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Inside This Week CBC Hails Success of Youth Civic Initiative

The smashing success of last year’s initiative by the Citizens for a Better City to recruit high school students for appointment to Falls Church City boards, commissions and volunteer organizations was celebrated at its 56th annual meeting Sunday. See page 4

F.C., Vienna Mayors In Solar Challenge

Falls Church Mayor David Tarter and Vienna Mayor Laurie DiRocco have issued a challenge to each other and will join in a friendly competition to see whose community can enroll the greatest number of participants for free home energy checkups and solar PV reviews as part of the Solarize NoVA campaign.

Down to the Wire: F.C. Council Will Raise Tax Rate 1¢ or Cut Schools B ourgeois?

New Savings Lower

Difference to Penny; Final Vote Monday by Nicholas F. Benton

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See News Briefs, page 9

David Brooks: The Talented Mr. Rubio Political audiences always like patriotic rhetoric, but as several reporters have noticed, this year’s Republican audiences have a special hunger for it. See page 12

Press Pass With Ben Williams

Jazz bassist Ben Williams, a native Washingtonian, has grown up, and is coming home to show the D.C. region how he’s matured since he released his debut album State of Art in 2011. See page 21

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Editorial..................6 Letters..............6, 22 News & Notes.10-11 Comment........12-15 Calendar.........16-17 Food & Dining ......18

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GEORGE MASON HIGH SCHOOL’S Meagan Pierce (front) and Julia Palmer play Madame Jourdain and Nicole, respectively, in the school’s production of Moliere’s “Bourgeois Gentleman,” opening tonight at 7:30 p.m. See Spring Play Preview, page 8. (Photo: Anna Connole)

Another marathon work session of the Falls Church City Council Monday night ended with some verbal fireworks. Vice Mayor David Snyder clashed with Mayor David Tarter over the issue of fully funding the School Board budget request. The Council concluded with two options for next Monday’s final vote on the Fiscal Year 2016 budget, one which comes in with no tax rate increase and $340,000 cut from the School Board request and the other with a one cent tax rate hike and a fully-funded School Board budget request. The $341,000 cut could leave the schools with nine fewer teaching positions than at present. In a rare outburst of emotion and departure from his anti-tax norm, Vice Mayor Snyder said that “if it came down to it, I’d vote the Schools’ request and a one cent rate increase.” Snyder pleaded for more time to close the $340,000 gap through additional dialogue with the Schools before next Monday’s final vote. The $340,000 number is actually equal to less than a penny, 0.9 cents, on the tax rate However, the Schools’ request has been based on what it says is the need to remain competitive for the region’s best teachers and although not a big number compared to the overall size of the budget, it will be critical from the standpoint of meeting that objective. At a work session Tuesday night, the School Board learned that, indeed, a $341,000 cut in its budget would have a dramatic

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CBC Hails Success of Its New Youth Civic Initiative by Nicholas F. Benton

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The smashing success of the last year’s initiative by Falls Church’s venerable Citizens for a Better City to recruit high school students for appointment to Falls Church City boards, commissions and volunteer organizations was celebrated at the CBC’s 56th annual meeting Sunday at F.C.’s new Hilton Garden Inn. The CBC’s new first vice-president Carol Loftur-Thun introduced the contingent of George Mason High School students who attended the fete, explaining how she’d come up with the idea over a year ago. The CBC has been striving to retain its important role in Falls Church since it moved away from its decades-long practice of vetting and nominating candidates to the City Council and School Board in recent years. “We just found that citizens don’t like voting for slates,” the CBC’s new

chair, Revenue Commissioner Tom Clinton told the more than 60 people who attended the reception and annual meeting Sunday. Now with its youth initiative, according to Loftur-Thun, Falls Church has more student representatives on official boards and commissions “than any other jurisdiction of any size in the entire U.S.,” Loftur-Thun told Sunday’s meeting The testimonies of those students who attended Sunday’s meeting and were introduced to make remarks confirmed that the exercise has been more than just ceremonial, too. They referred to the learning and engagement that has happened since the students were officially appointed by the City Council last October. Then, 17 students were voted onto City boards and commissions, and civic groups like the Village Preservation and Improvement Society, and the City’s local Democratic and Republican committees.

Sophomore Christian Autor, appointed to the Tree Commission, drew a laugh when he said he didn’t know people could spend so much time talking about trees. But as a “Tree City USA” for decades, trees have always meant a great deal to Falls Church. (See a photo of student reps present Sunday in News & Notes, page 11). The idea was first initiated by former School Board member Ron Peppe when he proposed that the School Board recruit a Mason High senior to participate as a non-voting member. Maeve Curtin was appointed last year, and made a very favorable impression. So has Zack Witzel, this year’s student appointee. The School Board’s John Lawrence now spearheads that effort. Now, the CBC is launching its next round of recruitments, and with room for more students to get involved. Loftur-Thun said that student applications for appointments will be open as of next Monday, April 27, and will run through May

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15. That will give the CBC leadership a chance to review applications and conduct interviews before forward its recommendations to the City Council in the fall. Applications can be pulled off the Internet from www.youthrepsinitiative.org or can be obtained in hard copy at Mason High School. The CBC initial team, which stepped forward after Loftur-Thun won support for the idea from the CBC’s executive committee, included Jerry Barrett, Lindy Hockenberry, Craig Cheney, Paul Handly and Peppe, and its Youth Reps Review Committee also includes Barry Buschow and Mike Connelly and Mary Ellen Gannon. Perhaps the highlight of the program’s first year occurred in January, when all the students came

together for an intense two hour briefing and question and answer session with City elected and City Hall staff leaders. Mayor David Tarter, Vice Mayor David Snyder, and Council members Marybeth Connelly and Nader Baroukh joined City Manager Wyatt Shields to lead the discussion. In other business Sunday night, the CBC members present unanimously approved the recommendations of the nominating committee to appoint Clinton as the new president, Loftur-Thun as first vice president, Dick McCall as second vice president, Nancy Brandon as treasurer, Julie Krachman as secretary, and 13 at-large members of the executive board. City Councilman Phil Duncan was singled out for special recognition.

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impact on the functioning of the schools. Having already cut the budget to the bone, they were told, including the cutting of five full-time-equivalent positions, the added loss of $341,000 would require cutting an additional four teaching positions. So, they were told, with the $341,000 cut, the system would face a total of nine fewer teachers. Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones confirmed that in a telephone interview with the News-Press Wednesday. After the Monday City Council work session, which pushed beyond 11:30 p.m., Snyder said he objected to making the School funding a political football, something that some Council members want to do just to be able to posture that they were for no tax rate increase “and by so doing,” Snyder said, “appease that small segment that doesn’t support the schools, anyway.” “Worse than high taxes is a government that is unable to do what it needs to do” in terms of basic services and the schools,

Snyder said. Barring whatever might develop between now and next Monday night, the stage is set for up-ordown votes on the two options – one with a .9 cent tax rate increase that funds the school budget, and another with no tax rate increase and a $340,000 cut in the schools’ funding request. Creative work on the budget lowered the projected tax rate increase from four cents to a gap that could be filled with a penny on the rate. Efforts by the Human Resources Department at City Hall found that the City and schools could save over $500,000 by switching health care plans. The removal of the cost of a new school bus from the schools’ budget request, and debt financing it instead, saved another $90,000 on the books. On the City side, City Manager Wyatt Shields, who was treated to some special cupcakes at the meeting in celebration of his 46th birthday, found savings totaling another $602,100 (including a $305,000 drop in debt refunding) to lower the gap between the current tax rate and

THE FALLS CHURCH CITY COUNCIL deliberated deep into the night again Monday. (P��: N��-P��) the City/schools expenditures to $340,948. That is with the City’s fund balance at the top of its policy range (17 percent of annual oper-

ating costs) and only a small portion of the City’s available funds held in accounts that yield one tenth of one percent interest. An alternative, the Virginia

Investment Pool, offers a much higher rate of return, but City Hall with its notoriously conservative fiscal practices has been reluctant to tap that resource.

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Is There Virtue In Falls Church?

It comes down to this on the eve of the final vote on the Fiscal Year 2016 budget for the City operations and schools for the year beginning July 1: There is going to be a one-cent increase in the real estate tax rate, such that the schools will be funded at the diminished level they’d agreed upon, or, in order to retain no increase in the real estate tax rate, a $341,000 bite will be taken out of the core classroom services of the schools. One cent on the tax rate is equal to about $360,000, but at this point, that one penny matters to an inordinate degree, because before the School Board came with its request to the City, it had in good faith pared down its request to the bare bones. Now, if the schools are denied that final $341,000, it will be at the cost of four teachers. On top of five positions already cut in this budget, it means the schools would go into the fall, faced with the prospect of more enrollment growth, with nine fewer teachers. We lament the position of the City Council, which must choose between these two options (unless something new comes up between now and Monday). We know that no one on the Council wants to harm the schools, but that many are feeling the heat from citizens who are insistent on no tax rate increase, no matter what. It has caused some good Council members to turn their backs on the real human consequences of cutting the school budget, and instead to look at hard numbers, opting for the Solomonic proposal to even out a balance ledger by cutting the baby in two. It is genuinely troubling to us to see good citizens, all trying to do the right thing, reduced to this. But there comes a time when a certain core moral fiber has to assert itself which insists that children, their minds, and their opportunities in life are sacrosanct obligations of government, and that they shall not be sacrificed by the threats of those who vow to run out of office anyone who proposes even a single penny more. Don’t forget that this budget season began with a City Manager’s proposed budget calling for a four-cent tax rate increase. By this week, that number had been whittled down to one cent. But for some, even that is not enough. It’s no tax increase, even if now only nominal, or the threat of dreaded consequences. That’s bullying, and there’s only one way to stop it: by ignoring it and doing the right thing. Lest anyone forget, in Falls Church, with the highest household income in the entire U.S., when we tax, we tax the rich, not the poor. What makes being rich a virtue for Falls Church is dedicating its good fortune to a brighter future through education. Abandon that, and there is no virtue here, at all.

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Thanks for the Memories, Broad Street Burger King Editor, Recently I read with mixed emotions that the Burger King at 700 West Broad Street will soon be razed for new development. This establishment is where I got my first job, in 1967 when I was 16. It was still not complete at the time I signed up, so until it was ready, we had to train at the Fairfax City location to get the feel of the job. For the training at Fairfax we were paid a whopping

$1.00 per hour, but after training that was raised to the tidy sum of $1.25 at the Falls Church branch. Two of my sisters also worked there for a time. I enjoyed my time there, and even seriously considered going to “Whopper College” in Miami to train as a manager. To say that my parents were not thrilled with this idea would be an understatement, and I was quickly dissuaded from the idea.

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I have not lived in Falls Church for many years, even though I have been in the D.C. area all that time, and have always considered Falls Church my home town. A few weeks ago my wife and I moved into the city limits from Arlington, since we needed a condo with more room. We found a unit in the city, and although it had nothing to do with our choosing it, lo and behold: right from our new seventh floor balcony is a clear view of my “alma mater.” Coincidentally, that same balcony is practically on top of where a Red Lobster restaurant used to be, and many years before that, (how many would remem-

ber this?) a baseball field where I played while in Little League. How time passes. I have been blessed with success in the long span of time since my employment there, and I credit my time at the restaurant with instilling a work ethic that has stayed with me throughout the years. While local restaurant critics will certainly debate what importance the closing of this one restaurant has, it will always have a special place in my heart. Burger King, thanks for the memories. Larry Maher Falls Church

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Can Falls Church Help Address Global Warming? B� T�� S��

The changes we are making to our climate stand as a huge worldwide challenge. If we fail to address this challenge, we will significantly jeopardize the happiness and health (maybe even the survival) of future generations, according to nearly all climate scientists. The solution seems easy – just stop burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas. Yet the quantity of these fuels we all use is vast, as is the embedded cost of the facilities used to process them – easy excuses for many governments to avoid making hard decisions to transition to clean energy like wind and solar. This reluctance is especially evident here in Virginia, where the installed amount of solar energy (about 15 MW) lags significantly behind neighboring North Carolina (with over 600 MW). This modern day case of “the slows” is vexing for all who are aware of the gravity of our situation. Yes, it is a global problem as the name says. But there are things we can do locally to demonstrate our willingness to be part of the solution. Some of these actions are already underway in our City. We do a good job of recycling, as we have led the state in recent years on the percentage of solid waste we recycle. Recycling materials uses less energy than producing new items – something to think about as you wheel that green

bin out on Wednesdays. The City’s partnership with VPIS (Village Preservation and Improvement Society) on planting trees has resulted in hundreds of new trees along our streets. These trees help in a small way to absorb carbon dioxide. The next time you see the

“Just in time to accompany Earth Day this year is a new program available to us SolarizeNOVA.” volunteer crews out planting new trees, think of it not only in terms of the pleasant shade that will result, but also as an action we are taking to address climate change. It may even inspire you to lend a hand with planting more trees. Interest in promoting bicycling is catching on. The City recently announced an initiative to come up with a comprehensive plan to make it easier to use a bike within the City. When you see the sharrows on Park and Maple Avenues, think of climate change, and how substituting an occasional bike trip for a car trip is not only enjoyable, but helps reduce your carbon footprint.

A few years ago we took up the challenge of becoming an EPA Green Power Community. A number of our residents and businesses signed up to purchase the Renewable Energy Certificates that channel extra money into the renewable energy industry. Have you noticed the signs as you enter the City that announce our status as a Green Power Community? New higher density multi-family mixed use projects are under construction within the City. Much of the attention has been on the tax revenues these projects will contribute towards our schools – understandable in a community whose existence is clearly linked to interest in good schools. Often overlooked are the design advantages inherent in mixed-use development – the ability to accomplish all the functions of daily living without having to travel around in a car. Good design is a key tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Just in time to accompany Earth Day this year is a new program available to us – SolarizeNOVA. This program addresses the heart of the climate challenge – the energy we use in our homes. The idea is to form a group to make the purchase of a solar energy system easier and cheaper, for those who want them. Solarize programs are underway throughout Virginia – very much a grass roots phenomenon. Of course, people who are concerned about global warming are attracted to solar energy, but so are others

who don’t feel comfortable relying on a government-sanctioned monopoly for their energy. SolarizeNOVA uses the resources of two local institutions to make the program work: Northern Virginia Regional Commission and Local Energy Reliance Program (LEAP). Anyone interested in learning whether a solar energy system might work can go to the web site solarizefallschurch.org and sign up for a free site assessment. LEAP will arrange for a solar technician to visit your home and share information you can use to decide if purchasing a system makes sense. Even if you don’t want a solar energy system, SolarizeNOVA offers something useful – a free home energy check-up. Sign up for it on the solarizefallschurch.org web site, and LEAP will send out one of their energy experts to inspect your home and give you ideas on cutting out wasted energy. Saving money while you address climate change – a great combination. Learn more about SolarizeNOVA (and solar energy in general) by attending an information forum on Sunday, April 26 at the Community Center (2:30 – 4:00). It will be a good opportunity to ask any questions you have about solar energy.  Tim Stevens is a City of Falls Church resident and place chair of the Environmental Services Council.

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Local Schools Get Ready for Spring Theater Season

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J.E.B. STUART HIGH SCHOOL

While McLean High School already kicked off the spring theater season with “The Laramie Project” earlier this month, George Mason, J.E.B. Stuart, Falls Church and George C. Marshall high schools are ready to showcase their talent with a range of genres over the course of the next week. George Mason High School and J.E.B Stuart High School premier their productions this week of “Bourgeois Gentleman” and “The 39 Steps.” Next week, Falls Church High School’s production of “The Giver,” and George C. Marshall High School’s “Young Frankenstein” will close the high school spring theater season.

After bringing a more serious play last year, J.E.B. Stuart High School theater director Morganne Davies decided on the 2013 Tony Award-winning “The 39 Steps” for this year’s spring production. “I wanted to lighten up the season and bring in lots of audiences, so I picked a play that was popular,” Davies said of the selection. “It has a lot of fun and can incorporate a large cast of students.” Davies is especially proud of the students’ acting performance. “For the first time in my teaching experience, I’ve really had a cast that has brought in a lot of acting choices without me having to give much direction,” she said. “They have really taken ownership of creating multiple, really full, wellrounded characters.” Based on a suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock film and John Buchan novel, Patrick Barlow’s stage adaption is a comedic twist to the thriller. “I look at this production as a homage to the golden age of cinema,” said Davies. “We’ve collaborated with our IB film classes, so we’re merging projections with live action on stage as well as commissioning them to do some short films inspired by Hitchcock’s style.” The play follows the main character from London through Scotland but rather than build multiple sets, the production will incorporate film sequences including a helicopter crash and marching band. Davies said the cast is normally comprised of four but Stuart’s cast consists of 17 actors plus 50 IB film students and 10 crew members. “The 39 Steps” runs April 23 – May 2. Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. The play will be performed at J.E.B. Stuart High School, 3301 Peace Valley Lane, Falls Church. Tickets are $12 for general admission and $10 for students and seniors with a special pay what you can on opening night. For more information, visit stuartdrama. org or call 703-824-3900.

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GEORGE MASON HIGH SCHOOL With a satirical play like Moliere’s “Bourgeois Gentleman” poking fun at social climbing in 17th century Paris, George Mason High School’s theater department looks to bring a light but entertaining production to stage. “It’s not very deep or emotional, but it’s a laugh a minute,” said director Shawn Northrip. “Isn’t that just as cathartic?” The show follows the journey of a wealthy merchant, Monsieur Jourdain, played by Justin Valentino. In Jourdain’s quest to become an aristocrat, he purchases the most fashionable clothing and hires a tutor to learn the art of becoming a gentleman. Northrip said he chose this show to reinforce material students are learning in theater class. His students are studying classic plays and discussed specific elements which “Bourgeois Gentleman” utilizes. “Also, it’s just a ludicrous and fun play to do,” he said of the choice. “There’s lots of room to just cut loose and have a good time with it.” Northrip said his vision evolves while working with the cast. “It’s a collaboration in the room, a process of discovery,” he said. “I try not to be too fixed in what I want and instead try to create an opportunity for students to explore and express themselves artistically.” “Bourgeois Gentleman” runs April 23-25. Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. The play will be performed at George Mason High School, 7124 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for students. For more information, visit fccps.org/gm or call 703-248-5500.

FALLS CHURCH HIGH SCHOOL Falls Church High School will close out their theater season this year with Eric Coble’s stage adaption of “The Giver,” originally a novel by Lois Lowry. The play gives audiences a look into a utopian society where one is assigned a role in the community based on their talent when they reach the age of 12.

JUSTIN VALENTINO (above), star of George Mason High School’s production of “Bourgeois Gentleman,” rehearses with Peter Carr. The play, written by Moliere, pokes fun of social climbing in 17th century Paris. Mason’s production opens tonight. On the right, lead character Jonas, played by Bailey Singer, talks to his little sister Lily, played by Danielle Phan, after being selected as the Receiver of Memories in a rehearsal for Falls Church High School’s production of “The Giver.” (Photos: Anna Connole, Liz Lizama)

Bailey Singer plays the leading character, Jonas, who is chosen as the Receiver of Memories and undergoes special training from The Giver, played by Mark Zubaly. The story follows Jonas as he sees beyond the colorless limits of his world. Director Beth DeMarco said she decided to bring the mostly black and white play to encourage students to participate in the technical side of theater. “I’m attempting to build a program and this is a tech heavy show,” she said. “I’ve chosen to stage it in the style of film noir (black and white) and introducing color as the main character, Jonas, sees it more and more throughout the play. There is the snow effect and lots of room for creativity in sound, lights and makeup.” DeMarco said she also wanted students to explore the theme of “seeing beyond” and having the option of making choices.

“Students have many choices made for them, but as they head to college, they will be put in situations where they will have to make their own choices,” she said. “I think it’s okay to live in a state of suffering as long as it informs one’s life for the better. As I’ve gotten to know my students at FCHS, I think this theme is one they can relate to.” “The Giver” runs April 30 – May 2. Performances are scheduled for 7 p.m. with a special 2 p.m. matinee on May 2. The play will be performed at Falls Church High School, 7521 Jaguar Trail, Falls Church. Tickets are $8 for general admission and $5 for students and teachers. For more information, visit fchsdrama.org or call 703-207-4059.

GEORGE C. MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL George C. Marshall High School will bring “The New

Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein”, a musical adaptation of the 1974 movie, to stage next week. The play takes audiences to Transylvania as Dr. Frederick Von Frankenstein discovers his grandfather’s laboratory and carries on experiments to fulfill his family’s legacy. Joined by a zany group of characters, he finds success with unexpected consequences along the way. “Young Frankenstein” runs April 30 – May 3. Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 30; Friday, May 1; and Saturday, May 2 – with 2 p.m. matinees on Saturday, May 2 and Sunday, May 3. The play will be performed at George C. Marshall High School, 7731 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $10 for students and seniors. For more information, visit statesmentheatre.org or call 703-714-5400.

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Fairfax Proposes Lower Water Rate The Fairfax Water Board of Directors have proposed to place City of Falls Church water customers on the same rate schedule as Fairfax Water legacy customers, effective with meter readings taken on or after July 1, 2015, according to a statement issued yesterday. A public hearing on the proposed rate change will be held May 21 at 3:30 p.m. at Fairfax Water’s headquarters (8570 Executive Park Avenue, Fairfax). The proposed rates are scheduled for adoption by the water system’s board on May 21 or soon thereafter. Should the board approve the rate equalization, City customers will pay the same rates as Fairfax Water legacy customers: a $2.55 commodity charge (per 1,000 gallons) and a $3.55 peak use charge (per 1,000 gallons). City customers currently pay a $3.27 commodity charge (per 1,000 gallons) and a $4.99 peak use charge (per 1,000 gallons). Fairfax Water said it will be mailing information to all City water customers.

Mary Riley Styles Public Library Receives $250,000 Bequest Mary Riley Styles Public Library recently received a $250,000 bequest from longtime library patron Mary Prior Hassan, 78, who was a Springfield resident at the time of her death on February 16. Hassan was born in England and a resident of Arlington and nurse in Arlington Hospital’s post anesthesia unit for 38 years. Hassan’s gift was given to the Mary Riley Styles Public Library Foundation Trust, a non-profit organization that raises funds to benefit the library. “We are honored that Mrs. Hassan chose our library to be part of her lasting legacy,” said Donald Camp of the Foundation Trust. “We are grateful for her commitment which will sustain and strengthen the library for future generations.” The Foundation has been building an endowment fund for years and plans to add most of this generous contribution to the endowment fund. “Mrs. Hassan was a familiar face at the library and she will be missed,” said Mary McMahon, Library Director. “Her generosity speaks highly of her character and love of the pursuit of knowledge.” For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/FoundationTrust.

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Local Activist Calls for New Progressive Era Pete Davis, a 2008 George Mason High School graduate who will be entering Harvard Law School this fall, made a stimulating presentation to a gathering hosted by the Falls Church League of Women Voters at the Community Center Sunday that argued for a new “Progressive Era” like the one the U.S. experienced in reaction to its first “Gilded Age” in the late 19th century. The nation is suffering a “new gilded age” now he said, and a form of civic engagement and activism is called for that goes beyond “flipswitch” politics – where a single issue is agitated for and then changed – to a more organic, community-based efforts at reform. Politics are now run by managers as mass spectacles, he said, where the public is alienated from its government that becomes more like an impersonal vending machine. “Wagging fingers doesn’t work” to fix this, he said. But instead “successful alternatives are the best protest,” achieved through the systematic public learning of civic creativity through new institutions dedicated to that purpose. The goal is to achieve projects, not just back candidates: that was the model operative in the first “Progressive Era,” he said.

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Community News & Notes Mother’s Day Tea, Civil War Day Scheduled for May Cherry Hill Farmhouse announced two events for the month of May last week. The first is a Mother’s Day Tea, which is scheduled for Sunday, May 3, from 2 – 4 p.m. at Cherry Hill Farmhouse. At the event a costumed docent will discuss a mother’s role in the mid-19th century. The docent will then usher guests into the dining room for a tea full of sandwiches, assorted sweets, warm scones and a bottomless cup of tea. Reservations are required for the event and admission costs $30. The second event is Falls Church Civil War Day, which is scheduled for Saturday, May 16, from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. at Cherry Hill Park. Attendees can learn how the Civil War affected Falls Church City as re-enactors portray both civilians and soldiers from the period, watch soldiers conduct firing and drilling exercises, listen

to spy stories, letter readings and period music. There will also be a children’s tent filled with lots of activities for kids. Old-fashioned box lunches with fried chicken, cole slaw, corn bread, ginger cake, and lemonade can be pre-ordered for $8. For more information about either event, call 703-248-5171 or visit cherryhillfallschurch.org.

Solarize Falls Church Public Forum Slated for April 26 Representatives from the Local Energy Alliance Program and solar contractors will discuss the benefits of a solar energy system for your home or business, the Solarize Falls Church program and how to obtain a free home energy check-up at a public forum this Sunday, April 26, from 2:30 – 4 p.m. at the Falls Church Community Center. The City Council signed on to the Solarize Falls Church initiative

back in January, with the aim of promoting voluntary installation of energy efficient and renewable technologies. For more information, visit solarizefallschurch.org.

ReelAbilities Film Festival Returns to Falls Church The ReelAbilities Film Festival, organized by the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia, is returning to the Falls Church area from this Sunday, April 26 – next Saturday, May 3. There will be full length features, documentaries and short films that tell stories incorporating a variety of disabilities, including autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, mental illness, deafness and blindness. On the festival’s opening day, there will be a screening of “Anita,” a feature film about a young woman living with Down syndrome, who gets separated from her mother after a bomb explodes at their Jewish commu-

TWO FALLS CHURCH authors had their books featured at the annual Rainbow Book Fair in New York City last Saturday, including the News-Press’ Nicholas Benton (seated, second from left) and his essay collection, Extraordinary Hearts, Reclaiming Gay Sensibility’s Central Role in the Progress of Civilization, and Jonathan Harper (far right) and his Daydreamers short story collection. Both books are published by the New Jersey-based Lethe Press. (Photo: News-Press)

nity center in Buenos Aires, at the Angelika Film Center & Cafe at Mosaic, located at 2911 District Ave., Fairfax. The screening of “Anita,” one of twenty films to be shown in 16 venues throughout the Greater D.C. region, is scheduled for 2 p.m. There will be several short films screened at Reel Encounters at Temple Rodef Shalom at 2100 Westmoreland St., Falls Church, on Wednesday, April 29, at 6:30 p.m. On the festival’s closing day, there will be a screening of the documentary “Wretches & Jabberers,” about two men with autism – an accomplished artist and an activist – who embark on a global quest to change attitudes about autism and intelligence. The screening for “Wretches & Jabberers” is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. at Angelika Film Center & Cafe at Mosaic. For more information about the festival or to register, visit greaterdc.reelabilities.org.

Megan Graham Named F.C. Employee of the Year Megan Graham, a probation counselor for the City of Falls Church, was presented with the City’s 2014 Employee of the Year award on Monday, April 13, at the City Council meeting. She was also honored at a public reception at Cherry Hill Farmhouse on Monday. Graham was selected by the Employee Review Board for her work with the City’s juvenile justice system and adult probation cases, which included handling domestic violence and child abuse cases. After a supervisor of Graham’s retired, she took on new work responsibilities, like working with adults under state supervision, that greatly increased her workload. Graham was one of six City employees nominated for the Employee of the Year Award for outstanding contributions to City government in 2014.

WANDA HOWARD (right) was honored as the recipient of the annual Marian Driver Award at the Falls Church City Democratic Committee’s JeffersonJackson Potluck on April 12 at the Community Center. The award was presented by committee chair Peg Willingham (left). (Photo: News-Press)

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Inaugural Taste of Annandale Slated for June 13

The first ever Taste of Annandale, which will take place June 13 from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m., was announced yesterday at a press conference held by Fairfax County Supervisor Penny Gross, Reverend Clarence Brown, pastor of the Annandale United Methodist Church, Fairfax County Police Department Major Gunn Lee and Lambros Magiafas, owner of Lambros Goldsmiths. Reverend Brown is chairman of the Taste of Annandale steering committee and Lambros Goldsmiths is a sponsor of the festival, which will feature local restaurants, live entertainment and other activities. Proceeds from the event will support the Annandale Youth Fund. The Taste of Annandale will be held along Tom Davis Drive in central Annandale, between Columbia Pike and John Marr Drive and admission to the event is free. Activities being planned for the event include a chili cookoff pitting Fairfax County police officers against firefighters, cooking demonstrations, and a children’s corner with games, crafts and storytelling. Restaurant owners who want to participate, as well as anyone interested in sponsorship opportunities or volunteering, should contact event organizer Glenda Olmeda at 703-946-4087 or Go.Uniq@ mail.com. The next meeting of the planning committee is scheduled for April 13, 7 – 8:30 p.m., at the Mason District Government Center, and the public is invited to attend.

George Mason Regional Library Hosts Book Sale George Mason Friends, a Friends of the Library organization, is hosting a semi-annual book sale to benefit the Fairfax

County Public Library System next weekend. The book sale hours are Thursday, April 23, from 3 – 9 p.m., Friday, April 24, from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., Saturday, April 25, from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Sunday, April 26, from noon – 5 p.m. There will be thousands of used books, including many rare and unusual books, children’s books, comic books, books in many languages, lots of popular fiction, CDs and DVDs, and recorded books at the sale, which will be held at George Mason Regional Library, located at 7001 Little River Turnpike, Annandale. In the run up to the book sale, the George Mason Friends will preview items of interest that will be for sale at their blog georgemasonfriends.blogspot.com.

Unity of Fairfax Organizes Health and Healing Fair Unity of Fairfax Church is hosting The Art of Wellness Fair on Saturday, May 2, from 1 – 5 p.m. at their church, located at 2854 Hunter Mill Road, Oakton. At the fair, attendees can learn how to maintain and enhance their health by attending demonstrations and presentations, and talking with the vendors. There will be plenty of vegan food and alkaline water at the fair. Also, there will be Qigong lessons, accupressure classes, dream interpretation workshops and Healing Touch tutorials. Tickets for the fair are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit unityoffairfax.org/ wellnessfair, call Janice JonesPorter at 703-281-1767 or e-mail Director@UnityofFairfax.org.

UUCF Social Justice Yard Sale Set for May 2 The Unitarian Universalist Church of Fairfax’s annual Social Justice Yard Sale will be

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SPECIAL HONORED GUESTS at last Sunday night’s reception and annual meeting of the Citizens for a Better City (CBC) were among the 17 George Mason High School students who were appointed to City of Falls Church boards, committees and civic organizations last fall. The youth representatives are Maraena Allen-Lewis, Christian Autor, Camile Borja, Jacob Bruner, Vanessa Charassangsomboon, Tiffanie Chau-Dang, Eric Clinton, Tyler Gogal, Jackson Jost, Mary Keenan, Hayley Loftur-Thun, Erin McFall, Kiran Menon, Nabil Osborn, Ian Reusch, Anna Wilson and August Wilson. (P��: N��-P��) held on Saturday, May 2, at the church, located at 2709 Hunter Mill Road, Oakton. The church is seeking volunteers to help set up prior to the sale on Wednesday, April 29 – Saturday, May 2. Also, the church is accepting gently used donations beginning Thursday, April 30. Proceeds from the sale will be shared with the Shephard’s Center of Oakton-Vienna, The National Alliance on Mental Illness, Mosaic Harmony and Unitarian Universalist Partner Church Circle. For more information, call 703-281-0538.

South County HS Teacher Launches Book Series Vera “Woody” Woodson, a Falls Church resident and teacher at South County High School in Lorton, has written her first novel in a series titled Scattered Shells: Hello Homecoming and is launching a tour to promote

the book. She will be appearing at Pink Palm at 6647 Old Dominion Dr., McLean, from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 25 and will be appearing at Pink Palm’s Bethesda location at 4867 Bethesda Ave., Bethesda from noon – 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 3. During the in-store pre-sale promotion, the book will be on sale for $10 for all educators in attendance, who will receive 10 percent off any one full price Lily Pulitzer item with a purchase of the book. Woodson’s book will officially launch on Tuesday, May 5. To reserve a copy of the book, the first in a series of high school romance stories, visit pinkpalm.net.

Two Former Congressmen to Appear at Central Library One More Page Books and Arlington Central Library will be hosting a discussion and book

signing with former Congressmen Tom Davis (R-VA) and Martin Frost (D-TX) and their new book A Partisan Divide: Congress in Crisis next Thursday, April 30, at 7 p.m. The event will be held at Arlington Central Library, located at 1015 N. Quincy St., Arlington. During their combined 40 years in Congress, Davis and Frost were the field generals for their respective parties and the chairs of the Democratic and Republican House campaign committees. Now they have joined forces, along with columnist Richard Cohen, to co-author this book, an insider’s account, where the authors dissect the causes of legislative gridlock and argue a common-sense, bipartisan plan to make Congress function again. One More Page Books will be on-site during the event offering copies of The Partisan Divide for sale and signature. For more information, visit onemorepagebooks.com.

Attic Treasures Sale – This Saturday Falls Church’s huge community yard sale

at the Community Center, 223 Little Falls Street, next to Falls Church City Hall

Sale: Saturday, April 25th, 9am–1:30pm, live music and popcorn Donations received Friday, April 24th, 9am–7:30pm at the Backdoor We’ll have it all: Household goods and small furniture; kitchenware; antiques; collectibles & Art; musical instruments, recordings, stereos & CD players; DVDs; plants, gardening items, outdoor, ornaments; toys; jewelry; books; hardware and tools and Mother’s Day boutique. All donations must be clean and in good working - order. All that and a cake sale! No clothes or bicycles, sorry.

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The Talented Mr. Rubio Political audiences always like patriotic rhetoric, but as several reporters have noticed, this year’s Republican audiences have a special hunger for it. The phrase “American exceptionalism” has become a rallying cry. There is a common feeling on the right that the American idea is losing force and focus, that the American dream is slipping out of reach, that America is stepping back from its traditional role in the world and that President Barack Obama doesn’t forthrightly champion the American gospel. Even more than normal, Republicans seem to want their candidate for president to be drenched in the red, white and blue. Along comes Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. Rubio, 43, doesn’t just speak in the ardent patriotic tones common to the children of immigrants like himself. His very life is the embodiment of the American NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE dream: parents who tended bar and worked at Kmart with a son who rose to become a U.S. senator. His heritage demonstrates that the American dream is open to all who come here legally and work hard. He is what many Republicans want their country to be. So there is beginning to be a certain charisma to his presidential campaign. It is not necessarily showing up in outright support. The first-term senator still shows up only with 8.3 percent support on the Real Clear Politics average of 2016 Republican presidential nomination polls, leaving him tied for fifth in the field. But primary voters are open to him; the upside is large. As Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight pointed out, Rubio’s net favorable/ unfavorable rating is higher than every other candidate except Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Philosophically, he is at the center of the party. In an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 56 percent of Republican primary voters said they could see themselves supporting him even if he wasn’t their first choice at the time, which put him above every other candidate. So it’s probably right to see Rubio as the second most likely nominee, slightly behind Jeb Bush and slightly ahead of Walker. He is, for starters, the most talented politician in the race. Set aside who has the most money and who has the best infrastructure. (Overrated assets at this stage in the race.) Set aside the ideological buckets we pundits like to divide the candidates into. (Voters are not that attuned to factional distinctions.) In most primary battles, the crown goes to the most talented plausible candidate. Rubio gives a very good speech. He has an upbeat and pleasant demeanor. He has a great personal story. His policy agenda is more detailed and creative than any of his rivals. He has an overarching argument – that it is time for a new generation to reform and replace archaic structures. The circumstances of the race might benefit him. With such a big field, nobody is going to lock up the race early. Republicans will likely be beating each other up for months while looking across the aisle and seeing Hillary Clinton coasting along. At some point, they are going to want to settle on a consensus choice. That point may come around March 15, when Florida holds its winner-take-all primary. Rubio was virtually tied with Bush among Florida Republicans, 31 percent to 30 percent, according to a Mason-Dixon poll conducted last week. If Bush is bloodied in the earlier primaries, Rubio could win Florida and loom as a giant. His weaknesses are not killers. Rubio’s past support for comprehensive immigration reform irks activists. But it’s not clear if it will hurt him with the voters who are more divided on reform. According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted last year, 66 percent of Republicans believed that unauthorized immigrants should be eligible for citizenship if they meet certain criteria. Immigration reform didn’t kill John McCain’s candidacy seven years ago. Rubio’s inexperience concerns everybody. But at least he was speaker of the Florida House. As Jim Geraghty of National Review has detailed, his record running that body was pretty good. He was a tough but reasonably successful negotiator. On his first day in office, he handed each legislator a book with the cover “100 Innovative Ideas for Florida’s Future.” The pages were blank. He was inviting his members to fill them in – a nice collaborative touch. Can Rubio win a general election? Well, he believes more in expanding the party than in just mobilizing the base. In his past races, he’s done better than generic Republican candidates because of his success with Hispanics. Youth is America’s oldest tradition. Who’s to say that voters won’t side for the relative outsider over the know-what-you’re-getting Hillary Clinton? One big test for Rubio is this: Are Americans disillusioned with government or just disgusted? If they are disillusioned, they would likely want to play it safe and go with the experienced, low-risk candidates, Bush and Clinton. If they are disgusted, then they would be more likely to take a flier on change. The New American could be the guy.

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Greece on the Brink “Don’t you think they want us to fail?” That’s the question I kept hearing during a brief but intense visit to Athens. My answer was that there is no “they” – that Greece does not, in fact, face a solid bloc of implacable creditors who would rather see default and exit from the euro than let a leftist government succeed, that there’s more goodwill on the other side of the table than many Greeks suppose. But you can understand why Greeks see things that way. And I came away from the visit fearing that Greece and Europe may suffer a terrible accident, an unnecessary rupture that will cast long shadows over the future. The story so far: At the end of 2009 NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE Greece faced a crisis driven by two factors: High debt, and inflated costs and prices that left the country uncompetitive. Europe responded with loans that kept the cash flowing, but only on condition that Greece pursues extremely painful policies. These included spending cuts and tax hikes that, if imposed on the United States, would amount to $3 trillion a year. There were also wage cuts on a scale that’s hard to fathom, with average wages down 25 percent from their peak. These immense sacrifices were supposed to produce recovery. Instead, the destruction of purchasing power deepened the slump, creating Great Depressionlevel suffering and a huge humanitarian crisis. On Saturday I visited a shelter for the homeless, and was told heartbreaking tales of a health care system in collapse: patients turned away from hospitals because they couldn’t pay the 5 euro entrance fee, sent away without needed medicine because cashstarved clinics had run out, and more. It has been an endless nightmare, yet Greece’s political establishment, determined to stay within Europe and fearing the consequences of default and exit from the euro, stayed with the program year after year. Finally, the Greek public could take no more. As creditors demanded yet more austerity – on a scale that might well have pushed the economy down by another 8 percent and driven unemployment to 30 percent – the nation voted in Syriza, a genuinely left-wing (as opposed to center-left) coalition, which has vowed to change the nation’s course. Can Greek exit from the euro be avoided? Yes, it can. The irony of Syriza’s victory is that it

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came just at the point when a workable compromise should be possible. The key point is that exiting the euro would be extremely costly and disruptive in Greece, and would pose huge political and financial risks for the rest of Europe. It’s therefore something to be avoided if there’s a halfway decent alternative. And there is, or should be. By late 2014 Greece had managed to eke out a small “primary” budget surplus, with tax receipts exceeding spending, excluding interest payments. That’s all that creditors can reasonably demand, since you can’t keep squeezing blood from a stone. Meanwhile, all those wage cuts have made Greece competitive on world markets – or would make it competitive if some stability can be restored. The shape of a deal is therefore clear: basically, a standstill on further austerity, with Greece agreeing to make significant but not ever-growing payments to its creditors. Such a deal would set the stage for economic recovery, perhaps slow at the start, but finally offering some hope. But right now that deal doesn’t seem to be coming together. Maybe it’s true, as the creditors say, that the new Greek government is hard to deal with. But what do you expect when parties that have no previous experience in governing take over from a discredited establishment? More important, the creditors are demanding things – big cuts in pensions and public employment – that a newly elected government of the left simply can’t agree to, as opposed to reforms like an improvement in tax enforcement that it can. And the Greeks, as I suggested, are all too ready to see these demands as part of an effort either to bring down their government or to make their country into an example of what will happen to other debtor countries if they balk at harsh austerity. To make things even worse, political uncertainty is hurting tax receipts, probably causing that hard-earned primary surplus to evaporate. The sensible thing, surely, is to show some patience on that front: If and when a deal is reached, uncertainty will subside and the budget should improve again. But in the pervasive atmosphere of distrust, patience is in short supply. It doesn’t have to be this way. True, avoiding a full-blown crisis would require that creditors advance a significant amount of cash, albeit cash that would immediately be recycled into debt payments. But consider the alternative. The last thing Europe needs is for fraying tempers to bring on yet another catastrophe, this one completely gratuitous.

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The CIA Shaping Of U.S. Culture, Part 1

The $64 question in American politics is some version of this: If the one percent of the super-rich are sticking it to the 99 percent of the rest of us to a more exaggerated degree than ever before in our history, how come, in this democracy, are they able to get away with it? It’s a simple and straightforward question. How is it that people act and vote in contradiction to their self-interest so often and even with such passion? But the answer is almost impossible for “experts” to provide. You can see it in body language. The closer to the actual question, the more instant heartburn and headaches ensue. Often, trying to get a practical handle on the issue, the answer is assigned to the unequal gerrymandering of Congressional districts. There is some FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS truth in that. But when the match up is 99 against 1, that can’t account for it alone. No, it’s surprising how much this simplest and most important of questions is avoided. All this is by way of asking if a massive Manhattan Project-style effort put into facing down this question head on, and the national discourse be centered on solving it, shouldn’t be somebody’s priority. After all, it’s not a partisan issue, since the 99 percent are obviously inclusive of all political parties, even the marginal ones. Nonetheless, in that context, however, the official line of the GOP is straight up and down to support policies that keep the egregiously imbalanced ratio where it is now, even with lip service from some “enlightened” Republicans to the contrary. For some, this political division alone is what keeps things where they are now, but that’s messed up. Why people are drawn to act against their objective self-interest: there’s no more important question for our culture, actually. It needs to be taken far more seriously, without regard for failing to nail it on the head the first time out. It requires a very serious look at what has shaped our popular culture, and why. It’s instructive to begin with what pro-fascist covert U.S. intelligence operations did to our culture through their assaults on the motion picture industry, in particular, after World War II. The captains of American industry – the so-called “military and industrial complex” that President Eisenhower warned against – have always seen themselves at war with anything – labor unions, government social services – that limit their maximization of profit and control. So, coming out of World War II, they saw it imperative to reverse the new social generosity of the American people that won their wars against totalitarianism, sought to reconstruct their vanquished foes in Japan and Europe, and dedicated to advancing a new American culture grounded in the social progressivism of the Roosevelt years. The captains invented the notion of the “Cold War” against the Soviet communist menace to advance this. The Soviet Union, which had been America’s great ally in the war, once the war was over suddenly became a great threat to American national security. In reality, the “us versus them” theme of the Cold War had as its real objective to drive a fear-based wedge between the American population and its progressive impulses. With the formation of the CIA after the war, it turned unbounded covert machinations against those social institutions that shaped the American way of thinking. The goal was to have fear replace generosity in the American psyche. The CIA’s main target quickly became the movies. There is a lot of documentation of the blacklisting of the Hollywood Ten, those playwrights and others driven out of the business because they were suspected of being pro-communist. But far more than pro-communist, anyone who produced films aimed at perpetuating the progressive mindset of the Roosevelt era became equally the targets of CIA covert dirty tricks. In 1948, working with the FBI, they retained the services of rabid anti-progressive Ayn Rand to scope out hidden “pro-communist” influences in films like “It’s a Wonderful Life.” In 1955, a top secret campaign was run by the National Security Council to introduce themes of what it called “Militant Liberty” into Hollywood films. To be continued.

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 Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.

Granny Get Your Gun WASHINGTON – The most famous woman on the planet has a confounding problem. She can’t figure out how to campaign as a woman. In 2008, Hillary Clinton took advice from two men – Bill Clinton and Mark Penn – and campaigned like a man. Worried about proving she could be commander in chief, Hillary scrubbed out the femininity, vulnerability and heart, in image and issues, that were anathema to Penn. “In analyzing the current situation, regardless of the sex of the candidates, most voters in essence see the presidents as the ‘father’ of the country,” Penn wrote in a memo. “They do not want someone who would be the first mama, especially in this kind of world.” Trying to project swagger, she followed her husband’s advice and voted to authorize the Iraq War without bothering to read the unpersuasive National Intelligence Estimate – a move that she now surely knows helped cost her the election. Bill Clinton’s philosophy after 9/11, as Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. reported in their book, Her Way, was encapsulated in what he told a NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE group of Democrats in 2003: “When people feel uncertain, they’d rather have someone who’s strong and wrong than somebody who’s weak and right.” Hillary followed this maxim on the day of the war vote in the Senate when, as Gerth wrote last year in ProPublica, she “went further than any other Democratic senator – and aligned herself with President Bush – by accusing Saddam Hussein of giving ‘aid, comfort and sanctuary to terrorists, including al-Qaida.’” Hillary saw the foolishness of acting like a masculine woman defending the Iraq invasion after she fell behind to a feminized man denouncing it. After losing Iowa and watching New Hampshire slip away to the tyro, Barack Obama, Hillary cracked. She misted up, talking to a group of voters in New Hampshire when a woman asked her how she kept going, while staying “upbeat and so wonderful.” Her aides thought the flash of tears would be a disaster, that she would seem weak. But it was a triumph because she seemed real. As The Washington Post’s Dan Balz wrote in his campaign book, it “let a glimmer of her humanity peek through.” Hillary always overcorrects. Now she has zagged too far in the opposite direction, presenting herself as a sweet, docile granny in a Scooby van, so self-effacing

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she made only a cameo in her own gauzy, demographically pandering presidential campaign announcement video and mentioned no issues on her campaign’s website. In her Iowa round tables, she acted as though she were following dating tips from 1950s advice columnists to women trying to “trap” a husband: listen a lot, nod a lot, widen your eyes, and act fascinated with everything that’s said. She and her fresh team of No-Drama ex-Obama advisers think that this humility tour will move her past the hilarious caricature by Kate McKinnon on “Saturday Night Live” of Hillary as a manipulative, clawing robot who has coveted the role as leader of the free world for decades. But isn’t there a more authentic way for Hillary to campaign as a woman – something between an overdose of testosterone and an overdose of estrogen, something between Macho Man and Humble Granny? Tina Fey and Amy Poehler showed the way in 2008, deploring the sexism against Hillary and hailing her as the unapologetically tough chick. “Bitches get stuff done,” Fey proclaimed in a “Weekend Update” segment on “Saturday Night Live” that ended with, “Bitch is the new black.” It was a precursor to her cool “Don’t mess with me” Tumblr meme, showing her with dark glasses serenely checking her BlackBerry on a military plane. In one skit, Amy as Hillary described how she would battle Big Oil: “It’s going to take a fighter, not a talker, someone who is aggressive enough and relentless enough and demanding enough to take them on. Someone so annoying, so pushy, so grating, so bossy and shrill, with a personality so unpleasant, that at the end of the day the special interests will have to go ‘Enough! We give up! Life is too short to deal with this awful woman! Just give her what she wants so she’ll shut up and leave us in peace.’ And I think the American people will agree, that someone is me.” As she hits the trail again, Hillary is a blur of competing images, a paean to the calibrated, artful and generic, a low-key lady who doesn’t stand for anything except low-keyness. She has seen, over and over, that overcorrecting can be self-defeating for her and parlous to the nation, but she keeps doing it. Let’s hope that the hokey Chipotle Granny will give way to the cool Tumblr Chick in time to teach her Republican rivals – who are coming after her with every condescending, misogynist, distorted thing they’ve got – that bitch is still the new black.

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The annual budget exercise for Fairfax County county employees was not fully funded, although is nearly over. Tuesday’s mark-up session focused Mr. Long’s recommendation for a .84 percent MRA on investing in Fairfax County with a budget made increase was amended to a 1.1 percent increase, very tight by a soft commercial property market and short of the hoped-for 1.68 percent increase, effecincreasing demands for services. Under Chairman tive on July 1. A new compensation plan was creBulova’s leadership, the Board approved a respon- ated last year by the board, in close collaboration sible budget package that retains the current $1.09 with county employee group representatives. No tax rate per $100 real property valuation, imple- one anticipated that the pay plan would not be fully ments a new compensation plan for county employ- funded the first year out, and budget guidelines ees, comes very close to fully funding the School adopted by the Board on Tuesday direct the County Board’s request for the school transfer, and address- Executive to fully fund the MRA in the FY 2017 es the Board’s commitment to bolster the county’s budget. The budget delays the closure of the Annandale reserve funds, as recommended by financial analysts. Under the plan, targeted county reserves will Adult Day Health Care Center program for six increase from five percent to 10 percent of General months, until the Lincolnia ADHC Center is renoFund disbursements, still low compared to other vated and re-opened to receive the additional Annandale clients. The program serves frail elderly, counties of our size. The Board of Supervisors did not agree with who pay for the service on a sliding scale, in a staffCounty Executive Ed Long’s recommendations for supported day program. According to the Health de-funding several programs. The Board’s adjusted Department, attendance in the program is down, but budget restores $1.8 million for Healthy Families the program is vital for families who may be doing Fairfax, a program that helps hundreds of at-risk double duty – caring for an elderly parent and needfamilies succeed with parenting programs and ing to work to support that care. I have asked county other supports. The mark-up package also restores staff to take extra steps to ensure a smooth transifunding for the Good Touch, Bad Touch program, tion for clients to another site, whether Lincolnia or which provides children with a non-threatening another center. The budget mark-up was approved by a 7 to 3 way to talk about sexual abuse and body safety. One popular program for many Mason District neigh- vote. Supervisors Frey, Herrity, and Smyth voted borhoods – enforcement of the grass ordinance – is nay. The Board will adopt the mark-up package on restored. Two positions for probation counselors April 28. The FY 2016 budget will take effect on to staff the Veterans Treatment Docket at Fairfax July 1, 2015. County General District Court were added, to help veterans, who have served their country but have  Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be gotten into trouble, navigate the court system. T: 5.6875 in emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov. Sadly, the Market Rate Adjustment (MRA) for

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The Republicans love to call Jeb Bush the “popular governor” of Florida. Well he was popular, but only with Republicans. The rest of us not so much. They also love to dub Bush the “Education governor” Again, not so much! He took aim at the public school system in his devious plan to privatize. He supported vouchers. He instituted something called Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test or FCAT testing – which is a corporate sponsored standardized test. He also took aim at public school teachers and students. If Jeb Bush was the “education” governor, than why did most teachers despise him during his time in Tallahassee? His unfair and logic-defying merit and punishment system tying teacher pay to test results gave administrators reasons to teach to the test and forgo real learning. This is why in a 2013 editorial The Washington Post wrote “the accountability system Jeb pioneered is in shambles.” According to the Post: “Recently a nonprofit group released thousands of e-mails showing how his Foundation for Excellence in Education has been working with public officials in states to write education laws that could benefit some of its corporate funders.” As a result of Jeb’s corporate scam, teacher morale plummeted. Palm Beach Post editorial writer, Jac Wilder VerSteeg, had this to say: “Former Gov. Jeb Bush has an undeserved reputation as an education reformer. Florida’s recent education progress has come not from implementing Mr. Bush’s policies but from cleaning up after them. “Mr. Bush has been visiting legislators in Tallahassee to talk about education policy. Get out the mops and buckets. Taxpayers also should reach for their wallets, since the former governor’s new big ideas involve transferring more public dollars to the for-profit companies behind him. “Gov. Bush also instituted one voucher program the courts ruled unconstitutional and another “corporate voucher” program that, ironically, lets low-income students avoid taking the FCAT. “Gov. Rick Scott’s frantic reversals in preparation for a reelection run – he has called for teacher raises not linked to the FCAT – show how unpopular Mr. Bush’s education legacy is. “Mr. Bush’s fans note that Florida’s education rankings and results have improved. The dubious rankings give Florida credit simply for having “accountability” systems even if those systems are bogus.” But the real victims were the students. His so-called reforms were nothing short of devastating. In his miserable test plan, children who did not pass were “retained” and it could happen more than once. And keep in mind this humiliation and failure generally only affected poor and minority children. This caused havoc in the schools as teachers tried to educate children who were 2-3 years older than the other students in class. These older kids predictably acted out as class clowns or took on roles as class bullies. As troubling as the identity of clown or bully was – it beat embracing the embarrassing role of class dunce. Instead of working to erase academic deficits though remedial education and moving children to the next grade with their peers, Bush chose to retain and humiliate. But how many 18-year-old High School students, stuck in the 10th grade, dropped out because of this ill-conceived plan? How much poverty, hopelessness, helplessness, and crime did Bush’s politicized educational model cause? I’ll never forget a conversation I had with one Florida teacher who worked at a mostly minority elementary school. This teacher had walked in on a young girl curled up in a ball in the corner crying. The teacher asked what was wrong. The student said she had just failed Jeb’s standardized test and would be held back to repeat the same grade. Many of her friends were moving on but she wasn’t. She told this teacher that she felt like a failure and a skunk. She’s not a skunk, but Jeb Bush’s education plan sure stunk like one. Bush is also truth challenged. He’s been touting his success in starting a charter school in Miami. With great fanfare Jeb paraded around with African American leaders touting the Liberty City Charter School, in one of the worst neighborhoods in Florida. This was his banner school – his poster school – that he boasted about to portray himself as the “Education governor.” So, what happened to the Liberty City Charter School? It went out of business. It is gone. It is now defunct – and with any luck his presidential campaign will be too. Jeb Bush is not an “Education Governor.” His signature issue is a bust and his so-called achievements are empty boasting. But unless you are from Florida, like I am, you might not know this.

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Our Man in Arlington By Charlie Clark

I dined this month with some Arlington “Democrats in exile” at a retirement community. The gang of six senior citizens share decades of political savvy and commitment – the only problem being that their home at Goodwin House-Bailey’s Crossroads is 100 yards into Falls Church. That renders them ineligible to vote and impact the Arlington battles they loved so well. “It’s a sore spot,” said Ann Yarborough, a Washington-Lee High School graduate and daughter-in-law of Texas Sen. Ralph Yarborough who has volunteered in Arlington’s electoral registrar. “All of us felt it was a considerable sacrifice but were willing because Goodwin House is so nice,” said Bill Bozman, the widower of the longtime County Board member Ellen Bozman who chaired Arlington’s United Way and Red Cross. “We all know Goodwin House leans Democratic, but we don’t get into political arguments,” said Peg Lorenz, a civil rights activist, candidate driver and events “kitchen crew” leader. “But Democratic politicians love coming” to Goodwin House, which, though nonpartisan, is a voting station and venue for community forums. One reason for Arlington’s activism is its small size,” Lorenz added. “It’s not hard to get to know your leaders.” Most of these exiled Democrats arrived in Arlington in the 1940s or 1950s when the flood of postwar federal employees was challenging the old Virginia, segregationist Byrd machine. The “Save Our Schools” campaign pressed

for taxpayer investment in schools as many Arlington-based federal workers sent their kids to D.C. schools (Yarborough displayed a bus token from that era reading “Serving our students”). The Democratic-dominated but nominally nonpartisan Arlingtonians for a Better County provided a way around the federal Hatch Act for federal employees who wanted to fight Byrd, noted Jack Cornman, an aide to U.S. Sen. Phil Hart, D-Mich., housing activist and strategist for campaigns of Joe Fisher and Joe Wholey. “We would talk across party lines except on the race issue,” Cornman said. Conservative Chevrolet dealer Bob Peck was the Dems’ favorite to accuse of dirty tricks. Lucy Denney, who cut her teeth in the 1967 county board race in which the Democratic team of Fisher and Jay Ricks knocked off Republicans Hal Casto and Les Phillips, said Arlingtonians “used to disagree and work things out and compromise. Today’s board is less collegial.” All agreed the most effective Arlington pol was Ellen Bozman. “Ellen ran her first campaign as an independent, and her base was the League of Women Voters,” said husband Bill. Denney’s husband Jerry recalled the time Bozman’s kitchen team offered to make a salad for an event but had to dispense with lettuce due to the farmworkers’ boycott. Donna Cornman, a longtime precinct coordinator, remembered Democrats stretching a single turkey into tetrazzini for 100 at a fundraiser, where typically donors not only paid for food but helped with trash and wash-up. “The press never understood

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an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a male, 35, of the City of Falls Church, was arrested for Driving Under the

the politics of Arlington,” said Jack Cornman. “They thought we had a machine because we turned out voters in all kinds of weather. But there was no patronage under the county manager form of government. All you got was appointments to committees and commissions that kept you up late.” One highlight, said Lorenz, was when Joe Wholey lost a 1992 primary for state delegate against fellow Democrat Judy Connally. “Wholey led a caravan to Judy’s house to congratulate her. That’s the Arlington Way.” *** This month marks the first anniversary of an Arlington eaterie built around two hot trends: catering to overscheduled families and crowdsourcing working capital. Taste by Katie, in the Dominion Hills Shopping Center, offers “reheat and eat” pre-ordered freshcooked organic meals, samples of which recently passed muster with my middle-brow palette. The lamb meatballs, spring pasta, spicy barbecue and candied dates are just a few examples, with gluten-free and veggie options. Katie Gilman’s “global cuisine” is aimed at busy couples, the elderly and young folks still mastering cooking. The afternoons-only operation is being funded by a website solicitation with 49 backers so far, with a goal of $30,000 by late May. It’s organized by Gilman’s fellow Yorktown High School alums. “The idea is to fill a void for people who would rather sit and watch the news and not do all the work,” Gilman says. With her parents currently pitching in as a labor of love, Taste by Katie has its sights set on rising like a soufflé in a fiercely competitive business. Influence. Larceny from Building, 200 block S. Lee St. On Apr. 18, police received a report of stolen recreational equipment from a residence. Public Drunkenness, 1218 W. Broad St. (Starbucks Coffee) On Apr. 18, a male, 57, of Falls Church, was arrested for Public Drunkenness.

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Community Events

THURSDAY, APRIL 23

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. F.C. Rotary Club Meeting. Students from the Bishop O’Connell High School Interact Club which is sponsored by the Falls Church Rotary Club, will speak about their summer project and the Rotary Youth Leadership Camp. Harvest Moon Restaurant (7260 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). $15 dinner. 6:30 p.m. fallschurchrotary.org.

FRIDAY, APRIL 24

Lady Bug Earth Day Release. The Merriﬁeld Child Development Academy will release 1,000 lady bugs into the wild in honor of Earth Day at an event that’s open to the public. Merriﬁeld Child Development Academy (8122 Ransell Road, Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. Community Art Show Opening Reception. The City of Falls

Church Recreation and Parks Department presents its annual Art Show and Sale, featuring art work by art students, city residents and employees, which kicks oﬀ with an opening reception. The show and sale last through April 25. City Hall (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 5 – 8 p.m. 703-248-5077. Author Event. Astronaut Chris Hadﬁeld will be discussing and signing copies of his book Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth and You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station. Barnes & Noble (7851 L. Tysons Corner Center, McLean). Free. 7 p.m. 703-506-6756.

SATURDAY, APRIL 25

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. 48th Annual Attic Treasures Sale. The Village Preservation and Improvement Society is hosting its annual attic treasures sale, which will feature live music. Donations to the attic treasures sale will be accepted on Friday from 9 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. at the Falls Church

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Community Center. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Prices vary. 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. vpis.org. Book Sale. Find great bargains and help support the library’s programs and services by purchasing books, CDs, DVDs and comic books at the Mary Riley Styles Public Library Book Sale. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. 703-2485034. Uno, Dos, Tres, Andres! Join Andres to explore Latin America through music and dance. Fun for the whole family! Drop-in. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 a.m. 703-248-5034.

SUNDAY, APRIL 26

Book Sale. Find great bargains and help support the library’s programs and services by purchasing books, CDs, DVDs and comic books at the Mary Riley Styles Public Library Book Sale. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. 703-2485034. Community Forum: Solarize Falls Church. Learn more about the Solarize Falls Church program,

solar enery and sign up for a free home energy check-up and solar site assessment. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free. 2:30 – 4 p.m. solarizefallschurch.org. Sounding the Alarm. An Autism Awareness Month ﬁlm screening of “Sounding the Alarm” and panel discussion presented by Autism Speaks and Bethel United Church of Christ. Parking at the Red Cross adjacent to Bethel United Church of Christ. Bethel United Church of Christ (4347 Arlington Blvd, Arlington). Free. 6 p.m. bethelucc-va.org.

TUESDAY, APRIL 28

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.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29

Early Release Wednesdays: Green Thumbs and Wiggle Worms. Sustainable gardens and learning about roots and bugs. For grades K – 5. Registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 3 p.m. 703-248-5034.

Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, APRIL 23

“Bourgeois Gentleman.” This is the opening night of Moliere’s satirical play, which pokes fun at social climbing in 17th century Paris. George Mason High School’s theater department looks to bring a light but entertaining production to stage. The show follows the journey of wealthy merchant, Monsieur Jourdain, played by Justin Valentino. In Jourdain’s quest to become an aristocrat, he purchases the most fashionable clothing and hires a tutor to learn the art of becoming a gentleman. Through April 25. George Mason High School (7124 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church). $5 – $10. 7:30 p.m. fccps.org/gm. “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. Through May 16. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 – $55. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.

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.

FRIDAY, APRIL 24

SATURDAY, APRIL 25

“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,

“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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live_music&nightlife THURSDAY, APRIL 23 J�� K�� L�� T��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna). $18. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. A�� A�� B��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. K�� G�� J��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202-667-4490. M�� P��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12. 7:30 p.m. 202-667-4490. J�� M�C��. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $25 – $28. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. D�� C�� B��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. A�� E�� G��. Iota Club and Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. J�� M�L��. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-237-8333.

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Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $18 in advance. $20 day of the show. 7:30 p.m. 202-667-4490. C�� L��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504. S��5. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $35. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. T�� R�� M��. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. W��’� R��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-532-9283.

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P�� A��... Thursday, April 30 – Living Better with the Internet. This free, ﬁve-session class, taught

he ReelAbilities Film Festival, the largest festival in the country promoting the appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different disabilities, comes to D.C. this week with events and screenings throughout the area. Falls Church plays a big role in this year’s fest as Merrifield’s Angelika theater hosts the kick-off event with an opening night screening of “Anita” this Sunday, a performance of Hugh Gregory Gallagher Theatre’s “My Black Bird Has Flow Away” will take place at F.C.’s Temple Rodef Shalom along with a screening of a collection of short films called “Reel Encounters 2014,” and the closing event featuring the film “Wretches and Jabberers” will also screen at Angelika. Additional screenings will take place throughout D.C., Virginia and Maryland.

What: ReelAbilities Film Festival When: Sunday, April 27 - Sunday, May 3 Where: Venues through D.C., Maryland and Virginia

See greaterdc.reelabilities.org/schedule for full schedule of events

by faculty and students from Marymount University, is being oﬀered for seniors to learn how to use the Internet to enhance daily life. Topics covered include “Communicating Online,” “Locating the Right Information,” and “Getting Around.” Through May 28. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). 10 a.m. – noon. 703-248-5027. fallschurchva.gov.

Saturday, May 2 – Habitat Restoration. Join the City of Falls Church Habitat Restoration

Team in restoring the local ecosystem in city parks. Crossman Park (535 N. Van Buren St., Falls Church). 703-538-6961. melanite@verizon.net fallschurchva.gov/Volunteer.

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Frozen Dairy Bar is Now FDB Eatery Longtime Falls Church restaurant Frozen Dairy Bar & Boardwalk Pizza has undergone a makeover and rebranding. FDB Eatery says goodbye to the fast-casual, counter-service concept and is now a fullservice restaurant focusing on fresh, quality ingredients and hand-crafted recipes says owner Kevin Eakin. After closing its doors in November 2014, the former custard and pizza shop underwent a complete renovation before opening again last month. While the concept has changed, Eakin says a portion of the new space is still dedicated to the Frozen Dairy Bar and the same custard is still available and can be grabbed to-go. The new menu reflects FDB’s new upscale approach with dishes like duck empanadas, Cabernet-braised short ribs, a lineup of burgers and a cheese and charcuterie platter. Also available, a large selection of pizzas including a gluten-free and pan pizza options. FDB is currently in a soft opening and

will announce an official grand opening in the near future. FDB Eatery 6641 Arlington Blvd. | Falls Church fdbeatery.com

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restaurant features falafel, hummus and shawarma and opened quietly on Friday, April 17 with soft opening hours of 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. Pita Pouch is part of a restaurant group that also includes Burger 7 with locations in Idylwood Plaza and in Arlington and Alexandria as well as the hookah bar, Tarbouch also in Arlington. A second location of Pita Pouch is expected to open in the food court of Tysons Corner this August. Pita Pouch 1112 W. Broad St. | Falls Church pitapouch.com

Mac & Cheese Cook-Off at Red White & Bleu Sunday

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Pita Pouch is now open for business in Falls Plaza at 1112 W. Broad Street. Located in the former space of Bagel, Deli Donuts, the Mediterranean fast casual

The boutique wine and cheese shop Red White & Bleu is hosting a macaroni and cheese cook-off this Sunday complete with gift cards going to to the top two finishers. Be advised, however, this is not an entirely BYOC (bring your own cheese) event – all entries must use a half-pound of cheese or half of the recipe’s total cheese must be made with Red, White and Bleu’s own cheese selection (discounts will be provided). To sign up for the contest, call the shop at 703-533-9463. The entry cut-off is today, Thursday, April 23. For those who’d rather eat than cook, mac and cheese samples

along with wine and beer tastings will be available for attendees. Red White & Bleu’s macaroni and cheese cook-off is this Sunday, April 26, from 6 – 8 p.m. Red White & Bleu 127 S. Washington St. | Falls Church redwhiteandbleu.com

Mad Fox’s Spring Bock Festival Returns In two weeks, Mad Fox Brewing Company’s annual showcase of Germanstyle bock beer returns to Falls Church. The third Spring Bock Festival is set for Saturday, May 2 and will take place in front of the F.C. brew pub in Market Square. Running from noon – 6 p.m., the festival will feature 60 beer selections from 30 area breweries including Mad Fox’s own Elixir Maibock which won a medal at the 2012 Great American Beer Festival. The event is free to enter and tasting tickets, good for a four-ounce sample of beer, are $2 each (packages of six tickets and a Mad Fox glass are also available for $20). In addition to the beer, the Justin Trawick Band will perform and a special food menu will also be available. Mad Fox Brewing Company 444 W. Broad St | Falls Church madfoxbrewing.com

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Janet Haines, who has been the crossing guard for St. James Catholic School for more than four decades, will be celebrating her 90th birthday on Saturday, May 2. Next Friday, May 1, the school will be throwing a special birthday breakfast for her after her morning shift. The school is calling all alumni and parishioners to join the school in celebrating Hainesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; birthday.

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began her SkillsUSA experience as a freshman when the school offered a television production program. She is certified with Occupational Safety and Health Administration CareerSafe and Working in Support of Education Financial Literacy credentials and will also be earning her International Baccalaureate Career-Related Certificate and Advanced Diploma in 2016. She is a member of the National Honor Society, Math Honor Society and the Art Honor Society.

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The George Mason High School girls soccer team remains undefeated after notching three more wins this past week. On the road, the Mustangs defeated William Monroe High School 5-2 on Wednesday and Warren County High School 6-2 on Friday. After a more challenging away schedule, Mason returned to their home turf for an 8-0 shut out over Madison County High School on Tuesday. “The William Monroe game was an exciting, physical battle for the girls,” said head coach Jennifer Parsons. Junior midfielder Kate Mills set a positive tone for Mason early on with a goal in the first minute of the game, but the Monroe Dragons managed to tie the score 1-1 on a penalty shot given as a result of a Mustang foul. Sophomore forward/midfielder Rebecca Crouch brought the Mustangs up 2-1 with a goal 30 minutes into the first half, but the Dragons fired back with another goal in the last minute to tie the game 2-2. After a close first half, Mason found their momentum and dominated the second half. Mills and Crouch both scored again, and junior forward/midfielder Ava

Roth added another goal to seal the victory for the Mustangs. “It was a great game that challenged us physically, and we were forced to work extremely hard to keep possession of the ball,” said Parsons. “The girls did a great job responding to Monroe’s physical style of play and capitalizing on our chances.” On Friday night, Mason started off strong against Warren County with Roth scoring within the first two minutes of the game, but the Mustangs missed many chances moving forward in the game. The team had almost 50 shot attempts throughout the game but had a lot of trouble converting those opportunities, according to Parsons. “It being the third game in a tough three-game week, I think that exhaustion took a toll on many of the players,” she said. “It was a good experience and allowed us to see where our fitness level is at this point in the season. Mason led 5-1 at halftime over Warren County and scored one more in the second half, but the Wildcats broke through the Mustang’s defense to add another goal. Though the game resulted in a Mason win, it marked only the third out of ten games an opponent scored on the Mustangs. Roth led the Mustangs in scoring with three goals, followed

by junior forward/midfielder Corinne Carson with two goals and Crouch with one goal. “Allowing four goals in two games [William Monroe and Warren County this week] has also allowed us to better understand the situation where we need to improve as a team defensively,” said Parsons. “We haven’t been regularly put under defensive pressure this season, so it was great to have this level of competition in the last two games so we can focus on specific areas of our game, improve them and be better prepared for the rest of the season.” At home on Tuesday night, Mason returned to business as usual with an 8-0 goal differential over Madison County, which ended the game 20 minutes early as a result of the slaughter rule. To date, Mason has won seven games in this fashion. The Mustangs scored seven of the eight goals in the first half alone on Tuesday. Crouch, Mills and Roth each scored two goals. Carson and freshman forward/ midfielder Victoria Rund contributed one goal apiece. Mason travels to Clarke County High School tomorrow to face the Eagles, the only other team to score against the Mustangs this season. The two played last month in a close game that resulted in a 2-1 Mason win.

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Jazz bassist Ben Williams, a native Washingtonian, has grown up, and is coming home to show the D.C. region how he’s matured since he released his debut album State of Art in 2011. He’ll be playing a show at The Hamilton tomorrow night to celebrate the release of his sophomore album, Coming of Age, which came out earlier this week. “I feel like a lot of growth has happened on different levels,” Williams said. “I definitely feel like my composition skills are a lot stronger and almost all the songs on this record are original compositions...I’ve just been doing a lot more writing….so there’s been growth on a musical level and on a personal level. “You know, the process of growing up and my personal awareness of the world and dealing with different things in my life....I’m really discovering how to translate life into music. BEN WILLIAMS AND SOUND EFFECT (P��: D�� T�� M�C��) I’m getting better at that, I think.” Only two of the songs on Coming of Age are saxophonist Jimmy Greene, lost a daughter in can really feel that it’s not just a group of guys you called for a record date. It’s an actual band.” covers, Lianne La Havas’ “Lost and Found” and the shooting. Williams and his band Sound Effect will “As the song developed, it was kind of a Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” so Williams got a lot of practice translating life into music somber tune, but then seeing how Jimmy and be playing tunes from Coming of Age at The through his compositions. And, he said, having his wife and their family just gathered them- Hamilton. Coming off of a European leg of a working band is helpful to his writing process. selves together and turned it into an opportu- their tour, he said that he and the band will “be “I have working musicians who can help me nity to try to make a change and the strength nice and warmed up” for the show. “I’ve been touring with this band for a while develop my ideas,” Williams said. “And just that they showed, it was unbelievable to watch [writing and composing] more and really study- that. So it made me want to change the energy now and we’ve developed a lot of chemistry ing...it’s a skill that you develop, not too differ- of the song from being somber and remorseful by just being on the road and hanging out,” ent from your technical ability on an instrument, to something that had strength, something that Williams said. “And we’re all good friends outside of playing music.” there’s no substitute for practicing and doing it a was a little more powerful.” He said he’s very excited to return to his “Strength and Beauty” is the second song lot.... And just being more conscious as a human being, because music, to me, is always a reflec- on what amounts to a musical odyssey, with hometown for this show at this stage in his career. “I love playing in D.C. I always feel the love tion of life. The internal and external and how songs of struggle and triumph. Williams said and it always feels like home,” Williams said. he’s “very proud” of the album. the external effects the internal.” “I think it has a nice shape, has a nice flow “So I’m very excited to show people what I’ve Probably the best example of the external effecting Williams’ internal creative process and I got to touch on a lot of things that I’m been learning out here and what I’ve been workon Coming of Age is the track “Strength and into,” Williams said. “I think it came out really ing on. I’m definitely looking forward to it.” • For more information about Ben Williams, Beauty,” which he wrote on the day of the 2012 great. I think the band sounds amazing. There’s Newtown shooting. A close friend of his, jazz a lot of communication going on and I think you visit benwilliamsmusic.net.

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Why No Talk of School System Merger? Editor, Since when is Falls Church the official benefactor of the world’s entire cultured community? I refer of course to the News-Press editorial of last week, “Everybody Benefits From Good Schools.” Such a grandiose idea: that Falls Church taxes steer ‘our massive ship of state in the right direction.’ Perhaps your editorial should be restructured and sent as a letter to the U.S. Congress, or to the United Nations, or maybe to the King of the World. But...The Little City? Rather a tall order, don’t you think? It’s apparent that you oppose merging Falls Church with either Arlington or Fairfax County. While such proposals have been made by others in past issues as providing a larger tax base with lower burdens on the individual F.C. taxpayer, you as well as the City Council have refused to discuss such proposals publicly. I expect much more from my public servants and those upon whom I depend for information. Duane Myers Falls Church

Rep. Beyer Can Do More by Voting For Family Act Editor, I read with interest the piece “Congressman Beyer’s News Commentary: Gender Equality in the Workplace” from April 8. It is great to see the congressman reference the issues that matter to him – from family values to strengthening our economy and standing up for Fairfax residents – but he has the ability to do much more. Rep. Beyer states that he supports paid family and medical leave for federal workers, but that falls far too short of what’s really needed. Only 13 percent of the workforce has access to paid family leave through their employers. That leaves millions of people across the country, including in Fairfax, without paid family and medical leave to recover from serious illnesses, or care for a new child or family member, like an elderly parent. That leaves many

of us one accident, diagnosis or new child away from financial hardship or devastation. The federal Family and Medical Insurance Leave (Family) Act would establish a national paid leave insurance program that would guarantee workers some pay when they need family or medical leave. It is a common sense proposal, modeled on programs that are working well in California, New Jersey and Rhode Island. I hope Rep. Beyer follows through on his commitment to gender equality in the workplace, the economy, and families, by becoming a co-sponsor of the Family Act. Stephen Clermont Burke

Why No Traffic Messages During Shooter Situation? Editor, Penny Gross’s column on the community-wide emergency of March 31 mentions the substantial impact of the active shooter situation upon thousands of commuters trying to get to work (myself and 123 co-workers included) [Falls Church News-Press, April 9-15]. Fairfax County Police officer Shelley Broderick’s “social media” alerts to the public and the local radio/television stations was trendy, but missed us “Baby Boomers” who watched CNN during breakfast, then commuted to work while paying attention to the roads (not handheld gizmos). Nowhere at Mason District’s critical junctures of I-495, US 50, US 29, VA 236, or VA 7 were there any motorist alerts on any of VDOT’s overhead or roadside “Variable Message Signs” that I saw. Night shift is the weakest staffing for public health, safety, and transportation alike. Not designed for rapid ramp-up of personnel. Same for Virginia Department of Transportation’s Incident Management Teams. However, VDOT, Virginia State Police, Fairfax County Police and Fairfax County Fire and Rescue do staff their monitoring desks 15 miles westward at the McConnell Public Safety and Transportation Operations Center. Center staff should have been able to broadcast simple traffic shutdown messages such as “Fx Hospital Roads Closed.” Why didn’t they? Donald E. White Former USDOT Special Agent Falls Church

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F.C.’s Sylvan Learning Center Holding ‘Find Your Edge’ Event Sylvan Learning Center in Falls Church is hosting “Find Your Edge” on Saturday, April 25 from 2 – 5 p.m. for families, scout leaders, coaches, and educators to introduce them to Sylvan’s EDGE series of hands-on robotics, coding and math activities that empower parents to incorporate STEM into their children’s after-school plans. Geared to families with children in grades one through six, the free event will provide kids with the opportunity to build and animate LEGO robots, design video games, solve fun math brain boosters and more. Parents will be able to sign up to receive a free interactive class of robotics or coding for their group. Sylvan Learning Center Falls Church is located at 200 Park Avenue, #101. Additional information can be found at www.sylvanlearning.com.

Alex & Ani Hosting F.C. Chamber’s Networking Mixer Tuesday Alex and Ani in Merrifield’s Mosaic District is hosting a Networking Mixer for the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, April 28 from 5:30 – 7 p.m. Members of the Chamber and friends of the local business community are invited to attend this free event which will include refreshments, networking, a chance to enter a raffle to win a bangle bracelet set and a free gift with purchases of $75 or more. Alex and Ani designs and creates bangle bracelets, necklaces, earrings and rings that adorn the body, enlighten the mind, and empower the spirit. The event will take place in the Mosaic store located at 2095 District Avenue, #145.

Asian American Chamber to Host Breakfast Series Talk May 6 The Asian American Chamber of Commerce is hosting Pearls of Asian Wisdom – Stories of Successful Asian Women Leaders, on Wednesday, May 6 from 8 – 10 a.m. The event is part of the Regional Women’s Circle of Influence Breakfast Series presented by the Asian American, the Falls Church, the Greater McLean, and the Regional Tysons chambers of commerce and the Merrifield and Vienna business associations. Tickets for members of the presenting organizations are $15. Tickets for prospective members and friends of the business community are $25. The event will take place in the DTZ Conference Center, 8300 Boone Boulevard, Tysons. To register or learn more visit www.asian-americanchamber.org.  Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@fallschurchchamber.org.

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Despite the recent availability of the entire parcel of land known as the Kiessling Tract, there will be no change in the current site plans for the Northern Virginia Graduate Center, according to City officials and Kathleen Moore, project director for the grad center. Because of the death on March 14 of Dr. Alice Kiessling, a prominent local resident who had lived in the old green house on the property along Haycock Road since 1931....

The Falls Church School Board and Vice Mayor Marty Meserve traded strong words by way of the News-Press yesterday on the eve of the adoption of a new Falls Church City budget that is expected to include a cut in the School Board’s funding request. At a work session Monday, the F.C. City Council decided to cut another five cents off the real estate tax for the new fiscal year beginning July 1, pending a final vote at its regular business meeting this coming....

F.C.’s Ken Whitehead, Assistant Secretary Under Reagan, Dies Kenneth D. Whitehead, a longtime City of Falls Church resident and member of the Falls Church Republican Party and Assistant Secretary of Education for PostSecondary Education under President Reagan, died on April 16 of complications from cancer, according to a release from the F.C. GOP. Whitehead is survived by his wife of 56 years, Margaret, who has also served as an active volunteer and Falls Church GOP officer, and their four sons, Paul, Steven, Matthew and David. Whitehead was born in 1930 in Rupert, Idaho and grew up in Burley, Idaho. He was drafted into the Army during the Korean War after two years of university. After the Army, he completed his education, graduating from the University of Utah and spending a year studying in Paris on a Fulbright Scholarship. He became a career diplomat

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CRJ Concrete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571-221-2785

Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Co. . . 519-1634 BB&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241-3505 TD Bank/www.TDBank.com . . . . . . . 237-2051

3 months - $150 6 months - $270 1 year - $450

Allstate Home Auto Life Ins. . . . . . . . 241-8100 State Farm Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . 237-5105 Lawn Enforcement Services, LLC . . . 237-0921 Gabriel Lawn & Landscape. . . . . . . . 691-2351 www.healthybyintention.com. . . . . . . 534-1321 Dr Gordon Theisz, Family Medicine . 533-7555

All numbers have a ‘703’ prefix unless otherwise indicated.

Academy of Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 938-8054 Foxes Music Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533-7393 Dr. Alison Sinyai, Family Eye Care . 533-3937 Feline Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 920-8665 Gary Mester, Event, Portraits . . . . . . 481-0128 Mary Sandoval Photography . . . . 334-803-1742 Merelyn Kaye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .790-9090x218 www.helpfulmortgage.us . . . . . . . . . . 237-0222 Casey O’Neal - ReMax . . . . . . . . . . . 824-4196 Rosemary Hayes Jones . . . . . . . . . . .790-1990 The Young Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .356-8800 Tori McKinney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867-8674 Shaun Murphy, Realtor . . . . . . . . . . 868-5999 Tailor Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534-8886 Sylvan Learning Center . . . . . . . . . . . 734-1234 Rebecca Ferenchak . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220-8703

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Welcome to the Louise Molton Real Estate Team! Chris Earman •

Life-long Falls Church City resident

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GMHS Class of 1981

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Long-term involvement in all PTA’s / Athletic Boosters / Band Boosters / Little League

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Prior Mortgage / Financial / small business operations experience

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Meeting Real Estate needs since 1970. There is no substitute for experience Home Office: 703-362-1112 e-mail: merelyn@kayes.com

412 Jackson St | Falls Church City

Fabulous renovated Cape in highly desirable Virginia Forest featuring 4 BD/2 BA, huge family room on ML, 2 car garage, spectacular yard. Offered at $825,000

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202 Patterson St | Falls Church City

Absolutely stunning 5 BD /4.5 BA home w/ delightful front porch on 3 finished levels. Family room off kitchen and walk out lower level. Steps to Metro, bike path and dining! Offered at $1,189,000

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