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U.S. Rep. Don Beyer introduced the Keeping Guns from Criminals Act to close a loophole in federal law that allows straw purchasers and gun traffickers to funnel firearms to felons, juveniles and other restricted purchasers with little to no risk of being prosecuted. SEE NEWS BRIEFS, PAGE 8

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Commercial Development By Metro Can Be Super-Dense, Planner Says

‘Stakeholder’ Ideas For Annexed 40 Acres Get Shared

BY NICHOLAS F. BENTON

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With the recent opening of DGS Delicatessen in Mosaic District and Buffalo Wild Wings debuting on Monday in Skyline, the Falls Church area’s restaurant boom continues.

ish the parking deck, build a new one on the other end of the property and construct a new sanctuary building. Fairfax County’s Mason District Supervisor Penny Gross, who was aware the church group was looking for something in her district in that area, told the NewsPress that “there will be challenges for them” at that site. “There will have to be a close look taken at land use regulations and the

A veteran leading member of the Falls Church Planning Commission, included in an effort by consultants to the City of Falls Church and School Board to elicit comments on how to best develop the near 40 acres annexed to the City as part of the deal to sell its water system to Fairfax County, said Monday that if commercial development of 10 acres of the land was on the area nearest the West Falls Church Metro station, she would have no opposition to whatever height or density variances might be sought. That’s because that portion of the 40 acres, roughly constituting what is now the football field at George Mason High School, has no residential neighborhoods around it, at all, she noted. The Planning Commission former chair and current influential member Ruth Rodgers said that she would not like the idea that the 25 percent of the land that will be available for commercial development use (under terms of the sale) will be isolated from the City if goes over there. On the other hand, if proximity to the Metro station can provide for a highly-lucrative use, necessary height and density matters would not be a problem for her, she said. Rodgers made her comments in a small group meeting, one of a half dozen or so hosted Monday by the consultants from Cooper Carry and VHB. The succession of meetings were held at the School Board central office to elicit ideas about the development of the land from a variety of small groups of

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FALLS CHURCH PLANNING Commissioner Ruth Rodgers (rear right) looks on as Paul Moyer of VHB reaches across the table to point out a site on the aerial photo of the nearly 40 acres recently annexed by the City of Falls Church as part of the deal to sell the City’s water system to Fairfax County. (P��: N��-P��)

Expelled from Historic Church, Anglicans Buy a New Home BY NICHOLAS F. BENTON

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The Falls Church Anglican, the large congregation of defectors from the Episcopal Church denomination who occupied but was eventually forced by the courts to vacate the historic Falls Church site on S. Washington St., has bought a new five-acre location at 6565 Arlington Blvd. within a mile of its former site in Fairfax County. The Rev. John Yates, who led

the congregants en masse out of the Episcopal Church in 2006 but occupied the F.C. church property for over six years, announced to his flock last week that the closing on the new property was completed, and now the hurdles associated with permits and licensing from the county will be pursued. The property, on Route 50 at the intersection of S. Cherry Street, is currently home to a fourstory commercial office building and a two-story parking deck. Preliminary plans are to demol-

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business and residential neighbors to the site will have to be consulted,” she said. “Route 50 is a very busy roadway and the impact of traffic of a house of worship there will have to be examined.” She said she will also look at the loss to the county’s tax rolls of having a commercial property convert to a non-profit use. In a glossy 20-page brochure shared with the congregation, which was also urged to keep the plans silent even after the sale was completed, it is stated, “It is true that this new church home will cost us a lot of money,” citing a “third party appraiser” who set its value at $33,600,000, with an estimated purchase price of $29 million and an additional $23 million for new construction. Going to closing, the brochure stipulated, would require “pledges and cash totaling at least $10 million: of that $5 million is needed up front for the down payment.” The brochure predicts that new worship space could be constructed by 2017 or 2018. According to Gross, the property is assessed by the county at $19 million, considerably less

than what the church paid for it, and in its current use it provides $238,856 annually in taxes, about $207,000 of which are real estate taxes that go into the county’s general fund and would be lost if the property were converted to non-profit use. In the brochure, it is stated, “For a long time, it seemed door after door was closed as members of our church family sought out possible sites for a new church home. Then, door after door was opened for this new location. After diligent work and a season of parish-wide prayer, we voted overwhelmingly to proceed toward a purchase. Humbly and boldly before God, we believe that this piece of land is where He wants us.” Upon learning of the NewsPress’ report on this matter that first appeared on its website, FCNP.com, Yates wrote to his congregation, “Some of you may have read the article about our property purchase in the Falls Church News-Press. The editor/ author references having seen our Forward brochure and quotes from it, as well as quoting from my remarks during services last

Sunday. He also has apparently met with the county and discussed the process and requirements for the development of the property.” “While we would have preferred to have our plans fully developed before public attention came our way,” Yates continued, “I am confident that we are ready to have preliminary conversations with the community and share with them our hopes for being good neighbors to them. We have just made the final selection of our architect and the firm will be seeking input from the congregation....The wardens and I will be working on ways to reach out to the surrounding area and begin engaging.” He added that church offices will be set up in the office building on the property this year, and that the church has established a limited liability corporation to manage the office building for all its current commercial tenants. “Offices and some meeting space for our ministries will be in the new building later this year, however we will continue to worship at other locations for the next few years as we are still in the very early stages of long-range planning,” Yates wrote.

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THE NEW PROPERTY ACQUIRED by the Falls Church Anglican at 6565 Arlington Blvd. (Photo: News-Press) Since being expelled by the courts from the historic Falls Church property in the center of the City of Falls Church in 2012, the congregants loyal to Yates have been renting locations around the area for their Sunday worship and other purposes, including the auditoriums at Bishop O’Connell High School and Kenmore Middle School in Arlington. That has been costing almost $1 million a year, the brochure says. The congregation’s defection from the Episcopal Church in 2006 was due in large part to its

negative reaction to the Episcopal Church’s 2003 election of the Rev. Gene Robinson as an openly-gay priest as a bishop. Those members of the Falls Church Episcopal Church who did not go along with the defectors maintained their identity as “Continuing Episcopalians,” worshiping in the fellowship hall of the Falls Church Presbyterian across the street from the historic church. Since returning to the historic Falls Church in 2012, they have seen their congregation numbers growing steadily.

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It perhaps was not intended to be that way, but the small group “stakeholder” meeting the News-Press crashed Monday (see article, Page 1 this edition) turned out to set an important tone for the coming crucially-important discussions on how to develop the some 40 acres the City of Falls Church received into its borders from the sale of its water system to Fairfax County last year. That is, an important City policy maker underscored the plausibility of truly deriving the “highest and best use” of the 10 acres of that land which, under the terms of the sale agreement, can be designated for commercial development. The portion of that land closest to the West Falls Church Metro Station, and roughly on where the George Mason High School football field now is, is nowhere near a residential neighborhood, and therefore height and density exceptions that a developer could seek to maximize revenues from the site should represent no problem to anyone. It would all be a function of the risk a developer might be taking to put something really extraordinary there. What might seem hardest for Falls Church citizens to grasp is that development of some of that end of the property will not be oriented toward the City of Falls Church, even if it is in the City limits. No, it would be oriented toward Washington, D.C., Tysons Corner and Dulles Airport, destinations that can (or soon will be) be reached by the Metro. These are the Golden Geese who will be pumping Falls Church’s coffers full of cash money as whatever goes at that West Falls Church Metro site provides what will be moving along those Metro tracks. For example, with an orientation to Washington, D.C. it should be noted that D.C. is one of the largest holiday and tourist destinations in the world, with 20 million visitors annually. If those people could be housed at a high-rise hotel by a Metro station, equally distant between D.C. and the airport, relatively safe and inexpensive compared to options in the District itself, then whoever puts a hotel there will make a killing. (All other things being considered, commercial revenue models show that hotels are the most profitable, in terms of tax yields, of all). That use, with perhaps a few floors for luxury high-rise condos and some ground floor retail to serve the hotel and condos, could combine with the “educational” use on the rest of the 40 acres in the form of, in addition to the high and middle schools, a first-rate performing arts center. Built along the lines of the Strathmore in Montgomery County, Maryland, it would serve the schools and the wider public alike, and draw a lot of people to where their dollars begin stuffing those Falls Church tax coffers. The beauty is that the City of Falls Church would need no one’s approval to do all this, just some creativity and resolve.

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The Accurate Story Behind The Husky Chef Program Editor, I’ve been disappointed to read articles about the Mary Ellen Henderson Husky Chef competition and see them fail to give credit where credit is due. There have been morning announcement stories, Falls Church City Public Schools tweets, a Washington Post: Kids-Post article, and Falls Church News-Press articles that have named FCCPS Food Service director Richard Kane and even

former Henderson principal Seidah Ashshaheed as the sole creators of this award winning program. A more accurate story behind the competition is that it was an initiative created by former Henderson Family and Consumer Science (FACS) teacher, Jeff Buck, and former assistant principal and Career and Teacher Education teacher, Jeanne Seabridge. They enlisted the help of City Schools BIE Director Marybeth Connelly for community

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judges and Richard Kane for the USDA school food guidelines in order to serve the dishes for lunch. For the past two years, the program has been run by me, Dawn Tarter, the current Henderson FACS teacher. Like my predecessor, Mr. Buck, I spend each quarter teaching students about nutrition, how to follow a recipe and about making healthy substitutions to prepare them for this culminating project. I then introduce the program to the students, facilitate on research days and help them come up with substitutions and adjustments to meet nutritional and cost criteria. Last year, I started providing the students with a “secret ingredient” to make the judging criteria more

uniform and the dish planning more challenging. I also take each class of students on a walking field trip to Giant to purchase groceries. Richard Kane comes in on competition day and, with his assistant Sindy Morel, conducts interviews with judges and teams about the competition. Richard Kane and Sindy Morel, along with Tish Pugh, are instrumental in coordinating the winning teams’ meal preparation in the cafeteria. As you can see, this program has involved the efforts of many staff members and it is not just a one-person creation that provides students with such a valuable realworld experience. Dawn Tarter Falls Church

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When it Comes to Gun Safety, Ask the Question B� S�� D��

I am writing to thank both the Falls Church City Council and the Falls Church City School Board for proclaiming Sunday, June 21, 2015 Asking Saves Kids, or ASK, Day in Falls Church City. This proclamation joins others in cities and states across the country to promote the importance of asking about unlocked guns in homes where children play. The ASK campaign was created by the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Just this year the National PTA also endorsed the campaign. Every time we lose another child to gun violence, we hear outrage at the senselessness of the tragedy, but rarely do we hear about a concrete solution to prevent more children from dying. In fact, recently here in Virginia a two-year-old died at the VCU Medical Center the morning after accidentally shooting himself on Memorial Day in Lunenburg County. The boy’s family was visiting in Lunenburg County when he grabbed the gun from the top of a dresser while alone in a bedroom. Parenting has never been an easy assignment. Meaningful and joyful, yes. Easy, no. We can all agree that parents need all the help they can get to keep their kids safe and healthy in an increasingly complicated world. Every day across America nine children and teens are shot in unintentional shoot-

ings. The majority of these instances go unnoticed, they do not make the headlines or captivate our attention. Thousands of kids and teens are killed and injured by gun violence every year. Many of these youth deaths and injuries occur because parents, relatives or friends

“When it comes to gun safety, we are often not taking the same logical approach with our loved ones.” leave guns accessible to kids. They are the unintentional shootings and suicides looked upon as isolated tragedies, rather than viewed together as the preventable public health crisis that they actually represent. Every day as parents, we make very rational choices regarding our kid’s safety – we buckle their seatbelts, make them wear bicycle helmets, and limit their TV time. But when it comes to gun safety, we are often not taking the same logical approach with our loved ones. One out of three homes with children has guns, many left unlocked or loaded. Yet, nationally, more than half of parents say it

has never occurred to them to ask about the presence of guns where their children play. As parents, we can help protect those we love by asking the right questions about gun safety. This is the simple idea behind the Asking Saves Kids Campaign. ASK encourages parents to simply ask if there are unlocked guns in the homes where their children play (such as at friends’ or family members’ homes). Just as it has become common to hear parents asking about nut allergies or how the children will be supervised, parents can take an important step to ensure the safety of their children simply by asking, “Is there an unlocked gun in your home?” This can seem scary. I’ve never asked this question before. Will the other parent take offense? It is not part of everyday parent culture! Will the other parents stop inviting my child over to play? How can I ask without seeming confrontational? Easy. Smartphones and technology to the rescue! Just send an email before a playdate. For example: Subject: Looking forward to sending Sally to play with Sam Friday. Dear Mom: I wanted to let you know that Sally has a peanut allergy before she comes over. Also, I hope this is not an issue for you, but we always ask parents in new homes that

Sally visits if there is an unlocked gun in the home? Please let me know. Thank you! If the answer is no, then we have one less thing to worry about. If the answer is yes, make sure all guns are stored unloaded and locked, ideally in a gun safe, with ammunition stored separately. As parents, we have a responsibility to keep our kids safe. We need to be aware of the risks associated with a gun in the home. We need to ASK about guns in the home where our children play, and if a home has a gun, ensure it is stored locked, unloaded and separate from ammunition. If we can do that, we can make our families safer and prevent many of the firearm-related tragedies that occur every day. On Sunday, June 21, organizations and individuals around the country celebrated National ASK Day. Held annually on the first day of summer, a season when children spend more time in other homes, ASK Day reminds parents about the importance of asking if there are unlocked guns in the homes where their children play. You can participate in ASK Day by pledging to ASK and encouraging your friends and family to do the same at www.askingsaveskids.org.  Shaun Dakin is a Falls Church City resident, board member of States United to Prevent Gun Violence and former board member of the Falls Church Elementary PTA.

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Rep. Beyer Submits Gun Legislation U.S. Rep. Don Beyer, whose 8th District of Virginia includes the City of Falls Church, introduced the Keeping Guns from Criminals Act yesterday to close a loophole in federal law that allows straw purchasers and gun traffickers to funnel firearms to felons, juveniles, and other restricted purchasers with little to no risk of being prosecuted. “This is not a complicated issue: No one wants guns in the hands of dangerous criminals,” said Rep. Beyer said in a press release. “Time and again Congress fails to make meaningful progress to prevent gun violence in the face of overwhelming national demand to do so. The Keeping Guns from Criminals Act will ensure that only responsible gun owners are able to purchase a firearm. There is no reason for us to wait for another tragedy to make this common sense idea a reality to protect our families.” In addition, according to the release, “This common-sense bill encourages every gun seller – including unlicensed sellers doing business online or at gun shows – to do a Brady background check before selling a gun,” said Brian Malte, Senior National Policy Director for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in Washington, D.C. “The consequences of providing a gun to a felon, fugitive, domestic abuser, or drug addict are deadly, and this common-sense bill will hold unlicensed sellers responsible for putting a gun into dangerous hands without doing a Brady background check.” The Keeping Guns from Criminals Act would streamline law enforcement efforts to ensure safe firearms transfers between lawful owners. The Act would make it easier to prosecute private sellers who make irresponsible sales by requiring them to prove that the purchase was approved by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System or that the purchaser held a concealed weapons permit in the state of transfer.

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Four members of the City of Falls Church Police Department will be competing in the World Police and Fire Games kicking off this Friday in Fairfax County. Master Police Officer Jennifer “Missy” Elliot will compete individually and as part of a duo in women’s golf next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, City Fire Marshal Thomas Polera will play on Arlington’s Fire/Police hockey team on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, F.C. Police Chief Mary Garvin will compete in triatholon on Friday, July 3 and Community Services Officer James Brooks will be an official for men’s and women’s soccer events. The World Police and Fire Games is the second largest global multi-sport event, second only to the Olympics, featuring more than 12,000 international athletes competing in over 65 sporting events. This year’s game are hosted by Fairfax County and will run from June 26 until July 5.

Gallows Rd. Bridge Over Rt. 50 Set for Rehab Del. Kaye Kory announced that the Virginia Department of Transportation held an informational open house for the public to learn more about plans to reconstruct the Gallows Road (Route 650) bridge over Arlington Boulevard (Route 50) yesterday at the Luther Jackson Middle School. The bridge is a 128-foot-long, two simple-span, steel-plate girder bridge that was built in 1985. In 2014, the average daily traffic is 39,000 vehicles for Gallows Road and 40,000 for Route 50 under the bridge.

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‘Stakeholder’ Meets Yield Many Options for F.C.’s New 40 Acres

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Falls Church so-called “stakeholders,” including educators, City staff personnel, leaders on boards and commissions and some young adults with children coming into the school system. The exercise was a follow-up to the June 6 well-attended public “visioning meeting” on how to best develop the property, whose nearly 40 acres under the terms of the water sale must be 75 percent for educational use and 25 percent potentially commercial. The property is currently home to the City’s high and middle schools. Questions like attitudes toward the height of a new high school, or the potential reintegration of the high school and middle school in the same building, and of the location of the commercial component were kicked around. There was the suggestion of an expanded performing arts center on the site which could be used by both schools as well as by the general

public. The fact that the sessions Monday were initially intended to be “by invitation only” did not sit well with some in the community who complained on blogs that since everyone’s tax dollars contributed to the exercise, then everyone should be considered a “stakeholder.” Issues of transparency and inclusiveness were cited. But even though not invited, the News-Press showed up and was welcomed as a participant in one of the sessions that included Rodgers and a parent of two who will soon be entering the Falls Church school system. Paul Moyer, director of planning of VHB, and Allison Bickers, an architect with Cooper Carry, conducted the sessions. An earlier session included mostly members of the City Hall staff, including Parks and Rec director Danny Schlitt, Revenue Commissioner Tom Clinton, Planning Department’s Paul Stoddard and

others. The purpose of the smaller sessions, following the large session attended by over 200 at the Henderson Middle School cafetorium, was to get a more nuanced sense of what the public wants and fears from the development of the site. The consultants have until July 7 to complete a report that will be presented to the Falls Church City Council at its first meeting of the new fiscal year (that begins July 1), and that is intended to provide guidance to the Council for its preparation of the “request for proposal” to be sent out far and wide. The Council last month turned down the option of accepting an offer from Clark Construction for a comprehensive development of the site that included a promise that the construction of a new high school for $100 million would be guaranteed in the first phase of development of the site, to be paid for by the development of its commercial 25 percent.

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George Mason High School Graduates More Than 170

MORE THAN 170 GEORGE MASON High School seniors walked across the stage to receive their diplomas at DAR Constitution Hall on Wednesday at the school’s graduation ceremony. Later that night, the Class of 2015 partied at George Mason’s All-Night Graduation Celebration. (Photos: Larry Golfer)

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Community News & Notes F.C. Lions Present Frady Scholarship to Sara Campbell The Falls Church Lions presented George Mason High School senior Sara Campbell with their Donald S. Frady Community Service Scholarship last Tuesday at their monthly meeting at Italian Cafe at 7161 Lee Highway. Campbell was awarded a check for $1,000 by Falls Church Lions president Barry Buschow, joined by her parents Heather Campbell and Paul Cannon. Sara, who graduated from Mason last Wednesday, plans to attend Brigham Young University in the fall.

Choralis Foundation Kicks Off Summer Sing-Along Series The Choralis Foundation kicked off their summer singalong series 2015 Summer Sings on Tuesday at The Falls Church Episcopal at 115 E. Fairfax Street.

Maestra Kuhrmann conducted and Todd Fickley played the keyboard at the initial event, which was titled Best of the Best. Classical music lovers and those new to the genre alike sang along to select choruses from Mozart’s Requiem, Bach’s Magnificat, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and all of the Rutter’s Gloria. The series continues on Sunday, July 7 with soprano Erin Sanzero and baritone James Shaffran joining Kuhrmann, Fickley and concert goers in singing Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem. Soprano Danielle Talamantes and bass Kerry Wilkerson will join Kuhrmann, Fickley and concert goers in singing Fauré’s Requiem and excerpts of Handel’s Messiah. Admission to each of the events is $15 and attendees can rent a score for $5. For more information, visit choralis.org/ summersings.

Doodlehopper’s Wacky Wednesdays Start on July 8

Polls Are Open for Falls Church City’s Sunset Cinema

The Falls Church City and Springfield locations of Doodlehopper 4 Kids will be starting its Wacky Wednesdays events on Wednesday, July 8, a 4 p.m. Children can come to either location every Wednesday throughout the summer to do various craft projects. At the July 8 Wacky Wednesday, children will have the opportunity to make bright bead bracelets. The Falls Church City location of Doodlehopper is at 228 W. Broad Street and the Springfield location is at 7521 Huntsman Boulevard. Space is limited at each of the events and registration is requested. The phone number for the Falls Church City location is 703-538-9890 and the Springfield location is 703-9127200. For more information, visit doodlehopper.com/news.php.

The City of Falls Church Recreation and Parks Department and Winn Design & Build are presenting the 12th Annual Sunset Cinema in the Park series in August. The free screenings, sponsored by Winn Design & Build, begin at 8:15 p.m. on August 14, 21 and 28 at Cherry Hill Park at 312 Park Avenue. This year each night will feature a different theme – Animation Night, Family Films, Throwback Night and Late Night Double Feature Flick – and the public is encouraged to vote for the films they want to see at fallschurchva. gov/Polls. Polls are currently open and close on July 20. Snacks and beverages will be available for purchase during the event and in the case of inclement weather, the screenings will take place at the Falls Church

RAJENDRA KC (second from left), second place winner of the Plein Air Art Competition, shakes local realtor Tori McKinney’s hand while accepting his $500 check at the 6th Annual Plein Arts Festival last Saturday at City Hall. The first place winner was Kate Fleming and the third place winner was Isabelle Babington. KC also received $250 for winning the People’s Choice Award. (Photo: Shaun van Steyn)

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VPIS Holding Membership Meeting this Sunday The Village Preservation and Improvement Society is holding its membership meeting this Sunday, June 28, at 3 p.m. at The Falls Church Episcopal’s Fellowship Hall at 115 E. Fairfax Street. Dominion Power will be speaking on possible plans for wiring electrical services to homes in the City underground. Also, the City’s Department of Public Works will speak about their latest projects like the West Street Project and there will be a presentation about the latest for Falls Church City’s public access television station. The meeting is free and open to the public. For more information, visit vpis.org.

MEMBERS OF THE FALLS CHURCH and Fairfax City Volunteer Fire Departments took a much-needed break from fire training and the heat to support a local business on June 13 in Arlington’s Westover neighborhood. The lemonade stand was right across the street from where the firefighters were training on a 90-degree day, making for the classic right place right time scenario. (Photo: Courtesy of Jeff Sullivan)

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F.C. Police Officers to Compete In World Police & Fire Games

Four members of the City of Falls Church Police Department are participating in the World Police and Fire Games, which kick off this weekend in Fairfax County. Three members of the police department are competing and one is officiating. Master Police Officer Jennifer “Missy” Elliott will be competing individually and in a duo in women’s golf on June 30 and July 1. Captain Tom Polera, the City’s Fire Marshal and Emergency Manager, will play on the Arlington Fire/ Police Ice Hockey Team along with fire and police personnel from Arlington County and Fort Myer over the weekend and, if they place among the top teams, during the medal rounds July 1 – 3. Falls Church City Police Chief Mary Gavin will compete in the triathlon in Reston on July 3 and Community Services Officer James Brooks will be an official for men’s and women’s soccer events. For more information about the games, visit fairfax2015.com.

Va. Cooperative Extension Hosts 3 Events in Next Week The Virginia Cooperative Extension’s Arlington County office announced three events for the end of June at which attendees can learn about different aspects or types of gardening. On Saturday, June 27, from 10:30 a.m. – noon, the Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia are presenting a program on waterwise gardening at the Fairlington Community Center, located at 3308 S. Stafford St., Arlington. The program will focus on how to reduce the need for water in the landscape through choice of plants, selection of planting sites, use of mulch and other techniques. Also on Saturday, June 27, Northern Virginians interested in growing edible mushrooms

at home for their own use or for sale can attend an organizational planning meeting of an Edible Mushroom Production Cooperative at Fairlington Community Center. The meeting will explore the possibility of forming a cooperative to obtain the sterile straw and logs used in mushroom production, to make bulk purchases of inoculant and to educate growers and the public. The Virginia Cooperative Extension and Alexandria Beautification Commission are presenting a program titled Best Management Practices for Urban Landscapes: A Beginner’s Guide to Gardening at the Mount Vernon Recreation Center, located at 2701 Commonwealth Ave., Alexandria, next Tuesday, June 30, from 7:30 – 9 p.m. Presented by Arlington County horticultural agent Kirsten Buhls, the program will cover soil testing, composting, tree care, planting guidelines, turf management, plant disease and insect control and light and water requirements. All of the programs are free and open to the public, but advanced notice of plans to attend or registration are requested. For more information, visit mgnv.org or call 703-228-6414.

Pops for Pets Planned for This Sunday at Lubber Run The second annual Pops for Pets concert, performed by the Arlington Philharmonic in partnership with the Animal Welfare League of Arlington, is scheduled for this Sunday, June 28 at 6 p.m. at Lubber Run Amphitheater, located at 200 N. Columbus St., Arlington. Conducted by A. Scott Wood, the concert will include a mix of patriotic and contemporary selections from the “Armed Forces Salute” to “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings.” “Supporters of the Philharmonic

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LARRY ARMSTRONG, Anthony’s Restaurant owner Tony Yiannarakis and former Falls Church City Councilman Hal Lippman (l to r) – three dads – pose for a picture at the new Anthony’s Restaurant on Annandale Road on Father’s Day last Sunday. (Photo: Courtesy of Hal Lippman) and AWLA are joining together once again to promote this extraordinary community concert,” said Pat Ragan, Animal Welfare League of Arlington board member in a press release about the event. “We look forward to celebrating the work of the Arlington Philharmonic and AWLA with another great audience this year.” The event is open to the public and the Animal Welfare League of Arlington encouraged attendees to pack a picnic for them and their pups. The rain date for the concert is Wednesday, July 1 at 6 p.m. For more information, visit awla.org.

McLean Project for the Arts Camps Start for the Summer The McLean Project for the Arts’ first session of summer camps kicked off on Monday at the Susan B. DuVal art studio in the McLean Community Center, located at 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean. This week campers are working with paint, oil, pastel and collage to create fields of color

and texture while learning about Jackson Pollock, Morris Louis and other 20th century artists. The other weekly sessions include Soft Sculpture, Pop Art and Modern Masters. Children ages 6 – 11 are invited to attend the camp. Tuition is $150 for McLean Community Center tax district residents and $165 for everyone else and tuition is $125 for McLean Community Center tax district residents and $125 for everyone else for the second week of camp, in which the July 3 session will not be held because of the July 4th holiday. For more information or to register for the camp, visit mcleancenter.org or call 703-790-1953.

Workshouse Arts Announces July Events and Exhibitions The Workhouse Arts Center, located at 9518 Workhouse Way, Lorton, announced their July events and exhibitions, which start this weekend with the premiere of a fun parody that runs through the beginning of July.

“Bond: An Unauthorized Parody,” presented by Tasty Monsters Productions, premieres next Monday, June 29, at 8 p.m. with a preview showing at the arts center. The regular performances kick off the next night and run through Friday, July 3, a VIP performance with fireworks. The night after the final performance of “Bond: An Unauthorized Parody” there will be the arts center’s Independence Day Fireworks & Concert event. Admittance to the event is free and parking costs $10. Also on July 4, the Merge exhibition will open at the arts center’s Building W-16 Vulcan Gallery. The exhibition, which runs through July 26, features the work of 20 artists at the Workhouse working in collaborative pairs to create art. Exhibition attendees will see complex new and untried artwork as glass artists work with painters, fiber artists work with ceramic artists and so on. For the full list of events and exhibitions and more information, visit workhousearts.org.

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Fracking & the Franciscans

Pope Francis is one of the world’s most inspiring figures. There are passages in his new encyclical on the environment that beautifully place human beings within the seamless garment of life. And yet overall the encyclical is surprisingly disappointing. Legitimate warnings about the perils of global warming morph into 1970s-style doom-mongering about technological civilization. There are too many overdrawn statements like “The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.” Hardest to accept, though, is the moral premise implied throughout the encycliNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE cal: that the only legitimate human relationships are based on compassion, harmony and love, and that arrangements based on self-interest and competition are inherently destructive. The pope has a section on work in the encyclical. The section’s heroes are St. Francis of Assisi and monks – emblems of selfless love who seek to return, the pope says, to a state of “original innocence.” He is relentlessly negative, on the other hand, when describing institutions in which people compete for political power or economic gain. At one point he links self-interest with violence. He comes out against technological advances that will improve productivity by replacing human work. He specifically condemns market-based mechanisms to solve environmental problems, even though these cap-and-trade programs are up and running in places like California. Moral realists, including Catholic ones, should be able to worship and emulate a God of perfect love and still appreciate systems, like democracy and capitalism, that harness self-interest. But Francis doesn’t seem to have practical strategies for a fallen world. He neglects the obvious truth that the qualities that do harm can often, when carefully directed, do enormous good. Within marriage, lust can lead to childbearing. Within a regulated market, greed can lead to entrepreneurship and economic innovation. Within a constitution, the desire for fame can lead to political greatness. You would never know from the encyclical that we are living through the greatest reduction in poverty in human history. A raw and rugged capitalism in Asia has led, ironically, to a great expansion of the middle class and great gains in human dignity. You would never know that in many parts of the world, like the United States, the rivers and skies are getting cleaner. A few years ago, a team of researchers led by Daniel Esty of Yale looked at the environmental health of 150 countries. The nations with higher income per capita had better environmental ratings. As countries get richer they invest to tackle environmental problems that directly kill human beings. You would never suspect, from this encyclical, that over the last decade, one of the most castigated industries has, ironically, produced some of the most important economic and environmental gains. I’m talking of course about fracking. There was recently a vogue for polemical antifracking documentaries like “Gasland” that purport to show that fracking is causing flammable tap water and other horrors. But a recent Environmental Protection Agency study found that there was no evidence that fracking was causing widespread harm to the nation’s water supply. On the contrary, there’s some evidence that fracking is a net environmental plus. A study by the Breakthrough Institute found coal-powered electricity declined to 37 percent from 50 percent of the generation mix between 2007 and 2012. Because natural gas has just half as much globalwarming potential as coal, energy-related carbon emissions have declined more in the U.S. than in any other country over that time. Fracking has also been an enormous boon to the nation’s wealth and the well-being of its people. In a new report called “America’s Unconventional Energy Opportunity,” Michael E. Porter, David S. Gee and Gregory J. Pope conclude that gas and oil resources extracted through fracking have already added more than $430 billion to annual gross domestic product and supported more than 2.7 million jobs that pay, on average, twice the median U.S. salary. Pope Francis is a wonderful example of how to be a truly good person. But if we had followed his line of analysis, neither the Asian economic miracle nor the technology-based American energy revolution would have happened. There’d be no awareness that though industrialization can lead to catastrophic pollution in the short term (China), over the long haul both people and nature are better off with technological progress, growth and regulated affluence. The innocence of the dove has to be accompanied by the wisdom of the serpent – the awareness that programs based on the purity of the heart backfire; the irony that the best social programs harvest the low but steady motivations of people as they actually are.

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Slavery’s Long Shadow America is a much less racist nation than it used to be, and I’m not just talking about the still remarkable fact that an African-American occupies the White House. The raw institutional racism that prevailed before the civil rights movement ended Jim Crow is gone, although subtler discrimination persists. Individual attitudes have changed, too, dramatically in some cases. For example, as recently as the 1980s half of Americans opposed interracial marriage, a position now held by only a tiny minority. Yet racial hatred is still a potent force in our society, as we’ve just been reminded to our horror. And I’m sorry to say this, but the racial divide is still a definNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE ing feature of our political economy, the reason America is unique among advanced nations in its harsh treatment of the less fortunate and its willingness to tolerate unnecessary suffering among its citizens. Of course, saying this brings angry denials from many conservatives, so let me try to be cool and careful here, and cite some of the overwhelming evidence for the continuing centrality of race in our national politics. My own understanding of the role of race in U.S. exceptionalism was largely shaped by two academic papers. The first, by political scientist Larry Bartels, analyzed the move of the white working class away from Democrats, a move made famous in Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter With Kansas? Frank argued that working-class whites were being induced to vote against their own interests by the right’s exploitation of cultural issues. But Bartels showed that the working-class turn against Democrats wasn’t a national phenomenon – it was entirely restricted to the South, where whites turned overwhelmingly Republican after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and Richard Nixon’s adoption of the so-called Southern strategy. And this party-switching, in turn, was what drove the rightward swing of American politics after 1980. Race made Reaganism possible. And to this day Southern whites overwhelmingly vote Republican, to the tune of 85 or even 90 percent in the deep South. The second paper, by economists Alberto Alesina, Edward Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote, was titled Why Doesn’t the United States Have a European-style Welfare State? Its authors – who are not, by the way, especially liberal – explored a number of hypotheses,

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but eventually concluded that race is central, because in America programs that help the needy are all too often seen as programs that help Those People: “Within the United States, race is the single most important predictor of support for welfare. America’s troubled race relations are clearly a major reason for the absence of an American welfare state.” Now, that paper was published in 2001, and you might wonder if things have changed since then. Unfortunately, the answer is that they haven’t, as you can see by looking at how states are implementing – or refusing to implement – Obamacare. For those who haven’t been following this issue, in 2012 the Supreme Court gave individual states the option, if they so chose, of blocking the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid, a key part of the plan to provide health insurance to lower-income Americans. But why would any state choose to exercise that option? After all, states were being offered a federally-funded program that would provide major benefits to millions of their citizens, pour billions into their economies, and help support their healthcare providers. Who would turn down such an offer? The answer is: 22 states at this point, although some may eventually change their minds. And what do these states have in common? Mainly, a history of slaveholding: Only one former member of the Confederacy has expanded Medicaid, and while a few Northern states are also part of the movement, more than 80 percent of the population in Medicaidrefusing America lives in states that practiced slavery before the Civil War. And it’s not just health reform: A history of slavery is a strong predictor of everything from gun control (or rather its absence), to low minimum wages and hostility to unions, to tax policy. So will it always be thus? Is America doomed to live forever politically in the shadow of slavery? I’d like to think not. For one thing, our country is growing more ethnically diverse, and the old blackwhite polarity is slowly becoming outdated. For another, as I said, we really have become much less racist, and in general a much more tolerant society on many fronts. Over time, we should expect to see the influence of dog-whistle politics decline. But that hasn’t happened yet. Every once in a while you hear a chorus of voices declaring that race is no longer a problem in America. That’s wishful thinking; we are still haunted by our nation’s original sin

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Larry Kramer Interview, Part 3: Love & Anger

Concluding this brief three-part series based on my extraordinary interview with the formidable and unforgettable Larry Kramer at his New York apartment earlier this month, my focus goes to two things. First, there is his new book, The American People: Part I The Search for My Heart, a massive mix of history, fiction and stream-of-consciousness almost 800 pages in length, that makes the case for the central role that gay people have played in this history of this country. Second, there’s the remarkable HBO television documentary about Kramer’s life and achievements that was screened at the American Film Institute’s Documentary Film Festival in Washington, D.C. last weekend. Entitled, “Larry Kramer in Love and Anger,” it is a FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS brilliant 82 minutes directed by his friend Jean Carlomusto that will premiere on HBO next Monday, June 29, at 9 p.m. (EDT). The documentary includes a major role for Kramer’s erstwhile but not really antagonist in the fight for a cure for AIDS, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases since 1984. Dr. Fauci, one of Kramer’s biggest fans in fact, was at the screening in person to answer questions Saturday night. Dr. Fauci stated in the film, but also in his answers Saturday, that Kramer “is truly a transformative hero” in the fight to cure AIDS. “There is medicine before Larry Kramer, and there is medicine after Larry Kramer,” Fauci said, meaning that Kramer’s activism leading the highly-visible ACT-UP protests against government inaction on AIDS in the late 1980s did, in fact, cause a profound change in the way the search for cures to lots of things now occurs at the NIAID and National Institutes of Health. With so many hundreds of thousands of gay men dying hopeless and horrible deaths from AIDS by the late 1980s, ACT-UP protesters forced the medical research community to reconsider the way it tested promising new regimens. Instead of only trials involving handfuls of persons, a parallel track was introduced as a matter of policy. While the formal trials went ahead, thousands diagnosed with AIDS were also permitted access to experimental drugs. This is now standard policy with experimental drugs for the treatment of a whole range of illnesses, many lives have been prolonged and saved as a result. Dr. Fauci credits Kramer with this. (While Fauci disputed Kramer’s claim made in his interview with me that AIDS research is stalled, he said that before a vaccine is found, progress is excelling on treatments that reduce the presence of the HIV “load” in an infected body down to almost zero.) I remain amazed at how many people, including gays, revile Kramer because he can be angry and impolite. But the title of the HBO documentary, “In Love and Anger,” tells it all. There was never a time that Kramer’s actions have not been motivated by a deep love for his “tribe,” and a passionate conviction that looking reality and the truth in the eye is the only way something as terrible as the AIDS epidemic could ever hope to be overcome. From his earliest days, Kramer has been like an Old Testament prophet warning that a disregard for creative potentials in favor of insatiable sex not only dims the potential for true love, but involves great risks. In the late 1970s when Kramer wrote a quasi-fictional novel, Faggots, about this, there were already many people in urban settings showing symptoms of what would manifest as frank AIDS starting in mid-1981. Kramer’s prophetic voice was spot on from the start. In his new novel, he shows how his “tribe” has pervaded American history. It’s fiction so, of course, he is allowed some considerable liberties. But in its intent his novel is akin to my own book, Extraordinary Hearts, aiming to show that the creative potentials of gay men and women, their “gay sensibilities,” matter a lot more to the world and themselves than merely their sexual orientations. A new gay self-identity and culture will hopefully arise from this appreciation, not conforming to the dominant culture, but transforming it with a constructive non-conformity.

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Trade Winds Blow Ill for Hillary WASHINGTON – It’s hard being Elizabeth Warren. Especially when you’re not Elizabeth Warren. Hillary Clinton had an awkward collision last week juggling her past role as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state, her current role as Democratic frontrunner and her coveted future role as president. As secretary of state, she helped Obama push the Trans-Pacific Partnership that is at the center of the current trade fight. In Australia in 2012, she was effusive, saying that the trade pact “sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field. And when negotiated, this agreement will cover 40 percent of the world’s total trade and build in strong protections for workers and the environment.” Now Hillary says she is unsure about the pact and would likely oppose giving Obama the special authority to negotiate trade deals for an up-or-down vote in Congress. As a future president, of course, she would want the same authority to negotiate trade deals that Obama NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE is seeking in the messy Capitol Hill donnybrook. But as a candidate pressured by progressives like Warren and Bernie Sanders and by labor unions, she turned to Jell-O, shimmying around an issue she had once owned and offering an unpleasant reminder of why “Clintonian” became a synonym for skirting the truth. It depends on what your definition of trade is – and trade-off. Hillary has vowed to be more straightforward this time about running as a woman, her position on immigration and her relations with the press (which are still imperious). The heartbreaking mass shooting in a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, Hillary said, should force the country to face up to “hard truths” about race, violence and guns. But even after all her seasoning as a senator and secretary of state, even after all her enthusiastic suasion on the president’s trade bill, she can’t face up to hard truths on trade. And we have to play this silly game with her, as she dances and ducks, undermining Obama by siding with Nancy Pelosi after Pelosi filleted the trade deal on the House floor. “The president should listen to and work with his allies in Congress, starting with Nancy Pelosi,” Hillary said in Iowa last weekend, torpedoing White House efforts to lure Democrats back on board.

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In an interview with the Nevada journalist Jon Ralston on Thursday, Hillary slid around her previous support of the Pacific trade pact and said that if she were still in the Senate, she would “probably” vote no on the trade promotion authority bill. Obama loyalists were quick to note the irony that Hillary did not help Obama, even though he is working to combat the deep Democratic resistance spawned by the North American Free Trade Agreement that President Bill Clinton signed. The White House is certainly irritated with Hillary. Perhaps it will spur Obama to wonder why he pulled the rug out from under poor old Joe, his own vice president, to lay out the red carpet for his former rival. As David Axelrod told The Times’ Michael Shear and Amy Chozick: “The fact is, she was there when this thing was launched and she was extolling it when she left. She’s in an obvious vise, between the work that she endorsed and was part of and the exigencies of a campaign. Obviously, her comments plainly weren’t helpful to moving this forward.” CNN reported that Hillary had enthusiastically promoted the trade pact 45 times as secretary of state. Aside from the fact that Hillary should be able to take a deep breath and stick with something she’s already argued for, it plays into voters’ doubts about her trustworthiness. If you want to be president and you shape your principles to suit the shifting winds – as Hillary did when she voted to authorize W.’s Iraq invasion – then how can people on either side of an issue trust you? Since she hasn’t sparked much passion herself yet, she may be frightened by the passionate acolytes of Warren and Sanders – whose uncombed authenticity is buoying him in New Hampshire. And, given her own unseemly money grabs, she may not be willing to push back on primal forces swirling around the trade issue about unbridled corporatism in an era of stagnant wages. But the greater danger for her is in looking disingenuous. At the end of the day, leaders have to sometimes step up on some issues that are not 80 percent issues. Unfortunately for her, Hillary is not as artful a dodger as her husband. Trade is a sticky wicket for her. But the path to the presidency is full of sticky wickets. And being president is full of sticky wickets. So you have to try to say what’s true and what you actually believe, not just what’s tactical. Surprisingly, I received a fundraising letter recently. Hillary Rodham Clinton was in large letters on the upper left-hand side of the envelope and above my address was the typed message: “Maureen, this is our moment ... are you with me?” Not at the moment.

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A Penny for Your Thoughts

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News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross

The term “multi-modal” is used often to describe a menu of transportation options that may address congestion, air pollution, and other issues in urbanizing communities. Multi-modal options may include auto, bus, train, streetcar, bikeways, sidewalks, and trails. In Mason District, where many neighborhoods pre-date county sidewalk or trail requirements, work is ongoing to install safer pedestrian access. Several projects have been completed in the past few months, providing safer routes to school, shopping, and employment. The Route 7 walkway project near the Glen Forest Shopping Center installed more than a quarter mile of five-foot concrete sidewalk and storm drainage improvements along this busy stretch in Culmore. In addition, the project provided modified pedestrian signals, accessible ramps, and new bus shelters. This is one of several spot improvements for pedestrians and bus riders along Route 7. Last fall, a similar sidewalk was installed just west of Row Street. Now, residents of the area can traverse safely to shopping and worship instead of tiptoeing along a muddy ditch line. New pedestrian signals and a new bus stop at Patrick Henry Drive and Route 7 were part of the overall effort to improve pedestrian safety from the Alexandria City line to the Falls Church City line. Funding for the improvements came from a Transportation Bond approved by the voters in 2007. In Annandale, more than a half-mile of sixfoot asphalt trail was installed along Elmdale Road, just behind the Pinecrest Golf Course. The trail provides a safe and pleasant path connect-

ing Braddock Road and Old Columbia Pike. The project included storm drainage improvements, as well as 1,000 feet of split rail fence and another 790 feet of screening to separate the pedestrians from any errant golf balls! The long, flat topography has long been a favorite of walkers, but the proximity to passing vehicles made any walking or jogging a daunting effort. With the completion of the Elmdale walkway, you can walk more than three-quarters of the area around the golf course. The hardest part still needs to be figured out: engineering, funding, and constructing the final leg of the trail across two waterways and a very hilly topography along Old Columbia Pike. Not every project is long. One small improvement was the Alpine Drive walkway, an old asphalt path between two neighborhoods that had fallen into disrepair, but still was being used by neighbors to access Columbia Elementary School and the Mason District Park off-leash dog area. Of special concern was the accessibility of the worn pathway for disabled users. Working with Fairfax County Maintenance and Stormwater Management staff, I was able to identify funding, and a contractor was engaged to repave the walkway and improve the connection between the two residential areas. A similar project, albeit a bit longer and larger, is in the planning stage for McWhorter Place in Annandale. Walkway projects don’t get publicity like major roadways do, but they can make a big difference for the health and social connections in a community.

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The Humane Cosmetics Act BY DONALD S. BEYER

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The New York Times reports that the leader of a white supremacist group linked to Dylann Roof, the suspect in the murder of nine AfricanAmericans in Charleston, S.C., has donated tens of thousands of dollars the presidential candidates of one political party. Which party do you think it is? Texas donor, Earl Holt III, is the president of the Aryan group, the Council of Conservative Citizens. It turns out that he has an affinity for the GOP. He gave big money to the 2016 presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum, and Rand Paul. Are you surprised? Did you really think that I was going to say that Holt gave money to Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders? Not all Republicans are racists or homophobes. But the vast majority of racists and homophobes are Republicans. Republicans go nuts when you say this. But it’s the truth. Dylann Roof was inspired by the Council of Conservative Citizens – which was an offshoot of the overtly racist Citizens Councils of the south, set up to preserve Jim Crow, fight the civil rights movement and make life as difficult as possible for African Americans. Even today, the Council of Conservative Citizens opposes “race mixing” as a religious offense and demonizes African Americans as an inferior race. In Roof’s online manifesto he claimed that he had first learned of “brutal black-on-white murders” from the Council of Conservative Citizens’ website. In other words, his young, impressionable mind was infected by the plague of deep-seated racism by the website of GOP donor Earl Holt. Holt gave Sen. Ted Cruz’ campaign $8,500. The slippery Cruz campaign now says it is returning Holt’s check. Holt has also given money to a number of other current and former GOP members of Congress, including Sens. Jeff Flake of Arizona, Rob Portman of Ohio, former Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Rep. Steve King of Iowa, and former Rep. Todd “legitimate rape” Akin of Missouri. All these Republicans are going to say that they had no idea of Holt’s race-baiting affiliation. Don’t believe them for a second. I worked in public relations and politics Washington, D.C. for nearly a decade and before I moved to DC I worked on a United States Senate race in Maine. From experience I know that every dollar in a campaign is accounted for. Every major donor is well vetted. In the campaign I worked on, we knew exactly who the major donors were, what they stood for, and how they made their money. This Earl Holt character proudly and defiantly listed on some his donation forms that he was a “slumlord.” This didn’t raise red flags? Come on, if you believe that, Chris Christie has a closed down bridge to sell you. The Democrats don’t consider bigots a constituency to be courted and the Republicans do. Their entire party has been built around pitting Americans against each other. For decades, their plan has been to sow division and when that doesn’t work suppress the minority vote. The moderate business wing has silently gone along with this revolting election model because they need votes from yahoos to get tax cuts, kill unions, and deregulate. To pull off this despicable little scheme, they have to shut down or shout down the national conversation on race. Every time a tragedy occurs, whether on the race issue or the gun issue, they scream – “we can’t talk about it now, it’s too soon.” Or they go through contortions to deny the problem has anything to do with race, as we saw with the murders in Charleston. Sometimes they disingenuously whine, “don’t politicize tragedy.” Sadly, a spineless media that is terrified of the right calling it liberal often cowers. And as a result, our society runs on a treadmill and calls it a marathon. We are stuck in place on the festering issue of race. Do not allow this tragic farce to continue. When a right-winger accuses you of “politicizing tragedy,” don’t run away. Instead, say “damn right we are politicizing racism in America.” Politics is the manner in which Americans seek change, and clearly changes are desperately needed. Politics are the path to altering the status quo. Politics are the way to raise consciousness. Politics are the route to bettering society. A tragedy is the perfect time for politics, because the real tragedy would be to let nine innocent people murdered in Charleston die in vain.

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Our Man in Arlington By Charlie Clark

Preston Caruthers seldom puts his name on the many marks he has made on Arlington over seven decades—an exception being chiseled letters on the Caruthers building at Marymount University. At 88 the builder, multi-hatted civic leader and philanthropist still arrives daily at the Ballston office of Caruthers Properties LLC, though because of a heart ailment, his son Steve drives him. “I still cut my own grass,” says the mildmannered impresario. Caruthers, whose contributions to the Arlington skyline include Dominion Towers, Shawnee and Rosslyn’s Ames Building, lent me his private autobiography. It’s stark tale of how an Oklahoma farm boy whose parents died young survived the Depression through hard work but an incomplete education. World War II cut short his high school days, but the Navy trained him as a medical corpsman in the Pacific. In August 1945, Caruthers was on a ship awaiting orders for the invasion of Japan when the A-bomb altered the fate of millions. His sister’s marriage to Arlington engineer George Snell brought him to postwar Washington, where he talked his way into George Washington University. But building soon distracted him – though neither he nor his brother-in-law had built houses. Beginning with his partner’s lots in Lyon Village, Caruthers’ first home project on his own was at 1800 N. Inglewood Street. By the early 50s, he was constructing 78 split-levels off Sleepy Hollow

Road. Then came his turning point. With postwar tax rates at 70 percent, he foresaw more profit in vertical apartment buildings. His biggest was along Shirley Highway (I-395). In 1960, aerial photos prove, few structures dotted the area between Seminary Road and the Pentagon. With partner Mark Winkler (of Mark Center) over four years they built Southern Towers, 2,400 units in five buildings. Caruthers recalls defeating gun-toting “labor goons” in a unionization vote. ”The KennedyJohnson-Vietnam war years rent asunder the unity and crushed the esteem of the American people,” he wrote. “However, it was our most economically productive period.” In 1963, while heading the Chamber of Commerce, he sought to integrate the chamber. To those gathered at Washington Golf and Country Club, Caruthers spoke for racial inclusion, but Chevrolet dealer Bob Peck tabled his motion. Caruthers created office buildings, cultivating government tenants from the General Services Administration and CIA. He gave land that became Rosslyn’s “St. Exxon,” the Methodist church over a gas station. In 1968, the conservative Caruthers was appointed to a liberal school board, with “a budget in the thousands,” he joked. He used his building experience for a new Thomas Jefferson Junior High. This determined dropout went on to serve on the State Board of Education, also advising fledgling George Mason University

and travelling the state on behalf of private colleges. His donations would benefit the Arlington schools planetarium, Gulf Branch Nature Center and Glebe House (which he bought from the late State Sen. Frank Ball, renovated and gave to the National Genealogical Society). Caruthers still meets weekly with notables at Washington Golf to influence civic affairs. His grandchildren, meanwhile, are taking over his company. (Current big project: Belmont Bay near Occoquan.) Homebuilders today use less brick and more frames, Caruthers said. But he now sees Arlington houses as secondary in beauty to the trees. “Today I drive and see one of the most beautiful places one could live in,” he said. “It’s breathtaking.” *** I bought my copy of Alfred O. Taylor Jr.’s new book Bridge Builders of Nauck/Green Valley from the From One Hand to Another calligraphy and print gallery, which hosted Taylor’s first book signing. The handsome green paperback from Dorrance Publishing collects profiles of achievers past and present in the historically black South Arlington neighborhood. Familiar figures such as singer Roberta Flack and pharmacy owner Doc Muse are accompanied by lesser known local heroes in business, education and the arts. Retired educator Taylor included bios of the late Arlington County Board Chairman Charles Monroe and his father, Judge Thomas Monroe. He also produced an authoritative history of the-once segregated neighborhood, with special emphasis on churches.

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CRIME REPORT Week of June 15 - 21, 2015 Larceny from Building, 140 S. Maple Ave. (Bowl America) On June 16, a cell phone was reported stolen. Larceny from Building, 7124 Leesburg Pike (George Mason High School) On June 16, a bicycle was reported stolen sometime during the weekend. Assault, 201 S. Washington St. (7-Eleven) On June 17, a male, 59, of Falls Church, was arrested for

Simple Assault. Tamper with Auto, 400 block S. Maple Ave. On June 17, police received a report a motorcycle was tampered in a parking lot. Driving Under the Influence, 900 block S. Washington St. On June 20, an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a man, 24, of Falls Church, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence.

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F.C. Students Earn Academic Honors Across the Nation Several students from Falls Church earned academic honors from colleges, universities and other academic institutions across the nation during the spring 2015 semester. Ramzi Adam Dridi, a senior finance and accounting major, Johnny Hyunh, a sophomore finance major, and Giancarla Kristel Rojas Mendoza, a junior finance and economics major, made the dean’s list at Radford University, where students must earn at least a 3.4 grade point average or higher with no grade below a C while taking at least 15 credit hours to make the list. Katherine R. Griswold, Jing Luo and Misha Vessali made the dean’s list at Boston University, where students must earn a 3.5 grade point average or higher, or be in the top 30 percent of their class, while carrying a full course load as a full-time student. Zhou Wang, a engineering specials major, and Zhe Zhang, a prebusiness major, made the dean’s list at Iowa State University, where students must earn a grade point average of 3.5 or higher while taking at least 12 credit hours. Patrick J. Anderson graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication from McDaniel College. Elizabeth Anne Crowther graduated cum

NEWLY MINTED MASON ALUMNA and reigning Ms. Mason Sarah Miller rides the mechanical bull during George Mason’s 27th All-Night Graduation Celebration last Wednesday. Organized by the Mason Parent-Teacher-Student Association, the event featured casino games, music, live entertainment, prizes and the camaraderie of the close-knit class, all in a safe environment. (P��: C�� ANGC C��) laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in global environmental studies from Clark University.

Falls Church HS Art Students Win Regional Awards Four students in Falls Church High School’s arts program – Arden Hajaligholi, Max Johnson, Wesley Rogers and Jenna Yow – won awards from the Council of the Arts of Herndon’s 2015 Tech Arts Awards. Yow, a sophomore, received a Certificate of Merit for Digital

Art. Hajaligholi, a junior, had her work “Prisma” recognized in the animation category and received fourth place, which also came with a $100 award. Rogers, a junior, had his work recognized in the animation category as well. He received third place and a $500 award. Johnson received two awards. His first piece received second place in the animation category, which came with a $750 award, while a second piece received a Certificate of Merit in the Digital Art category.

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Mason Boys Soccer Ranked 2nd in Nation by Liz Lizama

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In its final rankings of the spring season released this week, the National Soccer Coaches Association of America ranked George Mason High School’s boys varsity soccer team number 1 in Region 1 and number 2 in the nation. The committee considers a number of factors to determine its rankings, which included overall win-loss percentage, strength of schedule, traditional strength of the league, interregional and state playoff results and individual player successes. Mason notched its third consecutive Virginia 2A state title this season – its eighth overall. The undefeated Mustangs finished with a 160-3 goal differential over its opponents this year and seven All-State players, including State Player of the Year junior forward Elliot Mercado. While the team saw many successes this season, head coach Frank Spinello’s focus was always to keep improving. “We have long-term goals, but our main purpose is to get a little bit better every week so that we are peaking in the playoffs,” he said. “The biggest challenges were to keep motivation high and keep practices intense.”

Mercado said those practices were a major factor in building up the team. “I truly believe that we would play against the best players during practice,” said Mercado. “This led to everyone being game ready and never being caught off guard by an opposing team.” It’s safe to say Spinello’s approach at practice worked out well given the team’s recordbreaking 26-0 season. This also marks the first time in history Mason earns a spot on the NSCAA rankings. “We have had great teams in the past that helped us prepare for this season,” said Spinello. “This year’s team wanted to make history and be mentioned in the same breath as the greatest teams that we have had at Mason. I think they did that.” Referring to some of Mason’s all-time top players like Alex Fatovic (2004), Ben Griffin (2002), Anthony Andrianarison (2009), Nick Smirniotopoulos (2010) and Paul Darmstadter (2014), Spinello said they each helped set the table for this team. “All of those teams had something special – offense, defense, big plays, team play or focus – but this year’s team put all the ingredients together: the stingiest defense, most potent offense

MASON’S BOYS SOCCER TEAM celebrate after winning their third consecutive state championship. The Mustangs were ranked the number two team in the nation and the top team in the region by National Soccer Coaches Association of America this week. (Photo: Liz Lizama) and best leaders we have ever had so far,” said Spinello. “Our midfielders have been special all year. They are often the ones overlooked but are the players that make everything transition well and run smoothly.”

Mercado said the senior leadership contributed to much of the team’s success this year. “I think with having so many seniors on the team and them knowing what is needed that really helped my mentality and the entire team’s

mentality.” While the team is losing nine graduating seniors, Mercado will return next year for his senior year. “I can’t wait to see what we will accomplish next year,” he said.

Falls Church Little League Wraps Up Spring Season The Falls Church Kiwanis Little League wrapped up its Spring season earlier this month, crowning champions and runners-up in multiple divisions and announcing its All-Star teams. The Dodgers defeated the Orioles 4-3 to win the Major Division Championship. In the championship game Jake Pigeon pitched five shutout innings, went 2-2 with a walk and batted in a run. Jonah Wilkes was also 2-2 with a walk and drove in two runs. The Dodgers finished the season with a 12-5 record, winning the 12 of their final 15 games. Their 2015 roster was made up of Jack Biggs, Noah Cha, Matteo Chiappetta, Charlie Langan, Joseph Nelson, Michael Nelson, Jake Pigeon, Jonah Wilkes, Ian Wilson, Tommy Shaw, Daniel Trauberman, Spenser Zamagni. Bill Zamagni managed the team and Doub Biggs, John Cha and Mike Trauberman coached the team.

The Iron Pigs won the AA Little League Championship last Tuesday, June 16, defeating the Red Wings 11-0. The team, sponsored by Don Beyer Kia, was managed by Scott Behrens and coached by Chris McCarton and Jeff Duval. Henry Behrens, Mason Duval, Jarrett Jardine, Tyrone Keating, Isaac Krasner, Owen McCarton, Ryan McDonald, Christian Moes, Zachary Neuman, Jaden Shin, Ryan Swanberry, Pierce Tarutani made up the team’s 2015 roster. The Grasshoppers won the Single A title, defeating the Dragons on Saturday, June 13. The Dragons were the regular season champions with an 11-1 record. The Dragons’ manager Steve Kim won Single A Manager of the Year. The Falls Church Kiwanis Little League All-Star teams were announced on June 15. The teams, made up of players voted onto the team by their peers or selected by a committee made up of league

THE DODGERS hold their championship trophies after defeating the Orioles 4-3 to win the Falls Church Kiwanis Little League Major divsion championship. (Photo: Courtesy of Michael Trauberman) officials, regular season managers and All-Star managers, will compete with other squads from around the region throughout the

summer. Falls Church’s intermediate division All-Stars were the first to take the field. They played

Arlington National on Wednesday at Barcroft Park, but results of the game were not available at press time.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 25

Teen Knitting Club. For beginning and advanced knitters. For teens grades 6-12. Mary Riley Styles Library Conference Room ( 120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). Registration Required. Free. 7 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. 703-248-5034. Concerts in the Park. The Falls Church Concert Band, who play a mixture of marches, classical pieces, Broadway show medleys, regional tunes and American classics, will kick oﬀ this year’s series. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave. Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, JUNE 26

Senior Armchair Travel. National Geographic takes us oﬀ the beaten path to explore the Appalachian Trail and discover what even the hikers miss. Falls Church Senior Center (223 Little Falls St. Falls Church). 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. 703-248-5035. Roy Justice’s Patriotic Songs. Singing historian, Roy Justice, brings a fresh take to the background of your favorite patriotic songs. Arlington Mill Community & Senior Center (909 S Dinwiddie St. Arlington). 11 a.m. – noon. 703-228-7369. 1-on-1 Computer & Internet Tutoring. Download eBooks and

eMagazines, search the internet, customize email, use social media and word processing, and much more. By appointment. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 1 – 4 p.m. 703-248-5035

SATURDAY, JUNE 27

Farmers Market. 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. 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. Fairytales and Superheroes at the Library. Kids will make costume, get face painted, and enjoy ideas for imaginative play. Costumes are encouraged. For kindergarten to 2nd graders. Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 2 – 3:30 p.m. Registration Required. 703-248-5034.

SUNDAY, JUNE 28

Junior Chef Contest. Is your little

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foodie a budding chef? Enter your 8-12 year old in the Ah Love Oil & Vinegar chef competition. Ah Love Oil & Vinegar (2910 District Ave, Fairfax). 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. (703) 992-7000 7th Annual Fireﬂy Festival. Celebrate summer’s natural night lights and learn about the critters that light up the night. Fort C.F. Smith Park (241124th St. N Arlington). $7. 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Registration required. 703-2286535.

Playtime with the Early Literacy Center. Explore educational and manipulative items to teach early literacy through play. For birth to ﬁve years old. Youth Services Room Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 11 a.m. – noon. 703-2485034. Paws to Read. Read with a canine companion for readers grades rising K to 6th. Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 2 – 3 p.m. 703-248-5034.

Preschool Storytime. Stories and fun for ages 2-5. Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church, VA 22046). 10:30 – 11 a.m. 703-248-5034. Playtime with the Early Literacy Center. Explore educational and manipulative items to teach early literacy through play. For birth to ﬁve years old. Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 11 a.m. – noon. 703-2485034.

Concert. The Grandsons, Jr., described as “American music in a blender with the lid oﬀ,” invites you to join in on the fun and jam to great music. Theatre-in-thewoods (1551 Trap Road Vienna). Ages 4 and up. $8. 10:30 a.m. 703-255-1900 Wii Game Day. Play your favorite Wii games at the Library. Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 2 – 3 p.m. 703248-5034. Impressions Theater presents Robin Hood. Join Robin’s band of Merry Men to stomp out the evil sheriﬀ. Best for ages 5 and up. Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 7 – 8 p.m. 703-248-5034.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 30

Preschool Storytime. Songs, movement and stories for ages 18-36 months. Youth Services Center (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 10:30 – 11 a.m. 702-2485034.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1

Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, JUNE 25

“Jumpers for Goalposts.” Hope springs eternal in the post-game locker room of Barely Athletic, an amateur soccer team competing in the �ivea-side pub league in Hull, a Yorkshire �ishing city that’s seen better days (as have these athletes). A hilarious and heartbreaking play about romance, resilience, taking chances, and moving on by Tom Wells, the winner of Britain’s 2012 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright. Through June 28. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 – $72. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.

FRIDAY, JUNE 26

“The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.” Marjorie Taub, Upper West Sider and devoted lady who lunches, is deep in the throes of mid-life

existential ennui when an enigmatic childhood friend with a taste for mischief unexpectedly arrives at her door. Can Marjorie, her longsuffering mother and her loving husband Dr. Ira Taub, Board Certi�ied Allergist, survive the shake-up? A Tony-nominated, uproarious satirical comedy from the masterful Charles Busch. Through July 5. Theater J (1529 16th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 – $25. Noon. washingtondcjcc.org.

“The Producers.” Based on the hit 1968 �ilm of the same name, this Mel Brooks comedic masterpiece follows the hilarious adventures of washed-up Broadway producer Max Bialystock, and his mousy accountant Leo Bloom, as they scheme to get rich quick by producing the most notorious �lop in the history of show biz. Mark Waldrop is directing the Olney Theatre Company’s production of Brooks’ legendary

play. Through July 26. Olney Theatre Center (2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney) $18 – $60. 8 p.m. olneytheatre.org.

SATURDAY, JUNE 27

“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. signaturetheatre.org.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 26 T�� S�� K�� T�� W�� S��. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $15. 7 p.m. 202588-1889. M��. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $55. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. T�� M�� B�� B��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 8 p.m. 202-265-0930.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 27 P�� D��. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $35. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. J�� M��. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.) $25. 8 p.m. 202-337-4141. M�� G�� A�� S�� J��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504. T�� B�� R�� M��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-2419504. T�� L��. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $18. 9:30 p.m. 703-2370300. S�� L�� L��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 10 p.m. 202-265-0930.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 28 T�� J�� O��. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $18. 7 p.m. 202588-1889. S�� C�� “H�� W�� S��” CD R�� B�� H��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 7:30 p.m. 703255-1566. B�� C�� S�� G��. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $29.50. 7:30 p.m. 703549-7500. T�� A�� T�� W�� H�� R��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. J�� M��. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.) $25. 8 p.m. 202-337-4141. L�� C�� K�� J�� B��. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m. 703-525-8646.

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Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $39.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. R�� R�� T��. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.) $20. 8 p.m. 202337-4141. DK�DK. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m. 703-525-8646.

TUESDAY, JUNE 30 B�� J��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $35. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. F�� A�� “T�� P��” CD R�� S��-R�� S��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 in advance, $13 on the day of the show. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. L�� L�� B�� G�� C��. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $29.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. S�� C�� M��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15. 7:30 John Fogerty. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $40 – $65. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. A��. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.) $20. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. 202-337-4141.

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P�� A��... Thursday, July 2 – Comic Book Workshop. Children in grades 7 – 12 can learn how to write and draw their own comic book from comic book artist James

Rambo. Registration is required and participation is limited to 20 children. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 3 – 4 p.m. 703-248-5034.

Saturday, July 4 – July 4th Celebration. The City of Falls Church is sponsoring the annual July 4th Indpendence Day Celebration at George Mason High

School. Live music starts at 7 p.m. and the ﬁreworks will begin at 9:20 p.m. The event is open to the public, but there is no alcohol, personal ﬁreworks or smoking permitted on school grounds. George Mason High School (7124 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church). Free 7 – 10 p.m. fallschurchva.org/Events.

Saturday, July 18 – Farmers’ Market Chef Demo Series. Chef Tim Ma, owner of Arlington’s Water & Wall restaurant, 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.

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Buffalo Wild Wings Opens in Skyline on Monday

DGS Deli Brings Pastrami, Latkes & Matzo Balls to Mosaic

Falls Church is getting a giant new sports bar. On Monday, Buffalo Wild Wings is opening on Leesburg Pike in the Skylinearea of F.C., bringing with it an extensive collection of beer, wall-to-wall TVs, 21 signature sauces and a whole lot of chicken wings. The new restaurant and sports bar will also serve burgers, sandwiches, wraps, salads and more and will host two wingcentric events during the week – Wing Tuesdays and Boneless Thursdays – featuring its menu favorites at a special price. There will be a ribbon cutting Monday morning at 9:45 p.m. and then the Falls Church Buffalo Wild Wings will be open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. – 1 a.m. and on Sundays from 11 a.m. – midnight.

The Mosaic development has added another entry into its restaurant lineup as DGS Delicatessen opened its doors there last Monday. The deli brings a menu full of Jewish classics with everything from matzo ball soup, latkes and half-pound pastrami sandwiches to burgers, smoked beef ribs and a falafel platter. Other DGS favorites include chopped liver, perogies, smoked salmon and reuben fries which smother the spuds in pastrami, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, Russian dressing and Fresno chilis. The second location of DGS is larger than the original in Dupont Circle and features an 80-seat dining room full of plush red booths and a 15-seat bar complete with two TVs. The Mosaic DGS is open for lunch and dinner and has plans to offer brunch in the near future.

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DGS DELICATESSEN AND ITS HALF-POUND PASTRAMI sandwiches featuring Creekstone Farms brisket, schmeared with or without chicken liver have arrived at Mosaic. (P��: N��-P��)

Red Apron ‘Beast of the Month’ Dinners Start Saturday

Roanoke’s Leaping Waters Farm. Russaback bone-in loin, boneless loin and tenderloin are available at the butcher while Saturday’s dinner will feature charcuterie, wild boar pot de pho and a boar feast with roasted boar head, smoke chorizo, roasted spare ribs, smoked braised tongue, ear salad and bacon fat tortillas. The meal, which also includes a cocktail reception, starts at 7:30 p.m. and is $95 a person.

In more Mosaic news, Red Apron Butcher is kicking off its inaugural “Beast of the Month” dinner this Saturday with a five-course whole animal family-style meal at its Merrifield location. The new program from chef Nathan Anda will feature a new heritage breed animal each month offered in the butcher case as well as on the menu for the monthly dinner. This month’s “beast” is the Russaback, a cross between a Russian Boar and Saddleback from

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR REVISION OF A RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER W, WARREN COUNTY POWER STATION CASE NO. PUE-2015-00061 On June 1, 2015, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Virginia Power (“Dominion Virginia Power” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”), This advertisement was prepared by filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an annual update with respect to the Company’s rate adjustment clause, Rider W (“Application”). Through its Application, the Filename: P66737A_GOX_GEN_V5.indd BBDO New York with the Warren County Power Station, a 1,342-megawatt (summer net) natural gas-fired, combined-cycle electric generating facility and associated Company seeks to recover costs associated CLIENT: Pro Bono transmission interconnection facilities in Warren County, Virginia On June 3, 2015, Company filed a corrected Schedule 46 D, Statement 2. 10/16/06 3:47 PM Saved:the 10/27/06 11:59 AM Proof #: 5(“Warren County Project” or “Project”).Created: PRODUCT: DHS-Family Cards Color 10/27/06 AM In Case No. PUE-2011-00042, the Magazine Commission approved the development of the Warren County Printed: Project. In 11:59 conjunction with its approval of the Project, the Commission also approved a Path: Studio:Volumes:Studio:Mechanic...echanicals:P66737A_GOX_GEN_ JOB#: P66737A Print Scale: 100% V5.indd rate adjustment clause, designated Rider W, which allowed Dominion Virginia Power to recover its costs associated with the Project, including projected construction work in progress and any SPACE: Full Pg. 4/C Operators: Maria Barrios / James Lipp associated allowance for funds used during construction. In its Application, the Company states that the Warren County Project became fully operational on December 10, 2014. BLEED: None Fonts TRIM: 7 in x 4.625Virginia in In this proceeding, Dominion Power has asked the Commission to approve a Rider W for Ink theNames rate year beginning April 1, 2016, and ending March 31, 2017 (“2016 Rate Year”). The Times New Roman PS (Roman), Arial (SF MT), ITC Zapf Dingbats SAFETY: a total None Company is requesting revenue requirement of approximately $117,928,000 for service during the Cyan 2016 Rate Year. The two key components of the total revenue requirement are the Magenta (Medium), Helvetica Neue (75 Bold) GUTTER: None Projected Cost Recovery Factor and the Actual Cost True Graphic Up Factor. The CompanyColor is requesting Yellow Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $115,089,000 and an Actual Cost Name Space Eff. Res. a Projected PUBS: Client Black True-Up Factor revenue requirement of $2,840,000. Ready_CMYK.ai, AClogo_wht.eps, DHS_S_4C.eps ISSUE: n/a TRAFFIC:Power Donna Mendieta a rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 11.00% for purposes of calculating the revenue requirement in this case. This ROE is comprised of a general Dominion Virginia utilized ART BUYER: n/a ROE of 10.0% approved by the Commission in its Final Order in Case No. PUE-2013-00020, plus a 100 basis point enhanced return applicable to a combined-cycle generating station as deAE: Jolene Chen scribed in § 56-585.1 A 6 of the RETOUCH: Steve Code. Lakeman If the Commission the proposed Rider W for the 2016 Rate Year, the impact on customer bills for service would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to PROD: approves n/a AD: Christina Santora the Company, implementation of its proposed Rider W on April 1, 2016, would decrease the monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.16. CW: Heather Luisa The Company has calculated the proposed Rider W rates in accordance with the same methodology as used for rates approved by the Commission in the most recent Rider W proceeding, Case No. PUE-2014-00042. Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for the details of these and other proposals. TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may apportion revenues among customer classes and/or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Application and supporting documents and thus may adopt rates that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Application and supporting documents. The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on November 17, 2015, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff. The public version of the Company’s Application and the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing are available for public inspection during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies also may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Lisa S. Booth, Dominion Resources Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means. Copies of the public version of the Application and documents filed in this case also are available for interested persons to review in the Commission’s Document Control Center, located on the first floor of the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, between the hours of 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. On or before August 27, 2015, any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-2015-00061. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing. On or before October 6, 2015, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission, and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. Respondents also shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure, including, but not limited to: 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-2015-00061. On or before November 10, 2015, any interested person wishing to comment on the Application shall file written comments on the Application with the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before November 10, 2015, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUE-2015-00061. The Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure may be viewed at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure and an official copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding may be obtained from the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY d/b/a DOMINION VIRGINIA POWER

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The Quebe Sisters, a trio of fiddlers from a suburb of Fort Worth, Tx., have been playing music together virtually their entire lives. They attended their local fiddle competition in 1998 and decided that’s what they wanted to do with their lives. “We’ve had different bandmates over the years and it’s definitely a different dynamic to work with people you met two months ago versus someone you’ve spent your whole life with,” said Hulda Quebe, the youngest sister. “We feel really fortunate that we can play music together and be a family. Not a lot of people have the opportunity that we have, so I think it makes for a really fun dynamic and also it’s nice to have family on the road with you.” She said that being on the road with her sisters cuts out a bit of homesickness that can touring can bring on but that they will act as siblings, or even most bandmates, will act. “Three of us, we know each other,” Hulda said. “And of course we’re siblings, so we get into our fair share of little arguments. But I think the cool thing about us is that we really have the same vision for what we do. We grew up focusing on the same stuff and listening to the same styles of music and just really doing everything together, so we’re really in sync when it comes to the vision for our music and for our band and it’s really fun to work with people you’re so in sync with.” She said that she and her sisters have developed an efficient way of non-verbally communicating with each other on stage. “We can kind of look at each other and read each others’ minds,” she said. “Sometimes we’ll be on stage and I can look at one of my sisters and I can tell telepathically tell them something without having to say it with words.” When Hulda spoke with the News-Press, she and her sisters Sophia and Grace were on

THE QUEBE SISTERS (C�� P��) day 14 of a 26-day tour, most of which will spent on the East Coast. Hulda said that they aren’t mixing up their set list much even though they’ve been playing different sorts of venues like concert halls and music festivals. “It’s been fun to bring our music out here and see how the audiences respond and bring some Texas music up to the East Coast,” she said. The Quebe Sisters will be coming to Alexandria for a Saturday night show at Grist Mill Park. Hulda said the East Coast audiences have been responding well to their Texas-brand of Americana music. “We’ve played out here a couple times over the years and this is about our third time coming out here to the Eastern states and it’s been really good,” she said. They’ve been playing

material from their album Every Which-A-Way, which was released last year by Grace’s Qsb Entertainment, and other new material that they’re working on. Despite being the youngest sibling, Hulda said that she doesn’t get picked on anymore while they’re on the road. Instead, Hulda and Grace, the oldest sister, turn their attention to Sophia, the middle sister. “We still pick on the middle sister the most, but she deserves it,” she joked. “She’s just really easy to trick and she’s gullible and she says a lot of funny stuff so it’s easy to make fun of her. But she’s super fun. When were growing up we joked that we didn’t have a TV because Sophia was our entertainment.” • For more information about The Quebe Sisters, visit quebesisters.com.

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1. How a rose by any other name would smell, per Juliet 2. Thin layers 3. Indentation between the upper lip and the nose 4. Berry with an Oscar 5. “The results ____!” 6. 1981 assassination victim 7. Ladies 8. Bolivian president Morales 9. Juiced (up) 10. Show off a new skirt, say 11. “Mi casa ____ casa” 12. Made a person write “LOL!” 13. Zodiac sign 14. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, notably 22. “Hostess with the mostest” socialite Perle 24. They symbolize toughness 26. Graffitist, e.g. 30. “Heart of Darkness” author

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52. Unloquacious 56. Barred 58. Melissa who won an Emmy for her role in 36-Across 59. Major minor league 60. Permeate 62. Hasbro game with plastic antennae 63. Univ. figures 64. Part of LED 65. More plentiful 66. My Chemical Romance genre 67. Transatlantic flight sight 68. Scrooges

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A technical dispute over the number of affordable housing units and their location temporarily derailed the City Council’s intentions to approve the final draft of the Whittier RFP Monday night. The Council members moved with dispatch through most of the items in the long-discussed proposal, before agreeing to hold a work session on the affordable housing issue July 5 at 6:30 in conference room one.

A joint work session of the Falls Church City council and Planning Commission tonight will be the occasion for the unveiling of the broad outlines of what a redeveloped downtown Falls Church “city center” will look like. City Manager Dan McKeever reported on this in an address to the monthly luncheon of the Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce Tuesday. Nine months of arduous work by the City’s planning staff has produced....

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The Virginia Small Business Development Center Network is hosting Northern Virginia Retail Week from Monday, July 27 to Friday, July 31. The week’s events include workshops designed to help retail business owners start, grow, or expand their businesses. Workshops, which will take place at various locations, include Food as Business, Construction Disruption Mitigation, Retail Marketing, Art as Business, and From Prototype to Manufacturing. The workshops are free, as a result of funding from Capital One Bank, but space is limited to the first 50 registrants. Northern Virginia Retail Week is sponsored by the Community Business Partnership, Virginia Small Business Development Center Alexandria, Capital One Bank, Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, and the US Small Business Administration. To learn more or to register, visit www.cbponline.org.

2 F.C. Businesses Announce New Summer Hours New to You, The Chic Boutique and The Front Porch Furniture Rescue have both announced new summer hours. New to You will be open on Sundays through the summer while The Front Porch will be closed. New to You, located at 108 W. Broad Street, is open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., and now Sundays from noon – 4 p.m. The Front Porch, at 817 W. Broad Street, is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. – 6pm. Both women owned local independent businesses are closed on Mondays. For more information, visitnewtoyou.net or FrontPorchFurnitureRescue.com.

5 F.C. Businesses Named ‘Top Workplaces’ by Post Five Falls Church businesses made the rankings for the Washington Post’s Top Workplaces 2015, a listing of the 150 best places to work in the Washington, D.C. area which was published June 21. General contractor HITT Contracting and professional services firm Noblis were ranked numbers 6 and 7 respectively in the large workplaces division while government contractors Markon Solutions and New Editions Consulting and pet care provider Dog Paws n Cat Claws Pet Care were ranked 11, 20 and 46 in the small workplaces division. Results were based on employee evaluations of employers’ quality of leadership, pay and benefits practices, and work-life balance issues. For more information about this survey and its results, visit washingtonpost.com.

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ACCOUNTING

Diener & Associates, CPA. . . . . . . . . 241-8807 Eric C. Johnson, CPA, PC . . . . . . . . 538-2394 Mark Sullivan, CPA . . . . . . . . . . . 571-214-4511 Hahn & Associates, PC, CPAs . . . . . 533-3777

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES

Falls Church Antique Company . . . . 241-7074 Antique Annex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241-9642

ATTORNEYS

Mark F. Werblood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534-9300 Sudeep Bose, Former Police Officer. 926-3900 Janine S. Benton, Esq. . . . . . . . . . . . .992-9255

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CHIROPRACTOR

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CLEANING SERVICES

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COLLEGES

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CONCRETE

DENTISTS

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CRJ Concrete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571-221-2785 Family Dentistry, Nimisha V Patel . . . 533-1733 Dr. Peterson Huang, Bite Specialist . 532-7586 Dr. William Dougherty . . . . . . . . . . . . 532-3300

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Point of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237-6500

FLORISTS

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FRAMES

Art & Frame of Falls Church . . . . . . . 534-4202

Foxes Music Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533-7393

OPTOMETRIST

Stifel & Capra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407-0770

Your Handyman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571-243-6726

Vantage Fitness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241-0565 Jazzercise Falls Church . . . . . . . . . . 622-2152

PHOTOGRAPHY

FC Heating & Air Service . . . . . . . . . 534-0630 Joseph Home Improvement . . . . . . . 507-5005 Picture Perfect Home Improvements 590-3187 One Time Home Improvement . . . . . 577-9825

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Feline Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 920-8665 Gary Mester, Event, Portraits . . . . . . 481-0128 Mary Sandoval Photography . . . . 334-803-1742 Merelyn Kaye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .790-9090x218 www.helpfulmortgage.us . . . . . . . . . . 237-0222 Casey O’Neal - ReMax . . . . . . . . . . . 824-4196 Rosemary Hayes Jones . . . . . . . . . . .790-1990 The Young Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .356-8800 Tori McKinney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867-8674 Shaun Murphy, Realtor . . . . . . . . . . 868-5999

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Tailor Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534-8886 Yoga for Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310-809-0418

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