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Inside This Week Another Challenger To Gross Announces

Community activist Mollie Loeffler, a former chair of the Mason District Council of Community Associations, has declared her plans to run as an independent for the Mason District Supervisor seat currently held by Penny Gross.

See News Briefs, page 9

Creative Cauldron Performer Wins Award Alan Naylor, the male lead of last fall’s production by Falls Church’s Creative Cauldron troupe, was presented with the Helen Hayes Award for outstanding male actor in a musical for his role in “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.”

Detailed 400-Page Development Plan For New Land Goes to Secret Confab E aster F unday F.C. Council, Schools

Mull Legal Options on Unsolicited Proposal

by Nicholas F. Benton

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get, inclusive of the School Board’s request, with the tax rate at $1.345.

On top of a significant increase in housing assessed values across the City, and another year of a storm water fee, Councilman Phil Duncan said Monday that he senses there is “something different in the air this time” regarding the tax rate situation. “There is a level of anxiety and concern that is differ-

Members of the Falls Church City Council and School Board crammed into a City Hall conference room Monday night with their legal teams and City staff to discuss the unsolicited proposal last month for the build out of the 39 acres that was annexed by Falls Church as part of the swap that delivered the City’s water system into Fairfax County’s hands last year.

During the two-hour behindclosed-doors “closed session,” although the intricately detailed parameters of the proposal, which takes up over 400 pages of briefing books, had been provided to all members of the Council and School Board, those details were not the focus of the discussion Monday night, Falls Church City Manager Wyatt Shields confirmed to the News-Press yesterday. Instead, the focus was consultations with City, schools and outside legal counsel on how to proceed from this point, given that the Clark proposal came to the City prior to its issuance of any “request for proposal.”

(Of the over 400 pages of the submission, only 87 pages were made public this week, specifically lacking in details. Shields told the News-Press that no decision has yet been made when to make the totality of the proposal public.)

The development team is operating under the name Edgemoor Infrastructure and Real Estate LLC, with its principal component being the Clark Construction Group that had the point in the same kind of “private public partnership model” construction of

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See News Briefs, page 9

David Brooks: What Candidates Need

I have two presidential election traditions. I begin covering each campaign by reading a book about Abraham Lincoln, and I end each election night, usually after midnight, at the statue of the Lincoln Memorial.

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Mustang Girls Soccer Improves to 5-0

The George Mason High School girls soccer team shut out Madison County, 9-0, Monday and then blanked Manassas Park, 8-0, Tuesday to push their record to 5-0 on the season.

See Sports, page 24

THE TRADITIONAL EGG ROLL at the White House has nothing on the annual Easter Egg Hunt in Falls Church’s Cherry Hill Park, held last Saturday. More photos of The Little City tradition inside on pages 26 – 27. (Photo: Larry Golfer)

2 on Falls Church City Council Vow to Keep Current Tax Rate

by Nicholas F. Benton

Falls Church News-Press

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Two members of the Falls Church City Council during a work session at City Hall Monday night went on record opposing any increase in the real estate tax rate, a position that would leave the City short by over $1 million in its effort to fund community services and the schools at the levels City Manager Wyatt Shields and School

Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones and the School Board say are needed.

The Council is moving toward the April 27 deadline to adopt its budget for the coming fiscal year, and a second public town hall meeting on the subject will be held this Saturday at the F.C. Community Center, 223 Little Falls, at 10 a.m.

The current real estate tax rate is $1.305 per $100 of assessed valuation, and last month Shields presented his recommended bud-

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F.C. Council, School Board Briefed on Clark Plan Continued from Page 1

Falls Church’s Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School in 2005 that it wants now to apply to the much more ambitious 39-acre plan. That model is permitted under the 2002 Virginia PublicPrivate Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act. The Edgemoor-Clark team surprised City Hall when its massive unsolicited proposal plopped on the desks of City Manager Wyatt Shields and School Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones on March 19. With three members of the development team residing in Falls Church – Edgemoor vice presidents James Martin and Geoffrey Stricker and former Falls Church City Manager David Lasso on its legal side – the group had a heads up on the prospect to the development of the site prior to the swap that brought the 39 acres into the City over a year ago. Martin, who has children in the Falls Church schools, has been designated to be the development team’s main point of contact with the City and its schools.

The 39-acre area includes the current George Mason High and

Henderson Middle School and their athletic fields, and under the terms of the deal with Fairfax County, all but 11 acres of that land must be dedicated to educational use. So, the EdgemoorClark proposal includes the construction of a brand new, stateof-the-art Mason High School and the commercializing of the 11 acres with “a transit-oriented, mixed-use development” where the property comes closest to the West Falls Church Metro station.

Knowing the City’s current Capital Improvement Plan has contained, in its “down the road” components, the massive estimated $100 million cost for a new high school, the Edgemoor-Clark group has come forward in its plan offering, in its cover letter, a “streamlining of the delivery of a new, state-of-the-art George Mason High School without requiring any tax rate increase or direct contribution by the City...

Under our plan, the new high school will be open at the start of the 20182019 school year, and the commercial development of the land would be complete by 2020. The plan designates the commercial component as “Mason Market.”

While none of the substantive information from the closed session Monday night has become public so far, the News-Press has learned that the plan was met with great excitement by the School Board and by most of the City Council.

One of the big questions before the Council, and discussed extensively in Monday’s closed work session, will be how to proceed with the solicitation of other prospective bidders on the development of the project. For this reason, according to News-Press sources, some on the City Council have reportedly declined to read the details of the Edgemoor-Clark plan for fear it would prejudice them against possible future bidders. In addition, due to his representation of an entity that appears to share an owner with the owner of Edgemoor, Falls Church Mayor David Tarter has said he will recuse himself from participating in votes on the plan.

Among the decisions before the Council now are whether or when to make the details of this plan public. The vast bulk of the extensive proposal is marked “confidential and proprietary,” as provided under provisions of

the PPEA law, and there is a risk to the City in looking this “gift horse” in the mouth since it is questionable how many other prospective developers will come forth with anything resembling the scale and detail of this plan.

Lasso, of the Falls Church-based Baskin, Jackson and Lasso general civil practice law firm that will play a major role in re-zonings, special exceptions, special permit, variances, zoning violation appeals and so forth, once remarked during his mid-1990s tenure as Falls Church City Manager that the undeveloped land by the West Falls Church Metro station represented “some of the most valuable real estate on the entire Eastern Seaboard.”

The development team, in addition to Lasso’s group, includes the Edgemoor Infrastructure and Real Estate group, the Clark Construction group, Moseley Architects, Davis Carter Scott Design, Walter L. Phillips, KLNB Retail, Colliers International, Urban Analytics and the Stifel, Nicolaus and Company.

According to a statement from the group, “We have organized our team in a manner that allows

us to be as efficient as possible in performing our work and delivering our services to the City of Falls Church. This structure is based on years of experience organizing and managing successful fast-track design-build-style and public-private partnership pursuits and over 100 years of managing construction projects around the country.”

The opportunity for this kind of development arose from the swap for the water system, as prior to that, all the 39 acres was located within the boundaries of Fairfax County, and even though the City of Falls Church and its school system owned title to much of that land, any prospects for development required the full participation of Fairfax County, which until recently was not inclined to develop at its Metro stations.

The 39 acres now within the Falls Church city limits, realizing its potential for dense development, especially adjacent the West Falls Church Metro station, will have no serious restrictions because, among other things, there would be little impact on residential neighborhoods that are not particularly close to it.

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Council’s Duncan, Tarter Vow To Keep City’s Tax Rate Level Continued from Page 1

ent this time,” he said.

In calling for the tax rate to remained unchanged from this year, Duncan was joined by Mayor David Tarter who said that “competing priorities that continue to raise taxes is not the solution,” and have brought the situation “near the breaking point.”

“I want a flat tax rate,” he said, echoing Duncan’s call to “keep the tax rate level.”

When Tarter first brought up the issue of the tax rate at Monday’s meeting, he was met with silence from his Council colleagues. He noted their unwillingness to make eye contact at that point, which drew a laugh.

That’s when Duncan stepped in with his desire to keep the rate level although he said that the City staff should be encouraged to “continue to scrub” the numbers and that more accurate numbers still need to come in on extra efforts by the Treasurer’s office to recover delinquent taxes.

The most startling revelation from Monday’s meeting was intro-

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duced by Vice Mayor David Snyder when he pointed out the data showing the City’s schools are significantly disadvantaged by the state’s so-called “composite index” which is used to determine how much state funding will go to local jurisdictions.

Snyder pointed out that while the average household incomes in Falls Church are not different from Fairfax or Loudoun counties, the City is getting far less in state funding. Fairfax County gets $1.9 million more and Loudoun $3.9 million more than the City, with Falls Church getting $3,000 less per household than Loudoun residents.

The index is “skewed badly against us,” Snyder said. “These are the amounts citizens of Falls Church are being deprived, and is a big factor for when people ask why we seem to be paying more for our services and schools than surrounding jurisdictions.”

Concerns initiated by Council member Marybeth Connelly about the fiscal efficiency of committing over $3 million for the construction of a structured parking garage to serve a newly renovated library

were echoed by Tarter and Duncan, but Assistant City Manager Cindy Mester reminded them that although there is a “place holder” in the City’s Capital Improvements Project budget for the garage, it will not come up for funding decisions until next year.

In that context, Tarter reported that he, Shields and Snyder had met with officials from Kaiser Permanente about a wider public use of the Kaiser parking garage at the intersection of N. Washington and Park Avenue and that the meeting was productive. It has been followed with subsequent conversations initiated by Shields.

But still, Duncan said Monday, “the public needs to be educated that we’re getting a lot done already with our infrastructure projects,” adding, “A lot of work is getting done around town right now.”

Shields added that the S. Washington improvements that are slated for the coming year “will be transformative for a very large portion of the City.” Mester chimed in that five projects were completed last year, and “there are a lot underway now.”

CITY OF FALLS CHURCH MAYOR David Tarter (left) and Councilmember Phil Duncan both say they will vote to keep the current tax rate. (Photos: News-Press)

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A State-of-the Art New High School

So now it is confirmed by a prospective developer that the construction of a new $100 million state-of-the-art George Mason High School, one that could be a model of modernity and immensely conducive to 21st century learning demands, can be built without costing Falls Church taxpayers a dime. The cost, say the Edgemoor/Clark team that has proposed to develop the entire site, can be entirely covered by the wider development of the 39 acres that was annexed by the City as part of the swap that conferred ownership of Falls Church’s water system to Fairfax County last year.

If anything, this new development is an effective further indicator of the prospects for the long-term superiority of the school system that Falls Church operates. This helps to ensure that property values will remain high in the City, because if anything, when news of this gets around, the impetus for families with young children to pile into the City, which is already significant. will be redoubled.

Two points need to be reiterated in this context: 1. more families and more kids are a good thing, not a bad thing, from every standpoint, including economic, and 2. the need for the City schools to have the means to be competitive with surrounding jurisdictions, especially Arlington, is now more urgent than ever.

If there is an Achilles heel in the economics of Falls Church today it is the lack of a “critical mass” of patrons to make local businesses successful.

The best restaurants in town rely heavily on a clientele that comes in to Falls Church from outside areas. Those that have not developed a reputation to do that are struggling, as almost anyone who checks this out can see. Getting more customers for these businesses can best be done by growing the City’s own population, and there is plenty of room for that to grow.

The argument against population growth in the City, especially of families that include school aged children, is that they’re a net drag on the City’s revenues, costing more (including to educate) than they pay in taxes. But that is a very narrow, empiricist point of view that does not take into account notions like “critical mass” and “tipping point” factors that promise to be transformative in terms of the local economy.

One important component of this must be to provide more affordable housing, which need not involve government subsidized so-called “affordable housing,” but can be achieved with the construction of new housing projects that offer much smaller units in much higher quantities.

This will serve to balance growth of families with children with growth of millennial singles and other lower income populations who will cost less and contribute more to the local economy.

But the point of all this will be defeated if the City Council fails to provide the schools with the needed resources to implement their game plan for improving their potential salary competitiveness with neighboring Arlington.

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Why Aren’t Commercial Assessments Increasing?

Editor, In regard to property taxes, the homeowners are bearing an increasing share of the burden.

If you look at the tax assessments of commercial properties in Falls Church, most show no change over the last four years.

Of those that do show a change, the majority are decreases rather than increases. Thus the increasing assessments on homes provide all of the increased real estate taxes,

unless there is also an increase in the tax rate. If no change over four years is correct, why would investors in commercial buildings continue to own them (except if they run the business that operates there)? If you look at assessments on commercial buildings in nearby Arlington and Fairfax, they mostly show moderate increases.

What good is it for the council to seek commercial development if the properties don’t increase

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Editor, Barry Buschow’s letter in the April 2 News-Press mentioned the bell which is rung during graduation ceremonies by all graduates of George Mason High School.

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Touring the Swimming Pools of the World B� S�� N�������

Swimming has always been my yoga, my meditation.

Growing up in Nairobi, Kenya, I treasure memories, as most competitive swimmers do, of weekend swim meets, sitting around with teammates, waiting endlessly for heats and then finals, the smell of wet towels and chlorine around us.

I left Nairobi for college in the U.S and didn’t muster the courage to go out for the swim team. The 6:30 a.m. practices didn’t help either and I let swimming go as my sport. But as an adult, it has remained my meditation. I find sanctuary in the rhythmic strokes, the breathing and the solitude it allows, even in a full pool. The smells of chlorine and mildew are as familiar and comforting as the smell of my grandmother’s masala.

Wherever I can, I find a pool. My first lap swim in that pool often signifies that I have arrived to stay; I’m not simply moving through. The pool teaches me a lot about the location I then call home and my place in it.

My most glamorous swimming home has got to be the Meadowbrook pool in Baltimore, the launching pad of torpedo Michael Phelps. I like to say I practiced near him. This is not a lie. However, given his length and his phenomenal speed, we were never lap neighbors for more than a second or two. At Meadowbrook, in the company of greats, I realized - there are swimmers

and there are swimmers. But when I looked around at all of us in that esteemed pool, I also realized that we are part of a common underwater tribe; easily recognizable by the smell of chlorine on our skin, the indent of goggles on our faces and the respectful way we moved past each other in a lane, regard-

“My most glamorous swimming home has got to be the Meadowbrook pool in Baltimore, the launching pad of torpedo Michael Phelps.” less of speed or strength.

My least glamorous swimming home was a dimly lit Soviet era pool in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. With the aquatic “Delfin” mosaicked in Cyrillic above the door, and an entrance flanked by two silver swimmers as statuesque as Esther Williams, the façade recalled the days when monuments insisted on the era’s greatness. However, once inside, as in the rest of Bishkek, the loss of Soviet resources quickly became apparent. The facility was dark, the locker room cold and the showers overused and undercleaned. With a hint of nostalgia, however,

Soviet rules were still evident. The terms of my membership were established by a stern Kyrgyz gentleman, who seemed to think I was a rule-breaker: I was to come only on certain days at certain times, when I could join the senior women during their swim, for just one hour. No, I could not start today.

When I returned for my first lap swim, I was swept up the stairs to the locker room in a wave of babushkas. Seemingly the only person under 60, I wondered why I was relegated to this time spot. No one said anything to me. No one smiled. We headed for the pool, lit only by the watery winter sun defeated by a row of filthy windows. One by one we slipped into the pool like lemmings and began our laps. After about a month, the ladies began speaking to me and I responded in very poor Russian. I began to understand that for many of these women, who had lost Soviet pensions and family members to precious work opportunities abroad, this outing was a lifeline. Their fellow swimmers, their companions. These showers, their only source of hot water. The willingness of these women to continue the discipline of swimming signaled an optimism that belied their grimness. Their acceptance meant more to me than I anticipated. I realized – I was honored to be on this team.

As a foreign service spouse, I have dipped my toes in many an embassy pool, from the temperate hills of Islamabad to the sunshiny tropics of San Salvador, where I introduced my firstborn to the joys of

swimming. Sometimes, we even had an American club pool, as in sleepy University Town in Peshawar, Pakistan and glamorous Abdoun in Amman, Jordan. These pools were almost always the same; comforting in their American familiarity and bizarre in their schizophrenia. Regardless of the culture beyond the pool walls, within them bikinis and alcohol were abundant. To the smell of American comfort food and the sounds of country music, I have done thousands of laps, ducking kids and admiring the stamina of the military personnel sharing that (inevitably) single lap lane. It is in these pools that I first did what I claimed I would never do as a teenage swimmer – breaststroke with my head held high like a Labrador, wearing fancy sunglasses. Sometimes you have to succumb.

As time has passed, I have developed neck problems which impact my ability to swim regularly. I still think of myself as a swimmer. I always will. I watch the kids on our neighborhood team, effortlessly swimming, waiting patiently for their next race, focused on the now. Who knows what the future holds for them. But if they are lucky, wherever they go in the world, a swimming pool will be a haven, the smell of chlorine will bring them back, and that first push-off from the wall will make them feel at home.  Falls Church resident Sia Nowrojee is a senior editor and technical writer at the University of Central Asia.

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Alan Naylor, the male lead of last fall’s production by Falls Church’s Creative Cauldron troupe, was presented with the prestigious Helen Hayes Award for outstanding male actor in a musical for his role in “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.” The award was presented during Monday night’s awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. The Helen Hayes awards celebrate the best achievements in theater in the D.C. Metro area.

Another Challenger to Gross Announces Not only will long-time Mason District Supervisor Penny Gross face a Democratic primary challenge in June, but another candidate has announced her intent to run as an independent to face Gross in the November general election. While Gross will be challenged

by Jessica Swanson in the June primary, community activist Mollie Loeffler, a former chair of the Mason District Council of Community Associations, has declared her plans to run as an independent in November.

Final F.C. Town Hall Meeting on Budget Process This Saturday The final town mall meeting on the City of Falls Church’s budget deliberations will be held this Saturday, April 11 at 10 a.m. in the Falls Church Community Center. City staff will give presentations before the meeting is opened to questions. The F.C. City Council will adopt th FY16 budget at its meeting on April 27.

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VPIS Prepares for April 18 Arbor Day Falls Church’s Village Preservation and Improvement Society announced plans for a tree planting and participation in annual Arbor Day celebrations at Falls Church’s Frady Park on Saturday, April 18. The planting will take place at 120 W. Westmoreland at 8:30 a.m. and the celebration at 3 p.m. at Frady Park. In a statement, the VPIS said, “Falls Church is losing too many mature canopy trees, but don’t despair. There is something the public can do to help. They can come out with neighbors to plant new street trees and take care of those we have. Maintaining our tree canopy is a great investment that pays us back in many ways, namely, absorbing storm water and shading/cooling our neighborhoods.

We’ll start at 8:30 with refreshments and a quick demonstration and then spread out and get to work, typically finishing by noon. Participants are urged to wear boots or heavy shoes, gloves and dirt friendly clothes, to bring tools or use ours, we’ll have extras.”

‘Solarize Falls Church’ Initiative Kicks Off From April 1 through June 30, solar power for homes will be easier and more affordable than ever thanks to another round of Solarize Falls Church, a program that offers bulk purchasing discounts and free solar site assessments to homeowners. The program kicks off in Falls Church as a limited-time, one-stop-shop for community members to learn more about solar power options for their homes and to facilitate the installation and financing of their own project. Information is available from the City at www.solarizefallschurch.org.

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TO LETTERS THE EDITOR Continued from Page 6 39 years, Jack may hold the record for continuous teaching service to Falls Church City’s schools. He retired in 1994 but when we met on March 23 he proudly displayed his Mason baseball cap and the watch given him at the time of his retirement.

My wife and I shared stories with him of Nancy Sprague, Harry Shovlin, Michael Hoover and Ken Burnett among others. Jack wanted us to especially greet former Superintendent Warren Pace, and convey his fond memories of working with Warren’s wife Mary, who began her career the same year Jack did, and showed an exemplary commitment to her students.

Jack was very pleased to hear that lights are now on the football and baseball fields which were earlier dedicated in his honor, and that the schools’ sports programs have extended to include swimming, lacrosse, and both field and ice hockey since his days as coach.

He was quite familiar with the state championships of the girls in basketball and both girls and boys in soccer with numerous state championships in the succeeding years.

And he recalled coaching the 1980 baseball team to a state title.

Some of Jack’s old school style has morphed into cutting edge. He fondly remembered taking kids on discipline and letting them pal with him all day instead of attending their regular classes. Fairfax County schools recently emerged from a couple decades using a far less successful discipline scheme that entirely removed troubled kids from their schools and cast them to an unfamiliar school or worse yet to the streets during a time on suspension. Fortunately, they’ve shifted now to an inschool suspension policy using Jack’s kind of 1-to-1 relations to reconcile students who have discipline problems.

Thanks to Sue Thackrey for staying in touch with Jack and his wife, which included Sue’s years working in Nashville with the Grand Ole Opry. Sue was instrumental in arranging our time to meet.

We look forward to sharing many more of coach’s memories – and current events – at the upcoming celebration for the schools’ day care and IB programs to be held at Mary Ellen Henderson on Thursday evening April 23.

Kieran Sharpe Falls Church City School Board

AAUW to Recognize Equal Pay Day On April 14 Editor, On Tuesday, April 14, the American Association of University Women will recognize Equal Pay Day, the symbolic day when women’s earnings finally catch up to what men earned in 2014. According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics, the median earnings for women working full time, year-round is only 78 percent of what men working full time, year-round make. And, Latina women make only 54 percent of what white men make, and African American women make just 64 percent. In our own Commonwealth of Virginia, the statistics are only slightly better: median earnings for women are 79 percent of men’s earnings.

The pay gap is not caused solely by differences in career and lifestyle choices made by men and women. AAUW’s 2012 report, Graduating to a Pay Gap: The Earnings of Women and Men One Year after College Graduation, controlled for many factors such as college major, occupation, industry, region, workplace flexibility, parenthood, and hours worked and found that one year after graduating from college, women still earned 7 percent less than their male counterparts.

The wage gap between men and women isn’t just a number; it’s an economic issue for many families. A 2013 Pew Research Center study found that in 40 percent of households with children, the mother is the sole or primary wage earner. Pay equity is the key to families making ends meet and moving working families into the middle class.

Something must be done to close the gender pay gap. The Paycheck Fairness Act, introduced on March 25, 2014 in the U.S. House and Senate, is an important step in that direction. The measure creates stronger incentives for employers to follow the law, enhances federal enforcement efforts, and prohibits retaliation against workers who ask about a company’s wage practices. Ask your Senators and Representative to support this important legislation.

Bunny Jarrett President AAUW Falls Church Area

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Alex Ripley, an Inspiration to Many, Dies at 39 Alex was born at Fairfax Hospital on March 29, 1975.

Within hours doctors noticed Alex was in distress. They began a frantic effort to diagnose his problem. It was assumed that it had to do with digestion of food and so nourishment was withheld while the detective work continued. For ten days various theories were tested, all failing to diagnose the problem. Alex’s frantic parents contacted the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, and a doctor was dispatched to Fairfax Hospital, blood was taken from Alex, and flown to Denver, Co., which was then the only place in the U.S. with a lab prepared to test for a disease then called pyroglutamic aciduria.

The lab confirmed the diagnosis. Alex had become the first case of pyroglutamic aciduria, which eventually became known as cerebal palsy, in the U.S. Another characteristic had been discovered in the ten days of intense pain which he had survived without food – his indomitable spirit.

Alex was born without the ability to produce the enzyme glutathione. Part of the effect of this

disorder was acidosis of the blood which results in damage to the nervous system, but which can be partly controlled by a lifelong use of antacids.

Alex developed into a handsome and sunny child. When he reached five years of age, Falls Church schools welcomed him to the kindergarten program at Mt. Daniel. Entering the first grade was not possible as Falls Church schools felt they were not capable of serving students with intellectual disabilities and preferred to send them to other jurisdictions.

Through the efforts of Alex’s parents and the parents of other kids thus excluded, Falls Church schools changed its policies and began educating all children in the early 1990s. Alex became the first student with intellectual disabilities to enter George Mason High School.

Alex’s cheerfulness and determination were always on display at Mason. His teachers were delighted with him and he was sure to express his appreciation for their efforts. He became a water boy for the football team and was active in the school’s

ALEX RIPLEY was full of happy plans and optimism throughout his life. (Courtesy Photo) television production classes and theater stage crew. When Alex teetered across the stage to receive his graduation certificate, he received the loudest applause of the ceremony.

Alex’s disease progressed and eventually he had to use a walker to get around. He was also became, as a result of his disease, legally blind.

Alex’s determination and optimism only grew during these years and he managed to work in

several places in the city, including Don Beyer Volvo and the old Red Lobster on Broad Street.

Pursuing a lifetime fascination with aviation, he managed to get a job at Dulles airport and commuted there by himself.

Two of the jobs he loved most were at the Seven Corners Home Depot and the old Merrifield Multiplex theaters where he worked for five years. Alex was a greeter at Home Depot. Home Depot told us that they received more positive letters and emails about Alex when he worked there than anyone at the store. People said that they were upset about some home repair need when they walked into the store but, by talking to Alex and seeing his kindness and cheer in the face of his obvious difficulties, they realized how manageable their problems were.

In his early 30s, Alex decided he wanted an apartment of his own, but realized he needed help with his independence. Finding a place like this in the Northern Virginia area was not possible.

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Alex moved to Virginia Beach in August 2008. He told a reporter for a local newspaper there, “I love my parents, but living with them is boring.” Alex’s boring parents hated him living so far away, but loved his independent spirit and opportunity to be on his own. In Virginia Beach, Alex worked at the Cinema Cafe, joined a church, participated in advocacy groups and was part of a special arts performing group. Most importantly, he fell in love with a beautiful young woman, who also has cerebral palsy, whom he had hoped to marry.

To the end he was full of happy plans and optimism. His sudden death from a heart attack shocked his family and friends. Although his life was short, he made the very most of it. A memorial service for Alex will be held on Saturday, April 18, at 4 p.m. at the Falls Church Presbyterian Church, Fellowship Hall, 225 E. Broad St. Donations can be sent, clearly marked “in memory of Alex Ripley,” to Hope House, 801 Boush St., Suite 302, Norfolk, VA 23510.

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Community News & Notes VPIS Seeking Donations for 48th Attic Treasures Sale The Falls Church Village Preservation and Improvement Society is seeking donations for its 48th annual Attic Treasures Sale, which will be held on Saturday, April 25, from 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the Falls Church Community Center at 223 Little Falls Street.

As area residents clean out their attics, basements, garages and crawlspaces, the Village Preservation and Improvement Society encourages everyone to recycle their wares by donating them for sale. In an e-mail to the News-Press about the sale, the organization called this “recycling at its purest.”

Acceptable items include household goods, small furniture, kitchenware, antiques, collectibles, art, musical instruments, equipment and recordings, plants, gardening items, outdoor ornaments, toys, jewelry, books, hardware and tools. All donations must

be clean and in good working order. Donations will be accepted at the community center on Friday, April 24, from 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.

The Village Preservation and Improvement Society is also seeking volunteers to help set up the 48th annual Attic Treasures Sale with sort and set up on Friday, April 24, and with selling and cleaning on Saturday, April 25.

To volunteer, call Nisha at 703532-4733.

All proceeds from the sale will benefit Village Improvement and Preservation Society programs like the Neighborhood Tree Program, the summer concerts in Cherry Hill Park and six City community gardens. For more information, visit vpis.org.

Simon van Steyn, Shelly Childs Get Engaged Falls Church native Simon van Steyn and Shelly Childs got engaged on Sunday, March 29, in Bluemont, Va. The weather held

up enough for van Steyn to surprise Childs with an airplane ride, flying over a giant display reading “Shelly, will you marry me?”

According to Simon’s father, Shaun van Steyn, there was a rush to reassemble the display after “wind from the previous day blew it all apart. It was like a massive jig-saw puzzle with little time to put it all together.”

Friends and family of both Simon and Shelly gathered to celebrate the engagement after the airplane ride. Actually, Shaun van Steyn said, Childs’ brother proposed to his girlfriend the weekend before Simon and Shelly got engaged, so it was a “double celebration.”

Inaugural NOVA Film Festival Slated for April 13 – 18 The inaugural Northern Virginia International Film Festival is slated for next week, April 13 – 18, at the Angelika Film Center & Cafe at Mosaic, located at 2911 District Ave., Falls Church.

FALLS CHURCH NATIVE SIMON VAN STEYN and Shelly Childs got engaged on Sunday, March 29 in Bluemont, Va. Childs was surprised by van Steyn during an airplane ride, flying over a giant display reading “Shelly, will you marry me?”

Family of both van Steyn and childs gathered to celebrate the engagement after the airplane ride. Actually, Childs’ brother proposed to his girlfriend the day before, so it was a “double celebration.” (Photo: Courtesy of Shaun van Steyn)

This year the organizers of the festival are working with The Action On Film Festival for the week-long festival, which will include screenings, seminars and social events and culminate with The NOVA Film Festival Awards Ceremony on Saturday, April 18.

Films that will be screened at the Northern Virginia International Film Festival span all of the major genres – drama, horror, sci-fi, documentary, action, thriller, comedy – and there will be panels, seminars and forums about topics such as crowdfunding films, film distribution and entertainment law.

All week passes for the festival cost $50, one day passes cost $15 and there are other ticket packages available. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit novafilmfest.com.

LWVFC to Present Program On ‘Civic Creativity’ April 19 The League of Women Voters of Falls Church is hosting a forum

called “Civic Creativity: Beyond Civic Engagement FingerWagging” next Sunday, April 19, from 3 – 4:30 p.m. at the Falls Church Community Center.

Pete Davis, co-founder of Our Common Place of Falls Church, will start the program with a presentation, which will be followed by a discussion about how civic engagement can be improved in response to the realities of contemporary life.

“American civic life is in crisis,” said a press release sent out by the League of Women Voters of Falls Church.

“Our civic infrastructure – from civic education in schools to our organizational structures, from our way of talking about politics to our local government’s methods of engaging citizens – is due for an upgrade. This event is designed to move beyond complaining about the decline in civic life to laying the groundwork for its revitalization.” For more information, visit lwvfallschurch.org.

AT A RECENT CAMPAIGN kick-off event for Democrat Jennifer Boysko (center), running to fill the seat vacated by retiring Virginia Republican State Del. Tom Rust of the 86th District in Fairfax County, she was beaming with optimism.

State Delegates Marcus Simon of Falls Church (left) and Katherine Murphy of McLean (right) offered words of encouragement. Boysko lost by a very narrow margin in a bid to upset Rust in 2013. (Photo: News-Press)

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Chmara Among Winners of Choreographer Competition

Lauren Chmara, a 15-yearold student in Bullis School’s dance program and Falls Church resident, was among the winners of BalletNova’s Young Choreographer Competition.

Chmara’s piece “True Friendship” was performed at the Fredgren Studio Theatre at 3443 Carlin Springs Road, Falls Church on Saturday, March 21, and won fifth place in the competition.

Chelen Middlebrook was the grand prize winner of the competition for her piece “Smothered Dreams,” for which she won a $500 cash prize, a dancer statuette, free tuition to BalletNova’s Summer Intensive program and the opportunity to create a new piece of choreography for the BalletNova Summer Intensive dancers.

The second place winner was Emily Glaccum of Burke, who won for her piece “Vicissitude,” and the third place winner Ariel Samuels of Fairfax, who won for her piece “Mad World.”

Halley Roy from Alexandria came in fourth place for her piece “Lost.” All of the other four winners performed their pieces at the same March 21 event as Chmara.

Falls Church’s LCNV Seeks Tutoring Volunteers The Literacy Council of Northern Virginia is seeking volunteers interested in adult education, ESOL and related issues to help adults learn English. Teaching and foreign language skills, though beneficial, are not required for those interested in volunteering.

Volunteers would be matched with an adult student registered for an English class through the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia and will tutor the student in order to improve their English language skills. All volunteers

will be trained.

The Literacy Council of Northern Virginia students represent a broad range of skill levels – from non-English speakers who may or may not be literate in their native language, to native and fluent English speakers looking to improve their reading and writing abilities.

To introduce prospective volunteers to its instructor roles, the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia holds an informational volunteer orientation about once a month. Attendees are given a full overview of the organization, a picture of current tutor and teacher and other volunteer needs as well as the commitments and expectations of each position.

Orientations take place at the James Lee Community Center, located at 2855 Annandale Road in Falls Church. The next orientation is next Saturday, April 18, from 10 – 11:30 a.m. For more information or to RSVP for the volunteer orientation, e-mail volunteers@lcnv.org or call 703-2370866 ext. 116.

Arlington Church Hosts Fundraiser for Stafford Girl Rock Spring Congregational United Church of Christ is hosting the 2015 Cheer Summit Fundraiser this Sunday, April 12, from noon – 3 p.m. at its Carpenter Hall. The church is located at 5010 Little Falls Road, Arlington, and the fundraiser is to help Marissa Washington, a cheerleader at Mountain View High School in Stafford, get to the 2015 Cheerleading Summit Competition in Orlando from April 30 – May 4. Washington will be competing live on ESPN’s Wild World of Sports, which will be airing the competition.

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MARK FRANCIS, executive director of the McLean Orchestra, is shown on the left with Falls Church Rotary Club meeting chair and past president Diane Hill, at last Thursday’s Falls Church Rotary Club meeting. With only one concert remaining in their 2014–15 season, Mark gave a preview of the orchestra’s 2015–16 season schedule. (Photo: Courtesy of Dr. John Karickhoff) 2015cheersummit@gmail.com or call host Angel Washington at 703-994-5951.

The Life of Author Willa Cather Explored at The Alden The life of Pulitzer Prizewinning author Willa Cather will be explored in the show “Call Me William: The Life and Loves of Willa Cather” next Sunday, April 19, at 2 p.m. at The Alden, which is inside the McLean Community Center, located at 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean.

The show was written by Prudence Wright Holmes, who also stars in the production. In the show, actor and author Holmes plays Cather, a pioneer of the LGBTQ movement.

“Cather dared to dress like a man in a small Nebraska town in the 1890s and was almost expelled from The University of Nebraska for it – that and her love affair with her classmate, Louise Pound,” which is directed

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FALLS CHURCH’S DR. TED PERIH was one of several season ticket holders invited down to the field at Nationals Park ahead of the Washington Nationals’ exhibition game against the New York Yankees on Saturday, April 4. (Photo: Courtesy of Michael Volpe) ing to a press release that was sent out by The Alden. Tickets for the show are $15 for McLean tax district residents and $20 for

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What Candidates Need

I have two presidential election traditions. I begin covering each campaign by reading a book about Abraham Lincoln, and I end each election night, usually after midnight, at the statue of the Lincoln Memorial.

I begin by reading a book about Lincoln not because it’s fair to hold any of the candidates to the Lincoln standard, but because he gets you thinking about what sorts of things we should be looking for in a presidential candidate. Any candidate worthy of support should at least have in rudiments what Lincoln had in fullness: a fundamental vision, a golden temperament and a shrewd strategy for how to cope with the political realities of the moment.

Lincoln developed his fundamental vision in a way that seems to refute our contemporary educational practices.

Today we pile on years of education. We NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE assign hundreds of books over the years.

We cluster our students on campuses with people with similar grades and test scores.

Lincoln had very little formal education. He was not cloistered on a campus but spent his formative years in daily contact with an astounding array of characters. If his social experience was wide, his literary experience was narrow. He read fewer books over his entire formative life than many contemporary students do in a single year. In literary terms, he preferred depth to breadth; grasp to reach. He intensely read Shakespeare, the King James Bible, The Pilgrim’s Progress and Parson Weems’ The Life of Washington.

This education gave him a moral vision that emerged from life, not from reading.

He saw America as a land where ambitious poor boys and girls like himself could transform themselves through hard, morally improving work. He believed in a government that built canals and railroads and banks to stoke the fires of industry. He believed slavery was wrong in part because people should be free to control their own labor. He believed in a providence that was active but unknowable.

This Whiggish vision was his north star. He could bob and weave as politics demanded, but his incremental means always pointed to the same transformational end. Any presidential candidate needs that sort of consistent animating vision – an image of an Ideal America baked so deeply into his or her bones as to be unconscious, useful as a compass when the distractions of Washington life come in a flurry.

Lincoln’s temperament surpasses all explanation. His early experience of depression and suffering gave him a radical self-honesty. He had the double-minded personality that we need in all our leaders. He was involved in a bloody civil war, but he was an exceptionally poor hater. He was deeply engaged, but also able to step back; a passionate advocate, but also able to see his enemy’s point of view; aware of his own power, but aware of when he was helpless in the hands of fate; extremely self-confident but extremely humble. Candidates who don’t have a contradictory temperament have no way to check themselves and are thus dangerous.

Lincoln’s skills as a political tactician seem like the least of his gifts, but are among his greatest. It’s easy to be a true believer, or to govern or campaign with your pedal to the metal all the time. It’s much harder to know when to tap on the brake and when to step on the gas.

We study Lincoln’s tactical phase shifts in the Grand Strategy class I help with at Yale. There’s never enough time to cover them all.

Most of Lincoln’s efforts were designed to tamp down passion for the sake of sustainable, incremental progress. Others would have delivered a heroic first Inaugural Address, but Lincoln made his a dry legal brief. Others would have stuffed the Emancipation Proclamation with ringing exclamations, but Lincoln’s draft is as dull as possible. Others wanted an immediate end to slavery. Lincoln tried to end it through unromantic, gradual economic means. He hoped that if he limited the demand for slaves (by halting the spread of slavery and by paying people not to keep them) he could drive down the price and render the whole enterprise unprofitable.

This year, Lincoln’s strategic restraint is the most necessary of his traits.

We live in a partisan time, with movements who treat trimmers, compromisers and incrementalists harshly. But, to pass legislation, the next president will have to perpetually disappoint the fervent and devise a legislative strategy that can consistently get a House majority and 60 Senate votes.

We will not get a Lincoln. A person with his face could not survive the TV age. A person with his capacity for introspection could not survive the 24/7 self-branding campaign environment. But we do need someone with a portion of his gifts – someone who is philosophically grounded, emotionally mature and tactically cunning.

Well, at least we can find the closest possible approximation.

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Economics & Elections Britain’s economic performance since the financial crisis struck has been startlingly bad. A tentative recovery began in 2009, but it stalled in 2010. Although growth resumed in 2013, real income per capita is only now reaching its level on the eve of the crisis – which means that Britain has had a much worse track record since 2007 than it had during the Great Depression.

Yet as Britain prepares to go to the polls, the leaders of the coalition government that has ruled the country since 2010 are posing as the guardians of prosperity, the people who really know how to run the economy. And they are, by and large, getting away with it.

There are some important lessons here, NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE not just for Britain but for all democracies struggling to manage their economies in difficult times. I’ll get to those lessons in a minute. But first, let’s ask how a British government with such a poor economic record can manage to run on its supposed economic achievements.

Well, you could blame the weakness of the opposition, which has done an absolutely terrible job of making its case. You could blame the fecklessness of the news media, which has gotten much wrong. But the truth is that what’s happening in British politics is what almost always happens, there and everywhere else: Voters have fairly short memories, and they judge economic policy not by long-term results but by recent growth. Over five years, the coalition’s record looks terrible. But over the past couple of quarters it looks pretty good, and that’s what matters politically.

In making these assertions, I’m not engaged in casual speculation – I’m drawing on a large body of political science research, mainly focused on presidential contests in the United States but clearly applicable elsewhere. This research debunks almost all the horse-race narratives beloved by political pundits – never mind who wins the news cycle, or who appeals to the supposed concerns of independent voters.

What mainly matters is income growth immediately before the election. And I mean immediately: We’re talking about something less than a year, maybe less than half a year.

This is, if you think about it, a distressing result, because it says that there is little or no political reward for good policy. A nation’s leaders may do an excellent job of economic stewardship for four

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or five years yet get booted out because of weakness in the last two quarters before the election. In fact, the evidence suggests that the politically smart thing might well be to impose a pointless depression on your country for much of your time in office, solely to leave room for a roaring recovery just before voters go to the polls.

Actually, that’s a pretty good description of what the current British government has done, although it’s not clear that it was deliberate.

The point, then, is that elections – which are supposed to hold politicians accountable – don’t seem to fulfill that function very well when it comes to economic policy. But can anything be done about this weakness? One possible answer, which appeals to many pundits, might be to remove economic policymaking from the political sphere and turn it over to nonpartisan elite commissions. This presumes, however, that elites know what they are doing – and it’s hard to see what, in recent events, might make you believe that. After all, American elites spent years in the thrall of BowlesSimpsonism, a completely misplaced obsession over budget deficits. European elites, with their commitment to punitive austerity, have been even worse.

A better, more democratic answer would be to seek a better-informed electorate. One really striking thing about the British economic debate is the contrast between what passes for economic analysis in the news media – even in high-end newspapers and on elite-oriented TV shows – and the consensus of professional economists. News reports often portray recent growth as a vindication of austerity policies, but surveys of economists find only a small minority agreeing with that assertion. Claims that budget deficits are the most important issue facing Britain are made as if they were simple assertions of fact, when they are actually contentious, if not foolish.

So reporting on economic issues could and should be vastly better. But political scientists would surely scoff at the idea that this would make much difference to election outcomes, and they’re probably right.

What, then, should those of us who study economic policy and care about real-world outcomes do?

The answer, surely, is that we should do our jobs: Try to get it right, and explain our answers as clearly as we can. Realistically, the political impact will usually be marginal at best. Bad things will happen to good ideas, and vice versa. So be it. Elections determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

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Thirsty California, Want Alaskan Water?

My awesome younger brother, who still lives with his family in the Southern California coastal town where we grew up, took delight over the past winter gently taunting me with text messages contrasting the mild temperatures in our home town compared to the misery I was suffering out east. “Ready to come back yet?” and similar things, he’d repeatedly write as temperatures in Santa Barbara were in the 70s while in the Washington D.C. area they repeatedly flirted with zero.

But now, with the excessive drought conditions in California causing its governor to impose stiff mandatory restrictions on water use, shall we say that “the worm has turned”? Of course, I wouldn’t taunt my little brother about it the way he did me; instead, I’ll just FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS devote my weekly column to the subject for the whole world, so to speak, to see.

But this is not about our sibling banter, it is about the highly troubling conditions in California now, and I do have to concede that East Coast chauvinism in the news is alive and well, because if anything approaching California’s condition were to hit over here, you wouldn’t hear the end of it.

It is an odd testament to the amazing survivability of California’s governor Jerry Brown that he was also governor there back in the 1970s when I was out there, and there were similar alarms about a statewide drought then. Measures that time did not rise to the level of mandates, but strongly-worded appeals to voluntary rationing.

But it was not lost on many of us then how the burden, including the moral burden, for addressing the crisis was placed upon the average citizen for how he or she flushed the toilet or shaved. Even the legendary San Francisco columnist Herb Caen wrote that nothing made him angrier than someone who let the water run out into their bathroom sink while brushing teeth, instead of dutifully turning the tap off and on between scrubs.

Meanwhile, at a conference on the subject in L.A., I overheard a state policy maker comment to a reporter that even if such appeals made almost no difference in the bigger drought picture (the overwhelming preponderance of water use was, as it still is, consumed by agriculture), it was a useful exercise in altering human behavior patterns. I am wont to suspect that the reason why we’re told even a decent rain won’t end the drought is, my paranoia tells me, because social engineers don’t want to have to give up their latest behavior modification experiments.

But now, almost 40 years later, the current drought out there is looking far more severe than the one in the 1970s, and it seems that, if anything, Gov. Brown has been tardy in his official response. And if we are to be persuaded that this time the drought may be far more tenacious and enduring because it is a phenomenon associated with global climate change, then there is very serious cause for alarm, indeed.

A couple points toward a potential solution: first, California has developed as the most populous (by far) state in the union with the most abundant agriculture because of massive projects to divert water from the Colorado River and the Sierra Nevada to arid and semi-arid lands in southern California and the central valley; second, there remains on the books well-developed plans to extend that same model to turn major northern-flowing rivers in Alaska and Canada southward to irrigate the southwestern U.S., northern Mexico and to recharge the Ogallala aquifer on the U.S. plains.

The plan, developed by the Ralph Parsons Company in the 1950s, was called the North American Water and Power Alliance, and while admittedly ambitious, it was demonstrated as imminently doable in U.S. Congressional hearings led by the late U.S. Sen. Frank Moss, Democrat from Utah.

I was honored to collaborate with Sen. Moss traveling the southwest publicize the virtues of this plan in the 1980s. Diverting that water to grow crops would have the effect of cooling the region and the planet, and I never heard a credible argument against its validity.

Maybe, my brother, now is its time.

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

Injuring the Quest for Justice?

This week the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism issued its damning report about the journalistic lapses by Rolling Stone when it published a salacious, and now-discredited, story about a supposed gang rape at a University of Virginia frat house.

The report blasted the magazine for failing to engage in “basic, even routine journalistic practice” to verify the veracity of the story. This only amplified the finger pointing of those who believe the issue of college rape is an overhyped fallacy or an ideological instrument, and the hand-wringing among activists who fear real damage to a real issue.

Last year, Kevin D. Williamson wrote in National Review under the headline “The Rape Epidemic Is a Fiction” that the issue of sexual assault on college campuses was “bound up in a broader feminist Kulturkampf only tangentially related to the very real problem of sexual violence against women.” He cited what he called the “thoroughly debunked claim that 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted in her college years,” a claim NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE repeated by President Barack Obama, as part of his evidence.

However, it should be noted that The Washington Post Fact Checker has refused to rule on the reliability of that claim, saying only that: “Readers should be aware that this oft-cited statistic comes from a Web-based survey of two large universities, making it problematic to suggest that it is representative of the experience of all college women.”

The Fact Checker went on to say: “As an interesting article from the University of Minnesota-Duluth newspaper makes clear, sexual violence is too rarely reported. So the White House should be applauded for calling attention to this issue.”

A Fox News host last month even suggested that the Rolling Stone story was evidence that “there is a war happening on boys on these college campuses.”

On the other side, the author of the Rolling Stone article acknowledged the effect her story may have on sexual assault victims, writing in a statement: “I hope that my mistakes in reporting this story do not silence the voices of victims that need to be heard.”

Sexual assault on college campuses is not the only issue to be caught in the cultural crossfire when some of the facts of a well-publicized case unravel. The same could be said of the Michael Brown/Darren Wilson

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case in Ferguson, Missouri. Protests born in the wake of Brown’s killing by Wilson frequently invoked the phrase “hands up, don’t shoot,” a reference to the posture that some witnesses said was held by Brown when he was shot. The Department of Justice found little evidence to support that narrative.

Sheriff David Clarke of Milwaukee went on Fox News to declare a “war on our nation’s finest, the American police officer” based on a “false narrative out of Ferguson, Missouri, this ‘hands up, don’t shoot.’”

He continued, “We know now for a fact that that never happened.” Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post wrote a much-talked-about column under the headline “‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Was Built On a Lie.” And yet, Capehart was careful to make this caveat: “Yet this does not diminish the importance of the real issues unearthed in Ferguson by Brown’s death. Nor does it discredit what has become the larger ‘Black Lives Matter.’”

Cases like these raise the questions: What happens when one particular case is shown to have flaws although the overall condition that it illustrated holds true? How much damage is done when ammunition is given to deniers? How do you balance an impulse toward immediate empathy with the patience necessary for a reservation of judgment until a proper investigation can be performed?

Is there an ultimately unhealthy need to identify a “catalyst case” that will shock the conscience and lay waste to civic apathy, a case that will arrest the sensibilities of the weary and dispassionate and move them to action? I would argue that the integrity of truth and the honor of righteousness know no era. They don’t need to win the moment because they will always win the ages.

And therefore, these cases stand as cautionary markers that we can never be so eager to have our convictions confirmed that deliberation is abandoned and our truth-detectors are disarmed. That goes for those in the media as well as the public. Sometimes justice dictates a glacial fortitude, even in a modern period of instant gratification. In these cases, the error must be acknowledged and absorbed without distorting the mission. One measure of the merits of a movement and a cause are their resilience in the face of tumult, their ability to take a blow and scamper back to their feet, to stay homed in on the beacon of light even after the darkness falls.

Remember what Malcolm X said: “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against.” When you are in honest pursuit of justice, the truth will never hurt you.

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A Penny for Your Thoughts

News of Greater Falls Church

By Supervisor Penny Gross

Last week’s prisoner escape from INOVA Fairfax Hospital was a reminder that emergency situations can arise without notice, reinforcing that advance planning and preparation are crucial to personal and community safety. When the prisoner overwhelmed the armed private security personnel responsible for guarding him, the hospital’s emergency plans were activated. The police department’s emergency response wasn’t a drill this time (before the new South Tower was opened for patient care, the police department conducted emergency exercises there), and officer teams were deployed to neighborhoods where the prisoner had been spotted.

In an abundance of caution when an armed shooter is loose, some roads in the area of the hospital were shut down for a time, causing consternation, and some anger, from commuters just trying to get to work.

Much of the chase happened right here in Mason District, as the prisoner carjacked two vehicles and made his way, apparently, to I-395 and into the District of Columbia, where he was spotted by an alert citizen and quickly arrested. The whole episode lasted about eight hours. Some constituents asked why there was such heavy police response for just one person. Having observed occasional barricade situations and other local emergencies, I explain that the police response also is focused on keeping the surrounding community and residents safe. Police often have to establish a perimeter, communicate with nearby residents about what is going on, and keep bystanders and gawkers away. At the same time, other officers are concentrated on the perpetrator,

who may be armed with a lethal weapon. All want a peaceful ending, not a shoot-out. As one police officer told me during the hunt for the escaped prisoner, “this is a safe community, and we intend to keep it that way.”

Keeping our community safe is a shared responsibility between first responders and property owners/tenants.

Police and Fire & Rescue can respond to a 911 call, but there are some simple steps we can take to avoid that 911 call or, at least, be better prepared in a natural or humancaused emergency. Locking your car in the driveway or a parking lot puts your vehicle off limits for a potential break-in or theft, at home, at work, at the grocery store, etc. Although many vehicle doors lock automatically after the ignition is turned on, drivers of older vehicles may wish to double-check or manually lock the doors once belted in. In last week’s event, the escaped prisoner hid in the trunk of one car, and carjacked another vehicle as it was being driven. Locking the doors, including the trunk or rear lift, is a good practice.

A first aid kit, bottled water, a blanket, flashlight and fresh batteries, and some non-perishable snacks are basics for an emergency kit in your car. More tips are available on line at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/emergency.

Make a kit, make a plan, and keep at least a half tank of fuel at all times. The winter snow emergencies are history, but hurricane season isn’t far off. Emergencies can happen any time; preparation is the key.  Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.

Congressman Beyer’s News Commentary

Gender Equality in the Workplace

By Donald S. Beyer

I have been surrounded by strong struggle disproportionately with women all of my life. My grand- the burden of finding affordable mother was a suffragette, economics child care or coping with inadequate professor, labor leader, and advocate workplace policies on family leave, for most of her 98 years. My mother still need greater reproductive health is famous in the intellectual disabil- protections, and are less likely than ity community for her work with men to be part of some of the more the ARC. One of my four incredible lucrative career paths, such as math, sisters has been CFO in our fam- science, and engineering.

N e My w s - PHere r eares asfew specific policies ily business for a generation. on in Congress to oldest daughter shares management I want to workTO responsibilities for our largest store attain these goals: THE Raising the minimum wage, and my wife has long been a powerincluding tipped minimum wage. ful voice for women in business.

I am committed to doing Today’s minimum wage employees all I can to help create the new earn almost 25 percent less than they American economy. We can begin did fifty years ago, when adjusted for by addressing women’s economic inflation. The majority of the benefiequality. Every step we take toward ciaries of this improved policy would ensuring greater economic strength be women: Nearly 60 percent of for women will mean great strides minimum wage workers are women.

Equal pay for equal work. for middle class families.

Women are now the sole or Women working full-time earn majority breadwinner in over 40 roughly 77 cents for every dollar percent of American households their male counterparts make. The with a child under the age of 18. pay gap is even larger for Latinas and And a growing percentage of African-American women.

Paid family and medical leave. women are single mothers: More than half the women under 30 who Over 20 years ago, Congress passed give birth do so outside of marriage the Family and Medical Leave Act, and consequently serve a signifi- giving many U.S. employees 12 weeks of job-protected, unpaid leave cant economic role for that child.

Yet women still have no guar- for qualifying medical or family reaantee of equal pay for equal work, sons, such as the birth or adoption

of a child, a family illness, or family military leave. It is high time we guaranteed paid leave for such circumstances. Today, only the United States and Papua New Guinea offer no paid maternity leave. I am cosponsoring legislation that would grant six weeks of paid family or medical leave to federal employees.

STEM education and training.

Jobs in science, technology, engineering and math, or the STEM fields, pay more and often have faster career ladders than other career paths. Women in these fields earn a third more than their nonSTEM counterparts. We must look for ways to stop the historic underrepresentation of women in these fields by recruiting women and girls to these educational paths, connecting them role models and mentors, and supporting policies that help retain them in these jobs.

Perhaps the most important initiative is changing the way we think about women in the workforce. We have abundant evidence that women make an enormous difference to our GDP, our profitability and our quality of economic life. My grandmother would want to know that every American woman has an equal opportunity to make that difference.

LETTERS EDITOR

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From the Front Row: Kaye Kory’s

Richmond Report This past week high school seniors across the nation began to receive eagerly awaited notifications of acceptance or rejection from colleges and universities. This annual ritual seems every year to be accompanied by an increasingly predictable range of commentary: criticizing the rising costs of higher education, questioning the value of this investment to many applicants, bemoaning the (potentially) crushing impact of student debt and many variations of these themes. However, even with these concerns swirling in the background, this week remains a key milestone for many hardworking and well-prepared aspirants in Northern Virginia.

I am proud of the commitment that Virginians have historically made to higher education. Our public universities offer Virginia students many fine options to pursue opportunities in a wide range of disciplines. I believe there is broad, bipartisan agreement that higher education is a key driver of economic vitality of the Commonwealth. Unfortunately, over the past 15 years there has been a steady erosion of appropriated financial support to higher education, equivalent to a 30 precent cut in inflation-adjusted dollars over the period. Of course, over this period, there have been substantial cost increases, above the rate of inflation, to deliver the high quality education that Virginians have come to expect.

Not surprisingly this has put tremendous upward pressure on student tuition to fill the gap.

I suspect most readers – except those with students attending state schools – will be surprised to learn that of the Commonwealth’s 16 four-year institutions, nine have total 2014-15 school year fees – for in-state students – of more than $20,000. Three schools – VCU, VMI and William & Mary – cost more than the University of Virginia’s $23,000. Only one college, Richard Bland in Petersburg, costs less than $18,000. For instate tuition!

Of course, the amounts cited above are not the amounts actually paid by in-state students who qualify for financial aid, which at UVA is about 35 percent of all students. However, the SCHEV report cited above notes that even after taking into consideration financial aid amounts, between 2007 and 2012 the cost of attend-

ing state schools among the lowest income in-state students rose 3.5 percent per year faster than all other income groups.

Recently, UVA announced a plan to address this problem.

They propose to increase in-state tuition by $2,000 over the next two years in order to offset this this disparity with financial aid increases. As might be expected, the UVA announcement provoked howls from a Northern Virginia Republican delegate protesting “income redistribution” and calling for cost cutting

by UVA across the board. In my opinion, financing higher education should be a key issue for the election in November.

I would like to highlight the efforts of many of my constituents in the 38th District to tackle the challenge of affordable higher education directly on a student to student basis.

For some years I have been involved as a supporter and participant in multiple complementary scholarship programs targeting students at Stuart High School. The Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund was founded by Justice Marshall’s Lake Barcroft neighbors to honor his memory by funding an average of three scholarships annually for high achieving graduates of this diverse east Fairfax County school. The Stuart Educational Foundation, with the support of the Baileys Crossroads Rotary Club, raises $80-$100K annually in order to provide scholarships to 30 – 40 Stuart graduates, many of whom would not be able to pursue higher education without substantial financial aid. AA Success is a Falls Church-based non-profit that provides local high school students with mentoring, internship and community participation opportunities, as well as scholarship support.

I know there are similar programs sponsored by businesses and other community organizations across Northern Virginia.

While these initiatives cannot fill the financial gaps created by the Commonwealth’s false economies, they do meet urgent needs of deserving students. I encourage you to support these efforts if you can.  Delegate Kory represents the 38th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. She may be emailed at DelKKory@house. virginia.gov.

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Big Bible vs. Big Business

The battles in Arkansas and Indiana over two bogus “religious freedom” bills, that were thinly disguised vehicles for anti-LGBT discrimination, exposed a major rift within the Republican Party. It came down to Big Bible vs. Big Business – and the concerns of social conservatives were swiftly dropped like a bad stock. (“Big Bible” does not mean all Christians. Just the intolerant ones who reject separation of church and state and have shamelessly built a lucrative industry distorting the Bible to justify discrimination.)

With major corporations like Wal-Mart and Apple loudly condemning these bills, Republican lawmakers quickly retreated. Amended bills were passed that explicitly banned these controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Acts from being used to discriminate based on sexual orientation. This, of course, undermined their original purpose, which was to allow business owners to cite their faith to deny services to LGBT people (and anyone else they morally objected to).

If this weren’t already a crushing defeat, Southern Voice reported today that conservative Republican Gov. Nathan Deal endorsed a “religious freedom bill for Georgia with an explicit anti-discrimination clause.” This is a game changing loss for “Big Bible,” which had made these vindictive bills the centerpiece of their post-gay marriage strategy.

The idea was that if gay marriage was legal, fundamentalist Christians could cite their faith to opt out of laws everyone else had to follow.

Incensed about their misfortune, the extremists attacked the Fortune 500. The most outlandish assault came from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz who said, “The Fortune 500 is running shamelessly to endorse the radical gay marriage agenda over religious liberty.” Right wing “talking head case” Glenn Beck, went so far as say that Christians might end up in concentration camps. Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins wailed: “You want to roll back religious freedom? Goodbye Wal-Mart, hello neighborhood grocery.”

What neighborhood grocery stores? With the help of Perkins, WalMart put these mom and pop shops out of business long ago. The only ones that remain are liberal Granola Marts in big cities. And I can’t imagine Tony Perkins slithering down the aisles, his little cart maneuvering around hippies, looking for organic tofu.

It’s poetic justice that businessmen are now bouncing social conservatives, who were duped into providing Republicans the votes to install the corporate worshipping Robert’s Court. These rubes bought the insincere rhetoric – from “job creators” to “no taxes” – and now they are throwing tantrums because corporate America has too much power. It did not take a genius to figure out that enabling an entity where profit reigned supreme would backfire in a rapidly changing age where anti-LGBT bigotry no longer pays.

Social conservatives also have a hypocrisy problem. On one hand they are proposing that government step in and pass laws to protect fundamentalist Christians from gays who want to buy wedding cakes. But on the other hand, they are saying that government protections against discrimination are not the solution for LGBT people. In the immortal words of Indiana’s disgraced Gov. Mike Pence: The gays can rely not on laws, but “Hoosier Hospitality.” (Yeah, he actually said that.)

The sad fact is that 29 states don’t have laws to protect LGBT people from discrimination. Gay marriage is legalized in 37 states. This means that in many places a gay person can marry his or her partner, but get canned for placing a wedding photo on the office desk.

Another lie peddled by Big Bible is that gays are forcing Christian business owners to “participate” in their weddings. This is not true.

Unless one is invited to a wedding as a guest or directly involved in the actual ceremony, one is not a participant. These business owners are mere vendors who falsely portray themselves as participants so they can justify sticking their nose where it doesn’t belong and expressing moral disapproval.

A florist or baker providing a product for a gay wedding is no more participating in that event than a hotdog vendor at Wrigley Field is playing in the game. A gay hotel clerk registering bigots at the Omni Shoreham hotel for the Values Voter Summit is not “participating” in that noxious event. He or she is simply doing his or her job.

The Human Rights Campaign’s Chad Griffin summed it up: “This historic week made one thing clear. There is a new American coalition for equality emerging. It crosses party lines. It touches all sectors of society – from businesses to faith leaders, to elected officials. It is fundamentally reshaping our national politics. And no state legislator peddling a two-bit piece of bigoted legislation is going to fly in our country anymore.”

Big Bible better start to pray – because the days are numbered when it can prey on LGBT people without consequences.

Wayne Besen

Our Man in Arlington

By Charlie Clark

April 4 delivered me to a double-barreled national history celebration, one that is possible only in Arlington.

At Arlington House, the National Park Service put on a rich evening commemoration of the unfolding of the end of the Civil War 150 years ago. April 4 being the day President Lincoln entered the shattered Confederate capital Richmond – five days before the surrender at Appomattox Court House.

Last Saturday’s bill of fare consisted of 19th-century dancing under the columns of Robert E. Lee’s mansion, tours of the rooms and prominent graves, fireworks, a candlelight vigil for the dead, plus great talks by Park Service staff and volunteers.

“You may be wondering why there’s a good mood here tonight,” said park ranger Matt Penrod. “The joy that all the death and destruction was coming to an end” was not shared elsewhere in the South. “But Northern Virginia was different, and in Arlington the mood was jubilant.”

Mrs. Robert E. Lee, in particular, having grown up at Arlington House and given birth to six children there, was still bitterly vowing the war would go on, Penrod noted. Union quartermaster Gen. Montgomery Meigs’ anger that his former colleague Gen. Lee had defected from the Union led him to place the earliest officer

graves around the rim of Mrs. Lee’s garden.

Arlington House – with its commanding view of Washington– was known early in the war as a must-hold fort. “Imagine what a couple of Confederate gun batteries could do from here,” Penrod said. When Lee signed his commitment to fight for the South there, it cost his family greatly.

He would never see the mansion again (though his postwar efforts at reconciliation gave Congress cause in the 1950s to re-designate the site as a Lee memorial).

Though somber, Saturday’s lessons were expertly recounted over the strains of a quartet of fiddlers and guitarists. They serenaded hoopskirted ladies and men in snappy vests or union military uniforms dancing the “Virginia Reel” in an authentic re-recreation of the actual celebrations.

No primer on Arlington House can omit reference to Freedman’s Village, the nearby property for blacks released from slavery in the 1860s. Among those liberated was James Parks (1843-1929), who was born at Arlington House, worked as a graves superintendent and helped guide the site’s restoration in the 1920s.

Earlier in the evening, I met two of Parks’ descendants scarcely a mile away at the Arlington Historical Museum, where the Historical Society and Black Heritage Museum unveiled a new exhibit on African-American history. Their single display case – which curators hope to expand

– brings the Civil War legacy into the 20th century with artifacts on the lives of blood storage medical pioneer and Arlington resident Charles Drew and Arlingtoneducated pop singer Roberta Flack.

With county and school board members looking on, Drew’s daughter, former District of Columbia Council Member Charlene Drew Jarvis, expressed joy at seeing her father’s college football photo, eyeglasses and saxophone. “Now that people are more willing to know our history, it’s important to share it,” she said before clarifying a “myth” that her father’s death in a car crash in 1950 resulted from being turned away from a whites-only North Carolina hospital. “He fell asleep at the wheel,” she said, “but he wouldn’t have if he hadn’t had to drive so far to find a place to lay his head.” *** One of Arlington’s oldest businesses, the Public Shoe Store on Wilson Boulevard (established in Clarendon in 1938), will close later this spring. Owner Sholom Friedman, age 82, who began working in the store for his father when he was five, told me his health is forcing this end of an era.

“You get to be my age and people are dropping dead – you just never know,” he said. The Public Shoe Store, to which my mother took me as a child at its earlier site across the street, has done remarkably well staying afloat against competition from the Internet. But Friedman expects to sell the building to some other type of retailer.

“No one does what I do.”

“How can I tell my kids we’re losing our house?”

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Community Events

THURSDAY, APRIL 9

Preschool Storytime. Stories, finger plays and songs for children ages 2 – 5 on Monday and Thursday every week. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 – 11 a.m. & 3 – 3:30 p.m. 703-248-5034.

Early Literacy Center. Explore educational and manipulative items to teach early literacy through play on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday every week. This program is for ages birth to 5 years. No registration required.

Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free.

11 a.m. – noon. & 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. 703-248-5034.

Peeps Story. Children and teens in grades kindergarten – 12 can drop off their dioramas based on children or teen literature for judging on Saturday. Contact the Youth Services Department or visit the library website for complete rules. Through April 10.

Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free.

9 a.m. – 5 p.m. 703-248-5034. fallschurchva.gov/Library.

F.C. Rotary Club Meeting. Harvest Moon Restaurant (7260 Arlington

Blvd., Falls Church). $15 dinner.

6:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, APRIL 10

A Few of My Favorite Things. The 12th annual Falls Church Arts AllMembers show opens. ArtSpace Falls Church (410 S. Maple Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. fallschurcharts.org.

SATURDAY, APRIL 11

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.

Spring Community Clean-Up. Clean up the City and keep litter out of local waterways. Great for individuals, groups and families.

Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church).

Free. 10 a.m. – noon.

Budget Town Hall. City Manager Wyatt Shields will make a presentation and answer questions on the proposed FY2016 budget.

Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church).

Free. 10 a.m. – noon.

Book Sale. A large selection of books, magazines and media for adults and children on sale at The Friends of the Tyson-Pimmit

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Library’s book sale. Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library (7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church). Prices vary. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. 703-790-4031.

Peeps Judging and Awards Announcement. Children and teens in grades kindergarten – 12 can drop off their dioramas based on children or teen literature for judging until 10:45 a.m. All dioramas will be available for patrons to view during the day on Saturday from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., except when they are being judged from 10:45 – 11:15 a.m.

Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free.

10:45 – 11:15 a.m. 703-248-5034.

Cabaret and Auction. The Friends of the Falls Church Homeless Shelter hosts the 2015 Biennial Cabaret and Auction to raise funds for the Falls Church Homeless Shelter.

NRECA Conference Center (4301 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $50. 6 – 10 p.m. fallschurchshelterfriends.org.

Nuvo Tango: Argentina’s New Tango. The Pan American Symphony Orchestra will be performing Nuvo Tango, which combines characteristics from traditional tango, classical music and jazz. The Falls Church Episcopal (115 E. Fairfax St., Falls Church). Free. 7:30 p.m.

concerts@thefallschurch.org.

703-532-8818.

SUNDAY, APRIL 12

Peeps Diorama Pick-Up. Peeps contestants can pick up their diorama. All dioramas left when the library closes will be disposed of. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church).

Free. 1 – 5 p.m. 703-248-5034.

Wildlife Ambassadors. Meet live animals from all walks of life and learn how they survive in their unique habitats. Doodlehopper 4 Kids (228 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 2 p.m. 703-538-9890.

Jefferson-Jackson Potluck.

The Falls Church Democratic Committee is hosting its annual Jefferson-Jackson traditional potluck supper, featuring U.S. Representative Don Beyer as the keynote speaker. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). 5 p.m. fallschurchdems@gmail.com.

TUESDAY, APRIL 14

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.

Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, APRIL 9

“The Laramie Project.” The McLean High School Theatre Company brings the story of one of America’s most well-known anti-gay hate crimes to the stage with its production of Moisés Kaufman’s controversial play, which explores the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old openly gay student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten to death for his open sexuality. Through April 12. McLean High School (1633 Davidson Road, McLean). $10 – $15. 7 p.m. mcleandrama.com.

FRIDAY, APRIL 10

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

beloved possessions: peanut butter, Wolf Blitzer and Herschel, the �ish. Her mother, roommate and sometimes-boyfriend all attempt to persuade her to leave her apartment and enjoy life. However, as Charlie’s memories take over, more complicated reasons for her self-in�licted hibernation emerge as she confronts her deferred dreams and considers the possibility of life and love just outside her door. This is the world premiere of this play, which was written

by Nick Blaemire. Through April 26. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington). $39 – $80. 8 p.m. signature-theatre.org.

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

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

SATURDAY, APRIL 11

“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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K���� M�����. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $45.

7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500.

P������ T���. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $35. 8 p.m. 703-2551900.

T�� L���������. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $18. 8 p.m. 703-237-0300.

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9 p.m. 703-241-9504.

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(1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 9 p.m. 202-667-4490.

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he man who brought redneck comedy to the spotlight will be in the area this weekend, giving a benefit performance in Arlington. Jeff Foxworthy is headlining “No Laughing Matter,” a celebration raising awareness and funds to combat esophageal cancer on Sunday at the Crystal Gateway Marriott. The event features a “Cabaret-style of entertainment” along with food, beer, wine and a live celebrity auction. Tickets are $79 for the main event or, if you want to rub elbows with the funnyman, VIP tickets for $200 will nab you fancier food, an open bar and a meet and greet with Mr. Foxworthy himself.

What: No Laughing Matter, An Evening with Jeff Foxworthy When: Sunday, April 12, 5:30 p.m.

Where: Crystal Gateway Marriott

1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington See ECAN.org/NoLaughingMatter for tickets and more information

public schools on Saturday and there will be a celebration with the City government, Village Preservation and Improvement Society and Victorian Society at Donald South Frady Park (East Broad Street and Fairfax Street). Free. 3 – 5 p.m. fallschurchva. gov/228/Tree-City-USA. 703-248-5183; TTY 711.

Sunday, April 26 – Arbor Day. Learn more about the Solarize Falls Church program, solar

energy and sign up for a free home energy check-up and solar site assessment. Falls Church Community Center Community Room (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free.

2:30 – 4 p.m. solarizefallschurch.org.

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Tucked into the ground floor corner of the famous Flower Building at 800 West Broad Street is a restaurant that may be considered one of the Little City’s better kept secrets.

Sfizi Cafe is, as it advertises, “an authentic Italian trattoria, wine shop and deli market” that offers far more than one may suspect by a casual look. Lino Ricciardi’s operation is one of the three to five best restaurants in Falls Church, which is saying a lot for a city that is becoming a magnet for such places.

Lunches and dinners there are a special treat, as the authentic ambiance of the space draws one away from the hub-bub and hum-drum of frantic Northern Virginia daily life into a more leisurely and very European setting. A bar along the side, a walk-up to where the sandwiches are ordered and made, and just behind that the partially-open kitchen with its many and wondrous smells, the racks of imported canned foods and condiments, and its row upon row of superior wine choices add to the tidy dining area to create that elusive but highly prized thing known as “atmosphere.”

All this is augmented by a large flat screen that looms over the space with rotating images of various famous photographed scenes of Italy, herself, in high definition.

Sfizi, pronounced “Sfeet-see,” is an Italian word describing a strong craving, a whim, a special treat, it says on the restaurant’s literature. All the specialties are made in-house with fresh ingredients and a handful of slightly more spicy offerings are so identified on the menu.

But in what is not evident on the extensive menus – one for lunch and the other for dinner – are the daily specials that are written onto a chalk board daily and often include Italian-style osso bucco, calves liver and fresh fish dishes, including whole roasted Branzino. The regular dinner menu is full of delicious choices along with antipasti, salads, pizzas and six vegetable side orders, along with 14 “primi piatti” and 12 “secondi piatti” choices.

Featured on the lunch menu are 13 panini sandwiches and a “do it your way” alternative involving choosing from among seven meats, eight cheeses and eight vegetables. There are also four bread options, and most can be ordered hot or cold, and most of the choices are between $7.95 and $8.95.

There are four salad options in addition to a “deli mix” that offers a choice of three different vegetables and five add-on meats, including seafood options. Artisan pizzas of medium (4 slices) and large (8 slices) with a total of 13 topping options are $9.95 for the medium and $15.95 for the large, and a frittate – an omelette served on homemade focaccia bread – is offered with a choice of three out of a total of 10 ingredients. Lunch combos of any two items for $8.95 offer choices of a mini panini, pasta marinara, soup of the day, frittata and mixed greens salad.

Fuller lunch meals, a total of 19 choices, range in price from $9.95 to $11.95.

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Leo Sequeira received his Bachelor of Science degree in information technology from Western Governors University the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 28th semi-annual commencement in February. Also, Jamal Bunyas received the Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship from Western Governors University, the school announced at the end of March.

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Marshall High Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Whyte Wins Natâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;l Merit Scholarship Natascha A. Whyte, a Falls Church resident and senior at George C. Marshall High School received a National Achievement Scholarship from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, the organization announced yesterday. The National Achievement Scholarship is worth $2,500.

According to a press release sent out announcing the winners of the National Merit Scholarship Corporationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scholarship contest, Whyteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probable career field is accounting. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of 800 students in the region to receive a scholarship from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. For more information, visit nationalmerit.org.

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Mason JV Baseball Scores 36 Runs In 2 Games, Improves Record to 4-3

by Carol Sly

Special to the News-Press

On a spring evening Monday, the George Mason High School junior varsity baseball team hosted Madison County in what started as a close contest but ended in a drubbing.

Mason scored first and led 1-0 after one, but the Mountaineers answered and the top of the second inning ended at 1-1 with runners left on base. In the third inning, Mustang Ryan Henderson led off with a bunt and his teammates worked him and others in to add to the score. The scoring ended at 5-1 with a run on a single by Grinden Collins.

The Mountaineers looked like they would add runs in the fourth.

They had bases loaded before Collins struck a batter out for the second out and then a Mountaineer

hit a hard line drive that was caught to end the inning.

It turned out to be Madison’s last chance – the Mustangs blew things open in the bottom of the 4th to take a decisive 9-1 lead. Thomas Creed started things off with a well hit single. The Mustangs then had a combination of deep singles scoring one and two runners, John Asel was hit by a pitch while showing bunt and some walks also brought in runs. Mason added to the score in the next inning ending the game at 14-1.

The Mustangs followed up Monday’s win with a 22-0 victory over Manassas Park Tuesday night.

The JV squad was in action tonight against Washington-Lee but results were unavailable at press time. Next up for Mason, a road game against Rappahannock at 7 p.m. this Friday.

MUSTANG SOPHOMORE REBECCA CROUCH (#20) scored three goals in Mason’s 9-0 thumping of Madison County Monday and added another in the ‘Stangs 8-0 win over Manassas Park Tuesday. (Photo: Brad Mills)

Mustang Girls Crush Madison County, Manassas Park in Consecutive Shutouts

by Liz Lizama

Falls Church News-Press

The George Mason High School girls soccer team returned from spring break to win 9-0 against Madison County High School on Monday and 8-0 against Manassas Park on Tuesday.

In Mason’s last game before break, the Mustangs shut out Central Woodstock High School, 8-0. The almost two-week gap between the Central and Madison County games did not stop the Mustangs from continuing their winning streak. The two additional wins on the road this week improves Mason’s record to 5-0.

“I think having back-to-back games to start this week, following a spring break hiatus, will be a good test of fitness for the team as well,” said head coach Jennifer Parsons ahead of this week’s games.

By the 60-minute mark, the Mustangs had already scored nine goals against Madison County. As a result, the game ended 20 minutes early per the “slaughter rule,” which states that a team with at least an

eight-goal differential over its opponent is declared the winner after 60 minutes of play.

Sophomore forward/midfielder Rebecca Crouch led the Mustangs against the Mountaineers with three goals and one assist. Junior midfielder Kate Mills and freshman forward/ midfielder Isabella Armstrong each scored two goals. Forward/ midfielders Corinne Carson, junior, and Ava Roth, senior, added one goal apiece.

The Mustangs continued the momentum the following day in an 8-0 defeat over Manassas Park. Mason scored all eight goals in the first half, which put the slaughter rule into effect after 60 minutes. Roth and senior defense Jessica Gemond led with two goals each. Carson, Crouch, Mills and sophomore forward/ midfielder Meghan Butler each contributed one goal.

The team’s leadership and experience drives the players to defend their state championship title. Mason returned 14 players from last year’s state championship team, and 10 of them have experienced two state championships, which Parsons said is a tremendous amount of experi-

ence to have in a group.

Mason has collectively scored 35 goals in the past five games.

Clarke County High School is the only team to break through the Mustangs’ defense this season. The two teams faced each other late last month in what was Mason’s lowest scoring game.

The Mustangs won 2-1 but have won all other games by at least eight goals.

“It is a good reminder that every team is beatable, and that we are the team that everyone else is looking to upset,” said Parsons. “The girls have responded very well, in both practices and our games since then, and it has helped us to improve and grow.”

As the Mustangs look forward to playing Rappahannock County High School at home tomorrow night, they remained very motivated. “We are always focused on playing quickly, keeping possession of the ball and working hard for each other off of the ball,” said Parsons.

“We want to continue to create good goal scoring opportunities, and increasing the number of times that we convert those opportunities into goals.”

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Café Kindred Opening Its Doors Sunday Café Kindred, a local café serving home-style food, drinks, and pastries in a warm, musical atmosphere, will be opening at 450 N. Washington Street on Sunday, April 12. Owned and operated by Gary O’Hanlon and Jennifer Demetrio, Café Kindred will offer light fare breakfasts such as scones, muffins, croissants, quiche, yogurt parfaits, and fruit salads and lunch options such as sandwiches, salads, soups, meat and cheese platters, along with pastries and desserts, fresh brewed coffee, and tea. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/cafekindred.

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Dougherty DDS in Falls Church has announced its dental savings plans created for patients without insurance to provide affordable and greater access to quality dental care for individuals and families. The plans have no deductibles, annual maximums, or pre-existing condition clauses. There are both Traditional and Periodontal focused plans available. The Savings Plans cover appropriate exams and cleanings each year and offer a 15 percent discount on all in office dental procedures and whitening. The practice’s Loyalty Bonus offers annual rewards for renewing members. For more information about William V. Dougherty, DDS or his dental practice located in suite 506 at 200 Little Falls Street, visit www.doughertydds.com.

F.C. RadioShack May Remain Open After All While RadioShack Corp has already closed hundreds of its retail stores due to its bankruptcy filed in February, approximately 1,700 of them will remain in operation co-branded with Sprint Corp. as a result of its acquisition by its biggest shareholder, Standard General LP for about $145.5 million. The stores employ more than 7,000 people. Approximately 160 stores were previously sold to Sprint Mobile, a unit of GameStop Corp., and will be rebranded. Radio Shack entered bankruptcy in February with more than 4,000 stores, $1.2 billion in assets and almost $1.4 billion in debt. Four stores remain within five miles of Falls Church (locations in McLean, Arlington, Annandale, Baileys Crossroads.) A final determination about which stores will remain open has not yet been announced. For more information, visit radioshack.com.

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IT’S AN ANNUAL EVENT but it never grows old. As predictable as the on-site Easter Bunny may be, and the demarcated areas designating different age groups of kids-with-baskets, and the fact that the whole “hunt” aspect is usually over in less than five minutes, the usual Saturday morning before Easter in Falls Church’s Cherry Hill Park is always a delight. One of its up sides is that it is very hard for anyone to come away without having found an egg! (Photos: Larry Golfer)

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA

The Board of Zoning Appeals of the City of Falls Church, Virginia will hold a public hearing on ­­­April 16, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers, 300 Park Avenue, for consideration of the following subjects: a. Appeal application A1569-15 by UHaul Real Estate Corporation appealing the Zoning Administrator’s determination that a “full site plan is required for the entire site as a result of repairs to a small portion of asphalt surface in the rear of the site” on premises known as 1107 West Broad St, RPC #52-102-049 of the Falls Church Real Property Records, zoned M-1 Light Industrial, said property owned by U-Haul Real Estate Co.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA The ordinances referenced below were given first reading on March 23, 2015. Public hearings are scheduled for Monday, April 13 and Monday, April 27, 2015, with second reading and final Council action scheduled for Monday, April 27, 2015, at 7:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as may be heard.

(TO15-04) ORDINANCE FIXING AND DETERMINING THE BUDGET OF EXPENDITURES AND REVENUES, APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2016:

GENERAL FUND; SCHOOL OPERATING FUND; SCHOOL COMMUNITY SERVICE FUND; AND SCHOOL FOOD SERVICE FUND; SEWER FUND; AND STORMWATER FUND (TO15-05) ORDINANCE FIXING AND DETERMINING THE FY2016-FY2020 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM BUDGET AND APPROPRIATING EXPENDITURE AND REVENUE FUNDS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2016 (TO15-06) ORDINANCE SETTING THE RATE OF TAX LEVY ON REAL ESTATE, PERSONAL PROPERTY, MACHINERY AND TOOLS AND ALL OTHER PROPERTY SEGREGATED BY LAW FOR LOCAL TAXATION IN THE CITY OF FALLS CHURCH VIRGINIA FOR TAX YEAR 2016 Listed below are the proposed tax rates for the tax year beginning July 1, 2015. $1.345 upon each $100.00 of assessed value of real estate in the City of Falls Church; $4.84 upon each $100.00 of assessed value on tangible personal property, and machinery and tools, and all other property segregated by law for local taxation within the City, including the property separately classified by Section 58.1-3500 et seq. of the Code of Virginia except such personal property as is exempted; and except that pursuant to Section 58.1-2606 of the Code of Virginia, a portion of assessed value of tangible personal property of public service corporations shall be taxed at the real estate rate.

(TO15-07) ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 42, “UTILITIES,” TO REVISE SEWER RATES AND FEES AS OF JULY 1, 2015 Under the legal authority granted by VA §15.2-2119, an increase to the City sewer commodity rate from $9.40 per 1,000 gallons to $9.73 per 1,000 gallons, effective July 1, 2015 is proposed. Adoption of a rate of $9.73 per 1,000 gallons would constitute an increase of $.33 per 1,000 gallons used or an increase of 3.5%.

An increase to the Administrative Fixed Charge for those who receive monthly bills from $2.00 to $6.00 is proposed. Adoption of a monthly Administrative Fixed Charge of $6.00 would constitute an increase of $4.00 per monthly bill or an increase of 200%.

All public hearings will be held in the Council Chambers, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church, Virginia. For copies of legislation, contact the City Clerk’s office at (703-248-5014) or cityclerk@fallschurchva.gov. The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, call 703-248-5014 (TTY 711).

Commonwealth of Virginia’s electronic procurement portal for registered suppliers: http://eva.virginia.gov.

For more information and/or questions regarding this RFP contact the City’s Purchasing Agent; (703) 248-5007; purchasing@ fallschurchva.gov. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, call 703 248-5007 (TTY 711).

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Support for full funding for the Falls Church schools in the FY96 budget came from another unexpected source Monday night, when the Falls Church Citizens Organization (FCCO) stepped before the City Council with a coordinated sequence of speakers, augmented by an array of overhead-projected charts and graphs, to propose draconian personnel cuts in the City staff as a way of permitting the full School Board budget request and a real estate tax rate up only....

Developers are buying up land by the bucket full and a recent Virginia Tech study indicates the area around the East Falls Church Metro station, in North Arlington just outside of the City of Falls Church, will explode with new development in the coming decade.

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CRIME REPORT Weeks of March 22 - April 2, 2015

Urinating in Public, 306 Hillwood Ave. (Lesly’s Restaurant) On Mar. 30, a male, 36, of Falls Church, was arrested and released on summons for Urinating In Public.

Shoplifting, 1212 W. Broad St. (Virginia ABC Store) On Mar. 30, police received a report theft of merchandise.

Public Drunkenness, 200 block E. Fairfax St. On Mar. 22, a male, 19, of Falls Church, was arrested for Public Drunkenness.

Assault, 201 S. Washington St. (7-Eleven) On Mar. 31, an unknown person assaulted the victim during a merchandise transaction.

Vandalism, 115 E. Fairfax St. (The Falls Church) On Mar. 31, police received a report of vandalized tombstone.

Assault and Destruction of Property, 1200 block S. Washington St. On Mar. 31, a male, 23, of the City of Falls Church, was arrested for Assault and Destruction of Property.

Larceny from Building, 155 Hillwood Ave. (Halal Market) On Apr. 1, an unknown person stole an unattended iPad. Larceny from Building, 1111 W. Broad St. (Bridge Cleaners) On Apr. 2, an unknown person stole a piggy bank.

Narcotics Violation, 400 block N. Maple Ave. On Apr. 2, a male, 20, of the City of Falls Church, was arrested and released on summons for Possession of Marijuana.

Public Drunkenness, 300 block W. Broad St. On Apr. 2, a male, 50, of Fairfax, was arrested for Public Drunkenness.

Vandalism to Vehicle, 900 block Ellison St. On Apr. 3, a vehicle was found with a window shattered.

Trespass, 115 E. Fairfax St. (The Falls Church) On Apr. 3, male, 62, no fixed

address, was arrested and released on summons for Trespassing.

Possession of False Identification, 1000 block W. Broad St. On Apr. 3, a male, 55, no fixed address, was arrested for Possession of False Identification and Providing False Identification to a Law Enforcement Officer.

Public Drunkenness and Weapons Violation, 130 N. Washington St. On Apr. 4, a male, 44, of Falls Church, was arrested for Public Drunkenness and Unlawful Carrying a Concealed Weapon.

Narcotics Violation and Driving Under the Influence, 7100 block Leesburg Pike On Apr. 5, an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a male, 49, of Fairfax, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence, Possession of Marijuana, and Refusal to Submit to a Blood or Breath Test.

Destruction of Property, 6609 Wilson Blvd. (Vietnam Restaurant) On Apr. 5, an unknown person shattered the glass front door.

Destruction of Property, 600 block Laura Dr. On Apr. 5, police received a reported of shattered window.

Commercial Burglary, 165 Hillwood Ave. (Hillwood Cleaners) On Mar. 25, an unknown individual forced entry and stole cash.

Narcotics Violation, 6757 Wilson Blvd.

(Eden Center) On Mar. 25, a male, 28, of Silver Spring, MD, was arrested for Possession of Cocaine.

Designated Area.

Shoplifting, 6787-B Wilson Blvd. (Lang Van Music) On Mar. 27, police received a report of an individual shoplifting items from the store.

Driving Under the Influence, 400 block W. Broad St. On Mar. 27, an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a female, 28, of Clifton, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence.

Public Drunkenness, 220 N. Washington St. (State Theater) On Mar. 28, a male, 36, of Herndon; and a male, 36, of Gainesville, were arrested for Public Drunkenness.

Driving Under the Influence, 2800 block Marshall St. On Mar. 28, an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a male, 44, of Alexandria, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence and Refusal to Submit to a Blood or Breath Test.

Larceny from Building, 101 E. Annandale Rd. (Dunkin Donuts) On Mar. 28, an iPhone was reported stolen from a customer.

Shoplifiting, 1230 W. Broad St. (Giant Foods) On Mar. 28, police received a report of shoplifting which occurred on Mar. 2.

Driving Under the Influence, 1200 block W. Broad St. On Mar. 29, an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a male, 29, of Alexandria, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence.

Driving Under the Influence, 300 block Hillwood Ave. On Mar. 29, an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a malea, 35, of Falls Church, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence.

Shoplifting, 1230 W. Broad St. (Giant Foods) On Mar. 26, a female, 42, of Falls Church, was arrested for Shoplifting.

Narcotics Violation and Liquor Law Violations, 100 block E. Annandale Rd. On Mar. 29, a male, 19, of Falls Church, was arrested and released on summons for Possession of Marijuana. a male, 19, of Falls Church, was arrested and released on summons for Underage Possession of Alcohol.

Smoking Violation, 6795 Wilson Blvd. #1E (Café Metro) On Mar. 27, a male, 40, of Vienna, was cited for Smoking In a Non-

Destruction of Property, 809 W. Broad St. (Milagrito Latino Group) On Mar. 29, a glass window was reported shattered.

Larceny from Vehicle, 800 block W. Broad St. On Mar. 26, police received a report that an unknown person stole cash from a residence.

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