 9 a.m. — 1 p.m.

MONDAY, MARCH 14 Center Aging Coffee Drop-In. The D.C. Center for the LGBT Community is hosting an online conversation group for older LGBT adults and friends to discuss current issues and concerns.

For more information, visit their Facebook page at facebook.com/ centeraging. Community members looking to participate need to email supportdesk@thedccenter.org to receive a Zoom invitation. 10 a.m. — 12 p.m.

Encore Learning Presentation on Political Trust. This Encore Learning discussion will examine political trust and how it can be recovered in the U.S. Presented by Amy Fried, the John M. Nickerson Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine; sponsored by the Arlington Public Library. Registration not required; this event is free and open to all. Online only, through Zoom; email info@encorelearning.net for information. 3 — 4:30 p.m.

ESOL Conversation Group. Adult participants are invited to practice their English in this weekly ESOL group. The group meets online every Monday. Email Marshall Webster at mwebster@fallschurchva.gov for a Zoom invite.

Presented by Mary Riley Styles Public Library volunteers. 7 — 8:30 p.m.

City Council Meeting. The City Council meets the second and fourth Monday of the month, with the exception of Aug. and Dec. when only one meeting is held.

The public is welcome to address the City Council on any topic during the public comment period.

Sign up to speak at fallschurchva. gov/publiccomment. Watch the

ST. PATRICK'S DAY, a cultural and religious holiday held on Mar. 17, observes the death of Ireland's foremost patron saint, St. Patrick. The Little City's own Ireland's Four Provinces (105 West Broad St.) will feature the musical talents of Gerry Timlin and Brook Yoder throughout the day. Ireland's Four Courts in nearby Arlington will also have a full day of live music, with a total of seven bands contributing to the festivities. Another stop is MacMillan Whisky Room in Mosaic where you'll find almost 40 Irish Whiskeys to choose from. For questions call Ireland’s Four Provinces at 703-534-8999 or Ireland’s Four Courts, call 703-525-3600. (Photo: The MacMillan Whisky Room.) meeting at fallschurchva.gov/ CouncilMeetings and FCCTV (Cox 11, RCN 2, Verizon 35). Video will be available after the meeting, online and on FCCTV. 7:30 p.m.

TUESDAY, MARCH 15 Spanish Conversation Group.

Geared towards intermediateto-advanced level students who are looking for an opportunity to practice their Spanish with a native speaker. This conversation group meets Tuesday mornings in the Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library conference room.

Registration required; currently 3 seats available. Register online at librarycalendar.fairfaxcounty. gov. (7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church). 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

AARP Tax Assistance. Get help with income taxes using this free program provided by the AARP & IRS. Tax Assistance is by appointment only on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays between 10:30 a.m. — 2:30 p.m, running through April 18. Visit the upper level Service Desk at Mary Riley Styles Public Library during regular hours; pick up an AARP tax packet, call the number pro-

vided in the packet to schedule an appointment; then follow the instructions in the packet and bring all necessary documents to the library for your scheduled appointment. (120 N. Virginia Ave.) 703-248-5031.

F.C. Chamber of Commerce Networking Luncheon. The Chamber returns to the Italian Cafe for the first time in months; join Mayor David Tarter as he gives updates on the current and pending developments and projects in the city. Registration required; $30 for members, $35 for non-members. Visit fallschurchchamber.org or email Cathy Soltys at cathy@fallschurchchamber.org for more information. (7161 Lee Highway.) 11:30 a.m. — 1:15 p.m.

Trivia Tuesday at Audacious Aleworks. Join Audacious Aleworks every Tuesday for trivia at 7 p.m. The winning team of 1 to 6 receives a $25 gift card to the brewery as well as entry into online quarterly championships for $2500. (110 E Fairfax St., Falls Church). 7 — 9 p.m.

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FORMED IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, [REDACTED] consists of Falls Church City resident Jim DeHart on guitar, Michael Cathey on vocals, Mark Malhoyt on drums, and John Nave on banjo, bass, and mandolin. After meeting in 2018, the four diplomats with the U.S. Department of State established a sound built on classic rock and Americana. Their catalogue includes Tom Petty, Led Zeppelin, Son Volt, Wilco, Social Distortion and the Grateful Dead. The real name of the band has been [Redacted] for foreign policy reasons. (Photo: Courtesy Jim Dehart.)

Do you know that the capital of Virginia is Falls Church? Do you know that Elvis was a member of the Beatles? If you know these things, come to trivia Tuesday at the Casual Pint. Trivia is outside in a covered breezeway; contact free. Download TrivNow on your phone and play along. (6410 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church).

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 Needlecraft Circles. For those interested in hands-on crafts, the Thomas Jefferson Library will be hosting needlecraft lessons each Wednesday. Geared towards adult participants; supplies provided. (1545 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 1 – 2 p.m.

LIVEMUSIC THURSDAY, MARCH 10 Bobby and Jenny. Settle Down Easy Brewing Co. (2822 Fallfax Drive, Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703573-2011.

Sol Roots Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, MARCH 11 Josh Allen & Garrett. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-2419504.

David Wax Museum, Water Bears. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20. 6:30 p.m.

703-255-1566.

Brook Yoder. Ireland’s Four Provinces (105 W Broad St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-534-8999.

Shenandoah Run. Creative Cauldron (410 South Maple Avenue, Retail 116, Falls Church). $30 — $160. 7:30 p.m. 703-4369948 [Redacted]. Solace Outpost. (444 W Broad St.) 8 p.m. (571) 3781469.

Lost Highway Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504.

Alex “The Red” Parez. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-237-8333.

Unity: A 311 Day Tribute, RadioNV. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $22. 10 p.m. 703-255-1566.

SATURDAY, MARCH 12 John Spears Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504.

Steve Houk Duo. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N Washington St., Falls Church). 5:30 p.m. 703532-9283.

Faraway. Settle Down Easy Brewing Co. (2822 Fallfax Drive, Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-5732011.

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ZOSO: THE ULTIMATE LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCE formed in 1995 to perform "the most accurate and captivating Led Zeppelin live show since the real thing." The band works hard at being more than just a tribute; they strive to touch "a golden era" in rock and roll. Page, Plant, Bonham and Jones are embodied in their energetic performances and attention to detail. In eighteen years of touring, ZOSO has 2,400 live shows under their belt so far. (Photo: Courtesy The State Theatre.)

Provinces (105 W Broad St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-5348999.

“Local Cream” Songwriter Showcase. Creative Cauldron (410 South Maple Avenue, Retail 116, Falls Church). $30 — $160.

7:30 p.m. 703-436-9948 ZOSO: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience with Lottery Winners. The State Theatre (220 N Washington St., Falls Church). $20. 8 p.m. 703237-0300.

Bad Influence: 20 Years Celebration. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504.

Nathan Cooper. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-2378333.

SUNDAY, MARCH 13 Ivy & Cramer. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504.

Raymi. Creative Cauldron (410 South Maple Avenue, Retail 116, Falls Church). $30 — $160. 4 p.m. 703-436-9948

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$25. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.

Linwood Taylor Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703241-9504.

Open Mic Night with Bob & Martha. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church).

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Tom Paxton & The DonJuans.

Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd., Vienna). $26. 8 p.m. 703-2551900.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 15 Open Mic Night with Josh & Andy. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church).

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Direct from Ireland: Téada.

Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $25. 7:30 p.m. 703255-1566.

33rd Annual Evening of Comedy. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd., Vienna). $27. 8 p.m. 703255-1900.

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Trapper Schoepp, Jacob Bennett. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.

Gerry Timlin. Ireland’s Four Provinces (105 W Broad St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703534-8999.

Ky Tunstall. The State Theatre (220 N Washington St., Falls Church). $38. 7:30 p.m. 703-

St. Patrick's Day Celebration: Seán Heely Celtic Band. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna).

FRIDAY, MARCH 11 Daphne's Dive (Running through Mar. 20). A tribute to found family focusing on a neighborhood watering hole run by the warm and enterprising Daphne. Her north Philly bar becomes home to a colorful, disparate band of society’s outsiders, among them: an offbeat artist, an eccentric activist, an ambitious businessman, a retired biker, an abandoned teenager, and Daphne’s own vivacious sister. Over the course of nearly twenty years, they drink, dance, rejoice, and grieve together in a captivating weave of interconnection.

Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Quiara Alegría Hudes, playwright of “Water by the Spoonful” and “In the Heights.” Upcoming showtimes are: Friday, Mar.11 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Mar. 12 at 2 and 8 p.m.; Sunday, Mar. 13 at 2 and 7 p.m.; Tuesday, Mar. 15 at 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, Mar. 16 at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, Mar. 17 at 8 p.m.; Friday, Mar. 18 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Mar. 19 at 2 and 8 p.m.; and Sunday, Mar. 20 at 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online through sigtheatre.org/ events/202122/daphnes-dive/.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA The ordinance referenced below was given first reading on February 14, 2022. A public hearing, second reading, and final City Council action is scheduled for Monday, March 14, 2022 at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matters may be heard.

(TO22-02) ORDINANCE TO APPROVE CONVEYANCE OF PHASE I OF THE 9.78 ACRE HIGH SCHOOL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARCEL TO THE FALLS CHURCH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND THE CONDOMINIUM DEVELOPER, IN ORDER THAT THE PROPERTY CONVEYANCES CONTEMPLATED IN THE COMPREHENSIVE AGREEMENT CAN BE IMPLEMENTED Public hearings are scheduled be held in City Council Chambers, City Hall, 300 Park Ave., Falls Church, VA. The public may sign up at the meeting or sign up to speak remotely at www.fallschurchva.gov/PublicComment before noon on the day of the meeting. Written public hearing comments may be sent until noon on the day of the meeting to cityclerk@ fallschurchva.gov.

For copies of legislation, contact the City Clerk’s office at 703-248-5014 or cityclerk@ fallschurchva.gov. The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, call 703-248-5014 (TTY 711).

CELESTE HEATH, CITY CLERK NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA The ordinance referenced below was given first reading on September 27, 2021. A public hearing, second reading, and final City Council action is scheduled for Monday, March 28, 2022 at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matters may be heard.

(TO21-08) ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE OFFICIAL ZONING DISTRICT MAP OF THE CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, BY REZONING APPROXIMATELY .98 ACRES OF LAND FROM T-1, TRANSITIONAL TO B-1, LIMITED BUSINESS LOCATED AT 1001 & 1003 WEST BROAD STREET (REAL PROPERTY CODE NUMBERS 52-102-065 & 52-102-060) ON APPLICATION BY MILLCREEK RESIDENTIAL TRUST, LLC A public hearing and final City Council action is scheduled on the following resolution for Monday, March 28, 2022 at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matters may be heard.

(TR21-06) RESOLUTION TO GRANT A SPECIAL EXCEPTION FOR RESIDENTIAL USES WITHIN A MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT AND TO INCREASE THE BUILDING HEIGHT WITH A BONUS OF THIRTY (30) FEET TO A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF EIGHTY-FIVE (85) FEET FOR A MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ON APPROXIMATELY 2.09 ACRES OF LAND LOCATED AT 1001 &1003 WEST BROAD STREET REAL PROPERTY CODE NUMBERS 52-102-065 & 52-102-060) ON APPLICATION BY MILLCREEK RESIDENTIAL TRUST, LLC Public hearings are scheduled be held in City Council Chambers, City Hall, 300 Park Ave., Falls Church, VA. The public may sign up at the meeting or sign up to speak remotely at

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For copies of legislation, contact the City Clerk’s office at 703-248-5014 or cityclerk@ fallschurchva.gov. The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, call 703-248-5014 (TTY 711).

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The Falls Church City Council will meet in an executive session with the Board of Directors of Historic Falls Church, Inc., at 6:30 p.m. tonight. The meeting was called following an unexpected behind-closed-doors executive session at a work session Monday night to discuss legal options.

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guration, includes a directive for the Dept of Environmental Quality to notify RGGI, Inc. of “the governor’s intent to withdraw from RGGI, whether by legislative or regulatory action.” Many of the Republicans advocating to suspend Virginia’s participation in the RGGI represent areas in dire need of flood protection and some already benefit from the CFPF. For example, Republican Speaker of the House, Terry Kilgore introduced a bill titled Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act; Repeals Act that passed the House but recently failed in the Senate. Kilgore’s 1st district borders on Bristol and includes Gate City which has a major risk of flooding over the next 30 years and in Feb., 2020 Southwest VA experienced severe flooding that necessitated an emergency declaration by former Governor Northam. Undeterred by the failure of Kilgore’s bill, the Republicans inserted in the House budget, currently being debated in the Senate, an item to pull Virginia out of the RGGI. Grace Tucker of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) states, “Pulling Virginia out of RGGI would strip away critical funding that local governments need and disproportionately harm underresourced, small and rural communities who do not have the capacity to address flood risk on their own.” We need to stop the Republican attempt to cut Virginia off from critical funding provided by the RGGI. It is a cost that is shared by all Virginians to help mitigate the severe displacement and losses due to man-made climate change and the inevitable rise of sea levels.

Joan N. Curry Falls Church

Tax Assessments in Fairfax County Editor, Along with many others who recently got their Fairfax County Tax Assessments, I am outraged.

Fairfax County Supervisors didn’t raise the tax rate but they sure raised their property assessment values. I researched the property values on my block and the increases ranged between 12.5 percent and 18.1 percent. Why aren’t they even? I live in a cape cod which was expanded 38 years ago. My property assessment went from 615K to 723K, approximately 17.5 percent. Our county supervisor, Dalia Palchik, lives in a house which was valued last year at 870K and is now assessed at 957K an increase of 87k which is 10 percent. Why is my increase 17.5 percent and hers 10 percent? I was unable to find out the addresses of the other county supervisors but are they getting a lower property tax assessment too?

William J. Dunn Falls Church

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Meridian Releases Boys’ Soccer All-Decade List Special to the News-Press

Founders Row Announces More Restaurants Last Week Joe Muffler announced three new restaurants coming to Founders Row. They are as follows: an unnamed restaurant under the operator of Akira Ramen, for authentic Japanese ramen and izakaya; Gong Cha, a quick-service bubble tea concept; and Kyoto Matcha, a matcha tea and dessert quick-service concept.

Chefs Fundraise for Ukraine The Washington hospitality industry has stepped up to aid Ukraine with bars and restaurants fundraising for refugee and relief efforts. Chefs Stopping AAPI Hate (CSAH) has brought together some of the best-known chefs for a #ChefsForUkraine fundraising dinner on March 21 at Moon Rabbit. Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen relief efforts on the Ukraine border, where the chef and his nonprofit currently serve on the front lines. One of the Michelin chefs participating is Yuan Tang, Falls Church native and owner of Rooster & Owl, who will open Ellie Bird at Founders Row.

Webinar on Protecting Your Business with the Right Insurance The Women’s Business Center of Northern Virginia is offering a session on the importance of business insurance. Guest speaker, Rebecca Geller, Esq. of the Geller Law Group, will cover the unexpected costs of running a business, accidents, natural disasters and lawsuits and the insurance options. This will be held virtually on March 17, 3:00 – 4:00 pm and the Webinar link will be provided upon registration. To register & for more information visit www.cbponline.org.

Alarm.com Local Expansion Alarm.com has decided to expand the Tech R&D Division in Northern Virginia, creating 180 new jobs locally. The company cited the strong workforce, concentration of STEM workers, higher education institutions, and desirable quality of life for the selection. Alarm.com has pioneered smarter solutions to protect homes and businesses with one innovative experience to create smart properties. The company’s platform integrates with a growing variety of IoT (Internet of Things) devices through its apps and interfaces. Alarm.com maintains office space and a lab in Tysons, and the Alarm.com Demo House, a fully automated, state-of-the-art smart home in Falls Church.

New Condo Loan Guidelines Could Effect the Market In response to the Surfside, FL collapse, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have recently changed their lending guidelines for condos. Fannie Mae’s new guidance now says that it won’t purchase loans secured by units in a condominium which have significant deferred maintenance or that have received a directive from a regulatory authority or inspection agency to make repairs due to unsafe conditions.

Freddie Mac’s new guidelines went into effect on February 28 and deem condos that need critical repairs to be ineligible for its program. This could make it more difficult for condo owners to sell units under these requirements, and for potential condo buyers to qualify for a loan through Fannie, Freddie and others in the private market. That would then disproportionately impact first-time buyers with modest incomes since condos are generally more affordable for buyers than traditional singlefamily homes.

Webinar on Bicycle Infrastructure The Environmental Sustainability Council (ESC) and the Citizen’s Advisory Committee on Transportation (CACT) is hosting a community webinar on bicycle infrastructure in the City. Building safe bike infrastructure in an already dense urban environment presents multiple challenges and this is an opportunity to learn from others’ successes and explore ways to effectively implement community goals. The online webinar is scheduled for March 17th at 7:30 p.m. and may be accessed on the city calendar at https://www.fallschurchva.gov/calendar.aspx?EID=8971.  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.

Meridian High School boys’ soccer coaches recently compiled an All-Decade soccer team for 2010 through 2019. During that time, the team won five state championships (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2018) and finished as the state runner-up twice (2011 and 2019). Selections are listed below along with graduation dates and accomplishments.

For more information about these and other distinguished athletes, visit the online Legacy Project (mustangs. touchpros.com).

Coached by 4-time VHSL and 2015 All-Met Coach of the Year Frank Spinello and the 2021 United Soccer Coaches High School Nat’l Asst Coach of the Year Nathan Greiner, you can catch the reigning State Champions at their first home game on March 14th.

Selections are listed below by position along with graduation dates and accomplishments.

Tyler Back (2011) Goalkeeper – Three-time All-State. Played collegiately at Mary Washington and Oregon State. Played professionally in Finland and Sweden.

Daniel Donovan (2015) Goalkeeper – Allowed only 3 goals all season his senior year (also scored 3). Two-time All-State. State records for Shutouts (21) and goals against average (0.11).

Ethan Morse (2018) Goalkeeper – Saved penalty kick in state final.

17 shutouts.

Sebastian Umerez (2013) Goalkeeper – All-State.

Ishan Bhalla (2019) Goalkeeper – All-State.

Ned Quill (2015) Defender – First Mustang to be named a Scholar AllAmerican in 2015. Only three-year captain in VHSL era. All-State (3x), All-District and All-Region POY in 2016. Captain of three state championship teams. First Team All-Met. Miles Lankford (2019) Defender – 2019 Scholar All-American.

District POY. First Team All-Met. Wesley Quill (2017) Defender – Two-year Captain and All-State.

Thomas Rund (2015) Defender/ Midfield – Two-time All-State.

Three years state champion.

Patrick Rollo (2011) Defender – Two-time All-State.

Patrick Pereddo (2015) Defender – All-State. Scored game winning goal in state championship game.

Henry Darmstadter (2013) – Defender – All-State. Standout football player that kicked for Georgetown University and

University of Maryland.

Hunter Broxson (2020) – Defender/Midfield – All-State.

Grant Goodwin (2016) – Midfield – 2016 Scholar All-American. AllSouth Region Team. State POY in 2006. Only male soccer player to win four State Championships in VHSL history. Career assists leader with 66.

2nd Team All-Met. Declan Quill (2021) Midfield – 2021 Scholar All-South Region USA. Gatorade POY Candidate, All State, POY in District and Region (twice). Playing at Virginia Tech.

Elliot Mercado (2016) Midfield/ Forward – All-time leading scorer with 120 goals and 60 assists. State POY in 2015. First Team All-Met. All-South Region USA. All-State basketball player.

Carlos Mercado (2018) Midfield – 2018 Scholar All-American. State POY. First Team All-Met. Paul Darmstadter (2014) Midfield – State POY in 2014 with 79 career goals. Played at Case Western University.

Nico Ferrara (2017) Midfield/ Defender – Two-year team captain and All-State.

Sinan Kokuuslu (2014) Midfield – Two-time All-State on two championship teams.

Samsudeen Sallah (2016) Midfield – Only one year player but All-State, scored in state championship and semi-final games. Played at Christopher Newport.

Cole Hellert (2020) – Midfield – One of most skilled players with the best work ethic. All-State. Plays at Siena College.

Alex Kryazhev (2020) Midfield – Two-time All-State. HM All-Met his junior year. Plays at Frederick Community College.

Henry Brorsen (2020) Midfield – Two-year team captain.

Olo Sembera (2017) Midfield/ Forward – All-State. Played at Randolph-Macon College.

Eion Oosterbaan (2012) Forward – Two-time All-State. Four-year starter. HM All-Met his senior year.

Donal Reyes de Leon (2016) Forward – Over 75 career goals, two-time All-State.

Zorhan Boston (2020) Forward – Two-time All-State. Plays at Richard Bland Community College.

Raheem Lawal (2016) Forward – Only played two years of high school soccer but scored 36 goals and was All-State as sophomore. Played at George Mason University.

Cole Hinson (2014) Forward – Two-time All-State.

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