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Inside This Week Anglicans File Petition For Reconsideration Refusing to accept the April 18 ruling of the Virginia Supreme Court denying their appeal as final, leaders of the breakaway congregation from the historic Falls Church Episcopal filed yet another appeal to the state’s Supreme Court last Friday. See story, page 5

Connelly, Sze Announce Council Bids

38th Annual Memorial Day Fete & Parade Will Bring 10,000 to Falls Church Monday

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Mild Weather in Store, Food Drive Launched Again

by Nicholas F. Benton

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With the June 11 filing deadline approaching, two Falls Church citizens officially announced they’re throwing their hat in the ring to run for the Falls Church City Council today.

lieutenant governor and attorney general, Aneesh Chopra and Sen. Mark Herring, but it wasn’t until McAuliffe stormed the joint that things really got hopping. McAuliffe has that kind of effect on people, especially Democratic partisans, and they love it. Everywhere he speaks, he proclaims whomever his hosts are

A 12-page special insert in this week’s edition of the News-Press, functioning as an official guide to Monday’s 38th Annual Falls Church Memorial Day Parade and Festival, spells out the full range of activities that are expected to draw over 10,000 non-residents to the City for that day. The entire day will center around the solemn annual Memorial Day remembrance service scheduled for 11 a.m. in front of the Community Center. The weather forecast is for one of the milder Memorial Days in memory, with high temperatures in the low 70s, and a remote chance of some rain showers. Among the special features of the day are the array of exhibits, food and craft vendors and community groups who will have their booths set up around City Hall, the early risers’ Don Beyer Volvo 5K Fun Run, the musical entertainment on the portable stage set up in the intersection of Park and Maple, and the parade, itself, set to kick off at 2 p.m. from the northwest end of Park Avenue. The also marks the launch of the annual News-Press and Diener and Associates CPAs food drive that extends through July 4. Everybody is urged to fill a grocery bag with non-perishable food items and bring them to the News-Press booth in the City Hall parking lot during the day. The food will be delivered to the Food for Others based in Merrifield which provides free meals at 14 locations throughout Northern Virginia every day. Following Monday, the drive will continue with drop boxes located

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Maureen Dowd: Serving Up Shlock

TV executives think younger viewers don’t care about history. And they’re always on the hunt for the younger demo, working on the mistaken premise that millennials buy more and change brands more often than profligate and fickle baby boomers. See page 13

Press Pass with Shenandoah Run

Shenandoah Run is bringing 150 years of performing experience to the stage Monday morning at the City of Falls Church’s Memorial Day Parade and Festival. See page 25

HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS Molly Ringwald was in Falls Church last Thursday night, the special guest of the O’Keefe PR firm’s 16th birthday party that drew hundreds of invited guests to Ireland’s Four Provinces restaurant A 16th birthday featuring the star of the cult movie classic “16 Candles,” get it? According to reports, Ringwald commanded $23,000 for the three-hour gig of being friendly while negotiating the long line of party guests seeking autographs and their picture taken with her. (Photo: News-Press)

McAuliffe Campaign Steams Into F.C. After GOP Slate is Chosen by Nicholas F. Benton

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Rolling into Falls Church last Sunday night after earlier campaign stops in Powhattan and Gainesville, an Energizer Bunny-like, loud and wide-eyed, spring stepping, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead”-professing Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe took a wind-

ing down potluck hosted by the Falls Church City Democratic Committee at the local Community Center and turned it into a cheering, yelping and stomping political rally. There were a number of seasoned stump speakers who spoke that night, including U.S. Rep. Jim Moran, State Sen. Dick Saslaw, Del. Jim Scott and two of the four Democratic candidates for

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL OF A RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE PURSUANT TO § 56-585.1 A 4 OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA CASE NO. PUE-2013-00023 On May 2, 2013, Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion Virginia Power” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 4 (“Subsection A 4”) of the Code of Virginia (“Code”), submitted an application (“Application”) with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) for approval of a rate adjustment clause (“RAC”) designated as Rider T1. Subsection A 4 allows an investor-owned electric utility to recover, with Commission approval, certain costs through a RAC. Subsection A 4 deems to be prudent the “costs for transmission services provided to the utility by the regional transmission entity of which the utility is a member” and “costs charged to the utility that are associated with demand response programs approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [(“FERC”)] and administered by the regional transmission entity of which the utility is a member.” According to Dominion Virginia Power’s Application, the Company became a member of PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (“PJM”), a regional transmission entity that has been approved by FERC as a regional transmission organization, effective May 1, 2005. Dominion Virginia Power, as an integrated electric utility member of PJM, obtains transmission service from PJM and pays PJM charges for such service at the rates contained in PJM’s Open Access Transmission Tariff approved by FERC. The Company states that it also pays PJM charges for costs associated with demand response programs approved by FERC and administered by PJM. In this proceeding, Dominion Virginia Power seeks approval of a revenue requirement for the rate year September 1, 2013, through August 31, 2014 (“Rate Year”). This revenue requirement, if approved, would be recovered through a combination of base rates and a revised increment/decrement Rider T1. Rider T1 is designed to recover the increment/decrement between the revenues produced from the transmission component of base rates and the new revenue requirement developed from the Company’s total transmission costs for the Rate Year. Specifically, the total revenue requirement that the Company proposes to recover over the Rate Year is $404,390,704. This represents an increase of $21,708,898 over the revenues projected to be produced during the Rate Year by the combination of the transmission component of base rates and the Rider T1 rates currently in effect. The implementation of the proposed Rider T1 on September 1, 2013, would increase the monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours per month by $0.49. The Company does not propose any changes from the cost allocation and rate design methodologies previously approved for Subsection A 4 RACs. The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on June 27, 2013, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear in the Commission’s courtroom 15 minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff. Individuals with disabilities who require an accommodation to participate in the hearing should contact the Commission at least 7 days before the scheduled hearing at 1-800-552-7945 (voice) or 1-804-371-9206 (TDD). The Company’s Application and the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing are available for public inspection during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies also may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Mark O. Webb, Esquire, Dominion Resources Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means. Copies of the public version of all documents filed in this case also are available for interested persons to review in the Commission’s Document Control Center, located on the first floor of the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, between the hours of 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing a notice of participation on or before June 7, 2013. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), any notice of participation shall set forth (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-2013-00023. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing. On or before June 14, 2013, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. Respondents also shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. Respondents shall refer in all of their filed papers to Case No. PUE-2013-00023. On or before June 20, 2013, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application may file written comments on the Application with the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before June 20, 2013, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUE-2013-00023. The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding may be obtained from the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY d/b/a DOMINION VIRGINIA POWER

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at a half dozen locations around Falls Church, including the offices of the News-Press at 200 Little Falls St., Suite 508, Diener and Associates, 123 Rowell Court, the Community Center, 223 Little Falls, Art and Frame of Falls Church, 105 Park Avenue, the Unity Club, 124 W. Broad St. and Don Beyer Volvo, 1050 W. Broad St. Also the News-Press booth Monday will be the site for the annual “Wacky Hat Contest,” as fun-loving folks are encouraged to design and show up with their best “wacky hat” to be photographed for the News-Press, with the winners taking away gift certificates to a local restaurant. A major presence at this year’s festival is expected from candidates seeking election to public office this November. With a June 11 filing deadline looming, candidates for the Falls Church City Council and School Board will be viewing the festival as a bonanza opportunity to solicit petition signatures of City residents to qualify for the ballot. It will be a great chance to see who’s made any late decisions to jump into the fray. Woven in between the dance and band troupes in the parade will be an abundance of elected officials, local Little League baseball players, bagpipers, cheerful volunteers from local civic associations, and those adorable Kena Lodge Shriner putt-putt cars with drivers often bigger than their cars working their flawless figure-eights and other routines. Look for Falls Church City Treasurer Cathy Kaye to be flaunting her massive red Galaxy 500 convertible. The parade grand marshals, this year the City’s legendary two crossing guards, Audrey Luthman and Janet Haines, and king and queen chosen by students at George Mason High School, Cal Hannan and Kelly Ready, will greet everybody at the front end of the parade. Special feature stories on the marshals and Mason royalty are in the guide to the festival in the center of this issue. Crowds are expected to line the length of Park Avenue from where the parade kicks off at its corner with N. West Street, to past the intersection of Little Falls in front of City Hall, where the judges will be stationed to select winners in a number of categories for the parade participants and Falls Church’s own Gary Reals, long of Channel 9 news reporting fame, will be back this year with microphone in hand to introduce the crowd to the various parade entries as they pass.

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F.C. Anglicans File Petition for Another Reconsideration by Supreme Court by Nicholas F. Benton

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Refusing to accept as final the April 18 ruling of the Virginia Supreme Court denying their appeal, leaders of the breakaway congregation from the historic Falls Church Episcopal filed yet another appeal to the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supreme Court last Friday. The breakaway group, reconstituted as the Falls Church Anglican congregation under leadership of a Nigerian bishop, is seeking to reverse the January 2012 ruling of the Fairfax Circuit Court affirming that the campus of the historic church in downtown City of Falls Church is rightfully owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and its congregation of â&#x20AC;&#x153;continuing Episcopaliansâ&#x20AC;? in Falls Church. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;continuing Episcopalianâ&#x20AC;? congregation, made up of members of the historic church who did not follow the defectors out of the denomination in 2006, returned to the historic campus a year ago, based on the circuit court ruling, and last week held a service to welcome their new rector,

the Rev. John Ohmer, in which Bishop Shannon Johnston of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia participated. The defectors, led by the Rev. John Yates, who occupied the campus for five years, forcing the â&#x20AC;&#x153;continuing Episcopaliansâ&#x20AC;? to worship in the fellowship hall of a church across the street, have been worshipping mostly in the auditorium of Bishop Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connell High School, a few blocks from the City of Falls Church boundary in North Arlington. The group based its action to defect in December 2006 on its opposition to the National

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Episcopal Church vote to elevate an openly-gay priest to standing as a bishop, its opposition to the ordination of women and other issues. Their latest appeal for a Supreme Court rehearing is based, it says, on the fact that the â&#x20AC;&#x153;constructive trustâ&#x20AC;? theory â&#x20AC;&#x153;on which the court has relied has never â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in over six years of litigation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; been pled, argued, briefed or proven.â&#x20AC;? A single justice of the Supreme Court can determine, based on the merits of the petition, if there is good cause for a rehearing, and a decision on that is expected within a few weeks.

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Chopra & Herring In Dem Primary

The choices made at its state convention in Richmond last Saturday by the Virginia Republican Party for its slate of candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general in this November’s election could not make the choices easier for fair-minded, pro-business, proequal rights voters of any party affiliation. The chosen GOP slate of current Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for governor, lunatic fringer Rev. E. J. Jackson for lieutenant governor and Cuccinelli clone State Sen. Mark Obenshain could not be more reactionary, Neanderthal and a distinct threat to every step Virginia has taken in recent decades to progress into the 21st century. But defeating this slate will be no easy task for its Democratic counterparts, given the long-standing trend in Virginia that has whichever party wins the presidency gets defeated in the year-after statewide elections. Virginia has also not elected a Democrat as attorney general for 24 years. This time, however, former Democratic National Committee chair Terry McAuliffe has begun running a very aggressive, energetic campaign, and Democrats will have choices in the upcoming June 11 primary among excellent candidates for lieutenant governor – Aneesh Chopra and State Sen. Ralph Northam – and attorney general – State Sen. Mark Herring and Justin Fairfax. Everyone on the Democratic side agrees that the key to winning for them this year lies in getting out the vote. All the data points to one thing: When it comes to getting out the vote, it is getting out the vote in Northern Virginia that matters most. Here – in Fairfax County, Falls Church, Arlington and Alexandria, and reaching further out to parts of Prince William and Loudoun counties – the size of landslide margins for Democrats will determine the outcomes statewide. Therefore, it makes little sense to “balance” the Democratic ticket with representation from outside this region. When Democrats nominated for governor from outside the area for the 2009, it was a disaster for them. State Sen. Creigh Deeds was a noble candidate, but his inability to energize Northern Virginia Democrats – by failing to appear at a critical fundraising event hosted by the Virginia Partisans LGBT Club, for example – doomed his party’s chances. For lieutenant governor, while Sen. Northam’s record and commitments are highly commendable, the fact that he hails from Norfolk is little help. Chief of Gov. Tim Kaine’s and Obama’s technology offices, Chopra, based in Arlington, is personable, popular and capable of generating a lot of enthusiasm for the Democratic slate in this high-tech “creative class” region, as well as elsewhere. For attorney general, Sen. Herring is from Loudoun County and his experience and affability commend him. For these reasons, we throw our support to Chopra and Herring in the June 11 Democratic primary.

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Dogwood Tavern Not at Fault in Towing Incident

Editor, Other than their excellent burgers, I have no connection to the Dogwood Tavern. However, I did want to come to its defense in the matter of Mr. Scardino’s unpleasant and expensive experience in predatory towing. Mr. Scardino wrote in a Letter to the Editor that he was towed from the lot shared by the Dogwood, Town & Country Realtors and other merchants.

He called upon the Dogwood to resolve the “dispute” with Town & Country Realtors over the towing situation. The lot is jointly maintained but Town & Country Realtors effectively owns three assigned parking spots. For whatever reason, Town & Country has authorized towing 24-hours a day, from these (three) spots in the midst of a sea of parking. The Dogwood Tavern has no control over Town & Country Realtors’

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towing policy. The dispute seems to be The Dogwood asking Town & Country to limit its “authorization to tow” to business hours as other merchants in the area have done. The proper place to direct outrage at towing policies is with the merchant/landlord who controls the spaces. It is not the towing company, it is not the city, it is not the neighboring merchants who determined the conditions under which you will be towed. I want to say that these three parking spots are owned and paid for by Town & Country Realtors. They have the right to authorize towing on their property.

However, if someone came to my door with a petition asking Town & Country to change its towing policy, I would sign it. Jan Hertzsch Falls Church

Merrifield’s Mosaic Sharply Contrasted To Falls Church Editor, It is with great exasperation that I write to you. I went to the new Mosaic development at Merrifield More Letters on Page 28

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G u e s t C o m m e n ta ry The Importance of Honoring Vets on Memorial Day By Harry Shovlin

Memorial Day 2013 is upon us and it has called to my mind a Memorial Day in 1971 that left a lasting impression on me. I was in the U.S. Army, stationed in West Germany. My 1st Sergeant asked me to participate in the V-Corps honor guard under the command of General Anthony Cutrona, the head of the 5th Corps. Of course, I said yes and was excited to join the honor guard even though I was not the required 6’ tall. The honor guard visited the cemeteries of Flanders, Henri Chapel, and the Argonne Forest. It was my experiences at the these American cemeteries that cemented my vision of what a Memorial Day ceremony should be. The ceremonies were short and to the point. The local town ofﬁcial said a few words, the general spoke in his almost perfect French dialect, and a local band played one or two selections. To my surprise, the towns around these cemeteries closed down, and the citizens attended the ceremonies. Remember, these were American cemeteries in Europe. The crowds were large and were respectful. The locals treated us like royalty and explained to us that they recognized our American holiday, Memorial Day, as their own holiday. They came to visit the cemeteries in order to remember and pray. They came to show their respect for all of the American lives that were lost in their defense during

WWI and WWII. We need to imitate the Europeans in the way in which they honored those who have sacriﬁced so that others may live and be free. On May 27, 2013 we can do just that by attending the ofﬁcial Falls Church City

“These plaques of recognition are intended to remind us that freedom comes with a price.” Memorial Day ceremony. The ceremony begins at 11 a.m. and usually ends no later than 11:45. This well-rehearsed program will include a color guard, the Falls Church Civic Band, the Daughters of the Revolution, clergy for the invocation and prayer for the fallen soldier, and a guest speaker who will share his memories with us as a Japanese-American during WWII. By attending the ceremony you will learn, pray, and remember. Children of all ages are welcome as are their parents or guardians. Consider this commentary your ofﬁcial invitation to be at the ceremony.

Memorial park, in front of the Community Center, serves as the site of our ceremony. There are seven granite pillars with a bronze plaque affixed to each one. The bronze plaques are the insignias of the seven uniformed services: The Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marines, Air Force, NOAA Commissioned Corps, and the Public Health Service. These seven pillars of granite, and a flag pole, make up the official Falls Church City Veteran’s Memorial. Affixed to the Community Center’s wall is a bronze plaque listing the names of the Falls church area men who died while serving their country in uniform. The Falls Church Historic Commission researched the names from 1775 to 1975. The casualty lists were recorded from The Revolutionary War, The war of 1812, The Mexican War, The Civil War, The Spanish American War, WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. An additional plaque listing the names of those military personnel who died during the Middle East Conflict will be placed next to the existing plaque in the near future. These plaques of recognition are intended to remind us that freedom comes with a price. The citizens of the Falls Church area contributed the necessary funds to build the memorial and the plaques. Our Veteran’s Memorial was designed and built over an eight year period. The committee was made up of every military

veterans organization in the Falls Church area. The memorial was built to honor all military veterans, men and women. Most civic memorials are built to recognize a particular war or battle, but ours are unique. By recognizing the men and women of NOAA Commissioned Corps and the Public Health Corps, our memorial is different from 99 percent of all USA memorials. Inclusiveness was the goal of the founding committee and I am proud to say that we achieved that goal. Memorial Day in Falls Church City is always a fun day where the spirit of the “little city” is on display. Remember, the day’s events, like the Don Beyer Fun Run, the Memorial Day ceremony, and the parade do not happen by chance. A great deal of planning goes into each event. The Recreation and Parks Department takes the lead in the organizing of these events with committees composed of many staff and volunteers. Let’s remember to thank them and the Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department, which covers each event with medical staff, the Public Works crew who work all day on our “day off,” and our public Safety personnel (Police and Sheriff’s Departments) who work all day keeping us safe and secure. In closing, come and enjoy “The Historic Falls Church” with all of its history and this day’s many special events. The memorial Ceremony starts at 11 a.m. – be there!

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Connelly, Sze Announce F.C. Council Bids With the June 11 filing deadline approaching, two more Falls Church citizens officially announced theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re throwing their hat in the ring to run for the Falls Church City Council today. Both made their announcements at todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s monthly luncheon of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. Marybeth Connelly, community outreach coordinator for the Falls Church City Schools, and Dan Sze, who served on the City Council from 2006-2010, began circulating their petitions at the event. To date the only other officially announced candidate to fill one of four seats on the seven-member Council that will be contested in the November election is Vice Mayor David Snyder. For five School Board slots that will be contested, only two candidates have announced so far: current School Board chair Susan Kearney and former F.C. Council member Lawrence Webb. It is expected, given the requirements to qualify for the ballot and the impending deadline, that most candidates for the City Council and School Board will be circulating petitions at the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Memorial Day parade and festival on Monday.

F.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tidwell to Seek GOP Nod in 53rd District Brad Tidwell announced last Thursday at a meeting of the Falls Church GOP that he intends to seek the Republican nomination in the 53rd House of Delegates district, which includes Falls Church City and parts of Fairfax County. Tidwell is a former chair of the Arlington Falls Church Young Republicans and lives in Falls Church City. He is a member of the Falls Church GOP committee, where he is an executive committee member and webmaster, and is in charge of Party Liaison and coordination with other GOP groups in Virginia and nationally. Brad was a delegate to the Republican Party of Virginia convention in Richmond this past weekend, and he was elected Delegation Chair by his fellow delegates. If successful in getting the GOP nod, he would face Democrat Marcus Simon, hand picked by retiring 53rd District Del. Jim Scott as his preferred replacement, in November, along with a Libertarian Party candidate, Anthony Tellez.

Council Agrees on Fee Rate for Stormwater Fund At its work session Monday night, the Falls Church City Council agreed on a basic fee rate to charge for everybody for the impervious surfaces on their business, home or church properties. The rate will be $18 per 200 square feet of impervious surface. There was very little objection to this as presented by Bill Hicks of the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Utilities Department. There was, however, considerable debate and no resolution yet about discounts or other perks that could accrue if property owners undertook to make improvements on their land to diminish water runoff. That will be put forward to the next Council business meeting next Tuesday. Vice Mayor David Snyder expressed concern for the impact of this new fee on small businesses. When City Manager Wyatt Shields said that the City has spoken with business owners, Snyder shot back, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What are they saying back?â&#x20AC;? Shields said â&#x20AC;&#x153;there is no question but that there will be significant costs,â&#x20AC;? adding that delaying the first payment to June 2014 was in response to their â&#x20AC;&#x153;needing time to plan for it.â&#x20AC;? The fee would be effective Jan. 1, 2014 and the first payment would be due June 2014.

Block Party Fee Abolished in F.C. Council Review A recently-added City of Falls Church fee for any group wishing to hold a block party around town was removed by the City Council in its work session Monday night. The Council did a preliminary review of all the fees charged for various services that includes a number of increases. Two areas where Council members balked at proposed fee hikes from City Hall were (1) fees for sidewalk cafe uses by local restaurants and (2) increased fees for getting basic information and services from the government. In the first case, encouragement of economic growth would be deterred by a fee, Council members concurred, while requiring a permit when the use is on public property was considered appropriate. In the second case, Council member David Tarter argued strongly that increasing fees for basic government services, such as an increase from zero to $1,000 for a zoning opinion from City Hall, â&#x20AC;&#x153;impacts peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s willingness to ask questions.â&#x20AC;?

Fire at Marshall High School Causes $20K Damage A flash fire broke out at George C. Marshall High School in Falls Church Saturday morning and resulted in an estimated $20,000 worth of damage. Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department units responded to the fire at the school located at 7731 Leesburg Pike at approximately 10:25 a.m. on May 18 where firefighters reported smoke coming from the school upon arrival. Firefighters brought the fire under control in approximately 10 minutes, officials reported. Five individuals working in the school were treated at the scene. According to fire investigators the cause is undetermined.

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Community News & Notes Challenger Sports Brings British Soccer Camps to F.C. Challenger Sports has been invited to hold three weeks of its nationwide program of British Soccer Camps in the City of Falls Church. This summer, the City’s Recreation and Parks Department will team up with Challenger Sports for a British Soccer Camp at George Mason High School June 24 – 28, Aug. 5 – 9, and Aug. 12 – 16. The camp runs Monday through Friday and each child will be coached by a member of Challenger’s British coaching staff flown to the USA exclusively to work on these programs. Challenger’s British Soccer Camp is more than a week of drills and skills. In addition to taking part in a daily regimen of foot skill development, technical and tactical practices and daily tournament style

plays, each child will also be treated to a cultural experience and lessons on respect, responsibility, integrity, leadership, and sportsmanship. The most popular part of each camp is the Camp World Cup. The coaches use this daily tournament to teach the players about life, customs and traditions of other countries. For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/Recreation or call 703-248-5027.

Cathy Ponton King to Play Benefit Show for Blues Fest Blues musician Cathy Ponton King will play a show this Sunday from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. at Open Kitchen to benefit the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation and its annual Tinner Hill Blues Festival. Guests attending the show, the second in this year’s Prelude to the Blues fundraising series, can listening to King perform on the

enclosed Open Kitchen terrace with Bill Starks on keyboards and Mike Melchione, from Buckwheat Zydeco, on guitar. Tickets to the show are $20, and brunch is available at an additional charge. Open Kitchen is located at 7115 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church. For more information, visit tinnerhill. org.

2 GOP Delegates from F.C. Attend State Convention Two Republican Party delegates from Falls Church City attended the opening night VIP reception at the 2013 Republican State Convention held in Richmond last Friday. There, Falls Church City GOP Chair Ken Feltman and Falls Church Republican delegate and State Central Committee member Heather Homan met with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. The reception honored all State

In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Sun & Moon Taiji One was selected to perform for Asia Heritage Foundation’s Fiesta Asia Street Festival on Saturday. Sun & Moon Taiji One’s instructors Mickey and Melody Lee and seven of their students demonstrated Tai Chi forms (Yang and Chen styles), weapons, and martial arts applications synchronized to music on the Central Martial Arts Stage. Sun & Moon Taiji One performers are pictured above posed in “Pipa” position. (Photo: Courtesy Mickey Lee)

Central Committee members and local GOP chairs but was directed especially at new members of the State Central Committee, which governs the Republican Party in Virginia. Homan is a new member of the SCC. She has been an active leader (including chair) of the Arlington Falls Church Young Republicans for several years. In recognition of her leadership, Virginia GOP Chair Pat Mullins selected Heather to read the Virginia Republican creed to open the convention.

F.C. Student Earns Prestigious Honor at Shenandoah U Shenandoah University presented one of its top honors, the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, to senior and Falls Church native Mariagracia Rivas Berger during the university’s commencement ceremony held on Saturday, May 11. Sullivan awards are given to

individuals of “noble character” whose “fine spiritual qualities” are “practically applied to daily living.” Rivas Berger earned a Bachelor of Music degree in performance with a minor in piano. She is the founder, president, and executive board member of LIBERATE, a student group aimed at raising awareness about gender-related issues on campus, in the community, and around the world. During her time at the university, she served as a resident assistant, Spanish and music theory tutor, peer sexual assault educator, volunteer for Shenandoah’s [Not Just] Women’s Center, Phone-a-thon caller, and member of the Hispanic Awareness Month and Student Success Campaign committees. Rivas Berger also performed and toured with the Conservatory Choir and the City Choir of Washington. She is a member of Sigma Alpha Iota, a women’s music fraternity that focuses on community service.

Congressman Jim Moran spoke at a dedication ceremony last Saturday for five Civil War Trails markers installed throughout the City of Falls Church. Each marker recognizes an event that took place on that site during the Civil War. The ceremony was part of the City’s annual Civil War Day, which featured activities across Cherry Hill Park. Attendees were invited to take a free bus tour at the event that stopped at each marker in the City. (Photos: Courtesy Diane Morse)

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Longtime Falls Church resident Silvia McPherson, who recently moved with her husband Don to the Ashby Ponds retirement community in Ashburn, celebrated Mother’s Day brunch at the community with five generations of her family. Pictured above are, from left to right, great granddaughter Alexa, daughter Michela, great-great-grandson Mason, granddaughter Loran, Silvia, and daughter Elisa. (Courtesy Photo)

Young Musicians & Safety Patrols Get Awards The Woman’s Club of McLean honored four student musicians and 10 elementary school safety patrol members for their efforts at its annual awards ceremony on May 7. The musicianship of four students at Cooper and Longfellow middle schools in McLean was recognized. Katherine Quion, of Cooper Middle School, played Valse Triste by Jean Sibelius on the viola. Nancy Kurtic, also of Cooper Middle School, played excerpts from Chocolats by Philippe Rose on the trumpet. Jennifer Steele, of Longfellow Middle School, performed the Bassoon Concerto in F Major by Carl Maria von Weber. Finally, violinist Minyoung Hwang, also of Longfellow, performed Czardas by Vittorio Monti. Both were accompanied by music teacher Laura Marchisotto Bogart. The four students each received an award of $100 from the Woman’s Club. Ten students at McLean elementary schools were recognized for their contributions as safety patrol members. The honorees were: Lauren Cain and Luke Voorles of Church Roads Elementary School; Nicole Berry and Cameron Carlson of Kent Gardens Elementary; Hannah Yo and Christopher Gray of Franklin Sherman Elementary; and Delaney Bond and Zain Zahr of Spring Hill Elementary. The students received trophies engraved with their names and the names of their schools, and each school received an award of $80 for safety program equipment. The students’ parents and the school principals, music directors and patrol sponsors attended the ceremony, as did Officer Thomas

W. Harrington, school resource officer of the Fairfax County Police Department.

Local Filmmaker to Screen ‘Small Fish Small Pond’ Local filmmaker Mark Byrne and Absurd Productions Pictures will host a cast and friends encore screening of the new movie “Small Fish Small Pond” at Clare and Don’s Beach Shack next Tuesday. The film, which screens on

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LONGTIME FALLS CHURCH resident Judge Karen A. Henenberg (bottom row, center) was honored by the Falls Church City Council last week for her 18 years of service as a judge of the Arlington Circuit Court, which covers Falls Church. Henenberg retired to take on other challenges in January. With her are her husband (and former Falls Church City Manager) David Lasso and one of their two sons, Kenneth Lasso, a City of F.C. employee. (Photo: News-Press) May 28 at 9 p.m., is centered on an alcohol-fueled writer and his quest for immortality and fame. The majority of the movie’s interior scenes were filmed in Falls Church, including one scene at Clare and Don’s. This “drinking drama” is rated R for language and alcohol-related activities. The screening is free and open to the public; regular food and drink purchase prices apply. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack is located at 130 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

Winter Hill Apartments resident Ruth K. Kaufman received an honorable mention for her submission in the National Affordable Housing Management Association’s 2013 calendar contest. Kaufman’s poster was chosen from more than 5,000 submissions for an honorable mention. During the NAHMA poster auction in March, John Yang from Rental Housing Deals purchased Kaufman’s poster for $650 and requested that it be framed and returned to the artist’s property. The poster, along with two other paintings by Kaufman and a book of her illustrated poems, is now on display in the Winter Hill Management Office. Earlier this month Terry Doherty, executive director of the Mid-Atlantic Affordable Management Housing Association, presented the framed poster to Kaufman at a Winter Hill resident luncheon and thanked her for participating in the contest. (Courtesy Photo)

RECIPIENT OF A SPECIAL Certificate of Appreciation from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and its Northern Virginia’s Enhanced Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program was the Falls Church City Sunoco station (located at the corner of W. Broad and N. West streets). Pictured above, the station’s chief inspector and technician Russell E. Whitmoyer Jr. displays the plaque. The station, whose corporate president is Kenneth M. Currle, was honored with the award, issued quarterly, “for complying with all the licensing requirements and performing vehicle emissions inspections in a dedicated and commendable manner.” (Photo: News-Press)

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What Our Words Tell Us About two years ago, the folks at Google released a database of 5.2 million books published between 1500 and 2008. You can type a search word into the database and find out how frequently different words were used at different epochs. The database doesn’t tell you how the words were used; it just tells you how frequently they were used. Still, results can reveal interesting cultural shifts. For example, somebody typed the word “cocaine” into the search engine and found that the word was surprisingly common in the Victorian era. Then it gradually declined during the 20th century until around 1970, when usage skyrocketed. I’d like to tell a story about the last half-century, based on studies done with this search engine. The first element in this story is rising individualism. A study by NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE Jean M. Twenge, W. Keith Campbell and Brittany Gentile found that between 1960 and 2008 individualistic words and phrases increasingly overshadowed communal words and phrases. That is to say, over those 48 years, words and phrases like “personalized,” “self,” “standout,” “unique,” “I come first” and “I can do it myself” were used more frequently. Communal words and phrases like “community,” “collective,” “tribe,” “share,” “united,” “band together” and “common good” receded. The second element of the story is demoralization. A study by Pelin Kesebir and Selin Kesebir found that general moral terms like “virtue,” “decency” and “conscience” were used less frequently over the course of the 20th century. Words associated with moral excellence, like “honesty,” “patience” and “compassion” were used much less frequently. The Kesebirs identified 50 words associated with moral virtue and found that 74 percent were used less frequently as the century progressed. Certain types of virtues were especially hard hit. Usage of courage words like “bravery” and “fortitude” fell by 66 percent. Usage of gratitude words like “thankfulness” and “appreciation” dropped by 49 percent. Usage of humility words like “modesty” and “humbleness” dropped by 52 percent. Usage of compassion words like “kindness” and “helpfulness” dropped by 56 percent. Meanwhile, usage of words associated with the ability to deliver, like “discipline” and “dependability” rose over the century, as did the usage of words associated with fairness. The Kesebirs point out that these sorts of virtues are most relevant to economic production and exchange. Daniel Klein of George Mason University has conducted one of the broadest studies with the Google search engine. He found further evidence of the two elements I’ve mentioned. On the subject of individualization, he found that the word “preferences” was barely used until about 1930, but usage has surged since. On the general subject of demoralization, he finds a long decline of usage in terms like “faith,” “wisdom,” “ought,” “evil” and “prudence,” and a sharp rise in what you might call social science terms like “subjectivity,” “normative,” “psychology” and “information.” Klein adds the third element to our story, which he calls “governmentalization.” Words having to do with experts have shown a steady rise. So have phrases like “run the country,” “economic justice,” “nationalism,” “priorities,” “right-wing” and “left-wing.” The implication is that politics and government have become more prevalent. So the story I’d like to tell is this: Over the past half-century, society has become more individualistic. As it has become more individualistic, it has also become less morally aware, because social and moral fabrics are inextricably linked. The atomization and demoralization of society have led to certain forms of social breakdown, which government has tried to address, sometimes successfully and often impotently. This story, if true, should cause discomfort on right and left. Conservatives sometimes argue that if we could just reduce government to the size it was back in, say, the 1950s, then America would be vibrant and free again. But the underlying sociology and moral culture is just not there anymore. Government could be smaller when the social fabric was more tightly knit, but small government will have different and more cataclysmic effects today when it is not. Liberals sometimes argue that our main problems come from the top: a self-dealing elite, the oligarchic bankers. But the evidence suggests that individualism and demoralization are pervasive up and down society, and may be even more pervasive at the bottom. Liberals also sometimes talk as if our problems are fundamentally economic, and can be addressed politically, through redistribution. But maybe the root of the problem is also cultural. The social and moral trends swamp the proposed redistributive remedies. Evidence from crude data sets like these are prone to confirmation bias. People see patterns they already believe in. Maybe I’ve done that here. But these gradual shifts in language reflect tectonic shifts in culture. We write less about community bonds and obligations because they’re less central to our lives.

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One School’s Catholic Teaching No one at the Catholic high school that fired Carla Hale in March claimed that she was anything less than a terrific physical education teacher and coach, devoted to the kids and adored by many of them. No one accused her of bringing her personal life into the gym or onto the fields. By nature she’s private. And she loved her job too much to risk it that way. But she lost it nonetheless, and the how is as flabbergasting as the why is infuriating. Rather suddenly, her mother died, and an hour afterward, she and her brother numbly went through the paces of a standard obituary, listing survivors. Her brother included his wife. So Carla included her partner, Julie, whom NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE her mother had known well and loved. Leaving Julie out would have been unthinkable, though Carla didn’t really think it through at the time. Her grief was still raw. A parent of one of the school’s students spotted the obituary and wrote an anonymous letter to the school and to the Diocese of Columbus, saying that they couldn’t allow a woman like Carla to educate Catholic children. So they don’t, not anymore. In a termination notice, the principal explained that Carla’s “spousal relationship violates the moral laws of the Catholic Church.” That was the sum of the stated grievance against her, and after more than 18 years at Bishop Watterson High School, Carla, 57, was done. “The way it all came about was just so unfathomable,” she told me Sunday. “An obituary?” I met her and Julie, 48, in their house outside Columbus, where the front lawn was neatly tended, the refrigerator was plastered with photos of relatives, the chocolate lab dozed in his reserved spot on the sectional and Carla kept a box of tissues handy. Whenever she’s asked what her work meant to her, she cries. “Every morning,” she said, “from the time you walked into the building, kids would be yelling down the hall, ‘Hey, Miss Hale, what are we going to do today?’ ‘Hey, Miss Hale, I remembered those shoes.’ It felt so comforting.” She had a sense of belonging. Of purpose. Even now, after nearly two months of exile from the school, she’s still on what she calls “bell time.” If the clock on her kitchen wall says 10:45 a.m., the voice in her head says, “Fourth period.” There’s so much in the media about the progress of

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gay rights, especially on the marriage front. But in the republic of Georgia just days ago, Orthodox priests led thousands of people in an anti-gay attack. In Greenwich Village, a young gay man was fatally shot in what’s been deemed a hate crime. And at a kitchen table here in central Ohio, a typically cheerful woman dabbed her eyes and wondered aloud what she’d done wrong. The answer is in one sense simple: She made a life with another woman. While the Catholic Church doesn’t condemn homosexuality per se, it considers any physical expression of it sinful. And Carla’s “public declaration of an extramarital relationship,” meaning the obituary, indicated that she was flouting Catholic tenets and thus breaching her contract, according to a statement the diocese emailed me. But things get complicated when you consider the selectiveness of the church’s outrage, the capriciousness of its mercy. Until public exposure shamed them, many church leaders protected priests whose sexual transgressions involved minors and were criminal. Church leaders tolerate teachers at Catholic schools who are married with no kids or with few. Some are surely using artificial birth control, which the church officially opposes. Besides which, Carla was guiding students through situps, not psalms. The school hired her though she’s Methodist, not Catholic. She was then married to a man, but they split and, more than a decade ago, she became involved with Julie. Perhaps six colleagues met Julie over the years, though they probably weren’t the only ones aware of Carla’s sexual orientation. “I’m sure it was surmised: gym teacher, divorced, short hair, didn’t have a bow in it,” Carla said. “Come on.” There was no discussion or upset, not until the anonymous letter. Neither the federal government nor Ohio outlaws employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. Columbus does, though whether it can be applied to religious groups is uncertain. Carla’s lawyer, Thomas Tootle, has filed a complaint with the city anyway. It’s been a big story here, with thousands of people publicly expressing support for her. She’s moved but mortified. She didn’t seek and doesn’t enjoy the media attention. “A lot of people want me to be bitter and go after the Catholic Church,” she said, adding that others want to cast her as a lesbian heroine. She just wants her job back, a recognition, she said, “that I’m a moral individual who happens to be gay.”

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Obama Brings Culture War to Morehouse

What caused me to pay attention to President Obama’s commencement speech at Morehouse University last weekend was the opportunity it provided him to step away from the in-your-face day-to-day slugfests of political Washington, and instead to focus on passing eternal verities to a new generation. Such philosophical asides, especially when in the form of entreaties to youth, tend to reveal what resonates more deeply in a soul, to be an insight into what motivates, what makes someone “tick.” President Obama is always interesting on this score, and the American people are “getting it.” Polls show that while almost 80 percent think he is a good and likeable person, fully 54 percent also think he is more than just your run-of-the-mill politician. Falls Church news-press Morehouse is an all-male, all-African American institution in Atlanta. Speeches like the President’s at Morehouse last weekend are, in many respects, his best offense against the petty nastiness of his adversaries. Obama invoked the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a “Morehouse man” himself, citing “the moral force of Dr. King and a Moses generation that overcame their fear and their cynicism and their despair,” adding, “Barriers have come tumbling down and new doors of opportunity have swung open, and laws and hearts and minds have been changed to the point where someone who looks just like you can somehow come to serve as President of these United States of America.” But the President’s challenge to his audience to become role models to others, to become as the poet Schiller said, “greater than their destinies,” to challenge others to grow into role models of excellence and compassion, as well, came under some fire this week with a dour little article by Vanessa Williams of the Washington Post, entitled, “At Morehouse, Obama Message Sounds a Bit Stale,” and followed by a column from Post columnist Courtland Milloy on the same theme the next day. Williams quoted a former speechwriter for a Michigan governor, Trevor Coleman, who called the speech “finger wagging,” a “clean up your act message” made up of “galling” and “gratuitous” “chastisements...necessary to make himself politically palpable to white voters” that “people are beginning to get weary of.” Milloy accused Obama of “something vaguely contemptuous.” While there might be one or even a number of such opinions, the disdain reflected in the article actually goes deeper, to the level on which today’s cultural war in the U.S. is being fought. President Obama is in his heart, to put it in a single phrase, “old school.” He’s “old school civil rights,” and if you parse his speech Saturday, you will find that at its critical points, notions of compassion and empathy rise to the forefront. He is “old school civil rights” as Dr. King was. Philosophically, he embodies the best of western civilization’s highest notions of “virtue” and applies them to the human condition and, even more ambitiously, to the governing of a nation. The visionary exaltations of Dr. King, such as his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, invoked these notions, beyond boundaries of race or any other category of division among people. It was his repeated calls to a human-wide solidarity of common purpose rooted in justice and peace that completely freaked out the nation’s ruling class. They’d always depended on “divide and conquer” to contain the masses while ripping them off. Dr. King threatened to destroy the effectiveness of that approach. So the ruling classes ushered in a culture war, on the philosophical level known as “postmodernism,” to reintroduce old notions of “each against all,” and attacking tendencies toward social solidarity with radical angry individualism and anarchy, spiced with a lot of drugs and senseless rioting. Greed and selfish self-interest replaced empathy as the national rallying cry, and it rent the national fabric all the way down to the desperate, poorest streets of America’s inner cities. It remains an ongoing cultural war, and Obama is now using the bully pulpit of the presidency to engage it.

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

Serving Up Schlock Networks are generally leery of shows that are set in the past. TV executives think younger viewers don’t care about history. And they’re always on the hunt for the younger demo, working on the mistaken premise that millennials buy more and change brands more often than profligate and fickle baby boomers. Or maybe networks are simply operating on the same notion that drives romance and commerce: The more elusive the prize, the more it’s worth. It’s funny that networks are afraid of the past, given that they’re stuck in it. What Paddy Chayefsky could do with that paradox. It turns out that Washington isn’t the only place where ideas come to die. TV honchos cling to outmoded programming traditions even as many younger Americans, gorging on a movable feast of platforms, are losing the habit of turning on the TV, and even as top talent peels off to enjoy the freedom of cable and imaginative hubs like Amazon, Hulu, YouTube and Netflix. Networks still prefer to play it safe with likable characters, not darker ones like Walter White, Don Draper, and NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE face-chewing zombies. Watching the derivative and uninspiring fare served up last week by the networks during their previews to woo advertisers, I was flummoxed at the lack of creativity and modernity. Rod Serling had more originality on a sick day than all the networks’ high-priced talent combined. Serling once complained that TV drama “must walk tiptoe and in agony lest if offend some cereal buyer from a given state below the Mason-Dixon.” But the networks of the 21st century don’t seem hungry to push the envelope, despite their ever-shrinking audiences. I asked one media big shot what he watches. He replied, “Homeland,” “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men” – all cable hits – failing to mention any of his own network’s shows. Then why, I wondered, can’t networks show more verve? “They’re enslaved to tradition,” he said. “It’s silly. They should be bolder and more aggressive, edgier and sexier, but there’s a lot of timidity.” So NBC, which some weeks finished last behind Univision, offers us Blair Underwood in “Ironside,” a remake of its old series with Raymond Burr; Minnie Driver in “About a Boy,” a redo of the movie based on Nick Hornby’s novel; James Spader in “The Blacklist” as yet another variation on Hannibal Lecter, a criminal mastermind who will only cooperate with the FBI if he works with a young, pretty female agent; and Jonathan Rhys Meyers in

Maureen Dowd

“Dracula,” which doesn’t really count as new blood. Judd Apatow and Kristen Wiig turned Melissa McCarthy into an outsize star in the movie “Bridesmaids,” so naturally lots of writers raced to produce pilots with plus-size women straining to be funny. Rebel Wilson, the talented, heavyset Aussie actress who played Wiig’s obnoxious roommate in “Bridesmaids,” will star in ABC’s “Super Fun Night,” about three nerdy girlfriends who aim for madcap Friday nights. “Back in the Game” is about a young blonde who joins a beer-guzzling former baseball player in coaching an underdog Little League team. “Bad News Bears” redux. “Resurrection” is about dead relatives popping up on the doorstep – zombies with better skin. At least ABC passed on “Westside,” Romeo and, like, Juliet set in Venice, Calif., and “Middle Age Rage,” which the network describes as “a middle-aged mother who is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak and demand the respect she feels she’s earned.” CBS proffers “Reckless,” described as a sultry legal show set in Charleston, S.C., with a comely Yankee litigator clashing over a police scandal with a Southern city attorney “as they struggle to hide their intense attraction.” I saw this when the attorney was a New Orleans cop and it was called “The Big Easy.” CBS has “Bad Teacher,” based on the 2011 Cameron Diaz movie, and “Friends With Better Lives,” the plot of which sounds just like the 2006 Nicole Holofcener movie, “Friends With Money.” (CBS probably felt brave passing on a third “NCIS.”) The one retread that might have been fun, “Beverly Hills Cop,” with Eddie Murphy himself dropping by in guest spots, CBS passed on. Fox has “Enlisted,” a wacky comedy about three brothers in the Army, which smacks of Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and John Candy in “Stripes.” J.J. Abrams’ “Almost Human” looks like a hand-me-down blend of “RoboCop” and “Blade Runner.” Even Fox’s freshest ideas are antique: a show about a hunky Ichabod Crane called “Sleepy Hollow” and “24” with Kiefer Sutherland, but this time squeezed into 12 episodes. Doing a comedy turn at the ABC upfronts at Lincoln Center, Jimmy Kimmel mocked the advertisers for spending billions on dated dreckitude, noting that he also had a few things for sale: “This is an H.P. printer, inkjet color copier – $20, no power cord,” and “I’ve got three parrot cages available – make me an offer.” He had the most trenchant comment about the quality of the new pilots, slyly observing: “One of the shows previewed today was written by a third-grade class. Your challenge tonight is to figure out which one it was.”

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A Penny for Your Thoughts

News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross

When I was a little girl, I remember going with my mother and grandmother to decorate graves on what was then called Decoration Day. It was more a respectful, than a solemn, occasion. Using roses and lilacs clipped from bushes in our front yard, we would join other families in remembering the sacrifices of those who fell in battle. Now it is a federal Monday holiday called Memorial Day, and organized volunteers place flags at every gravesite. But the respect and remembrance of sacrifice are the same. Even though the weather seems more like April, the calendar says it’s the end of May. Local swimming pools are preparing to open, often with volunteer members who are sprucing up the grounds and preparing for another busy summer. College graduations already have occurred, and high school graduations are just around the corner. For Mason District families, Woodson, Falls Church, and Annandale graduate on June 13, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology graduates on June 15, and J.E.B. Stuart rounds out the schedule with a June 18th ceremony. Congratulations to all our graduating seniors! You can dispose of unused or expired medications at a Fairfax County Police Station from Monday, May 27, through Saturday, June 1. Sponsored by the Unified Prevention Coalition of Fairfax County, Operation Medicine Cabinet Cleanout provides a free, safe, and convenient way to get rid of old medications and prevent accidental poisonings, drug abuse, and protect the environment at the same time. Old pills

or liquids should not be flushed; just drop them off in their containers (remove or redact any personal information on the label first) in a secure receptacle at the Mason District Governmental Center, 6507 Columbia Pike in Annandale, or five other Fairfax County police stations (Fair Oaks and McLean stations are under construction and are not drop-off sites). Pills and liquid medications only are accepted during this cleanout; no pressurized canisters or needles, please. Cleaning out closets to get ready for summer? A constituent provided the following information, which may be of interest. John Calvin Presbyterian Church in Annandale is collecting clothing, shoes and sports supplies for the Kisima Academy, a school and orphanage in western Kenya. A group from the church will deliver collected items to the academy in late June. Needed items include gently used girls dresses and skirts (longer length), boy’s shorts, women’s dresses up to size 12, men’s button downs and polo-type shirts. Also needed are kid’s shoes in all sizes, women’s flat styles, and men’s casual dress and sport shoes. Heavy duty soccer balls, volleyballs, jump ropes, playing cards, jacks’ sets, and art supplies complete the list. If you have large size rolling luggage you don’t need anymore, the church can use your rolling bag to take some of the donated items on the plane. To learn more about Kisima Academy, log on to http://www.kisimaacademy.blogspot.com/. For more information about donating your gently used items, contact Henry Edwards at 703/409-1172.

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Native Americans Still Facing Injustice By James P. Moran

Native Americans were subject to centuries of brutal mistreatment following the discovery and establishment of the Americas. In Virginia, our native tribes were no stranger to abuse. But due to more modern discrimination in the 20th century, they are still fighting to close this sad chapter in our nation’s history. Virginia’s Indians were among those who greeted the first colonists and provided food and assistance ensuring their early survival. Decades before the founding of the United States, the tribes managed relations with the Kings of England, most notably by signing the Treaty of Middle Plantation in May of 1677, which assured protection from English settlers in exchange for an annual tribute. But time was not kind to the tribes. The tribes have held up their part of the treaty, providing tribute every year for the past 335 years when Virginia’s Governor accepts gifts of fresh game and fresh produce in a ceremony now celebrated on Thanksgiving at the State Capitol. I had the honor of attending one of what I understand is the longest celebrated treaty recognition ceremony in the United States. The state, however, failed to uphold its part of the agreement.

The Virginia tribes were subjected to four centuries of racial hostility and brutal state-sanctioned actions. Up through much of the 20th Century, Virginia tribes were denied full rights as U.S. citizens and much of their records were destroyed. Courthouse destruction during the Civil War erased many of their historical documents. Further, the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, a black mark in our state’s history, led to a “paper genocide,” which destroyed birth records, marriage certificates, and land titles of Virginia’s tribes. Six of Virginia’s tribes have filed petitions seeking federal recognition with the Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs. But the Commonwealth’s discriminatory past has left these tribes without documentation that at minimum ensures administrative action will not happen in their lifetimes and could even invalidate their petitions. Federal recognition is important to these tribes, not only as a matter of justice, but because it would grant the tribes legal standing and status in relationships with the U.S. government. This status would enable the tribes to pursue historical and cultural artifacts, comment on federal agency actions that could affect

their future, and gain access to a number of federal programs that serve the other 565 federally recognized tribes. Many of the older members of these tribes, who were denied a public education and the economic opportunities available to most Americans as a result of Virginia’s discriminatory past, would be eligible to receive federal health and housing assistance. It is unconscionable that Virginia’s tribes, those who cared for the first American colonists, are still being denied recognition by the very government they supported. This week, I joined Senators Tim Kaine, Mark Warner and Representatives Rob Wittman, Bobby Scott, and Gerry Connolly to reintroduce an important piece of legislation, the “Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act,” to give long-overdue federal recognition of six of Virginia’s tribes – the Chickahominy, the Eastern Chickahominy, the Upper Mattaponi, the Rappahannock, the Monacan, and the Nansemond tribes. Until the federal government can formally acknowledge the legitimacy of Virginia’s tribes, this injustice will continue to cast a shadow over our advances in making amends for past wrongs.

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From the Front Row: Kaye Kory’s

Richmond Report During this past session, I introduced a bill (HB2286), which is intended to address the current “digital divide” in our K-12 public school systems. The “digital divide” refers to the ever-widening gap in access, use and knowledge of information and communication technology that exists between the typical middle class student and students living in poverty. This gap is nationwide, and it is very visible here in Fairfax County. You may know that last year Fairfax County Public Schools implemented several “electronic textbook” model programs without fully researching: (1) the computer and broadband access students would need to able to effectively use the electronic textbooks; and (2) ensuring that the access students actually had was compatible with those electronic texts. The model program was not a success at Glasgow Middle School. The school had to print out so many textbooks that they ran out of paper at one point. Upset parents and teachers alerted me to the issue. We do not know how much learning time and money was wasted, nor do we understand the full impact on students who were repeatedly embarrassed by their family circumstances during the school year. Fortunately, my bill was referred to the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS), which has formed a Broadband and Education Advisory Committee to review and study the issue. I have been appointed to that committee and was asked to recommend individuals who could contribute to the discussions based on their practical experience. I suggested former Fairfax County School Board Member Tina Hone and FCPS technology teacher Eric Hardman. I am pleased that they are both now members of the committee. HB2286 requires that if a local school board purchases an electronic textbook, that the school board must provide the electronic textbook to each student free of charge. Further, the bill makes clear that each student to whom

electronic textbooks have been supplied must have adequate access to that textbook to be able to use it as part of the normal curriculum. The term, electronic textbooks, includes printed texts with supplemental electronic files as well as texts that are solely in electronic form. The way in which an e-text is provided is up to the local school board. The state is not requiring a particular computer purchase nor a particular type of connectivity. For many years, local school systems were mandated each year to report the level of broadband connectivity of that division, the level of computer ownership and access to broadband services for each student. These reports were important inputs to decisions made by the Department of Education, State Board of Education and the state IT staff. Unfortunately, the current Governor made this report voluntary at the beginning of his term. The percentage of systems reporting dropped from 91% to less than a quarter of Virginia’s school systems. HB2286 re-instates the mandate for the report. The State Board of Education would be required to summarize the data and report to the General Assembly. Finally, my bill allows school systems to expand the grade level of students using e-texts to cover all grades (K-12). I know that this column may seem to be overly detailed, but because Virgina is a Dillon-Rule state (i.e. if the Virginia Code does not specify an action or power, it is not allowed), it is critical to have very specific language to ensure the desired outcome, without unintended consequences or alternate interpretations. This Advisory Committee will meet in Richmond at least three times before the next session begins Our first meeting will be held on June 4. I will keep you informed of the Committee’s work and welcome your comments and suggestions.

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J oh n n y ’s W orld Girl Games

At the end of the day, I am a man. The thing about being a man is that, for the most part, we are simple creatures. We know how to eat, sleep, and obsess about maybe one or two things – electronics, lawn maintenance, or skin care depending on whatever floats your boat. As long as our bellies are full and our attentions aren’t pulled away from watching our favorite TV shows for some trivial matter, we are content. At the end of the day, I am a gay man. Being a gay man in social terms makes things a little more complicated than just being an average dude. In addition to managing the business world mainly ruled by straight men and somehow avoiding hidden landmines in the gay community, I am left with my girls – my beautiful, talented, neurotic, psychotic girls. Don’t get me wrong, I prefer a woman’s company nine times out of 10 to that of a man, and especially that of a gay man. But with the responsibility of taking care of my girlfriends, I am also pulled into a wild assortment and absolutely exhausting array of girl problems. Since Karen Walker and Jack McFarland gave women the impression that a gay best Exclusive to the News-Press friend is the new black, gay men all over the world have learned that the best way to be with a woman in a plutonic relationship is to accept her crazy while she accepts yours. Women give us life, they give us beauty, and they give us a lot of unnecessary headaches that we didn’t know we were signing up for. Recently in the midst of three of my girls, I learned that one said something bad about another one while the third took the side of the first one. They all have to socialize and work together, and it is super awkward. They can’t tell me the thing they’re fighting over, but it was “really bad.” Adding to the problem is that one of the girls is a known liar, another one is overly honest, and the third is just becoming popular and wants to maintain and wield her newfound social power without losing her sweet, dumb-girl outer shell. As exhausting as it was for you to read the last statements, I had to live it so I don’t feel bad for you. Another recent moment I realized that women are insane (in the most loving way) is when I learned the rules to dating through the eyes of a single Jewish girl in Manhattan. First of all, I learned that there is nothing worse than being a single Jewish girl in Manhattan. Secondly, I learned that serial dating isn’t left to just the men of the world. This girl is so competitive that she accepts set-ups with other single Jewish girls’ exes, is on every online dating site, and, despite being deeply committed to each one of her boyfriends, the day after they break up she’s got 15 guys on back-up that get sent a group e-mail to go out somewhere. While accepting her friends’ cast-offs, she will in turn set up other souls like herself with her exes. It all seemed terribly clinical for a woman I’ve found to be terribly romantic and looking for true love, but when she’d had enough wine and told me the truth I was shocked. “I have a ticking biological clock, I have pressure from my family who says I’m an old maid at twenty seven, and there’s nothing socially worse than being a single Jewish girl in Manhattan.” While women constantly look for the complexities that make a man not fall in love with them or dramatize a situation to the point where it becomes a historical truth, such as the husband who didn’t put his socks in the hamper in an undercutting fashion so the wife would get the hint that she’s fat, or attack a helpless girlfriend to show her own superiority, women need to at times, turn the mirror on their own crazy and own it. While playing games with each other and playing chess with the people you love may seem fun, it is an easy way to alienate oneself from the crowd.

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 Johnny Weir is a three-time U.S. figure skating national champion and two-time Olympic competitor Wayne Besen’s “Anything But Straight” column may be read online at www.fcnp.com.

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Our Man in Arlington By Charlie Clark

The great neighborhood sign caper came into my view by happenstance. As I drove by the entrance to my boyhood Arlington neighborhood last month, I was stunned to behold a key ingredient gone missing: the white three-dimensional letters spelling “Rivercrest” had been removed from the two curved brick walls at North 38th Street and Military Road, where they had labeled the subdivision since 1960. I raced home and e-mailed a bulletin to a dozen former Rivercrestians with whom I maintain diplomatic relations. From Arizona, Jim demanded an investigation. From Rochester, N.Y., Jennifer wrote, “Yikes, keep us posted.” From Charlottesville, Jonathan wrote, “Maybe wild kid vandals swiped them.” From Arlington, Alan moaned, “I am just crushed by this. What can I do from a political or PR end?” Subdivision signs erected by homebuilders – presumably to confer a touch of cachet on their carved-out rows of new homes – are not uncommon in Arlington. Within blocks of Rivercrest you find can fancy signs reading “Chain Bridge Forest” and “The Glebe.” On Yorktown Boulevard stands

a pair of curved “Crescent Hills” signs erected six decades ago by the Broyhill builders. (They look a little worse for wear, but no one I consulted on the block knows who’s in charge of them.) And fronting a cluster of modern houses on Lee Highway, opposite Overlee pool, stands a chiseled sign reading “Stonehurst.” Our Rivercrest sign, I’m reminded by realtor and local boy Dean Yeonas, was created by the Dittmar builder in a style used on several 1950s-era projects. “The entrance signs add an identity and help frame the community,” he says. Ross Richmond, a realtor and developer who sold the Stonehurst houses, says signs “provide an important sense of community and belonging.” Richmond lives in the Franklin Park subdivision at the Arlington edge of McLean, where he and an informal group of neighbors erected a sign because they “all care about Franklin Park.” Not surprisingly, the county has addressed the identity sign issue on a more official – and egalitarian – basis for Arlington’s larger jurisdictions. As part of the Neighborhood Conservation Program, it funded 44 sets of signs (photos are on the county website) “to better identify the neighborhood and help to foster an

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CRIME REPORT May 13 - 19, 2013 Larceny from Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts, 700 block Highland Ave. An unknown suspect(s) stole four tires and cash from an unlocked vehicle sometime between May 1 and 13. Robbery and Malicious Wounding, 200 Grove Ave. (West End Park) On May 14, an unknown suspect demanded cash and stabbed the victim. The victim was treated and released from a local hospital. The suspect is currently described as a white male, approximately 5’11 to 6’0” tall and weighing approximately 150 to 180 pounds. The suspect was described as wearing a short sleeve shirt and tannish color cargo style shorts. The suspect was also wearing a black mask with blue and green around the eyes, and armed with a knife. Assault & Battery, 300 W. Broad St. (The Stratford Motor Lodge) On May 14, police responded to the location for a report of an assault. The offender, a male, 53, of Reston, was arrested and released on summons for Assault & Battery. Domestic Assault, 100 block Chanel Terr. On May 15, a female, 32, of Falls Church, was arrested for Assaulting a Family Member. Public Drunkenness, 900 block W. Broad St. On May 15, a male, 47, no fixed address, was arrested for Public Drunkenness.

Vandalism to Vehicle, 300 block James St. On May 16, an unknown suspect damaged a side view mirror on the victim’s vehicle. Larceny from Building, 300 W. Broad St. (Stratford Motor Lodge) On May 17, police responded to the location for a recent report of an unsecure bicycle stolen from the premises. An officer canvassing the area located the bicycle and the suspect. A male, 35, of Falls Church was arrested and released on summons for Petit Larceny. Urinating In Public and Public Drunkenness, 100 block N. Washington St. On May 18, a male, 23, of Damascus, MD, was arrested for Urinating In Public and Public Drunkenness. Driving Under the Influence, 200 block Little Falls St. On May 18, an officer responded to the location for a report of driver sleeping in a vehicle on the street. The driver, a male, 23, of Rockville, MD, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence. Graffiti, 500 block E. Columbia St. On May 18, graffiti was found on a traffic sign. Driving Under the Influence and Refusal to Submit a Blood or Breath Test, 600 block Roosevelt Blvd. On May 18, an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a male, 65, of the City of Falls Church, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence and Refusal to

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increased sense of community and pride among residents,” says the Community Planning, Housing and Development Department. County landscaper Jill Yutan walked me through the process of how citizens request eligibility for funding and work with her on choosing a unique design. County engineers install the signs. “Almost the whole county has been done,” she says, noting that small signs in the sets cost $1,200$1,500, the larger ones $3,500. Because Arlington has little open land left for building, new subdivision signs are rarer, Yutan notes, “but you see them further out in Fairfax.” In a community like Rivercrest, says Yeonas, “the signage is maintained by whatever association or loose group of homeowners decides to take charge.” Calls to current residents solved the mystery. The white wooden cursive letters – which were refurbished 12 years ago by two Rivercrestians – were cracking, the civic association president told me. So the board collected money from “everyone in Rivercrest” and a neighbor is making long-lasting black letters for mounting after the wall gets powerwashed and landscaped. Black letters will require getting used to, old-timers agree. But now we don’t have to organize a protest. Submit a Blood or Breath Test.

Urinating In Public and Public Drunkenness, 220 N. Washington St. (State Theater) On May 19, a female, 25, of Buffalo, NY was arrested for Urinating In Public and Public Drunkenness. Narcotics Violation, 100 block W. Broad St. On May 19, an officer encountered an individual seated in his vehicle. An investigation determined the individual had marijuana in his possession. A male, 34, of Falls Church, was arrested and released on summons for Possession of Marijuana. Disorderly Conduct, 1000 block W. Broad St. On May 19, A male, 51, no fixed address, was arrested for Disorderly Conduct. Other Arrests Failure to Appear, On May 14, a male, 33, of Washington, DC, was arrested in Arlington for Failure to Appear in Falls Church General District Court to answer to shoplifting charges. Failure to Appear, On May 16, a male, 27, of Falls Church, was arrested in Falls Church for Failure to Appear in Falls Church General District Court to answer to the charge of Driving without a License. Failure to Appear, On May 19, a male, 39, of Falls Church, was arrested in Falls Church for Failure to Appear in Falls Church General District Court to answer to Obstuction of Justice charges. Defrauding Garagekeeper, On May 20, a male, 53, of Falls Church, was arrested in Fairfax County and served a warrant for Defrauding a Garagekeeper at 1115-B W. Broad St. (Pete’s Towing) on May 7.

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Dr. Gordon Theisz of Family Medicine in Falls Church, is again coordinating the free Concerts in the Park sponsored by the Village Preservation & Improvement Society and the City of Falls Church Recreation and Parks Department. The concerts take place in Cherry Hill Park at 7 p.m. on Thursdays from June 20 through August 1, with the exception of July 4 when it will take place at George Mason High School for the July 4 celebration. Performers this year include the Falls Church Concert Band, Mike Thornton & Project Natale, Apple Core, Lu and the Blues Crew, Andrew Acosta and the New Old Time String Band, Mama Tried with Randy Barrett and Dede Wyland, and Tom Nichols and Dan Chadburn. For more information, or to view the full schedule, visit www.vpis. org or www.fallschurchva.gov.

Divot Charities Raises Over $38K at Golf Tourney Divot Charities raised $38,600 for The Fisher House at their 10th Annual Golf Tournament at Bull Run Golf Course on May 18. The event included golf followed by dinner and an auction at Irelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Four Provinces. Washington Redskin Nick Sundburg (#57) donated two team autographed Redskin footballs and thanked the golfers for playing and raising funds for the program that provides free housing for families of military personnel hospitalized at Veteran Administration medical centers. Divot Charities DIVOT CHARITIESâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jen Short, Amy Smith (left, second from was founded by local left) and Scott Tucker (right) with Washington Redskin residents Jen Short, Amy Nick Sundburg. (Courtesy Photo) Smith, and Scott Tucker to raise money for people in need. For more information visit www.divotcharities.com. ď ľ Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@ fallschurchchamber.org.

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The Peak Oil Crisis

A Stealth Revolution! by Tom Whipple

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It is nearly a quarter of a century now since two electro-chemists at the University of Utah held a press conference to announce that they had discovered a new way of extracting energy from the nucleus of an atom. For a few weeks the announcement of what was then termed “cold fusion” made headlines as scientists rushed to reproduce the experiment and explain the new phenomenon. Unfortunately it turned out that reproducing the experiment was very difficult so that most attempts at reproducing the effect failed – especially those at MIT and Cal Tech. A good dose of scientific jealousy also got involved in the situation. Anyway, a panel of scientists (who of course knew nothing about the heretofore unknown science) was formed and peremptorily pronounced “cold fusion” a scientific fraud. The U.S. government then ruled the topic unworthy of federal funding and the U.S. patent office refused to grant patents on anything as obviously absurd as a new method of extracting energy from the atom. The scientists who announced the discovery were sent off in disgrace and the whole field of inquiry was forced to the fringes, spurned by big science, the government and the mainstream media. Around the world, however, a handful of scientists, some of whom were actually able to reproduce anomalous heat seen in the original experiments and who appreciated the impact that a new source of cheap clean energy would have on civilization, continued to work in the field, write reports and even convene annual conferences to exchange findings. As the years went by progress came slowly. A handful of U.S. government scientific organizations, notably the Navy, NASA, and possibly DARPA, became interested and began to provide limited funding. Although the physics behind the phenomenon was not, and still is not, satisfactorily understood, a few experimenters reached the point where they could reliably produce small amounts of anomalous heat which seemed to be coming from nuclear reactions. However, with rare exceptions the media paid almost no attention

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to what the government and mainstream physics still considered to be fringe science rather than the glimmerings of a new age. So long as the experiments were only small, producing tiny amounts of heat, critics could talk about experimental errors and no real proof the phenomenon was real. A major change in the story took place about three years ago when an Italian engineer, Andrea Rossi, announced that based on the work of Italian physicists, he had developed a method of producing heat, presumably from nuclear reactions, by loading hydrogen into powdered nickel

Earlier this week, the independent scientists, from Italy and Sweden, issued a report concluding that the three devices they tested not only worked but emitted heat at least an order of magnitude more than could come from any known chemical reaction. The report did not delve into the issue of whether the reaction was of nuclear or some unknown origin. Moreover, the scientists investigating the device were not given access to the details of how the reactor works. They simply reported that it does produce unprecedented amounts of heat and excluded the possibility that this heat was produced by fraud or trickery. More extensive tests will be carried out this summer. This report is only a beginning for it leaves many questions unanswered. It should, however, eliminate concerns that some sort of mega-fraud is being perpetrated, and confirm that it is indeed possible to produce commercial quantities of heat safely from small, inexpensive devices. The next step in this saga is for widespread recognition to develop that mankind may not be trapped into burning ever increasing quantities of fossil fuels. How soon this will happen is hard to say for recognition that there is a new technology out there with the potential to solve many problems is close to zero. Rossi says he has already shipped two working units that produce heat to customers and that they are expected to be installed shortly with some sort of public announcement. Rossi, of course, is not the only game in town. Other announcements of commercial devices, which could well be more advanced than those shown by Rossi, are expected soon. If all goes well, the real question becomes one of how soon this technology can begin to reduce the use of fossil fuels. This is tough to say for there will be numerous factors hindering its use. There are disruptive technology issues for the technology has the potential of replacing the fossil fuel industry, the electric power industry, and others too numerous to mention. There will of course be resistance. On the other side, virtually unlimited quantities of extremely cheap, pollution free energy are very hard to resist. If the U.S. won’t go for it, I am sure some of our friends in Asia who are already strangling on their own pollution will.

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more than could come from any known chemical reaction. and adding a still secret catalyst. Although Rossi held several demonstrations of his heat-generating device for invited scientists and members of the press, the announcement continued to be met with widespread skepticism that the “invention” was nothing but an elaborate scam. This opinion was supported by Rossi’s refusal to release the technical details of what was taking place inside his “reactor” until he could obtain patent protection. It should be noted that Rossi is not alone in the pursuit of this technology, for dozens of other scientists around the world, many of impeccable stature, are reporting that the phenomenon is real. In the last few years at least three other companies have reported progress and announced their intention of building commercial scale heat-producing devices similar to the ones that have been demonstrated by Rossi. For many, the lack of any independent verification of the claims of Rossi and others was a show stopper. Rossi took the position that if his devices worked, and produced the claimed amounts of heat he would be vindicated. About six months ago Rossi started talking about a panel of independent physicists from European universities that had been given access to his prototypes to conduct tests and verify that the device indeed produced heat and there was no trickery involved.

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‘Stangs to Face Clark County In Bull Run Championship by Drew Costley

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Mason track athlete Lauren Bowling is pictured above competing in the 100m hurdles event at the Bull Run District meet last Wednesday. She finished fourth with a time of 0:17.61. (Photo: Carol Sly)

District Meet Performances Send Mason Track Athletes to Region, State Contests At last Wednesday’s Bull Run District meet, the George Mason High School boys and girls varsity track teams competed against teams from seven area schools, with many Mustang athletes performing at their personal best and earning spots in the Region B meet. The Mason girls team finished third with 71 points behind Manassas Park and Clarke County high schools, who tied for first with 126 points. The Mason boys team finished fourth with 64 points behind Central (100), Manassas Park (79), and William Monroe (68) high schools. Two of the more exciting moments of the meet for Mason occurred mid-way through the running. In the 400m, Will Nunley’s grit and determination made for a come-from-behind win as he gained on his opponents with every

stride down the straightaway to finish in first with a time of 0:53.25. A few races later, Sarah Macris took the same determined approach when, after leading for most of the 800m and being passed on the last curve, she dug down deep to retake the lead and finish with a winning 2:33.17 time. Athletes who placed in the top six spots in their events earned points for their team and moved on to regionals Wednesday. In addition to his first-place finish in the 400m, Nunley also took fourth in the 100m with a time of 0:11.54 and, as part of the boys 4×100 relay team with Michael Addo-Ashong, Sumner Askin, and Mitchell Sherman, posted a thirdplace finish at 0:47.11. AddoAshong placed fourth in the Triple Jump (38′ 7.75″) and fifth in the 100m (0:11.83), and Askin placed

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fourth in Discus (117′ 3″). The girls 4×100 relay team of Tara Holman, Joelle Randrianasolo, Margarita Shevchenko, and Lauren Bowling took second place with a 0:54.21 finish that qualified the team for the state meet next month. Holman placed second in the 100m (0:13.25), and Shevchenko and Randrianasolo placed fourth (0:13.69) and fifth (0:13.78) in the event respectively. In the 200m, Holman placed third (0:27.43) and Randrianasolo placed sixth (0:28.50). Bowling placed fourth in the 100m hurdles (0:17.61). Maya King placed fifth in the Long Jump (14′ 11.25″). Kaitlin Kutchman placed fourth in the 1600m (5:51.50) and Blaise Sevier placed second, with a time of 5:33.48 that also qualified her for the state meet. In the girls 3200m, Sevier placed second (12:51.67) and Kate Atkeson placed fifth (13:15.64). In the boys 3200m, Truman Custer placed second (10:29.23), Jesse Schaffer placed third (10:52.44), and James Pala placed fourth (11:02.32). Truman Custer placed third in the 1600m (4:42.63), and Preston Custer placed second in the 800m (2:06.02). Several Mason athletes competed in the Region B meet on Wednesday, but results were not available at press time.

George Mason High School’s varsity boys soccer team is set to face Clarke County High School in the Bull Run District championship tonight. The Mustangs have outscored the Eagles 10-1 in the two matches played against each other this season. Still, Head Coach Frank Spinello said he looked at game film to see if his team needs to make any adjustments to prepare for the match. “I think our main goal has to be to maintain focus,” Spinello said. “We can’t look back at the two previous games against Clarke that were pretty easy wins and we can’t go out and give 80 percent effort and think that’s going to get the job done.” The Mustangs have been trampling opponents on the road to the championship. They beat Rappahannock County High School 8-0 last Friday in the quarterfinals and beat Central High School 7-0 on Tuesday in the semifinals. Junior midfielder Paul Darmstadter, junior striker Cole Hinson, and freshman striker Raheem Lawal all scored two goals against the Rappahannock County. Hinson and Lawal are co-leaders on the team in scoring with 19 goals a piece. But for much of the season, Lawal led the team and many other players in the region in scoring. He said “it feels great” to contribute on the team as a freshman. “My job as a forward is to score goals for the team, so when I’m scoring it feels good and [I] try to help my teammates out, too,” Lawal said. Senior striker/midfielder Adam Witzel and junior midfielder Brian Connelly scored a goal each during the match. Hinson assisted with two of the Mustangs’ goals while several other players contributed to the scoring tally with assists. Senior midfielder Henry Darmstadter, Paul Darmstadter, sophomore defender Henderson Beam, sophomore midfielders Kavon Nowroozi and Thomas Rund, and freshman midfielder Grant Goodwin each assisted with one goal against the Panthers. Henry Darmstadter said the game against Rappahannock County was a team effort. “Last week I know we possessed the ball really well and we didn’t give them any chance on goal,” he said. He said the game against Central was also a team effort.

Only one player, junior midfielder/striker Sinan Kokuuslu, scored more than one goal in the match. “I think we possessed the ball well and won as a team,” Henry Darmstadter said. “That means that we connected through everyone and everybody contributed to the win, not just one sole person.” Henry Darmstadter crossed a ball in during a corner kick in the seventh minute that bounced in front of the goal a few times before senior midfielder/striker Kurt Ellis kicked it into the back of the net for the first goal of the game. In the 18th minute, Henry Darmstadter scored on a free kick in front of the goal that was awarded to the Mustangs after the Central goalkeeper came outside of the penalty box while handling the ball. Kokuuslu scored his first and the Mustangs’ third goal in the 19th minute. The score at halftime was 3-0. “In the beginning of the game we did start off a bit slow playing with Central and all,” Kokuuslu said. “But we stepped it up as per usual and we started playing our game.” Lawal scored the Mustangs’ fourth goal in the 60th minute when he dribbled around the goalkeeper and kicked the ball into an empty goal. Kokuuslu scored the Mustangs’ fifth goal on a header in the 68th minute after receiving a cross from junior defender Owen Puller. Paul Darmstadter scored the Mustangs’ sixth goal moments later after dribbling the ball through the heart of the Falcons defense. Junior midfielder Ben Mitchell scored the Mustangs’ seventh goal in the 75th minute after Lawal passed the ball through the Falcons’ defense to him. Kokuuslu said that defense was “crucial” to the Mustangs’ large margin of victory against the Falcons. “We had Ned Quill in the back and he was a rock,” Kokuuslu said. “Every challenge they had against us he essentially knocked it out.” The Mustangs have only been scored on seven times all season while scoring 71 goals. They are currently on a 15-game undefeated streak and haven’t been scored on in their last four matches. After the game against the Falcons, Spinello said he thinks the team gets better every time they step out on the field. Regardless of the outcome of the championship, the Mustangs will play Wilson Memorial High School in the quarterfinals of the Northern Virginia Region B postseason tournament next Monday.

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into the quarterfinals against Manassas Park, the Mustangs had outscored the Cougars 20-0. George Mason High School’s Parsons said the Mustangs knew girls varsity soccer team is “start- the match against the Cougars ing to peak” as the post-season wasn’t going to be as competitive begins, according to Head Coach as their two previous matches. “It was a very different type Jennifer Parsons. The Mustangs beat Clarke County High School of game than what we had to deal 3-0 in a tiebreaker game last with last week,” Parsons said. “So Thursday to clinch first place in they adjusted well and finished the Bull Run District. Then they their chances. I mean, we won, beat Manassas Park High School I’m happy.” Roth scored the Mustangs’ first 8-0 on Monday in the quarterfinal goal in the third minute. Freshman round of the district playoffs. The Mustangs played the midfielder/forward Ella Howard Clarke County Eagles, the second- scored another goal in the next THE GEORGE MASON HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR VARSITY BOYS SOCCER TEAM ended its regular place team in the district, twice minute. In the 15th minute, Roth season with a �lawless district record, not allowing a single goal from a Bull Run District foe. last week. The first match was dribbled through a few Cougar The team members pictured above are, from left to right, (back row) Co-Captains Arijeet a regularly scheduled game last defenders then passed through Tuesday the Mustangs won to tie to Trevisan, who scored the Sensharma and Kevin Fribley, Tyler Marple, (middle row) Jack Twiford, Marvin Majano, Roman Mynatt, Mattheus De Carvalho, Riley Marcus, Wesley Quill, Tyler Marple, Zachary Witzel, Samuel the Eagles for first place in the Mustangs’ third goal. Trevisan’s only goal and fresh- Mitchell, Beamlak Hailemariam, Coach Bobby Penland, Declan Quill, (bottom row) David Matz, district. As a result, the two rivals played a tiebreaker for first place man forward Kate Mills’ first goal Jacob Zorniak, Theodore Pugh, Graham Terry, Cristion Brown, Lucas Zullo, Charles Macris, in the district, the top seed, home of the game, scored in the 25th Oldrich Sembera, Derin Kokuuslu, Haewon Jeong, and Walker Hegadorn. (C�� P��) field advantage in the district minute, were outliers. “We had some rough patches playoffs, and an automatic bid to because they were very concenthe regional tournament. “Thursday was a tough game. trated on just kicking the ball Having to play the same team for away so it was kind of hard to the second time in 48 hours was keep connecting,” Trevisan said. mentally tough,” Parsons said. “I “But I think we got into a rhythm think the girls went and played and we put a lot of goals in the to win. They weren’t tentative. back of the net, which I think was When it comes to boys soccer, were many. In addition to Kokuuslu High School, a school with twice They just went after it and it really good.” Bull Run is one of the strongest and Sembera, other goal scorers Mason’s student population. The rest of the Mustangs’ districts in Virginia, with perennial included freshman Mattheus De Dominating the first half and leadshowed.” Sophomore forward Ava Roth scoring was clustered with four powers Manassas Park and Clarke Carvalho and Cristion Brown, ing 1-0 at the break, Mason faced scored the Mustangs’ first goal goals in four minutes. Sophomore County high schools joined by and eighth grader Wes Quill. The a determined, much larger oppoagainst the Eagles off of an assist Jessica Gemond scored the strong competition from relative Mustangs dominated the midfield. nent, along with a strong headfrom junior midfielder Claire Mustangs’ fifth goal in the 36th newcomers William Monroe and Mynatt was joined by sophomore wind in the second half. Tuscarora eventually wore Trevisan towards the end of the minute. Then Mills scored back- Central (Woodstock) high schools. Zack Witzel, freshman David Matz, to-back goals in the 37th and Whether at the varsity or junior var- and eighth grader Charlie Macris. down the younger Mustangs, scorfirst half. “It was a great ball by Claire 38th minutes to put the Mustangs sity level, to win the district cham- Defensive standouts included soph- ing three second-half goals “I wish we could play them and I just turned and hit it in mid- ahead 7-0. Gemond scored the pionship is an accomplishment and omore Haewon Jeong and eighth air with the goalkeeper coming eighth and final goal of the game to go undefeated is an achievement, grader Marvin Majano, as well as again,” Mustang JV Coach Bobby at me,” Roth said. “I felt really in the 39th minute. but to go unscored upon is unprec- goalkeepers freshman Sam Mitchell Penland said. “We were still a new The Mustangs played edented in recent history. With its and eighth grader Walker Hegadorn. team then, but I’m sure we could accomplished because after you get that first goal it settles every- Rappahannock County High 5-0 victory over Clarke County last But the glue that held the team beat them now.” School in one of the semifinal Tuesday, the George Mason High together and provided vital leaderMarple echoed his coach’s senone down.” Trevisan, the Mustangs’ lead- games of the district playoffs School boys JV team did just that, ship and direction to the younger timents. “The Tuscarora game was ing scorer, netted the other two and hosted the other semifinal, ending its season 12-0-0 and out- players were sophomore co-captains Fribley and Sensharma and sopho- the turning point of the season,” goals against the Eagles in the a match-up between William scoring its district opponents 68-0. Marple said. “We played with second half. In the previous match Monroe High School and Clarke The Mustang victory over more defensive star Tyler Marple. “We started the season with a them the whole game, and gained against Clarke County, she scored County High School, but results Clarke County was a microcosm weren’t available at press time. of the season – fierce pressure lot of young eighth graders this so much confidence. If we played a hat trick. “Scoring was great and I guess The winners of the semifinal defense, control of the ball, pin- year, but they really came around,” them now, we’d win.” As the Mustang boys varsity I’m glad it was me, but really if matches face each other tonight point passing, and clinical fin- Sensharma said. “We didn’t have it had been anyone else it would in the Bull Run District champi- ishing. A penalty kick by eighth any weaknesses and were just as team continues its quest for a have been just as great,” Trevisan onship. grader Derin Kokuuslu and a well- good when we brought in our subs.” state championship this year, Head Regardless of the outcome taken header by sophomore Kevin According to Fribley, goal- Coach Frank Spinello sees a great said. She also said that despite the high stakes of the tiebreaker, the of the district tournament, the Fribley staked the Mustangs to keepers Mitchell and Hegodorn future for boys soccer at Mason. “I consider the Junior Varsity to game wasn’t as intense as the one Mustangs play Wilson Memorial a 2-0 lead at halftime. Second- were crucial to success. High School in the quarterfinal half goals by freshman Roman “They gave us great communica- be the Future Varsity,” Spinello said, played on Tuesday. www.fcnp.com The Mustangs have outscored of the Northern Virginia Region Mynatt, eighth grader Oldrich tion,” Fribley said. “We knew if we “one program with common goals. the Eagles 7-2 in the three matches B post-season tournament next Sembera, and sophomore Arijeet were in trouble we could pass back We practice alongside each other, they’ve played this season. Going Monday. Sensharma finished the season on to them and they would find the open warm up together, travel together a high note. Steadfast defending man or make a big clearance. They and support each other. Coach and ball possession were the keys could also make big saves if the other Penland has done an amazing job VISIT US ONLINE with them. This year’s group has to keeping Clarke County score- team got off a shot.” The Mustangs’ only loss for done great things and I look forward less, as the Mustangs dominated the season came in a non-district to watching them progress and make play throughout the game. Offensive stars over the season contest with double-A Tuscarora contributions at the varsity level.”

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Community Events Thursday, May 23 Children’s Story Time. Ages 2 – 5 years. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 a.m. 703248-5034. F.C. Rotary Club Meeting. Northern Virginia Rotary District 7610’s Group Study Exchange Team will discuss their recent exchange visit to Australia. Harvest Moon Restaurant (7260 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). $15 optional dinner. 6:30 p.m. FallsChurchRotary.org. Lecture. Kim Root will give a presentation on finding balance and will show a short trailer introducing the film “Change: The Life Particle Effect.” Nourish Market (1053 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 7 – 8:30 p.m. 703-5338484. Book Talk. Kathryn O’Sullivan will discuss Foal Play. One More Page Books (2200 N. Westmoreland St., Arlington). 7 p.m. 703-3009746.

Friday, May 24 Film Screening. “E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial” will be shown. McLean Community Center’s Alden Theatre (1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean). Free. 7:30 p.m.

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Saturday, May 25 F.C. Farmers’ Market. Vendors offer fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables, cheeses, meats, baked goods, plants, and wine. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free admission. 8 a.m. – noon. 703248-5077. Used Book Sale. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. 703-248-5034. Cultural Presentation. “Forgotten Roots: Muslims in Early America” will feature a presentation and discussion for all ages. Woodrow Wilson Library (6101 Knollwood Drive, Falls Church). 2 p.m. 703820-8774.

Sunday, May 26 Open House. Falls Church Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9274 invites the public to an open house with complimentary burgers, hot dogs, and picnic side dishes. Falls Church VFW Post 9274 (7118 Shreve Road, Falls Church). 1 p.m. 703-241-9274.

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rides, arts and crafts, food, civic and business booths, public safety tips, stage entertainment, and the annual Memorial Day parade. City Hall Grounds (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free admission. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/MemorialDay. Don Beyer Volvo 3K Fun Run. (Intersection of Great Falls and Little Falls streets). 9 a.m. fallschurchva.gov/MemorialDay. Veterans Ceremony. Veterans Memorial at the Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). 11 a.m. fallschurchva.gov/MemorialDay. Memorial Day Remembrance. McLean American Legion Post 270 will conduct its annual Memorial Day remembrance. McLean High School (1633 Davidson Road, McLean). 11 a.m. mcleanpost270.org.

Tuesday, May 28 Children’s Story Time. Ages 1 – 2 years. Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library (7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church). 10:30 a.m. 703-7908088. Chess Club. Children ages 6 – 12 years can learn how to play chess. Woodrow Wilson Library (6101 Knollwood Drive, Falls Church). 3:30 – 5 p.m. 703-820-

8774. F.C. Lions Club Meeting. La Cote D’Or Cafe (6876 Lee Highway, Arlington). 6:30 p.m. fallschurchlions.com. Public Forum. Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig will give a video seminar titled “How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It.” A discussion will follow. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. 703-2003379.

Wednesday, May 29 Community Forum. A community question-and-answer session will be held to discuss a new prekindergarten center to be located at the current Child Development Center location on Cherry Street. Mount Daniel Elementary School (2328 N. Oak St., Falls Church). 7 p.m. fccps.org. Concert. The Thomas Jefferson Elementary School fourth-grade band will perform. Thomas Jefferson Elementary School (601 S. Oak St., Falls Church). 7 p.m. fccps.org. Bike Maintenance Workshop. REI Bailey’s Crossroads (3509 Carlin Springs Road, Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. 703- 379-9400.

Theater Fine Arts Thursday, May 23

“Thunder Knocking on the Door.” Once upon a time in a small Alabama town, a mysterious blues-playing stranger named Marvell Thunder arrives at the door of the Dupree family. A mythic figure with supernatural powers, Thunder has come to challenge the son and daughter of Jaguar Dupree, the only man who ever outplayed him on the guitar, in a “cutting contest.” Through May 26. ArtSpace Falls Church (410 S. Maple Ave., Falls Church). $22; $20 for students and seniors. 8 p.m. creativecauldron.org. “The Three Musketeers.” A fiery, bombastic ensemble of lovers and fighters fence, wine, dance, and fling their wit across the stage in a cross between physical and romantic comedy. Actors run rampant through the

streets of Paris in this exuberant adventure, telling the story of the young D’Artagnan whose one desire is to become that noblest of guardsmen: a Musketeer. The villainous Milady, Cardinal Richeliu, and the dark Rochefort cross wits, hearts, and swords with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis as D’Artagnan quests for love and honor. Dances at the palace meet brawls in the streets and all of it is set to original music in this new adaptation. Through June 9. Synetic Theater at Crystal City (1800 S. Bell St., Arlington). $35. 8 p.m. synetictheater.org.

“Company.” On his 35th birthday, Bobby, a commitment-phobic bachelor, searches for the answers to love and life in New York City. While enjoying the company of some lovely ladies, he observes both the joys and pitfalls of marriage from his five quirky

couple friends – but is he ready? Through June 30. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington). $29 – $67. 8 p.m. signaturetheatre.org.

Friday, May 24

“Blithe Spirit.” Crabby and irritable novelist Charles Condomine suddenly finds himself face to face with the ghost of his deceased wife, Elvira – much to the chagrin of his current spouse, Ruth. Love and marriage devolve into laughter and mayhem when Ruth is united with Elvira on the “other side.” Together, the paranormal pair of blithe and spicy spirits haunts the hapless husband with hilarious consequences. Through June 16. 1st Stage Theater (1524 Spring Hill Road, McLean). $25; $15 for students. 8 p.m. 1ststagetysons.org.

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live_music&nightlife Thursday, May 23 Futurebirds with Floating Action and Justin Jones. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. Me and Ed. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 7 p.m. 703-532-9283. Macy Gray. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $59.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. Seryn with Nathan Reich. The Hamilton (600 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $19. 7:30 p.m. 202-787-1000. Shooter Jennings with Daniel Romano and Scott Kurt and Memphis 59. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $20. 8 p.m. 703-237-0300. Coliseum with Red Hare and Give. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12. 8 p.m. 202667-7960. Marie Miller with L’Angelus and Kenny Kohlhaas. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566. Mud Rey with Norman Rockwell. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $10. 8:30 p.m. 703522-8340. Dave Chappell Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. Bob Hume and Rob Kilgore. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St.,

Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-2378333.

Friday, May 24 Dan and Chuck Acoustic Duo. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 7 p.m. 703-532-9283. Risa Binder. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $13. 7 p.m. 703-2551566. Honor By August with Melodime and Jesse Ruben. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15. 8 p.m. 202-265-0930. Johnny Neel and Dave Chappell. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504. DC Traffic, The Northwest Players, Tom O’Connor, and Maple. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $10. 9 p.m. 703-5228340. The Billy Triplett Trio. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. Moogatu, WoodWork, and Threesound. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $13. 10 p.m. 703-255-1566. Moonshine Society. The Hamilton (600 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). 10:30 p.m. 202-787-1000.

Saturday, May 25 Chris Hardwick with Chris Lamberth. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 6 p.m. 202-

265-0930. Cap City Jazz Band. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 7 p.m. 703-532-9283. Sol Roots. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. YoMama’s Big Fat Booty Band. The Hamilton (600 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 8:30 p.m. 202-787-1000. Cobra Collective. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $10. 9 p.m. 703-522-8340. Total Control with Parquet Courts and UV Race. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $13. 9 p.m. 202-667-7960. Moonshine Society. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. Ken Wenzel. The Hamilton (600 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). 10:30 p.m. 202-787-1000.

Sunday, May 26 Shartel and Hume. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 3:45 p.m. 703-241-9504. Anders and Kendall. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. Memphis Gold. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.

Monday, May 27 Christopher O’Riley. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington).

$15. 7 p.m. 703-522-8340. Blank Realm with Apache Dropout, Foul Swoops, and Thee Tsunamis. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12. 8 p.m. 202667-7960.

Tuesday, May 28 The Uncluded with Hamell on Trial. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 7 p.m. 202265-0930 Derek Evry, Andy Zipf, Laura Tsaggaris, and Molly Hagen. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $10. 8 p.m. 703-5228340. Steve Jacobs Blues Band with Ann Todaro. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church).9 p.m. 703-241-9504.

Wednesday, May 29 Grand Revival, Sub-Radio Standard, Good Gravity, and Sudden Impact. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $13. 7 p.m. 703-255-1566. The Dandy Warhols. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. Joe Krown Trio and Royal Southern Brotherhood. The Hamilton (600 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $27.50. 7:30 p.m. 202-787-1000. Imperial China with Tereu Tereu and May Tabol. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12. 8 p.m. 202-667-7960.

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ell you know what you should be doing on Monday (see Memorial Day special section inside this edition), so I’m going to tell you what to do this Saturday. Sure, you could grill out and get your burger and hot dog on, but that’s so unoriginal. How about staggering around D.C. like the undead in search of beer and brains at The DC Zombie Crawl? First, the hordes will meet on the National Mall where you can get your zombie makeup done up right by professional artists and then it’s time to wander (slowly, mind you – you’re a zombie) around the Mall. After a little zombie fraternization, those 21 and over will Metro over to Adams Morgan to continue the party with no covers and drink specials for participants. All this undead revelry is for a good cause as Zombie Crawl donations will go towards the Stillbrave Childhood Cancer Foundation.

What: The DC Zombie Crawl When: Saturday, May 25 Where: National Mall & Adams Morgan, Washington, D.C. See www.dczombiecrawl.org for more information

Friday, May 31 – “Is He Dead?” In this comedy, the brilliant artist Jean-Francois Millet is in debt to a ruthless moneylender, and can’t sell a painting to save his life (literally). His cohort of bohemian friends convince him to stage his own death to help boost sales. Through June 15. The James Lee Community Center Theater (2855 Annandale Road, Falls Church). $18; $15 for students and seniors. 7:30 p.m. providenceplayers. org. Saturday, June 1 – Open House. Mini-classes for children and adults will be offered in a variety of dance genres, and tours will be given of the BalletNova facilities. BalletNova Center for Dance (3443 Carlin Springs Road, Falls Church). Free. 2 – 5 p.m. 703-7783008.

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Protein Bar, a Chicago-founded chain that set up shop this winter in Arlington, has latched onto the relatively recent diet trend that proffers meals high in protein can be a satisfying way to eat healthy. They’ve eschewed breads and starchy vegetables and embraced the recently popularized superfood quinoa. Cost and convenience are often cited as factors prohibiting a healthy change in diet, which Protein Bar has addressed with a fast-casual concept and an affordable menu of high-protein eats that include wraps, salads, quinoa bowls, smoothies, and blended raw juice drinks. Protein Bar has opened a hip restaurant in Ballston; its focal point is a massive light fixture overtop the dining room that mimics the orange and brown restaurant logo of arranged circles. The logo also appears as a pattern on the walls of the space, along with a handful of placards that talk about the restaurant’s healthy food philosophies and the nutritional value of quinoa, a seed which is grain-like but high in protein. Quinoa finds its way into many of the restaurant’s dishes, most notably the quinoa bowls. The Spinach and Pesto variety ($7.19) offers a small bowl packed with spinach, little dots of the rice-like quinoa, and pieces of chicken. The pesto that’s added to the mix delivers a big, bright, and fresh basil flavor to all the bowl’s components. Among the Protein Bar-ritos, wraps that are made both “chilled” and “grilled,” is the Ivy ($7.99) which serves up the ingredients of the Spinach and Pesto quinoa bowl. Here, the spinach, chicken, and flavorful house-made pesto are wrapped in a whole wheat tortilla and grilled, the evidence of which appears in dark score marks across the wrap. A wrap that more closely resembles the burrito the restaurant alludes to is the Original ($7.59), which swaps out rice for quinoa and adds chicken, black beans, cheddar cheese, and cilantro. The Greek Town ($7.99) chilled wrap is made with hummus, olives, cucumber, chicken, greens, and a tangy Greek dressing which, like all the sauces served at Protein Bar, is made fresh in-house. This option, as with several on the menu, can be made vegan upon request, and some menu items are also gluten-free. The gluten-free Superfood Vegan ($8.99), offered among the Signature Salads menu section, shows the focus on health and flavor that goes into the Protein Bar menu. The base of the big salad bowl is the house’s Super 6 Salad Mix – romaine, spinach, and kale for greens with purple cabbage, broccoli, and carrots – brought together for their vitamin-rich and even supposed disease-fighting qualities. It’s topped with marinated tofu, crunchy pepitas, and soft chickpeas, then dressed with a chia sauce for a salad that has a blend of colors and textures and a fresh taste with the right touch of heat. Even the drinks poured at Protein Bar have nutrition as their focus. The smoothielike Signature Drinks include fruity blends, but also experiment with dessert-like tastes. The PB and J Street uses peanut butter, blueberries, strawberries, and agave nectar to approach the flavor of its namesake sandwich, and the result is a sweet drink with a slightly nutty taste. The drinks come in 12- and 20-ounce sizes, with the customer’s choice of milk (2%, skim, soy, almond) or yogurt (non-fat, soy, Greek), and gratis nutritional add-ons like protein (whey, soy, egg) and “boosts,” with supplements for energy, fat-burning, or even “hangover.” The menu includes not just calorie information, but also protein, fat, carbohydrate, and fiber content for each item which, in addition to serving many vegan and glutenfree dishes, makes working within dietary restrictions easy. When the food is offered in a fast-casual atmosphere, with pick-up and even delivery available, it’s even easier. And the fresh and flavorful tastes at Protein Bar are the (proverbial!) icing on the cake.

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to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;the best in the country,â&#x20AC;? or a similar superlative. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been doing this since the last time he ran, unsuccessfully, for the Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 2009, and while some party loyalists were skeptical of him then, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made true believers of them all since. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaigned tirelessly, eying a 2013 run, but raising energy levels and money for Democrats running at all levels throughout the commonwealth for four years. Even though the crowd had begun to dwindle before he arrived Sunday night, it did not dampen his enthusiasm. Accompanied by his campaign manager and driver, he went around the gym floor at the Community Center shaking hands, patting backs and having his picture taken with everyone who wanted one. Most did. There was no doubt from any of the speakers Sunday that they, as Democrats, were hopping up and down with enthusiasm following the choices their Republican counterparts made at their state convention in Richmond the day

before. While there was no doubt that current Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli would become the GOP gubernatorial standard bearer, not so the choices of what many see as Cuccinelliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closest ally, ideologically, in the State Senate, Mark Obenshain, for Attorney General, and uber-right wing Rev. E. W. Jackson for lieutenant governor. One of the few moderates bidding for a nomination at the convention, Fairfax Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former State Sen. Jeanne-Marie Devolites Davis, wife of former U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, never got past the first round of balloting for lieutenant governor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On this GOP slate,â&#x20AC;? Sen. Saslaw intoned sarcastically at the Falls Church Democratic event Sunday night, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cuccinelli is the moderate.â&#x20AC;? Saslaw spoke as a supporter of lieutenant governor candidate State Sen. Ralph Northam after Northamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opponent in the June 11 Democratic primary Chopra spoke for himself. Loudoun County State Sen. Mark Herring spoke, running for the Democratic nod for Attorney General, while his opponent in the June 11 primary, Justin Fairfax,

was not present. Herring, seeing that the GOPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Obenshain would be his opponent in November if he won the primary, charged that Obenshain was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;cloneâ&#x20AC;? of Cuccinelli, and said that â&#x20AC;&#x153;ideology needs to be taken out of the office (of attorney general â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ed) and the law put first.â&#x20AC;? But the importance of the lieutenant governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s race cannot be overstated, it was noted, because with the State Senate currently in a 20-20 draw between Democrats and Republicans, and the lieutenant governor tasked with casting tie-breaking votes when they occur, the lieutenant governor will tilt control of the Senate to one party or the other depending on who gets elected. In his remarks Sunday night, McAuliffe focused on education as an issue, and the energy in his campaign, noting that he will be opening 35 field offices in the state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This election will be about turnout,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited, but then again Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always excited,â&#x20AC;? he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will be a 24/7 candidate between now and November. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe in sleep. Sleep is overrated.â&#x20AC;?

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School News & Notes Thomas Jefferson Elementary School recently sent 13 fourth-grade scientists to the Science Olympiad Regional Tournament. Over the course of two days, the students participated in 14 events. Student scientists examined leaf specimens, identified insects, built barges to hold cargo items, altered variables in a formula for “gunk,” solved math puzzles, answered questions related to NASA Mars missions, made readings using scientific weather instruments, and more. TJ’s team was made up of Charlie Adams, Alec

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Stuart Tech Team Donates Refurbished Computers On May 8, the Stuart Tech Team held its first computer giveaway, and eight families from J.E.B. Stuart High School feeder schools received computers that the students had refurbished.

These computers were outfitted with the latest software including Microsoft Office 2010. On Wednesday, May 15, a second giveaway took place for current students attending Stuart High, during which 25 families received computers.

F.C. High Senior Named Lacrosse Player of the Year Patrick Devlin, a senior at Falls Church High School, was selected as the National District Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Year. The selection, which is voted on by all the coaches of the National District, was unanimous. Devlin had been National District First Team All-

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Stuart Students Win Civic Awards Two J.E.B. Stuart High School students recently received awards from local civic groups. Ann Nguyen won first prize in the Rotary speech contest for Virginia District 7610. Her participation in the contest has earned her $1,200. She also won the Rotary photo contest for Virginia District 7610. Henry Lopez won the Youth of the Year Award for the Boys and

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Longfellow Student Wins $4K in Mathcounts Contest Longfellow Middle School student Franklin Wang was named a semifinalist and winner of a $4,000 scholarship in the national Mathcounts competition held recently in Washington, D.C. Wang was part of the team representing Virginia, which finished in fifth place in the national competition. Mathcounts is a national middle school competitive mathematics program that promotes math achievement through a series of bee-style contests.

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AT ITS ANNUAL GALA LAST FRIDAY, the Falls Church Education Foundation surprised four Falls Church City Public Schools teachers with a new award – Technology Teacher of the Year. The four honored teachers (pictured from left to right) are Al DeFazio, George Mason High School English teacher; Michelle Janney, Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School sixth-grade math teacher; Courtney Quinlan, Mount Daniel School first-grade teacher; and Lisa Allan, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School fourth-grade teacher. Each award included a check for $500. The awards were made possible by the contribution of an anonymous donor to recognize teachers who are embracing technology and making it part of everyday classroom experiences. (FCCPS Photo/Marybeth Connelly)

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Shenandoah Run (Photo: Renee Ruggles) Listeners, who may remember the group from a set at the Fall Festival and Taste of Falls Church, can expect to hear renditions of popular folk pieces, but also songs like The Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” that will be interpreted with folk sensibilities. They aren’t a cover band, Melissinos says, but audiences may recognize the lyrics or tune of the songs the band plays. The band of D.C.-area players came to know one another through meet-ups for those inter-

ested in folk music – get-togethers for instrumentalists, vocalists, and people who just love the music. Melissinos started to approach a few of the talented performers and gauge their interest in starting a folk group. In a few months’ time, Shenandoah Run was born. Now, the group is coming off of two sold-out shows at Creative Cauldron last month celebrating the release of their first full-length album, Winter to Spring. The band released a four-track EP last year as a pro-

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF A PETITION OF VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY TO EXTEND, EXPAND, AND MODIFY ITS PILOT PROGRAM ON DYNAMIC RATES CASE NO. PUE-2010-00135 The State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) entered an Order directing that this proceeding be established to provide public notice and an opportunity for comments and requests for hearing to be filed on Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Virginia Power’s (“Dominion Virginia Power” or the “Company”) proposed extension, expansion, and modification of its pilot program on dynamic rates (“Pilot Program”). On September 30, 2010, Dominion Virginia Power filed an Application to Establish Pilot Program in which it proposed to offer three experimental and voluntary dynamic pricing tariffs pursuant to Chapter 816 of the 2009 Virginia Acts of Assembly and the Commission’s directives in Case No. PUE-2009-00084. Specifically, the Company proposed a pilot enrollment of 2,000 participants consisting of 1,000 residential customers taking service under experimental dynamic pricing tariff DP-R and 1,000 commercial/general customers taking service under dynamic pricing tariffs DP-1 and DP 2. The Company stated that it would begin enrollment of eligible customers in the Pilot Program 90 days from Commission approval but no earlier than April 1, 2011. The Company proposed to keep the Pilot Program in effect until November 30, 2013. Dominion Virginia Power also requested approval to begin deferring incremental costs related to the Pilot Program, projected to be approximately $2.9 million, for future recovery in a cost recovery rate adjustment clause pursuant to § 56-585.1 A of the Code of Virginia. 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for Mother’s day and had a wonderful time. It is a well thought out, modern, urban planning success. People were happy, walking the streets, frequenting new and interesting restaurants and shops while children played in the nicely landscaped areas. Thoughtful development with a cohesive plan brings a fresh outlook and pleasant interaction. Sadly, what I find in Falls Church

is a disjointed hodge podge of one too many pizza places, fast food joints, outdated shopping experiences, few interesting destinations, (except for the fabulous farmer’s market), and one too many purple tulips on buildings. These groovy gigantic flowers are someway somehow supposed to represent good design? I am sorry but building with Christmas green and red colors coupled with a huge purple and black tulip doesn’t do it! Please Falls Church get your

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act together, hire some talented professional urban planners, and get a big picture plan or we will become a bigger disconnected hot mess. Adriane Hart Falls Church

FCNP’s Peak Oil Columnist Should Say ‘Never Mind’ Editor, Given Tom Whipple’s countless “Peak Oil Crisis” columns in the News-Press, I’ve long wondered how he’d eventually deal with the boom in North American oil production. For someone who’s been predicting

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(forever, it seems) that catastrophe was just around the corner, it certainly took him long enough to recognize that boom. Didn’t his readers deserve something better than his half-hearted claim in last week’s column, “Supply Shock,” that maybe in a few years we’ll be worrying about shortages again? (Was that a claim, by the way, or a wish, Mr. Whipple?) It would have been much more candid for Mr. Whipple to borrow a line from the late Gilda Radner’s “Saturday Night Live” character, Emily Litella, and simply announce, after all his years of forecasting a peak oil crisis, “Never mind.” Sam Kazman Falls Church

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Sexual Assaults in Military Same Rate as Campuses Editor, Regarding Maureen Dowd’s column on sexual assault in the military, I believe this is a cultural issue, not only a military issue. The Centers for Disease Control studies show that sexual assault occurs on our college campuses by nearly the same percentage. It’s going to take the village (i.e., nation) as a whole to tackle this issue. Barb Nash Arlington

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1. Ravel composition that debuted at the Paris Opera in 1928 7. One putting out feelers 10. “The check ____ the mail” 14. Use for sustenance 15. Part of DJIA 16. 2008 National Book Award for Poetry winner Mark 17. With 18-Across, on a negative course 18. See 17-Across 20. I may precede them 22. “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” author 23. Suffix with girl or boy 26. Petting zoo sound 27. Pulitzer-winning biographer Leon and others 28. With 31-Across, famous villain of children’s literature 31. See 28-Across 32. Ear-related 33. Together, in Toulon 35. Emmy-winning TV show ... or this puzzle’s theme 40. Falafel holder 41. Leaves out 44. With 48-Across, 1998 Christian Slater/Cameron Diaz film 48. See 44-Across 50. Sch. George W. Bush attended after getting a 1206 on his SATs 51. ____ Lingus 52. Game-ending cry 53. Quarter-mile, maybe 55. “Lady Marmalade” singer with Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim and Pink

MAY 23 - 29, 2013 | PAGE 29 36. Message from police HQ 37. Nobelist name of 1922 and 1975 38. French friend 39. “Correct answer!” sound 42. ____ Friday’s 43. Fig. in an identity theft case 44. Conceit 45. The only prime number comprising an even number of identical digits 46. Winterize, as a coat 47. China’s currency unit 49. It incited a 1773 party 50. Bear and Berra 54. Some major golf tournaments, informally 55. Corp. recruits 57. “____ Baba and the 40 Thieves” 59. “Well, lah-di-____!” 60. Grp. with a piece plan? 61. It’s often pressed for cash 62. Stooge with bangs 63. They can always be seen right in the middle of dinner

56. With 58-Across, taking away one’s credibility 58. See 56-Across 64. Southernmost cross-country U.S. highway 65. Only U.S. state whose constitution includes the term “pickup trucks”: Abbr. 66. Chain smoker’s buy 67. Holiday song closer 68. Bro’s sib 69. River seen from Windsor Castle

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In an extraordinary encounter with leaders of the Falls Church business community Tuesday, City Manager David. L. Lasso outlined a bold agenda for action in business development here, involving the utilization of $500,000 that has been set aside by the City for such purposes. Lasso said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are conceptual plans for substantial new development in the West End,â&#x20AC;? although he said he could not elaborate at this time.

Falls Church Episcopal Church representatives were turned away from yet another meeting with Falls Church government officials Monday. Over a span of more than three years, the church was first denied a petition to close a public street, then denied its wish to limit it to one-way traffic, and now, the Falls Church Planning Commission expressed displeasure with the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request to narrow the street by removing 45 parking spaces.

Ralph Harry, 83, Dies After Lengthy Illness in Arlington Ralph Burton Harry of Arlington, Va., retired senior vice president and treasurer of the former National Coal Association, died of cancer at his home Sunday, May 12. Mr. Harry was born March 20, 1930, in Winchester, VA, the son of Oscar Burton Harry and Louise Jones Harry. In addition to his wife of 60 years, he is survived by two sons and their wives, and three grandchildren: Burton Lee Harry and his wife Jill, of Tarzana, CA, and their children Kathryn and Kyle; and Christopher Page Harry and his wife Cindy, of Gainesville, FL, and their daughter Molly. Also surviving are his niece, Anne K. Clark of Arlington, sisters Dorothy Lee Naler of Moody, Texas, and her children, Jim, Joe and Sandra (Norman), and Jeanne Elizabeth DeHaven (Thomas), of Chester, VA, and their daughters Paula, Kathy (Lewis) and Michele (Chris) and their four children. Harry grew up in Winchester and graduated from John Handley High School in 1948. He enlisted

in the U.S. Navy after graduation, serving four years during the Korean War in the Supply Corps at Annapolis, MD, and aboard the LST 306 in the Atlantic fleet. Following service, Mr. Harry graduated from Strayer College of Accountancy and served two years on the staff of Rep. Burr P. Harrison of Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s then-7th Congressional District. In 1956, he joined the National Coal Association, which represented the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coal-producing companies and allied organizations. Over the next 36 years, he rose from administrative assistant to secretary and treasurer to vice president of finance, retiring in 1992 as senior vice president and treasurer. He also served as a corporate officer of affiliated associations for coal research and exports. During his career, Mr. Harry was active in National Trade Association educational and management programs and completed requirements for Certified Association Executive status conferred by the American Society of

Association Executives. A resident of Arlington since 1957, he served as Cub Master, Methodist Church board member, trustee and choir member and advisory board member of local service organizations, and since 1988 was a member of St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church and a tenor in its adult choir. He was a member of Washington Golf and Country Club since 1966 and served after retirement as a president of its senior golfing association. He enjoyed writing poetry, painting, gardening and golf, and was an avid fan of Washington sports teams. After retiring, he made gift birdhouses which replicated neighborsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; homes, businesses and other memorabilia. Harry married the former Helen Page Coble on July 26, 1952, at Christ Episcopal Church in Winchester. A Memorial Service was held at St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church in Arlington last Friday with interment at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Winchester. In lieu of flowers, the family asks contributions be made to Capital Caring Hospice at 950 N. Glebe Road, Suite 500, Arlington, VA, 22207.

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