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Inside This Week Mason High Tops Again in Virginia

Among traditional public schools in Virginia and the greater Washington, D.C. area, Falls Church’s George Mason High School is ranked No. 1, according to a Newsweek Magazine-The Daily Beast study out this week.

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Anthony’s to Close; Last Day June 2

On the eve of a final approval of a new large scale mixed use project on the site of the legendary 40-year Falls Church institution, Anthony’s Restaurant, Ted Akis, son of founders Tony and Faye Yiannarakis, issued a statement announcing that the restaurant will be permanently closing.

CBC Panel Tonight Marks Kickoff of F.C. Council, School Board Races H onoring L ocal B usiness

Press Pass with Beth Hart

When Beth Hart left the stage at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors after performing a soulstirring rendition of “I’d Rather Go Blind” in tribute to legendary bluesman Buddy Guy, she didn’t realize the impact she’d made.

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IN RECOGNITION OF their continued partnership with Falls Church City Public Schools, a number of local businesses and organizations were included in the 2013 Virginia School Boards Association Business Honor Roll, along with many others from across the state and were recognized by the Falls Church School Board (standing behind the honorees) at its meeting Tuesday night. This is a new recognition being instituted for the first time this year. (Photo: News-Press)

What’s at Stake in Va. Lieutenant Governor Race: Control of Senate

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The hotly-contested race for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor this year has a lot more at stake than may meet the eye at first. For a lot of people, even otherwise savvy political types, this may not yet be clear.

Take the event of the Northern Virginia Democratic Business Council last Friday at the Tower Club in Tysons Corner. The two candidates vying for the Dem nod

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that will be decided in a June 11 primary, State Sen. Ralph Northam and Aneesh Chopra, were on hand for a friendly exhibition of their contesting candidacies.

A question came from the audience about the role of the lieutenant governor in Richmond.

Northam, a State Senator from Tidewater, quipped that he and his rival both looked that up on Google the night before, which drew some laughs.

In other words, he intimated, the duties of the job were rather

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esoteric and insignificant, even for folks from Falls Church whose native son, Don Beyer, Jr., was twice elected to that post in the 1990s.

But such an obscure definition of the job, even by those now seeking it, couldn’t be farther from the practical truth.

The biggest part of the lieutenant governor’s job is to preside over the State Senate and, in the event of a 20-20 tie vote (there are

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by Nicholas F. Benton

Falls Church’s foremost and venerable civic organization, the 54-year-old Citizens for a Better (CBC) in recent years opted out of the process of vetting, endorsing and campaigning for candidates for local elections here. But they’re not entirely detached from the process of the upcoming election of four (out of seven) Falls Church City Council candidates and five (out of seven) School Board candidates.

That will become evident tonight (May 9) when the CBC hosts a “How to Become a Candidate” forum at the American Legion Post 130 hall on N. Oaks St. It will be a very important Council election, in particular, because with all the split votes on the City budget and other matters in the last year, the outcome in November could tilt the majority significantly in one direction or the other. The single most important issue is the City’s ability and willingness to fund its first-rate school system which has faced extraordinary needs with its explosive, record-breaking pace of enrollment growth the last five years.

So, it’s hardly suprising that local politics watchers will be craning their necks to see who shows up, and who doesn’t, at tonight’s forum. After all, there is only a month to go until the filing deadline (June 11) for candidates to run in the November election.

Of course, the requirements are fairly simple: 125 valid signatures

See NewS BriefS, page 9

Along with a boosted Buick LeSabre, another incident listed on a crime report Sunday in Arlington County, Va., was a creepy attack by a man on a woman.

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Wednesday, May 15 Renewal of Ministry with the Welcoming of our New Rector, John Ohmer You are invited to bring a non-perishable food item for donation to the Falls Church City food pantry.

4:00–6:00 p.m. — Open House with tours of the Historic Church and Graveyard 7:00–8:30 p.m. — Worship Service in the Main Sanctuary

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40 state senators), to cast the deciding vote.

Well, as it turns out, there are now exactly 20 Republican and 20 Democratic State Senators, so that with no State Senate elections in 2013 or before 2015, it means that whomever wins the lieutenant governor race this November will, effectively, tilt the majority in the Senate to one party or other other.

Thus, the job could not be more important under these circumstances, easily the equal in importance of the races for governor and attorney general.

In the last legislative session earlier this year, there were numerous times when the sharply divided partisan Senate saw 20-20 tie votes decided by current lieutenant governor Bill Bolling, a Republican.

Thus, a lot of the arch-conservative bills that came over from the

Republican dominated House of Delegates were able to be passed by the Senate and signed into law by Republican Governor Bob McDonnell.

Had a Democrat been in the lieutenant governor seat, all of those bills would have gone down, never to reach the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desk. With no change in the 20-20 deadlock in the State Senate this coming year, Democrats hope they can cause that to happen with the election of one of theirs this November.

Of course, this matter is equally important to Republicans, who will decide their lieutenant governor candidate at a statewide convention (not a primary) on May 18. They will chose from among a field of seven candidates: Fairfax State Sen. Jeannemarie Devolites Davis, Chesapeake pastor E.W. Jackson, Prince William State Del. L. Scott Lingamfelter,

Chesterfield State Sen. Stephen Martin, technology entrepreneur Pete Snyder, Corey Stewart, chair of the Prince William Co. Board of Supervisors, and Susan Stimpson, chair of the Stafford Co. Board of Supervisors.

For the two Democratic contenders, while genial in their campaigns on the outside, their contest could not be more important, and a big premium, in this context, has been put on the issue of â&#x20AC;&#x153;electability.â&#x20AC;?

Northam, a native of southern Virginia with a strong military background as a pediatrician and neurologist who has served in the State Senate from Norfolk since 2008, is considered more â&#x20AC;&#x153;electableâ&#x20AC;? by many in the party who are supporting him, including his State Senate colleagues from this region.

Chopra is the Arlington-based Secretary of Technology for Gov.

FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS | FCNP.COM Those in defense of Chopra note that Obama, also with an ethnic-sounding name, carried the entire state twice, while a â&#x20AC;&#x153;downstateâ&#x20AC;? Democratic nominee, Sen. Creigh Deeds, failed to win the 2009 gubernatorial race, due in part to a lukewarm response from Northern Virginia Democrats.

Both candidates are likely to appear at the annual JeffersonJackson Dinner of the Falls Church Democratic Committee on Sunday, May 19 at the Falls Church Community Center, along with two Democrats vying for the attorney general nomination, State Sen. Mark Herring and Justin Fairfax.

Tim Kaine and Chief Technology Officer for President Obama, who is popular in the Democratic base of Northern Virginia, which has been critical for tilting the balance for Democrats, statewide in the last decade, including for President Obama and now U.S. Senator Kaine in 2012.

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of registered voters who live in the City, opening a campaign bank account, and some other forms.

But candidates often run into snags and don’t get it exactly right, which is why it is wisest to plan to submit qualifications with a few days to spare, in the event there need to be some corrections.

There are an abundance of moving parts and speculative interests in who files to run this time. How many incumbents will seek re-election, and which ones?

Who will want to move from the School Board to the City Council or vice-versa? Who among the pro-school and tax activists will throw their hats in the ring?

With a majority on both the Council and School Board at stake in this election, and most candidates running for four year terms (at least, with some two year slots to fill on the School Board), it’s not just the November election, but who files in the next month that will make a huge difference

for the future of Falls Church and its schools.

The other intriguing factor is that almost no one has tipped their hand as yet. Only one candidate, incumbent Vice Mayor David Snyder, has been seen circulating petitions for re-election so far.

Rumors are running wildly about who is and who is not considering running. A lot of names have been bandied about, and tonight’s CBC meeting will provide the next important clue about who may actually be planning on what.

Snyder, thus, is the only Council incumbent to signal his intentions for re-election so far (not surprising, again, as Snyder has been on the Council since 1994, by far its longest-serving incumbent).

None of the other incumbents whose seats are up in November has said, to the News-Press’ knowledge, whether they will run for second terms or not. They include Johannah Barry, Ira Kaylin and Ron Peppe. All were elected for the first time in May

2009, though Peppe served on the School Board before that.

Buzz around town about possible candidates, in addition to the incumbents, for either the City Council or School Board include the names of Joan Wodiska, Marybeth Connelly, Craig Cheney, Paul Handly, Jamie Craig, Dan Sze, Dan Maller, Jeanne Burers, Greg Rasnake, Stephanie Oppenheimer, Rena Marsh, Lawrence Webb, Alan Brangman, Sally Ekfelt, Michael Ankuma, Linda Neighborgall, Susan Kearney, John Lawrence, Melissa Teates, and Robert LaJeunesse. (None of the above have confirmed or denied to the News-Press their intentions, or even their considerations about this).

All this heightens the interest in tonight’s CBC meeting, where the City’s Registrar of Voters, David Bjerke, Treasurer Cathy Kaye, and Revenue Commissioner Tom Clinton will constitute a panel, while former Vice Mayor Hal Lippman and current Councilman David Tarter will moderate. The event begins at 7:30 p.m.

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Time is Now To Step Up

With just a month to go before the June 11 filing deadline, the future of the City of Falls Church and its schools may depend on who files to run for the four City Council and five School Board seats that will be contested this November.

Civic leaders are working hard to remind everybody that the filing deadline looms, because it might come as a surprise to many who think there’s plenty of time to get ready for holding November elections of Falls Church’s local Council and School Board slots for the first time.

Falls Church’s venerable Citizens for a Better City (CBC) civic organization will be holding a forum tonight (May 9) to help anyone considering running figure out what’s required to get properly certified to run. The core requirement is 125 valid signatures of registered voters residing in the City of Falls Church. That’s not a lot, and it may seem easy, but it does require a determined effort. Some may think they can get all the signatures they need during Saturday morning Farmers Markets or the Memorial Day Festival and Parade on May 27, but at that event there may be oodles of people who are not sure if they actually live in the City or just outside of it. The best approach may be to go door-to-door.

But the biggest effort of all goes into deciding to run in the first place.

It is always surprising to find how many intelligent, talented and dedicated members of our community shy away when it comes to running for public office. It requires a lot of time and focus, and patience with people who may insist on unloading their point of view anytime and anywhere, not to mention to endure privacy invasions and enemies at close range. Tough decisions are often required, especially in hard times, that are bound to hurt people, to cost them jobs or make living difficult with tax rate increases.

On the other hand, it is kind of like jury duty, which is somewhat less voluntary. One may loathe the idea, but once into the process, it feels important and rewarding to be part of the functioning of our civil society, especially when truth, honesty, integrity and justice remain valued commodities.

So, to all those of you out there who know who you are, either considering or recoiling from the idea of running for one of our local offices, consider this editorial a challenge to step off the sidelines, if that is where you are, or to re-up for another term.

There is no shortage of critical issues before Falls Church, including how it maintains its first rate school system in the face of record enrollment growth pressures, how it creatively addresses its municipal capital improvement needs, and how it encourages the right kind of commercial growth. Those with a passion to see to it the right decisions get made on these and other matters must step up.

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Questions ‘Court Security’ Issue at F.C. City Hall Editor, In an article in your May 2-9 edition regarding South Washington Street Development, you discussed plans to renovate or build a new City Hall. In that article, one of the justifications for these plans was that “court security is woefully lacking there.”

This statement is misleading and does not represent my experiences of over 31 years in that court.

I also do not believe it represents

the opinion of the current users of the courtroom. If your statement is designed to indicate the difficulties of holding court (with some defendants in a custodial situation) in a building designed to serve as a City Hall, I agree.

I disagree if this statement in any way is directed at the men and women of the Falls Church Sheriff’s Office. Each week several paid Deputies, and many more volunteer Deputies, insure

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the safety of all who attend court in Council Chambers. They strive each week to overcome the physical limitations imposed upon them, by a building that is serving a role it was never designed for, while doing it in a courteous and professional manner.

In addition, a Security Committee consisting of a judge, members of the Sheriff’s Office, Police Department, the Court’s Clerk’s Office and other City agencies, regularly meet to discuss ways to improve the security of this building. To describe security as “woefully lacking” completely disregards their efforts to improve the security of the building while

striking a balance with the public that uses it.

Thomas J. Kelley, Jr. Via the Internet (Editor replies – No one has suggested in any of the conversations about this, that the work of the F.C. Sheriff’s Department has been anything but exemplary.)

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The Little City Needs Strong, Effective Leadership

By Sally Ekfelt

For those of you who may not know, Citizens for a Better City (CBC) has been involved in the Little City since 1959. Our mission is to promote civic activism and encourage and support local leadership – it is for the latter that we meet tonight. As evidenced most clearly in our latest budget cycle, Falls Church City’s need for strong, effective leadership is critical. As our community evolves through the inevitable major changes we now face, our survival as an independent city depends upon sound judgment and good governance.

Tonight, May 9, CBC will host its “How-To-Become-A-Candidate” forum at 7:30 p.m. at the American Legion Post 130 on 400 North Oak Street. This event is open to the public and you are invited to attend.

Whether you are a serious office seeker or just simply curious, CBC welcomes you.

CBC’s forum goal tonight is to simplify what may seem like an overwhelming process for those considering a run for public office this fall, thereby eliminating any inherent reservations.

The format of the meeting will be short informal presentations followed by your questions and our answers. To help us, we will have an array of panelists who happen to be some of Falls Church’s finest public servants: Mr. David Bjerke, voter registrar of the City, and Ms. Cathy Kaye, treasurer of the City, will review candidacy criteria and

campaign finance basics: rules, regulations, dates and deadlines. Mr. Tom Clinton, commissioner of revenue of the City, will explain the fundamentals of campaign architecture – how to set up a campaign mechanism.

A word about Cathy and Tom – both been involved in countless campaigns and

“Falls Church needs willing and able leaders – four Seats on City Council and five on School Board will be up for up for election in November.” have been beyond generous in sharing their experience and expertise with many a candidate, past and present. Both have been awarded our organization’s highest honor, the Dexter Award, for their public service and commitment to the ideals of CBC. Mr. Hal Lippman, long time CBC member, one of four who were the very first elected members of the Falls Church City School Board, and later a Falls Church City councilman and vice mayor, will partner with Mr. David Tarter. David, a current member of

the Falls Church City Council, was elected in May of 2012 as the highest vote-getter. He is not a CBC member but graciously accepted the invitation to support this public forum.

Hal and David will discuss their experiences on the campaign trail and their service on Falls Church’s governing bodies.

Falls Church needs willing and able leaders – four Seats on City Council and five on School Board will be up for up for election in November. The filing deadline for candidacy is June 11 – one month from now. We hope that you will join us tonight with your campaign questions and an inclination to serve your city.

Citizens for a Better City has other plans to support the upcoming campaign season.

If you do choose to run, one of the first challenges you will face will be to acquire 125 signatures of registered voters supporting your candidacy. CBC will be hosting a booth at the Memorial Day festivities and invites all candidates to join us there with their ubiquitous clip boards to hail festival passers-by to ask for their signatures.

Throughout the campaign season Citizens for a Better City will provide opportunities to connect Falls Church citizens with City Council and School Board candidates in a variety of formats – small informal “meetand-greets” in living rooms across town, larger issue-oriented forums and meetings in a variety of settings. CBC’s five member campaign subcommittee is currently in the process of planning these activities.

In addition to the candidates, an important referendum will appear on the ballot in November.

The Falls Church City Council will be asking voters to decide the fate of the Cityowned water system. Citizens for a Better City will partner with the Falls Church Republican and Democratic Committees and the American Legion Post to present several forums highlighting the multiple facets of this complex issue. Watch these pages of the Falls Church News-Press for announcements about these upcoming events.

To close, it seems apropos to quote from CBC History written by our senior members.

“In the past half century, Falls Church has grown from a fledgling independent city struggling to serve a growing population to one of the most attractive – and attracting – communities in the Greater Washington region.

Throughout this transition, Citizens for a Better City has been a consistent force in promoting responsible local government, excellence in local education, and citizen stewardship.

Today as ever, Falls Church residents face difficult choices as they seek to assure our small city’s economic vitality and maintain its defining quality of life. CBC continues as a catalyst for citizen engagement on these issues.”

 Sally Ekfelt is president of the Citizens for a Better City.

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Newsweek: Mason High Best in State, Region

Among traditional public schools in Virginia and the greater Washington, D.C. area, Falls Church’s George Mason High School is ranked No. 1, according to a Newsweek Magazine-The Daily Beast study out this week. Only “magnet schools” Thomas Jefferson High of Alexandria and Maggie Walker Governor’s School for Government and International Studies in Richmond scored higher than Mason in the entire VirginiaMaryland-DC-Delaware region, according to the study. Among 5,000 high schools in the U.S. included in the study nationwide, Mason finished 64th, according to the report, authored by Lauren Streib. The ranking is based on the following factors (and their relative weight by percentage): graduation rate (25 percent), college acceptance rate (25), AP/IB/ AICE tests taken per student (25), Average SAT/ACT scores (10), Average AP/IB/AICE test scores (10) and Percentage of students enrolled in at least one AP/IB/AICE course.

Anthony’s Announces Plans to Close On the eve of a final approval of a new large scale mixed use project, including a Harris Teeter, on the site of the legendary, 40-year Falls Church institution, Anthony’s Restaurant, Ted Akis, son of Anthony founders Tony and Faye Yiannarakis, issued a statement by email Wednesday announcing that the restaurant will be permanently closing at that location as of June 2. The following is the text in full of the statement: “Dear Patrons and Friends of Anthony’s, It is with a heavy heart and sincere regret that we inform you that Anthony’s Restaurant will be permanently closing our location at 309 West Broad Street, Falls Church, Virginia. As a result of our lease expiring, our last day of operations will be June 2, 2013.

Although we have yet to find a suitable new location, we continue our search and we hope to find a new home for Anthony’s in Falls Church. After 41 years of serving our patrons at this location, we would like to say THANK YOU for being a special part of our family and for all the wonderful memories. We will continue to serve the community at our Manassas location. Warmest regards, The Anthony’s Family.” F.C. Chamber of Commerce chair Gary LaPorta responded, “We sadly say goodbye to a Falls Church favorite and hope they do find another location here in The Little City. We also look forward with excitement to a new and vibrant development that will, surely, transform our downtown. I offer my best wishes to all.”

Lincoln Final OK Imminent, Rushmark Maybe The Falls Church City Council, in a marathon work session Monday, agreed to bring the S. Washington St. “Reserve at Tinner Hill” project of Lincoln Properties to a final approval vote next Monday night, while the Rushmark Project to bring a Harris Teeter to W. Broad St. ran into more complications, and its fate for an early final vote remains unclear. The Council went into a closed session with Rushmark representatives to hammer out some details, and the process was bumped to a meeting of the Economic Development Committee of the Council this Friday, and at that time it will be determined if the project will come to the Council’s business meeting for a final approval vote next Monday night or not.

F.C. Police Arrest Sexual Assault Suspect On Friday, May 3, City of Falls Church Police arrested 46-year-old Carlos Guillermo Suarez Diaz, of Falls Church, in connection with a sexual assault that occurred in March of this year. The original incident occurred on the evening of March 13, when police say Diaz approached a 17-year-old female in the rear parking lot of 124 E. Broad Street. Police say Diaz, dressed as a woman, asked the victim if he could take her picture, to which she initially consented. While taking the pictures, he began to touch her inappropriately. The victim told him to stop, and left the scene. The victim did not initially report the encounter to her parents or law enforcement. A counselor associated with the victim notified police on March 21 and an investigation was initiated. Diaz was charged with one count of misdemeanor sexual battery and released on a summons. He is scheduled to appear in the Falls Church Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court for arraignment on May 14.

2 Assaulted in Eden Center Sunday Two people were assaulted on Wilson Boulevard in the Eden Center on Sunday, police reported this week. The City of Falls Church Police Department say the two victims were in a business in the 6700 block of Wilson Blvd. at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, May 5, when they were assaulted by two people, a man and a woman with “whom they have limited familiarity.” After the assaults, the suspects left the scene. The victims received minor injuries and did not request attention from medical personnel. Police say the female suspect goes by the name Lien and is described as Asian, around 5 ft. 6 in. and 140 pounds. She was wearing a black “Bebe” shirt and black pants. The male suspect goes by the name Si; no further description was given. The suspects left the area in a white Lexus SUV with Maryland tags. Police ask that anyone with information about the incident call the City of F.C. Police Department at 703-241-5053.

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Community News & Notes CBC to Host Forum on Seeking Candidacy in F.C.

DMV 2 Go to Bring Mobile Services to F.C. Friday

Citizens for a Better City will hold a public forum to provide information to anyone interested in becoming a candidate for the Falls Church City Council or School Board this Thursday.

The CBC Executive Committee will host the “How to Become a Candidate” forum, featuring short presentations and a panel discussion to provide basic information on how those considering a run for public office this fall can begin a campaign.

The event will take place this Thursday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m. at American Legion Post 130, 400 N. Oak St., Falls Church.

All citizens of Falls Church are invited to attend, whether they are serious office seekers or just curious.

For more information, visit fallschurchcbc.net.

The Department of Motor Vehicles’ mobile customer service center, DMV 2 Go, will be at Bowl America, 140 S. Maple Ave., Falls Church, this Friday, May 10, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. The event is co-hosted by the City of Falls Church DMV Select, Commissioner of the Revenue, and the Virginia DMV. This event is open to all Virginia residents.

No appointments are necessary.

The handicapped-accessible full-service office provides all DMV transactions including applying for and renewing driver’s licenses; obtaining ID cards (including photos) and Virginia’s new veterans ID card; taking road and knowledge tests; obtaining copies of driving records; obtaining vehicle titles, license plates, decals, and transcripts; ordering disabled parking placards or plates; updating an address after a

move for DMV and voter registration; and more.

Customers are encouraged to bring the required documents to complete transactions. For more information, visit fallschurchva. gov/DMVSelect.

CIA Historian to Speak at Historical Society Banquet The Arlington Historical Society’s annual membership banquet will be held Friday, May 31, in the Shenandoah Room of the Holiday Inn at Key Bridge, 1900 N. Ft. Myer Drive, Arlington.

The principal speaker will be Dr. David Robarge, chief historian of the CIA, who will recount tale of some of the more notorious espionage agents who have lived in Arlington in recent years.

The banquet will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 7:15 p.m.

The RSVP cutoff date is May 24. Ticket prices are $45 for AHS

GiRL SCOUT TROOP 1251 FROM MARy ELLEN HENdERSON MiddLE SCHOOL put the finishing touches on a small companion animal garden on Earth day at the Animal Welfare League of Arlington. Now rabbits, guinea pigs, and birds at the shelter will be able to enjoy fresh organic produce like cabbage, broccoli, lettuce, parsley, and carrots. (Courtesy Photo)

members and $60 for non-members. For more information, visit arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org.

Walk to Raise Funds for Animal Welfare League Hundreds of animal enthusiasts and their pets will pound the pavement this Saturday to support homeless animals at Arlington’s 18th annual Walk for the Animals.

The event will take place this Saturday, May 11, at Bluemont Park from 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. The walk is held to raise awareness and funds to benefit the hundreds of adoptable animals and community programs supported by The Animal Welfare League of Arlington.

Participants will leash up their pets and strap on their walking shoes for a three-mile walk or one-mile stroll through the park followed by a festival of entertainment.

The cost to register onsite is

$40. For more information, visit awla.org.

F.C.’s Compassion for Animals To Sell Vegan Baked Goods Falls Church-based Compassion for Animals will hold a vegan bake sale on the front porch of the Falls Church Community Center next Saturday.

Shoppers can choose from fresh-baked cookies, cinnamon rolls, banana bread, cupcakes, and other goodies from local bakers and businesses.

The sale is being hosted as part of the fifth annual Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale. Proceeds will be split between CfA and the Wildlife Rescue League.

The bake sale will be held next Saturday, May 18, from 9:30 a.m.

– 1:30 p.m. at the Falls Church Community Center, 223 Little Falls St. For more information, email info@compassion4animals. org.

THE CiTy OF FALLS CHURCH SHERiFF’S OFFiCE presented a gun violence prevention and safety training session to the Boy Scouts of America Troop 895 on April 24. Sheriff Steve Bittle, Sgt. Adam Linn, and Cpl. Charles Ayoub presented the training to scouts and their parents. The training presented rules of firearm safety, including what to do in situations involving guns; how to safely handle handguns; and how to identify, unload, and make safe the different types of handguns. (Photo: City of Falls Church Sheriff’s Office)

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One More Page to Launch Literary Salon Series

One More Page Books will debut its Up Close and Literary author salon series this Thursday with award-winning authors Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (author of “Oleander Girl”) and Manil Suri (author of “The City of Devi”).

Bethanne Patrick (author of “An Uncommon History of Common Things” and “An Uncommon History of Common Courtesy”) will interview Divakaruni and Suri, then audience members are invited to ask questions and have books signed by the authors.

No tickets are required, and admission is free. The event takes place this Thursday, May 9, at 7 p.m. at One More Page Books, 2200 N. Westmoreland St., Arlington.

For more information, visit onemorepagebooks.com.

Market Common to Bring Healthy Fun to Clarendon The third annual Live It Up on the Loop family fun festival is being presented by Market Common Clarendon this Saturday.

From 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., there will be free activities and entertainment for all ages “on the loop” in the core of the shopping

center that encourage healthy lifestyles.

The event begins with a halfhour performance by the band Rocknoceros at 10 a.m. At noon, Cathy Bollinger will sing her “songs that teach” in a 45-minute performance. Throughout the day, visitors can take part in rock-wall climbing, fitness activities with the Jump Bunch, and a make-your-own trail mix workshop with Whole Foods.

Market Common Clarendon is located at 2700 Clarendon Blvd., Arlington.

For more information, visit marketcommonclarendon.net.

F.C. Students Initiated Into Phi Kappa Phi Several students from Falls Church were recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Andrea Bustos, Essam Chalf, Jonathan Chambers, Julie Chris, Priscila Cowan, James Crookston, Ryan McCoy, Jessica Mitchum, Ethel Morrill, Brendan Niklason, and Jacob Schwind were named to the honor society.

Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Phi Kappa Phi inducts annually approximately 32,000 students, faculty, professional

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F.C. Student Graduates From Purdue University Dennis Kirk of Falls Church earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University following its fall semester.

F.C. Students Earn University Academic Honors Two students from Falls Church recently earned academic honors at the universities they attend.

Jonathan Miller was named to the fall dean’s list at Concordia University for having a grade point average of 3.5 or higher.

Chantal Cough-Schulze was named to the winter scholastic honor roll at Oregon State University for having a grade point average of 3.5 or higher.

F.C. Student Earns Music Award at Beloit College Margaret Kepley of Falls Church received the Andy Boggs Music Award at Beloit College’s Honors Day Convocation on May 1. Kepley is a sophomore.

The Honors Day Convocation is an annual event held to honor outstanding Beloit College students and their accomplishments.

PEACE CORPS vOLUNtEER MELiSSA ROSE-MCCULLy, a graduate of George Mason High School, is working with her community in Nicaragua to improve science teaching and access to educational materials for primary school students. Rose-McCully raised funds to print textbooks and provide teacher trainings through the Peace Corps Partnership Program, a program that helps support Peace Corps volunteer community projects worldwide. After working alongside Nicaraguan teachers for the last several years, Rose-McCully observed the need for updated teaching materials and the creation of interactive lesson plans to further engage students in the natural sciences. Upon completion of her Peace Corps service, Rose-McCully plans to pursue a PhD in multicultural and multilingual education. those interested in supporting projects like Rose-McCully’s can visit peacecorps.gov/donate. (Courtesy Photo)

UNvEiLiNG tHE NEW Beyer Automotive Group statue on W. Broad Street at an event that drew 100 onlookers last Friday, former Falls Church Mayor Carol DeLong (right) shared in pulling away the cover, just as she did in 1984 when she was the mayor and the other statue on the premises, the famous pigs statue, was first unveiled. the new statue, the work of the same artist as the first one, the late Richard Beyer, depicts a man eating food out of a can. (Photo: News-Press)

MORE tHAN 100 KPMG EMPLOyEES from tysons Corner and Washington, D.C. bowled with their families at Bowl America Falls Church on April 24 and 27 as part of Junior Achievement of Greater Washington’s annual JA Bowl fundraiser. the funds raised by KPMG’s 23 teams plus the company’s 2013 corporate contribution total more than $48,000. KPMG has raised approximately $440,000 since first participating in the bowl-a-thon in 1995. Since 2008, KPMG has served as title sponsor of the fundraiser, whose proceeds benefit JA financial literacy programs for middle and elementary school kids throughout the greater Washington metro area. (Photo: Courtesy Junior Achievement of Greater Washington)

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Beyond the Fence

The opponents of immigration reform have many small complaints, but they really have one core concern. It’s about control. America doesn’t control its borders. Past reform efforts have not established control. Current proposals wouldn’t establish effective control. But the opponents rarely say what exactly it is they are trying to control. They talk about border security and various mechanisms to achieve that, but they rarely go into detail about what we should be so vigilant about restricting. I thought I would spell it out.

First, immigration opponents are effectively trying to restrict the flow of conservatives into this country. In survey after survey, immigrants are found to have more traditional ideas about family structure and community than comparable Americans. They have lower incarceration rates. They place higher emphasis on career success. They have stronger work ethics.

NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE Immigrants go into poor neighborhoods and infuse them with traditional values. When immigrant areas go bad, it’s not because they have infected America with bad values. It’s because America has infected them with bad values already present. So the first thing conservative opponents of reform are trying to restrict is social conservatism.

Second, immigration opponents are trying to restrict assimilation. The evidence about this is clear, too. Current immigrants enter this country because they want to realize the same dreams that inspired past waves. Study after study shows current Hispanic immigrants are picking up English at an impressive clip, roughly as quickly as earlier immigrant groups. They are making steady gains in homeownership rates, job status and social identity.

By second generation, according to a Pew Research Center study released this year, 61 percent of immigrants think of themselves as “typical Americans.”

Third, immigration opponents are trying to restrict love affairs. Far from segregating themselves into their own alien subculture, today’s immigrant groups seem eager to marry into mainstream American society. Among all newlyweds in 2010, 9 percent of whites married outside of their racial or ethnic group, as did 17 percent of blacks. But an astonishing 26 percent of Hispanics and 28 percent of Asians married outside their groups. They are blending into America in the most intimate way.

Fourth, immigration opponents are trying to restrict social mobility.

Generation after generation, the children of immigrants are gradually better educated and more affluent than their parents.

A few years ago, the great political scientist Samuel Huntington asserted that Hispanic immigrants were not succeeding as previous immigrants had. James P. Smith of the RAND Corp. conducted the most prominent investigation into this claim and concluded: “The concern that educational generational progress among Latino immigrants has lagged behind other immigrant groups is largely unfounded.”

Some intelligent skeptics say that mobility is fine through the second generation but stalls by the third. It is indeed harder to rise in a more chaotic and fragmented society. But one of the country’s leading immigration researchers, Richard Alba of the City University of New York, calls the third generation stall “a statistical illusion.”

Much of the research that shows the effect compares today’s third-generation immigrants with today’s second-generation group. But the thirdgeneration families originally came to the U.S. decades ago, at a time when segregation was prevalent, discrimination was high and immigrants were harshly treated. You’d expect those families to progress more slowly than families that came to more welcoming conditions a generation later.

Fifth, immigration opponents are trying to restrict skills. Current reform proposals would increase high-skill immigration. Opponents of reform are trying to restrict an infusion of people most likely to start businesses and invent things. Alba points out that, over the next decades, the retirement of the baby-boomer generation will open up a large number of positions, especially atop the labor force. He points out that the fastestgrowing ethnic groups are already rising to fill these slots. Whites occupy 80 percent of the top-paying jobs among older workers. But, among younger workers, whites occupy only 67 percent of the top jobs. The workforce is already more diverse the younger you go.

Finally, opponents of reform are trying to hold back the inevitable.

Whether immigration reform passes or not, the United States is going to become a much more cosmopolitan country than it is now. The country will look more like the faces you see at college commencement exercises and less like the faces you see in senior citizen homes.

One crucial question is whether America will be better off in that future with today’s dysfunctional immigration laws or something else?

Another interesting question is whether a major political party is going to consign itself to permanent irrelevance. If conservatives defeat immigration reform, the Republicans will definitely lose control of one thing for years to come: political power.

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The Chutzpah Caucus At this point the economic case for austerity – for slashing government spending even in the face of a weak economy – has collapsed. Claims that spending cuts would actually boost employment by promoting confidence have fallen apart. Claims that there is some kind of red line of debt that countries dare not cross have turned out to rest on fuzzy and to some extent just plain erroneous math. Predictions of fiscal crisis keep not coming true; predictions of disaster from harsh austerity policies have proved all too accurate.

Yet calls for a reversal of the destructive turn toward austerity are still having a hard time getting through. Partly that reflects vested interests, for austerNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE ity policies serve the interests of wealthy creditors; partly it reflects the unwillingness of influential people to admit being wrong. But there is, I believe, a further obstacle to change: widespread, deep-seated cynicism about the ability of democratic governments, once engaged in stimulus, to change course in the future.

So now seems like a good time to point out that this cynicism, which sounds realistic and worldly-wise, is actually sheer fantasy. Ending stimulus has never been a problem – in fact, the historical record shows that it almost always ends too soon. And in America, at least, we have a pretty good record for behaving in a fiscally responsible fashion, with one exception – namely, the fiscal irresponsibility that prevails when, and only when, hard-line conservatives are in power.

Let’s start with the common claim that stimulus programs never go away.

In the United States, government spending programs designed to boost the economy are in fact rare – FDR’s New Deal and President Barack Obama’s much smaller Recovery Act are the only big examples. And neither program became permanent – in fact, both were scaled back much too soon. FDR cut back sharply in 1937, plunging America back into recession; the Recovery Act had its peak effect in 2010, and has since faded away, a fade that has been a major reason for our slow recovery.

What about programs designed to aid those hurt by a depressed economy? Don’t they become permanent fixtures? Again, no. Unemployment benefits have fluctuated up and down with the business cycle, and as a percentage of GDP they are barely half what

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they were at their recent peak. Food stamp usage is still rising, thanks to a still-terrible labor market, but historical experience suggests that it too will fall sharply if and when the economy really recovers.

Incidentally, foreign experience follows the same pattern. You often hear Japan described as a country that has pursued never-ending fiscal stimulus. In reality, it has engaged in stop-go policies, increasing spending when the economy is weak, then pulling back at the first sign of recovery (and thereby pushing itself back into recession).

So the whole notion of perma-stimulus is fantasy posing as hardheaded realism. Still, even if you don’t believe that stimulus is forever, Keynesian economics says not just that you should run deficits in bad times, but that you should pay down debt in good times. And it’s silly to imagine that this will happen, right?

Wrong. The key measure you want to look at is the ratio of debt to GDP, which measures the government’s fiscal position better than a simple dollar number. And if you look at U.S. history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama, seven left office with a debt ratio lower than when they came in. Who were the three exceptions? Ronald Reagan and the two George Bushes. So debt increases that didn’t arise either from war or from extraordinary financial crisis are entirely associated with hard-line conservative governments.

And there’s a reason for that association: U.S. conservatives have long followed a strategy of “starving the beast,” slashing taxes so as to deprive the government of the revenue it needs to pay for popular programs.

The funny thing is that right now these same hardline conservatives declare that we must not run deficits in times of economic crisis. Why? Because, they say, politicians won’t do the right thing and pay down the debt in good times. And who are these irresponsible politicians they’re talking about? Why, themselves.

To me, it sounds like a fiscal version of the classic definition of chutzpah – namely, killing your parents, then demanding sympathy because you’re an orphan. Here we have conservatives telling us that we must tighten our belts despite mass unemployment, because otherwise future conservatives will keep running deficits once times improve.

Put this way, of course, it sounds silly. But it isn’t; it’s tragic. The disastrous turn toward austerity has destroyed millions of jobs and ruined many lives.

And it’s time for a U-turn.

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Investment Vs. Austerity

Lest people be deluded and confused, the dividing line in American politics and policy making today is not Democrat versus Republican.

Instead, it is investment versus austerity, and seldom in the nation’s history has the contrast been more stark.

The contrasting approaches have been there from the day the last shot was fired at Yorktown, as the tenacity of structural greed has been remarkable. In the early days of the American republic, it was the ongoing efforts of her former British masters to reign in the U.S. through financial and trade machinations that characterized the postrevolutionary period.

The British reverted to military means again in the War of 1812, and when that failed, the long tentacles of their banking institutions continued to buy the influFalls ChurCh news-press ence of U.S. politicians into the 1820s, when the choices between the pro-British proponents of domestic austerity and debt repayment versus the “American System” of investment in national infrastructure were at the forefront of the political discourse.

The epitome of the British austerity policy viewpoint was embodied in New York banker Martin Van Buren, who was the influence behind the candidacy of Andrew Jackson and the campaign to kill the U.S. National Bank, which they called the “Monster Bank.” The 1830s presidencies of Jackson and then Van Buren, himself, not only stifled national infrastructure growth, but set the preconditions for what soon followed as a schism in the union and the Civil War. On the other side was Henry Clay, America’s most under-appreciated hero. After the War of 1812, he recognized the need to recommission the National Bank, originally the invention of Washington’s Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton to marshal and leverage the new nation’s resources to shore up its potential for defense and internal development.

Clay recognized what was at stake between British austerity and American-style internal development, and led the crusade against the Van Buren faction in the 1820s in conjunction with John Quincy Adams. They represented the first generation after the founding fathers – Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe – to run the country, and were in close consultation with those among the founders whose lives overlapped their emerging political careers.

They all, with nuanced differences, saw the need to preserve the new union by centrally-run national policies of directed investment in infrastructure, including canals, water conveyance systems and roads and later extending to railroads and telegraph lines.

The “American System” of economics derived from this, the work of Matthew Carey and his son, Henry. This theory played a major role in the economic growth initiatives of the Lincoln administration – including the “greenback” policy, the land grant college, railroad and homestead initiatives – in the 1860s.

Lincoln was a protege of Clay, who knew from the early 1830s onward that what the nation faced was its breaking apart at the hand of the British. He became known as the “Great Compromiser” for his efforts at defusing every potential cause celebre for one or another state to secede and set a process of disintegration in motion.

His efforts in the U.S. Senate almost single-handedly held off the British-backed inevitable for 30 years, until the U.S. had the resources and will to prosecute a war against southern secession.

The British were prevented by international considerations from intervening militarily on behalf of the South, which provided the slavegenerated raw materials (cotton) for its textile industries in London.

Reformist Russian Czar Alexander II sent warships to the harbors in New York and San Francisco as a signal to the British not to intervene in the U.S. Civil War, or face wider military consequences.

The rallying cry for Lincoln’s prosecution of the Civil War was the “preservation of the Union,” the same cry central to the Federalist Papers calling for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in the 1780s. It makes the word, “indivisible,” central to the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance.

“Indivisibility” is the critical notion that deterred British recolonization efforts. In fact, the American revolution was not completed until the resolution of the Civil War. But since then, the same financial policies persist to weaken America, to yet still ensnare it in the lethal web of global financier interests.

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Nicholas F. Benton

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

America’s Military Injustice Along with a boosted Buick LeSabre, another incident listed on a crime report Sunday in Arlington County was a creepy attack by a man on a woman.

“On May 5 at 12:35 a.m., a drunken male subject approached a female victim in a parking lot and grabbed her breasts and buttocks,” the report read. “The victim fought the suspect off as he attempted to touch her again and alerted police. Jeffrey Krusinski, 41, of Arlington, Va., was arrested and charged with sexual battery.”

Krusinski’s mug shot, showing scarlet scratches on his face, is a portrait in misery. He knew his arrest on charges of groping a stranger would send the capital reeling and his career at the nearby Pentagon spiraling. The Air Force lieutenant colonel charged with sexual battery was the officer in charge of sexual assault prevention programs for the Air Force.

There was a fox-in-the-henhouse echo of Clarence Thomas, who Anita Hill said sexually harassed her when he was the nation’s top enforcer of laws against workplace sexual harassment.

Sen. Jay Rockefeller new YOrK TIMes news serVICe issued a white-hot statement, calling Krusinski’s arrest “further evidence that the military isn’t taking the issue of sexual assault seriously,” and “a stain on the military” that “should shake us to our core.”

President Barack Obama was also lacerating on the subject of the Krusinski arrest and the cases of two Air Force lieutenant generals who set aside sexual assault convictions after jury trials. He said training and awareness programs masking indifference will no longer stand: “If we find out somebody’s engaging in this stuff, they’ve got to be held accountable, prosecuted, stripped of their positions, courtmartialed, fired, dishonorably discharged – period.”

It has been a bad week for the defenders of an antiquated military justice system that views prosecution decisions in all cases as the private preserve of commanders rather than lawyers.

“They are dying a thousand deaths,” said Eugene Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School. CAAFlog, the leading military justice blog, called it “the death knell” for the current system, at least for sexual assault cases.

During the Thomas-Hill hearings, many powerful men privately assumed that she was somehow complicit in encouraging Thomas’ vulgar behavior. Feminists ranted “they just don’t get it” so often that it became a grating cliche. Yet, 22 years later, during another Senate hearing

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Tuesday where the topic of sexual transgression flared, it became clear that, as California congresswoman Jackie Speier told me, “people in authority just don’t get it.”

Gen. Mark Welsh, the chief of staff for the Air Force, shocked the women on the Senate Armed Services Committee when he testified that part of the problem in combatting “The Invisible War,” as the Oscar-nominated documentary feature on the epidemic of rape in the military was titled, is that young women who enter the military have been raised in a society with a “hook-up mentality.”

“We have got to change the culture once they arrive,” the general said.

Hook-ups might be stupid, but they are consensual.

“To dismiss violent rapes as part of the hook-up culture shows a complete lack of understanding,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand told me. “We’re not talking about a date gone badly. We’re talking about criminal behavior by predators who often stalk their victims in advance.”

The hook-up comparison was especially jarring in light of the release of a Pentagon study estimating that 26,000 men and women in the military were sexually assaulted in the 2012 fiscal year, a 37 percent increase from the same period the year before. Only a small number of incidents – 3,374 – were reported, showing that victims are still afraid of payback or perverted justice. And a mere 238 assailants were convicted.

Wired.com reported that troops at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina were issued a brochure advising potential victims of sexual assault that it might be more “advisable to submit than resist.”

It was the sort of rare confluence of events that can actually lead to change here, especially because it’s a nonpartisan issue and because the Senate looks very different than it did during the Thomas-Hill hearings. Three of the six Senate Armed Services subcommittees are now led by women.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, a former prosecutor who is one of seven women on the Armed Services Committee, has held up the nomination of Lt. Gen. Susan Helms to be vice commander of the Air Force’s Space Command until she investigates why Helms overturned a conviction in a sexual assault case.

“You don’t get to decide who’s telling the truth and supplant the judgment of the jury you handpicked if you weren’t in the courtroom observing the witnesses,” McCaskill said.

“You’ve got to put systems in place where you catch these cowards committing crimes and you put them in prison.”

The military brass cossetting predators are on notice.

The women of Congress are on the case.

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A Penny for Your Thoughts

News of Greater Falls Church

By Supervisor Penny Gross

One of the beauties of springtime in Northern Virginia is the profusion of mature azaleas that provide gorgeous color to neighborhood yards. We are fortunate in Mason District to have many older homes that have fostered and sustained decades of azalea maturity. The pinks and purples especially pop this year, adding an almost-velvety texture to our community, adding a softer edge to life, if only for a short time, before the heat of summer overtakes.

Trees, shrubs, native plants, and landscaping tips will be highlighted during Green Spring Gardens’ annual Spring Garden Day, to be held next Saturday, May 18, from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., at Green Spring Gardens Park, 4601 Green Spring Road, in the Lincolnia area of Mason District. More than 40 vendors, some selling rare and unusual plants, will descend on Green Spring Gardens to fill your spring gardening needs. Come early, and spend a little time enjoying a stroll in the gardens before shopping.

Enter the park from Braddock Road, a block north of its intersection with Little River Turnpike. Parking is available on site and at a nearby office park. The historic Manor House also will be open for visitors.

May 18 also is the date for Document Shredding at the Mason District Governmental Center, 6507 Columbia Pike in Annandale. Sponsored by the Fairfax County Solid Waste Management Program and my office, the shredding event will be conducted from 8 a.m. – noon. Up to five medium-size packing boxes of paper per vehicle may be accepted for shredding. These events are only for Fairfax County residents to destroy sensitive material they may have

in their home. Sensitive materials such as tax documents, financial records, etc., are accepted, but the program reserves the right to reject business documents and/or items that can damage shredding equipment, such as binders of any type, plastic document covers, metal binder clips, books, computer disks, film or photographs. Junk mail and magazines should be recycled through your regular collection service.

Drivers will be directed by staff on site, and drivers must remain in their vehicles, while staff remove boxes and empty paper into rolling carts. Once full, the carts are taken to the on-site shredding truck for cross-cut shredding. Written certification of shredding will not be provided; if you require certification, you should contract individually with a private shredding service provider. For more information and other county shredding dates, log on to www. fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes/recycling/shredding.htm.

While you are searching your house for shreddable documents, please keep in mind that a Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) collection event is happening this Saturday, May 11, from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m., also at the Mason District Governmental Center. HHW refers to used or leftover contents of consumer products containing materials that may be toxic, ignitable, corrosive, or reactive, and should not be set out for regular trash collection. Log on to www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes/trash/disphhw.htm for information about accepted materials and handling HHW for disposal. Using these free events can prepare you and your family for an enjoyable, trash-free home by the time summer’s heat and humidity set in.

Congressman Moran’s News Commentary

New Legislation Benefits Employers, Not Workers

By James P. Moran

This week, Republican leadership in the House brought forth legislation entitled “the Working Families Flexibility Act, H.R. 1406.” The title, however, is greatly misleading. A more accurate name would be the Employer Flexibility Act, because the bill would give employers the flexibility to deny their workers overtime pay.

H.R. 1406 would overturn a key provision of the landmark 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that ensures workers who work beyond the 40 hour standard work week are to be paid overtime – a rate that is set higher than the normal rate in order to keep the number of hours workers are asked to work reasonable. H.R. 1406 would undo this important provision so that an employer could, in lieu of making overtime payments to an hourly worker, make the promise of some future time off. And this legislation goes one step further. The time off promised in lieu of overtime payment would be up to the discretion of the employer. The employer could deny requests for time off for up to a year before the legislation would require employers pay out the equivalent in wages. This is

great for your boss, but it doesn’t do much for you and your family.

In short, this is an anti-worker bill, aimed at harming our nation’s hourly workers – housekeepers, fast food workers, and store clerks. These individuals are some of those who need their overtime wages the most.

Gender is also a critical issue to consider as we look at legislation affecting workers: Women are increasingly the breadwinners in American households. A Center for American Progress study demonstrates that in more than two thirds of our families, women earn at least a quarter of the family income, and in many cases earn as much or more than their spouse. Among families with children in 2011, some 40 percent were headed by two working parents. Our federal policies must take this reality into account and meet our families half way by granting genuine flexibility while maintaining the important protections, like overtime pay, that help families thrive.

Unfortunately, this is not the first time that Republican Party leaders have sought to roll back worker protections. The past few years we have seen Republican Governors attempt to break up teachers unions and more

recently, House Republicans repeatedly offered legislation to eviscerate the National Labor Relations Board.

If House Republicans wanted to help working families have more flexibility, they could start by undoing these earlier efforts to make life harder for American workers and join Democrats in calling for a vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act so that women are paid the wages they deserve, or the Healthy Families Act so that families struggling with a child’s illness or other crisis could get time off to deal with those challenges without jeopardizing their families’ future. Another important improvement for working families Republicans have refused is to increase the minimum wage of $2.13 per hour for tipped workers for the first time in nearly two decades.

These ideas would enhance the economic security of America’s workers and help strengthen the social and economic bonds that knit us together as a people. I will continue working in Congress to push back against legislation like H.R. 1406 and protect the New Deal legislation that safeguards our workers and ensured our economic success over the past 80 years.

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From the Front Row: Kaye Kory’s

Richmond Report The General Assembly officially adjourned one month ago, and most Virginians have stopped thinking about the 2013 session.

The issues raised and votes cast in Richmond are history; now we are focusing on the political future. Many Virginia politicians prefer this focus, because the future is more about promises and possibility than about facts.

But for voters who will be facing very significant choices in the coming weeks and months, the 2013 legislative session is a treasure trove of relevant discussions and votes on important bills in committees and on legislation that will have a noticeable impact on Virginians, especially Northern Virginians. The members of the General Assembly voted on the question of ‘personhood’ – whether a fetus is a person, with all the accorded legal rights, at the moment of conception. This legislation would make an abortion an act of murder, which my generation of women, as well as my daughters, would have considered unthinkable just a few years ago.

The General Assembly discussed and voted upon women’s access to reproductive health care. We argued and voted on voters’ rights ‘five ways to Sunday,’ as my grandmother would say. “Nullification” by the Commonwealth of Federal legislation came up in many guises. We made policy concerning the use of drones in Virginia!

We changed traffic laws. We passed a much-needed increase in funding for statewide and local transportation maintenance and construction. We refused to ban fox-penning and refused to ban guns on school grounds as well.

We limited the types of health insurance that can be offered and purchased privately through a health insurance exchange. Once again, we did not allow school systems to begin classes before Labor Day. We gave local school systems the option of providing a 2 percent salary increase to employees.

Over 2,000 bills were on the table for the 2013 session. Surely all the elected public officials involved revealed much about their values and beliefs, offering us a lot to sift through for lessons learned.

Lessons learned the hard way – from tough experience, dashed expectations, acceptable compromises and demonstrated leadership – are a very impor-

tant framework through which we should view the upcoming primaries and elections. Recent lessons learned should guide us as we move forward into our political future. We must not forget the history. In our eagerness to look ahead to candidates and campaigns, we must keep these lessons fresh in our minds: • Do not forget legislation filed and defended; • Do not forget legislation passed; • Do not forget votes cast by the members of the General Assembly who are now asking for support; • Do not forget public statements made; • And most importantly, do not forget the results – laws enacted that all Virginians must live with and abide by.

Who asked your opinion? Who spoke out in support of or against issues you care about? Who voted for legislation that will make a difference in your life? Who made difficult choices? Who was a leader? Who was ethical? All important questions to ask.

The candidates vying for your time, money and votes should not be accountable only for their campaign promises, but for their past actions as well. Didn’t your mother ever tell you that actions speak louder than words?

Accountability for past leadership and advocacy is a good measure for those candidates running for re-election, as well as for those who have never held office and are candidates for office now.

Leadership should be demonstrated before campaigns begin.

Ask your political suitors the “tried (and tired) but true” question: what have you done for me lately? Greet a candidate: “Your smile is charming but what have you accomplished? What are the results of your energy and ideas?

We must all pretend that we are from the Show Me state. Show me a record of public and private accomplishment, of honesty, of accountability. Show me that you have already made contributions to our Commonwealth.

These are the questions we should ask. If the smiling charmer at the door or polling place cannot respond convincingly, you should smile charmingly and say, “No.”  Delegate Kory represents the 38th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. She may be emailed at DelKKory@house.virginia.gov.

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J oh n n y ’s W or ld Who Am I?

Since the end of my innocence, when I became a teenager, I have been fascinated by the character traits that make me up. Some come from my father – my discipline, my fierce determination, and, of course, my hardheadedness – while my free-spirited and high-flying idealism come from my mother.

While that is all well and good, why do I obsess over purses and having perfect skin? Why am I unabashedly addicted to pop culture and music that makes me cry? Why is my voice high, why are my features delicate, and why is my sense of style so bodycon? How did I get so many feminine traits?

I am not a doctor, but I have a theory I don’t mind sharing. I heard once upon a time that when a baby begins to grow in a mother’s womb, the child starts out as a young lady and over time could become a young gentleman. For what other reason could guys have nipples?

I ate this theory up like I was at a halfpriced ice cream buffet on binge Friday.

Perhaps if I’d started out as a girl, I didn’t cook completely into being a boy and that’s why I like “girly” stuff. There had to be a reason for all this, and I had to wrap my head Exclusive to the News-Press around it.

I don’t know how well versed you are in gay men’s behavioral patterns, but I am, so let me teach you. There are gay men more masculine than your husband, and more feminine than your favorite aunt. We represent a huge range. We don’t all fit under the terms flamboyant, Jack from “Will and Grace,” or previously worked as an actor/singer/dancer. There are gay men serving our nation proudly in armed combat, there are gay men running police precincts, and there are gay men burping and watching football. There is a curve of gayness.

Sexually, for the most part, gay men all have a preference to act in a certain way. Most fall into the category of either a passive or a dominant role, but I should say not everyone chooses to be labeled. However, most people have a specific role they fit into naturally. I know thinking of your favorite, sparkly, fabulous gay icon can be a bit odd as many people accept gays minus the sex, but I am going somewhere with this.

If you have a preference for playing the passive role usually relegated to women, could it have something to do with how long you cooked in your mom’s belly?

I don’t mean to offend anyone by my idea, but it is a theory I’ve created and bashfully tell when I’ve had a glass of wine too many.

Here it is, on full display, the reason I think I am the way I am: If I started out as a girl in Patti Weir’s belly, and slowly cooked my way into being a boy, but due to all the country air my mom took in or the fall harvest of 1983 when I was conceived, I didn’t quite make it over to being a straight man. Instead of finishing the cycle, I got stuck in a net in the middle of where the sexes overlap and happily floated out the remainder of my time in limbo. While I was being created, perhaps I even stayed a girl until the last possible minute until God stepped in a changed my body to that of a boy with personality traits and some features like a girl. You’d think it would make me some weird, powerful, spirit animal having been caught in the middle, but it has made me more confused throughout my life to not understand why certain things simply are.

When I look at my very masculine husband, is it possible to think that perhaps he was also undercooked on the male side of the limbo net and that’s how he is a masculine gay? If my theory is true, I could be an overcooked girl, while my husband is an undercooked man.

My theory is simply a theory, and there are many theories as to why people are the way they are. Still, I ask, why doesn’t science have an answer yet?

And why do I have nipples?

Johnny Weir

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Our Man in Arlington

By Charlie Clark

It takes a village to raise a new school. In Arlington that means running the blueprints by a million stakeholders and pushing through a few split-the-baby decisions.

For two years, Arlington Public Schools has been racing the demographic clock to create a new 600-student elementary school on the campus of my alma mater, Williamsburg Middle School.

By carving a new environmentally state-of-the-art learning site from the leafy slopes along North Harrison and 36th streets, planners hope to “set the standard for the next generation of schools in Arlington,” I’m told by John Chadwick, assistant superintendent for facilities and operations.

It’s “an opportunity to create a new community.”

I can adjust to the march of time as authorities pave over my old stomping grounds. But execution of the school – which is yet to be named – has stirred up a hornet’s nest among nearby neighbors wary of increased traffic and proposed athletic field lights.

Not to mention the simultaneous controversy over school boundary changes made necessary by the larger, countywide redistricting plan to relieve overcrowding that affects Jamestown, Nottingham, Tuckahoe, Taylor, Glebe, McKinley and Ashlawn

schools.

That thankless process has been blasted for “ripping up neighborhoods.”

Whatever your standpoint, you can’t fault the system for poor outreach. Wyck Knox of VMDO Architects has held no fewer than 31 meetings on the $35 million school design.

His show-and-tell for the county-level Public Facilities Review Committee last week displayed some cool artists’ renderings.

They promise a sleek two-story structure of tan bricks and blue or green trim, slicing fieldstone walls and components of glass and aluminum. The plan includes outdoor classrooms embracing biodiversity, solar panels on the gym (with more possible later), and underground geothermal wells for storm drain management. Trees will be chopped to accommodate construction, but 200 plus will be planted.

Though “crunched for construction time” to finish by September 2015, designers are aiming for “a great sense of place” in the 28-classroom facility, Knox said.

That means shelter that is “physical and emotional,” that makes each space a learning space, and that promotes health and civic engagement. “We plan to make it the most efficient building APS has ever built,” the architect said.

The work is “on budget.”

Many in the residential vicinity

C i t y o f Fa l l s C h u r c h

CRIME REPORT Week of April 29 - May 5, 2013 Driving Under the Influence and Refusal, 400 blk W Broad St, April 29, a male, 46, of Potomac Falls, VA was arrested for Driving under the Influence and Refusal.

Noise Violation, 6623 Wilson Blvd (Seven Corners Shell Station), April 30, a male, 47, of Dumfries was issued a summons for violating the City’s Noise Ordinance.

Drunk in Public, 6619 Wilson Blvd (New Moon), May 1, a male, 46, of Manassas was arrested for being Drunk in Public.

Drunk in Public, 110 N West St (7-11), May 1, a female, 28, of no fixed address, was arrested for being Drunk in Public.

 Johnny Weir is a three-time U.S. figure skating national champion and two-time Olympic competitor

Panhandling, 1000 blk E. Broad St, May 2, a female, 23, of Arlington, was issued a summons for Panhandling.

Wayne Besen’s “Anything But Straight” column may be read online at www.fcnp.com.

Drunk in Public, Shoplifting and Petty Larceny, 1150 W Broad St (CVS), May 3, a male, 52, of Washington,

DC was arrested for Shoplifting, Petty Larceny and for being Drunk in Public.

Stolen Auto, 200 blk Gibson St, sometime between 7:30 PM on May 3 and 7:30 AM on May 4 a 2002 red Toyota Celica was stolen from its parking space on the street.

Prostitution, 300 W Broad St (Stratford Motor Lodge), May 3, responding to a report of suspicious activity, officers arrested a female, 23, of Hyattsville, MD for Prostitution.

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opposed the site in the first place.

But they are picking their battles.

Gail Harrison, a parent and neighbor directly across the street, has circulated two petitions.

“Most neighbors have supported efforts to create more seats for students, though this will mean construction-related noise and disruption,” she says. But a possible addition of lights on the soccer field “would subject us to adults cheering, yelling, slamming doors and tearing along our streets late into the night.”

Lynn Pollock, an organizer with the Rock Spring Civic Association, added that such lights would “effectively remove our only green area for evening nonscheduled recreation.”

Similarly, a neighborhood conservation plan for traffic abatement at Williamsburg Blvd. and Kensington St. – approved in 2010 before the new school was conceived – “will snarl traffic and make it more dangerous for children and adults to get to their elementary and middle schools, jobs and homes,” Harrison says.

It is “being rammed forward at break-neck speed by county transportation officials who seem determined to ignore our concerns.”

Final approval for the design is set for September. More hoops to jump through.  Charlie Clark may be e-mailed at cclarkjedd@aol.com.

Drunk in Public, 200 blk Park Ave, May 4, a male, 53, of no fixed address was arrested for being Drunk in Public.

Driving Under the Influence, 6700 blk Wilson Blvd, May 5, a male, 28, of Falls Church, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence.

Drunk in Public, 220 N Washington St (State Theater), May 5, a male, 41, of Silver Spring was arrested for being Drunk in Public.

Simple Assault, 6757 Wilson Blvd, #16, (Cafe Le Mirage), May 5, while conducting an area check an officer was flagged down by two individuals who stated they had been assaulted while in the restaurant. A search of the area yielded negative results for the suspects or their vehicle. Investigation continues.

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Business News & Notes PNC Bank to Host Webinar for Small Businesses PNC Bank is hosting a webinar series designed to support small businesses. Managing Hyper-Growth: How to Take Your Organization from Small Business to an Industry Player will be held Tuesday, May 14, from 8:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9:30 a.m. Practically Radical: Growing Your Business and Challenging Yourself will take place Thursday, May 16, from 8:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9:30 a.m and How Inspiration Leadership Can Drive Small Business Growth will take place Thursday, June 6, also from 8:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9:30 a.m. To register or to learn more about these free educational webinars, go to www.csvep.com/pnc/smallbusiness. The Falls Church City branch of PNC is located at 402 W. Broad Street.

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Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keeffe & Company Celebrate 16th Birthday With a Special Guest Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keeffe & Company, an Alexandria-based technology marketing communications firm, is celebrating their 16th anniversary with a party at Irelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Four Provinces next week and they have a very special guest lined up. Molly Ringwald, star of 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classics â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sweet Sixteenâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pretty in Pink,â&#x20AC;? will be present for the party at the Falls Church pub set for Thursday, May 16 at 5 p.m.

F.C. Resident Joins Au Pair Referral Business Local resident Nancy Baker has joined Cultural Care Au Pair as an independent consultant of the au pair referral business. Based in the greater Falls Church area, Baker will provide service and support to host families and their au pairs throughout the program year. Cultural Care Au Pair is the leading provider of intercultural childcare and educational exchange. Since 1989, Cultural Care Au Pair has placed more than 55,000 au pairs in welcoming American homes. A division of EF Education and a U.S. Department of State regulated program, Cultural Care Au Pair, which is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, has an extensive network of recruitment, screening and orientation offices worldwide. Baker, a 25 year resident of Falls Church, has worked in the international adoption field for 15 years. Families interested in hosting an au pair can visit www.Culturalcare. com for more information and can contact Baker directly at 703-608-1150 or Nancy.

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Mason Highâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hamletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Combined Talent & Innovative Musical Twist

by Nicholas F. Benton

Falls Church News-Press

An entertaining and ambitious production of Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hamletâ&#x20AC;? was staged by the George Mason High School drama department last weekend that included an array of creative features.

Above all, the musical score accompanying the play by Mason senior Tyler Waters and its execution was unique and stunning.

Waters, on a snare drum and sometimes a melodica, was accompanied

by Nathan Frost on flute and Nate Cooper on guitar, and occasionally Austin Gogal on trumpet, to provide soft mood music reflecting the action on the stage while poised on the fringes and even wandering in and out of the scenes like minstrels. Even for the most seasoned â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hamletâ&#x20AC;? lover, it was exceptional.

Then there was the acting of the student playing Hamlet, Ryan Ogden, a talented senior appearing in his first Mason production. He was the total package, and Shawn Northrip, drama instructor and director, had to know he had the

requisite talent in his leading man before even attempting a play as daunting as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hamlet.â&#x20AC;?

For high school students to attempt â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hamletâ&#x20AC;? is risky, in itself, because of the intensity of the drama. Usually if high schools do Shakespeare, they keep it to the lighter stuff like â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Midsummer Nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dream,â&#x20AC;? because they can draw laughs with slapstick scenes.

Not â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hamlet,â&#x20AC;? which must run the gamut of so many prominent and legendary film and stage productions. So, to say that Mason students â&#x20AC;&#x153;pulled it off nicelyâ&#x20AC;? is no mean thing, because they did.

Director Northripâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production was shortened to hold it to two hours, which meant that a number of longer soliloquies were cut, six in all, including the most famous one, â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be or not to be...,â&#x20AC;? not an uncommon move for productions that want the focus on moving the story forward, action, and holding the attention of a young audience.

In keeping with other efforts, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be or not to be...â&#x20AC;? soliloquy by Hamlet was substituted with Hamletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s musing, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What a noble

piece of work is man,â&#x20AC;? moved from a different location in the play.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s often overlooked how eloquent that speech is, lifted almost word for word to animate a song from the popular late 1960s antiVietnam war musical, Hair: â&#x20AC;&#x153;What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties. In form and moving, how express and admirable. In action, how like an angel. In apprehension how like a god, the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!â&#x20AC;?

While Hamlet praises our species, he then says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

Man delights not me...â&#x20AC;?

Still, this does not rise to the level of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be or not to be...â&#x20AC;? soliloquy for depicting Hamletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crushing potentially-suicidal and eventually fatal ambivalence when challenged with avenging his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death.

But carried on the shoulders of Ogden, Waters and his fellow minstrels, and some creative staging compliments of technical director John Ballou, the play was indeed â&#x20AC;&#x153;the thingâ&#x20AC;? last weekend.

There are so many memorable

WILDLY APPLAUDED upon the completion of their opening night production of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hamlet,â&#x20AC;? the entire cast of George Mason High School students were equally pleased with the show and the audience reaction. (Photo: News-Press) one-liners from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hamletâ&#x20AC;? that it is astonishing how much of our contemporary discourse draws readily from them. Why, I declare, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The lady doth protests too much!â&#x20AC;? at least a couple times a month, myself! The â&#x20AC;&#x153;play within the playâ&#x20AC;? flummoxing Hamletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uncle (Alexa Warren) and mother (Grace Housman), the death of Ophelia (Honora Overby), and gravediggersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (Alec Reusch and Peter Carr) scene with, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ah, Yorik, I knew him well,â&#x20AC;? the opening scene of Hamletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s otherworldly appearance (Joseph Warren), Polonius (Gus Constance) intoning, â&#x20AC;&#x153;To thine own self be true,â&#x20AC;? and more, were all presented by the Mason players as worthy of Shakespeare.

That included some breathtaking sword fighting scenes at the end, with Ogdenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hamlet fencing it out with the talented junior Paul Sanders, a leading man in waiting who played Laertes.

Of course, all those in the playâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Danish court forget that they are facing an imminent invasion from Fortenbras (Justin Valentino), prince of Norway, who shows up with no resistance at the end because everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already dead.

The fight and choreography scenes directed by students Annie Parnell and Daria Butler were impressive, while Alissa Forbes held it all together as the stage manager, and the costumes were well designed

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Boys Soccer to Vie for #1 in District Mustang Girls Soccer

by Drew Costley

Falls Church News-Press

George Mason High School’s boys varsity soccer team has only to win one more game to clinch the Bull Run District regular season championship. Mason beat William Monroe High School 5-0 last Friday, making Clarke County and Manassas Park high schools the only teams that could challenge the Mustangs for first place in the district and the top seed in the district playoffs.

Head Coach Frank Spinello said he met with the team on Monday after practice to discuss the scenarios that could arise depending on the result of the last three games on the Mustangs’ schedule.

“Even though we only need one win, we want to finish strong and have some momentum going into the tournament,” Spinello said. “So our goal is to win the rest of the games.”

The Mustangs’ record is 8-01. They would win a tie-breaker against Manassas Park, who is 8-21, because Mason beat Manassas Park in early April. In order for Clarke County to have a chance, the Eagles would have to win the remainder of their games, including

a match-up against the Mustangs. If the Eagles beat the Mustangs, they would force a one-game playoff for the regular season championship.

Spinello said he thought the Mustangs played “very well” against William Monroe last Friday.

“We controlled the game the entire 80 minutes,” Spinello said, adding that the Mustangs outshot the Dragons 39-1 in the match.

Junior striker Cole Hinson had a hat trick against the Dragons.

Hinson scored the Mustangs’ first goal in the 20th minute off of a one-touch pass from freshman striker Raheem Lawal. Sophomore midfielder Kavon Nowroozi hit a long ball up to Lawal, who passed it over to Hinson for the finish. Hinson made the game 2-0 by dribbling the ball around the Dragons’ goalkeeper after receiving the assist from junior midfielder Paul Darmstadter.

“I think Paul Darmstadter did a great job of organizing the midfield. Cole Hinson had a great night finishing,” Spinello said. He said sophomore defender/midfielder Ned Quill did a great job at center back. “I thought we were dangerous the entire night in attack and solid in the back all night.”

Hinson was also involved in the Mustangs’ third goal. In the 48th minute, he passed the ball over to junior midfielder/striker Sinan Kokuuslu, who bounced the ball off of the Dragons’ goal post and past the goal line. Hinson scored his third and the Mustangs’ fourth goal of the night in the 76th minute after Lawal’s shot was deflected by the Dragons’ goalkeeper. Then, in the final minute of the game, senior midfielder/striker Adam Witzel passed the ball in from the right corner to Paul Darmstadter, who dribbled the ball in four yards before launching it into the upper right corner of the goal with his left foot.

“A candidate for ‘goal of the year,’” Spinello said. “He hit it with pace and precision, like a full-grown professional player hits the ball.”

George Mason’s game against Rappahannock County High School was rained out on Tuesday and rescheduled for next Monday. The Mustangs also play Strasburg High School at Strasburg on Friday and finish the regular season on Tuesday with a home match against Clarke County High School, which means the Mustangs have to play three games in five days.

Michael addo-ashong passes the baton to truman custer for the final leg of the 4x400 relay that qualified the team for the state meet with a time of 3:38.16. (photo: carol sly)

‘Stang Track Stars Advance to State & Region Meets Both the George Mason High School boys and girls track teams participated in the GarField Invitational last Saturday in Dale City. Many runners finished with their best times of the season, breaking personal records and earning qualifying times for region and state meets.

Seventeen other schools competed in a full day of track and field events. There were many triple-A and double-A teams, as well as a smattering of single-A teams like Mason. The level of competition was among the highest the team has seen all season,

raising everyone’s game to the most competitive levels.

Athletes who qualified for the state meet last Saturday were Blaise Sevier, in the 1600m with a time of 5:23.18; Preston Custer, in the 800m with a time of 2:03.65; and Truman Custer, in the 3200m with a time of 10:24.16.

The girls 4x400 relay team (Tara Holman, Joelle Randrianasolo, Darby Quave, and Sevier) finished with a state-qualifying time of 4:22.75, and the boys 4x400m relay team (Will Nunley, Preston Custer, Michael Addo-Ashong, and Truman Custer) finished with

a state-qualifying time of 3:38.16.

Nunley also qualified for the regional meet in the 200m with a time of 0:23.14.

Mason hosted teams from Rappahannock County and Madison County high schools Wednesday, but results were not available at press time.

The Bull Run District meet is scheduled for next Wednesday, May 15, at Strasburg High School.

The top three Mason athletes in each event will have a chance to compete and qualify to move on to the regional meet, if they haven’t qualified already.

Adds to 6-Game Streak

by Drew Costley

Falls Church News-Press

George Mason High School’s girls varsity soccer team has been on a six-game win streak since losing to district opponent Clarke County High School 1-0 in mid-April. The Mustangs beat Rappahannock County High School 5-0 on Tuesday after beating William Monroe High School 6-1 last Friday.

William Monroe is only the second district opponent to score a goal on the Mustangs this season.

“The thing about William Monroe is they’re very physical and they pressure really high. So as soon as we made one mistake in the back, they capitalized on it and scored,” said Head Coach Jennifer Parsons. “It was good to have another team to keep us on our toes because we haven’t had that type of competition since we played Clarke.”

Sophomore goalkeeper Katie Cheney finished the game with 11 saves.

“It was good because she hasn’t really been challenged much outside of practice,” Parsons said.

“So it was good for her to be in a real-game situation and have some pressure on her as well.”

Junior midfielder Claire Trevisan, the Mustangs’ leading scorer with 15 goals, said the Mustangs “held [their] own” against the “scrappy” Dragons.

“We were able to use the outsides effectively and get crosses and some shots,” she said.

Trevisan scored two goals and assisted with two goals against the Dragons, as did sophomore forward Ava Roth. Sophomore forward Mary Keenan and senior defender Hailey Thomas scored a goal each in the match.

Senior defender/midfielder Araba Ankuma assisted with two goals, and senior defender Miska Chehata assisted with one.

Parsons said the Mustangs did a better job of taking advantage

of scoring opportunities against the Dragons than they did against Rappahannock County. She cited three early breakaways as examples of failing to turn scoring opportunities into goals, but the Panthers bunched up in the defensive box, allowing the Mustangs room to also cross the ball from the sides of the field.

“I think just the aggression and timing wasn’t there tonight,” Parsons said. Parsons said the girls, many of whom are in the middle of international baccalaureate exams, are showing signs of fatigue during games.

“We were really energetic in the first half and we were connecting a lot and possessing the ball and taking lots of shots,” Keenan said. “Then in the second half, we kept doing that but it slowed down a little.”

The Mustangs first score came in the ninth minute when Trevisan scored off of an assist

by Keenan, but they did most of their scoring in the middle of the first half.

Roth took advantage of a loose ball situation in front of the Panthers’ goal in the 18th minute to score the Mustangs’ second goal. Trevisan scored her second goal and the Mustangs’ third goal of the game three minutes later. Three minutes after that, in the 24th minute, Keenan scored the Mustangs’ fourth goal with Trevisan on the assist. Trevisan scored her third and the Mustangs’ fifth goal in the 60th minute off of an assist from freshman defender Annie Washa.

The Mustangs play their final home game of the regular season on Friday against Strasburg High School, and then travel to Clarke County High School next Tuesday for a rematch against the top team in the district. If the Mustangs beat Clarke County, the teams will compete in a one-game playoff for the Bull Run District’s regular season champion and top seed in the district playoffs.

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SEvERaL GEoRGE MaSoN HiGH ScHooL StUdENtS wERE REcENtLy accEPtEd to competitive and selective 2013 virginia Governor’s School programs. Benjamin cohen (in Math, Science, and technology), Maeve curtin (in agriculture), Meredith Johnson (in dance), Sarah Macris (in French Language), Robert Martinez (in instrumental Music), Elinore McLain (in Math, Science, and technology), arijeet Sensharma (in vocal Music), and Zoe villamar (in agriculture) earned placement into programs. Pictured above, from left to right, are cohen, curtin, Sensharma, Johnson, villamar, McLain, and Macris. Martinez is not pictured. (FccPS Photo/asheesh Misra)

Mason Senior Named 2013 Gates Millennium Scholar Christina Holman, a senior at George Mason High School, has been selected as a 2013 Gates Millennium Scholar.

Among 54,000 applicants this year, the program’s largest applicant pool, only 1,000 students were selected.

As a Gates Millennium Scholar, Holman’s undergraduate financial needs will be covered and she can receive financial support for doctoral studies.

Holman will be attending Wellesley College to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations and a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering.

Longfellow Wins Va. Science Olympiad Title The team from Longfellow Middle School captured first place in Division B in the 2013 Virginia Science Olympiad, held last weekend at Virginia Tech.

The Longfellow team is made up of students Will Baxley, Zuhayr Choudhury, Shannon Chu, Stephanie Do, Alex Fried, Eric Liu, Alvand Moini, Josh Mosier, Neeraj Prasad, Gerald Wu, Tim Wu, Sarah Zhou, Scott Becker, Nina Chung, Katherine Du, Alex Howe, John Krause-

Steinrauf, Shreya Ramesh, and Laith Samamreh. Susan Boomer coaches the Longfellow team.

Members of the teams will represent Virginia at the national tournament in Dayton, Ohio, May 17 – 18.

Will Ashe Named Student Rep. To Fairfax Co. School Board Will Ashe, a junior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, has been elected by the countywide Student Advisory Council to serve a one-year term as student representative to the Fairfax County School Board, beginning July 1.

Ashe will participate in School Board meetings as a nonvoting member, filling the position currently held by Lucy Gunter, a senior at Langley High School.

Ashe will be the 43rd student representative to the School Board.

Home Tour to Raise Funds for Outdoor Learning at Tuckahoe Tuckahoe Elementary School’s 13th annual Home and Garden Tour next Saturday will benefit the school’s Discovery Schoolyard, a nationally recognized outdoor learning curriculum.

The tour will take guests through properties includ-

ing a Victorian-style home on the national registry for historic places, an expanded bungalow, an updated Craftsman, and a brick Tudor. Two gardens are also included.

The tour is scheduled for next Saturday, May 18, from noon – 5 p.m. Advance tickets are $20 and can be purchased at tuckahoetour. org. Tickets will also be available on the day of the tour for $25.

Potomac School to Sponsor Benefit Bike Collection The Potomac School of McLean will sponsor a used bicycle collection this Saturday, May 11, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., to benefit Bikes for the World.

Bikes for the World is a nonprofit organization that collects unwanted bicycles for donation and re-use in developing countries.

The collection will be held in the parking lot of Trinity United Methodist Church, 1205 Dolley Madison Blvd., McLean. Each donor is asked to contribute $10 per bicycle to help defray shipping, processing, and distribution costs.

For more information on Bikes for the World, visit bikesfortheworld.org or call 703-740-7856.

For more information on the May 11 Potomac School collection, call Adela Wynn at 703-873-6128.

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Community Events Thursday, May 9 Children’s story Time. Ages 2 – 5 years. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 a.m. 703-2485034.

Lecture. Attorney David Fontanella will discuss estate planning. TysonsPimmit Regional Library (7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church). Free. 2 p.m. 703-790-8088. up Close and Literary author salon.

Bethanne Patrick will interview Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Manil Suri. A question and answer session with the audience and book signing will follow. One More Page Books (2200 N. Westmoreland St., Arlington). 7 p.m. 703-300-9746.

VPis spring Meeting. Jim McGlone, urban forest conservationist for the Virginia Department of Forestry, will give a talk about the interaction between the City’s tree canopy and storm-water management. A panel discussion and refreshments will follow. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). 7:30 – 9 p.m. vpis.org.

Community Forum. Citizens for a Better City will hold a public forum to provide information to those interested in becoming candidates for Falls Church City Council or School Board. American Legion

Post 130 (400 N. Oak St., Falls Church). 7:30 p.m. fallschurchcbc. net.

saTurday, May 11 F.C. Farmers’ Market. Vendors offer fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables, cheeses, meats, baked goods, plants, and wine. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free admission. 8 a.m. – noon. 703-248-5077.

Plant sale. Falls Church Garden Club’s annual sale will feature flowering perennials, natives, hostas, ferns, shrubs, and more, including a children’s butterfly craft table. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). 8 a.m. – noon. 703-248-5077.

Walk for the animals. Participants can bring their dogs for a three-mile walk or one-mile stroll followed by a festival of entertainment and demonstrations. Adoptable dogs will also be onsite to meet potential new families. Bluemont Park (601 N. Manchester St., Arlington). $40.

8:30 – 11:30 a.m. awla.org. yard sale. The church-family yard sale will feature items such as electronics, books, pictures, furniture, glassware, children’s items, and jewelry. Charles Wesley United Methodist Church (6817 Dean Drive, McLean). 9 a.m. – 3

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p.m. 703-356-6336.

Live it up on the Loop. Activities and entertainment promoting a healthy lifestyle will be offered for all ages, including performances by Rocknoceros and Cathy Bollinger.

Market Common Clarendon (2700 Clarendon Blvd., Arlington). Free.

10 a.m. – 1 p.m. 703-785-5634.

Lecture. Gus Fritschie, chief technology officer at SeNet International Corp., will present a program on how Hollywood depicts information and technology security.

Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library (7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church).

Free. 1 p.m. 703-790-8088. international Potluck dinner.

Participants will enjoy food and entertainment. International dress is encouraged. Proceeds will benefit the Presbyterian Hunger Program.

Knox Presbyterian Church (7416 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 5 p.m.

703-560-5288.

Concert. Eleanor Ellis and Pearl Bailes will perform. Food will be provided

by Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Que. Proceeds will benefit the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation and its Tinner Hill Blues Festival. Home of Lindy Hockenberry and Edward Christensen. $20. 6 p.m. tinnerhill. org. dance Performance. Furia

Flamenca will combine flamenco’s gypsy heritage with modern flamenco choreography. McLean Community Center (1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean). $25. 8 p.m. mcleancenter.org.

Monday, May 13 Children’s story Time. Ages 2 – 5 years. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 a.m. 703-2485034.

Tuesday, May 14 Children’s story Time. Ages 18 – 36 months. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 a.m. 703-2485034. ruff readers. Children ages 5 – 12 years can sign up to read with a therapy dog. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 5 p.m. 703248-5034.

F.C. Lions Club Meeting. La Cote D’Or Cafe (6876 Lee Highway, Arlington). 6:30 p.m. fallschurchlions.com.

Wednesday, May 15 Twilight Tales. Stories and a craft for ages 4 – 6 years. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. 703248-5034.

Theater Fine Arts Thursday, May 9

“Thunder Knocking on the Door.” Once upon a time in a small Alabama town, a mysterious bluesplaying 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.

“4000 Miles.” 21-year-old Leo arrives unannounced at the Greenwich Village apartment of his 91-year-old Jewish leftist grandmother Vera. As an overnight couch-surf turns into an extended stay, a surprising commonality is unearthed between these two generations. Through May 19. The Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington,

D.C.). $39. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.

“Skin Tight” and “2-2 Tango.” A husband and wife relive the torrid fervor of their marriage in a physically intense, erotically charged duet in “Skin Tight.” “2-2 Tango” explores the universal obstacle course of love – from pickup to hookup to boredom, breakup, or bliss. Through May 19. The Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $30. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.

Friday, May 10

“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.

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“Wallenstein.” Leading Europe’s most powerful army at the height of his influence during the Thirty Years’ War, the famous general Albrecht von Wallenstein is caught between his ambition and his Emperor’s growing distrust. He must decide either to stay loyal to his king and lose his power or to betray his country for greater gain. Through June 2. Sidney Harman Hall (610 F St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $55 – $105. 8 p.m. shakespearetheatre.org.

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What: Photo Safari and Class at The National Zoo When: Sunday, May 12, 2 - 4 p.m.

Where: National Zoo (meet outside the Visitor’s Center) 3001 Connecticut Ave, Washington D.C. See thingstododc.com for tickets and more info

Saturday, May 18 – Vegan Bake Sale. Falls Church-based Compassion for Animals will hold a vegan bake sale with fresh-baked cookies, cinnamon rolls, banana bread, cupcakes, and other goodies from local bakers and businesses. Proceeds will be spilt between CfA and the Wildlife Rescue League. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. info@compassion4animals. org.

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This spot was once home to Rabbit Salad and Grill, a fast-casual restaurant focused on quick and healthy eats. But owner Aaron Gordon flipped the format, teaming up with Chef Rock Harper of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitchenâ&#x20AC;? fame to make a restaurant modeled on European beer gardens.

Patio seating is offered outside, and inside big, wooden picnic-style tables and benches run the length of the dining room, each with a communal caddy of silverware and napkins and a half-dozen condiment bottles. A sign bearing the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name in lit mismatched lettering looks fresh from a carnival midway. Above a long bar where orders are placed and prepared is mounted a row of antique meat grinders, which wink at the carnivorous delights to come.

Chalkboards around the cash register list the available food and beer. The sausage sandwiches, at about 20 in all, are divided into three categories: Classic ($6.50), Gourmet ($7.50), and Exotic ($8.50).

The â&#x20AC;&#x153;classicâ&#x20AC;? selection features more familiar sausages, like chorizo and three different takes on Italian sausage (hot, sweet, and â&#x20AC;&#x201C; surprisingly enough for this meat-focused spot â&#x20AC;&#x201C; vegan). The Bratwurst is a classic German sausage, and the Fat Shortyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s take doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t disappoint, as a firm snap of its casing reveals juicy, savory meat beneath.

The concept gets dressed up in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;gourmetâ&#x20AC;? selection, and includes an assortment of European sausages that havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet gained the bratwurstâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s international appeal.

Among them the Kaserkriner has become a house favorite, and when a sausage is made with bacon and gruyere cheese, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not to love?

But the sausages that had local foodies buzzing about this spot weeks before its opening are the â&#x20AC;&#x153;exoticâ&#x20AC;? ones. On the tamer end of the exotic spectrum are the Buffalo Chipotle and the Rabbit/Veal and White Wine. Both get a boost from their supporting flavors, the former with its smoky chipotle seasoning and the latter with a just hint of the wine against a savory backdrop. But there are also picks like the Rattlesnake, combined with rabbit and pork and speckled with jalapeno to give it a peppery kick.

Each sausage sandwich comes with the choice of two of four available toppings.

The sweet pepper strips are a nice, colorful topping that offer a little bit of heat despite the name. For a firey topping, diners can add the hot peppers to their sausage and get bits of the limp pepper and dangerous seeds. The sauerkraut is not too sour, and the grilled onion is sweet, but both bring a nice crunchy texture to the sandwich.

The grilled bun at Fat Shortyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is ideal for serving these meaty creations. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge bun, but chewy past its firm outer layer, and it holds up against toppings, condiments, and those juicy sausages.

But diners can skip the bread and order a sausage platter ($10 for one sausage, $14 for two), which comes with the choice of baked beans, German-style potato salad, or field green salad. Those dishes can be ordered for $2 apiece as well, and French fries are also offered as a side ($3 for a small, $5 for a large). The fries are thick-cut and soft, but crisp at their potato-skinned edges. And with several condiments at the table (many mustards, and a sweet and sour mumbo sauce), the fries arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lacking for dip.

Whether diners wish to stick with more common pork and beef sausages or embrace the novelty of game meat, Fat Shortyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will be a crowd-pleaser for offering fast, cheap, and delicious food. And those giant beers wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; LESLIE POSTER

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When Beth Hart left the stage at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors after performing a soul-stirring rendition of “I’d Rather Go Blind” in tribute to legendary bluesman Buddy Guy, she didn’t realize the impact she’d made.

She was caught up in the moment, proud to be performing for that year’s honorees and a crowd full of celebrated personalities. Later, while watching the performance on TV with her mother, she took a step back and saw what happened after she let loose the last note of the bluesy love song popularized by Etta James.

The applause was uproarious. The audience at the Kennedy Center gave an enthusiastic standing ovation. Not only were the honorees on their feet, but so were Barack and Michelle Obama.

The 41-year-old singer-songwriter considers that performance the highlight of a career quite nearly derailed by untreated mental illness and substance abuse.

Hart found fame with the single “LA Song” off of her 1999 album Screamin’ for My Supper. The track made the Billboard Hot 100; it was an adult contemporary hit in the U.S. and celebrated success abroad, too, including topping the charts in New Zealand.

“Instead of rejoicing and feeling great, it absolutely terrified me,” Hart said. She feared the success. She felt she wasn’t worth it. She thought she had no talent, and that people would find out. “So before they take it away from me, I’ll take it away from me.”

Hart spent months in a downfall of drinking, drug use, and disordered eating. She was crippled by agoraphobia. The bipolar disorder she’d struggled with was beyond her control.

“I was in and out of hospitals, psych wards as well as a couple of rehabs,” Hart said. “My brain couldn’t function right.”

With medication, therapy, prayer, and supportive people to surround herself with, Hart

Beth hart (Photo: Jeff Katz) made a recovery.

“It was a miracle,” Hart said, “I got to get a second chance at life, on what I didn’t really know then would become the best part of my life.”

She returned with the 2003 album Leave the Light On, which was originally released in New Zealand and came out months later internationally. She continued to tour and release albums, developing a following across Europe, but the native Los Angelena wouldn’t return to the United States.

“I didn’t feel worthy of playing in the U.S.,” Hart said. “I love the U.S. so much, this is my home. But I just felt ashamed, and embarrassed.”

“I’d Rather Go Blind” put her on the path back home.

She recorded the song for 2011’s Don’t Explain, a covers album made with blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa. She felt like she

Igor & Red Elvises These singles whet the appetites of the FCNP editorial team this week:

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Nicholas Benton – Hamlet Soundtrack by Tyler Waters

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Jody Fellows – Sail by AWOLNATION

Leslie Poster – The Space in Between by How to Destroy Angels

had reached a closing point with the rock and singer-songwriter tunes she’d made all her career. The project would give her the chance to sing music she loved to sing, songs by artists like Bill Withers and Ray Charles, and not have to write. She was happy recording this album, and it was a revelation. This was the music she wanted to write for herself.

“I had the balls to really make a hard left away from the path musically that I’d been on for my whole life,” Hart said.

The result was Bang Bang Boom Boom, and from the smoky blues crooning of “Baddest Blues” to the electric gospel of “Spirit of God” the album debuted a new Beth Hart. And when she got the chance to release the album in the U.S., she latched onto it.

“When that opportunity came ... for the first time in my life since all that crap happened, I was not afraid, and I was excited,” Hart said.

Bang Bang Boom Boom was released here last month and Hart embarked upon a U.S. tour, including a sold-out show tonight at The Birchmere.

“This is a beyond extraordinary time in my life,” Hart said. “It’s like going back into the lion’s den, but instead of fearing that the lion’s going to bite my head off, I feel like I can do this with my head up, and rejoice in making music in my own country.”

• For more information about Beth Hart, visit bethhart.com.

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Public Notice ABC LICENSE MHG MERRIFIELD, LLC Trading as Trio/ Open Road/Italian Market, 8100 Lee Highway, Falls Church, VA 22024. The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) for a Beer/ Wine On-Premise, Mixed Beverages OnPremises; Beer/Wine Off-Premises to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Stephen P. Gavula, Managing Member. NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days after the publishing date of the first of two required legal notices. Objections should be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or 800.552.3200.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MEETINGS CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA The resolution referenced below was introduced on March 18, 2013 and referred out for comment on March 18, 2013; with

CLASSI F I E D S a public hearing held on March 27, 2013.

A public hearing and Council action are scheduled for Monday, May 13, 2013 at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as may be heard.

(TR13-10) Resolution to Grant a Special Exception for residential uses WITHin mixed use development PROJECTS and height bonus for a mixed-use development on the Approximately 2.6 Acres of Land LOCATED AT 255 AND 301 west broad STREET (Real Property Code Numbers 52-309-414, 52309-111 and 52-309-412) known as â&#x20AC;&#x153; 301 West Broad Streetâ&#x20AC;? by Rushmark PROPERTies, LLC [referred out on 3-18-13 for comment and Council action on 5-13-13] The resolutions referenced below were introduced on February 25, 2013, given a public hearing, and referred out for comment. A public hearing and Council action are scheduled for Monday, May 13, 2013 at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as may be heard.

(TR13-06) Resolution to Grant a Special Exception for residential development and height bonus for a mixed use development on the Approximately 2.2 Acres of Land LOCATED AT 540 AND 580 sOUTH WASHINGTON STREET (Real Property Code Numbers 52-308-004 AND 52-308-008) known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;reserve at tinner hillâ&#x20AC;? by LINCOLN PROPERTY COMPANY. [referred out on 2-25-13 for comment and Council action on 5-13-13] (TR13-07) RESOLUTION TO AMEND THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF THE CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA, TO CHANGE THE DESIGNATION OF APPROXIMATELY 2.2 ACRES OF LAND LOCATED AT 540 AND 580 SOUTH WASHINGTON STREET (Real Property Code Numbers 52-308-004 AND 52-308-008) FROM â&#x20AC;&#x153;BUSINESSâ&#x20AC;? TO â&#x20AC;&#x153;MIXED USEâ&#x20AC;? ON THE CITYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FUTURE LAND USE MAP. [referred out on 2-25-13 for comment and Council action on 5-13-13] All public hearings will be held in the Council Chambers, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church, Virginia. For copies of legislation, contact the City Clerkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office at (703-248-5014) or cityclerk@fallschurchva.gov. The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, call 703-248-5014 (TTY 711).

KATHLEEN CLARKEN BUSCHOW CITY CLERK

orientation instead of horizontal, and a location approximately 35 feet below the top cornice of the building instead of 8 feet, on premises known as 301 West Broad Street, RPC# 52-309-111, RPC# 52-309-412, and RPC# 52-309-414 of the Falls Church Real Property Records, zoned B-2 Central Business, said property owned by Three O One West Broad Limited Partnership C/O Allan Berman, The City of Falls Church, and The City of Falls Church Economic Development Authority. This item was heard by the Architectural Advisory Board on May 1, 2013 for referral to the BZA. .

Variance application V1545-13 by Felipe Lopez to allow a right side yard setback of 5 feet instead of 13 feet on the east side of the property, on premises known as 402 Timber Lane, RPC # 52-205-017 of the Falls Church Real Property Records, zoned R-A low density residential, said property owned

by Felipe Lopez. (continued from April 11, 2013) Information on the above items is available at the Zoning Division, West Wing, City Hall, Suite 300W.

Falls Church Voter Registration Closes Monday May 20, 2013 for the Democratic Primary Election on June 11, 2013 The deadline for citizens to register for the 2013 Democratic Primary Election is Monday, May 20. Registration applications must be postmarked or received by the Office of Voter Registration and Elections (300 Park Ave., Suite 101 East, Falls Church, VA 22046) by that date. All citizens who will be 18 years old on or before November 5, 2013 (the date of the General and Special Elections), are eligible to register and vote in this election.

The Voter Registration Application is available on the City website, www.fallschurchva.gov/vote, in the Office of Voter Registration and Elections, and via the link below. For more information, call the Office of Voter Registration at 703-248-5085.

David B. Bjerke, General Registrar City Of Falls Church Office of Voter Registration & Elections 300 Park Ave. Room 101E, Falls Church, VA 22046 703-248-5085 Fax â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 703-248-5204 Email â&#x20AC;&#x201C; vote@fallschurchva.gov

Variance application V1548-13 by David Heller and Julia Peterson to Sec. 48-238 (3) to allow a front yard setback of 26 feet instead of 30 on the west side of the property (Cleave Drive) on premises known as 901 Hillwood Avenue, RPC# 53-203-016 of the Falls Church Real Property Records, zoned R1-A low-density residential, said property owned by David Heller and Julia Peterson.

Variance application V1547-13 by Easter Seals Greater Washington-Baltimore, Inc. to Sec. 48-1004 to permit a reduction of the off-street parking requirements from 28 spaces to 13 spaces on premises known as 300 Hunton Avenue, RPC# 53-114-036 of the Falls Church Real Property Records, zoned B-3 general business, said property owned by Green Invicta, LLC. Variance application V1546-13 by Rushmark Properties to Sec. 48-1265 (1) to allow 11 wall signs instead of 2, and a total sign area of approximately 631 square feet instead of 50, and Sec. 48-1265 (10) to allow a building identification sign with a vertical

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Rebecca Davis was a freshman at the University of Virginia, freshly graduated from George Mason High School, when two planes hit the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in the terrorist attacks that May 14th claimed nearly 3,000 lives on Sept. 11, 2001. Six photographers, who would later become her col7:00 PM – 9:00 PM leagues at the New York Daily News, were rushing Kenmore Middle School to the scene.

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“We Witnessed 9/11 Through Their Lenses” won in a category for historical or cultural programs or specials. Hers was the sole award the New York Daily News took in this year’s New York Emmys, up against stiff competition from dozens of local television networks.

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REBECCA DAVIS “So often we see photographs and we don’t get to hear about the stories behind them, what happened 10 seconds after a photo was taken, or 10 seconds before. I think getting to hear their voices really gave their pictures a new life,” Davis said.

Davis’ background in photography sparked her interest in documenting the photographers’ stories.

Her love of the medium was found on trips to Latin America with her father, an anthropologist.

“For me it was a way to be nosy and get into situations I wouldn’t normally find myself in,” Davis said.

At Mason, Davis took her first photography class with John Ballou. She was an International Baccalaureate student, and wrote her thesis on photography. At UVa she studied anthropology, photography, and studio art, and went on to get a master’s degree in photojournalism. Now a senior multimedia producer for “The Today Show,” Davis moved to New York City in 2009 and began work for the New York Daily News.

Davis says that she had felt removed from the attacks while she was a student miles away in Charlottesville, only seeing images and hearing accounts from newscasters. It was in talking to the people who were at Ground Zero, her co-workers who took those photographs, Davis says, that the attacks became more real to her.

In discussing her recent New York Emmy, she gives credit to those subjects.

“Ultimately I was just the one cutting together the work and the stories of the photography staff,” Davis said. “I feel like the award is very much for them, so I was happy to see it get recognition for the work that they had done.”

To see “We Witnessed 9/11 Through Their Lenses,” visit 911anniversary.nydailynews.com/ we-witnessed-911-through-their-lenses.

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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9.

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Critter Corner

BACK IN THE DAY

20 & 10 Years Ago in the News-Press Fallsâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;News-Press Vol III, No. 7 â&#x20AC;˘ May 6, 1993

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Child Protective Case Load in Falls Church Draws Full-Time Help

Floodgates for Explosive Mixed Use Development in F.C. Set to Burst

Even placid Falls Church is not immune to the intrusion of domestic violence and alcohol and substance abuse. To combat these problems the community has been coordinating its efforts and agencies to better deliver services and intervention in a more timely fashion. In fact, starting this month, Pam Carter, a Child Protective Services Worker from Fairfax County, will now be devoting full time to child abuse cases within the City alone.

Three major developments opening this week in the City of Falls Church have moved the City to the brink of a mixed use development boom. Developer Bob Young of the McLean-based Young Group unveiled his second major mixed-use development plan for the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downtown area. The plan for the 500 block of S. Maple Street includes 241 luxury condos and is 22% commercial.

It could yield $1.5 million in net tax revenue to the City every year.

F.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Judy Lubnow Dies at Age 50 Judy Lubnow passed away at her home in Falls Church on Sunday, May 5, 2013. She was 50 years old.

She is survived by her husband of 24 years, Tom Lubnow; her children, Brian, Stephen, Emily, and Sarah; her father, Edward Sedlar; her brothers, Jim (Christine) Sedlar and Eddie (Crissy) Sedlar; her sister, Cindy (Jamie) Ringley;

her mother-in-law, Pat Lubnow; her sister-in-law, Teri Whitty; her brothers-in-law, Dave (Ellen Stohl) Lubnow and Jeff (Robin) Lubnow; and 17 seventeen nieces and nephews.

The family received friends at the Murphy Falls Church Funeral Home last night.

The Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at St. James

Catholic Church, 103 N. Spring St., Falls Church, on Thursday, May 9, at 10 a.m.

Interment will be held privately.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that contributions be made to The George Mason Athletic Boosters Association, c/o The Judy Lubnow Scholarship Fund, 7124 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22046.

Emmy ALEx shows her mom how to do the Downward Dog pose before a yoga class. This local cat was rescued from a parking lot when she was about 2 months old, and she has reveled in much attention ever since. She can be very zen-like when she pushes her front paws alternately forward and back in a tai chi motion, or when she stretches out fully to show her mom how to do yoga poses. Sometimes, though, she likes to scamper up the stairs or run around the house at full speed.

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