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Inside This Week F.C. Schools’ Byrd, Hoff Honored by Post

George Mason High School principal Tyrone Byrd was honored as one of the area’s top principals and Mount Daniel Elementary’s Nanette Hoff was named the City of Falls Church’s most outstanding teacher of the year by the Washington Post last Friday. See News Briefs, page 9

Beyer Hails F.C. In Local Speech

F.C. Schools Find $400k in Savings, Hope for No Tax Rate Hike Grows Council Looking for Spare Change as Deadline Looms by Nicholas F. Benton

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vote was decisive for the project to move forward, given the financing needs of the developers. Some observed that the vote resembled the one taken the night that the Rushmark-Harris Teeter approval hung the the balance, and the developer expressed a willingness to walk away from the whole idea, which it had been working on with the City for the better part

The clock is ticking, and for the Falls Church City Council, its date with destiny for committing to the next fiscal year’s budget is fast approaching. But in the midst of this nerve-wracking countdown, the Falls Church School Board has sprung with some good news that eases the strain slightly, but now burdens the Council with an even greater task to reduce its plans for a tax rate increase all the way down to zero. The good news coming from the Schools’ administrative offices by way of Chief Financial Officer Hunter Kimball is that deft moves to find an alternative health care provider for the school system has produced a far better option that will provide the same level of insurance while costing almost $300,000 less. When the Schools’ current provider, United Health Care, announced it was jacking up its premiums by yet another 10 percent, its third such increase in as many years, Kimball leaped into action, went shopping around and found the Blue Cross-Blue Shield affiliated Virginia’s Local Choice health plan that offered almost identical coverage with lower premiums. The move was made last week after United Health Care announced its latest premium hike, so that not only did the system avert the sudden burden of a 10 percent rate hike, it was able to come in with a lower rate that is equal, in citizen taxpayer terms, to almost a full penny on the real estate tax rate. In a second effort to take pres-

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In his first formal appearance in the City of Falls Church since taking office in the U.S. Congress earlier this year, U.S. Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr. hailed the electoral activism of the Little City in an address to the annual JeffersonJackson Potluck Dinner at the Community Center. See News Briefs, page 9

Maureen Dowd: Grandmama Mia!

When my brother Michael was a Senate page, he delivered mail to John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, who had offices across the hall from each other. See page 13

Press Pass With Footwerk

Kyle Higginbotham, rapper and one half of the frontline of the locally-based pop fusion group Footwerk, said the band came together in response to an ad he placed on Craigslist. See page 21

THERE WAS A SPARSE TURNOUT at last Saturday’s town hall on the budget at the Falls Church Community Center that was dominated by strong statements on the difficulties of absorbing new tax increases. (Photo: News-Press)

Latest ‘Mason Row’ Proposal Wins Another City Council OK by Nicholas F. Benton

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By a 4-2 vote, the Falls Church City Council, working deep into the night Monday with concerns about the 4.3 acre mixed use project the Spectrum Group has planned for the intersection of W. Broad and N. West Street, wound up approving a new first reading for the plan at 12:20 a.m. The no votes came from Nader

Baroukh and Mayor David Tarter, who were holding out their concerns for elements of the project, including its parking deck and massing, but once Council member Karen Oliver called for a vote on her original motion, it swiftly passed 4-2 with Dan Sze, Phil Duncan and Marybeth Connolly joining Oliver with yes votes. Although it was not verbalized in such exact terms, it might have proven the case that the Monday

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Schools Trim $400k as Budget Deadline Nears Continued from Page 1

sure off taxpayers, and the City Council that is wont to please them, the School Board determined that it could avoid paying for a new school bus out of its budget request, and finance its acquisition instead. That moves takes another almost $100,000 off the budget chalk board. School Board chair Justin Castillo officially announced

those new savings to the City Council at Monday night’s public hearing. Suddenly, the Council, challenged with the prospect of imposing a four cents (per $100 assessed valuation) tax rate increase on its citizen property owners, finds itself within striking range of meeting the demands of many for no rate hike, at all. The number is down from a four cent rate hike to a 2.5

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cent one, and the Council spent much of its deliberation portion of Monday night’s meeting to considering if noodling at the margins could not, in fact, achieve that. The final vote on the budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 is not required of the Council until April 27, but it is the hope of the Council and City Manager Wyatt Shields that its parameters can be finalized by the work session of next Thursday, April 23, to give City Hall time to prepare all the paperwork for Monday’s what would be a pro forma vote. One helpful move could be the decision in the hands of City Treasurer Jody Acosta to switch the City’s operating bank account from one which is liquid but offers almost no interest to another one which is almost liquid – about a

week’s delay – but does better on interest payments. Whereas Shields said at the City Council meeting Monday such a step would not have a significant impact on the overall budget, when it gets down to finding smaller sums to technically balance the budget, it could matter a lot. Acosta confirmed to the NewsPress that the City is awash in cash, no matter how the numbers are calculated in the City’s ledger books. While Shields told a town hall meeting on the budget last Saturday that the City holds about $13 million in cash to cover its fund-balance policy (which is to keep two months worth of cash available for unforeseen developments), the actual cash number sloshing around in the City’s account is at least double that.

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So, in back of the envelope calculations, a one percent interest yield on, say, $26 million could generate some $260,000, or enough to close the tax rate gap to a further significant degree. There are also murmurings from commercial developer quarters that assessments on commercial real estate are markedly below market value, and that efforts are pending to document that. “The City is leaving a lot of money sitting on the table” because of that, one source said. But at a second town hall meeting on the budget last Saturday at the Community Center, and at a final hearing at a regular Council meeting Monday night, there was a roughly equal expression of concern for rising taxes as there was for the need to maintain the competitiveness and, thereby, the quality of the City’s school system. Some citizens placed the need for maintaining the schools ahead of planned renovations and expansion of City Hall and the Mary Riley Styles Public Library, although the need for dollars to begin that work will not come up until the next budget cycle. Jane Rasmusen, treasurer of the middle school PTSA, spoke at the hearing Monday and said that when she moved to the City 20 years ago she bought her home for $216,000 that she could sell today for $900,000. “Shame on us,” she exclaimed, “I’m getting rich off of our teachers. They’re making me wealthy.” Letty Hardi, with two schoolaged children, said her husband grew up going through the Falls Church School System and “has seen a lot of change for the better” in Falls Church. “Many of us are pro-schools and pro-development,” she said, but want the benefits of development to go the schools, and not to City Hall or the library. As for indications that last September’s low rate of growth of enrollment in the Falls Church system would not hold as a trend, this has been confirmed by the rate of early registrations for kindergarten for the fall. Parents preregistering their children by an April 1 deadline are indicating the growth rate will bounce back to its pre-2014 levels that had the Falls Church system the fastest growing in the region. It has been speculated that the low rate last fall could have been accounted for by the onset of the Great Recession in 2007 when individual decisions on family development could have been subjected to delays.

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‘Mason Row’ Clears Another Hurdle at Council by 4-2 Vote Continued from Page 1

of a decade, if it didn’t get the needed votes right then and there. However, Peter Batten, principal of the Spectrum Development LLC that has made numerous modifications to its plans for its 4.3 acres since first submitting its plans in January 2014, was careful to make no such ultimatums this week. Nonetheless, with much of the meeting having been devoted to the annual budget deliberations pushing the Mason Row submission way toward midnight, it was looking like a lot of the concerns that Baroukh expressed were beginning to put everyone asleep and that things were boding poorly for the project. But when Baroukh finally suggested putting his concerns into the motion for action, the original maker of the motion, Oliver, said, “Why not let’s just vote on my motion, first?” That seemed like a breath of fresh air, and when that vote was subsequently taken, the

first reading was granted without all the caveats that Baroukh wanted. In the latest submission made on April 8, the plan to locate all or part of the City’s library in the project was removed, with Batten having told the News-Press that it was put in at the request of City Hall, and not of his own design. The developers continue to claim that the City will benefit from over $2 million in annual tax revenues once the project is complete, and have made a long list of proffers in exchange for zoning and special exception changes, as well, including to affordable housing, school capital costs, parks, off-site infrastructure improvements, and a contribution to the Little City CATCH arts group. With a height exception to allow for 85 feet, the project

includes a five-story hotel with 150 rooms, a movie/dinner theatre complex, numerous retail stores, parking, a six story mixed use apartment building with 340 residential units, and 6,500 square feet of office space. According to a submission letter by local developer agent David Lasso (former City Manager of Falls Church), the April 8 resubmission includes numerous new accommodations to City Hall and citizen concerns, including “an ‘opening’ of the market square facing Grove Ave.” with the parking garage now having a ground level retail element designed to attract local businesses, with the garage lowered and set back and other changes made to the massing, parking, and design.”

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As the days wind down to the adoption by the Falls Church City Council of its coming fiscal year budget, while there has been some loud bemoaning of a new tax rate hike, much of that, if not all, is in the process of being whittled away without undermining the goals of the School Board for maintaining and advancing the superior quality of its school system. With all due respect, we’ve watched over two dozen annual budget deliberation processes in Falls Church, and there has never been one yet where the claim was not made that a tax hike would drive people out of the City for an inability to pay. There have been no credible statistics on this claim, even while anti-tax advocates have demanded the most detailed data on how lower salaries have caused prospective quality teachers to leave the Falls Church system for higher paying jobs as nearby as Arlington, and such data has been provided. We don’t enjoy paying taxes any more than anyone else. But there is an old adage that says, “You get what you pay for.” Some in Falls Church may claim that since they don’t have children in the school system, any portion of their taxes that go to the schools offer them nothing in return. Nothing could be further from the truth, in fact. We all owe the freedoms and lifestyles we enjoy to the ability of intelligent, well-educated and thoughtful people to steer our massive ship of state generally in the right direction. Those people all come from somewhere, and it is almost always from the American commitment to a free, universal, scientifically-grounded education. In other words, our modest Falls Church school system is the single best protection for all of us, with kids or not, to continue to enjoy a good quality of life, and moreover, to be able to aspire to the advancement of peace, justice and human rights in this land and across the globe. This is a lot to say for any community, that its main product, its main export, so to speak, is the prospect for a better world through the K-12 education of all the young who come to its doors. Falls Church could not be held in higher esteem than on this account, in our view. Uniquely, while most other jurisdictions account for their existence through the maintenance of their core services and industries that serve their populations, and export goods and materials to a wider realm, there are few who can claim the role of Falls Church, who as much as any, claims as its sole “value added” to the world to be the benefits that a well-educated population brings. It is unfortunate that at budget time, education is viewed in a dollarsand-cents way, value for families with kids and a liability for those without. It misses the bigger picture, which in Falls Church’s case, is really quite big.

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Clark Proposal Is Not A ‘Free’ High School

Editor, Nicholas Benton seems surprised at the small citizen turnout for City budget meetings. I think many residents have simply given up on this Council and this newspaper because they consistently seem in the pocket of the school board without serious vetting of school administration budget requests. The latest example is a new high school. Some questions the

Council should be asking are: 1. Is a new high school necessary and when will the citizens have the right to vote on it? 2. The Clark proposal is not providing a “free” high school; a high school on the site displaces an alternate commercial activity for that portion of the proposed site. That portion of the site is worth significant money either up front and/or in ongoing revenues that will be lost if a high school is

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built there. 3. Why is the proposal being considered in secret? Good government is not done in secret. Doing so without oversight of the public leads to all sorts of chicanery or worse. Will any proposal going forward be subject to competitive bidding? Ultimately, the way to fix the cozy arrangement with the school board is for the citizens to elect new representatives who will vet the school requests properly. Should the Council instead raise the tax rate this year to pay for this largesse, it is clearly time to show them the door. James Schoenberger Falls Church

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Mason District Needs a Supervisor Who Listens B� J�� S��

I get the question a couple times a day now. “Why run against someone so wellknown who has served for 19 years on the Board of Supervisors?” It’s nothing personal against our incumbent. I just have a different vision for Mason District, and it starts with really hearing the homeowners, the business people, the seniors, the diverse communities and the students who make Mason District so strong – and really trying to incorporate their voices into our local governance. When I served as Vice President of the Ravenwood Park Citizens Association, my neighborhood experienced firsthand the challenge of getting our voices heard. My husband Nate and I live in Falls Church near J.E.B. Stuart High School with our two big dogs, Sammy and Lily. Down the street from the high school and adjacent to our neighborhood, a developer bought a 1.89-acre property that had housed a century-old home. The property also featured lush vegetation, including old trees, and water runoff issues. The developer initially proposed building 14 townhomes on this sleepy lot. My neighborhood united to advocate for a different kind of development that would better fit alongside our vibrant neighborhood – and not tower over our homes, reduce green space, and exacerbate drainage problems. Our Supervisor sided with the devel-

oper right from the start, ignoring my community’s concerns. My neighborhood has fought major aspects of this development and although the final results remain to be seen, I learned a clear lesson from this experience: community input was not a key factor in this land use decision.

“Our Supervisor sided with the developer right from the start, ignoring my community’s concerns.” I’m an active Democrat – and so I tentatively asked around at party events about our Democratic Supervisor – and it became increasingly clear my neighborhood’s experience was not a singular one. Just look around, many said, at how Mason District compares to some more smartly developed communities just outside our borders. As I’ve launched my campaign and knocked on hundreds of doors across Mason District, neighbors have told me about questionable land use decisions – from Spectrum in Bailey’s Crossroads, to Campbell and Ferrara in Willow Run – in which their feedback was ignored. Our Supervisor must listen. And together, we must pursue more thoughtful rede-

velopment that better takes into account the impact on the environment and lessens our shared traffic concern, in part with better access to public transportation and greater bike lane and pedestrian access. I’m Jessica Swanson, and I’m running for Supervisor in Mason District in the June 9 Democratic primary. I’ve been an active volunteer in the District. For the past two years, I worked with leaders from around the county on a campaign to fully fund our public schools. In addition, I served on the Fairfax County School Board’s Human Relations Advisory Committee, and I have served on the Fairfax Democrats’ Education Committee. Professionally, I am an educator. I taught middle school social studies in Washington, D.C., and I have provided schools with finance, budget, and facilities support; I’ve supported new teachers and school leaders; and now I support curriculum and professional development for teachers across D.C. Public Schools. Around my day job, I’m earning my doctorate in education from the University of Virginia. In the past few years, Fairfax school enrollment has exploded, and so have students’ needs. For example, more than a third of the entering kindergarten class this school year included students receiving free and reduced-price meals, and nearly 40 percent of these kindergarteners receive English as a Second Language supports. Many of our school buildings are severely overcrowded. One Mason mom told me that she feared her child would “attend

K-12 in modulars.” Despite the system’s growing needs, funding from the Board of Supervisors has been nearly flat. Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Karen Garza summed it up: since 2008, we have experienced cuts of more than 2,175 positions and almost a half billion dollars in operating funds. “We cannot cut our way to greatness,” she wrote. Recently, two of my neighbors moved to other parts of northern Virginia because they were concerned about the future of our schools. Whether we have children in schools or not, school performance matters. For starters, if our schools decline, our property values will decline. We live in a county Time Magazine called “one of the great economic success stories of our time.” Our median household income is more than twice the national median. Our county economic developers tout “one of the world’s largest clusters of technology firms, services and workers.” We can and must do better. I’m excited by the challenge and ready to lead Mason District to a better future. If you believe it’s time for a change, please visit www.swansonforfairfax.com to learn more, volunteer to help, or help me raise funds to take on a well-funded incumbent. And please vote on June 9th in the Democratic primary for Mason District Supervisor.  Jessica Swanson is running for Mason District Supervisor in June’s Democratic primary.

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We created and opened Pizzeria Orso with the hopes of offering excellent food for the entire community including families, couples, friends, visitors, locals, bar-goers, and everything in between. We wanted to be that quintessential neighborhood gathering spot where guests could go to enjoy a beautiful and authentic Neapolitan pizza or a wide variety of rustic and regional Italian cuisine at any time of the day, in a relaxed and cozy setting, while providing warm and friendly service. Why did you join the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce and why do you continue to maintain your membership?

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2 F.C. Educators Honored By Washington Post George Mason High School principal Tyrone Byrd was honored as one of the area’s top principals and Mount Daniel Elementary’s Nanette “Nan” Hoff was named the City of Falls Church’s most outstanding teacher of the year by the Washington Post last Friday. Byrd has been named a 2015 recipient of the Washington Post Distinguished Educational Leadership Award, “honoring and recognizing those who go beyond the day-to-day demands of their posi- George Mason High School principal Tytion to create an exceptional educational environ- rone Byrd (left) and Mt. Daniel Elementament” and Hoff, a kindergarten teacher at Mt. Daniel, ry School kindergarten teacher Nan Hoff. is this year’s Post Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher (Photo: FCCPS) of the Year. Hoff will be honored at two receptions in May, one at The Washington Post to honor the winners from local school divisions, and another to recognize all City School Agnew Meyer nominees.

Beyer Hails F.C. in Local Speech In his first formal appearance in the City of Falls Church since taking office in the U.S. Congress earlier this year, U.S. Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr. hailed the electoral activism of the Little City in an address to the annual Jefferson-Jackson Potluck Dinner at the Community Center Sunday night. In a statement published in the event’s program, Beyer said, “One of my favorite parts of my new job is that I represent the people of Falls Church, which is in so many ways the hometown of the Beyers. It is the original site of our business, and is home to my dad and half of my siblings. I have so many wonderful memories of this little city, including my own campaign events here last year.” In remarks, he called for “health care for all, and grace, mercy, forgiveness, integrity and community.” Wanda Howard was honored as the recipient of the local Democratic committee’s annual Marian Driver Award. She’s been the treasurer of the local Democratic committee for the last 18 years. Tom and Edie Smolinsky were also honored for their volunteer service. Democratic candidates on the Falls Church ballot this November all spoke briefly, including Sen. Dick Saslaw, Del. Marcus Simon, Commonwealth Attorney Theo Stamos and Clerk of the Circuit Court Paul Ferguson.

Buschows Announced as Marshals of F.C. Parade Barry Buschow and Kathleen C. Buschow have been named Grand Marshals of the 2015 City of Falls Church Memorial Day Parade, the City of F.C. announced yesterday. The longtime City residents will preside over the festivities on Monday, May 25. The Recreation and Parks Advisory Board chose the husband and wife team “for their dedication to public service and making the City a better place to live.” Barry Buschow currently serves on the board of the Northern Virginia Parks Authority, and is president of the Falls Church Lions Club, corresponding secretary for the Village Preservation and Improvement Society (VPIS), secretary of the Falls Church Scout House Building Association, and member of the City’s Economic Development Authority. His honors include the 1999 Caroll V. Shreve Award for Meritorious Community Service from the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce, the Lions Club “Lion of the Year” award (three times), and the 2014 Spirit of Falls Church award presented by VPIS. Mrs. Buschow served as the City Clerk for more than 14 years, retiring in 2014. She is a member of VPIS and has been active in the Falls Church Sister’s Choice Quilters and the Falls Church chapter of Quilters Unlimited for more than 25 years.

McAuliffe Endorses Gross in Mason District Primary Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe yesterday endorsed Penelope A. “Penny” Gross for re-election as Mason District Supervisor, citing her results-oriented, pragmatic, commonsense approach to governing. Gross is seeking the Democratic nomination for a sixth term as Mason District’s representative to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors over firsttime challenger Jessica Swanson. The primary election will be held on June 9, 2015. In a statement, McAuliffe said Gross “shares my belief in a pragmatic, common-sense approach to governing...and she gets results. Penny’s leadership is what we need on the local level as we continue to diversify and strengthen Virginia’s economy.” Others who have endorsed Gross to date include Virginia Lieutenant Gov. Ralph Northam, Attorney General Mark Herring, U.S. Reps. Don Beyer and Gerry Connolly, Sharon Bulova, chair of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, three sitting state senators and ten state delegates.

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Community News & Notes Friends of the F.C. Homeless Shelter Hold Fundraiser Close to 300 people came out to support the Friends of the Falls Church Homeless Shelter’s biennial fundraiser, a cabaret and auction, on Saturday night. With over 300 items donated and online bidding allowing many more to take part in the event’s auction. The Falls Church Homeless Shelter netted over $42,000 as a result of the event. Over 50 people spent months planning the event and securing donations for the auction. Their efforts were supplemented by the 40 teens – mostly members of the George Mason High School chapter of the National Honor Society – who volunteered at the event checking people in, getting the online phone bidding working for attendees and selling auction and drink tickets. Peter Davis brought great energy to the role of emcee and

was helped by Friends of the Falls Church Homeless Shelter board of directors chair Hannah Jordan. Many members of the City Council and City staff were present and the hall was filled by a vibrant mix of new City residents and “lifers” who enjoyed the evening’s two bands and great food provided by local restaurants. For more information and a list of sponsors, visit fallschurchshelterfriends.org.

FCA Members Show Opens at ArtSpace Falls Church Falls Church Arts’ all-members show “A Few of My Favorite Things” opened last Friday, April 10, at ArtSpace Falls Church. According to Falls Church Arts president Barb Cram, the show’s opening reception was packed with artists and art patrons from around the Washington, D.C. region. New and old Falls Church Arts members combined to create a

show of diverse mediums and talents. Andrew Acosta and Valerie Stewart both performed at the event. “A Few of My Favorite Things” will be on display through May 18 at ArtSpace Falls Church at 410 South Maple Street. For more information, visit fallschurcharts.org.

Kids First Bake Sale for Homestretch Set for April 18 Kids First, a group of au pairs based in Falls Church, is hosting a bake sale this Saturday, April 18 to benefit Homestretch. Members of the organization will be in front of the Falls Church Community Center at 223 Little Falls Street from 8 a.m. – noon. All of the basked goods will be homemade, including brigadeiro from Brazil, sachertorte and biscuit roulade from Austria, apple pie from Mexico and lots of cookies, brownies, blondies, lemon squares and cupcakes. Bake

FALLS CHURCH CITY VICE-MAYOR David Snyder (right) and his wife Edith at the Friends of the Falls Church Homeless Shelter biennial fundraiser on Saturday. The fundraiser, a cabaret and auction, netted over $42,000 for the Falls Church Homeless Shelter. Peter Davis emceed the event and 40 teens volunteered at the event, most of whom were from the George Mason High School chapter of the National Honor Society. (Photo: Carol Sly)

sale patrons can also register to win a sampler tray of treats and meet some Falls Church au pairs. For more information, e-mail nancy.baker608@gmail.com.

Creative Cauldron Hosts Event-Filled Weekend Creative Cauldron at 410 South Maple Street has a full slate of events planned for this weekend, starting with its free open house that kicks off this Saturday, April 18, from 10 a.m. – noon with a Learning Theater Workshop Observation, in which attendees can see young actors who train with the Falls Church-based arts organization in action. The open house runs through 4 p.m. on Saturday, with events and activities like Puppet Making Demonstration with Margie Jervis and a concert in which Juan Cayrampoma will perform on a myriad of traditional Andean

instruments. That night Shenandoah Run, a nine-member folk group from the Washington, D.C. area, will perform their blend of vintage and contemporary folk music featuring songs and sounds of American country and bluegrass music with an occasional infusion of songs from other lands. They will be joined by The Moondiggers, a folk harmony group that plays original songs and classic hits, with some lighthearted fun in the mix. Hui O Ka Pua ‘Ilima, a Polynesian dance troop, will close out Creative Cauldron’s weekend of events on Sunday, April 19, at 2 p.m. Hui O Ka Pua ‘Ilima performs traditional and contemporary songs and dances of Hawaii and the Polynesian islands of New Zealand and Tahiti. The IONA performance, which was originally scheduled for this Friday, April 17, was cancelled. For more information, visit creativecauldron.org.

ART PATRONS FROM AROUND the Washington, D.C. region enjoy the opening reception of Falls Church Arts’ all-members show “A Few of My Favorite Things,” which opened last Friday at ArtSpace Falls Church at 410 South Maple Street. Andrew Acosta and Valerie Stewart performed at the reception. The show, featuring pieces of art from old and new members of Falls Church Arts, will be open through May 18. (Photo: Courtesy of Shaun van Steyn)

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City’s 123rd Arbor Day Celebration Set for Saturday

Falls Church City’s 123rd Arbor Day celebration, which is scheduled for this Saturday, April 18, will kick off with a Neighborhood Tree Planting event that runs from 8:30 a.m. – noon. Also, the City, Victorian Society and Village Preservation and Improvement Society will host an Arbor Day ceremony that afternoon at Donald S. Frady Park, on the corner of East Broad and Fairfax Streets, from 3 – 5 p.m. to celebrate the City being named a Tree City USA community for the 37th year in a row. There will be refreshments and instructions will be given at the meeting place for the Neighborhood Tree Planting, which has yet to be determined, then groups will fan out across the City to help maintain the city’s tree canopy. RSVP to Seth Hemingway at seth.hemingway@gmail.com. The Arbor Day ceremony is free, open to the public and refreshments will be served. The rain location for the event is Falls Church Community Center at 223 Little Falls Street. For more information, visit fallschurchva. gov/228/Tree-City-USA.

Local Dancer Tapped for 2015 Gathering of the Nations Falls Church resident George Gillette will be Head Young Man Dancer at the 2015 Gathering of the Nations in Alberquerque, NM., the Gathering of the Nations organization announced last week. The event, considered the most prominent Native American powwow in North America, will bring together tens of thousands of people and more than 700 tribes from throughout the United States and Canada from next Thursday, April 23 – next Saturday, April 25. As the head young man dancer, Gillette will join the head young

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lady dancer and the head man and head lady dancer in representing all dancers at the powwow and leading the Grand Entry of all dancers into the WisePies Arena during the powwow. According to a press release from the Gathering of the Nations, the head dancers are selected for the position based on their knowledge of traditions, their outstanding dancing experience and notoriety on the powwow circuit. “I am really grateful for this honor to be Head Young Man Dancer at Gathering of Nations, one of the biggest powwows in the world,” Gillette said. “I can’t wait to see my family and friends who will be there.” For more information, visit gatheringofthenations.com.

Unity Chapter 201 Hosts Appraisal Event Unity Chapter 201 is hosting an antique appraisal event with a professional appraiser from Quinn’s Auction Galleries next Saturday, April 25, from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. at the Kemper MaconWare Lodge at 411 Little Falls Street. All appraisals will be verbal and prepayment of $10 per item is required. Registration is limited to 50 items. Attendees can pay for a hot dog lunch for $3.50. Registration and payment are required by next Wednesday, April 22. For more information or to register, contact Unity Chapter 201’s secretary Sheyla White at skwpaints@aol. com or 703-243-2742.

McLean Players Gearing Up To Go ‘Barefoot in the Park’ The McLean Community Players are gearing up to present Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park, which premieres on Friday, May 1, in the McLean Community Center’s Alden Theatre. Jerry Bonnes is directing the McLean Community Players’ production

CONGRESSMAN DON BEYER giving the keynote address at the Falls Church City Democratic Committee’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner on Saturday. (P��: N��-P��) of this hilarious romantic comedy, which is one of the longest-running non-musical plays in Broadway history. The play centers around Corie and Paul, newlyweds who move into a rundown apartment in New York City. Besides having to cope with the state of their dwelling, they have to adjust to each other’s different personalities. Paul is a serious, career-minded lawyer and Corie wants Paul to lighten up, be more spontaneous, like going for a run “barefoot in the park,” for example. “Opposites attract but the real drama occurs when they collide. Neil Simon’s hilarious Barefoot in the Park takes us on a romp to find out whether the final result is disaster or harmony,” Bonnes said in a press release about the show. “Simon’s timeless comedy not only shows us the wonderful characters on stage but also mirrors back to the audience their own experiences and causes everyone to see the humor that is all around them. The great quality of Neil

Simon is that at the end of the evening you feel good about yourself...what better way to spend an evening.” Tickets for the show, which runs through Saturday, May 16, are $18 – $20 and group rates are available. The Alden Theatre is located inside the McLean Community Center, located at 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean. For more information, visit mcleanplayers.com.

VCE Plant Clinics Open for the Spring Season Plant clinics staffed by the Virginia Cooperative Extension’s Master Gardeners are opening this week and will remain open through the fall season. One plant clinic, which opens today from 6:45 – 8:45 p.m., is located at the Arlington Central Library at 1015 N. Quincy St., Arlington and is open every Thursday through November. Another plant clinic opens this Saturday, April 18, at 8 a.m. at the Arlington Farmers Market at

14th Street and North Courthouse Road and will be open every Saturday from 8 – 11 a.m. through Saturday. A special plant clinic will be held in conjunction with the Carlyle House Annual Garden Day Herb Sale this Saturday, April 18, at Carlyle House Historic Park, 121 N. Fairfax St., Alexandria. The clinic will run from 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Two other Virginia Cooperative Extension plant clinics in Alexandria will open on Saturday, May 2. The Del Ray Farmers Market plant clinic at East Oxford and Mt. Vernon Avenues will be open from 8:30 – 11:00 a.m. every Saturday through September. The Old Town Alexandria Farmers Market plant clinic at 301 King Street will be open from 7 – 9:30 a.m. every Saturday through September. Volunteers staffing the clinics can answer general gardening questions as well as questions about plant pests and diseases. They can also identify plants and provide soil test kits on request.

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The Lost Language Of Privacy

Like a lot of people, I’ve come to believe that it would be a good idea to put body-mounted cameras on police officers. I now believe this for several reasons. First, there have been too many cases in which police officers have abused their authority and then covered it up. Second, it seems probable that cops would be less likely to abuse their authority if they were being tracked. Third, human memory is an unreliable faculty. We might be able to reduce the number of wrongful convictions and acquittals if we have cameras recording more events. NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE I’ve come to this conclusion, but I haven’t come to it happily. And, as the debate over cop-cams has unfolded, I’ve been surprised by how many people don’t see the downside to this policy. Most people don’t even seem to recognize the damage these cameras will do both to police-civilian relations and to privacy. As the debate has unfolded, it’s become clear that more and more people have lost even the language of privacy and an understanding of why privacy is important. Let’s start with the basics. Privacy is important to the development of full individuals because there has to be an interior zone within each person that other people don’t see. There has to be a zone where half-formed thoughts and delicate emotions can grow and evolve, without being exposed to the harsh glare of public judgment. There has to be a place where you can be free to develop ideas and convictions away from the pressure to conform. There has to be a spot where you are only yourself and can define yourself. Privacy is important to families and friendships because there has to be a zone where you can be fully known. There has to be a private space where you can share your doubts and secrets and expose your weaknesses with the expectation that you will still be loved and forgiven and supported. Privacy is important for communities because there has to be a space where people with common affiliations can develop bonds of affection and trust. There has to be a boundary between us and them. Within that boundary, you look out for each other; you rally to support each other; you cut each other some slack; you share fierce common loyalties. All these concentric circles of privacy depend on some level of shrouding. They depend on some level of secrecy and awareness of the distinction between the inner privileged space and the outer exposed space. They depend on the understanding that what happens between us stays between us. Cop-cams chip away at that. The cameras will undermine communal bonds. Putting a camera on someone is a sign that you don’t trust him or that he doesn’t trust you. When a police officer is wearing a camera, the contact between an officer and a civilian is less likely to be like intimate friendship and more likely to be oppositional and transactional. Putting a camera on an officer means she is less likely to cut you some slack, less likely to not write that ticket, or to bend the regulations a little as a sign of mutual care. Putting a camera on the police officer means that authority resides less in the wisdom and integrity of the officer and more in the videotape. During a trial, if a crime isn’t captured on the tape, it will be presumed to never have happened. Cop-cams will insult families. It’s worth pointing out that less than 20 percent of police calls involve felonies, and less than 1 percent of police-citizen contacts involve police use of force. Most of the time cops are mediating disputes, helping those in distress, dealing with the mentally ill or going into some home where someone is having a meltdown. When a police officer comes into your home wearing a camera, he’s trampling on the privacy that makes a home a home. He’s recording people on what could be the worst day of their lives and inhibiting their ability to lean on the officer for care and support. Cop-cams insult individual dignity because the embarrassing things recorded by them will inevitably get swapped around. The videos of the naked crime victim, the berserk drunk, the screaming maniac will inevitably get posted online – as they are already. With each leak, culture gets a little coarser. The rules designed to keep the videos out of public view will inevitably be eroded and bent. So, yes, on balance, cop-cams are a good idea. But, as a journalist, I can tell you that when I put a notebook or a camera between me and my subjects, I am creating distance between me and them. Cop-cams strike a blow for truth, but they strike a blow against relationships. Society will be more open and transparent but less humane and trusting.

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It Takes a Party So Hillary Clinton is officially running, to nobody’s surprise. And you know what’s coming: endless attempts to psychoanalyze the candidate, endless attempts to read significance into what she says or doesn’t say about President Barack Obama, endless thumb-sucking about her “positioning” on this or that issue. Please pay no attention. Personality-based political analysis is always a dubious venture – in my experience, pundits are terrible judges of character. Those old enough to remember the 2000 election may also remember how we were assured that George W. Bush was a nice, affable fellow who would pursue moderate, bipartisan NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE policies. In any case, there has never been a time in U.S. history when the alleged personal traits of candidates mattered less. As we head into 2016, each party is quite unified on major policy issues – and these unified positions are very far from each other. The huge, substantive gulf between the parties will be reflected in the policy positions of whomever they nominate, and will almost surely be reflected in the actual policies adopted by whoever wins. For example, any Democrat would, if elected, seek to maintain the basic U.S. social insurance programs – Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid – in essentially their current form, while also preserving and extending the Affordable Care Act. Any Republican would seek to destroy Obamacare, make deep cuts in Medicaid, and probably try to convert Medicare into a voucher system. Any Democrat would retain the tax hikes on highincome Americans that went into effect in 2013, and possibly seek more. Any Republican would try to cut taxes on the wealthy – House Republicans plan to vote next week to repeal the estate tax – while slashing programs that aid low-income families. Any Democrat would try to preserve the 2010 financial reform, which has recently been looking much more effective than critics suggested. Any Republican would seek to roll it back, eliminating both consumer protection and the extra regulation applied to large, “systemically important” financial institutions. And any Democrat would try to move forward on climate policy, through executive action if necessary, while any Republican – whether or not he is an out-

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right climate-science denialist – would block efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions. How did the parties get this far apart? Political scientists suggest that it has a lot to do with income inequality. As the wealthy grow richer compared with everyone else, their policy preferences have moved to the right – and they have pulled the Republican Party ever further in their direction. Meanwhile, the influence of big money on Democrats has at least eroded a bit, now that Wall Street, furious over regulations and modest tax hikes, has deserted the party en masse. The result is a level of political polarization not seen since the Civil War. Now, some people won’t want to acknowledge that the choices in the 2016 election are as stark as I’ve asserted. Political commentators who specialize in covering personalities rather than issues will balk at the assertion that their alleged area of expertise matters not at all. Self-proclaimed centrists will look for a middle ground that doesn’t actually exist. And as a result, we’ll hear many assertions that the candidates don’t really mean what they say. There will, however, be an asymmetry in the way this supposed gap between rhetoric and real views is presented. On one side, suppose that Clinton is indeed the Democratic nominee. If so, you can be sure that she’ll be accused, early and often, of insincerity, of not being the populist progressive she claims to be. On the other side, suppose that the Republican nominee is a supposed moderate like Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio. In either case we’d be sure to hear many assertions from political pundits that the candidate doesn’t believe a lot of what he says. But in their cases this alleged insincerity would be presented as a virtue, not a vice – sure, Bush is saying crazy things about health care and climate change, but he doesn’t really mean it, and he’d be reasonable once in office. Just like his brother. As you can probably tell, I’m dreading the next 18 months, which will be full of sound bites and fury, signifying nothing. OK, I guess we might learn a few things – Where will Clinton come out on trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership? How much influence will Republican Fed-bashers exert? – but the differences between the parties are so clear and dramatic that it’s hard to see how anyone who has been paying attention could be undecided even now, or be induced to change his or her mind between now and the election. One thing is for sure: U.S. voters will be getting a real choice. May the best party win.

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Printer’s Ink in Their Veins

There’s a famous phrase known to almost any scribe (the old fashioned word for a journalist) that has to do with “printer’s ink in the veins.” It references a seeming predisposition, interest in, and passion for the written word. However one comes about it, it is to those who know the phenomenon an almost certain truism. This writer has it, but cannot attribute it to a specific lineage, except maybe that the legendary Kansan antifascist newspaper publisher William Allen White died just days before my birth. One clear-cut case of it being passed on more directly involves my long-time friend and co-resident of our now shared home town, Falls Church, Virginia. A former press secretary to Vice President FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS Walter Mondale and co-founder editor of The Hill weekly newspaper in Washington, D.C., Albert Eisele has just come out with a new book that is unbearably enjoyable for those of us of the ink-blood lineage. Eisele’s book, Northern Lights, Southern Nights: A Memoir of Writing Parents, will be released this spring and is a magnificent testament to the life-long love of his Minnesota-based farming parents, Albert Sr. and Susan Eisele, for one another, for their families and their true calling, as tireless and unceasing newspaper columnists, short story and poetry writers. This new book will force revisions to the official history of Blue Earth, Minnesota, the farming town of 3,300 in southwestern area of that state which, until now, has been known for being the home to a gigantic Jolly Green Giant statue and the birthplace of a notable figure, David Deskey, who made his mark in New York after his attendance at the famous 1925 Paris International Exhibition on the Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts. He was a key developer of art deco and art moderne design, designing many things including the interior of the Radio City Music Hall, many of the streetlights in Manhattan and a number of famous product logos. But the Jolly Green Giant and Mr. Deskey henceforth must with this new book now make room for the Eiseles, mom, pop and son. Al Eisele’s loving tribute to his parents is written in the same matterof-fact, straightforward style as his parents’, whose columns, short stories and poems dealt with the day to day facets of life on the farm and enjoyed massive popularity. Al’s parents met by way of writing columns for the same Iowa newspaper, with Al Sr. in Iowa and Susan in Tennessee.They began a long-distance correspondence commenting on each other’s columns, and they finally met in person when Al came visit Susan in 1926. They married two years later and began their life together on a 160-acre farm near Blue Earth. Al Jr., the third son, was born in 1936. Both continued to write profusely, with Susan penning a weekly column for a daily paper in Blue Earth and then a column for a daily in nearby Fairmont in 1933 entitled, “With a Penny Pencil.” One of her columns won her national acclaim. In 1936 she was named the nation’s outstanding rural newspaper correspondent that earned her a trip to New York and Washington, where, with newborn Al Jr. in tow, she met and was interviewed by the crème de a crème of the social and news scenes there. Albert Sr. began a column called “The Post Chaise” that ran locally in Blue Earth and was also picked up by The Wanderer, a Catholic newspaper in St. Paul. But his passion was the short story, and he had over 80 published in an array of Catholic literary journals and rural life magazines prior to his death at age 55 from cancer in 1951. In 1940, Albert Sr. and Susan co-authored a “farm and home” column for the Blue Earth paper called Countryside that was syndicated and appeared in some 30 Midwestern newspapers. Susan lived to 1984, and penned over 2,300 weekly Countryside columns alone. A loyal Democrat all her life, a “writer’s writer,” an admirer wrote, “The thread of middle American values runs through all her writing. It reflects home, family, church, the land and the democratic process...She’s American Gothic, 1980s style.”

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Grandmama Mia! WASHINGTON – When my brother Michael was a Senate page, he delivered mail to John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, who had offices across the hall from each other. He recalled that Kennedy never looked up or acknowledged his presence, but Nixon would greet him with a huge smile. “Hi, Mike,” he’d say. “How are you doing? How’s the family?” It seemed a bit counterintuitive, especially since my dad, a D.C. police inspector in charge of Senate security, was a huge Kennedy booster. But after puzzling over it, I finally decided that JFK had the sort of magnetism that could ensorcell big crowds, so he did not need to squander it on mail boys. Nixon, on the other hand, lacked large-scale magnetism, so he needed to work hard to charm people one by one, even mail boys. Hillary Clinton has always tried to be more like the Democratic president she lived with in the White House, to figure out how he spins the magic. “I never realized how good Bill was at this until I tried to do it,” she once told her adviser, Harold Ickes. But she ends up being compared with NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE the Republican president she investigated as a young lawyer for the House Judiciary’s Watergate investigation. Her paranoia, secrecy, scandals and disappearing act with emails from her time as secretary of state have inspired a cascade of comparisons with Nixon. Pat Buchanan, a former Nixon adviser, bluntly told Jason Zengerle recently in New York magazine: “She reminds me of Nixon,” another pol who’s more comfortable behind the scenes than grinding it out in the arena. As Hillary finally admits the axiomatic – she wants to be president – she will take the Nixon approach, trying to charm people one by one in the early states for 2016, an acknowledgment that she cannot emulate the wholesale allure of Bill Clinton or Barack Obama. That reality hit her in 2008, when throngs waited hours to get in to hear The One. “Enough with the speeches and the big rallies,” a frustrated Hillary cried out to a Cincinnati crowd. She wants to avoid the coronation vibe this time, a member of her orbit told Politico’s Glenn Thrush, even though Martin O’Malley, a potential rival, objected that “the presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families” and The Onion reported her campaign slogan is “I deserve this.” Hillary’s team plans to schedule low-key events where she can mingle with actual voters. “I think it’s

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important, and Hillary does, too, that she go out there as if she’s never run for anything before and establish her connection with the voters,” Bill Clinton told Town & Country for a cover story. The Big Dog, who got off his leash last time in South Carolina, said he will start small as well, noting: “My role should primarily be as a backstage adviser to her until we get much, much closer to the election.” Democratic strategists and advisers told The Washington Post’s Anne Gearan and Dan Balz that “the go-slow, go-small strategy” plays to her strengths, “allowing her to meet voters in intimate settings where her humor, humility and policy expertise can show through.” As the old maxim goes, if you can fake humility, you’ve got it made. But seeing Rahm and Hillary do it in the same season might be too much to take. Obama has said: “If she’s her wonderful self, I’m sure she’s going to do great.” But which self is that? Instead of a chilly, scripted, entitled policy wonk, as in 2008, Hillary plans to be a warm, spontaneous, scrappy fighter for average Americans. Instead of a woman campaigning like a man, as in 2008, she will try to stir crowds with the idea of being the first woman president. Instead of haughtily blowing off the press, as in 2008, she will make an effort to play nice. In 1992, Clinton strategists wrote a memo aiming to recast Hillary in a skeptical public’s mind as a warm, loving mother. They even suggested an event where Bill and Chelsea would surprise Hillary on Mother’s Day. Now, after 25 years on the national stage, Hillary is still hitting the reset button on her image, this time projecting herself as a warm, loving grandmother. On the eve of her campaign launch, she released an updated epilogue to her banal second memoir, “Hard Choices,” highlighting her role as a grandmother. “I’m more convinced than ever that our future in the 21st century depends on our ability to ensure that a child born in the hills of Appalachia or the Mississippi Delta or the Rio Grande Valley grows up with the same shot at success that Charlotte will,” she wrote, referring to her granddaughter. This was designed to rebut critics who say she’s too close to Wall Street and too grabby with speech money and foundation donations from Arab autocrats to wage a sincere fight against income inequality. But if Hillary really wants to help those children, maybe she should give them some of the ostensible and obscene $2.5 billion that she is planning to spend to persuade us to make her grandmother of our country.

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A Penny for Your Thoughts

News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross

During the nearly three-year community process Amendment for Seven Corners/Willston provides to re-plan the Seven Corners/Willston area, there was two options for Sub-Unit A-3: (Option A), an East a lot of discussion about the future of the Willston County Center, or (Option B), educational, cultural, Multicultural Center, an old school site declared governmental, and/or human services uses. Option B surplus by Fairfax County Public Schools in March is the preferred approach. Focusing on the language in Option B, School 1981, and transferred to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors in July 1983. The building was con- Board member Sandy Evans and I are working on a structed in 1951 as an elementary school; its age and concept that can provide a win/win/win for schools condition will not support renovation or rehabilita- and the community when future redevelopment tion. A Special Exception for a child care center as opportunities are planned and funded. The rough an alternate use was approved by the Board in 1988, concept would have two attached buildings – a four to provide space for the Seven Corners Child Care or five story elementary school for 500 students, and a mirror image building with room for the Center in an adjacent building. Last December, School Superintendent Karen existing child care center, perhaps two floors for Garza sent a letter to County Executive Ed Long, the multicultural center, and other floors hosting about the school system’s interest in using the some county human services focused on the student Willston Center for a future school site. Dr. Garza’s population. The multicultural center portion could letter followed a lengthy meeting with Mr. Long, host a computer café or “hot spot” and include some Chairman Sharon Bulova, School Board member sort of food service. A playground could serve both Sandy Evans, county staff, and me, about anticipated the school and the child care center. Any redevelopment of the site would require a parking deck. school capacity challenges in Mason District. The five acre Willston site is an important part The acre-and-a-half triangular asphalt parking lot of the future redevelopment of the area. The Seven between the existing building and Route 50 is part Corners Land Use and Transportation Task Force of the Seven Corners Shopping Center, so the posidentified the site, also referenced as Sub-Unit A-3, as sibility of a public/private partnership to build a a location for a future East County Human Services parking deck there also needs to be explored over Center. As I listened to many community discus- the long term. sions about the Willston site, it became clear that a multi-pronged approach to redevelopment of the site  Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the would best serve the many interests expressed. The T: 5.6875 in Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be draft language in the proposed Comprehensive Plan emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.

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Richmond Report Earlier this week, the General Assembly reconvened to consider those bills the Governor vetoed or amended. With that work behind us, my first two sessions in the House of Delegates are complete. Barring an unforeseen call for a special session, I won’t cast another vote on the House floor unless I am re-elected to a second two-year term this November. This seems like as good a time as any, then, to take a look at the record I’ve made for myself and examine how closely it reflects the promises I made during my first campaign, promises that I intend to carry on during my 2015 campaign, and hopefully through my second term. Working Harder In my first two sessions, I introduced thirty-one bills, which covered a range of issues important to our community, a rather ambitious agenda for a first term legislator. Some were ideas I carried on for my predecessor, Jim Scott. Others were Governor’s bills, a few came from constituents, and others were simply progressive or business savvy ideas that just made sense. Many of the ideas I championed were unpopular with the Republican majority here in Richmond, and my vocal support came with some political costs. I’m proud to have been the first to submit legislation to repeal the same sex marriage ban; I helped spearhead efforts to expand the Fair Housing Statute to include non-discrimination against the LGBT community. I even proposed legislation to raise the minimum wage to $15.15/hour, a proposal that received much criticism from opponents although other cities and states have passed similar legislation without the feared economic collapse. Working Together Some ideas, though, were just too popular and important to ignore. During my first session, I introduced a bill to criminalize revenge pornography. A nearly identical bill was introduced a few weeks later by Delegate Rob Bell, one of the most conservative members of the House, but also someone who has seniority and chairs a key subcommittee. With that in mind, we combined our bills, advancing the proposal with his name as the primary patron in order to give it the best chance of success. I promised to reach across the

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aisle to find ways to work with the majority on important issues, and I believe this example demonstrates that these efforts have been and can be successful. Keeping Promises Just because session is over, though, doesn’t mean my work as your Delegate and advocate is finished. A major issue that I have heard from many constituents about is VDOT’s proposed I-66 project. I am working closely with State Senators Dick Saslaw and Chap Peterson as well as Delegate Mark Keam on this issue, which affects all of our districts substantially. I am committed to working hard on your behalf to ensure whatever project is ultimately approved for the corridor has the smallest impact possible on residential homeowners in my district. In addition to appearing at several community forums, information sessions, and public hearings, I have met individually with VDOT personnel working on the project. I have pressed them to modify the project and encouraged them to remain within the existing corridor so that their highest priority is preserving existing homes and open spaces. We have already seen some success as VDOT has agreed to deviate from their standard protocols, allowing them to move at least one flyover ramp from a residential to a commercial area and reduce the number of homes to be taken for storm water management. I believe that by continuing a strategy of engagement and sharing of constructive criticism, we can achieve an outcome that is best for our community. It is important that we not only address our traffic issues, but also protect our property values, our quality of living, and the environment. I will continue to represent the needs of our community, doing our best to mitigate the negative impacts associated with this project. 2015 Campaign My 2015 campaign kickoff will be this Sunday, April 19 from 3 – 5 p.m. at Clare & Don’s Beach Shack. For more information, please contact Morgan Jameson, my campaign manager (Morgan@marcussimon.com). I hope to see you there!  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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Marco Rubio may have a fresh face, but his stale policies could use a facelift. In his announcement for president he said this race was about a “generational choice.” Based on his social policies, the generation to which Rubio may be referring is the 1950s. This may play well with the GOP base, but will backfire with the majority of Americans. Rubio hopes his age, 43, will play well with young voters. But his virulent homophobia is more likely to make a great grandma giddy. He also hopes his ethnicity as a Cuban American will bring a new demographic to the party. However, the anti-immigrant fervor in the GOP will make this endeavor about as successful as Ben Carson or Herman Cain attracting African American voters. Rubio is trying to contrast his relative youth with the older Hillary Clinton. But it is Rubio who is itching to return America to a Cold War mentality, enthusiastically picking fights with Cuba, China, and Russia – while agitating for war with Iran. While many Republicans revere Ronald Reagan, it seems Rubio wants to literally relive the Reagan years, even as he claims, “yesterday is over, and we are never going back.” “Going back” seems to come quite naturally to this slippery politician. Rubio flip flopped, for instance, on immigration. After a brief flirtation with a sane policy, Rubio caved to rabid Tea Baggers after they bitterly accused him of being an amnesty-loving traitor. However, the damage has already been done. The New York Times column, “The Upshot,” points out that Rubio “held 20 percent of the vote in primary polls at the beginning of 2013, but his standing collapsed along with immigration and has never recovered.” The Florida Senator now stands at a paltry 6 percent of the vote in primary polls. Nonetheless, if Jeb Bush and Scott Walker falter, the mainstream wing of the GOP will look for someone new to step in. Unfortunately, Radical Rubio is anything but mainstream. He belongs to a scary Miami worship house run by a sectarian cleric who endorses exorcisms, while preaching anti-gay and creationist views. Rubio often attends a Catholic Mass, but he also goes to services at the ultra-conservative Southern Baptist mega-church, Christ Fellowship, where he listens to sermons by Pastor Rick Blackwood. Rubio has given at least $50,000 to Christ Fellowship, which requires prospective employees to sign the following sexual purity oath: “I hereby certify that I am a Christian, not a practicing homosexual in accordance with scriptures (Leviticus 18:22, 20:13, Romans 1:26-27, I Corinthians 6:9-10, I Timothy 1:10).” His membership in a strange church with extreme beliefs helps explain Rubio’s anti-gay and anti-science positions. Rubio has made his religious beliefs central to his campaign, so it is fair game to explore how they might influence his decisions as president. This week, The Advocate magazine wrote an article that said Rubio “already racked up an extensive antigay record” and speculated that he “might be the most antigay presidential candidate yet.” He has a long list of anti-gay quotes and policy positions – which appear to be growing more conservative each day in his quest to win the GOP nomination. Rubio’s Christ Fellowship Pastor, Rick Blackwood, described his 2011 exorcism of a demon-possessed church member: “I could sense the demons going out of this man and the Spirit of God entering him.” In a 2011 Christ Fellowship sermon titled “Demon Possession,” pastor Blackwood said: “Satan’s agenda is to seduce people away from God; to seduce them away from the heavenly Father, and then to take control of that individual. One of the ways that Satan accomplishes that is through what the Bible calls demonic possession. Make no mistake about it: Satan’s angels can seize control of an individual and possess an individual physically, spiritually, and even mentally.” Rev. Blackwood also proclaimed in a 2014 sermon: “The scientific method actually teaches that the Bible is science because it is based on observable evidence, and that evolution is actually blind faith because it is not based on observable evidence. Let me say that again. Evolution is not based on observable evidence. Creation is based on observable evidence.” Rubio’s views on science appear consistent with those of Rev. Blackwood. In an interview with Gentleman’s Quarterly, Rubio was asked, “How old do you think the Earth is,” to which Rubio replied: “I’m not a scientist, man…Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I’m not sure we’ll ever be able to answer that. It’s one of the great mysteries.” The real mystery is how in the 21st Century a man like Rubio could be considered a serious presidential candidate.

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Our Man in Arlington By Charlie Clark

At least one Arlingtonian will line up to run next Monday’s Boston Marathon. Frank Fumich has not only run competitively on seven continents, he cycles and pursues more obscure physical tests such as stand-up paddling in ocean surf. Much of his celebrated heroic grunting and straining benefits the less fortunate. “I actually got a Boston qualifying time and a personal record in September 2013, motivated by the bombing and wanting to get in,” he told me. “But because of the popularity last year, it closed out before I could use that time, so I get to use it this year.” Fumich’s planned appearance stems in part from a remarkable extreme sports feat performed last June. He and a pal ran from the Pentagon’s 9/11 Memorial, in stages, 450 miles to Beantown, the last 26 miles of which traced the marathon route. Backed by a traveling medical support and supplies vehicle, they raised $81,000 in donations from followers to benefit a victim of the 2013 bombing that, sadly, will long be associated with the race that began in 1897. The man is “amazing, a normal person who does extraordinary things,” I was told by Rick Schumann, president of the Better Sports Club of Arlington, at whose banquet Fumich spoke last month. “He has run endurance races in

the Sahara Desert, Death Valley and Antarctica, yet he noted he is not particularly athletic and did not start running until he was 30.” Every two years, he enters “Quintuple Ironman” competitions that string together a nonstop a 12-mile swim, a 560mile bike race and a 131-mile run. Fumich, now 47, pays the bills as president of Express Catering. This most unofficial of Arlington sports phenoms grew up near Ashlawn Elementary School (which his twins, who live in the Boulevard Manor neighborhood, will soon attend) before graduating from St. Ann Catholic School and O’Connell High School. He runs regularly on the W & OD bike trail when he’s not traveling to one of the 25 states and seven continents in which he has competed in ultra-marathons. On June 16, Fumich will enter the daunting Race Across America, a 3,000-mile cycling race from Oceanside, Calif, to Annapolis, Md., that must be completed in 12 days. He’s competing to raise funds for the 24/7 care needed by fellow University of West Virginia alum Ryan Diviney, who was beaten into a vegetative state. Fumich is accustomed to thank-you’s from “random people” who hear of his activities. But he also bonded with families of the Boston victims, sharing medals and charity promotions. “Since I’ve taken the step toward helping people while I’m doing these things, it seems like I won’t want

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CRIME REPORT Week of April 6 - 12, 2015 Narcotics Violation, 300 block Hillwood Ave. On Apr. 6, a male, 27, of Upper Marlboro, MD, was arrested and released on summons for Possession of Marijuana. False Report and Obstruction of Justice, 500 block W. Broad St. On Apr. 6, a male, 23, of Fairfax, was arrested for Filing a False Report of a Crime, and Obstruction of Justice. Larceny from Vehicle, 6757 Wilson Blvd. (Eden Center) On Apr. 7, police received a report that a laptop was stolen from a vehicle on Apr. 5. Trespass, 1100 block W. Broad St. On Apr. 7, a male, 36, no fixed address, was arrested and released on summons for Trespassing. Graffiti, 601 S. Oak St. (Thomas

Jefferson Elementary School) On Apr. 8, graffiti were found in the playground. Larceny from Building, 100 block Chanel Terr. On Apr. 8, police received a report of a bicycle stolen on Apr. 6. Narcotics Violation, 500 block Roosevelt Blvd. On Apr. 11, a male, 24, of the City of Falls Church; a male, 22, of the City of Falls Church; a male, 19, of Springfield; a female, 26, of Alexandria; and a male, 24, of Springfield, were arrested and released on summons for Possession of Marijuana. A male, 27, of Alexandria, was arrested for Possession of Ecstasy. A male, 26, of Arlington, was arrested for Possession of Cocaine and Marijuana. Driving Under the Influence, 700 block E. Broad St. On Apr. 11, a male,

to stop,” he said in an email. “This new direction makes something that’s usually an admittedly selfish pursuit, seem much more worthy the time and effort. He plans to keep up these highly disciplined stunts “probably until I can’t anymore. I always say as soon as I cross everything off my list, but then I do one thing, and learn of two more I want to do...so I’m not making great progress on that `list’ even though I’m doing a lot.” Fumich’s talk to the Sports Club was about “searching for and pushing through your limits,” he said. “Life is too short to wait. Give back, and never ever quit.” *** My neighbor and my neighborhood park have been tapped for Arlington’s Bill Thomas Outstanding Park Service Volunteer Award. Mary McLean, an educator associated with Tuckahoe Park for more than two decades, will be honored at an April 21 County Board meeting for her years of coordinating volunteers to accomplish invasive plant removal to keep nature’s treasures orderly. She plans to thank folks from around the region “who share the belief that public service benefits both the parks and ourselves,” she says. Past winners since the Thomas Award was created in 2005 (Thomas is honored on a trailside bench at the entrance to Bluemont Park) worked without pay to improve Shirlington Dog Park, Long Branch Park, Gulf Branch Nature Center and the garden at Walter Reed Community Center. 25, of Falls Church, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence. Shoplifting, 1150 W. Broad St. (CVS Pharmacy) On Apr. 11, a male, 37, no fixed address, was arrested for Habitual Petit Larceny. Smoking Violation, 6757 Wilson Blvd. #16 (Le Mirage) On Apr. 11, a male, 40, of Fairfax, was cited for Smoking In a Non-Designated Area. Driving Under the Influence, 100 block N. Washington St. On Apr. 12, a male, 25, of Falls Church, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence. Driving Under the Influence, 400 block S. Washington St. On Apr. 12, a male, 26, of Lexington Park, MD, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence. False ID to Law Enforcement, 300 block W. Broad St. On Apr. 12, a male, 47, of Washington, DC, was arrested for Providing False ID to Law Enforcement. Larceny from Building, 513 E. Broad St. (Dulin Church) On Apr.12, an unattended cell phone was stolen.

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Community Events

THURSDAY, APRIL 16

Preschool Storytime. Stories, ﬁnger plays and songs for children ages 2 – 5 on Monday and Thursday every week. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 – 11 a.m. & 3 – 3:30 p.m. 703-248-5034. Early Literacy Center. Explore educational and manipulative items to teach early literacy through play on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday every week. This program is for ages birth to 5 years. No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 a.m. – noon. & 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. 703-248-5034. DIY: Transform Your Yard with Native Plants. Speakers will provide information and resources on how to make your yard, patio or balcony a beautiful and environmentally-friendly landscape. Arlington Central Library (1015 N. Quincy St., Arlington). Free. 6:30 p.m. kasha. helget@cox.net. F.C. Rotary Club Meeting. Harvest Moon Restaurant (7260 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). $15 dinner. 6:30 p.m. Teen Poetry Slam and Contest

Awards. Share your poems and celebrate the winners of the Teen Poetry Contest. For grades 6-12. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7:30 p.m. 703-248-5034.

FRIDAY, APRIL 17

AAUW Book Sale. The Falls Church Area American Association of University Women is holding its annual used book sale with more than 40,000 books for browsing and buying. Through April 18. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Prices vary. 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. 703534-5345. gjewell@cox.net.

SATURDAY, APRIL 18

F.C. Farmers’ Market. Vendors oﬀer fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables, cheeses, meats, baked goods, plants, and wine. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 8 a.m. – noon. 703248-5077. Act It Out! with Care Actor. Take an adventure through storybooks in this acting workshop where young actors will learn various improvisational theater games and act out a story with positive values using costumes and props. For ages 4-6. Registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services

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Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 2 p.m. 703-2485034. Arbor Day Ceremony. The City of Falls Church, Victorian Society and Village Preservation and Improvement Society will present the City’s 123rd Arbor Day celebration. Donald S. Frady Park (East Broad Street and Fairfax Street, Falls Church). Free. 3 – 5 p.m. 703-389-7360.

SUNDAY, APRIL 19

Tea Party for Children. Children ages 8 and up are invited to bring their favorite doll to a tea at Cherry Hill Farmhouse, where there will be parlor games. Reservations required. Cherry Hill Farmhouse (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). $20. 2 – 4 p.m. 703-2485171. cherryhillfallschurch.org. Citizens for a Better City Annual Meeting. All are welcome to the Citizens for a Better City’s annual meeting and cocktail reception. Hilton Garden Inn (706 W. Broad St., Falls Church). $30. 5 p.m. ekfelt@gmail.com.

MONDAY, APRIL 20

Boston Marathon Live Viewing. Gather to watch the world’s oldest annual marathon. Arlington Mill Community & Senior Center (909 S. Dinwiddie St., Arlington).

Free. 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. 703-2287369.

TUESDAY, APRIL 21

Preschool Storytime. Stories, ﬁnger plays and songs for children ages 18 – 36 months every Tuesday. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 – 11 a.m. 703-248-5034. Ladies of the Civil War Lecture. Sharon Hodges will give a talk focusing on how ladies of the North and South served their country’s causes in ways that ﬂew in the face of the mid-19th century norms for women. Hollin Hall Senior Center (1500 Shenandoah Road, Alexandria). mvgenealogy.com. 703-768-4101. Storytime with Language Stars. A fun, interactive storytime in a foreign language (Spanish, French, or Mandarin). Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 1:30 – 2 p.m. 703248-5034. Legos in the Library. Children in grades 2 – 5 can join a Lego club with a theme. Tickets will be given out starting at 4:30 p.m., and are limited to 16 participants. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 5 p.m. 703-248-5034.

Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, APRIL 16

“Murder Ballad.” Sara’s life is perfect – Upper West Side husband, daughter, and life – until her irresistible past blows back into her life in the form of an old �lame, a dangerous passion, and a love triangle headed for ignition. This explosive rock musical from Jonathan Larson Grantee Julia Jordan and indie rock singer/songwriter Juliana Nash puts the audience in the middle of its action for a full immersive experience. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 – $55. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.

FRIDAY, APRIL 17

“Soon.” It is the hottest summer in human history and, in a few short months, all water on earth will evaporate. In response, twenty-something Charlie has taken to her couch with only her

beloved possessions: peanut butter, Wolf Blitzer and Herschel, the �ish. Her mother, roommate and sometimes-boyfriend all attempt to persuade her to leave her apartment and enjoy life. However, as Charlie’s memories take over, more complicated reasons for her self-in�licted hibernation emerge as she confronts her deferred dreams and considers the possibility of life and love just outside her door. This is the world premiere of this play, which was written by Nick Blaemire. Through April 26. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington). $39 – $80. 8 p.m. signature-theatre.org.

“Laugh.” This is the world premiere of a slapstick comedy, full of stories of mishaps and moxie, the romance of Hollywood and ultimately a Hollywood-caliber romance, written by Beth Henley, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her play Crimes of Heart. The play is set in the west in

the 1920s and features Mabel, who’s had a hard few weeks. A dynamite accident at a gold mine has left her wealthy but orphaned, and she’s shipped off to a calculating aunt whose nephew is charged with seducing her to control Mabel’s fortune. Through April 19. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 – $78. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.

SATURDAY, APRIL 18

“Lights Rise on Grace.” Lights rise on Grace, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, and Large, the young black man she loves. Lights rise on Riece, the sole bright spot in Large’s dark new world as a prison inmate. Lights rise on an unlikely family, bound by forgiveness but threatened by Large’s new desire. Through April 26. Woolly Mammoth (641 D St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $55 – $68. 8 p.m. woollymammoth.net.

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S�� C��. Iota Club and Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $10. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. B�� R�� T�� L�� B�� T��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. F��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna). Free. 9:30 p.m. 703255-1566. P�� K��. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. C�� C��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-532-9283.

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J�� A�� B��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. P�� T�� B�� H�� B�� E��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna). $22 – $30. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. S�� H�� A��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 in advance. $12 day of the show. 7:30 p.m. 202-667-4490. K�� 1 E�� J�� K��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504. I�� F�� T�� C��, J�� W�� DK �� DK. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m.

Y�� M�� G�� B��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna). $10 in advance. $15 day of the show. 1 p.m. 703-255-1566. C�� T��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna). $15. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. M�� S�� B�� M�C��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $27.50. 6 p.m. 202-265-0930. L��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 7 p.m. 703-532-9283. B�� T�� S�� F�� R��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 9 p.m. 202-667-4490. S�� W�� B��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.

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S��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna). $10 – $15. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. M�� S�� P�� U.S. R��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. T�� D�� A�� T�� G�� (‘66 E��.). Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m.

TUESDAY, APRIL 21 D�� B�� D�� L�B��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna). $18. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. H�� R�� R�� S�� L��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. T�� W�� C�� K�� M��. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $35. 7:30 p.m. 703-5497500. K�� O�� N�� S��, B�� A�� B��. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15. 8 p.m. 202-588-1880. M�� C�� B�� M� E��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 T�� S�� B�� C�� M�� E�� W��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna). $12 in advance. $15 day of the show. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.

P�� A��... Saturday, April 25 – Recycling Extravaganza. Recycle electronics, computers, eye

n 2013, astronaut extraordinaire Chris Hadfield lit the Internet – and world – on fire with his rendition of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” while floating around the International Space Station. In addition to his in-orbit music video, Hadfield shared many spectacular photos and videos from his time in space. Next week, the Canadian space traveler will be in town promoting his book An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth. On Thursday, April 24, Hadfield will be at Barnes and Noble in Tysons for a discussion and book signing and on Friday, he’ll be at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

What: Chris Hadﬁeld at Barnes and Noble & Air & Space Museum When: Thursday, April 25, 7 p.m.; Friday, April 25, noon Where: Barnes and Noble, Tysons Corner Center 7851 Tysons Corner Center, McLean; National Air & Space Museum 600 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC

glasses, medical equipment, sewing machines, bikes, clothing, textiles, batteries and more. Paper shredding will be provided by Shred-It. Free city of residents. Property Yard (7100 Gordon Road, Falls Church). Free. 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. recycling2@ fallschurchva.gov. fallschurchva.gov/RE.

Sunday, April 26 – Community Forum: Solarize Falls Church. Learn more about the

Solarize Falls Church program, solar energy and sign up for a free home energy check-up and solar site assessment. Falls Church Community Center Community Room (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free. 2:30 – 4 p.m. solarizefallschurch.org.

C�� S�� Be sure to include time, location, cost of admission, contact person and any other pertinent information. Event listings will be edited for content and space limitations. Please include any photos or artwork with submissions. Deadline is Monday at noon for the current week’s edition.

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Le Pain Quotidien, a boulangerie-restaurant chain founded in Brussels, has been in the United States for nearly 20 years, opening their first location in Manhattan in 1997. There are 15 locations of the expansive, but quaint, high-end, but laid back, restaurant in the region, with a spot in the Mosaic District. The bakery-cafe has a menu with something for everyone – those looking for a pick-me-up in the morning, a snack or treat any time of day or a sit-down breakfast, lunch or dinner. And, while the prices aren’t cheap enough for just anyone to afford, the food is delicious.And it’s healthy. The food at Le Pain Quotidien, which is French for the daily bread, is organic. So, with a few exceptions, the food is worth the expense. Also, every section of the restaurant’s menu has vegan/vegetarian options, too, with plenty of stuff for omnivores to choose from. The bakery menu at Le Pain Quotidien has lots of yummy treats that will work as a breakfast, dessert or snack. The restaurant’s Hazelnut Flutes ($3.90) – thin, chewy baguettes with slight sour taste – are delicious. They are packed with raisins and whole hazelnuts to give the treat a sweet, buttery flavor. Le Pain Quotidien also bakes a range of breads – Baguette, Whole Wheat, Rye, Walnut, French Rolls, Spelt or Five-Grain Raisin – that come with organic jam, butter and spread and can be ordered a la carte for $3.90 per serving. The breakfast and brunch menu at Le Pain Quotidien has some unique menu options, starting with their Avocado Toast ($9.95). It’s seasoned with citrus, cumin and salt, topped with chia seeds and extra virgin olive oil and it’s delicious. If I ate meat, I might try the Toasted Paris Ham & Gruyere Croissant ($8.95), which is served with seasonal greens, cornichons and a mustard trio. That same dish can be ordered as an omelette for $11.95. Which brings us to the organic eggs and omelette menu at Le Pain Quotidien and more pretend omnivorous speculation from me. The restaurant’s Chicken Chorizo Omelette ($13.10), which comes with organic cheddar cheese, is something else I might order if I were okay with cruelty to animals, which I’m not. Moving on…. Le Pain Quotidien’s hot dishes menu has some delicious dishes, and one in particular that I’m not a big fan of. Let’s start with the mediocre: the Organic Three-Bean Chili ($10.95). It’s okay, a little bland and comes with a dollop of avocado mash (read: guacamole). But hey, every table at Le Pain Quotidien has a salt and pepper grinders, so the fact that it’s a little bland isn’t the biggest deal. Now to the exceptional. Le Pain Quotidien’s Six-Vegetable Tart ($13.35), with artichoke, vegetables and tofu baked inside a gluten-free buckwheat crust, is literally everything. The dish has protein, vitamins and the seasonal green salad that comes with the tart adds a hefty leafy green serving to it. The tart itself is savory with a slightly sour and sweet crust. Another small complaint about Le Pain Quotidien is the restaurant’s Lemonade Iced Tea ($3.50), which is a little sour and not at all sweet enough. My ideal of that combination, which some regions call an Arnold Palmer, is a little sweeter than it is sour, influenced by the “half and halfs” and “mixes” that can be found at chinese food carry-outs in and around Washington, D.C. All in all, Le Pain Quotidien is a great eatery, bakery and cafe that’s great for those on the go or those who want to sit down and have a great meal.

— Drew Costley

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Mason’s Mills Nets 5 Goals vs. Rams by Liz Lizama

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The George Mason High School girls soccer team notched two more wins this past week with an 8-0 win over Rappahannock County High School on Friday and another 8-0 victory against Strasburg High School on Tuesday. On Friday night, the Mustangs, playing on their home turf, scored four goals against the Rappahannock County Panthers in the first half. The Mustangs followed with four more goals in the first 22 minutes of the second half. The eight-goal differential initiated the slaughter rule, which ended the game 20 minutes early. “We did a good job of moving the ball around on Friday night at a fast speed, while keeping possession,” said head coach Jennifer Parsons. “The girls were coming off a couple tough days of practice, and I was really happy to see them respond with a strong work ethic in the game and a lot of energy in every position.” While the Mustangs continue to shut out their opponents, Parsons recognized improvement in the team’s performance. “It was noticeable on Friday that we are starting to become more creative

in our offensive attack, so again I was happy to see this growth in our team,” she said. Forward/midfielders Corinne Carson, junior, and Ava Roth, senior, led the Mustangs against the Panthers with two goals apiece. Junior midfielder Kate Mills, sophomore forward/midfielder Megan Butler, junior midfielder Ella Howard and freshman forward/midfielder Victoria Rund each added one goal. “We are starting to become more confident in front of the goal, as can be seen with a few players getting their first goals of the season [Rund and Howard],” said Parsons. Following the win against the Panthers, Mason faced the Strasburg Rams at home on Tuesday night. Though the Mustangs started off slow, senior defense Jessica Gemond scored Mason’s first goal 18 minutes into the game. From there, the Mustangs found the energy needed to end the half 5-0. Mason scored three more goals in the second half, ending the game early at 8-0 as a result of the slaughter rule. Mills scored a career high five goals against the Rams. Parsons said no player has scored five or more goals in the past two years. “She is developing into a very

MASON JUNIOR KATE MILLS scored a career high five goals against Strasburg High School on Tuesday. (Photo: Courtesy of Brad Mills) dynamic player, who can both create dangerous goal-scoring opportunities for the team as well as score goals herself,” said Parsons of the 2014 first team All-District, first team All-Region and first team All-State player. “Kate is incred-

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QUINN HARBIN (far right), a 7 year-old Falls Church resident and second grader at the Montessori School of Northern Virginia, placed third at the Liberty Mountain Skate Park Ramp Jam on March 28. (Photo: Courtesy of Jody Thomas)

ibly hard-working and determined, and that was evident in the way she played last [Tuesday] night.” Adding to the goals by Mills and Gemond, Roth and sophomore forward/midfielder Rebecca Crouch both contributed one goal

for the Mustangs. Mason travelled to William Monroe High School last night but results were not yet available at press time. The team hits the road again tomorrow to play at Warren County High School.

Mason Girls Track is Top 2A Team at 74th Handley Invitational Close to 80 Mason track and field athletes had an early morning departure Saturday to compete in the 74th Handley Invitational starting at 9 a.m. in Winchester. Strong winds and mild spring temperatures balanced each other out to make for good conditions. Twenty schools sent teams to compete. Most were 4A, 5A, and 6A, and there were a couple of district rivals present too. Overall, the girls finished 9th with 23 points and the boys finished 19th with three points. The Girl’s were the top 2A school in the meet beating District rivals Clarke & Strasburg. Individually the girls had three state qualifiers in four events: Tara Holman in the 100-meter and 400-meter, and Blaise Sevier and

Logan Funk in the 3200-meter. There were 21 personal records, 2 season bests and 5 athletes who were in the point-earning, top-eight finishes for their seven events. Holman placed third in the 100-meter and the 400-meter dash. All the results can be found at va.milesplit.com/meets/201866/ results/361696 The boys and girls track and field team competed in a 5-way district meet at Strasburg High School, but results of the meet were not available at press time. They’ll also participate in Saturday’s all-day, larger Ram Invitational at Strasburg. Both will give the Mustangs great exposure to the site where the conference meet is held at the end of the season.

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Falls Church native Jay Keating and his band, Know1Else, will play their first gig, their “Third Wave Americana” music Sunday night, April 19, at the newly renovated and enlarged JV’s Restaurant, at the corner of Annandale and Arlington Boulevard in Falls Church, from 8 p.m. – midnight. Keating’s voice is a familiar one around town. He’s been the voice on television and radio of car dealer and U.S. Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) for more than 30 years. In 1983, brothers Don and Mike Beyer were looking for a different twist to market their dealership, something original and homegrown unlike the usual messages created by the big ad agencies, when they chanced upon Keating who was doing standup comedy in Georgetown. The next day at work when they praised Keating to their employees, one piped up: “I know that guy! He’s my brother!” The Beyers had found their man who’s been writing for them ever since, including an instant local classic Keating wrote for Don Beyer’s successful congressional race last year, the Blue Cup Song sung by Keating’s children, Mae, now 14, and John, now 13. “The only part of my campaign that went viral was Jay’s political rendition of the Blue Cup Song. Jay Keating is the voice of Don Beyer Volvo,” Beyer said. “His wacky imagination, his Dylanesque voice and his great musicality have entertained radio listeners for decades.” In an interview at JV’s, Keating, 61, joked that Don Beyer “is as

nerdy as I am,” quickly adding, “in a good way.” Keating, a former government multi-media and tech guru, is building upon his writing and marketing skills to sculpt a music career, a lifelong passion. Not only does he sing and play guitar, but he writes “songs you haven’t heard but have already lived,” with his co-composer, band member and neighbor Kelly Diamond. They had been neighbors for six or seven years before they “discovered” each another. The content of their songs they call “NowStalgia not Thenstalgia,” differs from most songwriters’. Rather than romantic love and teen angst, they write about a different kind of love, self love and life’s later stages, in a style which embraces just about all of it: jazz, blues, rock, folk, and “RastaBilly,” a term they’ve coined for their brand of country reggae. “We play moonlight and some Miranda Lambert,” Keating said, but practically all their songs are original. Their first CD is in the works. Their music is “folk rock that’s more ambitious,” Keating explains, “rock and roll in a folk music setting.” “Hip Pity Hop” is a “get-overyourself song that’s happy. People love to dance to it,” Keating said. “It’s infectious with words that are clever and encouraging. “Life is ungentle, I’ll testify to that,” he says, quoting some of the words. “Funny that old white people are rapping [to this] circusy music.” Their songs can be “about what it’s like to raise children and accept yourself,” like “In My Skin,” about a song which celebrates age.

“Youth isn’t the goal and it shouldn’t be,” Keating says, “because not only is it unattainable, but you reach a certain age and say, ‘Hey! This is me and I like it!’ “You’re not full of anxiety, constantly lusting after what you may not get, uncomfortable. It isn’t really what you want,” Keating says, since it may not be what you are. Diamond wrote most of lyrics for “Halfway Son,” about the conflict which may occur with children. “We must meet each other halfway to sustain the relationship,” Keating said. Family relationships are the “impetus for a lot of our songs.” Music has always been a part of Keating’s life, beginning when he was a child with piano lessons and choir, starring in shows and musicals. He and family members (including cousin Tom Keating who will also play Sunday night at JV’s with some of his Nashville music) have always had a musical bent, but Jay Keating didn’t realize how deeply it flowed in his veins until, before the aftermath of a 1973 hurricane struck parts of Pennsylvania, he helped his grandfather and cousins clean out his grandfather’s home where the youngsters found a trumpet and touring materials in the attic. What was this? Turns out his grandfather, “Duke” Earl Keating, was a former trumpeter who toured the county with his own big band and played with others, including Benny Goodman’s. Like many others whose dreams are interrupted by reality, his grandfather was unable to continue his music career, one that Keating has picked up and is determined to pursue to life’s end.

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BY DREW COSTLEY

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Kyle Higginbotham, rapper and one half of the frontline of the locally-based pop fusion group Footwerk, said the band came together in response to an ad he placed on Craigslist in 2012. Since then, the band has played shows all over the D.C. area, sometimes rocking crowds with their brand of substantive party pop for several hours at a time, according to Higginbotham. In that time, they’ve gone on tour with another homegrown group, SOJA, and gotten an endorsement from the D.C. go-go group Mambo Sauce. And now, with regional buzz building around the band over the past three years, Footwerk is gearing up to release their debut album, the aptlytitled Casual Encounters, in June. “It’s all new music. We’ve been playing and travelling around for two, three years and we played for three hours at a time some nights, the same thirty songs that we’ve come up FOOTWERK (C�� P��) with,” Higginbotham said. “So, with this record, we were just like let’s “Chasing tails and counting sheep, I can’t do completely new songs. So, we wrote all new sleep. I pray to the lord, my soul to keep, I’m songs, that we’re just starting to play live now. in too deep.” But the band’s first LP is a crysWe feel great about it because it’s brand new tallization of that party-with-a-message vibe. “I wouldn’t say we’re all about the party and it’s different from all of the music we have.” According to Melissa Moffett Jones, music, but we are about making people feel good Footwerk’s singer and the other half of the band’s and feel good to be alive,” Moffett Jones said. frontline, which they call the group’s “friendzone “But we also like to cover real life issues, too.” As sort of an official kick-off for the tour in power couple,” the album is “totally different.” “Anyone that’s known us since three years support of the album, Footwerk is headlining a ago would definitely notice the change in how show at U Street Music Hall, presented by the 9:30 our music’s transformed,” she said. Before, the Club, next Thursday, April 23. The group will be group would tailor their songs for a live audi- playing all new music from Casual Encounters. “Coming to our show is like...wow, I don’t ence, evident in the songs like “Metro Girls” and “Eyes Low.” The songs on Casual Encounters, know what to expect, this is a very different looking band...I’ve seen people from all walks Moffett Jones, are “more substantive.” There are hints of that in the band’s con- of life come into our show and stay the entire ceptual songs like “Counting Sheep,” a song time,” Moffett Jones said. “I think that is a the group released two years ago. The hook testament that we music that do and the energy describes the darker side of the party life: that we bring. We’re very high energy.”

The show at U Street Music Hall is shaping up to be a milestone, and a possibly jumping off point, from the group, as it’s the biggest show they’ve headlined. And, if all goes well, it has the potential to open the door for a show at 9:30 Club down the line. And the importance of this show isn’t lost on Higginbotham. “It’s the result of all the work we’ve put in over the last few years, two to four years of e-mailing bookers…we’ve played every big place in the area, like The Fillmore, State Theatre, everywhere you would want to play, except for 9:30 Club because it’s such a hard door to break down,” he said. “So for us, it’s a big deal that they finally gave us a shot...it’s just another opportunity that we’ve gotta swing for the fences on.” • For more information about Footwerk, visit FootwerkBand.com.

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Jody Fellows – Kasabian by Club Foot

Drew Costley – Alright by Kendrick Lamar

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The Official Student Newspaper of George Mason High School The Falls Church News-Press has partnered with George Mason High School’s award-winning newspaper, The Lasso, to bring its readers some of the top articles appearing in the student-run digital paper. This regular feature will appear monthly in the News-Press during the school year. The Lasso can be found online at www.fcpps.org/lasso.

A Lifetime of Tennis BY ANDREA DILAO THE LASSO

Born and raised in Plymouth, Michigan, right outside of Ann Arbor, Alexandra Ware grew up with tennis as a major aspect of her life. Almost every step she’s taken to get to Mason has involved the sport in one way or another, and it contributes to her dedication to the girls varsity tennis team. “I love tennis, and have always enjoyed playing, and it’s great for many reasons,” said Ware, “one of them being it’s a life-long sport. Some sports you can’t play past a certain age, but tennis you can always play.” Ware’s father is a certified ten-

nis teaching professional, as well as the co-director of tennis at the Huron Valley Tennis Club in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She played there growing up, and she worked there for a period of time as a youth, and later, adult coach. “I got into tennis because of my dad,” Ware said. “I played competitively for a while, and at one point I was nationally ranked. It was always a choice for me and I was never forced to do it, and my family was really supportive.” After graduating from Ashland University in Ohio, and playing tennis all four years, she moved to Denver, Colorado, and eventually found herself in the Washington D.C. area, teaching Special

Education at Mason. “I love the sport, I love the game, and I love being able to work with high school girls. My classroom is very different so I don’t necessarily get to know a lot of the students throughout the school. It just worked out when I started teaching and there was an opening for girls tennis coach.” Mason’s girls varsity tennis team graduated six seniors last year, and made it all the way to states, before getting eliminated in the second round. Besides adjusting to a new team and eleven returners, Ware hopes to be able to use time on the courts more wisely, and involve parents as much as possible.

MEMBERS OF THE girls varsity tennis team gather around Ware for a few announcements before a match. Last season, the team made it all the way to states, before getting eliminated in the second round. (P��: C�� A�� C��) “I would love to move on as team, and to make it to State finals would be phenomenal,” said Ware. “We have to figure out how to make our top six singles lineup and three doubles teams to get the best team possible. Strategy will also be really important, and just knowing and understanding the entire game of tennis. Basically thinking on

your feet throughout a match.” “We’ll definitely also have to rebuild, but I’m confident in my returning players. The culture of the team will change because of the loss of the seniors, and this season will be tough. But I know we’ll have fun, and with hardwork and dedication, we’ll reach our goals.”

Commercializing GM’s Campus is Absurd BY FRANK WILLIAMSON THE LASSO

Although there is nothing terribly wrong with redevelopment, every year there seems to be one project after another being reported in the Falls Church News-Press only to never be seen again. This isn’t to say that all projects fold, but there is substantially more “talk” than “walk,” as many projects just lack real substance. Going from a semi-sleepy town to a bustling mini-metropolis like Ballston in Arlington isn’t easy and often these visions just become dreams. The City of Falls Church needs to realize the irony in letting development get the better of it. In a place where the schools are so fundamental to the City’s value, this makes public education a second priority. Falls Church needs to first live up to its reputation of having an outstanding school system. This can’t be done by having school property used for anything but the schools. The City needs to reflect this attitude. George Mason’s campus is, simply, no place for commercial redevelopment. George Mason was built in 1952 with minor patchwork and a major renovation in 1994. However, it is

clearly in need of a serious facility upgrade. Falls Church can’t be known for its prestigious public school system while using a rundown building and calling it a high school. Arlington, Loudoun, Fairfax, and even Clarke County have managed to build far superior and more modern facilities for their high schools. It’s now Falls Church’s turn. There have been two plans for a new high school sent to the City for consideration. However, the problem with both plans is that their focus is commercialization. The Urban Land Institute’s design features a large grid of commercial buildings and then squeezes the new High School all the way behind Mary Ellen Henderson. The main feature of the design wasn’t even for a new school building, but to make the next “Mosaic District.” Although a design hasn’t been made public, the Edgemoor-Clark group’s unsolicited proposal also shows a similar concept, where in exchange for developing a tract of land for their own use, they will, essentially, build a high school for free (inevitably with strings attached). Its absurd that a developer taking the land is now a seri-

COMMERCIAL REDEVELOPMENT is great for revitalizing our City, but it seems to be an eternal fad in the City of Falls Church. (P��: N��-P��) ous consideration. Plans for a new school building can’t be neglected because of private interests. Mason’s current cam-

pus in no way should be compromised for multi-use apartment complexes. There is no integrity in giving away the

property that your only high school once used. Building a state of the art school campus should be the only goal here.

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THOMAS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL students opened up the 2001 TJ Time Capsule on Tuesday and began a surprising journey. Inside students found Pokemon cards, letters, pictures of celebrities, VHS videotapes, stories about current events back then and more. The artifacts will be shared with each class. Students will then decide what to leave future TJ Tigers to find 15 years from now. Two TJ alumni, Peter Davis and Brennan Downey (center back), who remembered putting items into the time capsule were there for the opening. (Photo: Courtesy of FCCPS Photo/Marybeth Connelly)

OVER SPRING BREAK, George Mason High School seniors (l to r) Beamlak Hailemariam, Julian Grippo and Michael Winters, Jr., won the first place prize at Intel’s Virginia State Science and Engineering Fair State Science Fair for Chemistry. Their project, “Emission Evaporators” looked at possible solutions for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from industrial power plants. (Courtesy Photo)

F.C. Resident Volunteers for Alternative Spring Break Lily Slonim, a Falls Church resident and junior political science major at James Madison University, spent her spring break doing service work in Wellington, Co., working at Harvest Farm, a 209-acre farm and rehabilitation center for men. The farm accommodates up to 72 men who participate in a long-term programs with the goal of breaking the cycles of addiction and homelessness. The program combines academics, life skills classes, Bible study, work therapy and Christian counseling in a curriculum extending up to 27 months. Slonim and

her schoolmates delved into health and substance abuse social issues while working alongside the men on the farm.

Lorton Students Compete in National Competition in NYC A team of students from South County High School in Lorton is headed to New York City on Monday, April 27 to participate as finalists in the 10th annual Moody’s Mega Math Challenge. The Moody’s Mega Math Challenge is a national high school math modeling competition that tasks participants with solving a real-world problem. This year’s problem – “Is college worth

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CSOV Students Participate In White House Workshop Students from the Congressional Schools of Virginia participated in the edu-

cational workshop “The History of Gospel Music” at the White House on Tuesday. In conjunction with the PBS music special “The Gospel Tradition: In Performance at the White House,” First Lady Michelle Obama hosted the workshop in the White House’s State Dining Room. The event was produced by The Grammy Museum and led by Robert Santelli, the museum’s executive director and streamed live Tuesday morning on the White House’s website. The Congressional Schools of Virginia was the only school from the state, and one of 23 schools from across the country to participate in the event.

Registration Open for GMHS Summer Academy Online registration is open for George Mason High School’s Summer Academy program. Classes will meet four days a

week from June 29 – Aug. 7. In the past, the school has scheduled a five hour school day for summer school, but has shortened the length of the school day this year. According to the Falls Church City Public School’s “Morning Announcements” e-mail, the school’s hope was that by shortening the school day, it would allow students greater flexibility to plan other summer activities while still completing the requirements of the class. Summer Hy-C courses are offered in English, math, science, social studies, personal finance and economics.

George Mason High School Chemists Win Top Prize Over spring break, George Mason High School seniors Beamlak Hailemariam, Julian Grippo and Michael Winters, Jr., won the first place prize for chemistry at Intel’s Virginia State Science and Engineering Fair State Science Fair.

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Council Reaches Consensus, Plans to Vote for Full School Funding Monday Consensus was reached by the Falls Church City Council at the conclusion of a grueling four-hour work session Monday that the School Board will get all it requested to fund the schools during the next fiscal year, and real estate taxpayers will see their rate rise from $1.03 to $1.07 per $100 in assessed values. The Council will hold one more public hearing on the FY96 budget this Monday night at 7:30 p.m. prior to officially voting....

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