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The sixth annual Falls Church Restaurant Week kicks off Monday with 20 of F.C.’s best restaurants serving up lunch and dinner deals for seven days. All the week’s details are inside this special issue along with features on fried chicken, St. Patrick’s Day and the upcoming Northside Social.
Shields Calls for 5.5-Cent Tax Rate Hike for FY19 & All New Projects Less Than School Bond Referendum Forecast Last Fall
BY NICHOLAS F. BENTON
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2 K�� P����� O������ �� C��� H��� M����� F����� The offices of the Treasurer and Commissioner of the Revenue for the City of Falls Church will move Friday to new, temporary digs as the City Hall undergoes its year-long renovation. SEE NEWS BRIEFS, PAGE 8
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GEORGE MASON HIGH School students poured out onto the football �ield at 10 a.m. Wednesday in solidarity with high school students from across the U.S. to mark the onemonth anniversary of the massacre at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida when 17 high school students were killed by a lone gunman with a military-style ri�le. (P����: N���-P����)
Student Walkout in F.C. Tosses Light on Security Concerns Here
BY MATT DELANEY
FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS
The brief walkout demonstration by over 300 George Mason High School students and more from Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School Wednesday, in solidarity with thousands of fellow students nationwide on the one-month anniversary of the killings at Parkland, Florida, underscored the student security issues in Falls Church reflective of concerns in the entire U.S. School security has come under national scrutiny in light
of the Feb. 14 shooting in Parkland that left 17 students and staff dead, wounding 16 others. Falls Church City Public Schools are no exception, especially after George Mason High School experienced its second scare in four months when a student was arrested on March 5 following the discovery of a note that detailed a plan to harm people at the school. From administrators to students to the City of Falls Church police, everyone is assessing ways to improve protective measures. Mason students, whose
presumption of safety is the bedrock of their education, hold varying views on how their wellbeing is ensured following the atrocity in Florida. “Specifically at [Mason], I do feel safe,” said Nathan Holmes, student representative to Falls Church City School Board, before junior class treasurer Rebecca Hagigh added. “Obviously after shootings such as Parkland I might be slightly on-edge, but day-to-day I don’t feel unsafe being at school.”
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At Monday’s Falls Church City Council Meeting, City Manager Wyatt Shields formally launched this year’s annual budget cycle by proposing a Fiscal Year 2019 budget of $93.9 million, up 7.6 percent over the previous fiscal year. His recommendation calls for a 5.5-cent increase in the real estate tax rate, from $1.33 currently to $1.385 per $100 of assessed valuation to balance the budget, an increase of $372 for the average homeowner in the City, and when added to the average 3.4 percent increase in real estate assessments announced last month, amounts to an overall increase in the average tax bill of $634. The proposed budget provides for a 1.7 percent ($630,940) increase in general government operating expenditures and a 2.8 percent ($1,171,046) increase in local funding for public schools, as requested by the School Board. Debt service in the FY2019 budget, which covers the fiscal year commencing this July 1, will increase by 49 percent due to financing for the new George Mason High School, and renovations at City Hall and the Mary Riley Styles Public Library. This increase was projected at six cents, a half-cent more, on the tax rate when the FY2018 Capital Improvements Program (CIP) was adopted in July 2017 and formed the basis for presentations in advance of the school bond referendum that passed by 64 to 36 percent last November. In Shields’ plan, the operating
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“I don’t feel safe. The combination of having the threat at Mason and the shooting in Parkland mostly contributed to this,” said Erin Dean, a staff writer at Mason’s student newspaper, The Lasso, who penned an article on school security a week before the Florida shooting took place. “With the threat at my school, I kinda brushed it off because it never became anything...but after the Parkland shooting...it really put things into perspective and I realized that my school could be next.” Even with the differing perceptions of safety, all Falls Church City Public Schools (FCCPS) schools do employ physical security features as well as promote a culture that instructs staff and students to be skeptical about irregular faces on campus. According to FCCPS Superintendent Peter Noonan, all city schools have access controls at every entrance that require a person to either swipe themselves in or be let in from the inside. There is also a master switch in each school’s front office that can lock all outside doors simultaneously. Along with that, Securitas private security guards are stationed in every campus and patrol the perimeter, over 200 cameras are located across all FCCPS schools with surveillance accessible by phone and to the police and lockdown drills are practiced at least once a semester that emphasize swift entry and exit of the building in case of emergencies. When it comes to the new high school currently in the planning phase, these hard security features will be transferred over in addition to new architectural elements that enable transparency in the school’s layout, including taller ceilings, more windows and fewer winding hallways and entrances into the building. In general, students support the ideas about building security through architecture, though Holmes was dubious about more windows being a positive since the Parkland shooter targeted students through classroom windows during his spree. Dean also mentioned that ensuring doors stay locked throughout the school day is a must since she notices some doors are always open. Furthermore, Holmes supported Securitas guards receiving firearms training and being allowed to carry concealed weapons, while Dean preferred they be armed
with a taser at most and Hagigh felt that only Mason’s School Resource Officer (SRO), Clarke Gagnon, should be armed. Dean and Holmes were also in favor of metal detectors; Hagigh was not. Hagigh and Holmes questioned how effective a lockdown procedure would be at stalling an active shooter, while Dean thought it could work if done correctly. However, classrooms are hit-ormiss when it comes to how seriously these drills are taken, as noted in Dean’s Lasso article and by the students who were interviewed. Noonan is confident the school’s emergency plans would be able to get students to safety in case an active shooter entered campus and doesn’t anticipate any overhaul to their current procedures. In terms of hard security measures, Noonan is not in favor of installing metal detectors or bringing more guns on to school campuses in the form of arming Securitas guards. To him, the culture in the schools and throughout the City where solid relationships between students, staff and the broader community help identify distressed individuals is the best line of defense. Although Noonan’s also wary of letting Falls Church’s comforting atmosphere dull FCCPS’ preparation for danger. “What keeps me up at night is we can have the very best security in place and the tightest-knit community, but if someone wants to hurt us, someone can hurt us,” Noonan said. “Our job is to make sure we train around the event that the worst thing possible could happen.” Police response is expected when danger does arrive, but that notion has been challenged following the response from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office — the jurisdiction where the Parkland shooting took place. Recent reports indicate that police officers were told to establish a perimeter instead of enter the school and neutralize the assailant, mainly because they were unaware of whether the shooter was still inside the school. The confusion surrounding the shooter’s presence was due to a 20-minute tape delay on the school’s own camera system as well as poor radio transmission. In the aftermath of the shooting, the school’s deputy resigned and the entire sheriff’s department may be subject to a federal investigation. City of Falls Church Police Chief Mary Gavin would not weigh in for the News-Press on Broward County’s handling of the situation until the after action report was made available, though
she did state that she would fully expect any officer, including Gagnon, Mason’s SRO, to engage any threat on a school’s campus head-on. Gavin also supports stationing more SRO’s in other City schools, but budget constraints limit that option at this time. “[Officers] are trained to handle threats,” Gavin said. “If there is an officer on campus, they need to go in and address the threat.” Detecting troubled denizens before they can become a danger to captive populations, especially schools, is the preferred course of action. Back in December, Mason had its first scare after a student was arrested and received a felony charge for making threats to bomb and/or damage a building after multiple students heard him openly discussing a plan to bring weapons and explosives onto campus with intent to harm students and teachers. Despite credible witness testimonies and evidence brought forward during his trial, the defendant was found not guilty since his intent could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Gavin assures that even without a guilty verdict, the trial put the defendant on notice. And due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, FCCPS cannot disclose whether this student is still a part of this school system or not. But City police’s hasty investigation into the defendant is a good sign that the department did its due diligence – just as it did in the most recent incident – compared to the dozens of reports about Parkland’s shooter that were ignored. For now, Mason students are finding their own ways into the conversation on gun violence. Hundreds of FCCPS students from Thomas Jefferson Elementary to Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School and Mason participated in a national walkout to demand gun control yesterday morning. A collection of other students have started a group known as Students Demand Action which talks about gun safety with other schools. Regarding the three students interviewed for this story, they all have different insights into what should be done. Dean believes gun control laws should be passed in order to re-establish the sense of safety students require first and foremost. Hagigh also prefers tighter gun control legislation, but understands the role guns have played in American culture and history and doesn’t want to alienate rural citizens who view guns differently than urbanites. Holmes doesn’t see gun control as a catch-all solution since violence will be carried out by people no matter what. He simply wonders when schools will be given the same protective treatment as legislators and celebrities alike.
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Former F.C. City Councilman Ira Kaylin Dies Former Falls Church City Councilman Ira Kaylin passed away on Monday, March 12. Kaylin served one term on the Council from 2010 to 2013. He was commended by the current Council for his service to the City last June. Kaylin is survived by his wife of 47 years, Patricia Murphy Kaylin, and two sons, Robert Kaylin of Ashburn, Virginia and James Kaylin living in Sydney, Australia. He was born in New York City, grew up in Fair Lawn, New Jersey and lived in the Washington area since 1964. He graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and earned a Master’s Degree from the University of Oregon. His work experience included 10 years at the U.S. Treasury
Department and 24 years at the Inter-American Development Bank where he served in a number of capacities including Chief Financial Risk Manager, Chief of Financial Policy and Planning, and Internal Auditor. A statement from his family, provided to the News-Press by his former Council ally Johannah Barry, declared that “Ira lived by Pericles’ observation that what one leaves behind is not what is engraved in stone…but what is woven into the lives of others. Ira, for those who knew him, valued his friendships and company. He was a man of a principle with a broad and nurtured intellect that he shared generously to advance and defend timeless values. “He was a man of integrity and responsibility — traits he had in abundance with courage
IRA KAYLIN to advance them within his community. Ira was also possessed of a dry and penetrating wit which he deployed with deft precision. His observations and insights
were characterized by a blunt, but wholly honest perspective. “As a member of the Falls Church City Council, he forcefully and articulately advocated for policies which reflected his strong belief that decisions had both societal and moral implications and often, an intergenerational responsibility. He continued to advocate for the most vulnerable of Falls Church citizens, its children, through his vigorous and penetrating observations on the City’s budget preparations, financial strategies, spending policies and the financial accounting guidelines issued by the Government Accounting Standards Board. “Ira has left behind both a challenge and an example – be fearless in the pursuit of truth and parity and be unflinchingly honest
in the face of dissembling. Being with Ira was at once comfortable, relaxing, and great fun — all the while invigorating. “Ira was well travelled and highly versed in many areas. He was as conversant with the intricacies of the internal combustion engine and woodworking as he was with the financial accounting guidelines issued by the Government Accounting Standards Board. “Ira left behind both a challenge and an example – be fearless in pursuit of truth and parity and be unflinchingly honest in the face of dissembling.” A service will be held at the Murphy Funeral Home, 1102 W. Broad St., Falls Church, on Wednesday, March 21, with a visitation from 4 to 6 p.m. and a celebration of life at 6 p.m.
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Yesterday, on the one-month anniversary of the Valentine’s Day murderous rampage at a Florida high school by a deranged person with a military-grade weapon, hundreds of students from Falls Church’s George Mason High School and Henderson Middle School poured out of their classrooms at 10 a.m. in solidarity with thousands of their peers from all across the U.S. The purpose of the action was to remember the 17 students gunned down at the Parkland, Florida, school and to protest the inaction on gun control by elected officials under the sway of the National Rifle Association. The NRA’s insistence on not giving an inch on gun control, to demand that maintaining existing laws on 18 year olds having free access to weapons of war despite the civilian and student bloodbaths they cause, may continue to paralyze elected officials fearful of losing its support. We’ve come to hail the billboard campaign across the U.S. calling the NRA a “terrorist organization,” and are even closer to considering that true evil is, indeed, a force at loose in our society with an uncommon grip on pro-gun legislators and so-called religious leaders, alike. Perhaps it is in the context of these almost cosmic proportions that we, as a people, look to our young, to those whose minds have not been clouded by years of fear and compromise, who have a seemingly uncanny clarity of vision to see the wanton evil and profound wrong behind the siren songs of the NRA and its religious and political apologists at loose in our culture now. Are those sadly corrupted adults almost hoping to be delivered from their misery? This may explain their stubborn insistence on inaction. Any hope they may have trying to wait out the latest uprising among our young until it dies down seems utterly futile. Three million young Americans are turning 18 this year, turning old enough to vote in this November’s midterm elections, and they are not intimidated by the NRA the way so many of their compromised elders are. As pro-gun politicians and their ilk turn to attacking these young people with uncouth and crude types of personal attacks, the more are they writing their political death warrants. The students’ demands are so basic to what every American should support – the freedom to attend school, or walk anywhere in public, without the worry of another heinous, murderous rampage – that those who ridicule or denigrate them face their own foul sewage being thrust right back onto themselves. The NRA and its quivering political supporters are totally out of touch with reality now. House Speaker Paul Ryan’s pathetic excuse for why his party lost a special election in a very pro-GOP district in Pennsylvania Tuesday belies an astonishing depth of self-delusion. The remedy is a tsunami of women, young and minority voters, and their allies, that will sweep this foul corruption out of our political life for generations.
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Editor, The City of Falls Church lost a fierce and deeply principled advocate with the death this week of Ira Kaylin. As many knew, he was an unabashed fiscal realist and had little patience for those whom he felt would put the City and its residents at financial risk. But his was not simply the views of a superbly qualified finance professional. His views reflected his strongly held belief in inter-generational
responsibility and the impact that financial decisions would have on the youngest residents of the City. Ira’s sense of fairness and compassion were hallmarks of his work, in addition to a sly and perhaps underappreciated sense of humor. Ira leaves behind his wife Patricia and sons Robert and James. And the many of us who were lucky enough to call him friend. Johannah E. Barry Falls Church
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I would first like to thank the Falls Church City Public Schools staff, administration, and my school board colleagues for all the work put into the recently adopted School Board budget request for the 20182019 school year. It indeed was an open and transparent budget building exercise. The community asked many thoughtful questions during our numerous budget meetings and forums held since last fall. Answers were reviewed during work sessions and immediately posted publicly on our website. We related each suggestion and idea received against our 2018-2020 Triennial Plan. The result is a budget, which genuinely reflects the collective needs of the Falls Church school system balanced with the necessity for fiscal restraint within the current CIP environment. Our budget request, now before City Council, includes a 2.8-percent increase in local funding for FY2019. It is the lowest such appeal in the last five years and does not require an additional local tax rate increase. On Dec. 11, 2017, we took to heart when City Council approved guidance of 2-percent growth “as a starting point.” Unfortunately, with reduced funding from the Virginia state government this year, revenue slightly beyond the 2 percent guidance from the City is essential to continue offering the high-quality education Falls Church
citizens expect from their schools. Each budget-building season begins with zero dollars. We then add mandated programs and scrub all of the last year’s programs, curriculum and departmental services looking for areas of efficiencies. This
“The requested increase will help to ensure we don’t fall further behind.” year’s deep dive has allowed us to add additional support for Special Education, repurposing of staff to support LEIP (formerly ESOL) students, and add other support for the Primary Years Programme at both Mount Daniel and Thomas Jefferson. These additions, along with our current curriculum resources teacher create a “Support Triad” focused on instruction for all students and professional learning for all teachers and all without the need for additional funding. Our 2.8-percent increase request addresses two significant challenges we face this year. We need an additional psychologist to service our students’ emotional and social needs, and we must remain competitive in attracting and retaining excellent staff in the midst of a national teaching shortage.
Even before the terrible events we’ve witnessed in some of the nation’s schools this year, the School Board recognized an imbalance in the ratio of FCCPS psychologists to students – currently 1,400:1. We must and will do better. Our budget request includes funding for one additional psychologist to halve the caseload. Also, we are seeking a 3-percent Cost of Living Increase (COLA) for all school staff. As a school system, our number one resource is our people. Our team is vital to the health of the system, and as such, a fair and competitive wage is necessary. A COLA benefits every FCCPS employee as compared to a step increase, which excludes some employees especially those who have given the most significant years of service. We admit while the addition will improve our teacher pay, on average our teacher’s salary scales will remain slightly below those of Arlington Public Schools. The board is proud of the work it has accomplished over the last four years in making our salary scales competitive. The requested increase will help to ensure we don’t fall further behind. Because of the improved economy, the surrounding school systems are all proposing salary increases averaging 4.7 percent for their employees. Fairfax County is undertaking a plan similar to what we did to recalibrate teacher scales as it is facing increased challenges of retaining their teaching staff. If the schools were to receive only a
transfer increase of 2 percent, coupled with the reduction in state funding announced for this year, we would face a $350,236 gap and decisions on what to cut in some of the highest Triennial Plan priority areas. These could include removing the Psychologist and Special Education Specialist positions, or increasing class sizes with the elimination of approximately four teaching jobs. Alternatively, we could reduce the requested COLA to 2.3 percent, significantly less than the 4.7 percent average proposed in other school systems, and likely less than the City Manager’s 3 percent proposed increase for general government employees. The School Board fully recognizes the fiscal environment we are in, and we commend the superintendent and the budget team for a hard scrub of the current budget to find nearly $700K in efficiencies inside of our current funding. Also, we’ve deferred other needs until next budget cycle including an additional social worker to help further our impact on students’ social and emotional well-being. In conclusion, we believe this budget ensures we meet the critical needs of our students, staff, and represents real fiscal restraint. I look forward to continuing the dialogue with members of the city council and our citizens as deliberations continue over the next few weeks. Lawrence Webb is the chair of the Falls Church City School Board.
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2 Key Public Offices at City Hall Moving Friday The offices of the Treasurer and Commissioner of the Revenue for the City of Falls Church will move this Friday to new, temporary digs as the City Hall undergoes its year-long renovation and expansion. The offices will be closed on Friday, March 16, and will reopen on Monday, March 19 at 1 p.m. at the new location at 400 N. Washington Street, on the ground floor. Much of the west wing of City Hall has already relocated into the building, and most of the east wing functions will be there by the end of the month. The clerk of the Arlington District Court has been temporarily moved to Arlington, and City Council meetings are being held in the Community Center. The City Hall renovation is expected to be completed by December.
West End Project Info Forum Draws Over 40 Yesterday morning, an informational forum hosted by the City of Falls Church to provide general parameters and answer questions from developers interested in building on the Cityowned 10 acre site known as the West End Development Project saw over 40 individuals and entities sign in, and engage in a lively give-and-take for almost two hours. City officials were delighted by the turnout, which filled a large classroom at the University of Virginia/Virginia Tech Grad Center adjacent George Mason High School. F.C. City Manager Wyatt Shields and Chief Development Director Jim Snyder led the discussion along with Jennifer Boss of the City’s consultants, Alvarez and Marsal. F.C. Schools Superintendent Dr. Peter Noonan was also present, along with Mayor David Tarter, Vice Mayor Marybeth Connelly and Council members Letty Hardi, Phil Duncan and Ross Litkenhous. Snyder emphasized that while the site (10 acres) is small, and the City is small (14,300 residents), the immediate area is not, with over 420,000 people living within a five mile radius. It was also noted that in addition to the 10 acres, adjacent properties of the Grad Center (7.54 acres) and WMATA (13.57 acres) are immediately, and the City has applied for $20 million in grants for transportation improvements around the site. Allowing FARs of 2.5 to 4.0, the property could welcome buildings up to 15 stories, with flexible parking arrangements and a broad array of uses, including Class A office space and a full-service hotel and convention facility. The deadline for responding to the City’s request for conceptual proposals that went out on March 1 is May 1 at 2 p.m. A short list of developer finalists will be determined by mid-June, and from that list, the deadline for a final RFP will be August 18, and the final development partner for the project will be selected by mid-October. “We hope this project will set off a larger renaissance in this part of our City,” Snyder said.
2 F.C. Men Charged with Shooting Incidents at Bailey’s Crossroads Nehemias Perez Escobar, 35, and Irvin Rodriguez Perez, 23, both from the Falls Church area of Fairfax County, were arrested last weekend and are facing charges after an investigation determined they were behind shooting incidents that resulted in damage to senior living apartments last month. Escobar and Perez have been charged with discharging firearms or missiles within or at building or dwelling house and willfully discharging firearms in public areas. They are being held at the Adult Detention Center without bond. The investigation revealed Goodwin House Bailey’s Crossroads, a retirement community in the 3400 block of South Jefferson St., was not the intended target, but rather the victim of reckless behavior.Throughout February, Fairfax County Police officers responded to a number of calls within the Bailey’s Crossroads area for sounds of gunshots and damage to apartments consistent with gunfire. Windows of three apartments within the retirement complex were hit by bullets. No one was injured in any of the cases.
Del. Levine Nabs Potential Voting Machine Loophole Del. Mark Levine (D-Alexandria) of the Virginia House of Delegates reported his detection of a loophole in an election machine audit bill introduced in the just-adjourned Richmond session that could have made upcoming elections in the state vulnerable. He reported that Republican Del. Tim Hugo introduced a bill “that at first blush I wanted to support. It set up a workgroup to find the best ways to audit our election machines to ensure accuracy. The bill flew through subcommittee and committee uncontested and came uncontested to us on the floor. But then I read the bill, and I wondered why the workgroup was set to come up with its findings on Dec. 1, 2019, just after the November 2019 elections. So I read further, and in one line that required me to go to the law books, I realized the bill repealed our existing laws on auditing ballot-counting machines while the workgroup was studying the issue, leaving us with nothing in its place. The bill was set to become law before anyone noticed that the bill does exactly the opposite of what it proclaims to do!” He said when he called out the problem on the House floor, the it caused half the Democrats in the chamber who’d previously supported it to vote “No.” That, and new fears of a governor’s veto caused the withdrawal of the bill altogether.
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Community News & Notes F.C. Women’s Walk Announces 2018 Honorees
VIRGINIA U.S. SENATOR Tim Kaine made a special appearance at Freddie’s Beach Bar in Crystal City last week and took a moment to snap a pic with News-Press Editor-in-Chief, Nicholas F. Benton (Photo: News-Press)
RAHUL GUPTA will appear on Jeopardy to compete for cash during the Friday, March 16 showing at 7:30 p.m. Gupta has been brought up in Falls Church and now works as a data engineer for Capital One in Richmond. (Photo: Courtesy Photo)
Falls Church’s second annual Women’s History Walk has announced the following individuals to serve as honorees. For their contributions to making lives better in the Falls Church region, the honorees are Jane Dexter, School Board member, and leader of Citizens for a Better City (CBC) and League of Women Voters (LWV); Edna Frady, former chair of Falls Church Democratic Party and Chamber of Commerce member; Hilda Hicks, longtime crossing guard at James Lee School; Cathy Kaye, former Falls Church Treasurer; Leah Porzell, one of the founders of Aurora House, also a president of Falls Church AAUW and a Girl Scout leader; Fran Richardson, a world traveler, writer and leader of CBC, AAUW, LWV and YWCA; Marian Costner Selby,
the first African American student to graduate from George Mason High School; Harolyn Smith, a leader of the James Lee Community, working to promote voter registration and Cay Wiant, beloved English teacher at George Mason Middle School. For their work to preserve the history of Falls Church institutions, six women will be recognized as “History Keepers.” Tanya Gaskins Hardy, who has preserved and shared the history of Galloway United Methodist Church; Sue Thackrey, who has created an historic archive of The Falls Church Episcopal; For their work in saving Cherry Hill Farmhouse and Barn as a museum: Ruby Bolster, Merelyn Kaye, Mary Madeline King, Mildred Pope. The walk will recognize four women as Modern Voices. These women are taking action right now to make the world a better place. Carol Luten for her
persistence in getting Virginia to pass a new license plate “Stop Gun Violence;” Theresa Sullivan Twiford, for her brave revelation about assault, leading to the resignation of a Wyoming politician; Andrea Brown, for leadership in facilitating conversations about racial social justice at Falls Church Presbyterian Church and in the community and City of Falls Church Police Chief Mary Gavin, who has been a local, regional and national advocate for community policing. Teenagers will be recognized for their leadership as “Youth in Action.” They are: Giancarla Rojas, a DREAMER who filed a lawsuit to be eligible for instate tuition at GMU and Diamond Williams, a student at George Mason High School who started the Freedom Project Club to raise awareness of human trafficking. The walk will take place this Sunday, March 18 at 4 p.m. and begin at the Falls Church
ON SUNDAY NIGHT Falls Church Brownie troop 2259 delivered the cookies they sold on behalf of their chosen Hometown Heroes, the Falls Church City Police Department. Pictured here is Lt. Joe Carter of the City Police with the troop following a successful sales season. (Photo: Courtesy Jake Radcliff)
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LAST WEDNESDAY, the Falls Church City Recreation and Parks 5th Grade Select basketball team brought home the championship in the Fairfax County Youth tournament. The roster of the 26-3 squad includes 11 Thomas Jefferson Elementary students. (Back row) Alex Touomou, Mason Duval, Granger Davig, Sawyer Barrett, Jarrett Jardine, John Alverson and Issac Rosenberger. (Front row) William Hladky, Preston Leiu, Billy Asel, John Whitaker and Daylen Martino. The coaches are Dave Guenther (left) and Scott Whitaker (P����: C������� J��� J������) Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church) until reaching its final destination point at the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation. For more information, contact Marybeth Connelly at mbdoncon@gmail.com
New Show Opens At Falls Church Arts “Passion of Remembrance” Falls Church Arts Show Opens Saturday Twenty-one area artists will be featured at the Falls Church Arts (700 W. Broad St., Falls Church) Gallery’s “Passion of Remembrance” show opening Saturday, March 17. Opening night guests can “meet the artists” from 7:30 – 10 p.m. at the gallery. The featured artwork will be on display in the gallery from March 17 – April 21, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Nearly 50 creative works in acrylics, pastel, photography, collage and woodcuts were selected for the juried show. All the artists wrote colorful and evocative narratives describing how the “Passion of Remembrance” motivated their works.
Governing Board Election Filing Deadline is Friday Friday, March 16, at 5 p.m. is the filing deadline for the McLean Community Center’s (MCC) 2018 Governing Board elections. Residents of Dranesville Small Tax District 1A who are
interested in running for a seat on the board can still enter the race. The Board sets policy and provides general oversight for MCC facilities, which include the Robert Ames Alden Theatre and the Old Firehouse Center. All residents of the Center’s tax district are eligible to run for a seat on the 11-member board. Candidates are required to obtain the signatures of 10 McLean tax district residents in order to have their names placed on the election ballot. Nominating petition forms are available at MCC’s temporary administrative office, which is located at 6631 Old Dominion Dr., McLean. Three adult positions and two youth positions are open this year. Adult board members serve threeyear terms. Youth members serve one-year terms. Adult candidates must be at least 18 years old as of McLean Day on Saturday, May 19. Youth candidates must be 15 to 17 years old as of McLean Day. One youth member who lives within the McLean High School boundary area will be elected and one youth member who lives within the Langley High School boundary area will also be elected. Youth candidates are not required to attend either school; however, they must reside in the boundary areas served by one of the schools as defined by Fairfax County Public Schools.
Three F.C. Locals Given Awards by RSVP No. VA Gordon Hay, Kristin Ramkey and Kenneth Mass, all
of Falls Church, were among 21 RSVP Northern Virginia volunteers honored with the President’s Volunteer Service Awards on March 7 during an RSVP recognition event at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts (1645 Trap Rd., Vienna). To qualify for the President’s Volunteer Service Award, one must serve a minimum of 100 hours in a calendar year. The three Falls Church volunteers recorded a grand total of more than 600 hours in 2017 supporting several RSVP partners including the Falls Church-based Computer Core and the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia and Capital Caring in Arlington and Volunteer Fairfax. RSVP volunteer Ken Kozloff, another honoree, contributed 310 hours to the community, a good deal of which was spent teaching swimming at The Providence Recreation Center in Falls Church with Fairfax County Park Authority Adapted Aquatics program. RSVP Northern Virginia, the largest senior volunteer group in the region, provides support to 30 nonprofits in Fairfax and Arlington counties and in the Cities of Fairfax, Falls Church and Alexandria. All RSVP volunteers must be 55 years of age or older. RSVP offers its members more than 200 volunteer opportunities, many located in the Falls Church Area. To register for an upcoming RSVP orientation, call the RSVP hotline at 703-403-5360 or visit www.rsvpnova.org.
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Wilson Boulevard over Route 50 Bridge Rehabilitation Fairfax County Public Information Meeting Tuesday, April 3, 2018 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Presentation begins at 7 p.m. Sleepy Hollow Elementary School, Cafeteria 3333 Sleepy Hollow Road Falls Church, VA 22044 Find out about plans to rehabilitate the one-way bridge linking the eastbound Route 50 (Arlington Boulevard) service road to eastbound Wilson Boulevard in Seven Corners in order to improve safety for drivers and pedestrians. The bridge was built in 1958. The planned improvements include reconstructing the bridge’s existing sidewalk, adding a new sidewalk on the opposite side of the bridge, and upgrading the bridge railings. Stop by between 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. to view displays and learn more about the project and its preliminary design. A presentation will begin at 7 p.m. Project staff will be available to answer your questions. Review project information at the VDOT project website (www.virginiadot.org/projects), at the information meeting, or during business hours at VDOT’s Northern Virginia District Office at 4975 Alliance Drive in Fairfax. Please call ahead at 703-259-3256 or TTY/TDD 711 to ensure appropriate personnel are available to answer your questions. Give your written comments at the meeting, or submit them by April 13, 2018 to Mr. Vicente Valeza, P.E., Virginia Department of Transportation, 4975 Alliance Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030, or email meetingcomments@VDOT.virginia.gov. Please reference “Wilson Boulevard over Route 50” in the subject line. VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need more information or special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact VDOT’s Civil Rights Division at 703-259-1775 or TTY/TDD 711. State Project: 0613-029-380, P101, B647 UPC: 111320 Federal: STP-BR09 (297)
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News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
One budget question on the minds of some constituents is “What is the future of our public libraries?” Fairfax County’s library system includes 23 “brick and mortar” locations, plus access services. Mason District is home to three libraries in the system: George Mason Regional Library in Annandale, Thomas Jefferson branch in Falls Church, and Woodrow Wilson branch in Bailey’s Crossroads/ Culmore. All three libraries have been renovated and expanded during the past 20 years, and patrons can access traditional library services, like current best sellers and treasured classics, scientific and technical publications, magazines, and children’s books. A library patron also may access the Internet from a library-based computer, reserve a quiet room for study, or attend an event in a library meeting room. Today’s libraries are more accessible than ever, and you don’t even have to step into the building. While Fairfax County library visits decreased by about 100,000 in each of the past three years, to 4.6 million in-person visits, catalog logins by computer increased by three million in FY2017, to nearly 13 million. Obviously, our libraries are well-used and well-loved, in person and online. Did you know that you can check out a thermal imaging camera to locate your home’s hot and cold spots? (The reservation list is long, so you might want to sign up now). Nature backpacks, DVDs, and e-books provide learning opportunities in many formats for the county’s diverse population. The library system serves millions of residents in a very efficient manner. Fewer than 380 employees work across the entire system, from full-time director to part-time library aide, helping patrons, responding
to requests for information, programming special events, and selecting/purchasing library materials, a never-ending process. The proposed FY2019 county budget includes an addition $1.1 million for personnel; recent budget reductions have affected some materials selection, but the circulation per capita rate still was 9.8, an incredible number for our millionplus person community. Book-ended with libraries (no pun intended) in the budget documents is the Fairfax County Park Authority, stewards of the 23,000-plus acres of county-owned parkland. Nearly 18 million people visited county parks in FY2017, enjoying activities from athletics (any playing field) to zoology (Hidden Oaks Nature Center). The advertised budget allocates $30,466,746 in county funding, offset by recreation class fees and recovered costs (facility rentals, etc) of more than $4 million, for a net cost to the county of $25,884,785, or less than $25 per resident. Investing in parks and open space, especially in an urbanizing county, is a gift for today, and for future generations. The Mason District Budget Town Meeting is tonight, beginning at 7 p.m., at the Mason District Governmental Center, 6507 Columbia Pike in Annandale. County Executive Bryan Hill and Chief Financial Officer Joe Mondoro will present the advertised budget, with a question and answer period to follow. The meeting is open to all Mason District residents. I look forward to seeing you there. 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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Delegate Marcus Simon’s
Richmond Report The 2018 General Assembly regular session ended last week, though we are far from finished with our legislative work. Republican leaders in the House and Senate failed to come to a budget agreement, and so we adjourned without passing the biennial budget sent. Those same leaders refused to consider any meaningful efforts to address gun reforms, or even schedule a committee hearing on my bill to repeal Virginia’s unconstitutional and obsolete ban on same sex marriage. Many of the bills we did pass this session were moved along with the hope that the Governor will use his power to recommend amendments to improve them. All that said, my fifth session was far and away my most successful legislatively. This had a lot to do with the new makeup of the House – we picked up 15 seats last November narrowing the Republican majority to two votes, versus the 32 vote margin they had for most of my tenure. Legislative Update I got six bills through the House vs. zero in 2017. Of these, five made it through the Senate. Assuming the Governor signs them into law, beginning July 1, 2018 you will be able to get a license plate bearing the legend Stop Gun Violence (HB287); you will have a more predictable process for evicting or being evicted after a foreclosure (HB 311); students who fall behind in their tuition and fee payments will have more flexible options for getting caught up before having their account turned over to a collections agency (HB 339; a really good Washington Post article highlights this issue); very small cities and localities will have the option of hiring registrars from nearby localities or retaining registrars who move (HB 690); and consumers will have greater protection from being caught in recurring payment and automatic renewal offers that don’t have easy and obvious ways to cancel (HB 911). Nothing earth shattering, but some little things that should make life a little better for some of you, I hope. Dedicated Funding for Metro One bill that went down to the wire – finally passing on the last day of session, was Senator Dick Saslaw’s bill to establish a dedicated funding source for Metro. The bill goes a long way to ensure that the Commonwealth lives up to its funding commitment to WMATA, mirroring similar efforts in
Maryland and D.C. Unfortunately, House Republicans insisted on amendments that limit the funding to $132 million, much of which is diverted from other transportation projects funded through local taxes. Another $22 million will be made available by fixing an oversight in 2013 legislation that eliminated a floor on the wholesale gas tax. As it passed the House, $100 million of the total $154 million funding will come from money that would have gone to localities and the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) for other projects. This includes a range of projects from road widening to sidewalks and bike paths to local transit. In more local terms, it will most likely mean cuts to the Fairfax Connecter, DASH, Capital Bikeshare, and ART. Fortunately, Governor Northam has already said he is considering amendments to find other funding sources that do not redirect so much money from important local transportation projects. I am hopeful that we won’t rely so exclusively on locally generated revenue, as a healthy Metro system benefits the entire Commonwealth. If we are to have any chance to land Amazon’s HQ2 and attract other big employers to Virginia, we must have a safe, reliable, and vibrant Metro system. The Budget Although both the Governor and the newly constituted House of Delegates included Medicaid Expansion in the budget, the Senate did not. (It is worth noting that State Senators last stood for election in 2015.) So, we will return for a special session on April 11th to try again to pass a budget. As I learn more information about what the compromise might look like, I will share it with you. Governor’s Vetoes & Reconvene Session While Governor Northam has not vetoed any legislation yet, chances are good that there will be at least a couple of them for the House and Senate to review during the Reconvene Session on April 18. At that time, we will also address any recommendations that the Governor has made to legislation as well as any amendments he has to the compromise budget Delegate Simon represents the 53rd District in the Virginia House of Delegates. He may be emailed at DelMSimon@house.virginia. gov
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AS LOCALS start to build excitement toward St. Patrick’s Day in the Little City, Ireland’s Four Provinces braces (and then embraces) its biggest day of the year. Starting at 8 a.m. the day of, Kegs & Eggs breakfast will be served and ensure that the dining area will be packed to brim. Folks will then go home to reboot before coming back for lunch and then dinner, where the Four Provinces will be taking reservations for 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., and is open to walk-ins around 10 p.m. that evening. While some may be there for the food, the bar will be packed all day, with guests donning their favorite green threads and enjoying one of the thousands of pints of Guinness draft that will be served alongside the occasional glass of distinguished Irish whiskey the Four Provinces is known to serve. (Photos: News-Press)
Irish Hospitality Fuels St. Patrick’s Day at F.C.’s Ireland’s 4 Provinces by Matt Delaney
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Grab your finest green attire and make sure you’re parched as you won’t want to leave your seat once you get a taste of the homey St. Patrick’s Day experience at Ireland’s Four Provinces. The man himself, Saint Patrick, is the patron saint of Ireland. Back in the motherland, the holiday was a serious affair where citizens got a day off from school or work and took a trip to church. Across the pond, the holiday’s American cousin was more about a general celebration of Irish heritage (and mind you, just a wee bit more fun). And while St. Patrick’s Day is commonly seen as an excuse to imbibe well beyond the legal limit, in reality it’s a reminder of the Irish’s welcoming nature that infatuates neighbors and strangers alike. “Irish bars were ‘Cheers’ before ‘Cheers,’” Colm Dillon, the Four Provinces owner, said. “There’s a line in that song, ‘Where everybody knows your name,’ and that’s what it’s about. You see them everywhere, and there’s a reason you see them everywhere: People feel safe in there and they feel like they’re gonna have a good time. It’s just the Irish
hospitality.” Chatting up guests and keeping them comfortable throughout their stay is the fun part for Dillon and Four Provinces’ staff. But from a business side, preparing for St. Patrick’s Day – especially when it’s on a Saturday, making it essentially a four-day green-out from Thursday through Sunday (and that’s discounting the Irish pub quiz that took place last night as the weekend’s informal lead-in) – is their own annual Operation Overlord. Accumulating the rations starts a week in advance when Dillon places orders for everything he needs for the celebration. A refrigerated truck delivers all the goods, from triple orders of cod to satisfy the boatloads of fish and chip meals assembled during the Lenten Friday to the abundance of the best-selling corned beef and cabbage that will be gobbled up during the festivities. Dillon even breaks off from his traditionalist roots by ordering in pre-peeled potatoes to keep pace with the starch’s high demand throughout the holiday. Then of course there are the decorations. Streamers emblazoned with full glasses of Guinness and Irish-flag pennants are accompanied by kelly green wallpaper and heavy doses of shamrocks.
However, when it comes to the libations Dillon doesn’t need to get fancy because his customers don’t request it. “Guinness by a country mile,” Dillon continued. “It’s a purist deal. And some people don’t even drink Guinness, but they’ll drink a half a pint of Guinness just for the celebration.” By the end of St. Patrick’s Day alone, Dillon estimates that at least 2,500 pints of the famous beverage will be consumed by patrons. And for those looking to enjoy some of the harder stuff, the Four Provinces can provide a select amount of premium whiskeys, including Red Breast or Green Spot Irish Whiskey. The fact that Red Breast was selected as the winner of a blind taste test the Four Provinces staff participated in during a trip to Ireland last September is probably good sign it’ll appeal to any whiskey savants in the area. Dillon’s gotten the preparations down to a science in what will be his 35th St. Patrick’s Day on the job and 14th year as the owner of the Four Provinces. With each new St. Patrick’s Day he’s been thrilled to see how the annual holiday has evolved in the eyes of celebrants. What used to be a festivitie overwhelmingly embraced by Americans with Celtic
ancestry (or who happened to be newlyimmigrated Celts themselves) is now a holiday that encourages everyone to delve into the Irish experience. Although there is one caveat with the holiday’s proliferation: More inauthentic, chain-based Irish pub competitors have sprouted up. In Dillon’s eyes, they definitely know how to run a restaurant — you know, feeding and serving people in an efficient and professional manner. But the bones of the business aren’t fortified with the fraternal feelings of Irish congeniality that’s detectable in every independently-owned pub. “[Independently-owned pubs] are character-driven; chains are corporate-driven. There’s a big difference since you just don’t get that same feel,” Dillon stated. “You don’t need to have the greatest Kobe beef, incredible decor and great service. That’s not what hospitality is — that’s just great restaurants. What we do is hospitality. We want to know how you’re doing, how your kids are and how your mother’s been.” It’s a winning formula for Dillon and the Four Provinces. Starting tonight Metro area residents far and wide will be finding their way into a booth or bar stool at the Little City’s home away from home and likely planting themselves there for the next three days. Before getting back to work, Dillon paused for a moment and tried to fathom what life would be like inside an office or elsewhere instead of the pub. Luckily he’s so good at what he does, he doesn’t have to give that thought anything more than a chuckle before greeting his next guest.
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Northside Social Trending Toward April Opening BY ORRIN KONHEIM
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The Northside Social on Park and North Maple Avenues will be opening by mid-April at the latest according to the upcoming café’s co-owner Stephen Fedorchak. Along with chef Matt Hill and business partners Brian Normille and brother Mark Fedorchak, the restaurant group also owns the new Liberty Barbecue in Falls Church (which opened this past December) as well as Northside Social, Lyon Hall and Liberty Tavern in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arlington. According to Fedorchak, the reasons for the wait in opening was that the management wanted to focus on getting the Liberty Barbecue up and running before shifting to focus to their other Falls Church establishment. The biggest focus in the launch has been on staffing. “For us, we want to make sure we have the right people in place. Restaurants are somewhat defined by their building or construction, they’re somewhat defined by their building, but the most essential factor is the
ALL THAT REMAINS is putting the �inishing touches on Northside Social at the intersection of Maple and Park Avenue before the shop’s ribbon-cutting in April. (P����: N���-P����) quality of the people who are in the same four walls every day,” said Fedorchak. “We want people who are good at what they do and extremely welcoming.”
Erin Hutchins will serve as the general manager of the new store and will oversee the hiring process. The menu will be largely
similar to that of the Northside Social coffee shop in Clarendon but they will have an expanded menu because the larger basement will have the capacity for a
commercial-sized bakery. Under the guidance of Hill, the restaurant will also have wider lunch and dinner options. Hill has been the head chef at Liberty Tavern since 2014 and has previously worked as head chef for such notable Washington, D.C. establishments like Range and Charlie Palmer Steak. In terms of the location, Fedorchak and his colleagues are most excited about his proximity to the Falls Church Farmer’s Market which he hopes to draw upon for the café’s offerings. “I think it’s one of the best farmer’s markets I’ve ever been to. I think it’s fantastic and we are so excited to meet the people who sell there every week and buy from them,” he said. Similar to the Northside Social location in Clarendon, the coffee shop will offer two floors of seating and management envisions using it as an event space. Among the events Fedorchak discussed were birthday parties, art openings, and music. “We hope to do as many community-oriented events as we can for both families and adults,” Fedorchak said.
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ARGIA’S
LUNCH, DINNER
124 North Washington Street, Falls Church argias.com 3-Course Prix Fixe for $35.18 Appetizer (choose one): • Garlic and herb stuffed portobello mushroom with oven dried tomatoes and whipped goat cheese • Arancine di Saltimbocca (Rice croquettes filled with Prosciutto, sage and Fontina cheese • Calamari with spicy marinara Entrée (choose one): • Chicken Scallopini with sun dried Picatta butter with house made angel hair pasta • Mushroom Trio Risotto (Creamy Arborio rice topped with truffle scented funghi mista, julienne spinach and crumbled goat cheese • Steak Pizziola (Grilled Angus sirloin simmered with slow cooked peppers, mushrooms, onions , red wine and tomatoes, topped with gorgonzola bread crumbs and served with garlic whipped potatoes Dessert (choose one): • Tiramisu • Cannoli • Chocolate Volcano
ART’S TAVERN LUNCH, DINNER
2190 Pimmit Drive, Falls Church artstavern.com 2-course meal for $18.95 Blackened Shrimp or Tilapia Tacos topped with homemade Asian slaw, pico de gallo, cilantro aioli, served with rice plus your choice of dessert 3-course meal for $10.95 Chili Mac served over spaghe� topped with cheese and onion, includes salad and your choice of dessert 75¢ wings (choice of buffalo, honey mustard, barbeque or parmesan) all day before 7 p.m.
BB.Q CHICKEN LUNCH, DINNER
7115 Leesburg Pike #107, Falls Church facebook.com/bbqchicken.fc $35 Meal for Two • 2 Appetizers (choice of Takoyaki, Shrimp Shumai and Edamame) • 10 piece boneless or bone-in chicken (your choice of flavor) • 1 Korean main dish • 1 dessert to share
CAFÉ KINDRED DINNER
450 North Washington Street, Falls Church cafekindred.com 3-Course Meal for $20
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The News-Press is proud to present the 6th Annual Falls Church Restaurant Week! This year’s culinary celebration features an exciting selection of restaurants from in and around The Little City serving up special lunch and dinner dining deals all week long starting Monday, March 19 and running through Sunday, March 25. All partcipating restaurants and their dining specials are listed below and are also available online at www.fcrestaurantweek.com. Appetizer: • Kale and white bean soup with parmesan crisp Entree (choice of): • French dip with fries or • Mushroom curry veggie burger with fries Dessert: • Tiramisu with Vigilante espresso syrup
CLARE & DON’S BEACH SHACK LUNCH, DINNER
130 North Washington Street, Falls Church clareanddons.com 4-Course Meal for $29 Appetizer: • Chilled crab claws Salad: • House chopped salad Entree: • Crab-stuffed. pan-seared grouper with mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce Dessert: • Key lime pie
DOGWOOD TAVERN LUNCH, DINNER
132 West Broad Street, Falls Church dogwoodtavern.com 3-Course Meal for $25 1st Course: • Starter Salad: shaved Brussels hearts and crispy leaves, goat cheese, Granny Smith apples, dried cranberries, toasted almonds and maple cider vinaigrette 2nd Course: • Meatballs and Parmesan Polenta: house made beef and pork meatballs, spicy-braised kale, marinara, creamy parmesan polenta with basil pesto 3rd Course: • Chocolate Nutella Souffles: warm chocolate and Nutella souffle with vanilla ice cream
FALLS CHURCH DISTILLERS LUNCH, DINNER
442 South Washington Street Suite A, Falls Church fcdistillers.com 3-Course Meal for $19.33 • Pick any antipasta (starter), pia� principali (main dish) and dolce (dessert) • Add one of a selection of bottled wine for $18 or $21 (Guess the theme of the Restaurant Week pricing and enjoy a
complimentary 0.5 oz. spirit tasting of your selection)
HOT N JUICY CRAWFISH LUNCH, DINNER
116 West Broad Street, Falls Church hotnjuicycrawfish.com Seafood Feast for $55 includes fried calamari, 1 lb. crawfish, 1/2 lb. shrimp, 1/2 lb. green mussels, 1/2 lb. black mussels, 2 corns, 2 potatoes, 12 Andouille sausages, cajun or regular fries, fried brownie dessert, 2 sodas Lobster Lovers for $100 includes 2 lobsters, 1 lb. crawfish, 2 corns, 2 potatoes, cajun or regular fries
IDYLWOOD GRILL & WINE BAR LUNCH, DINNER
2190 Pimmit Drive, Falls Church idylwoodgrill.com 3-Course Lunch for $20.18 3-Course Dinner for $35.18 Choose any one appetizer, one entree and one dessert from regular lunch or dinner menu
IRELAND’S FOUR PROVINCES DINNER
105 West Broad Street, Falls Church 4psva.com 3-Course Dinner for $24.99 1st Course: • House salad or cup of potato leek soup 2nd Course: • 8 oz. top sirloin steak with Jameson Irish Whiskey peppercorn sauce, champ potatoes and market vegetables 3rd Course: • Homemade bread pudding with vanilla bean sauce
LA CÔTE D’OR CAFÉ LUNCH, DINNER
6876 Lee Highway, Arlington lacotedorarlington.com 3-Course Lunch for $22 1st Course (choose one): • Onion soup with toasted baguettes and Swiss cheese gratinee • Potage Bourguignon: potato, leek, carrot, celery, cabbage • Homemade pâte, cornichons, pearl onion, celery remoulade • Fresh beet salad, oranges, mesclun, onion, vinaigrette • Boston lettuce, mesclun, Belgium endive with French vinaigrette • Caesar salad, anchovy dressing, croutons and parmesan cheese Main Course (choose one):
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• Salad Benjamin: mesclun, apple, cranberry, walnut, smoked Gouda cheese • Salad Niçoise classic • Smoked salmon, avocado, asparagus, corn, mango salad • Omelet (choice of 3): Ham, Swiss cheese, mushroom, onion, tomato, bacon. Served with choice of French fries or salad • Quiche Lorraine served with choice of French fries or salad • Crab quiche served with choice of French fries or salad • Quiche of the Day served with choice of French fries or salad • Croque Monsieur: grilled ham, béchamel and Swiss cheese on white toast. served with choice of French fries or salad • Seafood crêpes in champagne cream sauce • Trout sautéed with toasted almond • Tilapia filet sautéed with white wine cream sauce • Coq au vin • Pork loin, Basquaise sauce Dessert (choose one): • Crème caramel • Crêpes with chocolate sauce • Apple tart • Ice cream / sorbet of the day • Bread pudding with vanilla sauce • Floating island with caramel, toasted almond, vanilla sauce 3-Course Dinner for $35 Hors-d’oeuvre – Appetizers (choose one): • Onion soup with toasted baguettes and Swiss cheese gratinée • Potage Bourguignon; potato, leek, carrot, celery, cabbage • Frog legs sautéed with garlic in a parsley butter sauce • Burgundy Escargots parsley, garlic butter, puffed pastry dough • Homemade Pâte, cornichons, pearl onion, balsamic onion compote • Boston lettuce, mesclun, Belgium endive, tomato, carrot, and cucumber • Caesar salad anchovy dressing, croutons, and parmesan cheese • Smoked salmon, avocado salad, asparagus, corn, mango salad, basil • Avocado, baby shrimp, Russian dressing, mesclun salad, boiled egg, tomato • Cheeses platter, apple champagne jam, peach & tomato compote, pickled cantaloupe, walnut and raisin • Fresh beet salad, roasted goat cheese, oranges, mesclun, onion Plat de résistance - Main course (choose one): • PEI Mussels Marinière, white wine cream sauce, French fries • Rainbow trout sautéed with toasted almond butter sauce • Seafood crêpes, shrimp, mussels, bay scallops, mushroom, cream sauce • Codfish, shiitake mushroom, Chickpea crêpe, 4 grilled vegetables • Bouillabaisse; Fish, seafood, saffron broth, croûtons, rouille, parmesan • Salmon filet, tomato white wine basil sauce • Chickpea crêpe (gluten free), 4 grilled vegetables, mushroom, onion confit • Homemade Gnocchi, mushroom, tomato, parmesan cheese, cream sauce • Beef Bavette steak with black peppercorn cream sauce, French fries • Calf liver lyonnaise with onion, red wine vinegar, demi-glace • Coq au vin, potato, bacon, pearl onions, mushroom • Beef Burgundy, bacon, pearl onions, mushroom, gnocchi • Steak tartar served with French fries or mixed green salad • Pork loin, Basquaise sauce Dessert (choose one): • Crème caramel • Apple tart • Ice cream/sorbet of the day • Bread pudding, cinnamon, peach, walnut vanilla sauce • Floating island with caramel, toasted almond, vanilla sauce • Chocolate mousse with red coulis Dinner items also available a la carte
LAZY MIKE’S DELICATESSEN LUNCH, DINNER
112 North West Street, Falls Church mikesdeliatlazysundae.com 3-Course Meal for $16
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LIBERTY BARBECUE DINNER
370 West Broad Street, Falls Church libertyfallschurch.com $10 Fried Chicken Dinner includes 1/2 fried chicken (4 pieces), coleslaw, hot honey and 1 side. Dine-in only.
MAD FOX BREWING COMPANY LUNCH, DINNER
444 West Broad Street, Falls Church madfoxbrewing.com 2-Course Lunch for $20 Choice of handheld or salad or entree, plus dessert 3-Course Dinner for $32 Choice of one sociable, one entree and one dessert
PANJSHIR DINNER
114 East Fairfax Street, Falls Church panjshirrestaurant.com 4-Course Dinner for $34.18 Choice of one salad, one appetizer, one entree and one dessert (excludes lamb chops)
PLAKA GRILL LUNCH, DINNER
513 West Broad Street, Falls Church plakagrill.com Lunch (11 a.m. – 3 p.m., Monday-Friday): Buy one entree, get one 1/2 off (dine-in only)
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• Silken Shawl Imperial Autumn Roll: Hand-made rice thread wrapper filled with marinated prawn, pork slowly fried until crispy served with fish sauce • G�i HẢI SẢN TRÁI THƠM - Treasure from the Sea: Salad made with fresh pineapple, julienned carrots, sweet onions, lemongrass, fried garlic, peanuts, shrimp, and ivory calamari on a bed of half-cut pineapple • Lotus Flower Garden: Lotus stalks salad with pork and shrimp tossed in vinaigrette dressing with peanuts • Jewel-Green Papaya: Green papaya salad, topped with beef and liver jerky, peanuts served with special sauce Main Course (choose one): • Wicked Wishes: Soft shell crab (2) with Chef’s special lemon sauce • Duck in Tamarind Basket: Roasted duck until crispy then topped with Chef’s special tamarind sauce • Gregarious Lemongrass Chicken: White meat chicken sautéed with lemongrass, garlic onion and spicy chili. • Shrimp in the Fresh Ocean: Jumbo salted prawns sautéed with salt and black pepper on a pineapple bed. • Cow on the Open Field: Marinated beef tenderloin tips shaken in high flames on top of fresh lettuce and sliced onion • Mosaic Pathway: Chef’s signature jumbo lump crabmeat and cellophane noodle sautéed with fresh vegetable Dessert (choose one): • Banana fritters with coconut cream sauce • Chocolate molten with vanilla ice cream
SFIZI CAFE LUNCH
800 West Broad Street, Falls Church sfizi.com 20% Off Lunch
TACO BAMBA LUNCH, DINNER
2190 Pimmit Drive Suite G, Falls Church tacobambarestaurant.com Three Traditional Tacos and Mexican Street Corn for $10
TAKUMI LUNCH
310-B South Washington Street, Falls Church takumiva.com
3-Course Dinner for Two with Wine for $55 (5 p.m.–close, Monday-Sunday): 1 dip appetizer, 2 entrees, 2 desserts and a bottle of Elios red or white wine (take out or dine-in)
Lunch Special for $18
Vegetarian stuffed pepper special (Thursday-Friday), Lamb Bowl special (Saturday-Sunday)
Green Salad with ginger dressing
Miso Soup (choose one): • Wakame & Tofu • Mushrooms
DINNER
Appetizer Sampler (choose one: • Tempura assortment • Aji Furai (deep fried horse mackerel) • Kaki Furai (deep fried oysters)
3-Course Dinner for $30
Sushi: • Nigiri sushi: walu, salmon, yellowtail, shrimp • Maki sushi: spicy tuna and crunchy shrimp
PRESENT RESTAURANT 6678 Arlington Boulevard, Falls Church presentrestaurantusa.com
Starter (choose one): • Red Sea calamari: Slices of center cut calamari with Chef’s special seasoning with salt, blackpepper served on top of fresh lettuce with sweet onions
Dessert (choose one): • Ginger ice cream • Green tea ice cream
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A bucket of fried chicken is eight bucks at Harris Teeter and just $5 on Fridays.
Photos & Words by Jody Fellows
long with the recent Little City Restaurant Revolution, there’s been a bit of a Falls Church fried chicken revolution as well. It all started with Astro Doughnuts & Fried Chicken’s expansion to Pimmit Hills in 2015, followed a year later by the debut of a Harris Teeter flagship store in the middle of the Little City serving all-day fried chicken. Then last year, two more destinations entered the game when Korean fried chicken favorite BB.Q Chicken opened across from George Mason High School in August and Liberty Barbecue brought its picklebrined chicken to the former Famous Dave’s space in December. Along with the chain gang – KFC, Popeyes and Pollo Campero — that’s a lot of fried chicken. So, in service to the chicken-eating public, we went on a fact-finding mission to all of the above and conducted a totally unscientific study to find out just which bird is the best.
Astro Doughnuts & Fried Chicken
7511 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church | astrodoughnuts.com Astro’s fried chicken can be easily paired up with a doughnut or three.
ing process using buttermilk and highquality flour made for one of the juiciest bites of meat we had out of the whole lot. Tasters called it “really” and “solidly” juicy and praised the flavor as “nice” and “above the bar.” Notes on crispiness were more varied however with one taster giving it top scores for crunch but another calling it “not very crunchy at all.”
BB.Q Chicken
7115 Leesburg Pike #107, Falls Church | facebook.com/bbqchicken.fc
4.8
Astro Doughnuts and Fried Chicken is one of two restaurants in our roundup where the bird shares the spotlight on the menu. But even though doughnuts get top billing CRISPiness at this Pimmit Hills joint, the chicken more than holds its own. Astro co-found- JUICINESS er Elliot Spaisman says they went through many different versions and FLAVOR tweaks when deciding upon the final recipe and in the end, a 24-hour brin-
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Thanks to two CRISPiness trips to the deep fryer, Korean fried chicken is known for its crunch, so it’s no wonder BB.Q Chicken JUICINESS earned closed-to-top marks for crispiness. In addition to its double dip, the fried FLAVOR chicken is prepared using olive oil which BB.Q’s Ryan Ham says make a big difference in health and taste. While all agreed on the top-notch crispiness, BB.Q’s Golden Olive fried chicken was the most polarizing of the bunch when it came to flavor. Several tasters thought it was “bland” and “boring” while others lauded the flavor as “standout,” highlighted by a touch of “sweet” acting as a “great compliment to the saltiness.”
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Harris Teeter
301 West Broad Street, Falls Church | harristeeter.com Harris Teeter’s chicken is just about CRISPiness the definition of fried chicken mediocrity. Featuring pieces doublebreaded by hand, JUICINESS the chicken is prepared fresh in-store every four hours or as needed, with two FLAVOR options available: via pre-made buckets or straight from the the hot bar. We found the quality varied depending on the source, with the hot bar, by far, the better choice (the lids create a bird sauna in the bucket, turning the once-crisp skin soggy). Tasters found the flavor average through
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Double fried in olive oil, BB.Q Chicken packs some serious crunch.
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and through, calling it “just OK,” “good but nothing unique” and “not outstanding.” The best thing going for Harris Teeter fried chicken is the price. Buckets are $7.99 each for about one-and-a-half pounds of chicken (hot bar is pricier at $8.99/pound) and on Friday, buckets are just five bucks. Pro-Tip: try catching a fresh batch when the hot bar opens daily at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.
KFC
5711 Columbia Pike, Falls Church | kfc.com
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It’s been sev- CRISPiness eral years since the Colonel packed up his secret blend of 11 herbs and spices and moved out of JUICINESS Falls Church proper. However, just outside City limits in Baileys Crossroads, redFLAVOR and-white buckets of fried chicken are churning out of the KFC on Columbia Pike — and there’s a drive-thru to boot. While Colonel Sanders has the most storied and pedigreed chicken of the bunch, tasters found inconsistency prevented KFC from scoring higher. Comments like “nothing remarkable,” “kinda boring” and “decent” were noted though one also called it “the best yet.” It was also commented that “extra crispy was less flavorful than the original recipe.” Tasters’ praise of the chicken having “a nice crunch” and being “crispy” was juxtaposed against others who called it “nowhere close to the crispiest I’ve had” and “soggy.”
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Liberty Barbecuelibertyfallschurch.com 370 West Broad Street, Falls Church {
While most come through the door for smoked meats, Liberty Barbecue’s fried chicken can rival both the ribs and brisket on the menu. Created and CRISPiness refined at Liberty Tavern in Clarendon, chef Matt Hill says they tweaked the JUICINESS recipe a bit before bringing the bird to Falls Church. After a 36-hour pickle brine and a buttermilk marFLAVOR inade, the chicken then gets pressure fried before coming to the table dressed with lemon slices and thyme, with a cup of hot honey on
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Liberty Barbecue’s fried chicken presentation is by far the prettiest of them all.
the side. All the prep and recipe honing paid off, as Liberty’s chicken scored top marks for flavor, with tasters calling it “so good” and touting it as leaving a “lasting impression.” Crispiness fared well, too, earning praise as “excellent” and “solid,” while juiciness was a bit more varied, getting called “good but not great” but also “on another level.”
4.9
Pollo Campero
5852 Columbia Pike, Falls Church | us.campero.com Founded in Guatemala in 1971, Pollo Campero is hugely popular in Central America and has acquired a dedicated following at its 70+ locations in CRISPiness the U.S. The concept is similar to a Popeyes or KFC with fried chicken meals paired with JUICINESS an assortment of sides, though here it’s yuca and street corn rather than mashed potatoes FLAVOR and mac ‘n’ cheese. The Central American recipe was a hit with some who enjoyed a “hint of citrus” and “unique flavor” from the breading but others thought it “needed more flavor.” The skin was a high point, too, with both options — traditional and extra crispy — scoring well with tasters.
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ings, earning top marks in all three categories. Thanks to its 12-hour marination in “Louisiana seasonings,” the group gobbled up both mild and spicy flavors and earned remarks like “perfect” and “my favorite.” With its tell-tale flaky skin, CRISPiness Popeyes even outcrunched the double-fried Korean chicken, earning a JUICINESS near-perfect (4.9) score for crispiness. The only minor quibble was from FLAVOR one taster who commented “one bite could have been a little more juicy.”
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Popeyes
6134 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church | popeyes.com
The iconic red-and-white KFC bucket.
It turns out, “Love that Chicken at Popeyes” is a pretty accurate tagline for the 36-year-old Louisiana fried chicken chain as the fast food stalwart cleaned up in our rat-
Pollo Campero offers two types of fried chicken: traditional and extra crispy.
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$35 for Two Special: •2 of our appetizers (Choice of Takoyaki, Shrimp Shumai and Edamame) •1 of 10 pieces Boneless or Chicken Wing •1 of Korean Main Dishes •1 Dessert to share *Dining only / tip is not included
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YO U DON T H AV E T O BE SO STRONG BUT IF I’M NOT, WHO WILL?
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Our Man in Arlington By Charlie Clark
In this age of technological change, I offer tribute to some oldschool Arlington businesses that help us preserve past valuables. Deemarie Hunter and her husband Lee Tang own the 24-hour Clock and Watch Works on Wilson Blvd. at N. Florida St. (No, it’s not open 24-hours.) I once asked Tang to bring back to life a century-old gold-eagle-bedecked wall clock celebrating George Washington’s Mount Vernon. He applied ye old honest craftsmanship and then taught me how to wind it. When I later had trouble, he drove to my house and re-demonstrated the trick. Kevork Tchalekian runs Sam Torrey Shoe Service on Lee Highway at George Mason Dr. In this throw-away age, he helps customers decide whether leather goods (like my sentimental gem of a briefcase) are worth the labor and expense to refurbish. Tchalekian and crew give me instant service when I bring a new pair of shoes for heel plates. For shines and other longer-term jobs, he smartly requires payment in advance. Wendy MacCallum and Heather Sheire two years ago opened “Livin’ the Pie Life” at 2166 N. Glebe Rd., near Lee Highway. Veterans of farmer’s markets, they and staff bake all goods on the premises same-day. The cherry, apple caramel, mincemeat, brown butter coconut and boozy toasted pecan pies are
offered in small or full-size. Add chocolate cakes, scones, cinnamon buns and cookies. For balanced dieters, there’s savory quiches and chicken pies, fresh salads and gourmet coffee — ingestible at the kitchen’s few tables. The pastries sell out quickly, MacCallum told me. She plows profits back into the steaming-hot business. The merchant who deals with perhaps the most drastic technological disruption is David Downey of Trans Video, run out of his home at Pershing Dr. near Washington Blvd. I turned to him when passage of time reminded me I needed to digitize my fourdecade-plus-old reel-to-reel tapes. Back in high school and college I recorded lots of commercial music, saving money by borrowing LPs from dorm-mates. Now I can hear that music on Alexa and Sirius XM Radio. But a few selections are personal, such as a unique tape of my youth rock band and a pal’s 1971 impersonation of a deejay. I brought them to Trans Video’s higgledy-piggledy tworoom workshop crowded with old tape recorders, specially modified projectors for Super 8 and 16mm film transfers, hard drives and McIntosh computers to digitize for final cuts. Downey, who came to Arlington in the early 1980s from Western New York, got the idea for his transfer service while working for the now-defunct Phototronic
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Driving Under the Influence, 100 blk E Broad St, March 9, 11:46 PM, a male, 51, of Falls Church, VA, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence/2ndOffense within 10 years Assault and Batter, 400 blk Rollins St, Mar 10, 4:20 AM, a male, 37, of Alexandria, VA, was arrested
for Assault and Batter and Preventing a Person From Calling 911. Tampering With Auto, 1000 blk Spruce St, between 6 PM, Mar 9 and 5:30 AM, Mar 10, unknown suspect rifled through an unsecured vehicle. Commercial Burglary, 250 W Broad St, Falls Church Antique Annex, between 6:30 PM, Mar 9 and 9:15 AM, Mar 10, unknown suspect(s) broke into a business and removed items of value. Investigation continues. Tampering With Auto, 1000 blk Ellison Sq, between 9 PM, Mar 9 and 9:30 AM, Mar 10, unknown suspect rifled through an unsecured vehicle. Tampering With Auto, 1000 blk Ellison Sq, between 8 PM, Mar 9 and 9:30 AM, Mar 10, unknown suspect rifled through an unsecured vehicle.
MARCH 15 – 21, 2018 | PAGE 25 Photo Service. They contracted overnight photo developing with the then-ubiquitous Ritz Camera. When customers started bringing 8mm film to transfer to VHS, his boss said, “This is a fad and isn’t going to last.” But when Christmas came in 1986, “they got an unbelievable amount of work they couldn’t handle, so I set up my business for the overflow,” Downey recalled. Several locations and thousands of tape hours later, his Trans Video has evolved from digitizing VHS videos to converting DVD’s to MP4’s and putting results on flash drives. “Even DVD’s are becoming obsolete,” he marveled. “But there’s still a lot of film people want to preserve.” With personalized service, Downey converted my decaying tapes and ended up helping me share them with dozens of old friends via a decidedly post-20thcentury technology: YouTube. *** I happened on Arlington’s perhaps least-noticed war monument. On N. Randolph and 9th streets in the heart of Ballston – in front of a high-rise Randolph Towers – lies a Korean War memorial. The black marble circular fountain features bas-reliefs of battle and a capsule history honoring the American forces and the families who “sent a loved one to enter into the paths of harm’s way.” It also honors Syd Albrittain, the building’s developer and a philanthropist whose family did not know of his Korean War silver star until after his death, in 2012.
Larceny from Auto, 1000 blk Ellison Sq, Mar 10, 9:30 AM, resident reported that change was missing from an unsecured vehicle. Larceny from Auto, 1000 blk Ellison Sq, between 9PM, Mar 9, and 9:30 AM, Mar 10, items of value were taken from an unsecured vehicle. Larceny from Building, 455 S Maple Ave (Lincoln at Tinner Hill), resident reported that sometime in the past two weeks a black Specialized Roubaix SL 4 bicycle was taken from the bicycle storage room. Residential Burglary, 1300 blk Tracy Pl, Mar 11, between 3:30 and 4 AM, suspect(s) entered an unsecured home and took items of value. A K-9 search was undertaken and many of the stolen items were recovered approximately 2 blocks away. Investigation continues. Smoking Violations, 6757 Wilson Blvd, #21 (Eden Center), Mar 10, 10:44 PM, a male, 41, of Frederick, MD, was issued a summons for Smoking in a Restaurant.
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‘Don Carlo’ Suicide Is Very Wrong
Don Carlo commits suicide at the end? Not on your life! The Washington National Opera’s otherwise brilliant production of Verdi’s “Don Carlo,” after three-plus hours of magnificent singing and acting on the singular theme of an heroic striving to bring freedom to the oppressed against the machinations of an evil king and even more evil Grand Inquisitor, ends up dumping on all that in its final seconds. With a downright blasphemous intervention into Verdi’s heroic intent based on Schiller’s heroic play, production director Tim Albery twisted the non-verbal end of the operatic drama into an act of selfish suicidal self-destruction. Having loved the performance to that point, I was singularly and suddenly repulsed. That “twist” undid the point of the whole production so FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS cruelly that I was stunned, and my optimism for the coming season of the WNO was suddenly shattered into doubt and skepticism. Philip Kennicott, the critic who wrote the Washington Post’s review, “Pared Down and Dumbed Down, ‘Don Carlo’ Still Dazzles at the Kennedy Center,” had it right in his final paragraph when he concluded, “Director Tim Albery has decided to make Don Carlo commit suicide at the end, rather than escape into a darkened tomb (as in the Verdi) or be handed over to the authorities (as in the Schiller). So it ends with neither mystery nor cynical fatalism, but a narcissistic act. The narcissism, of course, is the director’s.” Now, Kennicott did not comment on how the suicide was so contrary to the driving force of the opera, but indeed, it was. Can a director be so egotistically intent on writing his feeble little mark onto a great work that he cannot even see how what he did was so completely contrary to the very soul of the work? Verdi was a proud and dedicated force in Italy in the 19th century in the name of the nation’s unification on constitutionally republican principles. He chose Schiller’s “Don Carlo” because that was set in the early days of the Enlightenment when horrid tyrannies like Philip II and the Inquisition were being challenged by a young and idealistic new generation that grew into the American and succession of European revolutions. The opera has as its persisting and intoxicating theme the bond between Carlo and Rodrigo sworn in their first act duet, “Dieu, tu seman dans nos ames.” Critic David Salazar of Operawire.com is right to draw parallels between the opera’s subject matter and the current political environment in the U.S., when a new and young generation of strident activists has begun to arise against the tyrannies of the president, the NRA and its corrupt evangelical supporters. So, in that spirit, are today’s rising young activists supposed to emulate Don Carlo and fall in their swords when the going gets tough, as this current “Don Carlo” production suggests? Or, maybe the order to turn Don Carlo suicidal in the current production was ordered from higher authorities. Someone knows, I don’t. There seems to be an epidemic of self-destructive solutions to conflict these days. Last year, I penned a letter to the editor in the respected Gay and Lesbian Review when it published an article by the brilliant American University instructor who writes under the pen name, Andrew Holleran. In a piece on an aspect of playwright Tennessee Williams’ career, Holleran injected a passing comment to the effect that Williams “probably committed suicide” when he died at age 71 in 1983. There is no evidence of that, whatsoever, while an autopsy report at the time concluded that Williams accidentally swallowed a cap of a pill bottle that got caught in his throat. Otherwise, Williams had his chronic issues, but was continuing to live his life full of, as they say, piss and vinegar. Only in this era has a much-removed, depressed point of view begun to revise history and conclude that it was suicide. Preposterous! It’s not my place here to propose why this is, but I am eager to report that a spirit of new life in the past year’s rising women’s and youth movements is in the process of sweeping away all that morbid fixation on self-destruction. The “Don Carlo” production continues at the Kennedy Center through this weekend.
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Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.
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Why Pasta is the Answer to Trump
ROME – I consider myself an adventurer, especially on the culinary front. I have consumed livers, kidneys and brains. I have eaten an Amazonian herb that numbs your tongue, which sort of nullifies the point of eating, and I have tried shrimp that were still alive — still wriggling — until the downward chomp of my incisors. But on a recent visit here, I had pasta alla gricia on the first night, then pasta alla gricia on the second night, then pasta alla gricia on the third and fourth. There’s only one possible explanation, which is of course Donald Trump. Before I elaborate on that, I should explain pasta alla gricia. It doesn’t enjoy the fame outside of Italy NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE that it deserves. It’s essentially pasta alla carbonara minus the egg: less gooeyness, less guilt. “Lighter than carbonara” is how I often describe it, although that’s like saying “humbler than Trump.” The bar is low, and everything’s relative. It can be made with bucatini. It can be made with rigatoni. It could probably be made with shoelaces and still be worth ordering. It’s proof, like many Italian delicacies, that the communion of fat (it’s studded with crispy bits of pork cheek) and salt (it’s deluged with pecorino cheese) is the most reliable ticket to heaven. And it was one of my go-to dishes when I lived here many years ago. But four dinners in a row? That was unheard-of. It made me realize how much I relish constancy now. And it got me to thinking about how underrated sameness is. When Trump came down that escalator in June 2015, he was inconstancy. He was newness. Sure, he’d been around forever, a fixed star in the celebrity firmament. But Trump as a politician, let alone as a president, hinged on a hankering for novelty and an itch to trash the status quo in favor of the great orange unknown. Before his election, supporters of his told me that they didn’t think him perfect and weren’t even certain of his competence, but hey, could American government get any worse? Why not toss the pieces up just to see where they land? These voters viewed what they were doing as bold. They weren’t wrong. But boldness and recklessness overlap. And here we are. We lurch from one surprise, provocation and scandal to the next. Tariffs today, the execution of drug dealers tomorrow. Stormy Daniels at the moment,
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stormy weather all the time. Administration officials turn over at a breakneck pace. (Farewell, Rex Tillerson.) Traditional presidential etiquette is gone. So are traditional presidential ethics. We got our taste of the untried. Dear God, is it sour. Italians are more practiced at such tumult. Over the past 25 years, Italy has changed prime ministers 13 times. It has swung this way and that. At this point it’s more or less dangling: The nascent, renegade party that got the most votes in the recent election, the Five Star Movement, lacks a majority, not to mention a workable agenda, and doesn’t have a coalition partner. There’s no clear national purpose, no steady national trajectory, no sturdy sense of control. Italians wait, somewhat helplessly, to see what happens next. But their rituals, their families and their food — these are governable and protectable across time. They’re the engines of stability. They’re the agents of solace. Italians cling to them more fiercely, and with greater pride, than we Americans embrace our kin and our ways. I used to view this with a mixture of admiration and ridicule. When I lived in Rome, I often groused about how many restaurants had almost identical menus and how inviolable the rules and rhythm of Italian meals could be. Cappuccino at breakfast but never after dinner. Beer with pizza but not with pasta. On return trips to the Eternal City, I occasionally rolled my eyes at the changelessness of it all. Here a carbonara, there a gricia, everywhere a cacio e pepe. Italians, I decided, wanted for imagination. They lacked daring. Maybe so. But this time around I felt only respect and gratitude for what they do have: the discernment to recognize a sweet spot — or rather, a fatty, salty one — when they find it and the wisdom not to abandon it on the unsupported chance that there’s better around the bend. And so I kept happily to routine. I walked the Roman paths that were most familiar and dearest to me, lingered in the Roman piazzas that had given me pleasure before and supped not just on the classics but on one classic in particular: gricia. It was my link to a calmer past and my thread through a turbulent present. I can’t predict where, politically, Italy or America is headed. I can’t inoculate myself against Trump’s coming tweets. But I can count on what happens when pork cheek meets pecorino. I can plant myself at that juncture. And I can stand still.
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McGrath Academy Brings Irish Dance & Heritage Under 1 Roof BY PATRICIA LESLIE
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Falls Church has landed a new school of Irish dance that opened its doors to the public in January and brings with it a long tradition of excellence. The McGrath Academy of Irish Dance accepts boys and girls ages four and up who want to kick their heels, sharpen their skills and learn the art on East Fairfax Street. And the students will learn it at one of the best institutions in the U.S. as regional, national and world championships are all part of the McGrath portfolio whose instructors are champions in their own right. Students from around the region come to McGrath, like 14-year-old Sophia Rankin, a student at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, who has taken Irish dancing lessons since she was four. “She could go every day, she loves it so much,” said her mother, Jennifer Reed, who drives her daughter to class in Falls Church and Bethesda to follow instructor
John Lawrence Morgan wherever he is teaching. That’s because Morgan has won numerous world championships himself and choreographs dance program champions, and was a member of Michael Flatley’s “Lord of the Dance” between 2009 and 2012. From his parents’ famed Morgan School of Irish Dancing in Manchester, U.K., academy owner and director Lauren McGrath Dutton lured him across the Atlantic to come and teach at the academy. His addition to her retinue of teachers is a huge get for the burgeoning academy and enabled the school to offer classes in Falls Church and North Bethesda, per Dutton. “There’s quite an Irish community here [in Falls Church] and we’ve felt very supported,” Morgan said, before Dutton added, “We needed to link our locations and fill the gap in Falls Church and Bethesda. It made sense.” Reed doesn’t complain about driving her daughter to practice almost every day, even though
Rankin takes lessons five days a week. The quality of instruction far outweighs the pangs of making regular trips across state lines, and is a good way to establish some familiarity with her cultural roots. “It’s like other travel sports, there’s a rhythm we get into. The parents support each other. We carpool,” Reed added. “[Plus] we have an Irish heritage and this seemed like a good fit.” Reed can’t say enough good things about McGrath Academy which benefits her daughter in multiple ways. She credits McGrath with teaching Rankin how to succeed, inspiring healthy eating habits, improving her daughter’s attention to detail, goal setting, time management and even motivate her to get better grades. “I have seen my daughter improve in real time. I don’t know of any other school which offers a complete regimen like McGrath. It’s exciting to watch.” Rankin herself told the NewsPress about her take on academy and its influence in her life.
“The best part about dancing is that it helps me take my mind off of homework or anything that bothers me at school during the day,” Rankin said. “If I were not at dance class I would probably be focusing on guitar lessons – but it isn’t something I think about with regret. Dance is what I have always done, as long as I can remember, and the practice routine is natural like breathing or getting up in the morning.” When it comes to competing at the Oireachtas (pronounced Uh-rock-tus), the regional championship where McGrath students were among 2,000 rivals from 15 states and Mexico who vied for trophies last December in Orlando, the academy is no slouch. McGrath’s dancers earned a 78 percent “recall” or call back rate, the highest in the region which qualified winners for national and world competitions. In April, Dutton will lead nine of her students to Glasgow, Scotland, to compete in the worlds. Rankin will be among them. Ideally students will carry the good vibes from one of academy’s most celebrated months of the year with them. McGrath students marched in St. Patrick’s Day parades in Alexandria on March 3 and doubled up on March 10 by par-
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ticipating in the Manassas and Gaithersburg parades as well, showing that they embrace both Irish dance and heritage simultaneously. Dutton herself began lessons at age two, winning many championships, including a world title. She is now a certified Irish dance judge, which requires years of experience in order to qualify for such a role. In the 1970s her mother, a certified Irish dancer, opened McGrath Academy which she ran about 15 years in the DMV area. Her daughter re-opened the studio in 2004, this time in Gainesville. Dutton’s grandfather, John McGrath, emigrated to the U.S. from Dumbarton, Ireland when he was nine years old. (Her father, brother and nephews are all named “John McGrath.”) “My mother grew up in Connecticut and took Irish dance classes, and she assisted her teachers. My aunt was a beginner and that’s how my parents met, through my aunt.” Dutton continued. “It was a wonderful link and another example of how dancing brings people together, and it’s long-lasting,” Dutton said. More information about the McGrath Academy is available at mcgrathirishdance.com or by calling 703-772-1236. The Falls Church studio is located at 100-A East Fairfax St.
A RIGOROUS attention to detail throughout their practices is why the McGrath students (left) are capable of performing so well in regional and national competitions. That meticulous craftsmanship is a product of instructor John Lawrence Morgan’s (right picture, far right) own dedication to the art form, who was a former member of Michael Flatley’s “Lord of the Dance” from 2009-2012. (P�����: P������� L�����)
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Chamber Gala Showcased Little City’s Best
IT WAS A GOOD TIME for all who attended the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce’s Fire & Ice gala this past Saturday at the Fairview Park Marriott. From an award ceremony that saw all-around good samaritan Gary LaPorta receive the prestigious Pillar of the Community award to the funky dance moves guests felt courageous enough to break out afterward, it was night to remember. (P�����: B����� S������)
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The City of Falls Church Commissioner of the Revenue and Treasurer’s Offices will be closed on Friday, March 16 due to the move of City Hall offices to 400 N Washington St (the corner of Columbia St and N Washington St). The Treasurer and Commissioner of Revenue will reopen for business at 1:00 pm on Monday, March 19. The phone numbers, email addresses and mailing addresses will remain the same. The offices will remain at this location until the City Hall renovation project is complete sometime in late 2018 or early 2019. For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/1937/Temporary-Office-Relocation.
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Falls Church Jazzercise, June Beyer Art, Village Preservation & Improvement Society, Citizens for a Better City, Falls Church AAUW, and Ms. Lee Corey are sponsoring the 2nd Annual Falls Church Women’s History Walk on Sunday, March 18 at 4 p.m. Between 300 and 400 attendees are expected to participate in the event which will recognize 40 Falls Church women who made history from 1699 to 2018. The walk will start at the Falls Church Community Center and end at 5:15 p.m. with a closing ceremony at the Tinner Hill Historic Site. Falls Church Distillers will offer happy hour pricing on drinks and buy one/get one main dish dinners for walkers and their families from the end of the walk until 8 p.m.
F.C. Distillers Hosts Salute to Standing Strong Fundraiser Falls Church Distillers is hosting Salute to Standing Strong, a fundraiser to benefit Healthy Teen Network’s Center for Evidence & Innovation on Friday, March 16 from 4 – 7 p.m. The event will include live music, distillery tours, and a silent auction. Additionally FC Distillers will donate 20 percent of all food and drink sales all day to the program that empowers young people to live healthy sexual and reproductive lives. Falls Church Distillers is located at 442 S. Washington Street, Suite A. For more information, visit FCDistillers.com.
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FALLS CHURCHCALENDAR COMMUNITYEVENTS THURSDAY, MARCH 15 League of Women Voters Forum. Edward Saltzberg, member of Falls Church Economic Development Authority since 1981 and former chairman, is going to reprise his November presentation as the featured speaker at the Village Preservation and Improvement Society Fall Membership meeting. His topic is the continuing challenge of attracting retail development in Falls Church, the Little City’s advantages and disadvantages with an historical perspective and an eye toward the future. Saltzberg’s 15 minute presentation will be followed by a moderated, audience generated question & answer period. For questions contact Sally Ekfelt at fallschurchcbc@gmail.com. This event is co-sponsored by Citizens for a Better City, The Falls Church City Chamber of Commerce, The Falls Church American Legion
Post 130 and the Tinner Hill Association. American Legion Post 130 (400 N. Oak St., Falls Church). 7 p.m. 510-812-6410. High School Book Club. March Book: “Wonders of the Invisible World” by Christopher Barzak. Book Club for teens in grades 9th12th. Limited copies of the book are available to borrow from the Youth Services Desk. Registration Required. Mary Riley Styles (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 7 – 8 p.m. 703-248-5034.
FRIDAY, MARCH 16 Art of Origami. Origami, or the art of folding paper, has been practiced for generations. Yoshi Hazen, an experienced origami artist, will teach interested attendees about the history and culture of origami, as well as show attendees how to create pieces of their own. This class will focus on beginner shapes and using them to create seasonal greeting cards. Space is limited, call ahead. For ages
55+. Arlington Mill Community & Senior Center (909 S Dinwiddie St., Arlington). 703-228-7369.
SATURDAY, MARCH 17 Habitat Restoration. The City of Falls Church Habitat Restoration Team is restoring the local ecosystem in Herman Stream Valley Park. The team and interested volunteers will be removing invasive plants. Enter the park from Rollins Street, which dead-ends at the park. Volunteers can also enter behind Thomas Jefferson Elementary School across the bridge or at a walk-in entrance near the Byron off West Broad Street. Howard E. Herman Stream Valley Park (601 W. Broad St. or next to 434 Sherrow Ave., Falls Church). More information on the park locations can be found at fallschurchva.gov/511/Parks.
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Falls Church Project: The Falls Church City Manager, Wyatt Shields, and other City and planning officials will make presentations and answer questions from interested attendees on the high school campus project and the West Falls Church Economic Development project that are set to officially enter the planning phase in the coming months. Community Center, Senior Center (Second floor of 223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). 2 – 4 p.m. For more information, contact the City’s Public Information Officer at pio@fallschurchva.gov or call 703-248-5003 (TTY 711). Falls Church Women’s History Walk. The second annual women’s history walk will feature the informational briefs on the City’s past and present influential figures, as well as young women who’ve taken stands against unqiue forms of injustice. Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). 4 – 5:30 p.m. 703-2002426.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 16 “The Wolves.” Winter indoor soccer. Saturdays. Over quad stretches and squats, a team of young women prepares to defend the Wolves’ undefeated record, their banter spilling from tampons to genocide to the pressures of preparing for their adult lives. With an ear for the bravado and empathy of the teenage years, “The Wolves” explores the violence and teamwork of sports and adolescence, following a pack of 16-year-old girls who turn into warriors on the field. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY SATURDAY, MARCH 172 “Harvey.” The 1944 Pulitzer Prizewinning comedy by Mary Chase, features a principal character who is ever present but never apparent. “Harvey” is a whimsical “forget-all-your-worries” flight of fancy, principally powered by the endearing eccentricities of Elwood P. Dowd, a middle-aged bachelor who, in his own words, wrestled with reality all his life but
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“finally won out over it.” Elwood is the only member of the cast (or audience for that matter), who can see and converse with Harvey, an invisible six-foot threeinch mythical rabbit. The Players first brought Harvey to the Grange 30 years ago, and there are those local citizens who swear, despite the rabbit’s “disappearance” after the last show of the 1986 run, that he never left. After all, he has the power to stop a clock so that no time passes. Grange Theatre (9818 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls) $20. 8 p.m. mcleanplayers.org.
“Motown: Hitsville, U.S.A.” With Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and The Supremes as just a few of the artists to come out of Motown, no other record company has had such an enormous impact on popular music and culture. Groove to the Motown sound with hits such as “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “My Girl,” and “Stop! In the Name of Love” with Signature favorites Nova Y. Payton(Signature’s Jelly’s Last Jam, Round House Theatre’s Caroline, or Change), Mark G. Meadows (Signature’s Jelly’s Last Jam), and Felicia Curry (Arena Stage’s Nina Simone: Four Women). Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington). $35. 8:30 p.m. sigtheatre.org.
SUNDAY, MARCH 18 ”The Snow Queen.” This classic tale of bravery and friendship follows the journey of young Gerda as she attempts to rescue her best friend Kai from the clutches of the Snow Queen. With the help of some unique friends and a little magic Gerda is determined to break the Snow Queen’s spell and melt the ice that has taken hold of Kai’s heart before he is lost to her forever. Creative Cauldron (410 S Maple Ave., Falls Church). $18. 2 p.m. creativecauldron.org.
LIVEMUSIC THURSDAY, MARCH 15 March Madness! Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 11 a.m. 703-237-8333. Amy Rigby + The Crowd Scene.
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Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $18. 7:30 p.m. 703-2551566. Andrew O’Day. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-532-9283. David Kitchen Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504.
FRIDAY, MARCH 16 March Madness! Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 11 a.m. 703-237-8333. Shartel & Hume. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-532-9283. Happy Hour: Karl Stoll & Son. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703241-9504. Barry Flanagan of HAPA. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $25 – $30. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. Die Laughing Productions Presents Sing For Your Life – A Murder Mystery. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $25. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566. Cactus Liquors. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9:15 p.m. 703-241-9504.
SATURDAY, MARCH 17 El Melody Vocal Studio Spring Showcase. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20. Noon 703-255-1566. 40 Dollar Fine. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. Big Tow. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-5329283. Willy Porter & Carmen Nickerson. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $25. 7 p.m. 703-2551566. Saved by the ‘90s – A Party with the Bayside Tigers. The State Theatre (220 N Washington St.,
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Falls Church). $17 – $20. 9 p.m. 703-237-0300. Downtown Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. St. Patrick’s Day with The Rob Hornfeck Enterprise. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. The Later Late Show: Main Stage Comedy Showcase. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $8 – $10. 10:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.
SUNDAY, MARCH 18 Bentwood Rockers Bluegrass. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 1 p.m. 703241-9504. The National Jazz Workshop AllStar Big Band. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10. 2:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. SPHINxtravaganza:
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Music at The Barns. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $35. 3 p.m. 703-255-1900.
Ceremony, The Regulars. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m.
Gully Simpson Quartet Show. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703241-9504.
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Mark Rogers and Crimson Fox. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 7:30 p.m. 703-2551566. Dave Chappell & Anthony Pirog Live and In Concert. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504. Caz Gardiner, The Glimpses. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m.
The Baker’s Dozen Of Yale University. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566 The Last Bandoleros with Skribe. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $25 – $30. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. Mark Wenner and the Blues Warriors. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.
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Altan. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $25 – $27. 8 p.m. 703255-1900.
Wolf Blues Jam Weekly Show Live and In Concert. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.
Open Mic Night with Vernon Santmyer. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Arlington). 8 p.m. 703-522-8340.
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George Mason High School Ranked 1st in Metro Area for ‘Challenging Students’
F.C. Urged to Establish ‘Arts District’ With Tax Incentives
George Mason High School ranks at the top of 124 Washington area public high schools in terms of the academic challenge it offers to students according to nationally recognized education expert Jay Mathews. After years of studying how high schools do or don’t encourage students to take the most advanced academic courses offered in their curricula, Mathews devised his “Challenge Index” on which George Mason earned a top ranking of 3.146.
A scarcely-known resource provided to the City of Falls Church by the Virginia State Legislature in 2005 drew keen interest Tuesday as leaders of five area arts organizations addressed the monthly luncheon of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. The City became one of only a handful in the state authorized to form an “arts and cultural district,” replete with tax and other incentives when Del. Bob Hull added its name to a short list of new applicants.
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budgets for general government and public schools will allow for a three cent reduction in the real estate tax rate, absent the increase required for the debt service and the City’s probable obligation in excess of an extra $1 million to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). So, the increase in debt service (equivalent to six cents on the tax rate) and for WMATA (equivalent to 2.5 cents on the tax rate) more than offset those operating budget savings. But the WMATA increase proposed as $1,350,181, or 141 percent, represents a “worst case scenario,” according to Shields, pending potential resolutions offered by the General Assembly and governor later this spring. The public’s first opportunity to question or comment on the budget plan will come this Sunday at a town hall meeting in the Community Center at 2 p.m. Deliberations by the City Council will result in the adoption of a final budget by April 23. The main clash that broke out after the presentation at the Council meeting Monday came in reaction to the Schools’ 2.8 percent request. Mostly, it involved Councilman Phil Duncan squaring off with Vice Chair Marybeth Connelly. Duncan said the “elephant in the room” was the fact that the Schools violated the guidance they were given in December to hold their operations budget to two percent, and going for 2.8 percent instead. Connelly said the December guidance given was in the context of other guid-
ance along with it, such as the call to “maintain excellent services and schools,” which competed against the two percent guidance. The difference between the 2.8 and 2.0 increase amounts to $350,000. Under the new budget parameters, a penny on the tax rate is $410,000. Other School officials, such as School Board chair Lawrence Webb, said they read the Dec. 11 “guidance” as a “starting point,” and not an inflexible number. The overall guidance with the two percent number passed by a 5-2 vote of the Council, but the two percent number was a late revision from a three percent number being discussed at the work session the week before. Webb, who presented the rationale for the School Board budget request Monday, said that as a result, he was puzzled by the references to the Dec. 11 guidance. Connelly reminded the Council that the citizens of Falls Church came to the polls last November to deliver the highest voter turnout in the entire commonwealth, and voted in favor of issuing a $120 million bond for a new high school by a 64-to-36 percent margin, knowing the implications for taxes. The Schools, she said, did a commendable job holding their budget request to less than the organic (3.4 percent) growth in annual revenues and should be applauded for that. Two spokesmen supporting the School Board request, Laura Downs representing the City’s three PTAs, and Farrell Kelly of the Falls Church Education Association, made compelling cases for the 2.8 percent number, citing core needs of the schools and the fact that the 2.8-percent request was the lowest in many
years. Downs noted that last month the three PTAs held a joint meeting and they all voted unanimously in favor of the School Board budget, calling it “a conservative and prudent budget, leaving out over two-thirds of the requests from teachers, staff and principals, and being the smallest requested increase in the last five years.” The budget’s three percent cost of living adjustment for all staff “is among the lowest in the region,” with “surrounding systems all proposing salary increases averaging 4.7 percent.” Kelly pointed out that the 2.8-percent increase sought by the School Board “is significantly lower than projected revenue increases for the City,” adding, “It is not wise to pay for overdue capital needs by ignoring or underfunding current, necessary operating expenses.” “By underfunding the Schools’ operating budget, City Council would be asking the teachers to pick up a large portion of the tab for the new high school, either increased workload or lost compensation. There aren’t many other industries that do that.” In addition to the new high school, City Hall and library improvements, a Park Avenue “Great Streets Project” with a $435,000 “Smart Scale” grant, tree lighting, flower baskets and sidewalk sweeping downtown (with $60,000 dedicated per year from the hotel tax), traffic signal maintenance (including $100,000 for the Maple and Broad signal light repair) and the already-underway S. Washington St. Transportation Project at S. Washington and Hillwood (with federal money) are other improvements in the Shields budget.
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Mason Robotics Comes Out Strong in Competition At Hayfield High School this weekend, the George Mason High School Robotics Team, Vae Victus was awarded the “Innovation in Control” award sponsored by Rockwell Automation. The Chesapeake District Greater DC Event was a chance for the team to show their hard work and advance their alliance to the Semi-final round. District points are being finalized as the team now has a few weeks off.
Mason High’s Trial Team Makes Solid First Impression George Mason High School’s first-ever Mock Trial team traveled to William and Mary Law School Friday for the Virginia State Mock Trial Tournament. Competing were Junior lawyer James Weichert, freshmen lawyers Katharine Donovan and Sneha Parthasarathy and freshman witnesses Shealyn Gillaspy, Alex Bruce and Maryn Hiscott. The case they had to try was an accident with an industrial meat grinder. After two full days of competition, the Mustangs placed
first among public schools and 5th place overall. Additionally, Weichert placed second place lawyer overall.
Mason Basketball Team Seeks Help Funding NY Trip George Mason High School’s varsity boys basketball team is attempting to raise money in order to take a trip up to head coach Chris Capannola’s hometown of Niagara Falls, New York this December for a holiday tournament over the course of the Falls Church City Public Schools’ winter break. The cost of the trip will be about $3,000 in donations in order to help offset the out-of-pocket expenses parents will be shouldering. Donations both small and large are openly accepted. The team is also open to having the trip sponsored by a local business to also help offset costs on both the parents and individual donors. Sponsor arrangments will be negotiated when contact is made. This will be the team’s first return trip to upstate New York since 1998. For more information or to donate, contact Chris Capannola at capannolac@fccps.org.
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