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June 25 – July 1, 2020

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Phase 3 Reopening In Virginia Begins July 1 F.C. Restaurants Breathe Sigh of Relief At News

BY NICHOLAS F. BENTON AND MATT DELANEY

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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday that Phase 3 of his reopening process for the state in the context of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic will commence next Wednesday, July 1. For many Falls Church restaurants and other small businesses, this comes not a day too soon. The long-sought reopening of the central site that was Mad Fox Brewing Company in the 400 West Broad block of downtown Falls Church was launched in just the past week with the opening after almost a year’s hiatus of its successor, the Solace Outpost Brewing Company. Another of the City’s most popular locations, the Ireland’s Four Provinces at the central intersection of W. Broad and S. Washington Streets, has been engaged in a relentless effort to stay in business, closed for the first months of the lockdown and slowly beginning, as with many other establishments, with carryout only, then the severe limitations on customers of Northam’s Phase 2 currently in place. Colm Dillon, owner of Ireland’s Four P’s, as it is commonly known, was making it clear

that his popular business, one of the most established and respected in the City, was on the brink and possibly unable to carry on past July. This was despite an extraordinary outpouring of support from his patrons, even as the restaurant itself was closed. Through a “Go Fund Me” appeal, over $52,000 was raised to help out his loyal staff rendered unemployed by the crisis. Now, however, Dillon is buoyed by the governor’s latest announcement, which will enable his restaurant to welcome a full complement of patrons, including at his long bar, albeit under terms of “social distancing” (six feet apart). COLM DILLON, proprietor of Falls Church’s popular Ireland’s Four Provinces, thanked the many It all depends, he told the patrons who supported employees of his restaurant during the pandemic lockdown with “Go Fund News-Press this week, on whether Me” donations with recognitions on the walls of the alcove leading into his establishment. (P��: the public will feel sufficiently N��-P��) safe and protected venturing out after three months of lockdown to enjoy what he and his fellow small business colleagues have to offer. That is a mighty incentive BY DEL. MARCUS SIMON installation, provided the installaers, than others. for him and all the Little City’s SPECIAL TO THE NEWS-PRESS When you wake up and leave tion meets some minimum safety 130 restaurants to comply fully your house July 1, 2020 the sky standards. with the governor’s guidelines for When you pull out of the parkNext Wednesday, on July 1, may not be any bluer, and the maintaining a safe environment most of the new laws passed by grass may not be any greener, but ing lot, you’ll need to be more even as the virus still lurks. the Virginia General Assembly in you are more likely to be able to careful of pedestrians, now that all At his press briefing Tuesday, January, February and March of find an electric vehicle charging drivers must come to a complete Northam called for maintaining this year and signed by Gov. Ralph station in your homeowner asso- stop when yielding to pedestrians the fundamental components of a Northam in April will become law. ciation’s parking lot, thanks to in a crosswalk. You can also get a Some of them will have more of new legislation that prevents your Continued on Page 5 Continued on Page 8 an impact on your lives, dear read- association from prohibiting their

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A banner remembering George Floyd, who died on May 25 when a police officer pinned his knee to Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes, was apparently stolen from the Tinner Hill Arch on S. Washington St., prompting an investigation by City of Falls Church police.

While other students were dreading how they’d spend months indoors, rising seniors Andrew Tran and Rayan Yu immediately set to work on a new phone app that sought to help people learn through the quarantine brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Northern Virginia’s own “Rockin’ the Suburbs” podcast from Falls Church’s Patrick Foster and Ashburn resident Jim Lenahan will take their show to Jammin’ Java’s stage next Wednesday. SEE PRESS PASS, PAGE 14

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY D/B/A DOMINION ENERGY VIRGINIA FOR APPROVAL OF A RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE RIDER S, VIRGINIA CITY HYBRID ENERGY CENTER CASE NO. PUR-2020-00102 •Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion”) has applied for approval to revise its rate adjustment clause, Rider S. •Dominion’s request represents an increase of $194,215,000 million annually, which would decrease the bill of a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by $0.23. •A Hearing Examiner appointed by the State Corporation Commission will hold a hearing in this case on December 15, 2020. •Further information about this case is available on the SCC website at: https://scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information. On June 1, 2020, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”), filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an annual update of the Company’s rate adjustment clause, Rider S (“Application”). Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center (“VCHEC” or “Project”), a 600 megawatt nominal coal fueled generating plant and associated transmission interconnection facilities located in Wise County, Virginia. In Case No. PUE-2007-00066, the Commission approved Dominion’s construction and operation of VCHEC and also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider S, for Dominion to recover costs associated with the development of the Project. VCHEC became fully operational in 2012. In this proceeding, Dominion has asked the Commission to approve Rider S for the rate year beginning April 1, 2021, and ending March 31, 2022 (“2021 Rate Year”). The two components of the proposed total revenue requirement for the 2021 Rate Year are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor and the Actual Cost True Up Factor. The Company is requesting a Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $198,535,000 and an Actual Cost True Up Factor revenue requirement of ($4,320,000). Thus, the Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $194,215,000 for service rendered during the 2021 Rate Year. For purposes of calculating the revenue requirement in this case, Dominion utilized an enhanced rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 10.2%. This ROE comprises a general ROE of 9.2% approved by the Commission in Case Nos. PUR-2017-00038 and PUR-2019-00050, plus a 100 basis point enhanced return applicable to a conventional coal generating station as described in § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code. If the proposed Rider S for the 2021 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion, implementation of its proposed Rider S on April 1, 2021, would decrease the bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.23. The Company indicates it has calculated the proposed Rider S rates in accordance with the same methodology as used for rates approved by the Commission in the most recent Rider S proceeding, Case No. PUR-2019-00088, with the exception that in this case the Company did not remove federal customers’ and retail choice customers’ load and usage for the purpose of designing rates. This Application is one of six filings Dominion made on or about June 1, 2020, for recovery of funds related to capital projects. If the revenue requirements in these filings are approved as proposed, the cumulative impact would be a monthly increase of approximately $0.96 for a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month. 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. A public hearing on the Application shall be convened on December 15, 2020, at 10 a.m., to receive the testimony of public witnesses and the evidence of the Company, any respondents, and the Staff. Further details on the hearing will be provided by subsequent Commission Order or Hearing Examiner’s Ruling. The Commission has taken judicial notice of the ongoing public health emergency related to the spread of the coronavirus, or COVID-19, and the declarations of emergency issued at both the state and federal levels. In accordance therewith, all pleadings, briefs, or other documents required to be served in this matter should be submitted electronically to the extent authorized by 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”). Confidential and Extraordinarily Sensitive information shall not be submitted electronically and should comply with 5 VAC 5-20-170, Confidential information, of the Rules of Practice. For the duration of the COVID-19 emergency, any person seeking to hand deliver and physically file or submit any pleading or other document shall contact the Clerk’s Office Document Control Center at (804) 371-9838 to arrange the delivery. Pursuant to 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, the Commission has directed that service on parties and the Commission’s Staff in this matter shall be accomplished by electronic means. Please refer to the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing for further instructions concerning Confidential or Extraordinarily Sensitive Information. An electronic copy of the Company’s Application may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Lisa R. Crabtree, Esquire, McGuireWoods LLP, Gateway Plaza, 800 East Canal Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, or LCrabtree@mcguirewoods.com. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: https://scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information. On or before December 15, 2020, any interested person may file comments on the Application by following the instructions found on the Commission’s website: https://scc.virginia. gov/casecomments/Submit-Public-Comments. All comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2020-00102. On or before September 15, 2020, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation. Such notice of participation shall include the email addresses of such parties or their counsel. The respondent simultaneously shall serve a copy of the notice of participation on counsel to the Company. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. Any organization, corporation, or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by Rule 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2020-00102. On or before October 27, 2020, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission and serve on the 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. In all filings, respondents shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR- 2020-00102. Any documents filed in paper form with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, except as modified by the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice. The Company’s Application, the Commission’s Rules of Practice and the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing may be viewed at: https://scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information. VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY d/b/a DOMINION ENERGY VIRGINIA

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Student-Created Learning App Shoots to Close Achievement Gap

by Orrin Konheim

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While other students were dreading how they’d spend months indoors, rising seniors Andrew Tran and Rayan Yu, from Justice High School and James Madison High School, respectively, immediately set to work on a new phone app that sought to help people learn through the quarantine brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. “During quarantine there’s so much to do, especially with innovation,” said Andrew Tran. Since founding the non-profit inGenius X in the summer of 2018, Tran and Yu have made it their mission to rectify achievement gaps in education. This past April, the pair created the AI-based tutoring tool and app, AmeliaX, that has already spread to a base of 60,000 users with people as far away as Iran and India. The two have been affected by first-hand experiences. When he founded the non-profit, Yu had just returned from tutoring in his father’s hometown in rural China. Tran said he started to notice how “My own friends couldn’t afford things like backpacks and pencils and that started to affect me at a close point.” Tran asked himself what the country could do to fix this, before realizing that it was actually doing everything it could, and yet more was still needed. So the pair took their knack for technology as well as the privilege of time and financial wellbeing their family provides them to help others who may not share those advantages. “There’s such an achievement gap [where] higher-ups can afford these personal tutors but in these lower income areas, education might not be the first necessity. It might be putting food on the table, providing shelter, things like that,” Tran said. “If we can provide some sort of digital platform for students to have some sort of experience with a tutor, I think we’re starting to close this achievement gap and really make an impact.” Although they don’t have full metrics yet, the pair has done their best to connect with the community and get feedback. They’re aware that they can’t supplant a full curriculum but their goal is to be able to help.

“Most of the feedback has been anecdotal. It’s like ‘The first time I’ve had fun doing calculus,’ and that really pushes us to improve ourselves,” said Tran. Tran and Yu met through mutual friends and then in person at the Fairfax Regional Science and Engineering Fair. “There’s a lot of young app makers now who are changing the world and we both shared this passion for fixing the educational disparities both locally and globally.” said Tran. “We wanted to create impact, but what are we best at? It’s with technology that we can create that impact.” They first found success in their freshman year with the app Mathtivity which gained them attention when they won the 2019 Congressional App Challenge from over 2,100 entries. Mathtivity, first published in Feb. 2018, teaches students STEM subjects like engineering and math through various videos, prepares them for the SATs and ACTs and connects struggling students with a tutor. According to Tran and Yu, the app is distinguished from similar apps in that it’s more collaborative. In the summer of 2018, Yu took the lead on founding a nonprofit and registering it with the State Corporation Commission. Because they were minors, Yu and Tran found an adult mentor to help them with the paperwork and serve on their board. Yu was inspired by, among others, Nadya Okamoto who founded the non-profit Period in 2014 at the age of 16. “Seeing teens across the country do things like that, we think maybe we can’t just right off the bat get that much support, but we can work by ourselves to [impact] the things we care about which relates to our family history and local history in general,” he said. The duo also feels they were blessed when they were waitlisted by the prestigious Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. “For going to Justice or Madison for Rayan, it’s given us a lot of extra time to explore our own interests [and make our own time with it]. I know a lot of people at Jefferson are just piled on with homework,” said Tran. “To really explore yourself I think you need a lot more

INGENIUSX was inspired, in part, by Rayan Yu’s trip to his father’s hometown in rural China (top). It was moments like those that pushed the two to work on their app, Amelia X, and hold in-class demonstrations on it, as Andrew Tran has done. (Photos: Courtesy Andrew Tran) free time.” “From my perspective, it’s actually probably a blessing that we both did not get into Thomas Jefferson because it really allowed us to explore a lot of different initiatives outside of school work and while still being decently academically challenged though maybe not as much as TJ, we still have a lot

more time to explore for initiatives that we like to conduct outside of school whether that be volunteer work, extracurricular activities, sports or anything else,” Yu added. With one year of high school left, the pair agree that nothing’s off the table. “I think a traditional educational experience is very benefi-

cial as it has [been] for the past generations and people in our generation even generations,” said Yu. “We just have to see what comes our way and always do what we think is right.” Rayan Yu and Andrew Tran’s website can be found at ingeniusx.org and their apps, Mathtivity and AmeliaX, can be found on your phone’s app store.

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No Mandatory Ultrasounds, Relaxed Marijuana Laws Among Changes Continued from Page 1

ticket for crossing into a bike lane to pass another vehicle, so pack a little extra patience. If you are out house hunting, same sex couples will be able to fill out a rental application listing themselves as married without fear of being denied a housing opportunity, thanks to passage of the Virginia Values Act which prohibits discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations based on sexual orientation. In addition, the Act creates causes of action for wrongful termination or discrimination in employment and public accommodations on the basis of race, religion, national origin, status as veteran, pregnancy and related medical conditions, and gender identity. Black women won’t have to worry about what their boss thinks about the way they decided to wear their hair, as the General Assembly explicitly stated that discrimination based

on hairstyles associated with a particular race is a form of prohibited racial discrimination. Health care providers and counselors will no longer be able to use conversion therapy (with the aim to ostensibly convert an LGBT person to “straight”) on minors. And the Department of Education begins work on a statewide policy for the treatment of transgender students in schools across the Commonwealth. You will have 48 hours to report any firearms you own lost or stolen once you realize they are missing. You won’t be able to purchase a replacement firearm, even if it’s at a gun show or through a private sale, without first going through a background check, and you will only be able to purchase one hand gun per month, once again, here in Virginia. Anyone who recklessly leaves an unsecured firearm around a minor will be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor, and you will be able to go to court to get a spe-

cial type of restraining order that removes firearms from someone who is deemed by a magistrate to pose a risk to themselves or others. College-age kids who grew up here in Virginia will be eligible for in-state tuition regardless of their immigration or citizenship status provided that they have attended high school in Virginia for at least two years. Women will no longer have to undergo a medically unnecessary ultrasound before an abortion and we repealed the TRAP laws that restricted access to abortion clinics. If you report an overdose (a “Good Samaritan Law”) or are under the influence yourself, you will be protected from arrest or prosecution when you seek emergency medical care. Voting is getting easier. You will no longer be denied a ballot if you don’t have a photo ID and you might even have the day off as Election Day is now a state holiday. If you don’t have

the day off, you no longer have to have an excuse to request an absentee ballot — you can simply request it. For my constituents who are animal lovers, tethering animals outside has some new restrictions to protect pets from being left outside in harsh conditions. You’ll also be able to have a pet cremated and buried with a loved one. If you’re a spouse of a deceased veteran, you can now obtain a new copy their death certificate when applying for service-connected benefits. If you’ve been convicted of a drug-related felony, you can’t be denied food stamps assuming that you are otherwise eligible. The Virginia Department of Social Services in coordination with the Department of Health and the Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance will administer the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Prevention Fund aimed at establishing prevention programs. You won’t be subject to criminal charges for simple possession of small quantities of marijuana. This is just a short list of new laws that go into effect

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next week. Some of the bigger issues you may remember hearing about have what’s called a delayed enactment date. So the minimum wage is going up, eventually to $15 an hour, but it doesn’t start moving that direction until May 1, 2021. (Del. Marcus Simon represents the 53rd Virginia House district that includes the City of Falls Church) COVID-19 UPDATE In the last week, starting from Thursday, June 17 and going until Wednesday, June 24, the Virginia Department of Health has updated its coronavirus data for the City of Falls Church to include 57 total cases (+1 from last week; it was recorded on Monday that there were 59 cases in F.C. City, but they were found not to be residents upon further review) as well as 11 hospitalized and seven deaths (no change in either from last week). The Fairfax Health District, which the City is a part of, has 13,279 total cases (+435 from last week), including 1,535 hospitalized (+62) and 443 deaths (+21).

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Travel to New York Now Restricted

What an irony that New York, the state which was on fire with Covid19 infections just two months ago, is now imposing quarantines on visitors to that state coming from the current growing wave of high-infection rate states. Just as people all over the country have begun celebrating the reopening of New York City, with prospects for an easy Amtrak or $20 bus ride to the Big Apple to enjoy the ambiance of that great world city, many are now confronted with the unhappy restriction that their travel there may include a 14 day quarantine once crossing the border to it, and some of its neighboring states, as well. It’s a small reminder that the Covid-19 pandemic that has ravaged the world since March is very, very real, and still very, very deadly. Reports from the International Monetary Fund and others are now that the global economic impact of efforts to stem the spread of this deadly airborne virus will prove far worse than originally hoped. A report in the Washington Business Journal showed that the net income of 95 public companies in the Greater Washington, D.C. region that filed reports with the Security and Exchange Commission for the first quarter of 2020, with respect to the comparable period of 2019, was down from $11,951,879,067 to $903,402,657, a drop of 92.4 percent. The report from Falls Church’s Chief Financial Officer Kiran Bawa to the F.C. City Council for the City fiscal year’s 10 months through April are down $2.8 million. But all of the numbers remain extremely tentative. We all hope that with Gov. Ralph Northam’s order this week that Virginia can move into Phase 3 of reopening from the lockdown on July 1 will cause a new surge in economic activity that will enable the hiring back of a major portion of the workforce and a return to some portion of relative normalcy. However, we’re stunned by the unintended consequences of early reopening in other states, such as Florida, Texas and Arizona, leading to a new surge of the virus to levels exceeding ones they’d experienced to now, thus the imposition of the quarantines in New York. Under the leadership of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York went from the most contagious state in America to the least now, with deaths peaking at almost 900 a day in early April down to 14 last week. As Cuomo stressed, the improvement came from one source only, the willingness of the public to cause it to happen. There were no laws or mandates that caused it, but the constant admonitions that he and many others made to their fellow citizens to comply with the simplest but most effective of the preventative measures: wearing a mask in public, reducing the infection rate by five-fold, and that, combined with social distancing, reduces the rate of spread of the virus very effectively.

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Misleading Information Behind Jefferson Name Change Effort Editor, Having spent my career in public service conducting congressional investigations and evaluating government programs, I found my professional instincts kicking in as I read the recent letter to the editor, “Nearly 700 Signatures Support Changing TJ Elementary Name” (Falls Church News-Press June 18-24, 2020). The author’s assertions that

Jefferson “beat young African Americans as young as age 9, and took pride in these actions” gave me pause and prompted my own effort to examine them. After reviewing dozens of scholarly sources — including book reviews, newspaper articles, blog accounts, and other online information — it was clear that these assertions are untrue: there is no evidence that Jefferson ever

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beat youthful slaves at Monticello or any of his other properties or took pride in the use of corporal punishment. Likewise, the assertion that Jefferson “boiled down the life of a human being’s worth to a profit margin” is at best subjective and misleading, seemingly reflecting views expressed by the author of a controversial recent book that purported to shed new light on his life and character. Clearly, as the letter writer also notes, Jefferson is a “complicated figure.” It has long been known and scholarly works in recent decades have broken new ground on the paradoxes and con-

tradictions in what he did, said, and wrote over his lifetime. Still, I wonder how many of those 700 signatories to the name change petition would have done so had they known that the information provided to persuade them was false, misleading, and/or exaggerated. Indeed, in my view, it is precisely such information we need to avoid if we are to make headway in addressing the tumultuous issues and problems we face. In fraught times such as these, positive results more than ever depend on the kind of

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Falls Church, like many other cities in Virginia and across the United States, is in a reopening phase. Covid-19 has affected all of us and has changed the world as we know it. It is requiring all of us in Falls Church, as well as the rest of the world, to adapt to the “new normal”. Sifting through the misinformation surrounding Covid-19 adds unnecessary stress to businesses and consumers. As many businesses strive to prioritize the health of their employees and customers, they have already started following CDC recommendations such as wearing masks, separating tables, spacing out goods, social distancing, and teleworking. These steps are great; however, these general, overarching recommendations are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to keeping both employees and customers safe. We as the Falls Church community can take other practical and simple steps to help protect our community and keep our businesses in business! BioPrep Solutions has partnered with the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce to help businesses navigate reopening, ensuring Falls Church businesses stay in business. BioPrep Solutions was founded by public health professionals with over 40 years of biodefense, epidemiology, and infection control experience at the local, state and federal levels. BioPrep strives to make Public Health public, by providing access to experts who can relay scientifically valid information into an easy-to-understand format. BioPrep believes education is essential to ensur-

ing businesses are able to safely reopen for their employees and their customers. BioPrep, in collaboration with seasoned business professionals and education experts, has designed the Healthy Business Pledge. The Healthy Business Pledge has been designed to 1) Educate, 2) Train, 3) Mitigate, and

BioPrep Solutions has partnered with the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce to help businesses navigate reopening, ensuring Falls Church businesses stay in business. 4) Support. This course had been designed using the constructivism learning science researchbased teaching practice which allows BioPrep experts to incorporate multiple engagement points to meet each learner where they are. Since the course is digital, BioPrep experts update the course in real time both with current, fact based information and continual improvements to the course design. The course also helps increase citizens’ basic science- and health- literacy. Included with this pledge is an interactive

45 minute online course, certificate of completion, storefront Covid-19 signs, and the blue and yellow checkmark window decal to highlight to customers and all of Falls Church that businesses have completed the Healthy Business Pledge. This checkmark denotes businesses that have taken an extra effort to pursue training related to preventing the spread of Covid-19 and to upholding local laws and regulations. Customers and businesses alike will come to recognize and trust the Healthy Business Pledge checkmark! The Healthy Business Pledge is available to Falls Church businesses for free, compliments of F.C..’s Chamber of Commerce. Now more than ever, it is critical that factbased, scientifically-proven information is at the core of reopening plans and protocols. However, public health and biological concepts are difficult to understand and are equally challenging to manifest in company-wide practices. This is why BioPrep has created not only the Healthy Business Pledge, but also in-depth, industryspecific Professional Learning Programs that deliver detailed information about Covid-19, public health measures, and cleaning and disinfecting procedures for employees of all backgrounds. These industry-specific programs take a deep dive into specific industries and provide recommendations that are unique to these industries’ settings, needs and operations. Businesses that participate in these deep dive trainings can also choose to take BioPrep’s Healthy Business Pledge, promising to take the information and recommendations into consideration when reopening. BioPrep appreciates

each business’s input and unique needs, and believes that employees must have a say when navigating public health threats. When businesses play a role in creating their own action plan, they are more likely to adhere to protocols because their specific goals and needs are accounted for. BioPrep collaborates and partners with businesses by providing expert guidance through Custom Standard Operating Procedures, Storefront Evaluations, and Monitoring and Compliance Services — all offerings which transform public health concepts into understandable plans and concrete practices. It is essential for our economy that we all support local businesses again. We will be much more comfortable doing so knowing that business leaders are staying informed to ensure they act in accordance with state and local regulations and know that the information they receive is scientifically valid, appropriate, and vetted. These measures will facilitate the re-opening process, improve business efficiencies, and provide businesses with the tools and education to help prevent coronavirus outbreaks. Understanding the proper protocols and procedures to reopen a business will not only protect employees and customers against public health threats, but will also ease anxieties about returning to work, make your business stand out as a community leader, and incentivize other businesses to take necessary precautions. Let’s work together to keep Falls Church as safe as possible Vanessa Eddy is the co-founder of BioPrep Solutions

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preventative program — namely, physical distancing and the wearing of face masks. He cited data showing a trend over time of declining new infections, hospitalizations, ventilator uses and deaths to justify his order that many small businesses, including restaurants, are hopeful will reverse the terrible drop in revenues they’ve endured under the pandemic lockdown over the past three months. Phase 3, in addition to opening up restaurants, includes that public gatherings can accommodate up to 250 persons, entertainment venues can operate up to 50 percent capacity, gyms at 75 percent capacity, outdoor sporting events retaining physical distancing and gradual lifting of restrictions for long-term care facilities. Projections on how restaurants will come through the crisis have not been pretty up to this point. Some experts are on record predicting only 20 percent of restaurants in the nation may ultimately survive the crashing of their businesses since mid-March. But with news that those here will be able to, for all intents and purposes, fully reopen next week, maybe that projection won’t be so severe. To be sure, this impacts the whole community, as in Falls Church there are over 130 restaurants who pay meals taxes that contribute valuable revenues to the City’s overall operating budget coffers. Other small businesses contribute sales and gross receipts taxes, as well. The coronavirus pandemic caused the City’s new gastropub Solace Outpost to push back its opening from May to June, but this week began welcoming customers to the location that had been idling for nearly a year after Mad Fox’s closure last July. An extension of Solace Brewing Company based out of Sterling, the Outpost introduced Falls Church to its exclusive beers and new food offerings called “Sauced” during

a soft-opening held from last Wednesday through Sunday. It’s a joint venture between Solace’s owners Drew Wiles, Jon Hummerick and Mike Arms, the Hilton brothers Ian and Eric, the owners of establishments such as Brixton and Player’s Club in Washington, D.C. and Steve Ryan, the owner of Blackfinn Ameripub, also in D.C. “We’ve never been a part of anything with a food concept…[but] it’s been relatively easy” Hummerick said. “We’re the beer guys, so we do all the beer stuff and they let us do that. And they do the restaurant stuff and we let them do that.” The sub-head to Sauced is “Pies, thighs and fries” where, as Hummerick described it, personal bar pizza pies star as the main course. The pizza is cooked akin to pies found in the northeast that feature crispy thin crust edges with a doughy middle. Fried chicken thighs take inspiration from Blackfinn’s chicken sandwich, and will be cut up into pieces and come with five dipping sauces. And the fries come with a few distinct options, such as Currywurst and Beer Cheese and Bacon. Introducing food into the equation may remind some of Mad Fox’s troubles in trying to balance operating both a restaurant and a brewery in one location. But Hummerick assured that the Outpost is clear about it’s priorities. “For us, this, first and foremost, is a brewery,” Hummerick said. “From a food concept, we’re trying to keep it as simple as possible...[to] make people understand that this is a brewery first. The fact that we have the food is awesome, you know people want to eat when they’re drinking, but focusing behind our brand and focusing on making this a brewery, we’re hoping that we’ll do well.” Solace Outpost is open from 2 – 9 p.m. everyday during Phase 2, but will switch to noon – 10 p.m. Sunday – Thursday and noon – midnight Friday and Saturday once Phase 3 kicks in next Wednesday.

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George Floyd Banner Stolen from F.C.’s Tinner Hill Arch A banner remembering the life of George Floyd, who died on May 25 when a police officer pinned his knee to Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes, unveiled by the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation at the Tinner Hill Arch on S. Washington St., was apparently stolen earlier this month, prompting an investigation by City of Falls Church police. Edwin Henderson of the Foundation’s board of directors, told the News-Press that one person sent a complaint about the banner’s message to the Tinner Hill’s email account. Of the theft, Henderson said, “It is a push back to Black Lives Matter...Some people are apparently tired of hearing about George Floyd and social unrest going on in the country,” F.C. Police Chief Mary Gavin told the News-Press that police had been doing extra checks on the banner after Tinner Hill had alerted them to the email complaint. The banner was last seen the night of June 15 and was reported stolen during the afternoon the next day. Vice Mayor Marybeth Connelly and City Council members Letty Hardi and David Snyder reached out to express their condolences for the crime, Henderson said. “I was appalled it went down,” Gavin said. “It made some people uncomfortable, but that’s what needs to happen for change.”

F.C. Council OK’s $5.6 Million for S. Washington Project The Falls Church City Council voted unanimously Monday to allocate $5,988,000 of federal and other grant funds to Fort Myer Construction to transform the intersection of S. Washington St. and Hillwood Avenue into an “intermodal transit plaza,” with construction to commence next month and to be completed within 500 days. It will include a bus shelter, bicycle racks, decorative benches, landscaping, a rain garden, interpretive signage panels depicting the history of the Little City, the elimination of the “free right” turn off S. Washington onto Hillwood, new traffic signals, three crosswalks and decorative pavers. It will interface with a City project to upgrade the nearby intersection of S. Maple and S. Washington and its reach will extend from the Tinner Hill monument on S. Washington to the Hillwood at Annandale intersection.

Gade Wins GOP Senate Primary Statewide & in F.C. In the only item on the June 23 primary ballot in the City of Falls Church, City voters who showed up at the City’s three polling places cast a majority of their votes for Daniel Gade, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and professor at American University in D.C. Gade won statewide, as well, and will face off against Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Mark Warner in November. Gade had 149 votes in Falls Church, to 70 for Elsa Baldwin and 45 for Thomas Speciale II. Statewide Gade had 201,703 votes to 54,205 for Baldwin and 43,209 for Speciale. In the nearby 11th Congressional District in Fairfax and Prince William counties, incumbent Gerry Connolly won his party’s primary with 70 percent of the vote over challenger Zaineb Mohsini.

Correction: Student Names Omitted from Graduation List Last week’s News-Press published the list of graduates from George Mason High School, though was alerted by several parents that multiple students had been left out of the announcement. Those students are Alexandra Eppler, Nina Rifkin, Leslie Tartt and Zainab Youssri. The News-Press, which received it’s list of graduates directly from Falls Church City Public Schools, apologizes for this error.

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McLean resident Lucille Quinn celebrated her 100th birthday in social distancing fashion at the Lewinsville Retirement Residence while members of the nearby Lewinsville Presbyterian Church came by to celebrate her from afar with balloons, cake, banners and flowers to make sure the day was remembered properly. Even “Happy Birthday” was sung accompanied by a trumpet. (Photos: Courtesy Bettie McElroy)

F.C. Artist Sarah Hardesty Awarded Prestigious Grant ArtsFairfax announces the award of the prestigious 2020 Artist Grants, with visual artist Sarah Hardesty from Falls Church being one of the two recipients. The other was writer Diane Zinna from Springfield. The highly competitive individual Artist Grants recognize the exceptional work of Fairfax County artists across a range of disciplines including visual arts, creative writing, theatre, dance performance and choreography, film and new media. Each $5,000 award is both a high honor and an investment in artists at critical stages in their creative lives and careers. “We know that Fairfax County’s creative sector of arts producers and entrepreneurs are incubators of talent,” said Linda S. Sullivan, president & CEO

of ArtsFairfax. “The goal of the ArtsFairfax Artist Grants is to raise the profile of outstanding artists by shining a light on their accomplishments while supporting their growth as artists.” Hardesty uses drawing, painting, installations and sculptures to present experiences that connect with people’s core feelings through the physical landscapes of their lives. “My work incorporates textures, patterns, and other elements to create a visual platform to align what is happening to the earth with what is happening with personal experience,” Hardesty said. Hardesty has been exhibited and received awards and residencies across the United States. Hardesty’s Artist Grant recognizes her breadth of visual arts mastery and her over 50 successful solo and group exhibitions, nine awards and residencies and 11 grant awards. She has been award-

ed residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Wassaic Project, the Carriage House at Islip Art Museum, Santa Fe Art Institute and the Vermont Studio Center. Hardesty is also an Assistant Professor of Art at Marymount University.

Fairfax Calendar Observes 4 Religious Holidays The Fairfax County School Board is considering a 2021-22 Standard School Year Calendar that was developed with a focus on instruction and learning for students and includes four religious observance holidays. Two options for the 2021-22 school year were presented to the Board at its business meeting on June 18. Prior to taking action on the 2021-22 calendar, the Board plans to gather feedback from families and staff members via a survey to be distributed in late June. Final

action on the calendar is scheduled for July 23. Version A has the school year beginning on Monday, August 23, 2021, and ending on Thursday, June 16, 2022. Four religious holidays would be observed: Rosh Hashanah on September 7, 2021; Yom Kippur on September 16, 2021; Diwali on November 4, 2021; and Eid al Fitr on May 3, 2022. Thanksgiving holiday would run from November 24-26, 2021; winter break is designated for December 20-31, 2021. Spring break would run from April 11-15, 2022. Nine teacher workdays are built into Version A, and seven professional development days are included in Version A. Version B has the school year beginning on Monday, August 23, 2021, and ending on Friday, June 17, 2022. It has an additional student holiday designated on Monday, October 11 paired with a professional development day-

student holiday on October 12; otherwise, it is identical to Version A with the same holidays, breaks, and teacher workdays.

Arc of N. Virginia Benefit Breakfast Goes Virtual The Arc of Northern Virginia’s second annual “A Life Like Yours” Benefit Breakfast raises funds to sustain and strengthen its programs, services and advocacy for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Due to health and safety concerns related to Covid-19, this year’s event will be a Virtual Benefit Breakfast, presented ‘Live’ online on Friday, June 26 from 8 – 8:30 a.m. There is no cost to attend the breakfast — but since this is a fundraiser, attendees will be asked to make a contribution to The Arc of Northern Virginia. However,

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Multiple Schools Noted for Achievement, Improvement The Virginia Board of Education recognized 50 Fairfax County public schools for high student achievement or continuous improvement under the board’s exemplar performance school recognition program. The awards are based on performance and practice during 2018-19 and prior years. Among local schools, Wolftrap Elementary School was recognized for earning the 2020 Board of Education Highest Achievement Award. It was among 71 schools statewide to earn the award. Schools recognized for highest achievement were accredited during 2019-20 (based on performance data from 2018-19) and demonstrated high levels of success across all school quality indicators, including success in narrowing achievement gaps. Schools also had to meet the Level One accreditation benchmark for reading, mathematics, and science based on the student pass rate, not including growth or progress on assessments taken by English language learners. Schools must also have had no more than a five percent achievement gap — for schools with two student groups, or a 10 percent gap — for schools with three or more student groups — between the lowest-performing group and all other students in the school. In addition, schools must have achieved at Level One on all other applicable school quality indicators. Continuous Improvement Awards were presented to 375 schools statewide, based on significant improvements in reading, math, the pass rate in science, a

decrease in chronic absenteeism or a decrease in the dropout rate. VDOE Continuous Improvement Awards were presented to the following local schools: Falls Church High School, Justice High School, Lemon Road Elementary School, Longfellow Middle School and McLean High School.

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McLean Center Starts Scavenger Hunt on July 1 McLean Community Center (MCC) is offering for interested participants to join friends, family and community for MCC’s Super Summer Scavenger Hunt. Beginning on Wednesday, July 1, and concluding on Monday, Aug. 17, this free virtual event allows participants and a team of their choosing to compete against other teams and win amazing prizes. MCC is located at 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean. The hunt is a way to stay local and spend time with friends and family. The game is played on a smartphone and players must complete indoor and outdoor “missions” (or challenges). Missions include answering questions, taking specific photos or videos, finding a specific item, geocaching or completing specific tasks as given in a list provided by MCC. The scavenger hunt will take place in or around McLean. Participants work in teams of up to 10 players. Team captains must be 16 years old or older. The hunt will have a maximum of 125 teams — so register early. The first 50 teams to sign up will receive a special gift bag. Registration is open Tuesday, June 23 through Monday, Aug. 3. To register, go to mcleancenter. org. For more information, call the center at 703-790-0123, TTY: 711, or visit the website, mcleancenter. org.

ORGANIZED BY members of the Falls Church Presbyterian Church, hundreds of Falls Church city residents and their friends lined both sides of East Broad Street in the city for blocks east and west of the church, most with signage celebrating Junetheenth last Friday, June 19, the anniversary of the �inal end of slavery in the U.S. Many signs af�irmed “Black Lives Matter” in solidarity with ongoing criminal justice reform efforts now underway to end systemic racism in the U.S. (P��: N��-P��)

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“Stop the World – I Want to Get Off” was the title of a musical play popular in London and New York in the early 1960s. Urban lore says that the title was derived from a graffito. The early 1960s, and the decade that followed, witnessed significant political and social changes that might be compared to multiple events today. Crisis piled upon crisis — Covid19, loss of millions of jobs, racial and social unrest, and the accompanying mental and behavioral health stresses — is it any wonder that stopping the world to get off sometimes seems like a rational approach? The more rational approach, of course, requires a lot of listening, dialogue, tolerance, and understanding as we find the pathways (there likely is more than just one) to the success we all are seeking. Finding some solutions probably are easy; others may take more time to develop. At Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, the Board endorsed a request for an inventory of Confederate names on streets and county-owned properties, with a subsequent community-based process to consider name changes. There are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of street names in Mason District and Fairfax County that may or may not be connected to Confederate names, so the process needs to be thorough, fair, and historically correct. The Board also endorsed facilitating a partnership with the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance that aims to improve literacy and college and career readiness for young men of color, as well as addressing the disproportionate amount of contact with law enforcement that youth of color experience. The My Brother’s Keeper Alliance aligns well with the One Fairfax policy, adopted by the Board of Supervisors and the School Board, which works toward making Fairfax County a place where all can thrive. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has more than a century of advocacy and social activism, and the Fairfax County Chapter continues that effort. Earlier this month, the chapter leadership issued eight demands for police

reform and accountability, and discussed them with elected officials in a robust virtual town meeting last week. Coincidentally, both the 2019 Use of Force Report and the 2019 Police Department Annual Report were released this month, and can be accessed at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/police. In 2019, there were 491,682 calls for service in Fairfax County. Of those calls for service, there were 594 use of force incidents, which equates to 0.12 percent of the total calls for service, or 1.2 use of force incidents per 1000 calls. In 2017, the Board of Supervisors created the Civilian Review Panel and the Office of the Independent Police Auditor to serve as additional layers of accountability and transparency in investigation of complaints against the police department. Most of the use of force incidents reported were generated by the police (577 through a supplemental police report). Only 17 reports were generated by a community member. All 17 complaints were investigated, and no use of force violations were sustained. The report also identifies the race of community members involved in a use of force incident, and the numbers are of concern, as the NAACP town meeting discussion noted. In 2019, 266 Black males were involved, versus 110 Hispanic males and 178 White males. The results are similar for the two previous years, 2017 and 2018. Clearly, the report helps set the stage for additional dialogue about changes to programs and policies that serve our community. Congratulations to Gerry Strider, longtime Chief of the Bailey’s Crossroads Volunteer Fire Department, who received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Volunteer Fairfax this week. Gerry has led the BXVFD for more than 30 years, recruiting hundreds of community members to the volunteer fire services, among many other accomplishments. Thanks, Gerry, for your unstinting support of our community!  Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.

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Murder! Bloody murder! How horrid was the video image showing George Floyd being murdered in cold blood by a uniformed officer of the state last month, eliciting such a visceral reaction that had to be true for millions beyond my own deeply pained soul. No wonder the ongoing rage, the ongoing resolve of so many to demonstrate, to put their own souls on the line for really meaningful change this time. But now watching Trump rallying his minions into arenas and churches that function in the context of an ongoing deadly coronavirus pandemic as petri dishes for contamination of our mortal human flesh is eliciting a similar response. FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS It is a horrible, ugly display that can, perhaps, be matched only by scenes of the Jonestown cult’s massacre in Guyana in 1978. Helicopters flying overhead on the morning after that cult’s White Night mass suicide/murder of more than 900 showed the dead bodies spread over the field, bloated and twisted, including children being held in the arms of would-be guardians. Scenes of slaughter in wars, especially those of the Great War, World War I, when uneven technologies of weapons of mass death, are different if only because of their wider frameworks, where the expectations of human slaughter are there and in the minds of all the victim soldiers. Many could deal with their fates only by internalizing a sense of purpose for their sacrifices, whether valid or not. For others, sheer fatalism was their only solace. The famous saying went, “In war, there are no winners or losers, only widows.” Scenes of genocidal slaughter in concentration camps, like those run by Hitler and the Germans against mainly Jews, with the filmed images shown during the Nuremberg Trials after World War II portraying the emaciated bodies of the countless numbers dumped into mass graves, are not for any with sensitive constitutions to witness. They were shown as indicative of the most extreme exercises of man’s inhumanity to man, and the victims were trapped and pressed against their will into the poisonous ovens of mass killings. Wars, almost always senseless, and enforced genocides, as despicable as they have been down through human history are not quite as damaging to the human psyche as those mass deaths and sufferings imposed on people by some sinister force that causes them to turn against their own valued selves in apparently voluntary mass suicides. In this vast universe of ours, of which we are all a part and all interconnected, it is a sobering reality to contemplate that it contains within it forces that can express themselves on this plane by inducing mass suicides. That is a special form of evil. It can account for the suicidal mass attacks of volunteer Confederate soldiers in the Civil War at Shiloh and with Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg. Their leaders obsessed to defend the institution of slavery, they were driven by a senseless set of non-values to willingly throw their lives to the wind and subject themselves to kamikaze-styled assaults. Jonestown fits into this category, as well, although there is evidence that some of the suicides were enforced at the end of a gun barrel. This brings us back to Trump and his mass rallies in the belly of the Covid-19 pandemic. Trump knows he is leading his lemmings over a cliff, endangering them and risking their lives, and those of friends and loved ones, by cramming them into a finite space with no, or few, facial masks. To this madman’s mind, the virus is indistinguishable from a political or personal enemy. He argues that people who wear masks are doing it as a political statement against him. The virus needs to be denounced with name calling and racial epithets. Minions who are unwilling to put their lives at risk of the virus by staying away from his events or by wearing facial masks at them are held in contempt, as if insulting him personally. And his influence, of course, arises from the fact that he is President of the United States of America, and as such he can hold sway over the wills of millions. This is unspeakable insanity and evil.  Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.

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Our Man in Arlington By Charlie Clark

Arlington’s own Robert E. Lee is posthumously back in the news. Powers in Richmond are preparing for removal of his statue, 18 months after the Confederate hero’s name was excised from Washington-Liberty High School. Comes now a proposal via a June 15 letter to the Washington Post to de-Lee our flagship “Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial.” That mansion built from 1802 – 1818 by George Washington Parke Custis was known by multiple monikers: Mount Washington, Arlington House, the Custis-Lee Mansion and the Lee Mansion. My study of this tortuous history surprised me. The fights over Lee’s legacy were as passionate in the 1920s (when Arlington’s first high school was named) as they are today. Arlington House, attached to Arlington National Cemetery, was in disrepair when the 1920s dawned. As noted in a 2013 National Park Service historic registration application, Lee’s reputation had made a comeback — even among northerners. Forget the originator Custis, who lived there 55 years compared with just a few for sonin-law Lee. Congress was intent on restoring the property to honor the southern military tactician as a postwar conciliator. (This is also when a statewide Lee Highway was created, along with a slew of Confederate monuments and

a rising Ku Klux Klan.) Consensus was not easily achieved. Some northerners wanted to convert it into a museum of Union soldiers, some wanted more Custis themes. But the tide was turned by an influential author, Frances Parkinson Keyes, the wife of a senator who strategized with the United Daughters of the Confederacy to devote Arlington House to Lee. In 1925 Congress resolved that the secretary of war be directed to “restore the Lee Mansion in the Arlington National Cemetery to the condition in which it existed immediately prior to the Civil War and to procure, if possible, articles of furniture and equipment which were then in the mansion and in use by the occupants thereof.” But Charles Moore, secretary of the Commission of Fine Arts, was wary. “There is no real demand from the South that a Lee shrine be established in Arlington Cemetery,” he argued, noting Lee’s memorial at his burial place at Washington and Lee University. Plus, “extreme care must be exercised in preserving [Arlington cemetery’s] art values.” The association of veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic sent a protest to Congress calling Lee a “traitor.” Sen. Porter Dale, R-Vt., introduced a bill to make “the Custis Mansion” into “a museum in which shall be kept trophies and emblems of the Union Army and Navy of the United States during the Civil War.” The National Society of Dames of the

Loyal Legion protested against allowing the UDC to make the site a Lee shrine. Because of the controversy, renovations money wasn’t appropriated until 1929. Flash forward to 1955, another period of racial strife. Arlington’s Republican congressman Joel Broyhill introduced the resolution that honored Lee’s “high character” and “grandeur of soul.” He officially named the property the Custis-Lee Mansion but established it as a national memorial to Lee. It took new legislation in 1972 to officially demote Custis but compromise with: Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial. Many don’t realize, says Matt Penrod, retired after 28 years as a park ranger at Arlington House, that the creation of the memorial and full name were to keep it from becoming a Confederate shrine.” *** The graffiti gets fewer eyeballs these days with the East Falls Church Metro closed for renovation. But its spray painted slogan “Virginia Is for Lovers — No KKK” gleams from a shed visible from I-66, and seems timely given current national tensions over matters of bigotry. The lettering painted on the outbuilding in a backyard on N. 19th Road was executed skillfully and anonymously from the public bike path in 2018. The homeowner was as surprised as anyone, telling an ARLNow reporter last September he might have it removed during improvements. Instead, the message stayed, to be newly relevant.

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CITYEVENTS SATURDAY, JUNE 27 Falls Church Farmers Market To Go. The Falls Church Farmers Market has converted to a preorder, to-go event. All orders must be placed in advance of Saturday’s market which will be open from 8 a.m. – noon for pre-order pickup only in front of City Hall (300 Park Ave.). A list of participating vendors and information on pre-

ordering can be found at fallschurchva.gov/547/Farmers-MarketTo-Go.

VIRTUALEVENTS THURSDAY, JUNE 25 ONLINE: Teen Book Club. Club focused on books appropriate for ages 13 and up, or for students rising to grades 6-8. This week’s book is “The Maze Runner” by James Dashner. This program will be held online via Zoom. For more information, participants should email Laura Miller at lmiller@ fallschurchva.gov. 3 – 4 p.m. Falls Church Amateur Writers Group. A group for aspiring writers. Participants meet to discuss and offer constructive criticism for each other’s work. Contact psullivan@fallschurchva.gov to get the invitation to the group. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, JUNE 26 What’s Eating My [Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Eggplant, Beans, Squash]? Insect Pest Management for the Vegetable Garden and How to Succeed Without Losing It All! Interested participants can join a class on recognizing common injurious insects in their vegetable gardens. Learn how to attract and encourage beneficial insects to assist gardeners in fighting off these pests. Instructors will cover tips and tricks for limiting and even preventing damage from insect pests among gardeners’ vegetable crops. Online class offered by Extension Master Gardeners. Free. RSVP at mgnv.org/events to receive a link to participate. 10 – 11:30 a.m. Virtual Tea Time. Interested participants can join travel leader Annmarie for a virtual tea. Guests will set their table with their

“tea service,” show the group their favorite kinds of tea and share some recipes for scones, clotted cream and other snacks. Also, hosts can discuss the items they may have taken home in their “to go” bag. Limited space. RSVP to sashton@arlingtonva.us to receive a Zoom meeting link before the event. Deep Dive: Parasitism. Take a deep dive into natural history that scratches more than just the surface. Parasitism is a type of symbiosis in which one organism benefits to the detriment of another. The group will explore different types of parasites found in the Arlington area, and learn the difference between a parasite and a parasitoid. Registration required at parks.arlingtonva.us. A link to Microsoft Teams will be emailed to participants before the program start time. Participants should have their device ready to go prior to the start of the

program. 7 – 8 p.m. Contact krosenthal@arlingtonva.us for more information.

DAILY Creative Cauldron Online Classes. The City of Falls Church theater company Creative Cauldron is now offering a variety of interactive classes and activities for children taught by the theater’s artists. Kids will be moving, creating and socializing during the activities. Those who are interested can enroll online at creativecauldron. org/workshops.htm or email the theater at info@creativecauldron. org to get started. There are classes for adults as well. Visit a 17th-Century English Village. Interested learners can see what life was like for those who lived during the 17th century in rural England. Particpants will watch as they tend to their crops, make the basics that we take for granted in butter and prepared meat and see what their homes look like. The village field trip is hosted by the Plimoth Plantation and can be found by going to plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/virtualfield-trip.

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All Things CBD Changes name to Root Source CBD All Things CBD is now Root Source CBD. The CBD store will celebrate its first anniversary, rebranding, and new website over the weekend with a 20 percent off sale, prizes and giveaways. The CBD store provides quality products, quality service and solutions for customers by its passionate team of experts. All products are industry proven, federally compliant, and guaranteed authentic and fresh. Customers can shop by need (stress/ anxiety, beauty and skin, pain and recovery, focus, sleep) or by type (oils/tinctures, topicals, edibles, concentrates, cartridges, flowers) or by brand. Products for pets are also available. Root Source CBD is located at 901 B W. Broad Street. For more information, visit https:// rootsourcecbd.com.

Tea with Mrs. B & Children’s Therapy Center Hosting Live Event Tea with Mrs. B and the Children’s Therapy Center and are hosting an Instagram Live event on Monday, June 29 at 4:30 p.m. The event will include open house tours and the opportunity to set up a tea party and enjoy some active play. For more information, follow them at @thechildrenstherapycenter and @teawithmrsb.

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Numerous Falls Church Businesses Complete Healthy Pledge Course A number of Falls Church businesses have already successfully completed the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce’s Healthy Business Pledge Course created by BioPrep Solutions. Congratulations to Body Dynamics, Inc., Code Ninjas Falls Church, Command Performance AV, Diener & Associates CPAs, Dogfish Head Alehouse, Doodlehopper 4 Kids, Dougherty DDS, Eden Center, Falls Church Distillers, Grace Christian Academy, New Editions Consulting, OAR, Plaka Grill, Quick Copy/SAID, Sports Training & Massage, The Toy Nest, and The Young Group for prioritizing the health and safety of their employees and customers. Thanks to a partnership between the Falls Church Chamber and BioPrep, the program is free for Falls Church Chamber members and businesses. It is available elsewhere for $50 per business. Information about the program and a link to the 45 minute course is available at www.FallsChurchChamber.org.

Ribbon-Cutting Made Toy Nest’s Opening Official The Toy Nest officially opened with a ribbon cutting on Friday, June 19. The toy library is now open for families to view the toys, games, and other items available as drop in rentals or via memberships. In attendence was owner Lisa Bourven, with her family, Falls Church City Mayor David Tarter and Falls Church City Council Member Phil Duncan. Vice Mayor Marybeth Connelly and Council Member Letty Hardi were also there to welcome The Toy Nest to Falls Church. The Toy Nest is located at 98 N. Washington Street in Falls Church. For more information, visit https://www.thetoynest. com.  Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@fallschurchchamber.org.

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BACK IN THE DAY

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25 & 10 Years Ago in the News-Press Falls Church News-Press Vol. XII, No. 14 • JUNE 22, 1995

Falls Church News-Press Vol. XX, No. 17 • June 24, 2010

Poll of Commercial Electricity Users Shows Opposition to Municipalization

As July 1 Looms, F.C. Citizens Face Library Hour Cuts, No ‘City Focus’

Virginia Power yesterday released the second half of the public opinion poll it commissioned concerning the City of Falls Church’s moves to municipalize its electrical power service. The second half was a survey of commercial entities in the City, and results were similar to the poll of residential users reported earlier.

As July 1 approaches, residents of Falls Church and the rest of Northern Virginia can expect some significant, if not overwhelming, changes in the services their local and state governments will provide. Severe budget cuts required due to the larger economic reces sion have caused record layoffs in both Falls Church and Fairfax County.

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

CRIME REPORT Driving Under the Influence, 100 blk N Spring St. June 15, 11:53 PM, a male, 22, of Philadelphia, PA, was arrested for driving under the influence.

Identity Theft, 100 blk Falls Ave. Between November 17, 2019 and June 16, 2020, unknown suspect(s) fraudulently used an individual’s personally identifiable information to open a line of credit.

Larceny from Building, 500 blk S Washington St. Between June 15 and June 16, unknown suspect(s) removed a banner from a monument.

Larceny from Motor Vehicle, 500 blk Greenwich St. Between June 15 and June 16, unknown suspect(s) removed items of value from a parked vehicle.

Larceny from Motor Vehicle, 400 blk N Oak St. Between June 15 and June 16, unknown suspect(s) removed items of value from a parked vehicle.

Destruction of Property, 1200 blk Offutt Dr. Between June 17 and June 18, unknown suspect(s) damaged a parked vehicle by breaking a window.

Destruction of Property, 100 blk E Fairfax St. June 16, unknown suspect(s) damaged a parked vehicle by scratching the exterior paint finish.

Commercial Burglary, 6700 blk Wilson Blvd. Between June 17 and June 18, unknown suspect(s) unlawfully entered a business and took an item of value.

Week of June 15 – 21, 2020

Attempted Larceny & Destruction of Property, 6700 blk Wilson Blvd. June 18, unknown suspect(s) forcefully attempted to open an ATM, and in the process, damaged the machine. Attempted Aggravated Assault & Credit Card Fraud, 100 blk W Broad St. Jun 20, 9:59 PM, a suspect attempted to fraudulently use multiple credit cards at a business to purchase items. A suspect driving a vehicle involved in the crime sped away from the area nearly striking an individual. Destruction of Property, 6600 blk Wilson Blvd. Between June 17 and June 20, unknown suspect(s) caused damage to the interior of a parked vehicle. Driving Under the Influence & Drug Narcotic Violation, 7100 blk Leesburg Pike. June 21, 2:00 AM, a female, 19, of Ashburn, VA, was arrested for driving under the influence. Passengers in the vehicle were also investigated for possession of alcohol and narcotics.

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Quiet F.C. Fixture Robert Gordon Dies Dick Maynard, Former CBC

Robert Vincent Gordon, age 69, passed away on Monday, May 4, 2020, from complications of Covid-19 in Fairfax. Robert Gordon was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, residing in the Falls Church Ward, Falls Church City, for most of the last 20 years. Robert was a quiet fixture in town, often seen sitting alone with his walker outside the Giant grocery store or at McDonald’s. Robert was born May 7, 1950, in Washington, D.C., the eldest of three children born to Vincent Cornelius (Mike) Gordon and Lillian Theresa Harper. He and his two younger brothers were raised by their maternal grandparents, William and Mary Harper, in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. A generous child, whenever the ice cream truck came around, Robert would buy ice cream for the other children in the neighborhood. He loved race cars, and learned how to dissect frogs in science class. His brothers followed him because he was their mentor. Quitting high school early, Robert worked at the Gulf gas station as the night attendant. At age 18 he joined the Job Corps in Kentucky and obtained his high school diploma. There he was trained to become a diesel mechanic, specializing in excavators. He also took up boxing in the Job Corps, which he loved because he was a fighter at heart. He always had a strong sense of

justice, what was right and what was wrong, and sometimes his temper came out because of it. Robert’s life was forever changed when at age nineteen he was in a car accident near Croom, north of Upper Marlboro. A traumatic brain injury left him in a coma for 30 days, and when he awoke, he was unable to walk or even to speak. After a year of rehabilitation at centers in Baltimore and Hagerstown, Robert was eventually able to get around with a walker. His speech was severely impaired, and it took a lot of effort and repetition for the hearer to understand, but with practice one could understand what he was saying. Robert has been physically handicapped almost all of his adult life, but he said many times that his condition was given him “for His glory,” meaning the glory of God. He knew that people needed to see him and to hear what he had to say. He would often tell the story of how he became handicapped and was always volunteering for a job that he could do, greeting people or distributing literature. He served as a greeter in the Church for many years and was ordained to the office of Elder. He was assigned families in the Church to visit as a minister, of which they have fond memories. Robert loved his family and looked forward to their calls and visits. His brother Neil used to drive down from New York twice

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TO LETTERS THE EDITOR sound and accurate information and clear-headed thinking missing from the author’s letter and apparent approach to the name change question. Hal Lippman Falls Church

Preserving Nature Should Be Priority For Fellows Site

I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Byers’ recent Guest Commentary on preserving the Fellows Site in a more natural state, allowing it to remain as a native habitat for all to enjoy. Not only would building infrastructure such as tennis,

pickleball or volleyball courts or a dog park be expensive to build and maintain, more importantly it would destroy one of the last vestiges the City has of a large grouping of protected mature trees and other native habitats essential for birds, pollinators, and other wildlife. The importance of maintaining native habitats cannot be understated. According to recent studies, since 1974 we have lost more than 45% of our native insects and other invertebrates, which are essential for pollination as well as the entire food chain. Birds require approximately 70 percent native plantings to survive, yet a cursory review of most yards in Falls Church shows

Officer, Dies at Maine Home

ROBERT GORDON a year to pick up Robert, and the two would go around visiting his family and friends in Upper Marlboro. Robert always looked forward to those visits, and his family have said how they loved seeing him as well. Robert touched a lot of lives. He made us better people. We needed Robert more than he needed us. We know that he lives now without impediments or pain, conversing freely with his family and friends on the other side, awaiting the day when his body will be restored to its perfect frame in the Resurrection of the Just. Robert was interred on May 19 by his family at Heritage Memorial Cemetery in Waldorf, Maryland. less than 20 percent native plantings. The good news is that we can do something about this by maintaining native habitats where they remain, by planting native species of trees, shrubs and flowers whenever we can, and by reducing (even a little) our lawns and replacing them with native plants. I urge Falls Church to strongly consider creating and maintaining a park that serves not just selected residents for a few hours a day (such as courts or a dog park would), but a space that would be open to all and that would serve as a gift to future generations. Any survey should include opportunities for residents to choose activities such as observing nature, walking through native areas, preserving native plantings, bird-watching, maintaining habitats for birds and pollinators, a quiet place to enjoy a naturalistic setting, watching fireflies, or learning about the environment. Cheryl Harris Falls Church

Richard G. Maynard (“Dick”) of Harrison, Maine passed away peacefully at home on Dec. 28, 2019, surrounded by his family. He and his wife Susan Dovell retired to Harrison just six years ago from Falls Church and quickly found a wonderful community in the Lakes Region which is in the foothills of the White Mountains. In his time in Maine, Dick was active in the Harrison Lions Club, where he headed up their eyeglass program, served on the board of the Harrison Food Bank and was a business mentor for SCORE. Dick was born in Windsor, Vermont, and grew up in the village of Perkinsville, Vermont. He graduated from Springfield High School in 1958. He was a leader from early on, active in the Boy Scouts, attaining his Eagle Scout badge, and inducted into the Order of the Arrow. He attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1962 with a degree in government and economics, and subsequently joined the Army. He achieved the rank of 1st Lieutenant, Infantry, and completed Airborne Ranger Training. He served in the DMZ in South Korea. Following his army service, Dick traveled to Brazil to study for a year. He enrolled in the University of Sao Paulo, simultaneously learning Portuguese and taking classes. From Brazil, he enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a master’s degree in Economics. Dick moved to the Washington, D.C area in the late 1960’s, where he spent his career until retiring to Maine. He worked for and on behalf of the federal government in a wide variety of capacities. He was involved in the early days of computer technology for economic analysis, in the era of the mainframe computer. While working for the U.S House of Representatives, House Information Systems, he pioneered the use of computer modeling and computer graphics in policy analysis. He was always interested in how best to communicate information through technology for better decision making, the connecting thread throughout his career. He worked with the World Computer Graphics Association and was a member of the World Future Society for many years. In his later career, he worked for Booz Allen Hamilton and General Dynamics as a man-

DICK MAYNARD agement consultant. While living in Falls Church, Dick served for eight years as an officer of the Citizens for a Better City. He was also a passionate supporter of his daughters’ academic and athletic pursuits while they were in Falls Church schools. Dick was happiest being outdoors, whether working in his garden and woods, bushwhacking to find new fishing spots on his favorite trout streams, kayaking, hiking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire or the Shenandoah Mountains of Virginia, cross-country skiing or snowshoeing. He took each of his daughters and his wife on memorable trips to teach each one to fish; and cheered his daughters on each summer when they hiked ever higher mountains in New Hampshire. Dick is survived by his wife of 43 years, Susan Dovell, whom he met when they both worked on Capitol Hill in D.C.; daughters Kelly Maynard (husband Josh Brown and son Evan), and Anne Hancock (husband Brian and son Bodhi), both of Madison, Wisconsin; sister Marion Smith of Bar Harbor, Maine; and sister Kathaleen Giurtino of Chester, Vermont. Dick had wanted an 80th birthday party so his family will honor those wishes with a memorial service and party at the First Congregational Church in Bridgton, ME on January 25th at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Harrison Food Bank, P.O Box 112, Harrison, Maine 04040. Online condolences may be shared with his family at www.chandlerfunerals.com

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Saturday June 20 marked the first day of summer – and it looks like we’re finally in the COVID-deferred spring market.

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Total new contract activity for the week of June 14 – 20, 2020 rose 20.6% compared to the same seven-day period last year for the six jurisdictions we track. And it was an across-the-board improvement, as all six areas saw an improvement in the number of newly ratified contracts. Almost 2,000 homes went under contract.

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Prince George’s County had a modest 2.2% increase, and the other five had double-digit increases. Washington, DC had an especially strong week with a 38.1% jump. Northern Virginia was up 22.8%, Loudoun County rose 22.7%, Prince William County was up 20.9% and Montgomery County was up 21.6%.

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In addition, homes going under contract last week were on the market for an average of 26.2 days, four days less that the same week last year.

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