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Inside This Week Tinner Hill Blues Fest All Set for the Weekend Falls Church’s 22nd Annual Tinner Hill Blues Festival kicks off this Friday afternoon and continues into Sunday with a weekend full of blues all over The Little City. See page 5
Rabies Alert for F.C. as Raccoon Tests Positive
‘Past Blasts,’ Newbies & Incumbents Pile Onto F.C. Ballot for November 24-0
Last Minute Rush of Candidates; Baroukh Has Cancer Diagnosis by Nicholas F. Benton
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Silberberg in Alexandria, and two candidates backed by established Democratic elected officials lost in a 45th District primary race to Mark Levine. Although a former aide to Rep. Barney Frank and openly gay, Levine ran as a Democratic outsider, having finished far behind among the nine candidates who
Officially reappointed by the F.C. Electoral Board for another four year term as Falls Church’s Registrar of Voters, David Bjerke was ready when the clock struck seven Tuesday marking the filing deadline. He had in hand the final official print out of candidates who filed and qualified for the November ballot running for three open slots on the City Council and three on the School Board. All the candidates who filed were certified before that deadline, and by Falls Church standards, the number who filed is staggering So, the line up is set for the election. Running for City Council are Johannah Barry, Philip Duncan, Letty Hardi, Samuel Mabry and P. David Tarter. Running for School Board are Justin Castillo, Erin Gill, Margaret Kajeckas, Mark Kaye, Alison Kutchma, Jacob Radcliff, Philip Reitinger, Kieran Sharpe and Becky Smerdon. Unlike years past in Falls Church, where citizen activist groups held conventions and nominated slates, there is no such thing any more, and with the elections supposed to be non-partisan, it will be a challenge for all the candidates to distinguish themselves to blocks of the electorate. But in general, what will be involved are three groups – incumbents, candidates longer in the tooth (politically speaking) and young citizens diving into the political fray for the first time. The incumbents will be, for the City Council, current Mayor David Tarter and Council member Phil Duncan, and for the School
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The City of Falls Church issued a rabies alert after a raccoon tested positive for rabies after it got into an altercation with two dogs on E. Jefferson Street in the City of Falls Church last week. See News Briefs, page 9
David Brooks: The Mobilization Error
Every serious presidential candidate has to answer a fundamental strategic question: Do I think I can win by expanding my party’s reach, or do I think I can win by mobilizing my party’s base? See page 14
Press Pass with Deanna Bogart
Award-winning blues singer, pianist and saxophonist Deanna Bogart is returning to the region where she started her career to kick off the Tinner Hill Blues Festival this Friday. See page 25
HEADING TO RADFORD for the state championship tournament this weekend, the 2015 George Mason High School boys soccer team has had a terrific, record-breaking season. While amassing an astounding 24-0 record, the boys have won the Bull Run District title, the Conference 35 Championship, the Regional Championship, and broken state records for shut-outs (both team and individual). See Sports, page 27. (Photo: Edward Quill)
Gross Withstands Stiff Primary Challenge; Upsets in Region by Nicholas F. Benton
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Facing an aggressive challenge in her bid for a sixth fouryear term representing the Mason District on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Penelope “Penny” Gross was up for the fight and carried the winning margin once the polls were closed Tuesday. With 100 percent of pre-
cincts reporting, Gross had 56.16 percent of the vote (3,028) to 43.84 percent for first-time candidate Jessica Swanson. As other Democratic primary results in Northern Virginia showed Tuesday, Gross’ win was by no means automatic. Democratic “establishment” candidates went down to newcomers in at least two other cases in the area. Four term Mayor Bill Euille lost to Allison
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The Deep Root Origins of Tinner Hill’s Blues Festival
BY DREW COSTLEY
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Back in 1994, Ed Henderson, with his wife Nikki the principal organizer of the annual Tinner Hill Blues Festival that will be held again this coming weekend in Falls Church, had just gotten back to Falls Church from a fellowship to study in Africa and encountered something that would play a key role in creating an institution in The Little City. At the time, it was the first year of what was called the Tinner Hill Street Festival, which was started at the suggestion of Jim Edmonds, then the owner of Foxes Music Company. According to Henderson, the facilitator of the first street festival was Dave Eckert. Henderson said that the original festival was held on the land where developers are currently building the Lincoln at Tinner Hill on S. Maple Street. Local black church choirs performed
and there were vendors, including Henderson, who sold wares that he brought back from Africa. The following year, the festival was held on Wallace Street, where it would take place for a number of years before moving to 106 and 108 Tinner Hill Road, the historic site where black Falls Church residents met in 1915 to fight a segregation law in the city. Eventually, the festival was moved Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School, then to Cherry Hill Park, where it’s held now and where it will be this Saturday, to allow more space for festival goers. Since those first several years of the Tinner Hill Street Festival, which eventually became the Tinner Hill Blues Festival, the festival has grown from a local, homegrown event to a national and international affair. According to the Hendersons, festival attendance has grown from the hundreds in the first few years of its existence to the thousands in more recent years.
And with that growth comes change, including change of venue. “One of the reasons we wanted to move to the Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School was that we wanted to grow the festival,” said Nikki Graves Henderson, the other principal organizer of the festival. The couple also runs the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation, an organization with the mission of preserving the black history of Falls Church through various programs and initiatives. “We did a self-analysis and surveyed the people who attended the festival,” she said. “We did a feasibility study of the land over there and all of our programs and the consultant we hired said that the festival had the most potential of all, so we focused on growing the festival, making it more professional, expanding the audience and decided to move to the middle school.” She continued that the middle school was new and, at the time, had no mature trees and
AMERICAN PIEDMONT BLUESMAN John Jackson plays at the Tinner Hill Street Festival, which was renamed the Tinner Hill Blues Festival, in 2000. (P�����: E� H��������) was all blacktop. “It was hotter than Hades,” she said. So, at the suggestion of blues lover Lindy Hockenberry, who was then a City Council member, the festival was converted into a strictly blues festival and moved to Cherry Hill Park. Before then, the festival showcased all kinds of music – reggae, gospel, hip-hop – but Hockenberry thought that the festival could focus on blues in order to highlight the City’s blues history and
love of the genre. The Hendersons, and the festival’s other organizers, which now includes a committee of eight to ten people to steer its vision, have had to overcome several challenges through the years to make sure the festival was not only self-sustaining, but able to help sustain the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation’s other programs. Some of the major challenges Continued on Page 19
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“This is the most important election ever!” It’s such a heavily cliched statement in politics, it is hard anymore to take it seriously whenever it’s repeated, even with the add on, “This time we really mean it!” So rather than go there exactly, we will attempt to get across just how truly important this coming period is for the future of the City of Falls Church. The groundwork was laid for it with two things: 1. first, giant Fairfax County went after the formidable water system owned and operated for many years by the tiny City of Falls Church. Their mighty juggernaut crushed the Little City tugboat in the courts, and only very prudent, careful leadership from the City kept her afloat. Nonetheless, late in the process of this veritable “taking,” some fairminded individuals helped marshal the end-game negotiations, and the City, much to everyone’s surprise, wound up with some very valuable real estate, in addition to cash. 2. second, the citizens of Falls Church, in their wisdom, realized that the City needed to emerge from its sleepy southern village ways and compete for the quality of life it was capable of, so they voted in a referendum to move the City’s elections from May, when nobody showed up, to November, when everyone is used to going out to vote. With November elections this year, no small band of nay-sayers, no matter how much they fret and fume in on-line comments on the news of the City, can stand up to the large voter turnout by people who are far more apt to appreciate how hard City Hall and the Schools are working to make the Little City a viable jurisdiction over the long haul. These are busy, well educated professionals, these Falls Church voters, and they’re not about to be cowed by bluster and demagoguery. Surely, looking at the line-up of candidates for this November, there is little doubt but that there will be a lot of bluster and demagoguery. However, happily, there is also an abundance of sanity and constructive vision on the ballot, and if that element asserts itself during the campaign, we’re confident the City and its schools will be in good hands after November. But not only is the election important this year, so are the decisions to be made about how to develop those near 40 acres the City was dealt by the county. That process also began this last weekend with a big turnout to a wide open public meeting to kick around ideas. Here again, we are confident that if smart and focused Falls Church citizens remain engaged with this process, then the 10 acres of that 40 which can be commercially developed will yield the City a veritable gold mine of revenues to build schools and offset tax hikes. In this context, the one phrase that should govern decisions about this is, “highest and best use.”
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Editor, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the citizens of the City of Falls Church for allowing me to serve on the City Council for the last seven years. A few weeks ago, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. While my prospects for a cure are excellent, for the next several months I need to focus on my treatment, my recovery, and my family, and I do not feel that I could give a re-
election campaign my usual high attention and dedication. For that reason, I will not be seeking reelection to the City Council this November. We have made great progress in the last seven years in a host of areas, from economic development to stormwater management, to settling the water litigation and expanding the City’s boundaries to include George Mason High School and Mary Ellen Henderson
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Middle School. I’m proud of what our community has accomplished, but there is also much more work on the horizon before we can achieve our full potential as a city. It is a great privilege and honor to be a part of the effort to achieve that potential, and I look forward to participating in that work for many years to come. If you would like to learn more about thyroid cancer, the Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, at ThyCa.org, has been extremely helpful to me and my family. Thank you again for the opportunity to serve you. Nader Baroukh Falls Church
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Tinner Hill Festival: A Falls Church Tradition B� E���� B. H��������, II
Falls Church, one of the oldest municipalities in the state of Virginia, has many traditions that we celebrate and participate in every year. We have the Farmers Market, the Fall Festival, the Taste of Falls Church, the Village ”Attic Treasure Sale,” the City’s Memorial Day Parade, the Fourth of July reading of the Declaration of Independence, and on and on. You can find many similar events in nearby and far away cities and towns. Falls Church also has a tradition that is unique: the Tinner Hill Blues festival. The festival takes place the second weekend in June annually. This year the festival begins on Friday, June 12 and runs through Sunday, June 14. It has grown from a one day event to a full weekend of music, art, history and culture. Our mantra is ”All Blues, All Weekend, All Over Town.” Falls Church, Virginia also has an early civil rights tradition. In 1915, Falls Church became the home to the group that evolved into the first rural branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Part of the reason the Tinner Hill Blues Festival was started was to celebrate the courageous men and women who formed the Colored Citizen’s Protective League. The establishment of Civil Rights in this community replaced a despicable tradition of slavery and Jim Crow with a new stel-
lar tradition of striving for egalitarianism, liberalism and justice for all. The festival is a testament to another Falls Church tradition, i.e. participatory democracy. Festival planners, sponsors, volunteers, performers and visitors all work together in spite of any political, religious, social economic, ethnic
“The festival has gone through growing pains to become one of the best blues festivals in the region.” or racial differences. For the past 22 years there has been a Tinner Hill Festival, and it has been a Falls Church tradition. It began as a small community festival on Wallace Street, with a couple of church choirs and a smattering of local homegrown talent. The festival has gone through growing pains to become one of the best blues festivals in the region. For the first 14 years admission to the festival was free. Most residents of the city thought that this was the way it was should be. In 2008, the festival moved to Cherry Hill Park, and featured regional and nation-
ally recognized musicians who were considerably more expensive to book than the local choirs and homegrown talent. In order to bring in nationally known blues performers, we needed to raise more money. The first year we expanded, we continued the local tradition of raising funds primarily from local businesses. We added a Friday night concert at the State Theater for which we charged admission and suggested a donation of $5 or $10 at the daylong concert in Cherry Hill Park. After a few years of trial and error, we decided that we needed a new business model, one that would help the festival to become self-sustaining and attract people from other communities to Falls Church City. Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation wanted to create an event that would help raise money to support the our local preservation work. We also wanted to bring in the type of talent that would give the city and the region a taste of good old fashion “Down Home Blues” which is synonymous with African American history and culture. The major goal of the festival is to make Falls Church City a weekend destination during the festival, making it an economic driver for local businesses. Over the years we have seen our festival goers from neighboring communities come and have a good time, learn about local businesses and return time and again to dine and shop in the Little City. In 2010, we changed our business model
and began charging an admission fee and selling t-shirts and hats to help meet expenses. In 2011, we applied for and received an ABC license to sell beer and wine. ABC regulations require that alcohol can only be sold and consumed in a confined area. We tried temporary fencing but eventually, through funding from one of our sponsors, cordoned off the park with chain-linked fencing. This measure allowed for a safe and secure perimeter while also allowing drinkers to drink within the confines of the park. “Blues, Brew & BBQ” includes the sale of beer from Mad Fox Brewing Company, wine from Bogati Bodega & Veramar Vineyards in Northern Virginia, BBQ, vendors, children’s activities, films, workshops, vendors and the best musicians around! This year has presented some challenges. Rising prices and shrinking contributions left us scrambling to create new revenue streams by adding advertising space for local and nearby businesses in our festival program booklet. The Tinner Hill Blues Falls Church has become a tradition that people as close your next door neighbors and as far away as North Carolina and Pennsylvania travel here to enjoy. We invite you to come out June 12, 13 and 14 and be a part of the Falls Church Blues tradition. Edwin B. Henderson, II is president and founder of the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation.
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As Deadline Passes, 5 Run for Council, 9 for School Board
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Board, current chair Justin Castillo and Kieran Sharpe. Two incumbents, therefore, are running for the three seats for both the Council and School Board, with former Mayor Nader Baroukh on the Council and former Chair Susan Kearney choosing not to run for additional four year terms. Baroukh issued a statement Monday night indicating his choice not to run for a third term was due to a diagnosis of thyroid cancer (see his Letter to the Editor, page 6). That news drew out a strong
Gross Wins Continued from Page 1
vied for the Democratic nomination for the 8th District U.S. Congressional seat a year ago. He had no major party official endorsements for this race. Gross, in comments to the NewsPress yesterday, said the strong showing among challengers in the Democratic primary Tuesday “reflects a general grumpiness in the electorate we’ve seen nationwide, and we in Northern Virginia are not immune.”
sentiment of support from all corners of the Falls Church community, including on line in comments from Councilman Duncan, for example, who was often at odds with Baroukh on Council matters but wrote, “Fight it. Conquer it. The whole community is pulling for you, Nader.” (Duncan made public his own diagnosis of prostate cancer last year). Kearney said simply that it was “time” for her to step aside, and Sharpe made his decision at the veritable last minute to run again. Candidates running as challengers with past experience in Falls
Church politics include former Vice Mayor Sam Mabry and former Council member Johannah Barry. Mabry held City Council office on two occasions in the mid-1990s and early 2000s, leaving office in 2006. He’d qualified for the ballot in 2008, but then withdrew his name, raising speculation among some that he might to that again. Barry ran and won in 2008, but did not seek re-election in 2012. Candidates diving into byzantine Falls Church politics for the first time include one for the City Council: Letty Hardi, with deep ties to Falls Church if not her
own, through her husband Lucas, and with three children in or preparing to enter the Falls Church School System. She was outspoken in numerous hearings on the City budget this spring in support of the schools and of commercial development necessary to fund them (such as the Mason Row proposal). The other newcomers are all running for the School Board. Divisions among citizens during the spring budget negotiations were aired extensively on local blogs and in the commentary spaces on the News-Press website, and most of the fervor of the new can-
didates is someway in association with various sides of the issues that drew the most attention. The newcomers running School Board for the first time, then, are Gill, Kajeckas, Kaye, Kutchma, Radcliff, Reitinger and Smerdon. While the report of this formidable field of certified candidates had already engendered considerable comments online as of the News-Press press time, it is expected that these candidates will self-identify sooner rather than later with their motives for seeking election in November. Stay tuned.
But she attributed her ability to buck that trend to “20 years of good hard work in the community.” She’d won the endorsements of virtually all elected Democrats in the region, and of the Falls Church News-Press and the Washington Post. In a formal statement issued Wednesday, Gross said, “I am thrilled to once again be the Democratic nominee for Mason District Supervisor, and I thank Democratic voters for having faith in me. All politics is local, and our robust door-to-door campaign, with a broad base of community support,
proved that Mason District cannot be bought by out-of-state interests.” Gross added, “This unprecedented primary campaign was hard-fought, and I applaud Jessica Swanson for her effort. As my constituents know, I am a workhorse, not a showhorse. I love my job, I love my district, and the people in it. As we head into the November general election, I pledge to continue the positive, enthusiastic, and honest approach that has been the hallmark of my service to Mason District.” Gross now looks to face another challenger, running as an indepen-
dent, in the general election. Mollie Loeffler, former chair of the Mason District Council of Community Associations, issued a statement confirming that she’s qualified for the ballot to as an independent. In her concession statement, Swanson said, “I’ve spoken with thousands of residents who shared my concerns about the direction of our county government, about needed investments in our schools, and about development decisions that haven’t always seemed to reflect the best interests of residents.” She added, “I am truly hum-
bled by the more than 2,200 voters who turned out today to support our cause. I would also like to congratulate Penny Gross on her victory tonight. Her almost two decades of service to this community are deeply appreciated.” Loeffler, in a statement Wednesday announcing her independent challenge, cited her community organizing efforts in the Mason District saying, “Together, we made a difference by advancing the discussion about important issues in land use that have affected our neighborhoods and schools.”
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NEWS BRIEFS Rabid Raccoon Attacks Dogs, Rabies Alert Issued for Falls Church A raccoon tested positive for rabies after it got into an altercation with two dogs on E. Jefferson Street in the City of Falls Church last week, according to City officials. The raccoon was euthanized while the dogs are currently receiving treatment, officials say. The City of Falls Church released a press release Wednesday following the incident on June 4 in the 100 block of E. Jefferson Street and also report a spike in rabid raccoons in the Fairfax County Health District which includes the City. The release says that most of the raccoon population are healthy but if a raccoon or any wild animal appears to be sick or does not move away when near humans, they urge the public to contact City police at 703-248-5053 (TTY 711). The release continues, “Rabies is a preventable viral disease of mammals most often transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal. It is a myth that raccoons seen in the daytime are sick. It is not unusual to see raccoons during the day this time of year when the females are weaning their young. “The community should make sure their dogs and cats are currently inoculated for rabies. It is not advisable to let cats roam freely. Also, it is against state law to feed any wildlife as it encourages domestication in wild animals and can spread disease.”
F.C. Hosts 22nd Annual Tinner Hill Blues Festival This Weekend
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According to festival organizers, ticket sales are brisk now for the 22nd Annual Tinner Hill Blues Festival that kicks off Friday afternoon and continues into Sunday, June 12-14. The opening event is Friday at 5:30 p.m. with an opening reception and the Curtis Blues one man band at Stifel and Capra, 260 W. Broad St., and the opening of an exhibit, “Give Me the Blues: Classic to Contemporary,” at 205 W. Jefferson, and a raft of blues performances from the State Theatre to Clare and Don’s, JV’s Restaurant, and the Dogwood Tavern. Saturday the entertainment begins at 8 a.m. at the Farmer’s Market, and at the Mary Riley Styles Public Library, the F.C. Community Center and, starting at noon, in Cherry Hill Park to 8 p.m. Sunday morning a blues brunch will kick off at the JV’s Restaurant, running from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
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First Lady of Va. Visits Henderson Middle School First Lady of Virginia Dorothy McAuliffe, wife of Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, visited a cooking class at the Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School Wednesday morning to sit in on a cooking competition. Henderson students formed into teams and presented dishes to four judges from various City businesses. Judges included Tori McKinney from Rock Star Realty, Daniel Blumenthal from Elevation Burger, Heather Brushwood from Einstein’s Bagels and David Tax Virginia First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe at Falls Church’s from Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. Mary Ellen Henderson Wednesday morning. (Photo: The City schools’ food service director FCNP) Richard Kane ran the competition in which plantains had to be included. Dorothy McAuliffe has chosen improved childhood nutrition as a major focus of her efforts statewide. She drove up from Richmond for yesterday’s event.
F.C. Council Hails ‘LGBT Pride Month’ A proclamation was read and signed at Monday’s Falls Church City Council meeting by Mayor David Tarter naming the month of June as “LGBT Pride Month” in the City of Falls Church. LGBT, the mayor said, stands for “lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.” The proclamation read in part, “The City of Falls Church has a diverse LGBT community that includes people of all ethnicities, religions and professions and everyone should be able to live without fear of prejudice, discrimination, violence or hatred based on gender identity or sexual orientation.” It urges “all residents to respect and honor our diverse community and celebrate and build a culture of inclusiveness and acceptance.”
Saturday, June 13 ♦
Early Bird Blues – Farmers Market (free) 8 am –noon 300 Park Ave. Friday, June 12 ♦ Hot Licks, Guitar Blues Workshop by Arlen Roth 10:30 am (free) 223 Little Falls St. Curtis Blues, Kick off reception (free) Kids Funny Blues Book Readings, (free) 11:00 am by Jade Jones 5:30-8 PM @ Stifel & Capra, 260 West Broad St. Mary Riley Styles Library 120 N. Virginia Ave. Sponsor : Creative Cauldron A Night of Blazing Boogie Woogie Blues 8:00 pm Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne • Deanna Bogart • Daryl Davis Blues~ BBQ~Brew, Cherry Hill Park, Noon-8:00 pm Tickets: www.eventbrite.com • enter at 223 Little Falls Street • Falls Church, VA The State Theatre • 220 N. Washington St. Falls Church, VA Jimmy Thackery • Selwyn Birchwood • Arlen Roth with Lexie Roth • Shirleta Settles & Friends Tickets: www.thestatetheatre.com Vintage#18 • Blue Steel Blues • Mr. TruWill • Filmfest • Rock Star Realty Beer Garden with Mad Fox Beer & Bogati wines • BBQ by Margarets’ Soul Food, Susie Q, Fisherman Sponsor: Diener & Associates, CPAs Little Bit of Blues (free) 9:00 pm-midnight With Jay Summerour & Warner Williams Applebee's, 127 E Broad St., Falls Church, VA Give Me the Blues: Classic to Contemporary Juried Art Show exhibit (free) Art and Frame of Falls Church, *new address* 205 W. Jefferson St., Falls Church, VA Black Falls Band, JV’s Restaurant 6666 Arlington Boulevard Falls Church, VA Plus live music @ Clare & Don's Beach Shack, Dogwood Tavern
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Blues Brunch & Show 11:00 AM -3:00 PM Admission fee Carly Harvey & Kiss and Ride Lorraines’ famous home cookin’ JV’s Restaurant ♦ 6666 Arlington Boulevard ♦ Falls Church, VA THANK YOU TO OUR GOLD Sponsors: Diener & Assoc., CPAs • Cox Communications Beyer Automotive Group Tori McKinney ROCK STAR Realty Quinn's Auction Galleries • Foxes Music Lincoln Property Company Applebee’s (Potomac Family Dining Group) Falls Church News Press • Foxcraft Design Group Civil Rights Monument
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Major Crimes Down In F.C., Fairfax, Arlington & Alexandria
by Drew Costley
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In March, the Arlington County Police Department reported an overall Part I crime decrease of 8.22 percent in 2014, which resulted in the lowest crime rate Arlington County has had since 1961. Part I crimes, as defined by the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting system, are homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and auto theft. “The historically low crime rate is a true testament to the partnership among the community and Police Department,” said Arlington County Chief of Police M. Douglas Scott in a press release about the historically-low crime rate. “We will continue make these partnerships even stronger as it has made our community safer.” Additionally, Alexandria City has experienced its lowest Part I crime rates since the 1960s over the last three years, despite an increase in Part I crimes from 2012 to 2013. Alexandria City experienced a 9.1 percent decrease in Part I crimes in 2012, an increase of 1.2 percent in 2013 and another decrease, of 0.1 percent in 2014. But these numbers are not unique to those two municipalities. According to data collected by the News-Press from police departments around the region and the U.S. Census Bureau, Part I crimes have actually decreased all throughout the region over the last decade. The News-Press analyzed Part I crime data for its study of crime rates over the last decade, but used a different method than the one the Department of Justice and FBI use in calculating the crime rate. That’s because some of the municipalities analyzed, like Falls Church City, don’t have large enough populations to calculate
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decrease in Part I crimes over the last decade. From 2013 – 2014, the Falls Church City has only experienced increases in two Part I crime categories – auto theft and larceny. There were four more auto thefts and 12 more larceny offenses in Falls Church City last year than in 2013. Mary Gavin, Falls Church City’s Chief of Police, said that the City has more occurrences of theft from auto, which qualify as larcenies, than auto theft, but that the strategies for solving and deterring those crimes are similar. “Most of the time when we have an auto theft or a series of thefts from auto, our detectives will coordinate with all other jurisdictions as to see what the trends are,” she said. “And...the last one that I can
remember, when there was a series of thefts from auto, we had some serious ones that were similar to Fairfax County and Arlington County and what we did was we got a mini-task force together to look at the patterns and the times in which they were happening.” According to Gavin, the task force found that there was a group coming off of the Metro in the middle of the night, coming through the neighborhoods, looking for unlocked cars. She said that they will continue to work with neighboring jurisdictions and educate residents on strategies to prevent auto theft and theft from auto in order to reduce the number of these crimes in the future. In an e-mail to the News-Press, the City’s police department touted an overall decrease of four per-
cent in the number Part I crimes from 2013 – 2014. “Some of it really has to do with the stability of economy,” Gavin said. “If you look at the Part I offenses, they are violent crimes against people. And with people having purpose and employment and not feeling oppressed there may be less crime.” Gavin expanded on her larger view on the contributing factors to the decrease in crime in the City. “It may be that with the unemployment staying pretty steady and/or people getting jobs, some of the crimes may go down, in a bigger picture way,” Gavin said. “And you have a fairly affluent community here, that does not have the same types and rates in some other communities that are right next to us.”
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Community News & Notes F.C. Musician Bobby Joe Small Given Jamboree Send-Off Longtime Falls Church resident and local music icon Bobby Joe Small, who sold his house and is moving to Richmond, was given an honorary jamboree sendoff last Friday at Stifel & Capra at 260 W. Broad Street. Many attended to hear Small play with several local musicians, including Rosser Clark, Andrew Acosta and Harold Richmond, at the jamboree. Bobby Joe and his wife Judy, their family and other friends, and several passers-by enjoyed two hours of roots music.
Summer Reading Program Begins at Mary Riley Styles The summer reading program is set to begin at Mary Riley Styles Public Library at 120 N. Virginia
Avenue on Monday, June 22. The theme of this year’s summer reading program is “Every Hero Has a Story!”. Children of all ages can come to the Youth Services room at the library and sign up for the program, in which readers log the books they read over the summer, with prizes going to readers who successfully complete one of the library’s reading challenges. There will also be an open house kick off for the summer reading program at the library on Wednesday, June 24, from 1 – 5 p.m. in the library’s Youth Services room. There will be glitter tattoos, balloon animals and crafts at the kick off for the program. The last day to sign up for the program is Saturday, August 15, the first day to pick up prizes is Monday, August 17 and the last day to pick up prizes is Wednesday,
September 30. For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/662/ Summer-Reading-Program.
Rain Barrel Art Auction Taking Place Now The City of Falls Church and the Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District are inviting the public to participate in a Rain Barrel Art Auction that ends on Monday, June 15. There are twelve artistic rain barrels, which will be featured at local libraries, schools, community centers and business, that will be auctioned off. Each of the rain barrels has been painted and decorated by local artists and the proceeds go to help benefit the Northern Virginia Rain Barrel Program. The rain barrels hold approximately 50 gallons of water and the bidding in the auction
OVER 150 PEOPLE attended the “visioning” event at Henderson Middle School Saturday morning to offer input on how to develop the nearly 40 acres that was transferred into the hands of the City of Falls Church as part of the deal for the sale of the City’s water system to Fairfax County last year. The majority of the land that is currently home to George Mason High School and Henderson Middle must be used for educational purposes according to the terms of the deal, but 13 acres are available if so desired for commercial development. Saturday’s public “visioning” was the first step in determining how to develop the site. (Photo: News-Press)
starts at $65. For more information or to place a bid, visit biddingowl.com/Auction/home. cfm?auctionID=4877.
McLean Rotary Announces Scholarship Recipients The Rotary Club of McLean selected two students, Sofia Nyaa Mondo and Daniel Felix Propp, to receive $2,000 scholarships and presented them with the awards at the club’s meeting last Tuesday, June 2. The scholarships were awarded based on criteria that included academic excellence, school and community involvement, volunteer work, life experiences, leadership and financial need. Mondo currently attends the Pimmit Adult Education Center, where she has a 3.458 grade point average. In addition to going to school, she is working
as a certified nursing assistant and does volunteer work with senior citizens. When she graduates, she plans to attend Northern Virginia Community College. Her goal is to become a registered nurse. Propp is a senior at Langley High School, where he has 3.63 grade point average. He achieved high scores on the Scholastic Achievement Test. In addition to going to school, he plays baseball and football, has a part-time job and volunteers as a coach for youth travel baseball. He’s won awards in Langley’s science fair, the Russian National Essay Contest and received a Scholar Athlete Award. Propp plans to attend Virginia Tech this fall, is interested in learning about investments and the stock market and plans to run his own business one day. For more information, visit mcleanrotary.org.
THE FCNP’S NICK GATZ chats with Washington Nationals Bench Coach Randy Knorr before presenting the umpires with the Nats’ line up card ahead of their 7-5 win over the Chicago Cubs. He got the opportunity to do that by winning the Washington Nationals’ #VoteNatsArtwork contest. (Photo: Ethan Bruce)
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Rock Spring Garden Club Hosts Garden of Year Awards
Rock Spring Garden Club is sponsoring two events that are coming up this week. This morning at 11 a.m. the club is sponsoring the Arlington 2015 Garden of the Year Awards at Little Falls Presbyterian Church, located at 6025 Little Falls Road, Arlington. The program will include a slideshow of the twelve contenders for the award and there will be a lunch following the ceremony, which cost $5. For more information or to reserve a space, call 703532-1959 or e-mail rockspringgardenclub@gmail.com. The garden club is also cosponsoring a garden tour, flower show and fair with District III Garden Clubs this Saturday, June 13, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Vienna Town Green, located at 144 Maple Ave. E, Vienna, and Freeman Store and Museum, located at 131 Church St. NE, Vienna. There will be a tour of five notable area gardens. The tour cost is $20. For more information or to purchase tickets for the tour, e-mail DIIIgardentour2015@gmail.com.
Matalon Wins at Brazilian JiuJitsu World Championships Maia Matalon, a student at a local martial arts school, won her division at the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Championships, which were held in Long Beach, Calif. at the end of May. Matalon is a student and instructor at Fifty/50 Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu, which is located at 929 W. Broad Street #103 and won the brown belt heavyweight division at the competition. She also tied with Jessica de Silva Oliveira for third place in the brown belt open class division. For more information about Fifty/50 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, visit 5050bjj.com.
FCNP Columnist Charlie Clark Receives AHS Award Charlie Clark, author of the News-Press column “Our Man in Arlington” and the 2014 book Arlington County Chronicles, received the 2015 Cornelia B. Rose Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arlington Historical Society on Friday night at the organization’s annual banquet. The Cornelia B. Rose Award, named after the longtime Arlington historian and author, is the principle award of the society’s annual banquet. Clark in the second honoree to receive the award after it was inaugurated at the society’s 2014 banquet. The banquet, which was held at the Rosslyn Holiday Inn, located at 1900 N. Fort Myer Dr., Arlington, featured Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis as the guest speaker. Jarvis, daughter of the innovative Black physician Dr. Charles R. Drew, was a member of the D.C. City Council for 21 years and president of Southeastern University for 13 years. For more information about the Arlington Historical Society, visit
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One More Page Books Hosts 3 Authors One More Page Books, located at 2200 N. Westmoreland St., Arlington, is hosting three authors over the course of the next week for author talks and signings. Sam Kean will share from his book The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery tonight at 6:30 p.m. On Sunday, June 14, at 2 p.m. local author and blogger Dani DiPirro will visit One More Page to sign copies of her latest book The Positively Present Guide to Life. The aim of the book is provide inspiration for making the most of every moment by providing tips and advice for learning how to live an optimistic, more mindful life. The next day author Tom Coffey will share from his novel Bright Morning Star at 7 p.m. For more information, visit onemorepagebooks.com. Correction: Last week, we published an item in the “Planning Ahead” section saying that the City of Falls Church’s free Concerts in the Park series is scheduled for Saturday, June 13 at Cherry Hill Park. The Concerts in the Park series starts on Thursday, June 25. This Saturday, the Tinner Hill Blues Festival, a paid event, will take place at Cherry Hill Park.
LEGENDARY AIDS ACTIVIST, author and playwright Larry Kramer (left) granted an interview to News-Press owner Nicholas Benton last Sunday on the occasion of the publication of his new book, but he spent most of the time talking about the need for a new activism to counter the stalled efforts at the National Institutes of Health on �inding a cure for AIDS. See Benton’s column on Page 13 of this edition. (P����: S���� ��� S����)
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The Mobilization Error
Every serious presidential candidate has to answer a fundamental strategic question: Do I think I can win by expanding my party’s reach, or do I think I can win by mobilizing my party’s base? Two of the leading Republicans have staked out opposing sides on this issue. Scott Walker is trying to mobilize existing conservative voters. Jeb Bush is trying to expand his party’s reach. The Democratic Party has no debate on this issue. Hillary Clinton has apparently decided to run as the Democratic Scott Walker. As The New York Times’ Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman reported this week, Clinton strategists have decided that, even in the general election, firing up certain Democratic supporters is easier than persuading moderates. Clinton will adopt leftleaning policy positions carefully designed NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE to energize the Obama coalition – AfricanAmericans, Latinos, single women and highly educated progressives. This means dispensing with a broad persuasion campaign. As the Democratic strategist David Plouffe told Martin and Haberman, “If you run a campaign trying to appeal to 60 – 70 percent of the electorate, you’re not going to run a very compelling campaign for the voters you need.” The Clinton advisers are smart, and many of them helped President Barack Obama win the last war, but this sort of a campaign is a mistake. This strategy is bad, first, for the country. America has always had tough partisan politics, but for most of its history, the system worked because it had leaders who could reframe debates, reorganize coalitions, build center-out alliances and reach compromises. Politics is broken today because those sorts of leaders have been replaced by highly polarizing, base-mobilizing politicians who hew to party orthodoxy, ignore the 38 percent of voters who identify as moderates and exacerbate partisanship and gridlock. If Clinton decides to be just another unimaginative basemobilizing politician, she will make our broken politics even worse. Second, this base mobilization strategy is a legislative disaster. If the next president hopes to pass any actual laws, he or she will have to create a bipartisan governing majority. That means building a center-out coalition, winning 60 reliable supporters in the Senate and some sort of majority in the House. If Clinton runs on an orthodox left-leaning, paintby-numbers strategy, she’ll never be able to do this. She’ll live in the White House again, but she won’t be able to do much once she lives there. Third, the mobilization strategy corrodes every candidate’s leadership image. Voters tend to like politicians who lead from a place of conviction, who care more about a cause than winning a demographic. If Clinton seems driven by demographics and microtargeting, she will underline the image some have that she is overly calculating and shrewd. Finally, the base mobilizing strategy isn’t even very good politics. It’s worth noting, to start with, that no recent successful first-term presidential campaign has used this approach. In 1992, Bill Clinton firmly grabbed the center. In 2000, George Bush ran as a uniter, not a divider. In 2008, Obama ran as a One Nation candidate who vowed to transcend partisan divides. The Clinton mobilization strategy is based on the idea that she can generate Obama-level excitement among African-American and young voters. But as Philip Klein documented in The Washington Examiner, Obama was in a league of his own when it came to generating turnout and support from those groups. If Clinton returns to the John Kerry/Al Gore level of AfricanAmerican and youth support, or if Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio can make inroads into the Hispanic vote, then the whole strategy is in peril. The mobilization strategy overreads the progressive shift in the electorate. It’s true that voters have drifted left on social issues. But they have not drifted left on economic and fiscal issues, as the continued unpopularity of Obamacare makes clear. If Clinton comes across as a stereotypical big-spending, big-government Democrat, she will pay a huge cost in the Upper Midwest and the Sun Belt. Furthermore, this strategy vastly exaggerates the supposed death of the swing voter. The mobilizers argue that it’s foolish to go after persuadable voters because in this polarized country there are none left. It’s true there are fewer persuadables, but according to the Pew Research Center, 24 percent of voters have a roughly equal number of conservative and liberal positions, and according to a range of academic studies, about 23 percent of the electorate can be swayed by a compelling campaign. Today’s political consultants have a lot of great tools to turn out reliable voters. They’re capable of creating amazing power points. But as everybody from Ed Miliband to Mark Udall can tell you, this approach has not succeeded at the ballot box. Voters want better politics, not a continuation of the same old techniques. By adopting base mobilization, Clinton seems to have made the first big decision of her presidential campaign. It’s the wrong one.
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Fighting the Derp When it comes to economics – and other subjects, but I’ll focus on what I know best – we live in an age of derp and cheap cynicism. And there are powerful forces behind both tendencies. But those forces can be fought, and the place to start fighting is within yourself. What am I talking about here? “Derp” is a term borrowed from the cartoon “South Park” that has achieved wide currency among people I talk to, because it’s useful shorthand for an all-too-obvious feature of the modern intellectual landscape: people who keep saying the same thing no matter how much evidence accumulates that it’s completely wrong. The quintessential example is fear monNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE gering over inflation. It was, perhaps, forgivable for economists, pundits, and politicians to warn about runaway inflation some years ago, when the Federal Reserve was just beginning its efforts to help a depressed economy. After all, everyone makes bad predictions now and then. But making the same wrong prediction year after year, never acknowledging past errors or considering the possibility that you have the wrong model of how the economy works – well, that’s derp. And there’s a lot of derp out there. Inflation derp, in particular, has become more or less a required position among Republicans. Even economists with solid reputations, whose professional work should have made them skeptical of inflation hysteria, have spent years echoing the paranoia of the goldbugs. And that tells you why derp abides: it’s basically political. It’s an article of faith on the right that any attempt by the government to fight unemployment must lead to disaster, so the faithful must keep predicting disaster no matter how often it fails to materialize. Still, doesn’t everyone do this? No, and that’s where the cheap cynicism comes in. True, the peddlers of politically inspired derp are quick to accuse others of the same sin. For example, right at the beginning of the Obama administration Robert Lucas, a Nobel laureate at the University of Chicago, accused Christina Romer, the administration’s chief economist, of intellectual fraud. Her analysis of fiscal policy, he declared, was just “a very naked rationalization for policies that were already, you know, decided on for other reasons.” In general, anyone practicing some kind of
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Keynesian economics – an approach that, among other things, correctly predicted quiescent inflation and interest rates – is constantly accused of just looking for reasons to expand government. But derp isn’t universal. There’s also plenty of genuine, honest analysis out there – and you don’t have to be a technical expert to tell the difference. I’ve already mentioned one telltale sign of derp: predictions that just keep being repeated no matter how wrong they’ve been in the past. Another sign is the never-changing policy prescription, like the assertion that slashing tax rates on the wealthy, which you advocate all the time, just so happens to also be the perfect response to a financial crisis nobody expected. Yet another is a call for long-term responses to short-term events – for example, a permanent downsizing of government in response to a recession. And here’s the thing: If you look at what Romer and many other Keynesians had to say, none of those telltale signs were present. They advocated deficit spending as a response to a severe downturn, not a universal elixir, and the measures they called for, like infrastructure spending and budget aid to state governments, were designed to be temporary rather than a permanent expansion. So derp isn’t destiny. But how can you – whether you’re a pundit, a policymaker, or just a concerned citizen – protect yourself against derpitude? The first line of defense, I’d argue, is to always be suspicious of people telling you what you want to hear. Thus, if you’re a conservative opposed to a stronger safety net, you should be extra skeptical about claims that health reform is about to crash and burn, especially coming from people who made the same prediction last year and the year before (Obamacare derp runs almost as deep as inflation derp). But if you’re a liberal who believes that we should reduce inequality, you should similarly be cautious about studies purporting to show that inequality is responsible for many of our economic ills, from slow growth to financial instability. Those studies might be correct – the fact is that there’s less derp on America’s left than there is on the right – but you nonetheless need to fight the temptation to let political convenience dictate your beliefs. Fighting the derp can be hard, not least because it can upset friends who want to be reassured in their beliefs. But you should do it anyway: It’s your civic duty.
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AIDS Research Stalled, Larry Kramer Reports
Research into an AIDS cure and vaccine has all but come to a halt at the National Institutes of Health, and the funding arm of the AIDS research effort “is a demoralized, non-functioning mess.” This news, as delivered to me last weekend in an interview with Larry Kramer, the planet’s foremost AIDS activist, will come as a shock to most, and especially to those who care. The public perception is that the AIDS crisis, as horrible as it was, is somehow over, even though all the data show rates of infection are on the rise, especially in African nations, in inner-city ghettos of U.S. urban centers, and among gay men, generally. While means have been found to keep people alive who can afford it, gay people, Kramer lamented, are now being FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS lured by the promise of unprotected sex through the promises of “pre-exposure prophylaxis,” or PrEP, a daily pill an as-yet-uninfected person can take to prevent the HIV virus that causes AIDS from infecting a host. To Kramer, this is utter insanity. “It will just cause more people to get infected because it will encourage unprotected sex,” he lamented to me. “These PrEP versus condom histrionics are evidence of a totally wrong ordering of priorities.” But it has served as one more way that the public is being lulled into accepting the current situation where, in fact, HIV infections and AIDS are on the rise. “Tens of thousands of gay men have died. Millions of people with color,” he said in a letter he wrote to Laurie Garrett, a senior fellow for Global Health at the Council of Foreign Relations, the day after I interviewed him in his Greenwich Village flat adjacent Washington Square. Kramer’s got a new book out, The American People, Vol. 1 The Search for My Heart, which is a novelized form of his history of America and the role of gay people in it. Out this spring, it will soon be followed by a second volume. On top of that, a feature-length HBO documentary, “Larry Kramer in Love and Anger.” being shown at film festivals this month and will be on the tube by the end of it. According to its advance billing, “It is an in-depth ‘warts and all’ portrait of one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary gay America, a political firebrand who gave voice to the outrage and grief that inspired a generation of gay men and lesbians to fight for their lives.” A year ago, an HBO documentary version of Kramer’s play, “The Normal Heart,” written in 1984 when the AIDS crisis was careening toward its horrible depths, won a boatload of Emmys and a Golden Globe. Starring Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts and Jim Parsons, it followed its revival on a Broadway stage two years before that. It was when actor Joel Gray proposed a dramatic reading of the play for a benefit, a Broadway producer showed up and the rest is history. A sequel to “The Normal Heart” is also now in the works. While I went to Kramer’s home to talk about his book, he wanted instead to talk about the immediate crisis in AIDS research. He doesn’t enjoy talking about the past when there is so much that needs doing in the present. The organization he founded in the mid-1980s, ACT UP, a civil disobedience response to the lack of government response to the AIDS epidemic, needs to be revived, Kramer said. “We (gays) are not good at fighting for our rights and for our health,” he said. Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), has openly acknowledged that ACT UP played a major role in getting the medical research effort to take AIDS seriously. Kramer said that he speaks by phone with Fauci and is in a “lovehate” relationship with him. Fauci claims he can’t get the money for AIDS research because of bureaucratic red tape. “I am very sad about all this, but it is getting me fired up again,” Kramer, who will turn 80 this month, told me.
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Nicholas F. Benton
Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.
Black Dads Are Doing Best of All One of the most persistent statistical bludgeons of people who want to blame black people for any injustice or inequity they encounter is this: According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2013 in nearly 72 percent of births to nonHispanic black women, the mothers were unmarried. It has always seemed to me that embedded in the “If only black men would marry the women they have babies with.” rhetoric was a more insidious suggestion: that there is something fundamental, and intrinsic about black men that is flawed, that black fathers are pathologically prone to desertion of their offspring and therefore largely responsible for black community “dysfunction.” There is an astounding amount of mythology loaded into this stereotype, one that echoes a history of efforts to rob black masculinity of honor and fidelity. Josh Levs points this out in his new book, All In, in a chapter titled “How Black Dads Are Doing Best of All (But There’s Still a Crisis).” One fact that Levs quickly estabNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE lishes is that most black fathers in America live with their children: “There are about 2.5 million black fathers living with their children and about 1.7 million living apart from them.” “So then,” you may ask, “how is it that 72 percent of black children are born to single mothers? How can both be true?” Good question. Here are two things to consider: First, there are a growing number of people who live together but don’t marry. Those mothers are still single, even though the child’s father may be in the home. And, as The Washington Post reported last year: “The share of unmarried couples who opted to have ‘shotgun cohabitations’ – moving in together after a pregnancy – surpassed ‘shotgun marriages’ for the first time during the last decade, according to a forthcoming paper from the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” Furthermore, a 2013 CDC report found that black and Hispanic women are far more likely to experience a pregnancy during the first year of cohabitation than white and Asian women. Second, some of these men have children by more than one woman, but they can only live in one home at a time. This phenomenon means that a father can live with some but not all of his children. Levs calls these
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men “serial impregnators,” but I think something more than promiscuity and irresponsibility are at play here. As Forbes reported on Ferguson, Missouri: “An important but unreported indicator of Ferguson’s dilemma is that half of young African-American men are missing from the community. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, while there are 1,182 AfricanAmerican women between the ages of 25 and 34 living in Ferguson, there are only 577 African-American men in this age group. In other words there are more than two young black women for each young black man in Ferguson.” In April, The New York Times extended this line of reporting, pointing out that nationally, there are 1.5 million missing black men. As the paper put it: “Incarceration and early deaths are the overwhelming drivers of the gap. Of the 1.5 million missing black men from 25 to 54 – which demographers call the prime-age years – higher imprisonment rates account for almost 600,000. Almost 1 in 12 black men in this age group are behind bars, compared with 1 in 60 nonblack men in the age group, 1 in 200 black women and 1 in 500 nonblack women.” For context, there are about 8 million AfricanAmerican men in that age group overall. Mass incarceration has disproportionately ensnared young black men, sucking hundreds of thousands of marriage-age men out of the community. Another thing to consider is something that The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates pointed out in 2013: “The drop in the birthrate for unmarried black women is mirrored by an even steeper drop among married black women. Indeed, whereas at one point married black women were having more kids than married white women, they are now having less.” This means that births to unmarried black women are disproportionately represented in the statistics. Now to the mythology of the black male dereliction as dads: While it is true that black parents are less likely to marry before a child is born, it is not true that black fathers suffer a pathology of neglect. In fact, a CDC report issued in December 2013 found that black fathers were the most involved with their children daily, on a number of measures, of any other group of fathers – and in many cases, that was among fathers who didn’t live with their children, as well as those who did. There is no doubt that the 72 percent statistic is real and may even be worrisome, but it represents more than choice. It exists in a social context, one at odds with the corrosive mythology about black fathers.
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News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
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support of their fundraising efforts. Terri has served as the Mason District representative on the Visit Fairfax Board of Directors since 2006. In her spare time, Terri is an advocate for rescue animals, who also can dine at the outside patio of the restaurant with their owners, and has been active in AIDS awareness education and fundraising. Terri’s varied contributions to her community are celebrated by designating her as Mason District’s Lady Fairfax for 2015. Residents can help shape Fairfax County’s future bus network in a series of workshop events this week. The closest workshop to Falls Church will be this afternoon, from 3:30 – 6:30 p.m., at the Seven Corners Transit Center, 6201 Arlington Blvd. (next to Chipotle in the Seven Corners Shopping Center). Recommendations for future bus services were crafted following a public outreach campaign conducted last fall. Transportation staff will be on site at the Transit Center to receive your comments about the recommendations. Transit access is via 1A, 1B, 4A, 4B, and 26A. In addition to Fairfax County efforts, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is conducting a study of the 17 and 18 lines in Fairfax County. This study is linked to the “Connections 2015” effort. More details about this study can be found on line at www.metrobus_studies.com/17_18/lines. For more information about Connections 2015, go to www.fairfaxcounty.gov/ fcdot/connections2015.
Regular readers of this column will recall that, every June, the Board of Supervisors recognizes outstanding community members as a Lord and Lady Fairfax representing each magisterial district. I was pleased to select Martin C. Faga and Terri Fox as this year’s Lord and Lady Fairfax from Mason District. They were honored at a special dinner and awards ceremony last week at the Fairfax County Government Center, as part of the Celebrate Fairfax! events. Marty Faga is a longtime resident of Mason District, and former president/CEO of MITRE Corporation. When he was vice president of MITRE, Marty convinced the company to locate its new campus at Tysons Corner, rather than in Loudoun County. Marty also has decades of civic service in the Seven Corners area, so his business experience and thoughtful approach to issues were put to good use by the Seven Corners Land Use and Transportation Task Force, where he served as a community member. Subsequently, he chaired the Special Working Group for the Sears Site, where he achieved unanimous support for Comprehensive Plan recommendations. Marty’s professional and collaborative leadership is recognized by his selection as Mason District’s 2015 Lord Fairfax. Annandale resident Terri Fox is the owner/ operator of Foxfire Grill in the Pinecrest Shopping Center. For more than 11 years, Terri has worked hard to make Foxfire Grill a small business that gives back to the community. Every first Saturday is “Community Give Back Day,” where 20 percent of the day’s revenue is donated to a local charity. Foxfire is a partner with Food and Friends, and also donates gift cards and food to local schools in
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This year’s primary election includes several significant state and local-level contests that will have real consequences for my constituents in the 38th District, as well as for residents of the City of Falls Church and other residents of Mason District. State Senate Democratic primary contests in Prince William County and in Richmond will impact whether or not control of the Senate shifts back to the Democrats after the resignation of Senator Phil Puckett (D-Russell) a year ago. Democratic control of the Senate would dramatically increase the Governor’s leverage to implement funding priorities for health care, education, transportation and the environment. Locally, the primary election for Mason District Supervisor will likely impact: (1) the scope and content of the Seven Corners redevelopment initiative; (2) funding levels that the Board of Supervisors (BOS) will provide Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) to address the inner county educational challenges; and, (3) quality of life impacts of infrastructure investment (or failures to invest) in transportation. The election results will be known and thoroughly analyzed by the time this column appears, so it would be unwise to speculate on the outcome. I care about the results of the election; but my biggest concern is with the process but not with the outcome. In electoral districts with large majorities from one party or another, primary elections all but determine the outcome for the general election. For example, last year Don Beyer won the Democratic Primary for Virginia’s 8th Congressional District with 17,783 votes, just 46 percent of the 38,800 votes cast. But the 8th District has over 480,000 registered voters. This means that, in effect, 4 percent of the voters in the District determined who would be the next Congressman! That an election with such high stakes is decided by such a small fraction of eligible voters seems very wrong. Similar factors impacted my own entry into politics. In 1999, I was an angry mom and community activist, seven years into a battle with the FCPS Facilities Division over their failure to invest in Mason District schools. The deplorable overcrowding – remember the trailers – and physical condition of the school buildings – think leaky roofs and
routine sewer back-ups – had motivated me and like-minded neighbors to press School Board Members and Supervisors for change. Though firmly under control of Democrats, both the BOS and the School Board failed to recognize or address the extraordinary resource demands placed on FCPS as a result of the rapid demographic transition in older parts of the county. At the time, I saw my June 1999 special election as a crossroads for equitable treatment of students in Mason District, and this theme drove my campaign. However, only 6.3 percent of Mason District’s 46,000+ eligible voters turned out for the election and I was elected with slightly over 4 percent of the total. On one level the explanation for such phenomena is simple arithmetic; but the larger question is why the electorate is willing to tolerate this astonishing mismatch between the ideals of democratic governance and the reality of the process in action. This observation is certainly not a new one, but when this dynamic once again drives a high stakes election that will have serious consequences for many years to come, I think it warrants some reflection. I believe there are two major factors that cause the electorate to be willing to forego their democratic rights/responsibilities. The first is the utter distrust that the vast majority of voters have for virtually all political speech. Distrust, though, is not disbelief. Rather, distrust is a rejection of any fact or assertion – without regard for the evidence – that contradicts a preexisting belief. Such distrust causes potential voters simply to “tune out” during election cycles. The second factor is a phenomenon described by none other than Ronald Reagan as “the soft tyranny of low expectations.” In other words, if election after election, from one party to another, little seems to change for the better, the electorate gets the message: they are not in control. I’m sure that I am overstating the case, but I am equally sure that political participation is diminishing as partisan discord is on the rise. We will not be able to ignore these trends over the long term. 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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The conservative movement has collectively lost its mind. It is out of touch and out to lunch, with the expanding GOP presidential Bozo Bus exacerbating this debilitating condition. Much of this calamity is due to three strategic blunders: 1) Injecting religious extremism into politics; 2) Deciding that conservatives could opt out of the “reality based community” and treat facts as a partisan issue; 3) Selecting “No Facts News” (aka Fox) as the drug of choice for bitter old white men looking to numb the pain of rapid cultural change. Edwin Lyngar writes in Salon about the tragedy of losing his father to the affliction of Fox News addiction. He writes that his dad “lost his mind thanks to his cable diet.” “I’ve read accounts of people my age — 40 or so — losing parents to cancer or Alzheimer’s, but just as big a tragedy are the crops of grandmothers and grandfathers debilitated by Fox News-induced hysteria….Take sweet, kindly senior citizens and feed them a steady stream of demagoguery and repetition, all wrapped in the laughable slogan of “fair and balanced.” We all have relatives who have been tragically lost to this pathology. The Fox News junkie rarely gets information from non-right wing sources. Fox addicts seldom hold a lucid political philosophy, with their views defined by an incoherent grab bag of grudges and grievances. Many appear to see the world through a paranoid lens where everything is a liberal conspiracy. Just a cursory look at the motley crew that serves as this movement’s heroes signifies that something is terribly amiss: The Duggar family, The Duck Dynasty family, Sarah Palin and renegade rancher Cliven Bundy. The insanity seems to intensify by the hour. Earlier this week, talking head case Glenn Beck fancied himself the next Martin Luther King Jr. His great moral crusade is to organize a “Black Robe Regiment” of pastors who are willing to be martyred in the service of denying LGBT people the right to be served in business establishments. “The number in the Black Robe Regiment is about 70,000 now,” Beck said. “The number that I think will walk through a wall of fire, you know, and possible death, is anywhere between 17,000 and 10,000. That is an extraordinary number of people that are willing to lay it all down on the table and willing to go to jail or go to death because they serve God and not man.” Beck’s remarkable ego-trip and tale of Christian persecution is nothing more than a profitable delusion. Contrary to the disinformation from right wing hacks who are trying to rile yahoos, there has never been a church forced to marry a gay couple. As strong civil libertarians who support the First Amendment, LGBT advocates are strongly opposed to such coercion, and that is why it has never been proposed. But that small fact doesn’t stop petty demagogues like Beck from scaring little old ladies into writing him checks to protect them. Furthermore, polls consistently show nearly 60 percent of Americans support marriage equality. C-Fam President, Austin Ruse, wrote an article on Breitbart about a Southern Poverty Law Center lawsuit against the “ex-gay” organization Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality (JONAH). He described JONAH’s founder as “a liberal New York Jew, almost stereotypical” who founded his organization after his son came out as gay. Ruse conveniently failed to point out that Goldberg was a Wall Street con artist who was sent to prison for bilking his clients. Such shoddy work is what often counts as “journalism” in today’s conservative movement. Proving he’s more Catholic than the Pope, presidential hopeful and committed papist, Rick Santorum, had a few choice words for the pontiff. He said that the Pope was not qualified to discuss climate change because he is not a scientist. “I’m saying, what should the pope use his moral authority for?” asked Santorum. “I think there are more pressing problems confronting the earth than climate change.” Gay-hating preacher Franklin Graham announced he would stop doing business with gay friendly Wells Fargo bank because of their pro-gay policies. He switched to BB&T, which unbeknownst to Graham hosted a gay wedding at a Miami LGBT Pride event earlier this year. In a New York Times op-ed, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz wrote that “compared with blue states, red states have roughly 30 percent higher suicide rates and around 20 percent higher rates of major depression.” There are 54 percent more Google searches for psychotherapists in Blue States and 76 percent more psychotherapists. This explains a lot. Clearly, there are too many whackos in the conservative movement in desperate need of professional help. Unfortunately, they are channeling their dysfunction into politics at the expense of this nation.
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Our Man in Arlington By Charlie Clark
The messiness of democracy – that worst form of government except all others – was on display June 2 at Arlington County Civic Federation meeting. Yet the process delivered impressive results for the cause of affordable housing, an issue that divides Arlingtonians geographically, ideologically, tactically. The state of play: The Commonwealth of Virginia requires that Arlington’s master plan include a housing component. The county’s influx of wealthier homebuyers and ambitious developer projects has shrunk the supply of housing attainable to low-income residents from 26 percent of stock in 2000 to 9 percent in 2013. The century-old federation gathered at the Virginia Hospital Center auditorium to debate its housing committee’s resolution that had been 30 months in the making. It was drafted by a task force of county staff and specialists attending 40 meetings, including five public forums. The evening would mark the skilled body’s last chance, a delegate noted, to weigh in before the County Board prepares for a July vote. Occasionally harsh words were exchanged about costs, impact on county services, the possible threat to parks, and which speaker’s day job better qualifies him to steer the debate. The federation’s earnest president Mike McMenamin admitted he was relying on the honor system to verify that all who raised their hands to vote were authentic delegates. As the evening wore on, he had to cut off some microphone
hogs. Pressing for approval of a resolution to reflect Arlington’s “values of diversity, inclusivity, and sustainability” was retired teacher Kathryn Scruggs. The root of the problem, she told me, is that too much of the market-rate lowincome housing or negotiated “committed affordable units” are concentrated in south Arlington. Past housing plans, she said, contained “no tools or strategies” to create better racial, ethnic and geographic distribution of affordable units so scarce north of Route 50. The resolution sets a goal of 17.7 percent affordable housing by 2040, or 15,800 new units done with loans through publicprivate partnerships. Backer Mary Rouleau, executive director of the nonprofit Alliance for Housing Solutions, stressed that the resolution “is a policy document, not a budget or zoning document.” It authorizes no projects without future reviews. Opponents worried the ambitious plan would raise taxes, increase density in single-family neighborhoods, impose changes in land use and shorten public debate. “It overpromises,” said Suzanne Sundburg of the revenues and expenditures committee, calling for impact statements on the environment, the budget and county services. The 17.7 percent target “is very big,” said one delegate. “We’d have to give up services.” Others decried the lack of cost estimates and the resolution’s “meaningless protection for parks.” Green space enthusiasts objected to language promising to protect parks by disfavoring “stand-alone” housing proj-
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CRIME REPORT Week of June 1 - 7, 2015 Robbery, 166-B W. Broad St. (Unity Club) On June 1, police responded to the location for a report of strong arm robbery. Destruction of Property, 201 S. Washington St. (7-Eleven) On June 2, police received a report of a damaged glass door committed by an unknown suspect. Assault, 200 block E. Broad St. On June 3, police received a report of a fight that had just occurred. After an investigation, a male, of the City of
Falls Church, was arrested for Assault. Trespass, 6763 Wilson Blvd. (Eden Center) On June 5, a male, 44, of Falls Church, was arrested and released on summons for Trespassing. Public Drunkenness, 400 block W.
JUNE 11 - 17, 2015 | PAGE 17 ects, calling it a loophole. Some charged the plan would attract an influx of needy residents. Anticipating resistance, supporters met two days earlier with federation leaders and gave some ground. They added language citing a need for more information on impact on nearby schools, along with a strategy for achieving wider geographic distribution. The new conditions make it clear that the county should delay implementation to allow more discussion and community input. Proposed wording changes to reflect the opponents’ objections all failed, though by only a handful of votes. The overall resolution of approval passed 47-29. Word is the county board takes the federation’s resolutions seriously – unless things get messy. *** I supped June 3 at the annual Better Sports Club of Arlington banquet, an intergenerational celebration of youth athletic prowess to which the hosts add praise for academic achievements and revive some local sports nostalgia. Keynote speaker was former National Football League star Eric Sievers (Washington-Lee High, ’75), who played tight end for the San Diego Chargers. In a surprisingly disarming manner, he described growing up with five sisters near Mt. Olivet Church, riding his bike in Waverly Hills, attending Stratford Jr. High, caddying at Washington Golf and working at Donaldson Run pool Sievers’ father was too busy serving in Vietnam to teach him sports, he said, so he took what he was given naturally and learned from peers and coaches, overcoming insecurities at each step of the way. His main message: “Let your actions do your talking.” Broad St. On June 6, a male, 55, no fixed address, was arrested for Public Drunkenness. Driving Under the Influence, 300 block E. Annandale Rd. On June 7, an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a male, 28, of Columbia, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence. Smoking Violation, 6779 Wilson Blvd. (Café Vy) On June 7, a male, 50, of Annandale, was cited for Smoking In a Non-Designated Area.
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B������� N��� � N���� Saslaw, Simon to Present ‘Richmond Report’ at F.C. Chamber Luncheon Virginia Senator Dick Saslaw (D, 35th District) and Delegate Marcus Simon (D, 53rd District) will present their annual Richmond Report at the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce’s Networking Luncheon on Tuesday, June 16 from 11:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. at the Italian Café, 7161 Lee Highway, Falls Church. The event is open to the general public. Tickets with advanced registration are $27 for Chamber members and $32 for nonmembers. An additional $5 will be charged for walk-ins should space be available. For more information, visit www.FallsChurchChamber.org.
NOVA Annandale Offering Info on Associate Degree Evening Classes Employers may be interested to learn that the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College is offering a series of informational sessions about its specialized degree programs designed for busy adults that allow employees to earn an associate degree by taking classes in the evenings, only on Fridays, or only on the weekends. The sessions are scheduled for June 19, July 16 and August 5 with an open house scheduled for August 21. For more information, visit www.nvcc.edu/an/evening.
Functional Fitness Grand Opening, Fundraiser Set for June 20 Functional Fitness is hosting a grand opening and fundraiser for breast cancer in its new space at 350 S. Washington Street in Falls Church on Saturday, June 20 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. In addition to refreshments and in exchange for a donation, attendees can participate in a “Press-off” competition with weight categories to fit everyone and prizes for the top five in each category, see a foam rolling demonstration and take class with Scott Bradley, LMT of Recovery Room, and watch a small self-defense demonstration from Krav Works/ the Fighters Garage. For more information, visit www.functionalfitnessva.com.
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Local resident Sheila Scholl has opened Renters Warehouse, a residential property management business, in Falls Church. Renter’s Warehouse, the nation’s fastest growing, highest-reviewed property management company has received numerous awards including 10 Business Stevie Awards both internationally and stateside. Renter’s Warehouse team of Professional Landlords helps homeowners lease and manage their residential real estate. Scholl, who relocated to the area from Minnesota, has been a Real estate broker since 2007 and is now focusing on Virginia real estate, tenant placement, and property management. For more information, call 571-354-7707 or visit www.renterswarehouse.com/washington-dc.
F.C. Accounting Firm Will Now Offer IT Support Halt, Buzas and Powell, Ltd., the 40-year-old full-service accounting firm, has announced that it will now offer managed IT support as a part of its services to businesses and nonprofit organizations in the Washington, D.C. area. The newest service area, led by Donovan Brock, Director of Managed IT Services, will include outsourced help desk support, system monitoring, server implementation, and internal network design. With the firm since May 2014, Brock has more than 15 years’ of experience participating in the planning and implementation of information security solutions implementing a broad range of initiatives in direct support of business objectives for industries varying from small businesses to nonprofits. His areas of expertise include management consulting, hardware troubleshooting, building computers, software operations, programming, and network design. For more information, visit www.cpas4you.com. Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@fallschurchchamber.org.
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over the years have been the bad weather, competing with other festivals for performers, finding funders and sponsorship for the event and getting people to pay for the festival in recent years who remember when the festival was free. One of the ways the organizers of the festival have overcome that last challenge was to constantly reinvent the event, which has grown from a one-day to a three-day affair. “We’ve constantly had to do assessments of what worked, what didn’t work and to create new ways of what we are doing every year,” Ed Henderson said. “In the beginning it was more of a family affair, a community event, and then with the preservation work it grew and grew.” In recent years, planning for the event typically starts eight months in advance, the Hendersons said, and 60 to 85 volunteers work the festival, way up from “a dedicated
few” who helped put on the festival its early years. The caliber and notoriety of the musicians booked to play the festival has also changed over the years. A recent favorite of Nikki Graves Henderson was in 2009 when Chuck Brown and Bobby Parker performed the blues. “We focused on professionalizing the festival and being more consistent with the caliber of the musicians that we book,” she said. “In the beginning we tried to use mostly local musicians, but realized that there was a niche for national musicians because local musicians, you can see them anytime. Any weekend, any day of the week you can go to different parts of the city or region and see somebody. But the big draw became having someone who you can’t normally see all the time.” Nikki Graves Henderson said that there is still a “cross-pollination” of artists each year, with shows exhibiting Falls Church’s
local blues musicians along with national artists. Because, despite its national and international appeal, this is a local event with economic benefit for the City. “It’s about the community, but it’s also larger than the community,” Ed Henderson said. “The festival is about the blues, it’s about music, it’s about culture, it’s about history and I think that by having the festival it helps to expose people to that culture and to that history, but also to the significant role that African-Americans have played in Falls Church.” Nikki Henderson added: “When we made the decision to reinvent the street festival into a blues festival, we had a bigger goal in mind. The bigger goal was to make Falls Church a destination, a weekend destination that would draw people from all across the region and nation to Falls Church for the weekend. It’s an economic driver. Most people don’t realise that. That the arts really are an economic driver.”
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2015 TINNER HILL FESTIVAL SCHEDULE Friday, June 12 5:30 p.m. Opening Reception ft. Curtis Blues (Stifel & Capra, 260 W. Broad St.) 7 p.m. Blazing Boogie Woogie Blues ft. Deanna Bogart, Kenny ‘Blues Boss’ Wayne, Daryl Davis (The State Theatre, 220 N. Washington St.) 7 p.m. Beach Shack Swing Jazz (Clare & Don’s Beach Shack, 130 N. Washington St.) 9 p.m. A Little Bit of Blues ft. Jay Summerour and Warner Williams (Applebee’s, 127 E. Broad St.) 9 p.m. Black Falls Band (JV’s Restaurant, 8666 Arlington Blvd.) 10:30 p.m. Jeff Lefler (Dogwood Tavern, 132 W. Broad St.)
Saturday, June 13 All Day - Old Dominion Songsters: Traditional Blues in Virginia Exhibit, Foxes Music Instrument Petting Zoo and Music for Life (Cherry Hill Park, 312 Park Ave.) 8 a.m. Early Bird Blues (F.C. Farmers Market, 300 Park Ave.) 10:30 a.m. Hot Licks Blues Guitar Workshop with Arlen Roth (Community Center, 223 Little Falls St.) 11:30 a.m. Book Reading and Sing Along with Jade Jones (Mary Riley Styles Library, 120 N. Virginia Ave.) 11 a.m. Mini Film Fest featuring “John Jackson: a Blues Treasure” and “E.B. Henderson” (Community Center, 223 Little Falls St.) Noon Blue, Brew & BBQ ft. Blue Steele Blues (12:15 p.m.), Vintage #18 (1:15), Dear Editor Contest Winners Presentation, (2:15), Shirleta Settles & Friends (2:30), Arlen Roth with Lexie Roth (3:45), Selwyn Birchwood, Jimmy Thackery & the Drivers (6:45) (Cherry Hill Park, 312 Park Ave.) 7 p.m. CP Blues (Clare & Don’s Beach Shack, 130 N. Washington St.) 10:30 p.m. Judge Smith Duo (Dogwood Tavern, 132 W. Broad St.)
Sunday, June 14 11 a.m. Blues Brunch ft. Carly Harvey & Kiss and Ride (JV’s Restaurant, 8666 Arlington Blvd.) For more information and tickets to events, visit tinnerhill.org/blues-festival
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Community Events
THURSDAY, JUNE 11
Story Time Yoga. Come for stories, stretching and simply yoga poses. Bring a mat or towel and wear comfortable clothes. Age 4-8. Burke Centre Library (5935 Freds Oak Road, Burke, VA 22015). Free. 4:30 p.m. Book Group Discussion. Discussion of The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am by Kjersti Skomvold. Mary Riley Styles Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7:30 p.m. mrsplbookgroup.blogspot.com
FRIDAY, JUNE 12
A Night of Blazing Boogie Woogie. Deanna Bogart, Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne and Daryl Davis feature as part of the Tinner Hill Blues Festival. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $24. 7 p.m. thestatetheatre.com. Busy, Buzzing Bees. Discover the world of bees and the important job they do. Buzz on down and join us. Age 3-5. Long Branch Nature Center (625 S Carlin Springs Rd., Arlington, VA 22204) $5. 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 703-228-6535. Line Dance Festival. Learn some new moves with lessons from Lee’s award winning line dance team. Lee Community & Senior Center
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and Park (5722 Lee Highway, Arlington, VA 22207). 12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. 703-228-0555.
SATURDAY, JUNE 13
Tinner Hills Blues Festival. A blues festival brought to you by the Tinner Hill Foundation. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave. Falls Church, VA 22046) 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. 703-241-4109. F.C. Farmers’ Market. Vendors offer fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables, cheeses, meats, baked goods, plants, and wine. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 8 a.m. – noon. 703248-5077. Concert. Tom Chapin performs a show. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave., Vienna, Virginia). $15, 11:00 a.m. Tinner Hill Blues Festival – Storytime. Two very funny children’s books that families will enjoy – Ruby Sings the Blues and Bessie Smith and the Night Riders. Mary Riley Styles Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 703-248-5034. Creative Writers Club. Join us for sharing, discussion and feedback of works in progress of fiction, poetry, non-fiction and/or memoirs. Age 13-18. Burke Centre
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Library (5935 Freds Oak Road, Burke, VA 22015). 2:00 p.m. Washington Sinfonietta Romantic Extravaganza. The final concert of the season. The Falls Church Episcopal Church (115 E. Fairfax Street, Falls Church, VA 22046) $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, Free for children. 7:30 p.m. washington-sinfonietta.org
SUNDAY, JUNE 14
Blues Brunch. Carley Harvey & Kiss and Ride perform at the concluding event of the Tinner Hill Blues Festival. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). $10. 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. jvsrestaurant.com. Second Sundays – Remove Invasive Plants! Join us as we keep the park free of destructive invasive plants. Work parties are making a real difference. Gulf Branch Nature Center & Park (3608 Military Rd., Arlington, VA 22207). 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. 703-228-3403.
MONDAY, JUNE 15
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Band Concert. Join the TJ band students in their yearend performance. TJ Gymnasium (3501 2nd St. S, Arlington, VA 22204). 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. waylandth@gmail.com One-on-one English Practice.
Practice speaking, reading and writing English with a volunteer partner. Age 8 through adult welcome. Burke Centre Library (5935 Freds Oak Rd., Burke, VA 22015). 6:45 p.m. 703-247-1520
TUESDAY, JUNE 16
The Cloud and Useful Tech Apps. Learn the basic concepts of cloud services and how they benefit you. Walter Reed Community Center & Park. (2909 16th St. S, Arlington, VA 22204). 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. 703-228-0955. Birding Shenandoah National Park. Adults, join us on an excursion to the mountains in search of nesting songbirds at Shenandoah National Park. Dress for the weather and bring binoculars, a bag lunch, a drink and snacks for the day. Meet at Lubber Run Center Parking Lot (300 N. Park Dr., Arlington, VA 22203). Registration Required. $45. 7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. 703228-6536.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17
Benefits of Acupuncture. Rebecca Reynolds will introduce the art of acupuncture and how it could be beneficial. Aurora Hills Community & Senior Center (735 18th St. S, Arlington, VA 22202). 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. 703-2285722.
Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, JUNE 11
“The Glass Mendacity.” This new Providence Players production, written by Maureen Morley and Tom Willworth, is a comedy combining some of Tennessee Williams’ most popular southern dramas, like “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “The Glass Menagerie” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” It’s Big Daddy’s birthday and the entire blended family have gathered at Belle Reve to celebrate with sweet tea, cheese balls, playing card games and brutish, unfettered, southern charm. Through June 13. James Lee Community Center (2855 Annandale Road, Falls Church). $17 – $20. 7:30 p.m. providenceplayers.org.
FRIDAY, JUNE 12
“The Little Prince.” This rendition of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s poetic tale is being produced
by special arrangement with The Dramatic Publishing Company and is sponsored by 2E Consults. The Learning Theatre will tell the story of a world-weary aviator who gets stranded in the Sahara Desert. A small boy from another planet arrives and begins to share his stories about his adventures through the galaxy and his relationship with a special �lower. Through June 21. Creative Cauldron (410 S. Maple Ave., Falls Church). $13 – $15. 7:30 p.m. creativecauldron.org.
“A Tale of Two Cities.” What happens if you put together an aspiring drag queen and a crying baby? Find out when Synetic Theater member Alex Mills stars in “A Tale of Two Cities,” directed by Serge Seiden. Originally performed Off-Broadway, this irreverent comedy tells the story of a drag queen named Jerry who �inds a baby at his door. To calm the child down, he
enacts the entirety of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities – playing all the characters himself. Through June 21. Synetic Theater (1800 S. Bell St., Arlington). $20 – $95. synetictheater.org.
SATURDAY, JUNE 13
“Cabaret.” Willkommen to the Kit Kat Club, the hottest nightclub in seedy, prewar Berlin; here, life is beautiful. American writer Cliff Bradshaw travels to Berlin searching for inspiration. He �inds it in English club performer Sally Bowles and they begin a torrid affair. However, outside their door, the Nazis’ impending rise to power heralds a brutal end to their decadent way of life. This production stars Wesley Taylor of NBC’s “Smash” as The Emcee and Barrett Wilbert Weed as Sally Bowles. Through June 28. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington). $36.80 – $96.25. 8 p.m. signature-theatre.org.
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live_music&nightlife THURSDAY, JUNE 11 L���� B�������. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 7 p.m. 703-532-9283. U���� ��� R����� B�����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12. 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. A���� ���� A���������� ��� A�� D����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 8 p.m. 202265-0930. R������ G�������� ��������� J���� C���. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.) $25. 8 p.m. 202-337-4141. P��P�� T������ C�. ���� Y�� W��’�. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566. T�����������. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. T���� S����. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-237-8333.
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A� E������ ���� T�� C�����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. B��� K������ � T�� M��� F�� ���� T�� N���������. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $29.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. W��’� B��: T�� W����’� #1 M������ J������ T������ B���. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 8 p.m. 202-265-0930. N������� P����� T���. Bohemian
Caverns (2001 11th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $28 in advance. $33 at the door. 8 p.m. 202-2990800. “W���� A�” Y�������. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $40 – $65. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. D����� B�����, D���� D���� ��� K���� “B���� B���” W����. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $24 in advance. $29 on the day of show. 8 p.m. 703237-0300. B���� F���� B��� … 9PM R��� ��� R��� ��� ����. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. B���� R�� P���� P����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10. 9:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. J��� L�����. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703237-8333. P���� N���� ���� S������. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 10:30 p.m. 703-532-9283.
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CP B����. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 7 p.m. 703-532-9283. B���� J�� S����� ���� C����� M�M�����. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $29.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. O� ��� B�� ��� E�����. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $15. 9 p.m. 703-522-8340.
M����� B���. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $22 in advance. $25 on day of show. 9 p.m. 703-237-0300. B��� R������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12. 9:30 p.m. 202-66 7-7960. D��� C�� B�����. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. J���� S���� D��. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. T�� L���� L��� S���: M��� S���� C����� S�������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $5. 10:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. M������ P���� P����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15. 11 p.m. 202-265-0930.
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$5. 9 p.m. 703-525-8646.
MONDAY, JUNE 15
U������ M����� O�������� ���� A��� G. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $17. 7 p.m. 202-588-1889. J��� R����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. G���� R������ R������ S��� ���� D���� M�����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. E�������� C��� ���� R��� F����. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $25. 7:30 p.m. 703-5497500. B������� B���. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). Free. 8 p.m. 703-522-8340. T���� W�� ���� B������ H������. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m. 703-525-8646.
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D���� G��� ��� A��� L��. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $25 – $55. 7 p.m. 703-255-1900. R������ T������� E������� T��� ���� R����� E����. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $59.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. S����� M�� ���� M������������ ��� C������ G����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. S���� H����� ��� J��� W�����. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504.
P������� A����... Thursday, June 25 – Concerts in the Park. Bring a blanket and picnic dinner and sit back, relax and enjoy live entertainment from local musicians and artists in
this kick off edition of Summer concert series. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m.
Saturday, June 27 – Farmers’ Market Chef Series Demo. Television host, author and chef Nathan Lyon, who’s an area native, will demo a recipe and answer
questions about how to modify it. City Hall (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Saturday, June 27 – Fairytales and Superheroes at the Library. Children rising to kindergarten – second grades can make costumes and role-play as their
favorite fairytale characters and superheroes or make up their own and enjoy for them during an imaginative playtime. Registration is required and will open June 13. Sign-up at the Youth Services desk or by phone. Mary Riley Styles Public Styles Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 2 – 3:30 p.m. 703-248-5034.
C������� S���������� Be sure to include time, location, cost of admission, contact person and any other pertinent information. Event listings will be edited for content and space limitations. Please include any photos or artwork with submissions. Deadline is Monday at noon for the current week’s edition.
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Pita Pouch Opens, Poised to Rival Other Mediterranean Fast-Casual Spots by Drew Costley
Falls Church News-Press
Pita Pouch opened in midApril, in the storefront in Falls Plaza formerly occupied by Bagel, Deli, Donuts. The Mediterranean fast-casual restaurant, which is owned by the same team that operates Burger 7 and Tarbouch, held a grand opening last night.
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1112 W. Broad St. Falls Church 703-534-5300 pitapouch.com Hours: Monday - Sunday: 11:30 a.m. - 9 p.m. Although the place is fast casual, the decor of the eatery – with marble floors and chandeliers – gives it a slightly upscale feel. And there are clear plastic seats at Pita Pouch’s dining tables, which aren’t the most comfortable, but they are unique. And they look pretty. The restaurant has a simple menu. Diners can choose to have either falafel or a chicken or
steak shawarma. Then diners can choose to have their meal in either a pita ($7.29) or a bowl ($8.29). This business model would only slightly resemble Amsterdam Falafelshop if it weren’t for the fact that Pita Pouch also has an unlimited topping bar, which includes onion relish, pickled cucumber, roasted cauliflower, hummus and baba ghanoush. And it would be an Amsterdam Falafelshop rip off, if it weren’t for the fact that it serves chicken and steak as well as falafel. Also, the pita bread that Pita Pouch uses for its pouches is leagues better than at Amsterdam Falafelshop. And just as a good sandwich starts with good bread, so do pitas. Pita Pouch’s pitas have a pillowy, soft texture without being too chewy and hearty without outshining the ingredients inside or being too filling. The falafel at Pita Pouch is also above par. It’s not too crispy, but not undercooked and is earthy and sweet. A News-Press employee went to Pita Pouch a few weeks ago and reported back that the steak in the steak shawarma was good, but a little dry, and also said that he
went towards the end of the day when the steak on the shawarma machine was dwindling down. He said he still wants to try the chicken shawarma and recommends that diners interested in getting either steak shawarma – which is cooked on a broiler that cuts the meat off itself – get there early, while the steak is still girthy. The chicken shawarma is cooked on the same type of broiler as the steak, which is a novelty to those who haven’t seen it before. Also, Pita Pouch is not stingy with its ingredients. They fill up the pouch with the brim with whatever protein diners select and layers the toppings as to not isolate any of the ingredients from one another. The restaurant also freely offers harissa and olive oil for diners to top their pitas or bowls with. The harissa is extra spicy, but not so much as to ruin the experience of the rest of the meal. The restaurant also offers three kinds of cookies for dessert – pistachio, dates and coconut for $2.49 each. Each of the cookies has one of the aforementioned ingredients baked into it and topping it. The same News-Press employee
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PITA POUCH’S FALAFEL PITA beats Amsterdam Falafelshop’s falafel pita any day of the week. (Photo: News-Press) who had the steak shawarma also topped off his meal with a pistachio cookie. He said he really liked it and that it was just the right amount of sweetness, nothing cloying. To him, it was the perfect end cap to a meat-filled pita. And Pita Pouch has several canned and bottled beverages, along with three flavors of lem-
onade, to help diners wash down their hearty pitas and pita bowls. The pomegranate lemonade ($2.49) is refreshing and sweet. The company has plans on expanding Pita Pouch to Tysons Corner this August. With its stripped-down menu, frilly, but laid-back vibe, Pita Pouch will be packing them in for years to come.
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Plaka Grill Opening to Public Monday in Falls Church It’s been a long time coming but Plaka Grill is finally ready to open its doors in the City of Falls Church on Monday. The opening of the restaurant had been hit with numerous delays but Plaka’s Cathy Drosos told the News-Press that after a successful health department inspection Monday, they’re all set for business. There will be a couple of soft openings this week for family, friends and City officials and then on Monday, June 15, at 11 a.m., the doors will open to everyone. The F.C. Plaka Grill, at 513 West Broad Street, will be the second location of the Greek cafe. The original Plaka, known for its specialties including wraps, souvlaki, soups, salads and the option to “Plakastyle” any gyro by adding french fries to the mix, first opened in 2007 on Lawyers Road in Vienna. Plaka Grill 513 West Broad St. | Falls Church plakagrill.com
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Taco Bamba’s Albisu Wins Chef of the Year at RAMMYs
VICTOR ALBISU (second from right) at the 2015 RAMMY Awards held Sunday. (Photo: Chris Burch)
Victor Albisu was the big winner at the 33rd RAMMY Awards held Sunday night in Washington, D.C., earning the coveted Chef of the Year award for his work at Del Campo in the District and Falls Church’s own Taco Bamba. The annual gala held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center by
the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington presented awards to winners in 21 categories celebrating the D.C.-area’s hospitality industry. Albisu opened Taco Bamba in a small strip mall next to his mother’s supermarket at 2190 Pimmit Drive in the summer of 2013 and the Falls Church taqueria, known for its tacos, sopes and giant tortas, has since become a neighborhood favorite, drawing crowds daily for both lunch and dinner. F.C.’s Mad Fox Brewing Company, another 2015 RAMMY finalist, was nominated in the Best Beer Program category for the second consecutive year but lost out to winner Pizzeria Paradiso of Georgetown. And in other Falls Church-area RAMMY news, DGS Delicatessen, slated to open next week in Mosaic District, took home the award for best Everyday Casual Restaurant for its Dupont Circle location.
Open Road to Debut New Whiskey Menu for Bourbon Day Last week it was doughnuts and this week it’s booze. Any excuse for a party, right? In recognition of National Bourbon Day this Sunday, Merrifield’s Open Road Grill & Icehouse is launching a new whiskey menu to celebrate the spirit. Debuting this weekend, drinks on the
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new menu of whiskey (with and without the “e”), Scotch, rye, bourbon range from several $9 options all the way up to $90 for some 20-year old Pappy Van Winkle. Also, FYI, September is National Bourbon Heritage Month so don’t go too crazy this Sunday. Open Road Grill & Icehouse 8100 Lee Highway | Falls Church openroadmerrifield.com
Bastille’s Christophe & Michelle Poteaux Star in F.C. Chef Demo The Falls Church Farmers Market Chef series continues this Saturday featuring Christophe and Michelle Poteaux of Bastille. The husband-and-wife duo, owners of the recently-reopened French brasserie and wine bar in Alexandria, will create seasonal desserts using ingredients from many of the farmers market vendors, complete with tastings available for attendees. The Farmer Market Chef demonstration runs from 9 – 11 a.m. this Saturday. June 13, at the Falls Church Farmers Market. Falls Church Farmers Market 300 Park Avenue | Falls Church fallschurchva.gov/farmersmarket – Jody Fellows
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Owner’s Spirit Still Watching Over LaCote D’Or Restaurant by Al Eisele
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It’s still a great restaurant but La Cote D’Or won’t be the same without Raymond Campet. Campet, 65, who founded the Falls Church French restaurant with his wife Lynne in 1992, died May 26 of cancer that was undetected until shortly before his death. Campet, a native of Vichy France, prided himself on never seeing a doctor, and it was only after working out at a fitness center to cure what he thought was bursitis, that his pain persisted and his wife convinced him to see her doctor. Tragically, a blood test revealed inoperable cancer that had spread throughout his body and led to kidney failure. As his wife told one of my friends, it was too late for dialysis or aggressive chemo therapy. “It was an awful Catch 22,” my friend said. La Cote D’Or has been one of my favorite restaurants since the Campets sold their interest in a popular Capitol Hill restaurant they had run since 1979 and prepared to sell their Falls Church home and move to Florida where Raymond had accepted a job as manager of a resort hotel. But when they were offered $150,000 less than their asking price because an economic slowdown had depressed real estate prices, they decided to stay put and find another restaurant to run. That’s when they pulled off Interstate 66 while on their way to a Capital Hill reception, and saw a “for lease” sign on a recently closed Italian restaurant across from the Falls Church Fire Department. The next day they returned to inspect the property and two weeks later, signed a lease. Utilizing contacts he made as maitre’d at the French Embassy and as manager of La Brasserie and another French restaurant in Georgetown, Campet persuaded suppliers to renovate the space in two weeks instead of six. Naming their restaurant after the Burgundy region where Campet’s mother was born, the couple designed a logo depicting a red rooster and blue fish, ordered fresh flowers and opened on Nov. 6, 1992. On the first night, next door neighbors arrived for dinner with 40 people, and since then, the
RAYMOND CAMPET and wife Lynne at one of La Cote D’Or’s many Bastille Day celebrations. (Photo: La Cote D’Or/Facebook) seven-day-a-week restaurant has seldom lacked enthusiastic customers, me among them. In addition to excellent cuisine, I enjoyed testing my rudimentary French on the personable Martin, who still spoke with a strong French accent. (I learned to say ‘Bonsoir’ when arriving for dinner, ‘Bonne nuit’ when leaving.) Diners could view spectacular sunsets to the west from the main dining room and bar and adjacent sunroom alongWestmoreland Street, the dividing line between Arlington and Falls Church. Raymond added a breakfast space and separate dining room for private parties in 1996 but recently closed them. The restaurant was initially a family operation, with Raymond overseeing the kitchen and finding the best fresh produce and Lynne running the front, while their three children also helped out, before deciding they didn’t want to follow in their parents’ footsteps. “The restaurant business is like being in the Army,” Raymond said at the time, “It’s discipline. You’ve got to be ready for the show every day.” In 2002, ten years after La Cote d’Or opened, I reviewed it for The Hill, the Capitol Hill newspaper I was editing at the time, and praised it in a full-page review that Raymond framed and kept in his office. The menu included classic French fare, including escargot, Dover sole meuniere, rack of lamb Bordelaise, steak frite and tarte tatin, but also dishes that reflected his Basque heritage such as sea bream named after his father’s
hometown in the Pyrenees. Although the wine list was dominated by French wines, my wife and I enjoyed a bottle of the Raymond Amberhill chardonnay, one of four Napa Valley wines on the list. Campet admitted it was a bit of a gimmick because the wine bears his name, but it’s as good as any of its French cousins. Sadly but inevitably, prices for both food and wine have increased by about a third in recent years. As Raymond’s obituary noted, he took great pleasure in directing an annual waiters’ race on Bastille Day, giving the winner a trip to Paris, while the Campets hosted many benefit dinners for schools, churches and charities. I’ve been back many times since my first visit, sometimes for a drink at the bar and chat with some of its 30 employes, many from El Salvador who have worked there for 20 years, and sometimes it was to treat out-oftown guests or attend anniversary celebrations. Like most dining out guides and online reviewers, I almost always came away proclaiming “Magnifique!” La Cote d’Or was closed last Wednesday because of Raymond’s funeral at St. James Catholic Church. But I took my wife for dinner on Thursday and offered condolences to Lynne, a Washington native who met Martin while on vacation in Paris. She assured us she intends to continue operating one of the Washington area’s finest French restaurants, knowing that Raymond “is watching us overall.”
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Award-winning blues singer, pianist and saxophonist Deanna Bogart is returning to the region where she started her career to play at the Boogie Woogie Blues Blast, which kicks off the Tinner Hill Blues Festival this Friday at the State Theatre. “[It feels] wonderful, like home,” said Bogart, who moved out of the area last year. “I get to come home to my other home for a little bit. It’s a wonderful feeling.” Bogart has played at the Tinner Hill Blues Festival several times in the past and has also enjoyed the festival from an attendee perspective. She said she’s always enjoyed the festival. “I like the vibe of it. I like the organic purity of the people who keep that festival going and living. It’s a labor of love,” she said. “I’ve had some wonderful musical moments there…and I’ve just gone to hang out, so it’s just a really cool festival for the right reasons. It really wants to honor the blues and I have a lot of respect for that.” One of the musical moments that Bogart talked about in her interview with the NewsPress was when in 2013 she played alongside Sista Monica Parker, who passed away this year. “She was a good friend of mine for a long time,” Bogart said. “It was before I moved and she asked if I was around and if I would do a show with her. And it was just a blast and it was special to play with her anyway, but to do it there where it was so comfortable and the crowd loved it and she was great…. It was one of the last times we played together so I’m glad to have that.” Also, Bogart, a road musician, said that she doesn’t get the chance to take in a musical event as a spectator, so it was a treat to be able to do it at the Tinner Hill Blues Festival. “I don’t often get to sit in a pair of shorts
DEANNA BOGART (P����: C������� �� B���� B������) and just listen because usually I’m playing,” she said. “But the times that I have.I really like [Cherry Hill Park], and it’s really easy to get to and I like the food and drink and the sound is great and it’s an intimate setting. And people are real relaxed. They can dance, eat or drink or just lay low. It’s nice. Very comfy atmosphere.” Bogart and her band are on the bill with Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne and Daryl Davis. She said that she, and the fans, should expect to have an experience that can’t be duplicated. “[Wayne and Davis] are truly great and knowledgeable about the boogie woogie history and idiom and I come from a boogie woogie background as well,” Bogart said. “So that usually means that everybody will
play and do their thing and maybe we’ll crosspollinate and end up playing together and there might six or eight hands on a piano, you never know. “And with those kinds of folks, knowing them as I do, it’s going to be all about what moments are created on the spot when the spirit moves ya. I know Daryl’s going to play a set with his band. I think that he’s going to play with Kenny’s band and then we’ll do a set…. And who knows what will happen at the end…. [But] the audience will be a part of that. It will be unique to that night.” • For more information about Deanna Bogart, visit deannabogart.com.
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Mason Girls Soccer Wins Regional Championship by Liz Lizama
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The George Mason High School varsity girls soccer team eliminated Goochland High School in the Region 2A East tournament semifinal in Friday’s 9-1 win to advance to Tuesday’s regional final against Maggie Walker’s Governor’s School. Mason’s Mustangs defended their 2A East title against the Maggie Walker Green Dragons in a 4-0 shutout. Inclement weather and field conditions at Goochland postponed the semifinal game for two days, but both teams finally met on Friday. “The team was very eager to finally play the game on Friday night, and that was evident in their urgency on the field,” said Mason head coach Jennifer Parsons. Junior forward/midfielder Corinne Carson pushed the Mustangs ahead early in the game with three consecutive goals in the first half. Mason widened that lead to 6-0 by halftime before Goochland scored a long-range goal in the second half. Carson led in scoring with four goals and two assists for the night. Senior forward/midfielder Ava Roth followed with three goals and three assists. Freshman forward/midfielder Victoria Rund and junior defender Annie Washa contributed one goal apiece. Mason’s performance on the
field Friday proved to be unstoppable as they advanced to the regional final. “Our quick speed of play and movement off of the ball made it very difficult for Goochland to defend us,” said Parsons. “We created a lot of goal-scoring opportunities, with 40 shots for the game.” The Mustangs hosted Maggie Walker for the regional final on Tuesday, which was initially scheduled for Monday but postponed due to weather. The two teams last faced each other in the 2014 state championship game where Mason defeated the Green Dragons and sealed their seventh consecutive state title. “The girls played well, and we were happy to get the win and the number one seed going into the State final four,” said Parsons following the win Tuesday night. Determined to defend their regional title, Mason quickly jumped ahead and maintained the lead for the duration of the game. Eight minutes into the first half, Armstrong scored Mason’s first goal of the game with an assist from Roth, who scored Mason’s second goal nine minutes later. Sophomore forward/midfielder Becca Crouch scored the final goal of the first half off a 20-yard shot, unassisted. The Mustangs led 3-0 at halftime. “The second half had a number of chances, and a couple good saves by [senior] goalkeeper Katie
GEORGE MASON GIRLS CELEBRATE after beating Maggie Walker’s Governor’s School to win the region 2A East championship on Tuesday. (Photo: Brad Mills) Cheney, who earned her 17th shutout of the season,” said Parsons. Armstrong scored Mason’s fourth goal with an assist from Crouch 30 minutes into the second half. Mason will play the 2A West Region runner-up, Gate City High School, on Friday morning at Radford University. As the 2A
East runner-up, Maggie Walker will also make an appearance in the state semifinals. They play the 2A West number one seed, Radford High School, on Friday. The winner of both games will advance to the state championship game on Saturday morning. Going into the state tournament, Mason has not lost a game
since the district tournament championship game in May of 2013 against Clarke County. Tuesday’s win marks the Mustangs’ eighth consecutive regional title. Also holding the current VHSL record for consecutive state titles at seven wins, Parsons said the team is looking to extend that to eight this weekend.
Undefeated Mustang Boys Head to States
MASON JUNIOR FORWARD ELLIOT MERCADO chases down a ball during the Mustangs 4-0 win over Riverheads High School to win the region 2A East championship on Monday in a game that was cut short by the lightning. Mercado leads the Mustangs in scoring with 38 goals in a season where the team has outscored its opponents by a margin of 150-3. The team is 24-0 on the season and one goal away from a VHSL record. (Photo: Carol Sly)
The George Mason Boys Varsity Soccer team continued its highly successful season this week by defeating rival Riverheads High School by the score of 4-0 in a lighting-shortened game Monday night. The rainy weather did not dampen the spirit of the Mason team, which saw its undefeated season record climb to a lofty 24-0, one shy of the all-time Virginia High School Wins per Season Record. Lead by Captains Ned Quill, Daniel Donovan and Grant Goodwin and featuring a powerful line up of scorers, the team has enjoyed considerable success this season including out-scoring its opponents by a collective 150-3 margin and earning a record twenty-one shut-outs. The team’s goal differential is one of seven records
the team could break by season’s end. Following an unprecedented undefeated record in the Bull Run District, 12 Mason players were named to All-District teams. The team has also recently netted repeat titles in the Bull Run District regular season and playoffs, as well as earning Conference 36 and 2A East Region championships. The Mason Boys Soccer team will join the Girls team at the annual Virginia 2A jubilee. The state semi-final game will be held on Friday at Radford University, where the team will host West 2A runner up, Gate City. The state finals, which could potentially feature a rematch between Mason and Riverheads, will also be held at Radford the following day.
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F.C. Students Earn Academic Honors Across the Nation Several students from Falls Church graduated from colleges, universities and other academic institutions across the nation during the spring 2015 semester. Erin L. Barre was named to the dean’s honor roll at Texas A&M University, where students must earn 3.75 grade point average or higher while taking at least 15 semester hours. Paige Blackford, a parks, recreation and facilities management major at Paul Smith’s College, was named to the dean’s list at the school, where students must earn at least a 3.3 grade point average to make the list. Christopher Volciak was named to the dean’s list at Lehigh University, where students must earn a grade point average of 3.6 or better while carrying at least 12 hours of regularly graded courses. Aman Anand graduated from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in interdisciplinary studies. Christopher Bielecki and Alexey V. Ilin graduated from Texas A&M University. Bielecki earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in agricultural leadership, education and communications and Ilin earned a Master of International Affairs degree. Latham E. Fell and Kimberly A. Kenny graduated from Oregon
STUDENTS IN MRS. SMITH’S class at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, two of whom are in the photo above, raised over $1,000 through a book and poetry sale to help Nepal recover from the earthquake the country suffered. (P����: C������� �� FCCPS P����) State University. Fell earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and Kenny graduated with honors in her two majors. Kenny earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in international studies and a Bachelor of Science degree in biology.
Euguene DeNezza, II Receives Scholarship from AMRA Falls Church resident Eugene J. DeNezza, II received a $5,000 scholarship from the American Military Retirees Association as part of the Sargeant Major Douglas R. Drum Memorial
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Virginia Lt. Gov. Primary Tuesday Will Define Future Democratic Leadership
A whopping 87 homes are currently on the selling block in the 2.2-square mile area of the City of Falls Church, reflecting a trend of remarkably slow home sales in the entire greater Washington, D.C., region, according to realtors here. The stagnation in the home sales market comes despite low interest rates, which bottomed out at midday a week ago Friday below seven percent for some 30-year fixed rates.
Tuesday’s primary election in Virginia has especially Democratic leaders on pins and needles. While their gubernatorial candidate for the November general election, Tim Kaine, is unopposed Tuesday, four candidates vying for the lieutenant governor spot offer sharp differences about the future direction of the party. The polls will be open from 6 a.m. – 7 p.m. on June 14. In keeping with intra-party etiquette, no major Democraic official has endorsed....
Distinguished Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineer Dies at 91 John Erwin Stevens, of Falls Church, died on May 28 at Virginia Hospital Center after a short illness. He was 91 years old. John was born in Camillus, NY, on January 28, 1924, the only child of the late Gertrude Showalter Stevens and Erwin Archibald Stevens. He received his undergraduate and masters degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served on its faculty staff from 1944-1947. From 1947-1960, he worked for Chance Vought Aircraft (later Ling-Temco-Vought) in Stratford, Connecticut and Dallas, Texas. He then moved to AVCO (later Textron) in Wilmington, Mass. and was employed with them from 1960-1986 in a variety of executive positions, including Corporate VP of the MX Program, VP of Operations, Assistant General Manager, and Corporate VP of Technology Development. John’s career paralleled the development of the aerospace industry. At MIT, he was one of the first engineers to grapple with the dynamics of flutter arising from the forces generated when air passes over airplane wings. This knowledge became increasingly important in aircraft design as aircraft speed increased. At Chance Vought, he applied his knowledge of flutter analysis and testing to make greater speeds possible. He had a crucial role in resolving such problems in the design of the F7U-1 Cutlass Jet aircraft. In addition, he and his team rede-
JOHN STEVENS. (Courtesy Photo) signed several aspects of the F7U fighter to make it possible for the plane to handle the rapid descents and sharp ascents required to land on and take off from an aircraft carrier deck — maneuvers necessitating very different design solutions than those for turboprop aircraft. John also directed most of the teams that designed the F-8 (F8U) Crusader carrier-based jet aircraft, which set a world speed record and was the first airplane to cross the continental United States at supersonic speeds. Its pilot on that flight was John Glenn, the future astronaut and United States Senator. As the Cold War deepened, the focus of defense became more missile-oriented, and the aerospace industry redirected its attention to the design of vehicles to withstand both reentry forces and impact with any debris that might
be present at the missile’s target area. In various capacities at AVCO, John worked on a number of missile and space design and testing projects, including reentry vehicles, heat shields and guidance systems. These included work on the Minuteman III’s reentry system, the MX intercontinental ballistic missile’s reentry vehicle, and the ablative heat shield for NASA’s Apollo program. John wed Anna McClelland in 1948, and they were married for 51 years until her death in 1999. He is survived by his three daughters and their husbands— Susanna and Joel Hamme of Falls Church; Amy and John Saar of Shelburne, Vt., and Barbara and Lance Weinberg of Poway, Calif. He also leaves six grandchildren. John was an avid golfer for much of his life and deeply devoted to learning and education, especially in science and mathematics. Each of his grandchildren benefited from his financial assistance in attending college or graduate school. During his retirement, John read extensively, and took numerous courses at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, continuing to apply his mind to current national problems that could benefit from scientific analysis. Private services will be held at a later date to be determined. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the National Math and Science Initiative at nms.org or a charity of your choice.
THIS IS WARBLES THE DOVE. She paid a visit to an office in Silver Spring last week, during which she drew attention to herself by fluttering overhead and cooing excitedly. Amused office workers ultimately led Warbles back out the window. Just because you’re not famous doesn’t mean your pet can’t be! Send in your Critter Corner submissions to crittercorner@fcnp.com.
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