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Inside This Week F.C. Traffic Signal Fix Coming Next Year
More than a year after a traffic light pole crashed down in high winds at the corner of Annandale Road and Hillwood Avenue, the intersection’s signal is still waiting for its permanent replacement which City officials now say won’t be in place until 2020. See page 5
Renovated F.C. City Hall Cornerstone, & New Council Digs Feted Monday Ceremonies Follow Groundbreaking for New High School
by Nicholas F. Benton
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Noonan Apologizes for Yearbook Oversight
required to address what many policy makers are now identifying as a regional housing shortage crisis. With only 244 housing units defined as “affordable” in the City now, Hardi noted that 40 percent of that total (96 units) are in The Fields, an apartment complex that currently holds its rental rates low thanks to a tax subsidy from the City. However, that subsidy agreement is due to run out in just a few years, and no one has yet proposed a plan for extending it.
June 2019 marks an historic month in the City of Falls Church even if only as marked by events of pomp and ceremony. The events signify very big and good things for the City and its residents going forward. This Monday, a major contribution to this legacy will occur when the cornerstone of the newly renovated and expanded City Hall will be dedicated at a 6 p.m. public ceremony, and then at 7:30 when the new Council chambers in the City Hall will be unveiled and open for business for the first time. That will mark the completion of an extended, year-and-ahalf, cheerful tedium for the City Council and other major governing bodies in the City who had to hold their meetings in temporary locations, usually in the Senior Center room at the Community Center. The occasion is the latest this month of other important milestone events that included the groundbreaking for the new George Mason High School, the signing of a comprehensive agreement for the economic development of 9.45 acres adjacent the new high school, and the opening of a new downtown pocket park in the 100 block of West Broad. Yes, the Council will be back in its proper digs, notwithstanding two changes. The first involves the notable lack of colorless portraits on the walls of the Council chamber of humorless “Founding Fathers,” all white males. This is
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A paid advertisement appearing in George Mason High School’s yearbook from Michael Gardner, a former F.C. resident serving a 20-year prison sentence for molesting four girls, one of whom graduated from Mason this month, was reported to police and the school superintendent. See News Briefs, page 9
Therapists’ Role in The LGBTQ Movement
There’s been a massive change in how the world views gender and sexual expression over the past century. Most of the credit goes to the LGBTQ individuals, but gender therapists are unsung heroes in this community. See page 8
F.C. Man Running Marathon in Kenya
Running a marathon isn’t considered the feat it once was, however, running one alongside Olympic-caliber runners in the middle of a Kenyan wildlife reserve sure is. See page 13
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DIGGING THE IDEA of a brand new, state of the art George Mason High School, this was one phalanx of the local celebrities that took turns at breaking ground in last Friday’s ceremony. (Photo: FCCPS/Carol Sly)
F.C. Council Slams Housing Draft In Proposed Comp Plan Update
by Nicholas F. Benton
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Housing policy updates to the City of Falls Church’s Comprehensive Plan still need serious work by the City’s planning staff, at least three members of the Falls Church City Council insisted at the Council’s work session this Monday. Any thoughts that the Council might simply rubber stamp the document were drowned out by what, in polite language, came across as serious and insistent comments from Vice Mayor
Marybeth Connelly and Council members Phil Duncan and Letty Hardi, even as their emphases were on different aspects of the draft. Original plans to have the Council sign off on the update and pass their OK off to the Planning Commission for final adoption next month now appear unlikely. Among the objections that arose were lack of specific proposals for maintaining or expanding the City’s woefully diminishing stock of affordable housing, including no recommendations for funding, much less at levels
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seen as a fresh opportunity by most on the Council to proceed with alternatives, to include women and persons of color, an abundance of both having contributed mightily to the history of Falls Church. The second change will involve the shift in the direction of the room, with the dais and other features at its front now facing the opposite direction of the way it was for many years before. Some are concerned for the way in which this disruption of the existing “feng shui,” the ancient Chinese concept for how energy forces do, or don’t, harmonize persons with their environment, might begin to impact important City decisions. The Council chambers, as before, will also double as the courtroom for the Arlington District Court, and overall, the facilities will be much better equipped to ensure public safety and security. City employees working in City Hall who’ve already begun breaking in their new facilities have
LO CA L been overjoyed in comments to the News-Press. The happiness with their new environment is doubled by the cramped and often dysfunctional conditions at the temporary site where they toiled for over a year at 400 N. Washington Street. The new facilities at City Hall included a newly-paved and expanded parking lot, and electric car charging facilities right there, too. Up the street on Park Avenue a tad, the City’s Public Works Department has undertaken work to extend the public sidewalk on the City Hall side to establish a walkway continuity all the way up the street. But Monday’s ceremonies at City Hall are just the latest in the important and memorable events this month. The most significant was that at the site of George Mason High School, where last Friday afternoon the ribbon cutting led by Superintendent Peter Noonan marked the launch of the 15-month construction process of the new state of the art George Mason High School. That was a truly memorable occasion, as it occurred on a soccer practice field on a particularly warm, sunny and blustery after-
noon, with the breezes and the fastmoving cloud formations overhead providing an ambiance symbolizing the warm winds of humanizing progress that has characterized the entire process for the construction of the new school that promises to become the jewel of one of the finest school systems in America. In addition to the virtually complete “A List” of Falls Church dignitaries and important people, representatives of the design builder, Gilbane, and the design and architecture team of Stantec and Quinn Evans, were on hand. Student speakers who’ve gone their entire school careers through the Falls Church system and will be part of the first graduating class from the newly-completed high school in the spring of 2021 also spoke along with the mayor, the superintendent, and all the “usual suspects.” Not unrelated to that event was the ceremonial signing of the comprehensive agreement for the development of 9.45 acres of City land by the City with the Falls Church Gateway Partners, a partnership of the firms of EYA, PN Hoffman and Regency for dense mixed-use development. That signing, which took place last week in
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the Mustang Cafe at the existing high school site, culminated a highly-successful vetting process that included scores of public meetings to evaluate the plans for the site, which sits beneath the current George Mason High School footprint, and will become available for development once the new high school is completed in early 2021. The proposed development will include a broad mix of commercial uses, including a grocery store, restaurants and retail, office space, residences, a hotel and civic spaces. The plan also includes “The Commons,” an active public space at the center of the development. The project is intended to help defray the costs of the new high school. The terms of the Comprehensive Agreement include a 99-year ground lease to be entered into in 2021, five payments in Phase 1 ($6.5 million in 2019, then $7.0 million each in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024), and one payment in Phase 2 ($10 million or appraised value, whichever is higher), for a total of $44.5 million. Additional potential land payments of up to $2.5 million are possible, depending on the creation of a Community Development Authority. In exchange for a short-
term real estate tax abatement program while the project is under construction, the City will receive $200,000 annual payments, commencing in 2029 and lasting for life of the 99-year lease. The City will also benefit from a profit-sharing provision should land values increase prior to construction, and a Capital Event Fee, which will apply whenever the property is sold or refinanced over the life of the lease. The City was advised by the firms of Alvarez and Marsal and Arent Fox in the work that culminated in this agreement. The developer’s Special Exception Entitlement Application which establishes building heights, permitted uses, plan layouts, and other project details, is currently under City review, with anticipated action by City Council at its July 8 meeting. As for the pocket park in the 100 block of West Broad that was unveiled at a ribbon cutting last week, the name for the park is now under consideration, with the public invited to submit suggestions at the Community Center or online. The park is already proving popular for citizens attracted to that part of town and the many restaurants and the ice cream shop adjacent it.
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Also, of the 244 units in the City now, only seven are three bedroom, and all of those are at The Fields. Councilman Duncan raised the prospect of adding a penny to the real estate tax rate as a strategy, if begun immediately, that could at least “rescue The Fields,” he said. Hardi raised the prospect of drawing revenue from the meals tax, as the City of Alexandria has done. “We need to elevate the importance of this issue,” Hardi said. But Connelly and Duncan offered harsher criticisms of the report. “I don’t like any of it,” Duncan said, suggesting that it reflects “a negative view of what has happened in the City since 2001. Connelly was critical of the report’s focus on the “preservation” of “historical neighborhoods,” saying that to her, the language smacks of racism. “It sounds like the desire to keep my enclave neighborhood separate and special rings of that, as does historic integrity and neighbor-
hood stability.” She suggested they can be seen as a “code for racism,” that “harkens to a time that never existed.” She also assailed the notion that changing the term, “small town character,” to “close knit community” represented any kind of improvement in intent. “Close knit,” she said, “implies that there are those who are inside and those who are outside such a ‘close knit community.’ ” Notions affirming diversity and a welcoming attitude toward persons of all types would be better, she said. Council member Ross Litkenhous raised the notion of “auxiliary dwelling units” as exemplifying the kind of policy initiatives that could be meaningful. The units could be incentivized for City residential landowners as small living units that can be placed in the backyard of existing homes, but that no such recommendations are in the current draft. Council members also criticized the Planning Department conclusion that the growth in families with incomes in the $50,000 to $100,00 range is a
significant product of the data. Households with incomes of $200,000 and higher have gone way up, to 1,031 in the last decade, it was noted, and those with incomes between $150,000 and $199,000 have also risen sharply (by 449). This belies a trend that would seriously skew the analysis that suggests that housing needs by 2044 would be far less for these classes of households. A major flaw in the draft could be related to the fact that a survey sent out by the City’s Planning Department on these issues drew only 93 responses. The survey was administered over less than a two week period, from May 29 to June 10, and yet by the data evaluated in an attachment to the draft, considerable staff time went into tabulating and attempting to evaluate the result. There was no ability to evaluate how those in the community geared to respond to such surveys may have constituted a skewed sample and to present it as meaningful of anything at all was questioned at the Council meeting.
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F.C.’s Hillwood-Annandale Signal Solution Won’t Come Until 2020
More than a year after a traffic light pole came crashing down in high winds at the corner of Annandale Road and Hillwood Avenue in Falls Church, the intersection’s signal is still waiting for its permanent replacement which City officials now say won’t be in place until sometime next year. A temporary signal was installed at the intersection after the existing pole was felled on the afternoon of March 7, 2018. But while a working light has been in place for the last 15 months, the replacement has forced the closure of the sidewalk at the southeast corner of Annandale and Hillwood, causing pedestrians to either walk through a nearby parking lot or navigate the road at the busy intersection. Initially, it was reported a new, permanent set of poles would take about 15 weeks to install at the intersection, but due to “reprioritizing after staff turnover,” a City official told the News-Press, that 15 weeks turned into 12 months. This past March, work finally began on the new signal but it came to a halt after it was discovered the new poles were unviable as a permanent replacement due to a contractor error. According to the City, “[The pole] is not a hazard in any way, but it will not work for the long term.” Officials say a new pole will take eight months to fabricate after the order is placed, a longer lead time than usual because the midwest factory where the poles are manufactured has been affected by flooding. The earliest estimate on the installation of the permanent signal is around April 2020, more than two years after the pole first came down. In the interim, the City said it’s exploring an alternative temporary solution that would install and activate lights on the pole currently in place (the one deemed unusable in the long term). This would remove the temporary signal currently in place and re-open the sidewalk to pedestrian traffic. Once the new pole is ready for installation, the defective pole would be removed. The City is currently waiting on approval from the contractor for the new, temporary solution. — Jody Fellows
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A Welcome to ‘Stonewall 50’
The Falls Church News-Press is pleased to team up with the Social Justice Committee of Falls Church and Environs to invite the entire community to a free event at the fellowship hall of the historic Falls Church Episcopal this Sunday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. The uprising was a three-day pitched street battle in late June 1969 between police attempting to raid and arrest patrons of a gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York and that bar’s patrons and supporters in its immediate area who resisted in what became the spark to ignite the modern movement for LGBTQ equality. It was truly a turning point, as immediately arising from it came a flurry of organizing activity all across the country of the “Gay Liberation Front,” and Nick Benton, our founder, owner and editor, was a founding member of a chapter in Berkeley, California in 1970. That term took its name from the anti-Vietnam War movement also surging at that point. The anaconym, LGBTQ, refers to lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning. This Sunday’s event, marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall incident, begins at 4 p.m. at the church fellowship hall. It will commence with the reading and presentation by Falls Church Mayor David Tarter of a proclamation marking the event originally presented at the Falls Church City Council meeting of June 10 and of an ordinance ordering the flying of the LGBTQ “Rainbow Flag” at City Hall this month (as is now happening.) A panel discussion of the movement, one participant being Don Davenport, a person who was actually there 50 years ago and has a very vivid account, and local LGBTQ leaders with expertise on the movement, will lead a discussion. It will conclude with a festive reception at Clare and Don’s Beach Shack up the street, where its back room will become a piano bar featuring show tunes and free refreshments. Falls Church has its own history advancing this cause. Not only did the movement’s early hero, the poet Walt Whitman, attend to injured soldiers at the historic Falls Church, converted into a hospital during the Civil War (a fact yet to be confirmed, but it’s being worked on), but in 2006 the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce became the only Chamber in Virginia to go on record opposed to the Marshall-Newman Amendment to outlaw same-sex unions in the Virginia Constitution, and in 2014 the tenacious Falls Church Episcopal’s “continuing Episcopalian” congregation finally won a more than seven-year battle to reclaim its church property from a band of defectors who voted to leave because of the denomination’s election of an openly-gay bishop in 2003. That victory has contributed enormously to the increasingly welcoming and open living environment for everyone in the wider Falls Church community. We warmly invite all friends of the News-Press and of social equality to Sunday’s events.
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Hockenberry Feature Story Was Right on Target Editor, Matt Delaney’s thoughtful article on Lindy Hockenberry’s many contributions to Falls Church was right on target: In a community with many interesting and successful people, few match Lindy’s many positive contributions. As a teacher, she got the best out of her students. As a city council member, she brought people
together with positive — and workable — solutions. How did she do it? She cared about every student and took the time to work with each one. There was no “single solution” for the entire class. In government, she combined common sense with uncommon foresight. When I chaired the Falls Church Republican Party, we voted to present our outstanding citizen award to
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Lindy. Some asked why we would give the award to a Democrat. The answer was easy: The award was not to the outstanding Republican but to the outstanding citizen. Lindy can work with complicated people to solve complicated problems. Some of the most pleasant moments of my years in Falls Church came about thanks to Lindy’s involvement. Interviewing students for the Youth Rep program of Citizens for a Better City is just one example. Lindy knows how to draw out the hopes, ambitions and fears of the young applicants. Then, the young people could make an informed decision.
Sometimes, years later, a student will remark on the good advice Lindy provided. Ken Feltman Falls Church
Interesting Difference In Pre- & PostElection Coverage Editor, Interesting to see differences in wording between the News-Press’s pre- and post-election news stories
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G u e s t C o m m e n ta ry The Falls Church Episcopal ‘Building’ on 250 Years By John Ohmer
As part of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of our historic church, The Falls Church Episcopal placed a plaque in the sidewalk that literally carves in stone our vision statement: “The Falls Church Episcopal is a welcoming community, called to be an enduring beacon of faith, hope, and love to all.” While the plaque is new, the vision is not: it is a reclaiming of The Falls Church’s earliest ethos. This congregation was formed to minister to the booming population of this area during the early 1700s. The physical structure was built on a high plateau and could be seen for miles. It had several early names, including simply the “Upper Church,” until a reference began to stick: “The church on the way to the Little Falls” which then became “The Falls Church” — from which the city itself gets its name. Our Historic Church — completed in 1769 — has seen much. But the congregation of The Falls Church, which predates the Historic Church by more than a generation, has seen even more. As a spiritual body, The Falls Church: • Received its first Rector through a recommendation by the father of a Founding Father, Augustine Washington, who served on the first Vestry and was the father of George Washington. • Flourished, then faded and was revived by two American Revolutionaries, George
Washington and George Mason. • Was a site of a public reading of the Declaration of Independence, according to local lore, and served as a recruiting station for George Washington’s Continental Army.
“Shortly after returning to our property in 2012, we began — again — the process of rebuilding, reconciliation, and renewal.” • Almost died in the wake of the disestablishment of the Church of England as the official state church of the Colonies, now the United States of America. • Lay dormant from 1799 to 1836. • Was caught between Union and Confederate forces during the great fratricide of the Civil War. Occupied first by Confederate forces, the area was quickly taken by Union forces. The Historic Church served first as a hospital for 100 soldiers at a time, then later the floors were torn out and the Historic Church was used as a stable. During this time the Historic Church was briefly looted, but total destruction was prevented by vigilant townspeople who complained to Union officers. Afterward,
once the Union survived, the United States Army repaired the Historic Church, though scars on the building remain. • Was given up on even by its bishop in 1886. Nevertheless, services continued, though irregularly, and the Historic Church also served as the home of another Christian tradition’s congregation at the same time until The Falls Church was formally reorganized in 1873. • Closed for a month in 1918 as an influenza pandemic swept the globe. • Almost went broke during The Great Depression. • Saw the tragedy of the Second World War; the dawn of the atomic age; the agony of assassinations; wars; and the hopes, joys, and sufferings of the Civil Rights Movement. • Went through a period of massive growth in the 1950s, during which time it added its Day School and Fellowship Hall, and renovated the interior of the Historic Church. • Went through another period of massive growth in the 1980s, at a time when its church leadership began expressing increasing opposition to the wider Episcopal Church, particularly over the issue of The Episcopal Church’s full inclusion of gays and lesbians in all aspects of church life and our policy of allowing women to lead as Bishops. These differences led to a formal church split in 2006, with all but about 100 members voting to leave The Episcopal Church, and the departing con-
gregants attempting to hold onto Episcopal Church property and finances as their own, triggering more than six years of litigation over church ownership. Shortly after returning to our property in 2012, we began — again — the process of rebuilding, reconciliation, and renewal. We decided to concentrate on those things which unite us: loving God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and loving our neighbors as ourselves. In fact, as part of our 250th Anniversary Celebration, every member of The Falls Church Episcopal is being challenged to give at least 250 minutes of service to the poor or others in need, by way of fulfilling our goal of being good news to the wider community. Over the past 250 years, The Falls Church has seen much: it has been gutted, looted, occupied by armies twice; buried patriots and royalists, Unionists and Secessionists; witnessed the great visions and great horrors of the past two and a half centuries; been given up on by almost everyone; nearly died again and again and again and again; had its congregation exiled for years…and yet the church — remains. The Falls Church was formed to be an enduring beacon of faith, hope, and love to all within its reach. As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our historic structure, we renew our commitment to that vision. The Rev. John Ohmer is rector of The Falls Church Episcopal.
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Gender Therapists Offer Critical Help to LGBTQ Clientele by Matt Delaney
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There’s been a massive change in how the world views gender and sexual expression throughout the past century. Most of the credit goes to the LGBTQ individuals, but gender therapists are unsung heroes in this community as they have helped clients learn to navigate the nuances in their personal lives and brave public judgment while becoming assertive in their identity “One challenge is having workplace, friends and family understand and accept who [these LGBTQ individuals] are,” Anne Rafal, a Falls Church-based therapist who works with LGBTQ teens and adults, said. “That can take time. It’s hard for people who have come to that decision to have to bide their time while others come to terms with it.” Rafal, along with fellow Falls Church-based gender therapists Carolyn Dozier and John Thomas, are a crucial part of the support system that makes a former population of outcasts comfortable in society’s mainstream as well as existing in their own skin. Open acceptance of LGBTQ people has ebbed and flowed throughout history. Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum were royal servants in ancient Egypt and were believed to be the firstever recorded same-sex couple. Homosexuality wasn’t taboo in Ancient Greece and other regions, such as 16th century Angola. Native Americans had flexible views on what consituted normal for a given gender. In short, LBGTQ communities have always existed, but how the broader culture received those communities has been inconsistent at best. The 21st century has seen a surge of evolution and support for LGBTQ populations. The major distinction coming from this most recent wave is the distinctions between sex (the biological reality of being a man or woman) and gender (the sexbased behavior that someone prefers). An example would be a girl who’s more masculine in gender, such as a “tomboy,” but who also identifies as a woman and has no confusion over her sex. Rafal noted that, according to a recent study, 12 percent of the U.S. population is LGBTQ, with 20 percent of the millennial population identifying as such. More progressive areas, such as the City
of Falls Church, have taken steps to ensure that gender non-conforming individuals don’t feel out of a place. “We live in a pretty good area in terms of providing accommodations and recognizing that gender expansive people have options,” Thomas said. Still, the journeys that Thomas, Rafal and Dozier help their clients on is never easy. Dozier, who spoke with the News-Press in 2018, said that her adult lesbian, gay and, in particular, transgender clients possess a litany of scars from a lifetime of experiencing homophobia. Working through that trauma can be especially difficult when the homophobia comes from family members. Dozier describes it as a unique situation among minority groups, since, for example, disabled or racial minorities typically have a refuge from prejudicial treatment inside their homes. It’s often the opposite for LGBTQ individuals, and Dozier highlights how being rejected by one’s family damages the primal instinct humans generally have to connect with their tribe. Those wounds can spiral into other afflictions. Many clients from all three therapists struggle with either depression, anxiety, substance abuse or other selfharming behaviors, such as cutting themselves. For Rafal’s clients who are gender non-conforming — those who don’t fit neatly into the male or female category — instances such as loved ones misusing pronouns or referring to their “dead name” (the name given at birth that they no longer identify with) can disrupt the client’s homeostasis with their preferred identity. On the flip side, Rafal said that with family and friends who are supportive of a client’s treatment generally don’t cause the depression and other negative behaviors with the same severity or frequency. It’s why all three practitioners take a gender-affirming approach. When gender therapy was relatively new, therapists would often employ what was called “gatekeeping” to assess clients. Essentially, gatekeeping was a therapist seeing how devoted a client was to their personal transformation. So they would task clients with dressing or behaving as their preferred sex for a certain amount of time before agreeing that it was a legitimate part of their being and not a temporary lifestyle choice.
ANNE RAFAL (right) has about a third of her clients with a gender-related focus. For Carolyn Dozier, it’s a bit higher at 40 percent and John Thomas treats almost exclusively transgender or gender-noncomforming youths. (Photo: News-Press) Gatekeeping is now seen as degrading to a LGBTQ person’s sense of self, hence why genderaffirming approach became the new norm. With gender-affirming, therapists don’t question how sincere a client is in their feelings about their identity. At the same time, they also don’t affirm every belief a client has. Both Dozier and Rafal emphasize that pointing out inconsistencies in a client’s thoughts and breaking down how the tension in those beliefs came about is a core part of gender therapy. For Thomas, who primarily works with youths between the ages of 11 – 25 experiencing gender dysphoria or gender non-conforming tendencies, clients who are minors and could also undergo medical treatment adds extra layers to the therapy process. Sticking with the genderaffirming approach, Thomas takes his younger clients at their word that they may be gender-noncomforming or outright transgender. He often allows clients to dress as their preferred sex to facilitate therapy sessions, and typically knows after a few meetings whether a client is a potential
candidate for medicinal components such as hormone therapy or puberty blockers. As Thomas described it, “Children are the ones driving this field since they don’t have the amount of shame and trauma to work through as adult [clients] do.” Considering the plethora of age-related barriers in society — the ability to drive, vote or join the armed forces, to name a few — it seems counterintuitive to allow children to dictate a monumental decision such as altering their body in likely permanent ways. The long term effects of puberty blockers are infertility, compromised bone development and undetermined effects on brain development. In terms of hormone therapy, long term effects are largely unknown. While Thomas mentions that parental consent is necessary, he also clarifies that time to digest such a decision is baked into the therapy cake. It allows him to make an informed choice about the route a young client should commit to. “I tell parents, ‘I don’t have a dog in the fight,’ because I really don’t. I don’t have an emotion-
al, activist mentality with this,” Thomas said. “As a parent myself, I tell them ‘I know how scary this is. You don’t want to make a mistake that’s going to make them infertile or change their body.’ I also totally empathize with the children, because it’s their narrative. If they have felt their way most of their lives, we notice from empirical evidence, they’re almost always going to feel this way.” During his treatment, Thomas strives to balance between what is safe medically and what is authentic to the child’s own state of being. He avoids rubber stamping children and sending them to an endocrinologist, but he also doesn’t try to impede the next steps if he believes a child’s identity is firm. It’s a delicate equilibrium to maintain, but after 20 years in the field Thomas hasn’t seen many clients — whether adult or children — who decide to go back on their medicinal treatment once they’ve chosen to do so. He’s currently part of a team of researchers that is looking into brain patterns and how those can be used to identify sexual and gender preferences earlier in life.
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A paid advertisement greeting his twin children upon their graduation from George Mason High School this month that appeared in the high school’s yearbook was reported to F.C. City Police and the School Superintendent because its author was Michael Gardner, a former City resident who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for molesting four girls, one of whom is also a graduating senior at Mason this month. The girl, Sandre Rice, 18, told a news reporter that she felt a word used by Gardner in the ad, “immolate” in the greeting, “Loves, immolate false things without regret to give what remains. Love Dad,” was intended to intimidate her. Part of an interview with Falls Church City Public Schools (FCCPS) Superintendent Peter Noonan in response to the incident was aired on the WUSA-TV news report of June 11. At the F.C. School Board meeting this Tuesday, Noonan read a public statement that stated, “Last week marked the end of another successful year in FCCPS. We are so proud of our students, staff, faculty, parents, kin, and committed community members for their amazing, inspiring, and uplifting work. You all prove and affirm to me that we are indeed better together. The celebratory tone of the final weeks of school was muted due to an issue with, a stain on, the GMHS yearbook. Unfortunately, a parental ad submitted to and published in the yearbook has reopened wounds and in many ways retraumatized our community. For this, we are sorry. We receive and review so many ads, photos and quotes from so many members of our community for publication in our yearbooks. We entrust the community — those submitting ads — to help us ensure their content is appropriate, in line with our FCCPS values and worthy of inclusion. Regrettably, this ad slipped by us. When discovered, FCCPS immediately communicated with their students and families impacted. We hope they feel supported and cared for by us and the broader FCCPS community. Going forward, we are committed to assessing our yearbook policies and procedures and doing our part to produce yearbooks that truly are a celebration of our students’ and communities’ achievements. But we will continue to rely on the entire community to do right by one another, to respect one another, and to ensure the safety and well-being of all of our FCCPS students. We cannot do this alone. It takes a community to raise our children, and to produce a yearbook, and we must work together towards this end. I look forward to the days ahead, to our growth, including our new high school, and to what we can achieve together.” School Board vice chair Greg Anderson, chairing the Tuesday meeting, said, “I appreciate the sentiment behind the statement.” School Board member Phil Reitinger added, “The path taken to handle this has been the right one.”
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The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that lower Virginia court decisions against gerrymandered U.S. Congressional districts will stand, declared a “major victory for voting rights and civil rights in Virginia” by the Virginia House Democratic leadership. It ruled that House Republicans lack standing in their appeal of the Bethune Hill case, thus upholding the District Court’s remedial redistricting of eleven unconstitutional racially gerrymandered state legislative districts in Virginia. State Democratic leaders Eileen Filler-Corn and Charniele Herring stated, “In the past four elections for the Virginia House of Delegates, hundreds of thousands of Virginians have voted in racially gerrymandered districts that violate the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. There is nothing more fundamental to our democracy than the right to vote and have a voice in our government so that it is truly representative of the people. The ‘packing’ of African American voters in the 2011 maps has diluted that fundamental right for so many Virginians of color. This SCOTUS decision is a major win for voting rights and civil rights in our Commonwealth.” The 5-4 decision had Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch in the majority.
Beyer Calls for Police Bodycam Law U.S. Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr. who represents the 8th District of Virginia that includes the City of Falls Church joined U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC) in introducing a bill to require uniformed federal police officers to wear body cameras and have dashboard cameras in police vehicles. The District of Columbia and Fairfax County both require officers to wear body cameras and have dashboard cameras in marked vehicles. Norton and Beyer want to adopt this policy at the federal level to ensure transparency and protect officers and the public alike, they said. Federal authorities are prohibiting local police from participating in joint federal and local task forces if they wear body cameras, and several police departments have pulled out of these task forces as a result.
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AT A RECEPTION included as part of a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the historic Falls Church Episcopal in downtown Falls Church, long-time pillars of the community Tom and Edie Smolinsky (left) chatted with Bishop Susan Goff of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and Peggie McCan (right). The festivities included the blessing of a commemorative stone embedded into the pathway to the original church that reads, “A Welcoming Community Called to Be an Enduring Beacon of Faith, Hope and Love to All.” (Photo: News-Press)
Dulin United Hosts Author Discussion on June 30 Kourtney Whitehead will be discussing her book, “Working Whole: How to Unite Your Spiritual Beliefs and Your Work to Live Fulfilled” on Sunday, June 30 at 4 p.m. in the Dulin Sanctuary (513 E. Broad St., Falls Church). Books will be available for purchase and to be signed by the author. For more information, call 703-532-8060 ext. 200 or visit dulinchurch.org.
‘Music with a Purpose’ Concert Held at Holy Trinity On Saturday, June 22 at 7 p.m., the community is invited to attend “Music with a Purpose”, a performance by Mosaic Harmony Choir that will feature gospel-style and
other inspirational music. The performance will take place at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (3022 Woodlawn Ave., Falls Church). Free admission.
Marshall Academy Camps to Take Place June 24 – 28 Marshall Academy, a Governor’s STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Academy, will offer its awardwinning Cyber: IT Program in two Cyber Camps June 24-28. The two camps — Cyber Basics and Cyber Advanced — are offered in partnership with SySTEMic Solutions, Northern Virginia Community College’s regional K-16 STEM outreach initiative, and are designed to provide rising ninth to twelfth grade students with knowledge and hands-on experience in cyber
SIMON AND SHELLY VAN STEYN welcomed a new member to the family this week, with baby boy Sila Cameron Childs van Steyn joining the world. According to new grandpa, Shaun van Steyn, everything went smoothly at George Washington University Hospital, and both Simon and Shelly still haven’t come down from the high of welcoming a new life into the world. (Photo: Courtesy Shaun Van Steyn)
security while introducing them to the many career opportunities in the growing field. Both camps are fast-paced, advanced camps in cybersecurity. Basic Cyber Camp is designed to provide students with knowledge in topics such as defensive and offensive strategies, practices and tools, advanced networking concepts, virtual and cloud security, malware and internet-of-things security. Advanced Cyber Camp is designed to provide students with knowledge in topics such as defensive and offensive strategies, practices and tools, advanced networking concepts, virtual and cloud security, malware, as well as internet-of-things security. This camp is for students who have participated in an advanced cybersecurity camp before, attended the basic cybersecurity camp last
year, and fully grasp the concepts presented there or have participated in a CyberPatriot competition within the last two years. Advanced camp students are required to bring a laptop with the minimum specifications: an i5 or comparable AMD processor (no Macs-Apple based laptops), 6 GB of RAM and 20 GB free hard drive space available. More information about the camps and registration is available online. Contact Shelli Carpenter Farquharson, Marshall Academy career experience specialist, for additional information at smfarquharso@fcps.edu.
F.C. City Seeking New Culture-based Applicants The City of Falls Church welcomes applications for eligi-
ble non-profit organizations that support the arts, culture, theater and history based within the City of Falls Church. The application deadline is July 16, 2019 and funds must be utilized before May 15, 2020. Applications may be submitted for project grants or operations support grants. Applicants may request up to $5,000 in project grants and up to $15,000 in operations grants. The application and details on eligibility can be found at fallschurchva.gov/Grants. Fiscal Year 2019 project grants supported include “Outside the Gallery”, a pilot community art project by Falls Church Arts; a free community holiday concert by Washington Sinfonietta; The Little City CATCH Foundation’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration, Watch Night; “On Air”, an original musical at Creative
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Attendees are encouraged to come early for a meal and to meet fellow members. If lost, call 703992-6060 for directions. Spouses and friends are always welcomed, as is bringing a fellow Vietnam veteran or a new generation veteran with you. The book, “In Honor and Memory” that lists and describes U.S. and Allied military installations in South Vietnam and Southeast Asia is available for viewing. See Bill Dumsick. Plus the traditional 50/50 raffle includes cash and an artistic hand carved wooden bowl by George Jones.
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THE 10TH ANNUAL PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL WINNERS (from left to right): Artists Alexia Scott — Famille Plein Air Prize ($250); Patricia Walach Keough — Diener and Assoc. CPA Plein Air Prize ($250); Rajendra KC — Rock Star Realty Plein Air Prize ($750); Michael McSorley — The Kensington Plein Air Prize ($500); Christina Girardi — New Editions Plein Air Prize ($600); Jill Banks — Don Beyer Volvo-Kia Plein Air Prize ($1,250) and Marianne Tolosa — Falls Church Arts President’s Prize ($300) with their paintings that won Plein Air Prizes totalling nearly $4,000 in awards (P����: C������� B��� C���) Cauldron and the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation’s annual music festival. After an initial review by the Recreation and Parks Department to ensure eligibility, the application will be reviewed by the Arts and Humanities Grant Review Committee. The committee will submit a recommendation to the Recreation and Parks Department which will present the recommendation to the City Council for final approval in a public session of council. After final review and approval by the Falls Church City Council,
copies of all applications will be archived by The Little City CATCH Foundation. For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/Grants.
F.C. Native Fowler Died in Early May Former Falls Church resident Jim Fowler, who grew up in the Little CIty, died on May 8. Fowler is best known for being the former host of “Wild Kingdom.” He won four Emmy Awards and appeared on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” 40 times.
Vietnam Veterans Meeting Tonight The Vietnam Veterans of America’s Chapter 227 monthly membership meeting will be held today at 7:30 p.m. at Glory Days Grill (6341 Columbia Pike, Falls Church). The meeting’s guest speaker is Jack Haas, a Vietnam War veteran who served as a combat infantryman in 1969-70. He will discuss PTSD and his experience with it. He has spoken to numerous groups on this issue over the years.
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Savannah Avendasora of Falls Church graduated in late May from the Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia at the school’s 105th commencement. Avendasora plans to attend Radford University in the fall. She is the daughter of Diedra and David Avendasora. During her junior year, Avendasora helped found Hand in Hand, a gender and sexual identity student organization which she served as co-head for two years. She was also a Student Athletic Trainer and Team Manager for the varsity tennis and junior varsity lacrosse teams.
McLean Graduates, Dean’s List from William & Mary The following students from McLean either graduated or were recognized by the College of William & Mary for completing their degree or are being honored for making the school’s Dean’s List. Graduates — Arianna Afsari, Bachelor of Arts; Erin Atak, Bachelor of Arts; Makena Barron, Bachelor of Arts; Adam
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Benmhend, Bachelor of Arts; Michael Blumenfeld, Bachelors of Business Administration; Anna Campion, Bachelor of Arts; Vanessa De La Rosa, Bachelor of Science; Rebecca Hall, Bachelor of Arts; Annette Kang, Bachelor of Science; Andrew Katson, Bachelor of Science; Joshua Kim, Bachelor of Science; Marissa Kingston, Bachelor of Arts (International Honours); Deborah Kornblut, Bachelor of Arts; Anna Laws, Bachelor of Arts; Christine Li, Bachelor of Science; Kristyn Long, Bachelor of Arts; Patricia Loria, Bachelor of Science; Sri Harshini Malapati, Bachelor of Science; Mina Parastaran, Bachelor of Science; Grace Pluta, Bachelor of Arts; Benjamin Robb, Bachelor of Arts; Claire Roberts, Bachelor of Arts; Sarah Salem, Bachelor of Arts; Devika Shankardass, Bachelor of Arts; Rhea Sharma, Bachelor of Science; Connor Simpson, Bachelor of Science; Matthew Sniezek, Bachelor of Arts; Hayley Snowden, Bachelors of Business Administration; Alyssa Sze, Bachelor of Arts; Theodore Tanous, Bachelors of Business Administration; Menna Teshome, Bachelor of Arts; Yande Thiaw, Bachelor of Science and Brittony Trumbull, Bachelor of Arts. Dean’s List — Arianna Afsari; Kareem Al-Attar; Ceridwyn Albers; Evelyn Basham; Adam Benmhend; Michael Blumenfeld; Autumn Brenner; Sophia Brodnax; Faith Burke; Lindley Burnam; Emily Bush; Celeste Campos; Alexander Camus; Hana Chaudhri; Zachary Coe; Abby Comey; Leah Damelin; Sneha Dass; Rebecca Deitch; Frank Ding; Rachel Faga; Matthew Feinstein; Sunil Fontaine-Rasaiah; Ariaz Goudarzi; Prateek Govindaraj; Rebecca Hall; Alexander Howe and Kaitlyn Huynh.
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F.C. Marathoner to Race Safari Course by Orrin Konheim
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Running a marathon isn’t considered the feat it once was, however, running one alongside Olympic-caliber runners in the middle of a Kenyan wildlife reserve sure is. Falls Church’s Andrew Courtney plans to do just that next weekend, and for his first marathon ever, no less. Courtney, 45, will be running the Safaricom Marathon, listed by Runner’s World Magazine as one of the world’s top 10 “must do” marathons. The course runs through Kenya’s Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, putting runners in contact with the vital land that is in need of preservation. The proceeds from the race benefit the conservation organization Tusk which is dedicated to preventing habitat loss in a way that finds space for people and wildlife to co-exist. “In part, I wasn’t necessarily choosing a marathon. It’s a fundraiser, and they’re doing the work that I believe in,” said Courtney. “So they provide education, and they’ve figured out a way to make the animals in the park more alive than dead. It’s cool, it’s innovative and it’s interesting.” Courtney, will be travelling overseas not just to run but to visit villages and schools with his family. Joining him is wife Lauren, and daughters Sasha, 9, and Hanna, 7. For Courtney and Lauren, East Africa has long been a sphere that they’ve been involved in. Andrew and Lauren met as Peace Corps volunteers in Tanzania and the two have worked with East Africa professionally. Lauren
works in the field of public health while Andrew previously worked in the Nature Conservancy. “I learned from my time as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tanzania and later when assigned to a project in Tanzania with the Nature Conservancy that it’s hard work balancing the needs of people and nature,” said Courtney. “When I left the Nature Conservancy a few years ago I told myself I would find other ways to support this important work.” At the same time, the running part of the experience has also been something that’s transformed the entire family. Courtney picked up running a couple years ago to combat the stresses of his job. He used the goal of a marathon as a motivator but the logistics never aligned. When the organizers of the marathon reached out to him this past winter (he had already paid an entry fee by then), Courtney decided to hack his training down systematically. “Like most things, if you break it down into small chunks, I found it’s not impossible,” said Courtney. “When you have a particular way of solving complex development problems through small steps,,,so I was like, ‘If it works for software, why can’t it work for a marathon?’” With a spreadsheet and algorithm, he managed to stay on top of his training for 25 straight weeks. He believes he has logged around 850 miles to date which will be an accomplishment no matter what happens when the marathon occurs. Because of his obligations as a father, home owner and in the workplace, Courtney couldn’t find
any time in the afternoon or evening so he had to resort to waking up at 5 a.m. with his neighbor Jim Sherwood. This past spring, Courtney gave a presentation to Sasha’s elementary school class on his experience. He touched on the importance of conservation, geographical facts about Kenya, how to measure a marathon and how to train. This drew him fans including his daughter and their friends who peppered him with lots of questions at the end. To his surprise, however, Sasha decided to go running with her dad with a flashlight at 5 a.m. Although she couldn’t sustain that early of a wake-up call, she now runs approximately two days a week with her mom (who was originally a casual jogger but runs with more frequency now). Additionally, Lauren Courtney estimates that her younger daughter, Hannah, can run half a mile. As for their recommendations to others on deciding whether or not to travel to East Africa, the Courtney parents describes it as an eye-opening experience. “The people that you will meet are so friendly and welcoming, the climate is different, it’s a beautiful and amazing place and I really think it will change everyone who has been there, so we want our kids to be exposed to that,” said Lauren. Courtney will be participating in the Safaricom Marathon next Saturday, June 29 at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. Anyone interested in Courtney’s fundraising efforts can visit his page at crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/ andrews-run-for-lewa.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts
News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
Two house fires in two days, both caused by improper disposal of smoking materials, demonstrate just how easily life can change. An older one-story home on Alpine Drive in Annandale was damaged by fire that started with smoking materials in bedding. Oxygen was in use, which exacerbated the flames. The residents were able to escape, but a pet cat perished. The following day, a large home on Columbia Pike, across from Barcroft Plaza Center, was devastated by a fire caused by smoking materials discarded in a deck planter. That fire caused approximately $225,000 in damage, and melted the vinyl siding on a home next door. Columbia Pike was closed to traffic in both directions, as multiple fire personnel and apparatus battled to save surrounding properties from catching fire in the brisk summer winds that afternoon. The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department (FRD) has numerous tips and recommendations for home fire safety at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/fire-ems. In the search box, enter Educational Topics, and read the entire General Home Fire Safety manual of easy tips, in multiple languages. Most important is to have working smoke alarms on each floor of the home, including near sleeping areas. Smoke alarm batteries should be changed out with fresh replacements to ensure that the alarm can do its job. A good rule of thumb is to change the batteries in your smoke alarm when daylight savings time changes. If you use a charcoal grill for those lovely summer barbecues, or an outdoor fireplace, remember to douse the briquets or the ashes with water, and place the soggy ashes in a metal container away from your home or garage. Embers can stay hot for days, and more than one Mason District resident has lost a vehicle, a garage,
or the whole house, because the ashes they thought were cold, weren’t. Smokers should use sturdy ashtrays, and never stub out a cigarette in potted planting material. Today’s “soils” often have combustible components, so what you thought was garden soil may have wood chips, sawdust, petrochemicals, even paper, mixed in, creating significant fuel for a fire. A cigarette stubbed out into a planter can smolder for hours while the household is asleep, erupting into a raging fire when no one is watching. Two devastating fires, on the same day last year in western Fairfax, started in mulch or landscape materials, displacing dozens of people, who lost everything but the clothes they were wearing. Don’t let it happen to you. A little caution and thought saves lives, property, and pets. November’s general election for local and state offices is set, as last week’s primary election determined Democratic candidates for some seats. The Republican Party generally uses a convention or caucus to select its candidates, and independent candidates are not subject to either process. Congratulations to Lee District Supervisor Jeff McKay, who made a strong showing in a four-way race; State Senator Dick Saslaw, who edged out a spirited challenger; and newcomer Steve Descano, who defeated a wellknown and seasoned Commonwealth’s Attorney. Countywide, about 10.3 percent of registered voters voted in person or absentee. In Mason District, that percentage was 12.7 percent, among the highest in the county. Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.
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Richmond Report I can’t tell you all how glad I am to have the primary election behind us. Picking amongst my fellow Democrats is almost like asking me to pick a favorite family member. On any given day I may have a preference, but I never want them to know that. This year, though, I did make my preferences known, and as readers of the FCNP know, it put me at odds with some of my best political friends here in Falls Church. Now that the nominees are decided, we can all put that unpleasantness behind us and work together toward our shared goals. That said, it’s a little easier to be magnanimous when all of your favorites win. I’m proud of the great campaigns run by Dalia Palchik for Providence District Supervisor, Jeff McKay for Fairfax County Board Chairman, and Parisa Dehghani-Tafti and Steve Descano for Commonwealth’s Attorney in Arlington/Falls Church and Fairfax respectively. With the Commonwealth’s Attorney races being perhaps the most contentious, with some aspersions cast (unwarranted in my view) about how these races were funded, I hope supporters of all the candidates share my excitement about what comes next. Both Mr. Descano and Ms. Tafti have promised to implement evidence based best practices in their offices to ensure their policies will actually reduce crime and incarceration rates. For instance, both have pledged to stop asking for cash bail. Cash bail unfairly discriminates against lowincome people. In localities where Commonwealth’s Attorneys that stopped asking for this, there has not been any significant impact on public safety or court appearances. Virginia’s Attorney General Mark Herring appears to have been paying attention to our local races as well. He recently announced that he now agrees that prosecuting marijuana possession is a waste of time and resources, an issue on which both successful candidates campaigned. Voters chose the candidates who agreed to use their discretion not to prosecute these misdemeanors. I look forward to watching both Ms. Tafti and Mr. Descano work to reshape the legislative agenda of the Virginia Association of Commonwealth’s Attorney (VACA),
which lobbies the General Assembly. A more progressive VACA membership means they may drop their opposition to marijuana decriminalization, embrace a prohibition on the death penalty for the seriously mentally ill, and support new trials for people sentenced with junk science. Some folks have lamented the role of money spent on behalf of the challengers in the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s races. As a champion of campaign finance reform since my first term, I have introduced legislation to prohibit using campaign funds for personal use, to strengthen our ethics laws, to require online political ads to be regulated like newspaper and TV ads and to give localities the option to publicly finance campaigns – just to name a few. The concerns about money in politics I hear from constituents generally have to do with the role of business interests influencing those who are supposed to be their watchdogs. They feel like the system is rigged against ordinary people — a system where big business buys influence and pays off politicians in exchange for favorable rules, regulations, and laws. For instance, allowing bail bond companies to contribute to the Commonwealth’s Attorneys who oppose ending cash bail. Or Defense Attorneys feeling obligated to pitch in to these races. Transparency is also a concern. Dark money is money that comes from organizations that don’t disclose their donors’ identities for the purpose of influencing elections. Unlike a political action committee, these organizations are not regulated by the Federal Election Commission. That said, the race for Commonwealth’s Attorney in Fairfax and Falls Church-Arlington was about a need for a more progressive approach to our criminal justice system that was sorely lacking. The voters of Falls Church, Fairfax and Arlington won because they ran good campaigns and connected with voters who share their values. As for campaign finance reform, we can still do better. I’ll keep introducing legislation to increase transparency and hold elected officials accountable in how they receive (and spend) their campaign funds. And we owe it to our constituents to do so.
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Here We Go Again!
Here we go again! Trump holds a rally to launch his re-election campaign this week, and CNN and other news networks are “Johnny on the spot” reveling in the entire show the way they did when that behavior was likely the single biggest factor in this sleaze-ball felon winning the election in the first place. It’s all about the ratings, baby, even if the few thousand who are watching such drivel (and oh my goodness, is Fox going to get the edge again this time?) out of America’s 330 million and the planet’s seven or eight billion, are arguably the least qualified to dictate what our major news media should be showing on the air. They’re glued to the tube in hopes FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS that Trump will say something really shocking, like crowds at car races sitting in eager hopes of seeing a really bad crash. Trump is the shock politician the way that the “shock jocks” previously used to improve ratings the fouler their mouths became, escalated from the innocent days of the Wolfman, in the spirit of the chair heaving on Jerry Springer shows, the whole fake world of professional wrestling and that sad case of the late Morton Downey Jr., who went out of his way to make such an ugly clown of himself for the whiteriot TV shows he hosted that it surely led to his early demise. The only difference between Morton Downey Jr. and Trump is, that some would argue, in Morton’s case it was an act. But, oh America, how you have sunk since those days of what now seem the highest of moral grounds in our popular entertainment, when “I Love Lucy,” “I Married Joan,” “The Life of Riley” and even the slightly-later dramas like “The Rockford Files” (with all its scenes of the terrible smog from the early 1970s lingering over the Los Angeles basin), “Dragnet” and “Harry O.” The best movies were the “film noir” classics of the late 1940s and 1950s, with “Sunset Boulevard” (“I’m ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille”) and “All About Eve” (“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride”) in a dead heat for the best, and Tennessee Williams’ best classics were put on the silver screen, “Streetcar Named Desire” (“I have always relied on the kindness of strangers”) and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” rivaling the epics on a grand Cinemascope scale, the likes of “Giant,” “Cleopatra,” and “How the West Was Won.” Jack Paar and Johnny Carson were no Morton Downey or Donald Trump. They had class and style. Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. were the bad boys, “The Rat Pack,” but they were hardly that bad, really. These constituted the middle American cultural fare of the generation that produced many of the people now supporting Trump, people not so different if different at all from the rest of us. So here’s the point. They don’t realize how their own standards for culture, for manners, if you will, have sunk into the toilet since the days of their parents. I am of the belief that almost everything in our culture that passes for popular entertainment is, in fact, social engineering. I hold that the moguls who’ve gained control over our mass communication modes let very little onto their networks, screens and radio waves that do not conform with a prevailing approach aimed at keeping the masses in their place and feeding them, as in the Roman Empire days, “bread and circuses.” Today’s TV sitcoms are the worst. The saddest part of the process witnessed since the 1970s has been the systematic dumbing down of our dialogue and discourse, the use of swear words and angry epithets in place of impassioned but meaningful arguments. This has been deliberate. Most of what passes for so-called “postmodernism” is nothing but crap, in art, literature or whatever form. Now, we’re on the verge of legalizing marijuana. This is a huge leap in the dumbing down of civilization. The opioid epidemic is the gateway to this new, lower level of Dante’s Inferno. It’s like watching the decline of the old Haight Ashbury set in. No wonder it’s still Trump. Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.
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Our Man in Arlington By Charlie Clark
Know any real estate agents who moonlight as guitarists for a world-famous reggae band? Didn’t think so. At the June 8 Tinner Hill Music Festival, I did a doubletake when I gazed upon the odd-man-out white guitarist on stage with Julian Junior Marvin’s Wailers. Yes, that was Dean Yeonas, my childhood neighbor from a longstanding Arlington real estate family. He was executing those tricky reggae strums that Bob Marley and followers called “inside-out rock and roll.” The principal at Yeonas & Shafran Real Estate afterward joined his suburban troops in the audience to confirm that I wasn’t experiencing a flashback hallucination from ganja. He later explained how he landed the gig with Marvin’s ongoing “Message of Love” tour. Dean Yeonas, 61 and a bit younger than I, fell for reggae like I did, hearing Jimmy Cliff’s catchy tunes in the 1972 film “The Harder They Come.” During my college years, I didn’t really understand that reggae had already penetrated the U.S. record markets with Millie Small’s bouncy “My Boy Lollipop” in 1964, Desmond Dekker and the Aces’ mysterious “The Israelites” in 1969, and the 1972 Johnny Nash hit “I Can See Clearly Now.”
Dean and I both graduated to Marley, Peter Tosh and Toots and the Maytals. Yeonas recalls “tracing it all back” to the style called mento, then ska and seeing Jerry Garcia play ‘The Harder They Come.” “I always loved the infectious rhythm and feel — love it more now that I am so intimate with learning the nuances and detail of it from a patient and gracious master.” It was five years ago that Yeonas’s friend Tom Meyer took him to a jam session and introduced him to Marvin, one of Marley’s guitar players who debuted with the “Exodus” album in 1977. Junior Marvin, decades before he wowed the Falls Church crowd this month, appeared in the Beatles movie “Help” and the London production of “Hair.” He played blues and rock with T-Bone Walker, Billy Preston and Ike and Tina Turner before turning down an invite to join Stevie Wonder’s band to instead back Bob Marley. “We became pals,” Yeonas recalled, “and he invited me to sit in on some D.C. shows.” The famous Wailer also got to know and perform with Yeonas’ twin sons, also musicians. “Last year he said he was ‘Putting the band together and I want you in,’” Dean said. Following a slew of rehearsals, the latest incarnation has performed 20 shows this
year, with another 30 on the tour schedule. That tricky strum on the second and fourth beat, Dean confided to me, “is an odd meter if you’re used to the one and three beats and takes some getting used to. But once you get in the groove, that’s when the magic happens.” As owner of his business, Yeonas is able to keep the real estate sales going remotely while touring between hotels and stages with the combo that consists of Jamaicans and two from the island of Dominica. “Every time I play this music with this band it’s a celebration of bonding, what we all have in common — our human community,” Yeonas said. “The music is so well known, epic and profound that it transcends things that pull people apart. I will do this for as long as I am able!” *** I was astonished one rushhour this spring to drive over Chain Bridge and spot a makeshift parking lot. About eight cars were packed on that tiny spit of land on the side closest to McLean that, back in the 1930s through the ‘60s, hosted a gas station and bait-and-tackle shop. I asked Arlington county staff whether they had given a permit to some enterprising freelance business. They knew nothing. My suspicion: It was temporary valet parking for some private party at one of those mansions overlooking the Potomac.
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Business News & Notes F.C. Arts to Host Next F.C. Chamber Networking Mixer Falls Church Arts will host a networking mixer for the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, June 25 from 5:30 – 7 p.m. The event is free for Chamber members, friends of the business community, and Falls Church Arts patrons. Refreshments and an opportunity to view the exhibit All About Me will be provided at 700 W. Broad Street in Falls Church. For more information, visit www.FallsChurchChamber.org.
Local Businesses Offering Free Classes at New Downtown Park Several local businesses are helping inaugurate the new, yet to be named renovated park on the 100 block of W. Broad Street, by offering free weekend classes. Karma Yoga is offering Sunday Morning Yoga on June 23 and 30, at 9 a.m. (bring your own mat) while Music Together will offer Little Steps Music for children up to 5 years of age on Saturday, June 22 at 5:30 p.m. (rain date Sunday, June 23) and Fit4Mom offers a Body Back class, a high-intensity interval training workout, on Saturday, June 29 at 7 a.m. For more information, visit www.FallsChurchVA.gov/events.
Summer Camp Open House at Code Ninjas Saturday Code Ninjas in Falls Church is hosting an open house this Saturday, June 22 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. The “Summer of Code Summer Camp” event will include information about their camps featuring Minecraft, Roblox, Beginner’s Javascript, App Builders Club and more and offer STEM games and activities and a chance to win a free week of camp. Code Ninjas is also offering parents a night out while their children, ages 7 – 14 enjoy a night of games, puzzles, robotics, and more. Code Ninjas is located at 510 S. Washington Street, Suite F. For more information, visit www.codeninjas.com/locations/va-falls-church. 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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When Will Oil Production Peak? Part II by Tom Whipple
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Next to global warming, the end of our ability to produce ever increasing amounts of oil is one of the most serious developments that humanity faces in this century. Ten years ago, many were concerned that global oil production was about to peak; however, just as oil reached $148 a barrel and gasoline climbed to $4 a gallon in 2008, a deux ex machina arrived in the form of “shale oil.” The technology of drilling horizontal wells in dense, oilbearing rock and then fracturing the sides of the well with high-pressure water had been around for many years but was always deemed too expensive for commercial exploitation. When oil prices climbed from $20-$30 a barrel to over $100, the fracking of shale looked profitable and, 10 years later, the U.S. is producing some 8.5 million barrels of shale oil per day. The profitability of the extraction process is a very open question as billions of dollars have been lost producing shale oil already. The financial press was delighted that American ingenuity and technology had conquered the threat of shrinking oil supplies and the theory of peak oil was relegated off to a future that was so far away that it could be ignored. Few noticed, however, that in the last 10 years, conventional (non-shale) oil production hardly grew and that continuing economic growth was fueled primarily from the shale oil fields. Today, it is starting to look like that when U.S. shale oil production peaks, world oil production will be at or very close to peaking. When the modern notion of peak oil was conceived some 20 years ago, it was based on the geology of oil production, i.e., there was not enough oil left that could be economically extracted. The theory that oil was about to run short was not an altogether outlandish idea, for the world currently is consuming some 36 billion barrels of oil each year while finding less than five billion. This, of course, is not a sustainable situation. It is interesting that in recent years some oil companies have adopted the practice of lumping new oil and natural gas finds together as “barrels of oil equivalent” leaving the impression that natural gas finds are really more oil. Keep in mind that the term “peak
oil” means that world oil produc- goes into decline, then the world’s tion reaches its peak; there could oil production stops growing. be many reasons for the peak. For Moreover, concerns are growing example, someday, the climatic situ- that electric cars might reduce the ation will become so bad that leg- demand for oil significantly in 10 islation and policies will be imple- years or so. Should such vehicles mented to reduce the combustion of start replacing internal combustion oil and other fossil fuels drastically. vehicles, either by fiat, as in some New technologies may be in the off- European countries, or because of ing which could produce pollution- their many advantages, demand for free energy at a cost far below that oil could drop significantly. of fossil fuels, making our current As we have learned from expesources of energy obsolete. rience, however, it is possible that Then we have an array of geo- significant new sources of oil will political disputes, wars, trade wars, be found in the decade ahead. sanctions, etc. that could lead to Southern Argentina seems to have significant reductions in oil produc- a lot of potential for extracting tion. An economic recession like we shale oil by fracking. China and had 10 years would almost certainly Russia both say they have signifilower demand for oil so much that cant reserves of shale oil waiting new drilling would be curtailed. to be produced. Moscow is enthuShale oil wells deplete so rapidly siastic about how much oil it will that in three or four years they are find below the Arctic ocean after effectively gone. A few years with- the polar ice cap melts. All this out new drilling for shale oil could says there is no guarantee that the see a reduction in oil production by oil we currently know about is all millions of barrels per day. that we will ever discover. Even if Many of these factors which new sources of oil are found, keep could lead to lower oil production in mind that we are presently using are so intertwined with other fac- some 36 billion barrels of oil each tors that would tend to increase year, and this will increase if the production that it is impossible to global economy continues to grow sort out an estimate of the future. at projected rates. The critical question we should be In addition to watching oil prowatching is whether the peaking of duction from the Permian Basin oil production is likely to come in we need to keep an eye on the the next decade or so, or whether perturbations in the Middle East. we can keep growing oil produc- Should tanker traffic through the PRIVATE TEACHERS tion for the nextLESSONS•DEGREED few decades as Straits of Hormuz be blocked by STYLES•ALL AGES optimistsALL areINSTRUMENTS•ALL predicting. hostilities, or production be slowed SOUTH WASHINGTON Several 416 developing situations ST., by increased hostilities, we would should be watchedFALLS closelyCHURCH for clues see unaffordable gasoline very as to when the peak will be reached. quickly and even a peak to world 703-533-7393 As noted above, U.S. shale oil oil production. LESSONS • SALES Although the production of production has carried the burden RENTALS • REPAIRS of allowing economic growth for renewable energy, mostly wind the last 10 years. However, except and solar, is growing rapidly, the for the Permian shale oil basin in demand for energy is growing so PRIVATE LESSONS•DEGREED TEACHERS Texas and New Mexico, it looks fast that we are likely to be burning like there is little growth left in even more fossil fuels 20-30 years the other half dozen U.S. shale oil from now than we are today. The basins. For now, it seems likely climate, of course, will be much that if production from the Permian worse.
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FALLS CHURCHCALENDAR COMMUNITYEVENTS THURSDAY, JUNE 20 Circus Toy Training. Attendees can try their hand at juggling, spinning plates and other skill toys. Create a routine for the diabolo or kendama to impress friends. For teens in rising grades 6-12, registration required. To register, visit or call the Youth Services Desk at 703-248-5034. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 3 – 4 p.m. Summer Concerts in the Park. The Village Preservation and Improvement Society (VPIS) and the Recreation and Parks Department are hosting the 27th annual “Summer Concerts in the Park” series held in Cherry Hill Park beginning on June 20 — Aug. 1. The series features local musicians of various genres every
Thursday evening. This week’s performer is the Falls Church Concert Band. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). 7 – 8:30 p.m. 703-248-5077.
SATURDAY, JUNE 22 Farmers Market. The award-winning, year-round market is filled with fresh, local produce, meat, dairy, flowers & plants, honey, music and much more. City Hall (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). 8 a.m. – noon. 703-248-5034. Children’s Singalong in the Downtown Park. Miss Katie from Music Together will lead tots in a free singalong. Downtown Park (100 block of W. Broad St., Falls Church). 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, JUNE 23 Stonewall 50 Panel. Interested attendees can join the News-Press
and the Social Justice Committee of Falls Church and Vicinity for a discussion about LGBTQ rights on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in New York City. Falls Church Episcopal (115 E. Fairfax St., Falls Church). 4 p.m.
MONDAY, JUNE 24 Preschool Storytime. Stories and fun for ages 0-5. Drop-in. All storytimes are followed by playtime with the Early Literacy Center toys. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 10:30 – 11 a.m. 703-248-5034. Playtime with Early Literacy Center Toys. Explore educational and manipulative items (aka toys) to teach early literacy through play. Ages birth to 5 years. No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 11 a.m. – noon. 703-248-5034.
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“Blackbeard.” Set sail with the most infamous pirate of all time in a riotous, rowdy high-seas adventure. After learning he’s a wanted man by the British army, Blackbeard and his merry crew of maritime marauders embark on a journey across the globe to raise an undead pirate army from the depths of the sea. Hilarious and original, “Blackbeard” is a fresh musical salute to the Seven Seas. Signature Theatre (420 Campbell Ave., Arlington). $87. 8 p.m. sigtheatre.com.
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Great Books Discussion. A “Great Books” discussion concentrating on literary classics (both modern and historical works). This month’s book is “The Politics of Wilderness and the Practice of the Wild” by R. Edward Grumbine and “Katahdin” by Henry David Thoreau. Drop in. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 7 – 8:30 p.m.
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“A Misanthrope.” ‘A Misanthrope’ is a brisk, biting comedy about a cynic who thinks insincerity is a sin—but the joke’s on him when he falls for an ingenue who’s more than his intellectual equal. Minnicino’s ‘A Misanthrope” is written in slang-filled rhyming couplets, one howler after another. Hypocrisy has never been more hilarious. Gunston Arts Center II (2700 S Lang St., Arlington) $40. 7:30 p.m. wscavantbard.org.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 23 “Beauty and the Beast.” “Beauty and the Beast” tells the story of Belle, a young woman who feels out of place in her provincial French village. When her father is imprisoned in a mysterious castle, Belle’s attempt to rescue him leads to her capture by the Beast, a monster who was long ago trapped in his gruesome form by an enchantress. The only way for the Beast to become human once again is if he learns to love and be loved in return.Creative Cauldron (410 S. Maple Ave., Falls Church) $32. 2 p.m. creativecauldron.org.
LIVEMUSIC THURSDAY, JUNE 20 Andrew Acosta. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-532-9283. Brad Rhodes. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-237-8333. Trampled By Turtles and Deer Tick with Maggie Rose. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $30 7:30
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Ari Hest with Beth Snapp. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20. 7:30 p.m. 703255-1566. Union Stage presents at The Miracle Theatre “The End of the World, or How I Learned to Start Worrying and Love Humanity.” Miracle Theatre (535 8th St. SE Washington, D.C.). $25. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566.
David Kitchen Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504.
FRIDAY, JUNE 21 John Trupp & Friends. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-532-9283. Steve Houk/Jess Robinson & Guests. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-241-9504. Steve Forbert with Jesse Bardwell. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20 – $25. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566. Arvie Bennett Jr.. Falls Church Distillers (442 S. Washington Street, Ste A Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-858-9186. Jimmy Smooth & The Hit Time. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703241-9504. Judge Smith. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333
SATURDAY, JUNE 22 A Cappella Now: Past, Present, Future. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10. 1:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. The Exaggerations. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd.,
ANDREW ACOSTA will be at Clare and Don’s Beach Shack tonight. (Courtesy Photo) Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-2419504. Joseph Monasterial. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-532-9283. Little Songs Live 2019: Jingleside. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 – $25. 7 p.m. 703255-1566. Classic Albums Live performs: Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” 40th Anniversary. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $25. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. Great Northern. Falls Church Distillers (442 S. Washington Street, Ste A Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-858-9186.
SUNDAY, JUNE 23 Dixieland Direct Jazz. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 1 p.m. 703-241-
9504. Jumpin’ Jupiter. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. Open Mic. Falls Church Distillers (442 S. Washington Street, Ste A Falls Church). 5 p.m. 703-8589186.
Wolf’s Blues Jam. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504. Don Zientara, Dougie. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m.
TUESDAY, JUNE 25
Zealyn and Far Places + Alex Di Leo. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $12 – $20. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.
Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo with Melissa Etheridge and Liz Phair. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $35. 7 p.m. 703-255-1900.
Buddy Guy and Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band with Samantha Fish. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $30. 7:30 p.m. 703-2551900.
Sol Roots. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.
MONDAY, JUNE 24
Quinn Sullivan. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $22 – $60. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566.
Oshima Brothers featuring Rainbow Girls Live and In Concert. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26
Bob Hume. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.
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Falls Church City Manager Hector Rivera has named Elizabeth Richmond Friel, AICP, as the Planning Division Director, the City’s Public Information Office announced this week. Friel will start in her new position on July 6, 1999. “We are delighted to have Ms. Friel join our team. She brings experience and expertise to the position and we look forward to the contributions that she will make to the City of Falls Church.”
Something seemed to finally click late Monday night, causing the Falls Church City Council to go within a matter of minutes from a 3-3 deadlock to a 6-0 unanimous decision to approve making an ambitious bid for $25 million in federal stimulus funds before the July 1 filing deadline. The proposal calls for the City of Falls Church to become a veritable “green learning laboratory.”
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CRIME REPORT Week of June 10 – 16, 2019 Drug/Narcotic Violation, 200 blk Hillwood Ave, June 10, 9:19 AM, following a traffic stop, a male, 26, of Bowie, MD, was issued a summons for Possession of Marijuana. Credit Card Theft, 702 S Washington St, (Liberty Gas Station), June 10, between 6:30 and 7 PM, unknown suspect took an item of value left behind by a customer. Fraud, 500 blk E Columbia St, June 11, 12:46 PM, an incident of fraud was reported. Defrauding a Garage Keeper, 112 W Jefferson St (Blair’s Towing), June 11, 8:25 PM, a known suspect drove a vehicle away without paying fees owed. Larceny from Vehicle, 304 Douglas Ave (Cristina’s Restaurant), June 12, 7:02 PM, victim reported items of value were taken from an unsecured vehicle
on June 7. Fraud, 500 blk W Broad St, June 12, 8:02 PM, an incident of fraud was reported. Larceny from Building, 344 W Broad St (Starbucks), June 13, 7:31 AM, suspect described as a white male, approximately 5’10”, 160 pounds, thin build wearing a plaid red and white shirt, blue jeans, and a red baseball cap, took an unattended phone and charger. Hit and Run, 244 W Broad St (Paisano’s Pizza), June 13, between 12:30 and 6:40 PM, a white Honda Civic was struck by another vehicle which left the scene. Drug/Narcotic Violation, 244 W Broad St (Paisano’s Pizza), June 13, 6:46 PM, responding to a report of a hit and run, officers noted a strong smell of marijuana from the vehicle. A female, 25, of Manassas, VA, was issued a summons for Possession of Marijuana.
Assault, 500 blk Roosevelt Blvd, June 14, 11:54 AM, an incident of assault was reported. A Warrant and Protective Order were obtained. Hit and Run, 100 blk Hillwood Ave, June 14, 5:45 PM, a parked gray Honda Accord was struck by a gray Mazda 6 which left the scene. Investigation continues. Drunk In Public, 100 blk Rowell Ct, June 15, 2:42 PM, a male, 39, of Arlington, VA, was arrested for Drunk in Public. Assault & Battery, Strangulation and Disorderly Conduct, 6765 Wilson Blvd (Pho Va Restaurant), June 16, 9:59 AM, suspect entered the business, pushed a customer, tossed items from tables and kicked a door. He was restrained by an employee until police arrived. No weapons were observed or implied. A male, 30, of Falls Church, VA, was arrested for Assault & Battery, Strangulation, and Disorderly Conduct. Drug/Narcotic Violation, 100 blk Haycock Rd, June 16, 6:25 PM, following a traffic stop, a male, 31, of Waldorf, MD, was issued a summons for Possession of Marijuana.
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on the Commonwealth’s Attorney race. Before the election, in which the News-Press endorsed Theo Stamos, the big contribution to Parisa Dehgani-Tafti was “nebulous ‘dark money’” “lobbed” into the campaign by “billionaire George Soros.” Post-election, when Nick Benton is editorially urging Democrats to make nice with one another, the news story refers to “outside money” coming from “Progressive Democratic billionaire George Soros.” I often agree with Editor Benton’s opinions, and appreciate many features of his paper. But anyone who has read it for any length of time knows that item #2 on its “Platform,” “Do not let the news columns reflect editorial comment,” is, well, a joke. John F. McDiarmid Falls Church
Lauds News-Press For Coverage of Recent Election Editor, We write to commend the News-Press for its coverage of the most recent election. Your coverage was fair, accurate, and helpful to voters. Specifically, your article bringing to light the extraordinary amount of money contributed from outside the region in this primary was particularly beneficial. You demonstrated the critical role of local newspapers and how fortunate we are to have one. David and Edith Snyder Falls Church
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