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Due to relentless opposition from nearby St. James School parents and neighbors to the site, the developer seeking City of Falls Church’s approvals to build a Hilton Garden Inn hotel on W. Broad St. may modify his plan to build the hotel “by right,” without needing any City government OKs. The News-Press learned

that developer Robert Young of Jefferson One L.L.C. has drafted alternative plans for the hotel that stay within the existing height limit permitted under the current Falls Church Zoning Code. In that event, the hands of all interested parties would be tied as he exercises his right to build on the land he owns.

In an unusual move at the Falls Church City Council work session Monday night, spokesmen for St. James parents and

neighborhood residents were given 10 minutes each to speak to the Council about their objections. They centered on traffic congestion and storm water runoff issues, and not on fears many had publicly expressed earlier that the hotel would be a haven for pedophiles.

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which there have been many this spring, including at City Council business meetings and Planning Commission meetings.

Council members commented that traffic and parking impacts of the proposed hotel would be equal or even greater factors for any development on the prospective hotel site, which is a block away from the school.

Closer to the school, in the same block, is a four-story office building now under construction that will become the new home of the Falls Church retail branch of the U.S. Postal Service. Young is the developer of that project, and is building it “by right,” under the existing zoning code.

Falls Church Mayor Robin Gardner, speaking at Monday’s work session, cautioned the school and neighborhood representatives, and her Council colleagues, that Young could use the “by right” option with his hotel project, as well.

If compelled to go that route,

of course, Young would not deliver on about $350,000 in proffers he’s offered the City under the current plan, which is to secure Council approval for a height allowance and other minor modifications.

Sources tell the News-Press that Young’s alternative option to build the hotel “by right” would not cause a significant loss to him in revenue. The source said that Young petitioned for the special exceptions, in the first place, because he was inadvertently misled by someone at City Hall into believing it was necessary, and only added on the extra height after that.

Young contends the project, when completed, will bring $477,000 in annual net tax revenue to the City tax coffers.

He’d already presented data and testimony showing that such a hotel would actually enhance the safety of the neighborhood, rather than the other way around.

He said he’s willing to cooperate with the school to add crossing guards, signage, traffic

calming methods, to pave the sidewalks along both sides of Oak Street and to modify the Oak at Broad St. intersection.

In hopes of agreements between the school, neighbors and Young, and to collect still more information, the Council determined to put off its intended vote on the final approval of the project to June 23.

At Monday’s hearing, Casey Catterton, a spokesman on behalf of the St. James parents said that a petition opposing the hotel had been signed by 811 Falls Church residents and 28 business owners. He said the parents are still waiting to see if they “need to deploy in full fashion.”

He also challenged a Citycommissioned study about the expected revenue yield of the project, saying that compared to current data of hotel occupancies in the region, it would not be near full and could at best yield $200,000 to $300,000 annually in net tax revenue.

Nigel Yates, a neighbor to the site, said, “We want the site developed, but not with a hotel.

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It should be office, retail or a restaurant, done to existing code.

A hotel doesn’t fit the unique character of the area.” Neighbor Dan Fitzgerald expressed concerns about storm water runoff and drainage issues.

Vice Mayor Lindy Hockenberry asked what similar concerns, and what mitigating measures, came into play when St. James built a new gymnasium at its site a decade ago. She

also noted that any other uses at the hotel site would create the same, or even greater, traffic and drainage problems.

When Councilman Hal Lippman asked about using Spring Street, to the west of St. James, to shield students from the “worst case scenario” traffic impact of the hotel, a school parent spokesman said that the school might seek the closing of that street, instead.

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Sunday night, the two hurled charges and countercharges stemming from Byrne’s accusation that Connolly gained unduly from an e-mail sent by an executive to employees at a major Fairfax County government contracting firm that could be construed as employee arm-twisting. On Tuesday, Byrne has filed an official complaint to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) about the

e-mail.

Connolly denied Byrne’s accusations, which he said have been repeated in “eight to ten postcards” mailed to potential voters, saying they contain “an awful lot of slander.” He added, “It’s a shame to have a Democrat attack a Democrat with the same ‘swift boat’ techniques used by our adversaries…It’s beneath the dignity of the campaign.”

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Both candidates have been slugging it out down to the wire, hopeful that a victory Tuesday would position them to shift control of the 11th District, which runs in Fairfax County from Falls Church City limits through the eastern and southern portions of the county, from Republican to Democratic control.

With popular Republican Rep. Tom Davis bowing out of a bid for re-election to an eighth two-year term this year, Democrats are optimistic the district will revert to them. Byrne won the district, becoming the first woman Congressman from Virginia in history, in 1992, before losing it to Davis in 1994.

But in the last three Virginia statewide elections, two for governor and one for U.S. Senator, the district has gone decisively pro-Democratic. Demographic shifts toward a younger, more

progressive, technology-savvy population, and the unpopularity of President Bush, are given as the causes.

Nationally, Democrats are looking at the district for not only another Congressional seat, but as an area that could tip the balance in the presidential election, as well. It could be where the margin for Barack Obama will be created to turn Virginia “blue” in a presidential election for the first time since 1964.

Bush carried the district by only 1% in 2004 but Democrats Tim Kaine and Jim Webb carried it by big numbers in 2005 and 2006, in both cases accounting for almost all of their statewide margins.

It comes as no surprise, then, that Obama, just two days after clinching the Democratic nomination, is coming to nearby Nissan Pavillion in Bristow for a big public rally (see story, elsewhere this edition).

The region’s more progressive Democratic organizations have sided with Byrne in Tuesday’s election, including the Progressive Democrats, Emily’s List (a women’s rights group) and Democracy for America, the grassroots organization run by Jim Dean, brother of Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean.

Dean said in a statement, “Leslie has stuck to her progressive principles and stood up against the odds.” Byrne has been endorsed by over 30 unions and eight sitting members of Congress, most notably Sen. Jim Webb.

Connolly also boasts of a strong list of endorsements, with Gov. Tim Kaine at the top of his list. Most recently, the Fairfax Coalition of Police, the Fairfax Deputy Sheriff’s Coaltion and the International Union of Police Associations announced their support for Connolly.

In her complaint to the FEC filed Tuesday, Byrne alleged “multiple violations,” including soliciting corporate donations, directing employees to donate, coercion and knowlingly accepting illegal monies, and has called on the FEC to require the Connolly campaign to return contributions from employees of the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where Connolly is a part-time vice president for community relations.

While Connolly called the filing “negative” and “false,” he said he “plans to spend the next six days like…the last six months, talking about real issues that matter to real people in the 11th District.”

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cial. I hope that the event will be repeated again next year, and that even more community members will join in.

Sara Fitzgerald Falls Church a heartfelt remembrance of friends and family members who have died of cancer and celebrated the cancer survivors in our midst. Moreover, the event raised at least $81,000 (and still counting) to help support further research seeking a cure for disease.

A particularly poignant time came when the stadium lights were dimmed for a “silent lap,” led by a bagpiper, in memory of those who have died of cancer.

Some 1,300 luminaria candles lit the track, each bearing the name of a friend or family member who had died of cancer or had survived the disease. The gathering was graced by the large number of children, teenagers and young people who participated, many of them doing so in honor or memory of teachers, coaches, and family members, and others as survivors themselves.

From my own “neighborhood” of The Broadway, at least four cancer survivors participated. The event was a reminder of the “small town” quality that still makes Falls Church spe-

Editor, Please join the George Mason High School community in raising funds to support the citizens of Myanmar. On May 3, 2008 tropical cyclone Nargis devastated the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar. The cyclone left an estimated 130,000 people dead and tens of thousands homeless, injured and dying.

Throughout the last four years, the GMHS community has raised more than $60,000 in relief funds for both the victims of the 2005 tsunami in South Asia and the victims of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. We feel the crisis in Myanmar deserves no less of our efforts and attention. Our goal is to raise a total of $10,000 to help the victims of cyclone Nargis.

All proceeds will go to the international non-profit aid organization Save the Children.

Myanmar is ruled by a strict

military junta that has responded slowly to the crisis and has not permitted any significant level of foreign aid to enter the country.

However, Save the Children is fortunate enough to be one of the few aid organizations currently permitted to work in Myanmar.

In order to raise money for Save the Children, the students of George Mason are organizing a yard sale that will take place on Saturday June 7, 2008. We encourage the whole community to help us by coming to the yard sale, which will take place at the Haycock Road parking lot at George Mason High School from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Additionally, we are accepting donations of items to sell at the sale and donations will be collected in the George Mason front lobby through Friday June 6. We highly appreciate all of the help and support that we can get.

Will Douthitt, Emily Perry GMHS Myanmar Relief Effort

Editor, Last week’s edition of the News-Press included a letter about TV Turn-Off Week, a national program, coordinated

in FCCPS elementary schools by the PTA. There were many generous businesses and volunteers who supported special activities for children during the week and gave rewards to participants. Because of the support of so many in the community, TV Turn-Off Week was a wellplanned, well-rounded event.

The FCCPS are grateful to the following businesses for supporting and rewarding our students’ efforts: Vantage Fitness hosted free kids’ classes; Providence Rec Center offered free swimming sessions; Stacy’s Coffee Parlor provided a friendly space for fun and games; Upton Hill Regional Park gave discount coupons.

Clare & Don’s Beach, Elevation Burger, Starbucks Broaddale and Foxes Music donated rewards.

In addition, elementary students received free admission to all athletic events at George Mason High School, parents held a soccer clinic in Cherry Hill Park and volunteers organized a book swap for families.

This full menu of activities was organized by Kate Nesson and a dedicated parent volunteer committee who created a TVfree week that included valuable and entertaining activities for families.

Living and working in Falls Church is a pleasure because of the mutual commitment of businesses, families and schools to

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Editor, Seen in the West End, near the Hallmark: harried mother pushing stroller barely containing howling toddler, whose shirt read, “It seemed like a good idea at the time.” That would be the national leadership of the Episcopal Church and their property lawsuits that the News-Press cheers on.

Reader, even if you are not Christian, would you demand that we who are, follow leaders who claim that Christ is not Christ and that they have authority to rewrite the Bible? These claims are the issue, and pre-date their gay rights push by three decades. But God is not used, not even for civil rights: their own words are drawing those leaders toward a horrific place not intended for humans at all. By contrast, we who are broken and repentant and believe that Jesus is the Christ “are assured of our eternal self-identity and shall live to remember the galaxies as an old tale.” (CSLewis) Ron Parson Falls Church

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Report of Funnel Cloud Over Downtown F.C. CNN-TV News reported at 3:35 p.m. EDT yesterday that a tornado funnel cloud had been identified by the National Weather Service directly above the intersection of Annandale Road and S. Washington St. (Rt. 29) in downtown Falls Church.

CNN used “Google Earth” to pin-point the spot for viewers. An eyewitness at the scene said there were high winds, but no “rumble” sound usually associated with tornados. Power was lost to a number of establishments in the surrounding blocks.

Obama Rally Today at Nissan Pavilion The importance of Virginia as a “swing state” in the November presidential election is apparently not lost on Sen. Barack Obama. The day after announcing he’d secured enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination this week, Obama announced two appearances in Virginia set for today, Thursday, June 6, one this morning in Southwest Virginia, and the other at 6 p.m. tonight at the Nissan Pavillion in Bristow, Northern Virginia’s premiere outdoor entertainment venue.

Doors for today’s event at Nissan open at 3 p.m., and entry is on a first come, first served basis.

Kaine Hails Warner’s Lead in Climate Security Act Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine issued a statement yesterday hailing Virginia Sen. John Warner’s role as a lead sponsor of the Climate Security Act under consideration by the U.S. Senate this week. The bi-partisan legislation sponsored by Warner, Sen. Joe Lieberman and Sen. Barbara Boxer uses a market-based approach to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “It is a strong bill that will, over time and with complementary state and local actions, achieve the level of reductions that scientists say are needed to prevent the worst consequences of global warming,” Kaine said in his statement.

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Lillian Allen Buschow, 87, resident of the City of Falls Church for the past 57 years, passed away on May 30, 2008 at the home of her son, Barry Buschow, of natural causes.

Mrs. Buschow is survived by her son and daughter-in-law Barry and Kathleen Buschow of Falls Church; son and daughter-in-law Ritchie Buschow and Jinxiu Zhao of Durham, Nc.; and grandson James Marvin Buschow of Leesburg, Va. Mrs. Buschow moved to the City of Falls Church in 1951 and lived on Timber Lane until moving to Sunrise of Falls Church in September of 2007.

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The family will receive friends of Lillian on Monday, June 16 from 7 – 9 p.m. at Advent Funeral Home, 7211 Lee Highway in Falls Church.

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It took Christopher Columbus about 70 days to get to the New World -- a bit less than half as long as it took us to get through the 2008 primary calendar. But by Tuesday night, we’ll have reached our destination, and people in the Obama and McCain camps are feeling good about themselves. Neither campaign is planning a major pivot for the fall. Both are confident they have a strategy for victory.

So my role today is Dr. Doom -- to break through unmerited confidence and raise the anxiety level in both camps.

Since effectively wrapping up the nomination, Barack Obama has lost seven of the last 13 primaries.

Obama’s confidants say that this doesn’t matter. In states like Pennsylvania and Ohio, primary-election results are no predictor of general-election results.

That’s dubious. Though voters now prefer Democratic policy positions on most major issues by between 11 and 25 points, Obama has only a 0.7 percent lead over McCain in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. His favorability ratings among independents has dropped from 63 percent to 49 percent since late February.

Furthermore, Obama has spent the past several months rolling up his sleeves and furiously courting working-class votes. It doesn’t seem to be working.

Ron Brownstein of the National Journal calculates that Obama did no better among those voters in a late state like Pennsylvania than he did for 26 out of 29 earlier primary states where he lost the working class.

There is something about his magic that resonates powerfully with the well-educated but doesn’t translate with the less-educated. As a result, you get all these odd poll results. Voters agree with Obama’s original position on Iraq, but according to the Pew Research Center, they trust McCain more to handle the issue.

We haven’t had two presidential candidates as far removed from the mainstream suburban lifestyle. McCain’s family has been military for generations. But Obama’s path through the university towns is particularly elusive.

Peter Hart did a focus group for the Annenberg Public Policy Center with independent voters in Virginia that captured reactions you hear all the time. These independent voters were intrigued by Obama’s “change” message, but they knew almost nothing about him except that he used to go to the

Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church. It’s as if they can’t hang Obama’s life onto anything from their own immediate experiences and, as a result, he is an abstraction. As Hart points out, people’s inability to come up with a clear narrative about Obama could make it easy to label him in the fall.

Finally, the Obama people are too convinced that they can define McCain as Bush III. The case is just factually inaccurate. McCain will be able to pull out dozens of instances, from torture to global warming to spending, in which he broke with his party, as Rush Limbaugh will tell you.

The Republican camp, meanwhile, is possessed of the belief that Obama is a charming lightweight. Republican senators have contempt for Obama’s post-partisan image, arguing that he and his staff refused to even participate in backroom bipartisan discussion groups.

But Obama is far from a lightweight, as Republicans will learn if he agrees to do joint town meetings with McCain. McCain’s jabs that Obama is naive will backfire. In this climate, a candidate can’t define the other guy, only himself. When McCain attacks Obama for being naive, all voters see is McCain being sour and negative.

More fundamentally, McCain’s problem is that his party is unfit to govern. As research from the Republican pollster David Winston has shown, any policy becomes less popular when people learn that Republicans are supporting it. If the GOP sponsored the sunrise, voters would prefer gloom.

Many Republicans are under the illusion that they are in trouble because they’ve betrayed their core principles. The sad truth is that if they’d been more conservative, they’d be even further behind.

I’ve spent the past few years trying to find conservative experts to provide remedies for middleclass economic anxiety. Let me tell you, the state of free-market thinking on this subject is pathetic.

There are a few creative thinkers, but for the most part, McCain is forced to run in an intellectual void.

On Tuesday, he is scheduled to give a forceful speech on why “reform” is better than “change.” But McCain’s reform message is only being carried by him and a few bloggers. Obama can draw on a coherent body of economic work and 10,000 unified voices.

This election will be asymmetric. Obama has to come up with a personal narrative voters can relate to. McCain needs to come up with a onesentence description for why he represents a clean break and a compelling future.

Neither campaign has done that. I don’t know what they’re so happy about.

Talk about self-inflicted wounds.

The Democrats may finally be stepping away from their circular firing squad. It took them long enough.

There are so many things that the Democrats need to do to have any chance of winning the White House in November, and it’s awfully late in the game to begin doing them.

Only now is the party starting to rally around Sen. Barack Obama, who has been the likely nominee for the longest time. No one knows how long it will take to move beyond the fratricidal conflict that was made unnecessarily bitter by Bill and Hillary Clinton.

The cry of “McCain in ‘08!” at the Democratic rules committee meeting in Washington over the weekend came from a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton.

It reminded me of Bill Clinton’s comment that “it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country.”

He was talking about Hillary Clinton and John McCain. The former president’s comment played right into the sustained effort by opponents of Barack Obama to portray the senator as some kind of alien figure, less than patriotic, not fully American, too strange by half to be handed the reins of government.

Obama’s effort to counter that line of attack has been all-but-completely undermined by the incredible shrieking pastors from the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, a place that might be good for the soul but is potentially ruinous for a presidential aspirant.

First came the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. with his videotaped, over-the-top sermons. He didn’t just criticize the United States, but damned it.

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Not long ago it seemed as if everyone watching the carnage in financial markets was drawing scary parallels with the 1930s.

This time, however, Ben Bernanke and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve did what their predecessors failed to do during the banking crisis of 1930-31: they acted forcefully to avert a collapse of the financial system. And their efforts seem, provisionally, to have worked. While things are far from normal in the financial markets, over the last few months the sense of panic has been gradually subsiding.

You might think, then, that everyone would be congratulating Bernanke and company for their good work. But at an economic conference I recently attended, many of the participants -- including people with a lot of influence in the policy world -- seemed to be bashing the Bernanke Fed. You see, fears of a 1930s-style financial meltdown are apparently out; fears of 1970s-style stagflation are in. And the Fed stands accused of being soft on inflation.

The emerging conventional wisdom, if what I heard is any indication, is that Bernanke has been fighting the wrong enemy all along: inflation, not financial collapse, is the real threat. And to head off that threat, the critics say, the Fed has to reverse course and raise interest rates -- never mind the risks of recession.

So this seems like a good time to declare that the new conventional wisdom is all wrong. We’re not watching a rerun of that 70s show -- and the misguided belief we are could do a lot of harm.

It’s true that the soaring prices of oil and other raw materials have led to public anguish over the rising cost of living.

But this time around there’s no sign whatsoever of the wageprice spiral that, in the 1970s, turned a temporary shock from higher oil prices into a persistently high rate of inflation Here’s an example of the way things used to be: In May 1981, the United Mine Workers signed a contract with coal mine operators locking in wage increases averaging 11 percent a year over the next three years. The union demanded such a large pay hike because it expected the double-digit inflation of the late 1970s to continue; the mine owners thought they could afford to meet the union’s demands because they expected big future increases in coal prices, which had risen 40 percent over the previous three years.

At the time, the mine workers’ settlement wasn’t at all unusual: many workers were getting comparable contracts. Workers and employers were, in effect, engaged in a game of leapfrog: workers would demand big wage increases to keep up with inflation, corporations would pass these higher wages on in prices, rising prices would lead to another round of wage demands, and so on.

Once that sort of self-sustaining inflationary process gets under way, it’s very hard to stop. In fact, it took a very severe recession, the worst slump since the 1930s, to get rid of the inflationary legacy of the 1970s.

But as I said, this time around there’s no wage-price spiral in sight. The inflation hawks point out that consumers are, for the first time in decades, telling pollsters that they expect a sharp rise in prices over the next year. Fair enough.

But where are the unions demanding 11-percent-a-year wage increases? (Where are the unions, period?) Consumers are worried about inflation, but you have to search far and wide to find workers demanding compensation in the form of higher wages, let alone employers willing to accept those demands. In fact, wage growth actually seems to be slowing, thanks to the weakness of the job market.

And since there isn’t a wage-price spiral, we don’t need higher interest rates to get inflation under control. When the surge in commodity prices levels off -- and it will; the laws of supply and demand haven’t been repealed -- inflation will subside on its own.

Still, why not raise interest rates a bit, as extra insurance against inflation? Part of the answer is that the financial crisis, which seems to be in remission right now, could flare up again if money gets more expensive.

And even if the financial crisis doesn’t come back, higher rates would further weaken an already weak real economy. Never mind whether we’re technically in a recession: it feels like a recession to most people, and higher interest rates would make it worse.

The bottom line is that while expensive gas and food are inflicting real harm on American families, they aren’t setting off a 70s-type inflationary spiral. The only thing we have to fear on that front is inflation fear itself, which could lead to policies that make a bad economic situation worse.

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One thing we Floridians loathe is being upstaged by California – that other bastion of sun and fun.

We have worked hard to outdo them. For example, we countered their Disney Land with Disney World – a version of Mickey on steroids. Both states grow oranges – but we one-upped them by making the orange our state fruit. Still, California seems to get all the love with its glamorous movie stars who cruise in their fancy convertibles, enjoying humidity and mosquito free evenings.

In 2008, Florida was poised to become the center of the gay activism universe after the right wing placed a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot that would prohibit same-sex marriage and civil unions.

I attended the initial meeting of Florida Red & Blue, the organization that was created to fight the Amendment. It took place inside the luxurious condo of a storied political operative. Seated in a circle, some of the most powerful and well-connected people – Democrats, republicans, gay and straight - strategized on how to win. Several of the major gay organizations and foundations announced they were onboard for this epic battle. An Equality Florida led coalition, Fairness for All Families, was also created to organize at the grassroots level.

All eyes were on Florida – until the California Supreme Court ruled that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. This was a monumental victory and the cause of mass celebration across America. While marriage in little ole Massachusetts was an appetizer, this was the four-course meal at the best restaurant in town.

The decision gave birth to countless news stories and endless chatter on the blogs. Unlike Massachusetts, there are no residency requirements for gay couples to marry in the Golden State. This led to New York Gov. David Paterson directing state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed in states and countries where they are legal.

Unfortunately, California was back in the news this week because the initiative to ban same-sex marriage received enough signatures to qualify for the ballot. So far, California polls have split on which side will win. A Los Angles Times survey suggested that the anti-gay amendment would narrowly pass. However, a few days later the Sacramento Bee released a field poll showing the amendment would fail 51 to 42 percent. This is clearly going to be a multi-million dollar nasty brawl that will capture the nation’s attention.

While California is back in the spotlight, we can’t let it eclipse what is happening in Florida. The right wing is gearing up to launch a huge campaign to win here. Indeed, Focus on the Family is hosting its ex-gay road show, Love Won Out, this week in Orlando. The group has placed billboards in the city and brazenly scheduled the event the same week as Gay Days at Disney – to receive maximum exposure. The conference will be fertile ground to recruit volunteers to work on passing the Amendment. My organization, TruthWinsOut.org, will join local advocates at a media conference to help counter the ex-gay symposium and its political implications.

The Florida measure is clearly a cynical ploy to get conservatives to the polls in a key election year – when Republicans are showing weakness in the south, losing special congressional elections in once “safe seats” in Louisiana and Mississippi.

The good news is, it will take 60 percent of the vote to amend the Florida constitution – increasing the likelihood that this amendment will fail. However, this means we can’t allow California to be a distraction. It is crucial that we keep one eye on Hollywood California, and the other on Hollywood, Florida. An affirmative win for marriage in California, combined with turning back a negative amendment in Florida, will take the air out of this issue nationally.

It would be a Godsend if we surfed to victory in California.

But we also can’t get bogged down in the notorious Florida political swamp that led to the failed presidency of George W. Bush. The west coast wonder will once again be the leading man, but we must ensure the Election Day production isn’t spoiled because we forgot about the supporting cast in the Sunshine State.

Wayne Besen is a columnist and author of the book, “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth.” 

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“How safe is my home?”

It’s probably not something you consider often. If you did, it was more likely in terms of keeping the doors locked to prevent intruders. But there is another side to home safety, one that is less talked about but more likely to directly affect you or your family.

The facts are astounding: accidents at home result in more than 21 million medical visits and nearly 20,000 deaths each year.

As a result, the Home Safety Council has dedicated the month of June “Home Safety Month” to educate and empower families to make their homes safer from accidents. There are six prominent home safety risk areas: falls; poisoning; fires and burns; choking and suffocation; drowning and disaster preparedness.

Falls account for 5.1 million injuries in an average year, with adults over 60 ranking highest for injuries and deaths from these types of accidents. Some ways to minimize falls in the home include having grab bars in all bathrooms and shower stalls, using slip resistant mats and flooring, providing sufficient lighting - especially near stairwells and walkways, and having handrails on both sides of the stairs and steps.

Poisoning is the second leading cause of unintentional home injury fatalities, resulting in a quarter of all home injury deaths each year. You can reduce the risk of poisoning by locking poisons, cleaners, medicines and all dangerous items in a place where children cannot reach them. Use medications only as directed and be sure to use child-resistant packaging. Check all fuel-

burning appliances to make sure they function properly and do not emit carbon monoxide gas.

Carbon monoxide poisoning may be prevented by installing detectors, particularly near sleeping areas. It’s a good idea to keep the Poison Control Center number (1-800-222-1222) near all phones in your house.

Home fires are the third leading cause of injury-related deaths in the home. Installing and maintaining working smoke alarms cuts your family’s risk of dying in a home fire by almost half. It’s a smart idea to hold fire drills and plan how to safely exit your home. Keep a list of emergency phone numbers by every telephone. During daily activities, remember to stay by the stove when cooking, especially when you are frying food. Only light candles when an adult is in the room and blow it out when you leave the room or go to sleep. And if you smoke, smoke outside.

Choking and suffocation is the fourth major home safety risk.

Did you know that half the children who die before age one die from choking or suffocation?

With this in mind, keep coins, latex balloons and hard round foods, such as peanuts and hard candy out of children’s reach.

Place children on their backs and don’t put pillows, comforters, or

toys in cribs. Clip the loops in window blind cords and place them up high where children can’t get them. Read the labels on all toys, especially if they have small parts. Be sure that your child is old enough to play with them. And, remind children to sit down when they eat and to take small bites.

It also pays to be smart around water. Young children can drown in as little as an inch of water in a matter of a few minutes. Stay within an arm’s length of children in and around water, including bathtubs, toilets, pools and spas – even buckets of water. Empty large buckets and wading pools after using them and keep them upside down when not in use.

Make sure your children always swim with an adult and no one should ever swim alone.

The sixth and final home safety risk comes from naturallyoccurring disasters, like a hurricane or earthquake. Everyone needs an emergency plan designating a safe place in your house, such as a basement or inside room, as well as escape routes, that you and your family can use in case of an emergency.

Learn all the phone numbers you need to call if your family is not together, plus the phone number of a relative that lives out of state. Having ready-to-stay and ready-to-go kits with critical supplies is also an important part of your planning.

You’ve been presented with a lot of information but the larger point is that it requires a handson approach to reduce your home safety risk. For more home safety information, I encourage you to visit www.homesafetycouncil. org or www.mysafehome.org.

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While the Democratic presidential primary process was getting daily media attention here and across the country, it was easy to overlook the fact that, right here in Northern Virginia, there will be three Democratic primaries for congressional seats on Tuesday.

That’s right – this coming Tuesday, June 10, voters in the 8th, 10th, and 11th Congressional Districts will select Democratic candidates to run in the November general election. Voting will take place at your regular polling place from 6 a.m. until 7 p.m.

The race that is the focus of most attention is the four-way race for the 11th District nomination, to replace retiring Republican Congressman Tom Davis. Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerry Connolly is vying for the seat with three other candidates: former Representative and State Senator Leslie Byrne, retired military officer Doug Denneny, and physical therapist Lori Alexander. Some analysts see the race as narrowing down to two contestants – Connolly and Byrne – the best known and best funded of the four, but in a summer primary with four candidates, voter turnout is crucial. The winning margin could be fairly slim.

Chairman Connolly has a broad background of public and community service, from his early days running a program to end world hunger and work on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to his leadership as president of his neighborhood association when they were faced with a tank farm oil leak that contaminated local soils and groundwater. His service on the Board of Supervisors, as Providence District Supervisor and now Chairman, elected at large, is punctuated with numerous achievements: author of

the Board’s Environmental Excellence 20-year Vision Plan adopted in 2004, which led to the nationwide Cool Counties environmental initiative; leader in the fight for expanded transportation dollars for public transportation and pedestrian connections; and a champion for preserving affordable housing for workforce families. Gerry’s skills were tempered and honed in the sometimes white-hot atmosphere of Northern Virginia politics, and he will take that expertise to Capitol Hill on our behalf.

In the 10th Congressional District, healthcare policy expert Judy Feder, who gave incumbent Republican Congressman Frank Wolf his most serious challenge ever in 2006, is facing retired Air Force fighter pilot, Colonel Mike Turner, for the nod. Both candidates are engaging and well-informed, and exhibit energy badly needed in the 10th. Judy Feder’s health policy background will come in handy as finally Congress tackles the health care crisis in this country.

Finally, there is a race in the 8th District, where longtime Congressman Jim Moran is being challenged by unknown Matthew Famigletti.

Congressman Moran has a long record of public service – as a member of the Alexandria City Council, later Mayor, and eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. His diligent work on the prestigious House Appropriations Committee is advantageous to Northern Virginia, and his nearly twenty years of seniority is a boon to this area, too.

Supervisor Penny Gross may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov 

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Dogs, Elephants, and Donkeys The dog days of summer will soon be upon us as the 2008 presidential and senatorial nomination contests slowly conclude.

The winners of each party’s Virginia presidential primary of the winter, John McCain and Barack Obama, look to become official nominees this summer.

In the meanwhile, the Virginia GOP picked former Governor Jim Gilmore on Saturday to be their Senatorial standard bearer.

Another ex-governor will be officially selected as the Democratic Senate nominee at their convention next weekend.

As the only declared candidate, Mark Warner will undoubtedly be nominated by acclamation at the Democratic gathering in Hampton.

I do not see how anyone can beat him. He left office with almost stratospheric approval ratings in every corner of the Old Dominion.

Mark Warner is a probusiness Democrat who has reached across party lines to forge coalitions to pass meaningful, reform legislation.

That sounds like the Obama national message, too. I expect them to help each other increase the Democratic base in preparation for legislative elections in 2009.

Young Turks Likewise, Virginia Republicans prepared for next year’s elections by selecting a new state party chair.

Jeff Frederick, a young, two-term, strongly conservative Delegate from Dumphries beat moderate incumbent John Hager.

It was certainly a rebuff for the father of President Bush’s new son-in-law and a big win for the anti-tax wing of the GOP. Chairman Frederick has already issued a 100-day plan designed to revitalize what many see as a party in poor health after a string of legislative losses.

While we Democrats will undoubtedly brand him as a right wing zealot and him

a campaign issue, he has campaign savvy and should not be underestimated.

Nor should Bob Marshall.

The 15 year House Republican incumbent came within 70 votes out of over 10,000 cast of winning his party’s senatorial nomination.

Almost Sweet Revenge The fact that Jim Gilmore, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, almost lost his party’s nomination should be an embarrassment.

He was almost dethroned by a coalition of pro-life conservatives and moderate friends of Tom Davis, who was denied the Senate nomination by Gilmore’s troops.

Like I said before, I do not see how Mark Warner can lose in November and his strength might help Barack Obama pick up 13 new electoral votes.

Gosh, but it is going to be an exciting election season!

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch…

But, we General Assembly types have to worry about policy, not politics as we go into a special session later this month.

Called by Governor Tim Kaine to find a solution to the transportation nightmares of the Commonwealth, I remain pessimistic.

As I have said in this column before, leaders of both parties in the House may want failure in order to blame the other.

That, in turn, leads to a major issue for 2009, when all 100 members Delegate seats are up for election.

Coincidentally, those elected in 2009 will also draw new election districts in 2011 elections for the next decade.

But, I believe that failure to come away with something meaningful from this special session will be a pox on all of us.

I think that my colleagues need to remember that when voters throw the bums out, it does not matter whether you ride a donkey or an elephant.

Delegate Bob Hull may be emailed at delrhull@state. house.va.us 

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Local Leaders Assess Cyclone-Ravaged Burma After Cyclone Nargis devastated the Southeast Asian country of Mayanmar, formerly known as Burma, Fairfax resi-

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dent Marcia Selva, and Karen Kasmauski of Falls Church, witnessed firsthand the disaster to the land after a week-long visit. Both Selva and Kasmauski are part of Global Community Service Foundation, a met-

ropolitan area international nongovernmental organization that works to reduce poverty in Southeast Asia. The two assessed the damage near the village of Dala and the Joshua Orphanage, a GCSF-supported project. For communitybased charities throughout the Irrawaddy Delta, the hardest hit region, Selva and Kasmauski facilitated the delivery of $3,000 in medicinal aid. GCSF launched a campaign to raise $100,000 to assist the orphanage and surrounding communities, shortly after the disaster.

Radford Students Named to Dean’s List

OVER 50 FRIENDS AND FAMILY gathered on Sunday, May 25th at the home of Roberta Hopkins and Bob Brandenburg on Poplar Drive to help celebrate the 98th birthday of Roberta’s mother, Dot Buillion. Dot is a vibrant, much beloved member of the Falls Church community going out to lunch, playing bridge and driving herself to church. (PHOTO: COURTESY SUSAN ZWEIGHAFT)

Five Fall Church residents have been named to the spring semester’s dean’s list at Radford University.

Kimberly Anne Clingenpeel, senior management major, Joshua Thomas Hearne, senior foreign language major, Christina Nicole Jatras, junior criminal justice major, Sarah Cristin O’Hanley, senior media studies major, and

Catherine Melissa Minnehan, senior geology major, have all completed 15 or more credit hours and have a grade point average of 3.4 or higher with no grade below a C. Soldier’s Call Answered by Donations Serving in his third tour in Iraq, U.S. Army Sgt. Shawn Fanelli of Virginia was given strips of cloths to wipe off sand and grit after showering. One call home to his parents Sam and Kathy Fanelli, led to the donation of bath, face, and hand towels from members of the Fun & Fitness Club and viewers of Forever Young TV, a lifestyle program for retired adults. On June 2, during its monthly luncheon at the Fuddruckers in Annandale, viewers and members donated towels and toiletries in time for American troops to receive care packages by July 4. The luncheon featured Capt.

Giancarlo Brizzi of Ashburn, Va., as the guest speaker. Brizzi shared his first hand experience in Iraq as the Company Commander of Company C, 3rd Battalion, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.

Metropolitan Wind Ensemble Performs

THE MASON RED DRAGONS YOUTH TEAM from Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School and George Mason High School paddle along during the Washington D.C. Dragon Boat Festival, last weekend. (PHOTO: COURTESY PENG SI HIGHNAM)

Levine School of Music, one of the nation’s leading nonprofit community music schools, will charm spectators with its wind ensemble on June 8 at 4:00 p.m. at the Arlington Citadel of the Salvation Army. The ensemble will perform selections from Handel’s “Music for the Royal Fireworks,” Percy Grainger’s “Irish Tune from County Derry,” and Gustav

Holst’s “Second Suite in F for Military Band.” Under the direction of Brian Frye, band director at Alice Deal Middle School in D.C., the ensemble’s recital is free and open to the public. For more information, visit, www.levineschool.org or call the School’s Virginia Campus at 703-237-5655.

McLean Student Announced to Dean’s List McLean resident, William Pelek is one of the 257 students at Wabash College, who maintained a 3.5 grade point average or better on a 4.0 point scale. Dean Gary Phillips announced that the freshman is on the dean’s list for the spring 2008 semester.

A Special Day on Poplar Drive The home of Roberta Hopkins and Bob Brandenburg located on Poplar Drive hosted a celebration for the 98th birthday of Hopkin’s mother, Dot Buillion.

On Sunday, May 25, more than 50 friends and family gathered at the home to celebrate the life of a vibrant and much beloved member of the Falls Church community. Visiting daily with friends, going out to lunch, playing bridge and driving herself to church keep Buillion active. She is also a member of the “Over 55 Club” at the Falls Church Community Center.

Local Club Aids Iraqi Soccer Players For youth soccer players in Muthanna, Iraq the reality of playing soccer barefoot in the

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dirt will be a thing of the past, with the help of Vienna Youth Soccer (VYS), a soccer club serving the Vienna area. VYS, working in conjunction with the National Capital Soccer League, is assisting in the effort to build a youth soccer league in the province of wartorn Iraq. The club welcomes the following donations: new or slightly used soccer items such as cleats, shin-guards, socks, jerseys, shorts, ball bags, ball pumps etc. These items may be dropped off at the Vienna Community Center (120 Cherry St. SE Vienna) from June 1 - 15. A bin marked VYS will be located inside the front door of the center.

Teams Advance to Region I Championship Five Fairfax area soccer teams have qualified to compete among more than 270 boys and girls U.S. Youth Soccer teams for the regional title, June 28-July 3 at the U.S. Youth Soccer Region I (East Regional) Championships at Bowdoin College, Falmouth Park and Falmouth High School in Portland, Maine.

The US Youth Soccer Region I Championships, which will feature top teams in the Under-12

icon and Smithsonian National Heritage Fellow, John Jackson. Participating businesses in the City will feature blues music specials and shopping discounts all weekend.

Visit www.tinnerhill.net for a complete lineup of events and activities or for more information, call 703-241-4109.

Acacia Execs Receive Promotions

THE RACE FOR ROSE TEAM, is seen above with team Sponsor Garrett Rambler (back left) and staff from Vantage Fitness. The Race for Rose team members are 7th grade students at Mary Ellen Henderson and they are participating in honor of Peter Don Rose, a 32 year veteran teacher with FCCPS who lost his own battle with cancer on Dec. 14, 2007. (Photo: Courtesy Mary Hickey) through Under-19 age groups, begins on Thursday, June 26. By winning the U.S. Youth Soccer Virginia State Championship, the five qualifying teams are U15 Girls, Braddock Road Azul, U16 Girls, McLean MPS Dragons, U17 Girls, McLean MPS Freedom, U18 Girls, McLean MPS Freedom

Elite and U15 Boys, McLean MPS Hurricanes.

Civilian Dentist Discusses His Tour of Duty Recounting his tenure as an army medical officer in the 3rd Task Force Medical Command in Iraq, Dr. Ronald Silverman will share his tour of duty expe-

riences at Vietnam Veterans of America Inc. Northern Virginia Chapter 227’s meeting.

The chapter invites all veterans, friends, and the general public to attend the June 19 meeting at Neighbor’s Restaurant (262 Cedar Lane Suite D, Vienna) at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call Len Ignatowski at 703-255-0353 or visit, www.vva227.org.

15th Annual Tinner Hill Blues Festival

NORA’S GARDEN DEDICATION ceremony was held at George Mason HS on June 1. The garden bears a three-tier fountain and an array of plants and flowers. (Photo: Courtesy Pat Meyers)

The honorary contributions of civil rights pioneers who lived in Falls Church during the early 1900s will be celebrated with a weekend of blues activities and performances.

The Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation and the City of Falls Church present the 15th Annual Tinner Hill Blues Festival on June 14 from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. at Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). This year’s festival pays tribute to Piedmont Blues

In its recent executive-level promotions, Acacia Federal Savings Bank announced Rob Jacobs as executive vice president and chief lending officer, while John Mortimer has been appointed senior vice president of secondary marketing. Prior to working with Acacia, Jacobs specialized in real estate and mortgage lending for former Riggs Bank and Cameron Brown Mortgage. Mortimer has over 20 years’ experience in residential mortgage banking and managing secondary marketing for various mortgage companies.

Local Grad Earns Bachelor’s Falls Church resident, Vanessa Hatcher graduated from Hillsdale College, receiving her Bachelor’s of Arts in Rhetoric and Speech Studies.

Scouts host 13th Annual Cub Mobile Races Cub Scout Pack 657 converted South Oak Street into an official raceway on June 1 for the 13th Annual Cub Mobile Races. Cub scouts in transition from “Wolves” to “Webelos,” participated in timed races with winners covering courses in less than 20 seconds.

Pack 657 extends its thanks to Don Beyer Volvo for the event’s t-shirts, the Department of Public Works for its help in closing the road and the Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department EMS for ensuring safety throughout the race.

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George Mason High School is reaching out to the business community to support its efforts to raise $10,000 to support the citizens of Myanmar. The tropical cyclone Nargis left an estimated 100,000 people dead and tens of thousands homeless, injured and dying. George Mason students are seeking corporate sponsorships and donations of money, food, and sellable items for a yard sale that will take place on June 7. If you wish to make a contribution towards the relief effort contact project Suzanne Planas at (703) 248-3039 or planass@fccps.org. ∗∗∗ The Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation and the City of Falls Church are providing Falls Church businesses a free promotional opportunity to tie-in with the John Jackson Blues Festival Friday, June 13 - 15. The Festival will feature the Blues each day all over town. Businesses are being invited to host Blues themed events and/or serve Blues themed products or services on any or all of those dates. Art and Frame of Falls Church, Bangkok Blues, Dogwood Tavern, Creative Cauldron, Falls Church Arts, Ireland’s Four Provinces, The State Theatre and Shreve McGonegal have already signed on – visit www.tinnerhill.net for information for a copy of the schedule or to learn about how your business can take advantage of this promotional opportunity. ∗∗∗ Falls Church Pilates has hired three new mat instructors. Maureen Culhane teaches on Saturdays at 9 a.m. and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m., Kathryn Long on Tuesdays at 7 p.m., and Lori Popovich on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. and Thursdays at 6 p.m. Falls Church Pilates offers a wide variety of Pilates and yoga classes, now including The Tower Workout, a full body toning and strengthening mat class using arm and leg springs. Falls Church Pilates is located in Suite 100 of The Byron at 513 W. Broad Street. For more information, visit www.fallschurchpilates. com. ∗∗∗ The Falls Church office of Reed Smith LLP has been named by the Fairfax County Public Schools as its “2007-08 Partner of the Year,” for the firm’s public service on behalf of Graham Road Elementary School. Reed Smith was honored for providing mentors to Graham Road students, attending school events to support their mentees, hosting musical performances at its offices, funding homework agenda books for all Graham Road students and teachers, and providing backpacks filled with enough school supplies for an entire year to each Graham Road student. Reed Smith is one of the 15 largest law firms in the world, with more than 1,600 lawyers in 23 offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. For more information, visit www.reedsmith.com. ∗∗∗ In a continuation of their award-winning campaign, the SmithGifford/Qorvis Communications partnership has created two new :30 spots promoting the Virginia Lottery. Fast Play “Dodge Ball,” a new game with a new play action, and “HarleyDavidson” will begin airing throughout Virginia during the first week of June. Like all Virginia Lottery products, proceeds from the tickets benefit the state’s K-12 public school system. In “Dodge Ball,” the Hero inadvertently dodges red dodge balls while all around him are hit. In “Harley-Davidson,” a manly motorcycle driver redeems his masculinity by purchasing a Harley-Davidson Scratcher ticket.

SmithGifford (www.smithgifford.com) is an award-winning full-service advertising agency headquartered in Falls Church. McLean-based Qorvis Communications LLC (www.qorvis.com) was responsible for Account Management, print and general marketing. ∗∗∗ Fairfax County businesses now have the opportunity to sign up for Fairfax County’s Community Emergency Alert Network (CEAN), a software program that sends emergency alerts and day-to-day updates about severe weather and traffic to registered Fairfax County users. Individuals and businesses can register to receive messages by phone, pager, e-mail and SMS text message. A unique feature of business registration is that it allows a business contact to add up to five employees to CEAN. Although the individual who registers is the main contact, all registered employees will receive CEAN messages. Networking multiple employees to CEAN is intended to foster businesses’ internal communication and emergency response programs. For more information or to register for CEAN as a business, go to www.fairfaxcounty.gov/cean and click on “register as a business.” ∗∗∗ The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Washington Metropolitan Area District Office and Business Development Assistance Group are hosting “Small Business: Gateway to the American Dream 2008 Awards Breakfast” from 8:3011 a.m. on Friday, June 20. The Awards Breakfast will take place in The Atrium Ballroom of the Ronald Reagan Building, The Atrium Ballroom (lower level) 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. Awards will be granted to the Small Business Person of the Year, the Small Business Journalist of the Year, Financial Services Champion of the Year, Minority Small Business Champion of the Year, Veteran Small Business Champion of the Year, Women in Business Champion of the Year, Home-Based Business Champion of the Year, and the District Director’s Award.

For more information, go to sbaevents.com.  The Business News & Notes section 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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PHARMACY Compounding Specialists As gasoline prices pass $4 per gallon and begin to eat away at our well-being and the fabric of our civilization, the realization is slowly growing that indeed there is something we can do --slow down. Currently this concept has less than zero traction in Congress. Recent polls show that, in overwhelming numbers, the American people as yet do not want to deal with barely affordable gasoline either by raising taxes to stem demand or slowing down.

It is now 34 years since Congress passed the National Maximum Speed Law requiring states to establish a 55 mph speed limit as a condition for receiving federal highway funds.

It is 21 years since the Congress permitted states to raise the speed limit to 65 mph on rural interstate highways and 13 years since states were given the authority to set any speed limits they like.

After oil became plentiful again, lower speed limits were seen as a way to save lives by reducing the seriousness of accidents, but public clamor soon overcame concerns.

As the interstate system grew, and cars became faster and quieter, the “double nickel” limit came to be seen as an intrusion on people’s rights.

Studies showed that by the early 1980’s 83 percent of the motorists on New York interstates were cruising above the posted limit. Speed limits soon became an ideological issue when the Heritage Foundation put out a report saying that speed limits were only saving trivial amounts of gasoline. In 1999, Cato Institute concluded that deaths from car accidents did not increase after the speed limits were raised and there was a net economic benefit of $2-3 billion a year from everybody driving faster.

A review of comments on web sites advocating a return to the 55 mph limit suggests that the idea is vastly unpopular.

Slowing down is not going to come easily.

The issue of course is not one of ideology, but of physics and economics. The resistance of the air to a moving vehicle increases roughly with the square of the speed. There are numerous factors besides drag such as vehicle weight, rolling resistance, and terrain gradient that go into determining an

optimum speed for the best fuel economy. Studies from 30 years ago suggest that 35-40 mph might be the optimum speed for best economy while more recent studies on more current cars show 50-55 mph might be better. All studies, however, show that getting speed down from the current flow of 70-75 mph to 50-55 mph is going to be good for about a 20 percent fuel savings with the current vehicle fleet.

At any given time of course, most moving vehicles are not going with the 75 mph flow, but are stuck in traffic, waiting

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at traffic lights, and creeping around parking lots. Slowing down the Interstates and rural roads by 20 mph will not save much fuel in those massive suburban traffic jams called commuting. This, of course, is the heart of the argument against reducing speed limits. Excessive gasoline consumption should be a personal decision. “I paid for the gasoline and should be allowed to waste it by driving fast as much as I can afford.”

There is more to this story than personal freedoms however. Try driving at economical speeds on most interstates these days and you will quickly realize that you are a menace to your fellow motorists. It is only a question of time until somebody gets killed weaving around to avoid you. Going with, or close to, the flow becomes an act of kindness to our fellow motorists. The moral is that we are all going to have to slow down together – or not at all.

Our truckers, who bring us perhaps 70 percent of our food and other stuff, are being done in by the cost of diesel which is approaching $5 a gallon. Now I have no idea what the optimum speed for an 18 wheeler might be, but I suspect it is going to be well south of 60 mph, especially if the manufacturers adjusted the gear ratios a bit. Remember

that 18 wheelers are most frequently found a few feet off your bumper on the Interstate and rarely stuck in a suburban traffic jam. We are going to need our trucks as our railroads are at capacity and will take decades to build more.

In Ontario, where they don’t fool around, they have already imposed a 100 kph (60 mph) speed limit on the 18 wheelers and have placed governors on their engines to keep errant drivers under control when the law isn’t around. The Canadians have saved so much on their fuel bills that the American Trucking Association now is proposing we do the same thing right here in America and institute a 65 mph speed limit. I doubt if they really want the governors on their engines, but they like the savings on the diesel bill.

Interestingly enough, the truckers want everybody else to slow down to 65 mph with them, presumably to avoid obscene gestures from the little four wheeler drivers who would otherwise have to spend the day passing them.

There will come a day in the not-too-distant future when it will become obvious that we have to save every last drop of motor fuel just to keep ourselves and our economy going. Even the most red-blooded American Congressman will swallow his love of freedom to go fast and vote to impose some sort of fuelsaving speed limit. We may have to wait until there are wide-spread shortages of motor fuel such as we had in 1973. However, as seems increasingly likely, lobbyists from diesel consuming industries may just convince some Congressional committee that slowing down is what it will take if we want to continue to eat.

I suspect that by the time Congress votes on new speed limits, most drivers will get the idea and you won’t find 80+ percent breaking the law. If not, we could always sentence them to drive only cars with 55 mph governors for life.  Tom Whipple is a retired government analyst and has been following the peak oil issue for several years.

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Mike, What’s your take on the Triple Crown bid by Big Brown? Psyched? What do you think a triple crown winner would mean for the sport and for fans?

Ed The Stable in the Sky The only thing I know for sure a win by Big Brown will mean is that come Sunday morning there will be more headlines rhyming the words “brown” and “crown” than a Dr. Seuss book about UPS. I’ve read and heard a lot of people saying that a triple crown is exactly what the sport needs to get back in the public eye and shake some of its PETA problems. Maybe.

I just don’t think people care about horse racing because in order to appreciate it properly, you have to really get into it.

You have to know the history, the bloodlines, the past performances of a horse’s parents and the temperature and humidity on the day that it was conceived. No casual observer wants to do that much leg work unless he’s raised in the midwest, not addicted to NASCAR and is addicted to mint julips and women who sport hats the size of Swaziland.

All the casual fan cares about is the novelty of the accomplishment and the potential payout on a bet. The novelty ought to last a day. The payout on a $2 bet might be enough to buy me a postage stamp. Neither one is going to make me care any more about the sport for more than 5 minutes three times a year.

Personally, I just think it would be nice to have Big Brown not end up in a puppy’s supper dish a few weeks after the race, a fate that has befallen more than a few of his unfortunate peers. Which, brings me briefly to my last point. If you think a win by Big Brown would make PETA go away, you don’t know the animal rights group very well. A triple crown winner would generate buzz around the sport from the media, if not from marginal fans, which would more likely attract the activists’ attention than anything else.

If Big Brown wins or loses, horse racing still has some

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serious animal rights issues to address.

Hume, How you feel about the NBA Finals? This match is going to be for the ages right? Boston and Los Angeles? What more could you want?

David New York, N.Y. Well for starters, I’d want a TiVo so I could fast forward until the game clock winds down to five minutes in the fourth quarter when the action starts. Next question.

Mike, What’s the best we can hope for with the Nats this year?

Injuries are mounting, as are the losses. Anything to look forward to this season?

Frank R. Some Sunny Beach I regularly look forward to the delectable halfsmokes served “all the way” at Nationals Park. Of course, those bad boys are about as healthy as the middle of the Nats’ lineup right now.

You’re right, when it comes to the Nationals’ the injury bug looks something akin to Godzilla nemesis Mothra right now. Losing Ryan Zimmerman and Nick Johnson hurts, not because they were setting the league on fire before they went down, but because now they have to worry about getting healthy instead of getting on track.

Thursday’s entry draft, and a long look at a burgeoning farm system, may yield the best dividends to investors seeking better days though.

Things aren’t likely to improve by leaps and bounds until next season and even then it will be only if the front office can immediately improve the major league roster.

The idea to see who would reach their full potential from a group of Austin Kearns, Felipe Lopez and Willy Mo Pena wasn’t a bad approach, but a few seasons of middling numbers seem to suggest that long term answers lie elsewhere.  Mike Hume may be emailed at mhume@fcnp.com.

Last weekend at Radford University, the George Mason High School varsity girls track team rounded out their season in one of the best fashions possible, by finishing as the single A state runner-up despite entering only five runners into the meet.

In just her first season at the helm of the Mason track team, coach Bianca White led her squad to one of their best finishes in recent memory.

Sophomore Chantal Thomas was the catalyst on the day, bringing back a first place finish in the 300m hurdles and a personal best 5’1” leap in the high jump, good enough for a fifth-place finish.

Senior Susanna Sullivan, a University of Notre Dame recruit, finished second in both the 1600m and the 3200m run.

Sullivan was bested both times by sophomore Megan Marsico of Glenvar, who became only the third girl in Virginia this outdoor season to break five minutes in the 1600m, setting a state record in the process.

Sullivan’s classmate Karina Robarge, who will attend Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the fall, took fifth in both the 100m and 300m hurdles.

Sophomore Chantel Bailey placed fourth in the 400m,

earning a personal best time, while the 4x400m relay team of Robarge, Thomas, Bailey and Taylor Moot finished third.

They further improved on their Region B time, in which they ran a 4:15:86, besting their previous time by five seconds. Part

The George Mason High School girls varsity tennis team advanced easily over Goochland to claim the Region B title and earn a berth in the semifinals of the Virginia Group A State Tournament.

Mason’s Michelle Repper, Kelsey Kane, Annie Zweighaft, Isis Hanna and Corrina Spanu all won their singles matches to sweep past the Bulldogs, 5-0. The Region B title is the third straight for the Mason High girls varsity team.

The Mustangs now face Radford High School on Friday, June 6, at 9 a.m.

of that improvement was due to Bailey’s opening leg, in which her time actually exceeded the Mason school record for the individual 400m.

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A win there and the team will advance to the finals, where they will face the winner of Group A champion Matthews and Group D champion John Battle.

Gate City, the reigning state champions who have defeated Mason in each of the previous two seasons, did not qualify for the tournament.

The Mason doubles tandem of Repper and Zweighaft will also compete in the semifinals of the state doubles tournament.

They begin play at 3 p.m. on Friday against Group D representatives Emerald Lauzon and Carly Johnson of John Battle. Lauzon and Johnson are an undefeated 12-0 this season.

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The George Mason High School boys varsity soccer team claimed the Region B title, but their season ended following that high-water mark after a surprising 1-0 loss to upstart King William High School in the State Tournament quarterfinals hosted at Mason on Tuesday night. With hearts as heavy as the night’s torrential rains, the Bull Run District and Region B champion Mustangs watched as their state title aspirations disappeared despite dozens of opportunities

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to pull even and prevail.

Mason dominated time of possession and virtually every offensive statistical category in a rain-soaked game that straddled a two-hour long lightning delay shortly after kickoff. However, after 80 minutes of playing time that finally concluded at 10:35 p.m., they still trailed in the goal column.

“We had the ball, they had the goal,” said a somber Mason High Head Coach Art Iwanicki after the defeat. The Mustangs out-shot the Cavaliers 28-2.

“Sometimes the game goes like that,” Iwanicki said. “Sometimes if you don’t put away your chances, the trend of the game changes.”

It was a reality as unexpected as it was unwelcome for the Mustangs.

After ousting a talented Nelson County team in the Region B semifinals and advancing on penalty kicks over Goochland in the regional title game, it appeared Mason was poised to return to Radford and a berth in the State Tournament semifinals for the first time since

Not rain, nor lightning, nor Randolph Henry High School could keep the George Mason High School boys varsity tennis team from another berth in the State Tournament.

The Mustangs endured numerous interruptions from uncooperative weather before defeating Randolph Henry, 5-0, to claim the Region B title and return to Radford in pursuit of their fifth consecutive state championship.

The Mustangs were without the services of No. 2 player Brian Sham. Freshman Sam Waters filled in in Sham’s stead and expeditiously offed his opponent, 6-2, 6-3.

The Mustangs next face Region C champion Radford High School in the semifinals of the Virginia Group A state tournament held at Radford University. For the previous two seasons, Mason has defeated the Radford Bobcats in the state finals.

This season could prove the most challeng-

2005. Instead, it is the King William Cavaliers, making their first-ever appearance in the state tournament, who journey on after winning their first-ever Tidewater District title in May. For Mason, it was a nightmarish opening to the match. A minute and a half into the contest, freshman goalie Tyler Back misplayed a relatively harmless ball near the top of the box.

Caught between picking it up and playing it with his feet, the ball wound up in the control of King William striker Matt Harris, who trickled a shot from the top left corner of the 18-yard box along the ground and over the goal line.

It was a rare miscue in what has been a superlative rookie season with the varsity for Back.

The freshman posted 10 shutouts for the Mustangs, earning the respect and praise of his team and coaches all the while.

Though the opening, and only, goal proved to be the fatal marker for Mason, the loss hinged more on the Mustangs’ inability to finish an epic amount of offensive opportunities.

After falling behind, the weather would add another obstacle.

Seconds after the goal, the winds whipped up and blew in a deluge that created conditions ideal for an underdog looking for an upset. A series of lightning strikes sent the players off the field and when play resumed at

ing matchup yet for the Mustangs, who graduated five of their top six players from last season.

By comparison, last year’s Radford team didn’t have a single senior in the top six.

The team semifinal begins on Friday at 1 p.m.

Meanwhile in the individual bracket, Mason sophomore Tim Goetz, the Mustangs’ top singles player, defeated Goochland’s Colin Barry (6-1, 6-1) to win the Region B singles title. Goetz, who flaunts a record of 11-2 on the season, will now face Region A champion Cedric Bright of Nandua in the singles tournament that begins at 9 a.m. on Thursday. The winner of that match will advance to face either Radford’s Malik Mubeen, the Bobcats’ No. 1 player, or Gate City’s Chad Sheppard in the finals at noon that day.

Goetz will also compete alongside teammate Johnny Vroom in the semifinals of the state doubles tournament against Gate City duo Tyler DeBoard and Dalton Moore. That match is slated for 3 p.m. on Friday, June 6.

9:05 p.m., while the winds and the rain had died down, a wet field and slippery ball remained.

Those conditions kept both teams off balance after play restarted. Players searched for sure footing and the ball skidded over the surface, leading to long passes skittering both out of reach and out of bounds and wreaking havoc with Mason’s possession oriented game.

The Mustangs found their stride near the 25 minute mark, generating a series of surefire offensive chances that somehow failed to find a home in the back of the net.

With 15:11 remaining Nick Smirniotopoulos rocketed a shot from the top of the 18-yard box over the crossbar and 40 seconds later Antonio Randrianasolo blasted another ball right into the chest of King William goalie Justin Hutcheson. The shot may have rattled the keeper’s ribs but it did nothing to upset his nerves. Hutcheson twice more turned aside shots seemingly destined to tie the score, both coming off the feet of Elio Randrianasolo, who unleashed them at point-blank range from a yard away.

The rains returned at halftime in force, and continued at various strengths throughout the second 40 minutes. Mason came out of the break with a measure of urgency and immediately generated some strong scoring chances with Elio Randrianasolo ringing the crossbar just over a minute into play.

The Mustangs’ best opportunity to score in the match came at the 47-minute mark. Antonio Randrianasolo collected a pass in the middle of the six-yard box, took his time, but then fired it right into the chest of Hutcheson, again positioned perfectly to stop the shot.

Just over 10 minutes later, junior midfielder Jon Brooks bent

a shot over a leaping Hutcheson from roughly 30 yards out, but again the ball ricocheted harmlessly off the crossbar.

Never again in the final 20 minutes of the match did the Mustangs mount better chances to score. King William packed nine and at times, 10 players into their half of the field, denying Mason any clean looks at the goal from the center of the 18yard box.

“I would have faced a lot more [shots] if it hadn’t been for my teammates,” said Hutcheson, who was hoisted onto his team’s collective shoulders following the unlikely shutout.

“We just tried to aggravate them,” King William Head Coach Clint Ruhlman said. “I think we did that.”

And how.

The evidence of that frustration was more than visible by the sob-wracked shoulders of many of Mason’s players following the loss, with the rain only accounting for some of the moisture on their long faces.

“I really thought we’d do it,” Iwanicki said.

The sting of defeat was a strange sensation for the Mustangs, who had not been beaten since an April 7 loss to Group AA Potomac Falls.

The loss closes a highly successful season for the Mustangs that saw the team rack up a record of 16-3-2 and go undefeated in the Bull Run District.

However, the team will fall short of its goal of a state championship, a reality that is particularly disappointing for seniors Andres Ramos, Antonio Randrianasolo, Wesley Frank, Matt Gresko and Tim Brooks.

“I’ll tell the guys this though,” Iwanicki said when interviewed before addressing his team. “If this is the worst thing that ever happens to them, then they will have led a very blessed life.”

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After winning the Bull Run District tournament on nail-biting penalty kicks, the George Mason High School varsity girls soccer team stayed sharp, unleashing a torrid fury of offensive output last week in the Region B tournament, outscoring opponents 32-0 to secure the title and a berth in the state tournament this week.

In their two contests in the Bull Run tournament, the Mustangs only put up four goals, but a revamped offense tore through the opposition from Region B, setting down Buffalo Gap, Appomattox and Goochland in orderly and authoritative fashion at Moore Cadillac Stadium.

Perhaps the biggest challenge — a very loosely used term — was

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posed by Goochland High School out of the James River District last Friday in the Region B final.

Even then, the Bulldogs fell to Mason 11-0, but the Bulldogs did manage to get off a few shots on goal, something their predecessors failed to do against the stingy Mustang defense.

Anchored by a trio of goalies in Rebecca Jackson, Lauren Jekowsky and Catlin Sickler, in addition to defenders Alexa Peyton, Tegan Argo and Abby Stroup, the Mason defense limited shots on goal to single digits in the Region B tournament, and has given up only two goals since May 5.

A big reason why the defense has been so stellar is because the Mustang offense has been equally relentless, controlling possession with quick strikes to the back of the net. Against Goochland, goals were scored by senior Rachel Kazman, sophomore Karen Hamill, freshman Violet Miller (3), senior Olivia Scott (2), sophomore Kelley Frank (2), sophomore Mayssa Chehata and freshman Elle Silverman.

On the morning of June 2, the All-Region B team was announced, with Scott taking top honors as First-team All-Region and the Player of the Year.

Kazman, Miller and junior Kim Kenny also earned First-team accolades, while Silverman garnered second-team honors.

Last Wednesday,

Mason sealed their entry in the state tournament with a 10-0 triumph over Appomattox. Scott started things off right with a header off a beautiful cross from junior Nicole Peyton in the fifth minute.

Just two minutes later, Miller beat keeper Dana Therkildsen but hit the right post. However Silverman was right there for the rebound, rocketing it to the back of the net. In the 13th minute, Kenny scored off a soft shot over the keeper’s head, while Miller followed suit off an assist by Chehata. 30 seconds later, Frank beat the last defender for a goal.

In the 16th minute, freshman JV call-up Hannah Walker gathered a rebound for the goal.

Nicole Peyton scored in the 23rd minute off a long run, while Jekowsky rounded out the scoring with two minutes left in the game, pushing Mason to double digits yet again.

On Tuesday, the girls punished Washington & Lee High School — not to be confused with Washington-Lee High out of Arlington — 10-0, punching Mason’s ticket to the “final four” at Radford University and a trying date with defending state champions Radford High School.

Against the Eagles, Scott more than justified her postseason awards, netting four goals in the first 12 minutes. Miller tacked on the next two, followed

by Scott who netted her fifth of the contest. Kazman and Walker added on the final scores of the night, all 10 of which came in the first half. Washington & Lee, one of two girls soccer programs in the entirety of Region A, entered the contest against Mason with a

Finishing his career with George Mason High School on a high note with a run to the Virginia Group A state semifinals in girls basketball, varsity basketball coach Bill Broderick is moving on.

Broderick has accepted a position at Elon University, where he will serve as an assistant coach and recruiting specialist on the women’s basketball team.

This past season, his second at the helm of the girls varsity team after previously coaching the boys varsity, Broderick was named Region B coach of the year. The Washington Post also named him Northern Virginia Coach of the Year.

Broderick’s last day at Mason High will be June 16.

“I’m going to miss the people I work with,” Broderick said. “I really appreciate Principal [Robert] Snee giving me the opportunity, same with Athletic Director [Tom] Horn. I’m also going to miss

1-11 record and instantly seemed overwhelmed against the fast and skilled Mustangs.

Now, however, the Mustangs face their biggest game of the season.

The Bobcats graduated a number of strong players from last season, including Krista Patterson, who scored the lone goal in Radford’s 1-0 victory over Mason in the semi-finals of last year’s state tournament.

However, they also bring back goalie Desi Simmons, the Three Rivers District player of the year.

“I don’t know much about Radford,” said Parsons last week.

“I just know that they have an amazing goalkeeper [Simmons], which presents a big challenge for us. The girls are just looking forward to a rematch with them.”

the student athletes. That’s really what made it special for me at Mason.”

Broderick will join the staff of newly hired head coach Karen Barefoot. Barefoot was hired after spending the previous three years as an assistant at Old Dominion University, a fixture in the women’s AP Top 25. The staff at Elon will have the challenge of resurrecting a program that finished 12-20 overall and 6-12 in the Southern Conference last season.

The scenario should be a familiar one for Broderick.

In two previous stops before landing at Mason, he helped turn around women’s teams at Arizona and Pittsburgh while working as an assistant coach.

“It’s a fresh start to build the program [at Elon],” Broderick said. “I just really like building programs.”

The Mustangs compiled a 20-10 record in their final season under Broderick, reaching the Virginia Group A, Division II semifinals where they lost to eventual champion Floyd County.

The Mustangs will have to get through this coming weekend without Alexa Peyton, whose recent MRI revealed a torn ACL. The starting sweeper will be out for the rest of the year.

In what should be essentially the de facto state championship game, Mason will take on Radford High School at the Radford University soccer complex on Friday at 4 p.m.

The winner will move on to the championship on Saturday at noon.

Correction: Last week’s article incorrectly identified Rachel Kazman as having scored the first goal against Clarke County. That was incorrect. Freshman Katja Butts put in the only Mason goal in a 2-1 (5-4) victory for the Bull Run District final.

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The 16th Annual Capital Jazz Festival Friday through Sunday, June 6 8, at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md. Peformers include Average White Band, Chris Botti, Jonathan Butler, Randy Crawford and Joe Sample, Brian Culbertson and the Funk Experience, Down to the Bone, Roberta Flack, Ken Ford, Four80East, Howard Hewett, Boney James, Jazz Soul Collective, Billy Kilson and BK Groove, Ledisi, Loose Ends, Maysa, Frank McComb, Brian McKnight, Jeffrey Osborne, Plunky, Dianne Reeves, Rick Braun and Richard Elliot, Eric Roberson, Spyro Gyra, Carl Thomas, Wayman Tisdale and Kim Waters.

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‘The Chittlin Circuit Review; Narrative Paintings on the History of the Blues, by Rik Freeman’ Through June 14 at the Greater Reston Arts Center (12001 Market St., Suite 103 — the ground floor corner suite — Reston, Va.). Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. For further information, call 703-471-9242 or see www.restonarts.org.

Washington, D.C.-based artist Rik Freeman presents 20 of his mostly large-scale narrative paintings dealing with the history of the Blues and the AfricanAmerican experience as a whole.

The work spans some 14 years and represents the first portion of a planned 25 to 40 paintings.

Working in a style reminiscent of Thomas Hart Benton, Freeman paints mural-sized canvases that draw a thread back to Africa, though most often in a fairly subdued fashion. The actual depictions are somewhat over-the-top exaggerations of stereotypical characters Freeman has created.

Most notably Mud Paw Willie, the traveling Blues guitarist, and Critter Gitter, the hoary, wizened voice of experience who at times howls with outrage.

As one would expect, Freeman’s technical abilities and style vary over the 14-year period when these canvases were produced. For me, the best of them retain a raw edge. The more polished works seem a tad too slick to convey the spirit of the Blues. As any fan of the

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Blues will tell you, it gets its visceral power from a certain raw honesty and directness. There is nothing polished about the Blues.

Recalling a documentary about John Lee Hooker, a day spent in the recording studio had the sound crew hiding Hooker’s guitar to keep from losing anything.

They knew that as soon as they handed the man his axe he was going to start messing around, and what he did would be lost if they weren’t ready to roll tape.

There is no “take two” in the Blues, you get it, or you lose it.

Hooker, and his brethren, could make you feel alive with nothing so much as a syncopated series of guttural utterances and shuffling of his feet. Slick that is not, but it’s a spirit and vibe that’s hard to find in any other musical genre.

Rik Freeman does a good job of capturing the essence of it all.

An excellent documentary video about Rik Freeman, and his work, accompanies the exhibit.

This Thursday, June 5, Greater Reston Art Center hosts a Beer, Barbeque, and the Blues event titled “Art with a Twist: A Chittlin’ Circuit Juke Joint” from 7:30 - 9 p.m. Admission is $15 for members, and $20 for non-members. It is co-sponsored by Clyde’s of Reston.

Lastly, there is an Artist Family Workshop this Saturday, June 7, from 2 - 4 p.m.

‘Doo-Wop: From the Street Corner to the Stage’ An exhibit documenting the history of early Rhythm and Blues from the 1950s and early 1960s presented by Falls Church Arts comes to Art and Frame (111 Park Ave., Falls Church).

Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

This exhibit is mostly comprised of Doo-Wop group PR photographs on loan from the Atlanta Doo-Wop Association and will be up through June 30.

Opening Night is First Friday, June 6, from 6 - 8 p.m.

The exhibit’s curator, Beverly Lindsay-Johnson, will talk about the history of an important genre of African American music and its contribution to American popular culture.

Tinner Hills Blues Festival Mark your calendars for next week’s Tinner Hill Blues Festival right here in Falls Church. It all begins with a screening of the

One of Rik Freeman’s Blues oriented canvases (shown here in black and white) now on display in his solo show at the Greater Reston Arts Center, through June 14. documentary film “John Jackson: A Blues Treasure” Friday, June 13, 7 p.m. at the State Theatre, followed by a performance by the Tommy Castro band.

Saturday features blues bands playing at various venues all over town from 8 a.m. - 1:30

p.m. This is all based around the main event in Cherry Hill Park from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sunday closes off the Festival with two more bands playing at Ireland’s Four Provinces, and Bangkok Blues, both on Broad Street. For complete details

about venues, times, and performers see www.tinnerhill.net.  The Northern Virginia Art Beat is compiled by Kevin Mellema.

See www.fcnp.com for photos and more. To e-mail submissions, send them to mulsane@aol.com.

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Just weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Sondra Harnes watched the Soviet Union’s Red Army Chorus sing “God Bless America” at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. After experiencing the moving performance, and the emotional response of the audience, Harnes was inspired by the thought of obtaining international peace and unity through song. Thus, in 1990 Harnes, along with James Selway, Rosalind Paterson and Judith Penniman, formed The World

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Children’s Choir (WCC). The organization moved its rehearsal location to Christ Crossman United Methodist Church in Falls Church this past May. The choir’s artistic directors, Harnes and Selway, are both professional performers and operatically trained as soloists. Harnes, a lyric soprano, graduated magna cum laude from Southeast Missouri State University and was awarded a full-tuition scholarship by the Julliard School. James Selway, a baritone and accomplished pianist, received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Julliard School. There he was a full-

scholarship student in the opera department and member of the American Opera Center. Selway received a Master’s of Music from the American University of America. For the past 25 years they have maintained a studio in Falls Church where they teach voice and Suzuki piano.

Harnes’ idea was to create a children’s choir, providing the highest quality in vocal arts education and promoting cultural diplomacy through international friendship and peace.

Part of the mission of the WCC is to raise money for children’s causes and work with orga-

nizations, such as UNICEF, Childhelp USA and Save the Children, at charity events. The WCC’s website, worldchildrenschoir.org, describes the choir’s vision. “Through song, children of many cultures and nations, come together. They sing of friendship, peace, understanding and caring for one another and the planet; they sing of hope.”

Artistically, the choir provides children professional training in the vocal arts, performance, vocal coaching and choreography. Children are taught the Bel Canto style of singing to develop solo quality voices. They learn to sing in many languages and perform internationally.

The choir begins working with children as early as age 4 and continues training with students up to 18 years of age. Each ensemble of the WCC provides teaching to students of specific criteria.

The Opera Ensemble is geared to high school students ages 14 - 18, while the Junior Choir teaches students age 4 through the first grade. The Concert Choir is open to students ages 8 – 18. Bella Voce, the Friends Chorus and Performing Arts at the Heart of Literacy include children from grades 4-12.

The Heart of Literacy program was created to include children from low-income families, so that they too can join the choir. The program allows for some students to study and perform with the choir for free, while a sliding scale was established for those families who are able to pay something, just not the total tuition. The program includes lessons in singing, West African drumming and dancing. The website claims that “up to 25 percent of the Choir members receive needs-based scholarships and no qualified child has ever been turned away for their inability to pay the tuition.”

By learning how music and

art express emotion, tell stories and create shared experiences, the WCC’s mission is to help give children a voice, one that will celebrate cultural diversity and promote positive international relations. They believe that “by bringing children from many cultures and nations together in song today, we can sow the seeds of a more peaceful world tomorrow” and that “through the discipline of these musical experiences, children can gain self-discipline, respect, compassion for others and a concern for the environment.”

The WCC has performed for three U.S. Presidents — George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush — Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, Queen Noor of Jordan, Queen Sofia of Spain and Mikhail Gorbachev, to name only a few prominent audiences.

The lighting of the National Christmas Tree on the White House Ellipse and singing under the stars is just one of the WCC’s noted performances, others include singing at the International Child Art Foundation’s World Children’s Festival, the Youth for Tomorrow International Conference at the United Nations and the National Missing Children’s Day Ceremony held at the U.S. Department of Justice. They have also performed in Romania for a group of teens and young adults mostly comprised of abandoned Roma children.

At the pinnacle of WCC’s vision is peace for all children. Their mission is reflected in a quote on their website by Mahatma Gandhi, saying “If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”

And that is exactly where the World Children’s Choir has begun their international journey of peacekeeping, with and for, the children.

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FCPS Names Reed Smith LLP ‘Partner of the Year’ Providing backpacks filled with enough school supplies for an entire year to each Graham Road Elementary student is just one of the many public services Reed Smith LLP has offered the school. The law firm, one of the 15 largest in the world, was named by Fairfax County Public Schools as its “2007-2008 Partner of the Year.” By helping those in need, Reed Smith has been a decade-long force for the students, their parents and teachers at Graham Road Elementary. Several Reed Smith personnel go to the school each week to mentor students.

Area Student to Perform in 2009 Rose Parade Shelley Gresko, a sophomore at George Mason High School, will have an once-in-a-lifetime experience as one of the 19 flutists performing in National Honor Band in the 2009 Tournament of Roses Parade.

Among hundreds of applicants across the nation, Gresko was selected by Bands of America to be part of a 300-piece national ensemble with winds, percussion and a flag and dance team. She will spend a week in southern California performing at the Tournament of Roses Bandfest and Disneyland. The 5.5 mile Tournament of Roses Parade, “America’s New Year’s Celebration,” will kick off at 8 a.m. on New Year’s Day. Student Performances Win 3 Medals Fifth grader, Tobias Schneider, did not leave the 2008 Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Association’s Solo and Ensemble Festival empty-handed. Instead, the 10-year-old left with three medals after receiving superior ratings for his violin and baritone performances. He received an excellent rating for several pieces with the Folk Fiddle Club.

Tobias attends Timber Lane Elementary School.

2 FCPS Students Win Awards of Merit Sara Crossland of Westfield High School and Alexander Park of Kilmer Middle School both received an Award of Merit for their participation in the National PTA Reflections program, which offers students the opportunity to create works of art for fun and recognition.

Crossland was recognized for dance choreography in the senior

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division while Park was recognized for visual art in the middlejunior division. Both students will have their works featured on the National PTA website during the summer.

Eco-Friendly Club Hosts Fair The Stratford Landing Elementary K-Kids Club will host the school’s first Environmental Fair on Friday, June 6, from 6-8 p.m. in the Stratford Landing café. The fair will feature demonstrations by the following: Te Raptor Conservancy, Friends of Huntley Meadows Park, Cool Neighborhoods, and the American Geological Institute.

The National Wildlife Federation and Fairfax County Water Authority will also be in attendance. Fair attendees can learn how to live greener, check out a Smart Car, play environmental games, and enjoy healthful snacks. An environment-friendly prize will be given to the winner who can guess which car present has the dirtiest engine. The event is free and open to the public. Contact Maura Caulfield at 703-6193600.

Scholarship to Honor GMHS Principal As a retirement gift to Principal Robert Snee, the George Mason High School PTSA is organizing the funding of the R.W. Snee Scholarship. The annual scholarship will be awarded to a student whose consistent efforts have made GMHS a better place. All parents, students, teachers, alumni and community members may participate in the funding of this scholarship. To help fund the R.W. Snee scholarship, please direct donations to the Falls Church Education Foundation (450 W. Broad St., Suite 305, Falls Church) and write “Snee Scholarship” in the memo section of the check.

School’s first Arts Festival, the school’s art, music, and theater departments will be represented, giving students the opportunity to showcase their artistic talents and abilities. On June 15, the festival’s finale will be Yorktown’s Madrigal Singers’ Recital at 4 p.m. at the Memorial Baptist Church (3455 N. Glebe Rd., Arlington) Admission is free.

Gr8s enjoy the great outdoors On June 2, the Gr8s of George Mason descended on the Hemlock Overlook Center for Experimental Education in Clifton, Virginia for a day filled with team building activities including balance beams, wire crossings, the peanut butter pit, and the zip line. Students and their teachers were able to bond while participating in partnered events. Students were forced out of their comfort zones, the theme of the day, in order to complete given tasks and achieve the goals set by their Hemlock guides.

Approval of New Day Care Fee Schedule The Falls Church City School Board has approved a two percent increase in day care fees for the 2008-09 school year or roughly six dollars more per month at the top end of the scale.

The increase reflects rising operating expenses and follows a careful review of last year’s major fee restructuring. Last summer, fees were restructured and set at 3.5 percent of household income, far less than the national average for

GEORGE MASON HIGH SCHOOL senior Alex Prewitt (standing, center) was announced yesterday as the 2008 recipient of the Falls Church News-Press scholarship awarded to a senior intending to pursue a career in public service “enfranchising the disenfranchised.” Also pictured are News-Press owner Nicholas F. Benton, Prewitt’s parents and, seated, Jesse Thackrey, patron of the Franklin and Kent Thackrey Memorial Scholarship that was also awarded to Prewitt. Many more photos and a list of all award winners announced at George Mason High’s award ceremonies yesterday will be included in next week’s News-Press.

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school age child care fees of 5 to 9 percent of household income.

Reduced fees are still available for families meeting certain income eligibility requirements.

For all families, there is a sibling discount of 25 percent, after the first child.

Mason Musician Selected for Vermont Competition Morgan Moscati, a George Mason High School International Baccalaureate student, was one of 18 U.S. students who traveled to Vermont to have her original music composition performed by professional musicians at Chandler Music Hall in Randolph, Vermont. Morgan’s original composition, “Sassy Strut”, scored for woodwind

quintet, was chosen from fortyfour other entries in a composition contest sponsored by the Vermont MIDI Project.

All Night Grad Night Underway The All Night Grad Celebration is gearing up for its 20th year and organizers of the event are seeking enthusiastic parents to volunteer to make this the wonderful occasion it has been for years. The celebration follows the graduation ceremonies on June 11, from 11:30 a.m. until 5:30 a.m. the following day. There are three shifts, with various jobs for each. Volunteers can contact a committee member by visiting, gmhs_angc_volunteers@yahoo.com.

FCPS Faculty Inducted In VHSL Hall Of Fame Megan McCarthy, who played soccer at Robinson Secondary School, Jim Rike, who coached soccer at the school and Jeff Dietze, former director of student activities at West Potomac High School, have been selected for induction into the 2008 Virginia High School League Hall of Fame.

Yorktown’s Arts Festival As part of Yorktown High

TREASURED DULIN PRESCHOOL TEACHER-DIRECTOR was celebrated by past and current preschool families at a Cherry Hill Park farewell party. Parents and children came to the park on June 1 to bid their farewells to Diane Landry (back row, left), who retired this week after 14 years of service to one of the area’s oldest pre-school communities. (Photo: Courtesy Nancy Romps)

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Participating in Science Olympiad, a national team science competition, is all too familiar for the seventh and eighth graders of the Longfellow Science Olympiad team. Among the 5,000 middle and high schools that qualify to compete, the team from Longfellow Middle School made its third consecutive appearance during the 24th Annual Science Olympiad National Tournament hosted by The George Washington University.

The 15-member team has prevailed in regional, state and national tournaments to represent the state of Virginia three times at Science Olympiad.

This past Saturday, the team placed third in the nation for Meteorology, Simple Machines and Crave the Wave, competitive events in which students demonstrated knowledge and process skills needed to solve problems regarding meteorology, simple machines and the types of waves, respectively.

The volunteer coach of the Longfellow Science Olympiad team, Jamie Korelitz, who has

no professional background in science, said it is the students’ interests in science application and technology that played a major role in the team’s advancement to the tournament.

“They’re very dedicated and work-oriented. The peer groups that [students] end up with make this very big school a much smaller place to be part of and [Science Olympiad] really enhances their enjoyment of middle school,” said Korelitz, a nursery care provider at Temple Rodef Shalom.

Science Olympiad is an international, nonprofit organization devoted to improving the quality of science education through activities both in and outside the classroom.

The team’s peer involvement led to its place as third in the nation in the following three events: Meteorology, Simple Machines and Crave the Wave.

It also placed in the top 20 in 12 of the 23 events.

“They’re all so interested in science, which is why we keep this program going. The program is there for the students because they like science and are looking for more to do. It is doing well because of their enjoyment,” Korelitz said.

Korelitz said students have become more responsible in answering their own questions by researching and discussing experiments with members of the community.

In fact, seventh grader Hope Flaxman relied on the assistance of Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading global consulting firm, to aid her in one challenge building and testing a tower of minimum weight designed to carry a specified load.

“We kept on building and rebuilding and [the tower] got better each time,” said Flaxman.

“Before I didn’t know what steps to go through and what worked best, but now I learned how to go through steps and how you have to rebuild and prove that you have to learn from your mistakes to get better.”

Though many events featured interactive projects, written tests were administered as part of the academic events in the tournament.

Ben Rosenblum, 14, competed in Disease Detectives, a trial that required students to apply principles of epidemiology to a published report of a real-life health situation or problem.

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Send community event submissions to the News-Press by e-mail at calendar@fcnp.com; fax 703-532-3396; or by regular mail to 450 West Broad Street #321, Falls Church, VA 22046. Please include any photos or artwork with submissions. Deadline is Monday at noon for each week’s edition.

Community Events THURSDAY, JUNE 5

SATURDAY, JUNE 7

by contribution. 703-883-0920.

Story Hour. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church) 10:30 a.m.

Farmer’s Market. Falls Church City Hall (300 Park Ave., Falls Church).

8 a.m.

Falls Church Rotary Club Meeting.

Charlottesville Rotarians speak about the joint Rotary Cameroon Water project. Harvest Moon Restaurant (7260 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). Visitors welcome. $10. 202-268-5089.

Excellent Living Presentation for Women. Radio ministry host Cheryl Martin speaks on “A Woman of Distinction.” McLean Bible Church (8925 Leesburg Pke., Tysons Corner). 10 a.m.

Free. 703-615-6588.

“You Only Live Twice” Screening.

Part of the James Bond Film Festival. New York Ave. Metro Station (Florida and New York Aves. NE, D.C.). Dusk. Free. www. nomabid.org.

Architectural Walking Tour. A look at Falls Church’s unique 19th century homes. Cherry Hill Farmhouse (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). 10 a.m. $5. 703-248-5171 for reservations.

FRIDAY, JUNE 6 “Send Yourself Roses” Book Signing. Kathleen Turner presents her memoir. Borders - DC (1801 K St. NW, D.C.). Noon. Free. 202466-4999.

Celebrate Fairfax! Annual Fairfax festival runs throuh June 8.

Includes concerts and carnival rides. Fairfax County Government Center (12000 Government Center Pkwy., Fairfax). 6 p.m.

Adults $10, children $5. www. celebratefairfax.org.

Sing Along With Miss Belle. Miss Belle performance for ages 2-6. Aladdin’s Lamp Children’s Books (2499 North Harrison St., Arlington). 11 a.m.

Free. 703-241-8281.

Vapiano Casting Call. Modeling audition for male and female models to be in Vapiano’s newest ads. Vapiano Dulles Town Center (21100 Dulles Town Cir., Dulles, Va.).

2 p.m. Free. www.vapiano.com.

World Children’s Choir. West African Culture Concert. St. Peter’s Episcopal Church (4260 N. Glebe Rd., Arlington). 7 p.m. Admission

SUNDAY, JUNE 8 “Rock the House” 8K. 8K to benefit Alternative House: The Abused and Homeless Children’s Refuge.

Fairfax County Government Center (12000 Government Center Pkwy., Fairfax). 8 a.m. $22 before June 6, $27 after. Register at www.runwashington.com.

Fairfax County Elderhostel Alumni Meeting. Speaker Roger Myers will discuss Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt Past and Present. George Mason Public Library (7001 Little River Turnpike, Annandale). 2 p.m.

Free. Reservations required. 703534-2274 Philip Pullman Book Signing.

Children’s author signs his newest release, “Once Upon A Time In the North.” Barnes & Noble Booksellers (7851 Tysons Corner Center, McLean). 2 p.m. Free. 703506-6756 Alex Hassan Benefit Concert.

Pianist performs spirited melodies. Vienna Baptist Church (541 Marshall Rd. SW, Vienna). 3 p.m. $10. 703-281-5088 Wind Ensemble Recital.

Performance by the Levine School

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Comedian Jeff Caldwell. From Comedy Central and “The Late Show with David Letterman.”

Runs through June 8. DC Improv (1140 Connecticut Ave. NW, D.C.) $15-17. 8 p.m. 202-296-7008.

In the Forest of Fontainebleau.

Exhibit featuring French landscape art. Runs through June 8. National Gallery of Art (600 Constitution Ave. NW, D.C.). Free. 202-737-4215.

Kander and Ebb Overtures. Final installment of Cabaret Season.

Runs through June 7. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell St., Arlington). $28. 8:30 p.m. 703820-9771.

Artomatic 2008. Annual art fair

featuring over 900 artists. Runs through June 15. Capitol Plaza (1200 First St. SE, D.C.). 202544-7077.

FRIDAY, JUNE 6 The Manhattan Transfer. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (2700 F St. NW, D.C.). Free. 6 p.m. 202467-4600.

The Mystery of Irma Vep. Runs through July 13. Arena Stage at Crystal City (1800 S. Bell St., Arlington). $49-54. 8 p.m. 202488-3300.

Comedian Bob Saget. Presented

by LiveNation. The Warner Theatre (513 13th St. NW, D.C.). $37.50 in advance, $39.50 day of show. 8 p.m. 202-783-4100.

MONDAY, JUNE 8 Nature is Bustin’ Out All Over.

Fairfax Art League’s June Show.

Fairfax Old Town Hall (3999 University Drive, Fairfax). 7 p.m.

Free. www.fairfaxartleague.com.

TUESDAY, JUNE 10 World Children’s Choir. Open house and sing-a-long for families. Christ Crossman United Methodist Church (384 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. Free. 703-883-0920.

“Warrior Girls” Book Signing.

Michael Sokolove discusses female athletes and injuries. Borders Tysons Corner (8027 Leesburg Pke., Vienna). 7:30 p.m. Free. 703556-7766.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11 Enter the Haggis Concert. Celtic rock band records for live album.

Lee District Park (6601 Telegraph Rd., Franconia, VA). 7:30 p.m.

Free. 212-414-0505.

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of Music’s Virginia Campus.

Arlington Citadel of the Salvation Army (518 S. Glebe Rd., Arlington).

4 p.m. Free. 703-237-5655.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 7 Songs and Dances of Polynesia.

Halau O ‘Aulani presents the cultures of Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand and Tahiti. Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre (1611 N. Kent St., Arlington). 2 p.m. 301919-7905.

Divas Outdoors Film Series.

“Funny Face” Screening.

Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens (4155 Linnean Ave. NW, D.C.). $15, $10 for children 6 - 18. Reservations required. 6 p.m. 202-686-5807.

SUNDAY, JUNE 8 DC Youth Orchestra. Kennedy Center Terrace Theater (2700 F St. NW, D.C.). Free. 6 p.m. 202-467-4600.

D.A.R. Constitution Hall Saturday, June 7, 6:30 p.m.

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egendary Cyndi Lauper is joined by the B-52s, Regina Spektor and Tegan and Sara in this national tour date in Washington, D.C., this Saturday night in the intimate D.A.R. Constitution Hall that will be the scene for many an area high school graduation ceremony next week. This rockin’ show is hosted by Rosie O’Donnell and Carson Kressley of Bravo’s “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” series fame. It is sponsored by the Logo TV network and the True Colors Fund of the Stonewall Community Foundation, in partnership with Human Rights Campaign.

It’s aimed at mobilizing members of the LGBT community to register to vote and to get out and vote. This is the second year of this unique tour, which will hit 24 cities in North American this summer. It will be a rockin’, non-stop five hour concert, which is why it starts so early. It’s great entertainment for any and all. Tickets through Ticketmaster.

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Bangkok Blues (926 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 7:30 p.m. 703534-0095.

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8:30 p.m. $10. 703-522-8340.

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Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave.,

Vienna). 6 p.m. $10. 703-255-1566.

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7 p.m. 703-534-0095.

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Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave., Vienna). 10 p.m. $10. 703-2551566.

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Mirrors (33 New York Ave. NE, D.C.). 9 p.m. $10 in advance, $15 at the door. www.lovesexydc.org.

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For the fourth consecutive year, the Crystal City Business Improvement District is holding it’s Crystal Rocks Concert on Crystal Drive in Arlington. Headlining the concert this year is the Grammy nominated, multi-platinum rock band Everclear, also marking their 15th year as recording artists. The free concert kicks off Sunday at 2 p.m. with Flip Like Wilson on the stage, with Everclear performing shortly thereafter. In addition to rockin’ out, it’s the perfect opportunity to check out some of Crystal City’s good eats before and after the show. King Street Blues, McCormick and Schmick’s, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Morton’s, Ted’s Montana Grill, Jaleo and more all call Crystal City home.

Transportation is no problem as there’s free parking available in the area garages in addition to the Metro stop at Crystal City.

What: 4th Annual Crystal Rocks Concert ft. Everclear When: Sunday, June 8, 2 - 6 p.m.

Where: 2200 Crystal Drive between 23rd & 20th St., Arlington, Va

Thursday, June 17 - Concerts in the Park Series. Enjoy live, local music every Thursday night through Aug. 7. First concert is Mad for the Road. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). 7 p.m.

Free. 703-248-5077.

Thursday, June 26 - The Temptations and The Four Tops. Motown greats perform. The Filene Center at Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd., Vienna). $38 for in-house tickets, $21 for lawn seating. 8 p.m. 703255-1868.

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Please include any photos or artwork with submissions. Deadline is Monday at noon for the current week’s edition.

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The Zohan harbors one secret desire. He wants to be a hairdresser. His equivalent of pornography is an old Paul Mitchell catalog, and one day he simply cuts his ties with Israel and smuggles himself into the United States in a crate carrying two dogs whose hair he does en route. In America, he poses as an Australian with a very peculiar accent and, asked for his name, combines the names of his airborne flight buddies: Scrappy Coco-man. His auditions in various hair salons are unsuccessful (in a black salon, he attacks a dreads wig as if it were a hostile animal), until finally he is hired by the beautiful Dalia (Emmanuelle Chriqui), a Palestinian.

This plot is simply the skeleton for sight gags. Early on, we saw how much pain he could endure when he dropped a sharp-toothed fish into the crotch of his bikini swimming trunks. Now we see such sights as his sexual adventures with old ladies in the salon. In my notes, I scribbled in the dark: “An angel with the flexibility of a circus freak,” adding, “he tells old lady,” although maybe the old lady told him. At home with a new friend (Rob Schneider as an Arab cab driver), he effortlessly seduces the friend’s mother (the zaftig Lainie Kazan).

His archenemy, the Palestinian agent known as The Phantom (John Turturro), is also in New York, and they make war. The Phantom’s training regime is severe. He takes eggs, cracks them and live chicks emerge. These he puts in a glass and chugs. He punches not only sides of beef, but a living cow.

Like The Zohan, he is filled with confidence in his own abilities, and with reason (he can cling to ceilings). Their confrontation will be a battle of the Middle Eastern superheroes.

Now creeps in a belated plot, involving a shady developer (Michael Buffer, of “Let’s get ready to rumble!” fame).

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There was a point in the past year where all Zach Rogue could do was pray for more time to spend with Pat Spurgeon.

Spurgeon, Rogue’s creative partner in the Northern California-based band Rogue Wave, needed a kidney transplant to replace the failing organ he received from his first transplant in the 1990s. In the meantime, Spurgeon stuck with his bandmates, spending his time between tour stops hooked to a dialysis machine in the back of their van.

In a tumultuous year of ups and downs for the band — a year that included the deaths of Rogue’s grandfather, guitarist Gram LeBron’s father and former bassist Evan Farrell in an accidental apart-

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ment fire, as well as the birth of Rogue’s first child — Spurgeon’s story registered on the high side. The transplant came through and the band was gifted with more time to spend with their uber-innovative drummer.

Now they’re taking advantage of it.

In September Rogue Wave released its third album, Asleep at Heaven’s Gate, a 13-track record that showcases the creative talents of Rogue and Spurgeon like never before.

“Our second record, we had just finished our tour and a few days later we were in the studio. Because of that, we just worked on songs we’d been playing live instead of taking a step back and starting from scratch and conceptualizing the record, the sequencing and the aesthetics to the story that would be told, the kind

of holistic ideas about what would make it an album,” Rogue says. “[When you] spend more than just a couple of days on overdubs and instead spend several weeks, [when you] work on harmonies a little bit, all those things can make the record a little bit more interesting.”

With more time than ever to spend in the studio, the innovative duo took full advantage, experimenting with instruments and other unconventional, uh, instruments to fill out songs with additional layers.

“Pat has this thing that’s called ‘horn magic.’ It’s this toy trumpet that when you push down the button where the valve would be, it makes a response to any noise around it. And it makes this noise that’s really unpredictable and erratic,” Rogue says of one particularly impressive instance. “We put it in the piano while I was playing it on ‘Harmonium,’ so while I was playing the piano there would be this secondary layer of this totally unpredictable strange noise that would come out of the trumpet. So we kind of mic’d them simultaneously and when I played the piano and the note resonated it just sounded like this duck was being bloodied. Together it made this kind of screaming sound. It was pretty cool.”

Creative processes like that one — a noise-making toy sword also makes an appearance in the “making of” video footage — offered up all kinds of unique samples. However, the true merit of the songwriters isn’t shown by merely whipping up aural oddities, it is instead displayed by the successful integration of such layers into songs. That the layers enhance compositions that already work well when Rogue and Spurgeon perform them as an acoustic duo is a testament to time well-spent in the studio. Time Rogue is indeed fortunate to have with Spurgeon and the rest of his mates.

“When a lot of the bad stuff was happening I thought that something was telling us that we should stop playing music, but when I look back on all the series of events and everything around us now, I realize that staying together and making the record and having the experiences we’re having on the road right now, it’s made our lives that much richer,” Rogue says. “The music that we make, it’s time well spent and it’s made us stronger people. And I need to remember that when times get difficult again.”

• Rogue Wave opens for Death Cab for Cutie Monday, June 9, at Merriweather Pavilion. Tickets range from $25-40 and are available through Ticketmaster. For more information on Rogue Wave, visit www.roguewavemusic.com.

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This might seem an odd time to think about apple ciders and apple wines, but don’t be surprised if you end up serving some at your Fourth of July backyard picnic.

The ancient libations, habitually the object of consumer attention in the fall when apple harvests take place, are part of a growing niche in the U.S. and elsewhere as more and more entrepreneurs look for products that will endear them to those consumers.

And it’s not just boutique American cider and wine producers who are making their presence felt. Larger foreign producers, particularly from the United Kingdom, are targeting the U.S. market with their latest apple-based products.

They no doubt became emboldened enough to plan such a market expansion after a Nielsen market survey reported last summer that cider had experienced the biggest year-over-year increase in UK beverage sales, jumping 29 percent to make it the No. 5 product after wine, lager beer, blended whiskey and vodka. And, the same report said, cider outstripped beer among UK consumers buying an alcoholic beverage for the first time. So, why not the huge U.S. market?

As a result, Samuel Smith’s Old Brewery Organic Cider is going national in the U.S. this month. It is a product of the oldest brewery in Yorkshire, England, which is celebrating its 250th anniversary this year.

As the company explained in an announcement, “Apple juice used to produce cider contains a mix of apple varieties selected to balance fresh apple flavor with tartness, acidity, and sweetness. Samuel Smith’s uses a wine yeast strain to ferment their cider, providing a clean finish and allowing pure apple flavor to shine through.”

The naturally gluten-free beverage is 5 percent alcohol by volume (ABV), equal to 10 proof. It also is high in antioxidants and is certified organic.

From north of our border, Domaine Pinnacle also is getting into the act. The Canadian orchard and winery that produces some of the world’s top-ranked iced apple wines has just introduced what is believed to be the first sparkling ice apple wine.

It is made from a blend of six different types of apples, hand picked after the first frost. Once the frozen water is removed, the remaining juices are cold fermented for up to eight months. Production of the 12 percent ABV apple wine is limited to 30,000 cases.

“Pinnacle Ice Apple has already proved ... a superb quality alternative aperitif or dessert wine which is growing in popularity ...” said Cyril Camus, president of the Camus firm that is distributing the ice wine.

Domaine Pinnacle, founded in 2000, is located on a 430acre property on the slopes of Pinnacle Mountain near the village of Frelighsburg in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, near the Vermont border.

Pinnacle is owned and operated by Susan and Charles Crawford, with the wine and cider production handled by Christian Barthomeuf, the French emigre who pioneered ice wine making in Quebec.

Despite these newcomers, the market does not belong to the imports. Farnum Hill Ciders, at Poverty Lane Orchards in Lebanon, NH, has been growing heirloom apple trees for 16 years and making ciders in a very traditional (i.e., English) way.

Rather than the Macintosh, Delicious, Jonathan and Braeburn apples we see in stores, traditional ciders from Farnum and other growers rely on such varieties as Esopus Spitzberg, Yarlington Mill, Kingston Black, Medaille d’Or and Dabinett to turn out a wide variety of ciders, each with its own nuances.

These varieties were cellar staples in colonial times or are in common usage in Europe, but now are rarities here.

When shopping for cider, it is important to understand its definition. While some people refer to apple juice as cider, true cider must be fermented to release alcohol. “Hard cider” runs anywhere from 3 to 15 percent ABV in traditional blends. And, although it usually is made from apples, there also is a pear cider, known in England as perry and still popular across the English Channel in the Normandy region of France as well as up north in Sweden.  Bill Dowd covers the beverage world at billdowd.com.

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The World Series of Poker, poker’s most prestigious event, will kick off in a few short weeks. The WSOP features world championships in various forms of the game, all leading up to the granddaddy of them all, the $10,000 buy-in Main Event.

This year, however, the Main Event will be just a little bit different.

Harrah’s, the operator of the WSOP, with input from the Players Advisory Council, decided to postpone the final table of the Main Event until November 9, 2008 – a delay of more than three months. That’s right; more than 7,000 players will start play on July 3 and battle down to the final nine on July 14 at which time play will come to a stop.

Some players love this idea and think it will create tremendous buzz about poker’s biggest showcase event. Others believe that the lengthy delay will compromise the integrity of the final table.

I think both camps make valid points. The extended build up will definitely create promotional opportunities and excitement about the final table.

It will also give the finalists unprecedented time to work on their game, study their opponents, and develop winning game plans.

Others, however, argue that winning the Main Event is a test not only of poker skill, but stamina too. I don’t agree. The Main Event wasn’t always a test of endurance. The ability to play winning poker on little sleep is not something that needs to be rewarded.

As far as I’m concerned, the schedule change will benefit those players that study video of their opponents, seek expert coaching advice, and work on their game plans. Let me explain.

Professional football was revolutionized when teams began to study their opponents by watching game tape. Today, all NFL coaches work long hours studying video leading up to game day.

Players at the Main Event final table will have three months to study footage of their opponents. Not only should they search for physical tells and predictable betting patterns from their opponents, they should look for their own bad habits too.

The schedule delay will also benefit those players who seek out coaching advice. Now, this is something that might seem at

odds with being a poker player. After all, poker is an individual game -- one player to a hand. But why pass up the opportunity to improve one’s game? Hey, if I don’t make the final table, I just might take on a student who could benefit from my poker experience.

The presence of pro coaches will undoubtedly add a new dynamic to the Main Event.

While you might not see Phil Hellmuth actually playing at the final table, it’s possible that he’ll be visible in the stands as he cheers for his amateur protégé.

In fact, even the big name pros will probably hire coaches to help gather information on their opponents and help devise final table strategies.

Lastly, the delay will allow ample time to develop winning game plans. Just like an NFL coach might draw up the first 20 plays, finalists at the Main Event can do the same. But in addition

to Plan A, finalists should also be prepared with backup Plans B and C. Maybe you’ll win a big pot and become the chip leader, or perhaps you’ll lose a monster pot and find yourself on the short stack. Players should establish game plans for a wide range of scenarios.

The Main Event schedule change will add an element of sophistication to the final table that will surely benefit those players that are best prepared. If I make it to the final nine, you can bet that I’ll be as prepared as anyone.  Visit www.cardsharkmedia. com/book.html for information about Daniel Negreanu’s new book, Hold’em Wisdom for All Players. © 2008 Card Shark Media. All rights reserved.

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Yard Sales COMMUNITY YARD SALE Saturday

June 7th 9 - 2 Powhatan St. and Freesom Ln and cul-de-sacs. Off Kirby Rd, McLean. Several homes participatin

NAIL TECHNICIAN NEEDED for Hair Salon in Fall Church & Booth Rental is avialable.

Call 703-204-2774

SALES MANAGER Climatization sytems

Public Notice

- Russia, Poland and Eastern Europe; managing all operations from purchasing to export and sales; managing three employees; must speak Russian and Polish; masters degree, training in climatization and construction systems plus two years experience required. Please contact (703) 953-8437.

Glenn Forest Drive, Bailey Crossroads. Dishes to furniture, teddy bears to books, plus teaching aids.

9:30am - 4:30pm.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the following ordinance and resolution were given first reading on March 10, 2008, and referred to the Planning Commission and other boards and commission. The second reading and a public hearing scheduled for April 28, 2008 has been postponed to June 23, 2008.

For Rent

YARD SALE Saturday June 7th, 9am-3pm

FALLS CHURCH HOME Great loca-

(TO8-06) An Ordinance to Amend the Official Zoning District Map of the City of Falls Church, Virginia, by Rezoning Approximately 0.68 Acres of Land from T-1, Transitional District to B-1, Limited Business District for the properties with the Real Property Code Numbers 51-131-020, 51-131-021, 51-131-022, 51-131-023, and 51-131-029 by Jefferson Park LLC.

MOVING SALE 20 years of good stuff.

Friday June 6th 10am - 4pm @ 117 South Spring Street (one block south of Broad st/ rte 7)

MOVING SALE June 14, rain or shine 5850

at 1138 South Washington St. FC. Some furniture and vintage enamelware

For Sale NATIONAL MEMORIAL CEMETERY Dogwood Gardens Extension, Tiered site.

Price new $5,940, will sell $5,000.

Call Lisa 252-578-3138

tion, 1200/mtly. One bedroom, one bath, kitchen, dining room, living room & laundry room.

Alarm security - Perfect for married couple.

Nonsmokers, no pets & included utilities. Avail June 1. Call 703-237-1915

PRIME SUBLET OFFICE SPACE in

Falls Church available for small business (1,837 RSF) Contact Syed @ 703-207-0933 ext 112 or sali@jdgcommunications.com

Services

Help Wanted

CHILD CARE

ATTN: LOSE UP TO 30ILBS in 30 days, $30.00 + s/h. Dr Recommended 800-378-0656

BLOOM A DIFFERENT Kind of Grocery Store! JOB FAIR: Wed June 11th 11am - 8p. 3059 Centerville Rd, Herndon, VA FT/PT jobs. Send resume: eastup@foodlion.com

DRIVERS: LOCAL CDL-A

Career Training. Swift Transportation Trains and Employs! Dedicated, Regional & OTR Fleets.

800-397-2423

FULL-TIME OFFICE MANAGER

for Falls Church Presbyterian Church (PCUSA).

Looking for self-starter with excellent communication, organizational, and computer skills. Competitive salary and benefits. Information about the position and the church available at www.fallschurchpresby. org. E-mail resume and references to tschmid@ fallschurchpresby.org or mail to Thomas H. Schmid, Falls Church Presbyterian Church, 225 East Broad Street, Falls Church, VA 22046.

GROCERY

STORE IN Bailey’s Crossroads seeks friendly person for Customer Service position. Mon - Sat 3pm - 7:30pm. English Required. Job entails slicing meats, food prep, cleaning, pricing & stocking. Call 703-379-8080 ask for Mr. Haene Tue - Fri 9am - 3pm.

HEALTH & WELLNESS CONSULTANT Inc 500 Co. seeks ind’l to introduce healthier shopping alternatives to others.

Work from Home. No inventory. 100% Guarantee.

No MLM. US Champer of Commerce Board of Dir. Call Cathy at 703-989-5284

HELP WANTED

Sheet Metal Mechanic or experienced helper.

Dixie Sheet Metal. 703/533 -1111.

INSURANCE

SALES/SERVICE

Leading full service agency has opening for licensed, bi-lingual Spanish producer to help move us to the next level. Large book to multi-line.

Competitive base, incentives and fringe benefits will reflect proven performance. Send resume to ellswow@nationwide.com or Fax to 703.538.2808

LANDSCAPING & LAWN CARE company seeking part time help from 2:00pm - 7:30pm Monday - Friday. Starting pay $8.00 hr. Some saturdays from 9:00am - 5:00pm. Call 703-502-3990

LPN OR CNA Care for disabled senior

female in Falls Church home. Personal care, administering medications and meals through Gtube, injections, inhaler treatments, tracheotomy care, transfer to bed and wheelchair, light housekeeping. 35 hours/week. Salary based on training and experience. Call 703-407-1078 or e-mail thomas-schultz@hotmail.com

Experienced childcare provider provides quality care for your infant in F.C. home. (703) 241-0605.

FATHER & SON CONSTRUCTION CO.

No Job too small *Brick & Block - Concrete *Stone & Marble - Carpentry *Painting - Plaster *Landscaping - Trimming/Edging *Raking - Cleaning *Tile Workd Call Gary 703-849=1813 or Cell 703-5825815 Located in Falls Church.

GIT RID OF IT For Removal of Junk,

Trash, Yard Debris, Appliances, Furniture & Estate clean-ups. Call 703-533-0094. We will beat most competitors prices!

HANDYMAN

SERVICE

Windows, doors, rotted wood, petdoors, lighting, fans, faucets, fences, bath, Flat screen TV installation and kitchen remodeling. Insured Free estimates. Call Doug (703) 556-4276 www. novahandyman.com

HOUSE CLEANING SERVICE

Available 7 days a week. Week, biweekly, monthly or one time. Good references in Falls Church City. 10 years experience. For further information call me at 703-848-8322. Senior discount, Ask: Susy.

House Cleaning Service. Low rates.

Good references. Call Dolores 571/2321091.

JAKELIN CLEANING SERVICE

Residential and Commercial . Experienced, License, Excellent References. Affordable rates, 10% discount after second cleaning. Call 703863-3821

LAWN & GARDEN Lawn mowing, cleaning, mulching & edging. Low rates. Call Ernesto 703-932-9565 MARYA

HOUSE

CLEANING

Experienced, low rates, good referneces, available for weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or a one time cleaning. Call Marya 703-998-3378

MORALES LANDSCAPE & LAWN CARE

Mulching, seeding & many others. Call David (o) 703-502-3990 or (c) 571-221-4330

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News-Press Classifieds

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS

(TR8-18) A Resolution to Grant a Special Exception for Commercial Height Bonus for Approximately 1.12 Acres of Land With the Real Property Code Numbers 51-131006, 51-131-007, 51-131-020, 51-131-021, 51-131-022, 51-131-023, and 51-131-029 by Jefferson Park LLC. All public hearings will be held in the Council Chambers, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church, Virginia. Copies of legislation may be obtained from the City Clerk’s office (703248-5014) or at cityclerk@fallschurchva.gov.

This location is fully accessible to persons with physical disabilities. Special services or assistance to persons with disabilities may be requested in advance. To speak at a public hearing, fill out a speaker slip and give it to the Clerk at the left front table.

Speakers will be called forward by the Mayor at the appropriate time.

KATHLEEN CLARKEN BUSCHOW CITY CLERK Public Notice City of Falls Church, VA Planning Commission Public Hearing On Monday, 16 June 2008, the City of Falls Church Planning Commission will hold a public hearing during its regularly scheduled meeting in the Council Chamber of City Hall, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church, Virginia 22046, beginning at 7:45 PM, on the following applications: • Resolution TR8-32, A Resolution to Amend the Comprehensive Plan of the City of Falls Church, Virginia, to change the designation of 1.2 acres of land located at 350 and 370 South Washington Street from “Business” to “Mixed Use” on the City’s Future Land Use Map • Ordinance T08-11, An Ordinance to Amend Chapter 38 of the Official Zoning Code of the City of Falls Church, Virginia, by amending Section 38-4(f), Special Exception; 4 (a.)

Primary Criteria.

• TR8-33, A Resolution to Grant Special Exception(s) for Residential Development within Mixed-Use Projects and for a Residential Height Bonus under Section 384(f) in a B-2, Central Business, district on 1.2 acres of land located at 350 and 370 South Washington Street.

Interested persons may appear and present their views. Information on or copies of the proposed Ordinance and Resolutions may be viewed in the City’s Planning Division at City Hall, Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM

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Please include payment (check or money order) with your ad or call us to arrange payment by credit card.

For public & legal notices, please email legalads@fcnp.com

The Falls Church News-Press accepts no financial responsibility for typographical errors in advertisements. Advertising which has minor discrepancies such as misspelling or small type transposition, but which do not affect the ability of the reader to respond to the ad will be considered substantially correct and full payment is required. The Falls Church News-Press is not responsible if the original copy is not typewritten or legible and clear. The Falls Church News-Press is not responsible for copy changes made by telephone.

PUBLIC NOTICE Volunteers who live in the City of Falls Church are needed to serve on the boards and commissions listed below. Call the City Clerk, Kathleen Buschow (703-248-5014, or e-mail cityclerk@fallschurchva.gov) for an application form or more information.

Requests for reappointments must also be made through the City Clerk. Applications are being accepted until the end of the month. Vacancies that have been advertised for more than one month may be filled during each subsequent month before month’s end.

Architectural Advisory Board City Employee Review Board Environmental Services Council Girls’ Home Advisory Board Historic Architecture Review Board Historical Commission Human Services Advisory Council Library Board of Trustees Local Board of Building Code Appeals Planning Commission Private School & Day Care Facility Board Recreation and Parks Advisory Board Retirement Board Senior Citizens Commission Citizens’ Advisory Committee on Transportation Tree Commission Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee Regional Boards/Commissions: Fairfax Area Commission on Aging Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board Health Systems Agency of Northern Virginia Long Term Care Coordinating Council Workforce Investment Board

The News-Press Classifieds Remember, New Classified Deadlines: Every Tuesday, 2 p.m.!

AUCTION

Construction Equipment & Trucks

Friday, June 13, 8 AM, Richmond, VA

Huge 800+ Lots Expected Featuring a 100+ Piece Site Contractor Liquidation of Late Model Equipment & Trucks!

ONSITE & ONLINE BIDDING AVAILABLE Equipment ‘03 CAT 730 Articulated Off-Road Dump Truck, ‘03 John Deere TC54H Integrated Tool Carrier, ‘01 CAT 963C Crawler Loader, (2) ‘05 John Deere 650J LGP Crawler Dozers, ‘01 John Deere 450H LGP Crawler Dozer, ‘01 John Deere 270LC Excavator, (2) ‘06 John Deere 35C ZTS Mini-Excavator, ‘04 John Deere 410G Backhoe Loader, ‘99 Sakai SP-500T Padfoot Compactor, ‘05 John Deere 648G III Grapple Skidder, (2) ‘01 Takeuchi TL126 CTL, (3) ‘89 John Deere 544E Wheel Loaders, ‘95 Ferguson 46A Asphalt Roller, ‘95 Bobcat 853 Skid Steer Loader Trucks (3) Kenworth T800 Quad-Axle Dumps, (2) ‘96 Kenworth T300 Finn Auctioneers • Appraisers • Brokers Hydroseeder, ‘86 Volvo-White Autocar 2 T/A Underbridge Inspection Truck, ‘01 Ford F350 Service Truck PLUS MUCH MORE! PLUS: Equipment from Virginia Dept. of Transportation, Dominion VA Power, VAAL #16 NCAL # 5914 Sunbelt Rentals & Others!

804.232.3300

PUBLIC NOTICE In accordance with VA

15.2-1720, the public is hereby notified that the Falls Church Police Department has recovered the following listed bicycles: Black Magna, no model Blue Schwinn, no model Green Huffy “Trailtech” Green/Pink Huffy, no model Pink Magna “Precious Pearl” Pink Magna “Tropical Blast” Purple Kent “Retro Power” Red Mongoose “Wired” Silver Jeep “Comanche TSI” To claim any of these items please provide proof of ownership to: Falls Church Police Department Property/Evidence Unit 300 Park Ave. Falls Church, VA 22046 703-248-5278 (please call for appointment)

Attention: new Classified Ad Rates Classified Ad: $20 for up to 20 words (First two words of each ad are bold and all caps)

Each additional word: 50¢ per word Bold a Word: $1 per word Add a Box Around Ad: $10 Call 703-532-3267 and ask for Danielle for more info

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

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PC Attorneys

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•Injury cases & Death cases •Medical/Legal malpractice •Breach of contract •Commerical/Insurance • Car accidents Free Consultation 703-448-0073 Hablamos Español 703-798-3448

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MOTTERN MASONRY DESIGN

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Low Rates for Residential Mortgages Purchase or Refinance

256 N Washington St Free Consultation

CGA IMMIGRATION ASSOCIATES Family and Employment Based Immigration Petitions Skyline Plaza Falls Church

703.578.3556

Memory Lane Professional Photography & Videography

Specializing in custom firplaces, patios, walkways, walls, driveways.

Small and large repairs.

Free estimates Licensed and insured.

All work guaranteed.

703-496-7491

Wedding, Portraits & Special Events

www.motternmasonry.com

(703) 869-9372 (703) 205-9051

JOSEPH HOME IMPROVEMENT Drywall • Paint Exterior / Interior, Bath & Kitchen Remodeling, Basements, Handyman, Moving, Clean Garage, All kinds of hauling

Sam Nazari

Email: Trinidad.miranda@yahoo.com

www.FallsChurchListingMap.com

Joseph

Licensed Work

See all of the Falls Church listings as soon as they hit the market!

Cell 703-507-5005 Tel 703-507-8300

Skyline Painting Interior - Exterior Commerical & Residential

RE/MAX Allegiance 5100 Leesburg Pike, Suite 200 Alexandria, VA 22302 mobile. 703-868-5999 office. 703-824-4800 ShaunMurphy@remax.net

Benton & Potter, P.C. www.bentonpotter.com

Government contract law, all areas of business and corporate law.

Painting • Power Washing, Drywall Repair • Carpentry Work and more Free Esimate!

Good Prices! Expert Job!

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• Affordable Rates • Certified Technicians

www.fastteks.com

FALLS CHURCH

HOME IMPROVEMENT Since 1981

Call Singh: 703-835-1101 (cell)

REMODELING & ADDITION, CERAMIC, TILE, FINISHED CARPENTRY, CROWN MOLDING, CHAIRS, DECK RAILS, STAIR, WINDOWS, DOORS, CONCRETE, SIDEWALKS, DRIVEWAYS, BRICK INSTALLED & REPAIRED

703-848-8322 703-901-2431

(571) 330-3705

Driveways • Steps Sidewalks • Patios Small Jobs Welcome

Licensed and Insured. Free Estimates.

With Personal Service

Local brick n’ stone mason installing patios, walkways, steps, chimneys, etc.

Specializing in repairs. Local references.

Free Estimates.

Weaver Enterprises

Jock Murray postampg@gmail.com 703-629-8698

for town homes and city dwellings

Design • Installation • Maintenance

Insured

R. J. Leonard, LLC Construction Company 703.796.1812

• CLASS A CONTRACTOR

• 40 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE • REMODELING, ADDITIONS AND NEW HOMES • DESIGN / BUILD • CALL FOR A FREE ESTIMATE Please visit us online at www.rjleonard.com

We’ll help you find the perfect paint color!

Lawn Care, Landscaping, and More Weekly Lawn Maintenance, Spring cleanup, Mulching, Aeration, Turf Repair All work done in a timely professional manner at competitive rates.

Please call Travis for a free quote:

703-534-1061

Licensed & Insured

OTHER SERVICES

ArlingtonColorConsultants.com

703-241-8548 CLEANING SERVICES Mike’s Carpet Cleaning 5 Rooms deep cleaned only $98 •Stretching•Mold Remediation •Oriental Rugs•Upholstery•Pet Problems • 24 Hour Emergency Water Damage We Clean the White House!

Call Mike 703-978-2270

Ledo Pizza Caterers Tysons Station • 7510 Leesburg Pike Falls Church, VA

Make a Joyful Splash! with

Eileen Levy Create unique art masterpieces using acrylics, water-based oils, pencils and an innovative variety of tools and brushes.

Held at 111 Park Avenue Falls Church on Tuesday Evenings from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Cost: $90 On-going monthly enrollment Enroll on-line at www.creativecauldron.org Or call 571-239-5288

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Postage Stamp Gardens

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Residential & Commercial Tree Service & Snow Removal

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703-532-3267

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Mayor Robin S. Gardner . . . . . . . . . .

Vice Mayor M. R. Lindy Hockenberry . . . .

City Council David C. Chavern . . . . . . . . . .

Harold Lippman. . . . . . . . . . .

Daniel Maller . . . . . . . . . . . . .

David F. Snyder. . . . . . . . . . . .

Daniel X. Sze . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

City Manager Wyatt Shields. . . . . . . . . . . . .

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The Week

703-534-8644 703-241-0934 703-538-2398 703-237-9089 703-731-8433 703-241-0419 703-538-5986 703-248-5004*

First Half Real Estate Tax Due (Paid in Treasurer’s Office) Book Discussion Group, 7:30 p.m.

FIRSTfriday Event Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-Noon Yard Waste, Bundled Brush, & Special Collections City Council, 7:30 p.m.

Volunteer Fire Department Business, 8 p.m.

Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court in Session Housing Commission, 7 p.m.

School Board, 7:30 p.m.

General District Court in Session George Mason High School Last Day for Seniors & Graduation Citizens Advisory Committee on Transportation, 7:30 p.m.

Board of Zoning Appeals, 7:30 p.m.

Last Day of School for Grades K-11 Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-Noon Tinner Hill Festival, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Flag Day Father’s Day Second Quarter 2008 State Estimated Income Tax Due, Voucher #2 (Paid in Treasurer’s Office) Yard Waste, Bundled Brush, & Special Collections Summer Reading Program Registration Begins Summer Recreation Camps Begin City Council Work Session, 7:30 p.m.

Planning Commission, 7:45 p.m.

Dominion Virginia Power Meeting Thursday, June 5, 8 p.m.

City Hall Training Center

(Enter through the Police Department on the East Wing and take the elevator to G, the Training Center is the first door on the right).

If you were affected by last month’s power surge, you are encouraged to attend this meeting with a Dominion Virginia Power representative.

For more information, call 703-248-5004 (TTY 711).

provided as a public service by the city of falls church

Questions or Comments? City of Falls Church, Harry E.Wells Building, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church,VA 22046 703-248-5003 (TTY 711) The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act.This document will be made available in alternate format upon request. Call 703-248-5003 (TTY 711).

Falls Church City Police Department Conducts Citizen Survey June-July 2008 The Falls Church City Police Department is conducting a citizen survey this June and July to evaluate public attitudes and opinions pertaining to the level of law enforcement services provided. This is part of the Department’s ongoing commitment to provide the highest level of public safety services to the community.

The survey is available in City Hall, the Community Center and the Mary Riley Styles Public Library, and can be completed online at www. fallschurchva.gov. The survey takes only a few minutes to complete, and can be faxed to 703-248-5158 or mailed to:

Falls Church Police Department Attn: Internal Affairs 300 Park Ave. G2 Level, East Wing Falls Church, VA 22046 The results of the survey will be used to identify specific ways to improve services for residents. Contact the Falls Church City Police Department at 703-241-5053 (TTY 711) for more information.

John Foster Named City Attorney The Falls Church City Council appointed John E. Foster as City Attorney for the City of Falls Church effective June 2, 2008. Foster fills the position following the retirement of City Attorney Roy Thorpe.

As City Attorney, Foster is the legal advisor to the City Council, School Board, City Manager, City departments, and boards and commissions. Foster’s new duties will also include drafting ordinances and reviewing proposed ordinances and contracts under consideration.

He comes to the City after serving as Assistant County Attorney with Fairfax County for more than eight years. Foster brings with him extensive first-chair civil trial experience in state and federal courts. His main practice areas include local government law, code enforcement, construction law, and appellate law, among others.

Foster holds a bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Virginia and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Sign Your Child Up for Summer Fun Summer vacation officially begins next Friday for Falls Church City Public School students – it’s not too late to sign them up for a summer full of fun. The Recreation & Parks Division offers a variety of camps for youth of all ages: • Dance camps and workshops • Art and theatre camps • Science and history camps • Adventure and tennis camps

• Multi-sports camps • Soccer Camps • Horseback riding and fencing camps • And more!

The 2008 Summer Camp brochure is available at the Community Center (223 Little Falls St.) and online at www.fallschurchva.gov. Call 703-248-5077 (TTY 711) for more information.

• Major sports camps

Recreation & Parks Online Registration Coming Soon!

Register for the City’s Online Newsletter at www.fallschurchva.gov

Register to Receive Emergency Alerts

The Falls Church Recreation & Parks Division is preparing to launch WebTrac, an online registration system, by this summer. Any household that has signed up for an activity with Recreation & Parks since Jan. 1, 2006, will have an active account in the database. In order to utilize the online system, all households will need to update current household information to include a valid e-mail address and listed birthdates for family members. Please call 703-248-5077 (TTY 711) or visit the Community Center (223 Little Falls St.) to update your information or create an account.

FOR THE WEEK of

Classes and Events Special Events

Tinner Hill Blues Festival Saturday, June 14, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave.) The Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation and the City of Falls Church present the 15th Annual Tinner Hill Blues Festival with free live blues performances and children’s activities all day. Visit www.fallschurchva.gov or www.tinnerhill.net for a complete lineup of events.

Concerts in the Park Thursdays, June 19-Aug. 7, 7 p.m.

Cherry Hill Park, 312 Park Ave. Enjoy the best of summer with free musical entertainment sponsored by the City of Falls Church Recreation & Parks Division and the Village Preservation and Improvement Society. Each concert also features local artists and their artwork, sponsored by the Falls Church Arts Council. Visit www.fallschurchva.gov for a complete lineup.

Cherry Hill Farmhouse Events

Architectural Walking Tour Saturday, June 7, 10 a.m.

Meet at Cherry Hill Farmhouse, 312 Park Ave. View some of Falls Church’s most picturesque 19th century homes and learn about different architectural styles. The walking tour will be cancelled in the event of rain. $5 fee. Call 703-248-5171 (TTY 711) for reservations.

City of Falls Church Farmers Market Every Saturday from 8 a.m. - Noon

Lavender Wand Workshop (Ages 8– adult) Saturday, June 21, 10 a.m.

Cherry Hill Farmhouse, 312 Park Ave. Use fresh lavender from our garden and learn how to make a lavender wand by weaving colorful ribbons around the caged flowers.This sachet will stay fragrant for years. $5 fee. Call 703-248-5171 (TTY 711) for reservations.

Classes Paid registration required. All classes meet at the Community Center (223 Little Falls St.) unless otherwise indicated. Call 703-248-5077 (TTY 711) for fees and more information.

Art in Hands (Ages 3-5) Body Toning (Ages 18 and up) Cross-Train Total Fitness (Ages 18-55) Dog Obedience - Level 1 (Ages of dogs: 4 months and up; ages of humans: 9 years old and up) Advanced Dog Obedience (Ages of dogs: 6 months and up; ages of humans: 9 years and up) Karate (Ages 9 and up) Kick Boxing (Ages 14 and up) Mini Doodlers (Ages 3-6) Noon Workout (Ages 14 and up) Pilates With Props (Ages 18 and older) Preschool Cheer and Tumble (Ages 3-5) Qigong: Opening the Energy Gates (Ages 18 and up) Small Group Strength Training (Ages 16 and up) Senior Wellness Training (Ages 18 and up) Twoosy Doodlers (Ages 20 months-3) Wu Style Tai Chi (Ages18 and up) Yoga for Fitness (Ages 18 and older)

Progressive Tea Party Steps Back in Time

On Saturday, June 14, from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. the Victorian Society at Falls Church and the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities will hold a Progressive Garden Party Tea fundraiser at three of Falls Church City’s Victorian house gardens. Different tea delicacies will be served at each garden. At the Beach house, guests will sample cold fruit soup, tea sandwiches, and iced tea/lemonade; at the DePutron house, three varieties of scones along with iced tea/fruit punch will be served; and at Mt. Hope, guests will enjoy a variety of desserts, iced tea, and champagne.

Cost is $35 per person. Proceeds will go towards a Falls Church Historic Trail marker at a Victorian site within the City. For more information, contact Midge Wang at 703-534-8394.

A Most Excellent Kokolopori Adventure

Come see what life is like in Falls Church’s Sister City of Kokolopori in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Falls Church City resident Ingrid Schulze will share a free photo and video presentation on her recent trip to Kokolopori on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 7 p.m. in the Mary Riley Styles Public Library conference room (120 N. Virginia Ave.).

You will get a sense of the place, its people, and their customs.

Schulze will also share some of the accomplishments that Falls Church and Kokolopori have achieved since the Sister City partnership began in February 2006 and show some special items from Kokolopori.

To learn more about the Kokolopori-Falls Church Partnership, visit www.kokolopori-partnership.org.

Free Foreclosure Prevention Training The Virginia Housing Development Authority is offering free mortgage clinics on Saturday, June 21 to help those who are at-risk of, or are in foreclosure.

Learn how to prevent a foreclosure or how to get through one and recover. The clinics will be held at Chantilly High School and the Northern Virginia Community College Woodbridge Campus. Attendance is limited. Reserve your seat by registering online at www.VirginiaForeclosurePrevention.com.

Falls Church Recreation & Parks Division 223 Little Falls Street Falls Church, VA 22046 703-248-5077* Phone Numbers Open Gym/Weather Hotline 703-248-5125* Special Events Hotline 703-248-5178* Fax 703-536-5125 Senior Center 703-248-5020*/21* Community Center Hours Monday-Thursday 8 a.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Friday 8 a.m. - Midnight Saturday 8:30 a.m. - Midnight Sunday Noon - 6 p.m.

Open Gym Hours Open Gym hours are updated on a bi-weekly basis and are also posted on the Open Gym Hotline, 703-248-5125*. All hours are subject to change. * Indicates TTY 711 Accessibility

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Chairman: Craig Cheney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vice Chairman: Ronald Peppe II . . . . . . . . . .

School Board Rosaura Aguerrebere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kathryn Chandler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Susan Kearney. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kieran Sharpe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Joan Wodiska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Superintendent: Dr. Lois Berlin . . . . . . . . . . .

government and the falls church city public schools

june 5-11, 2008

For more news about the Falls Church City Public Schools visit: www.fccps.org

GMHS Myanmar Benefit Saturday

Falls Church City residents face a Friday night, June 6th deadline to complete the 2008 Triennial School Census. At stake are thousands of dollars in school funding collected through Virginia state sales tax revenue.

The George Mason High School community has always supported relief efforts for natural disasters in the world. And this weekend, it will do so again in support of the hundreds of thousands left homeless by the recent Myanmar cyclone.

Completing the census takes less than 5 minutes and can be done in the following ways: • Online at www.fccps.org/census, or • Call the FCCPS at 703-248-5600.

• Mailing or faxing the Census Form included in last week’s residential delivery editions of the Falls Church News Press to: Falls Church City Public Schools

Fax: 703-248-5613 An accurate count of school-age children is expected to generate nearly $3,000 per child. Even if residents don’t have children, it is important that they respond to the census to ensure a complete count that includes all households.

The commonwealth returns 1.125 percent of the revenue collected through the five percent state sales and use tax to localities to support public education, which is approximately $1.1 billion for the current fiscal year. The money may be used by school divisions for operations, maintenance, capital projects and debt service.

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Summer Day Care Registration Opens Falls Church City Public Schools is accepting registration for summer day care and the middle school summer activities program. The programs will be offered from June 16th through August 22nd from 7:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. each day.

Children entering the 1st through 8th grades are eligible to attend. An exciting summer is planned with special guests, fabulous field trips, swimming, a daily literacy program, arts and crafts, music and much, much more.

Registration forms are available at www.fccps.org/asap. The program is open to all community children. Those who do not attend Falls Church City Public Schools must submit a copy of immunization records and an original birth certificate with their day care registration.

Space is limited, so register soon to ensure your children’s enrollment in the summer day care program!

FCC-TV Spotlight: Rich & Friends Rich Massabny interviews community movers and shakers, interesting personalities in the entertainment field and top area chefs. Rich shares his 20+ years experience as a noted theatre, arts and restaurant reviewer. Rich & Friends airs on FCC-TV at the following times:

Students are organizing a yard sale this Saturday, June 7th from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. in the high school’s Haycock Road parking lot.

“Throughout the last four years, we have raised more than $60,000 in relief funds for both the victims of the 2005 tsunami in South Asia and the victims of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans,” said GMHS senior Will Douthitt, an organizer of the George Mason Myanmar relief effort. “We feel the crisis in Myanmar deserves no less of our

efforts and attention. Our goal is to raise a total of $10,000 to help the victims of cyclone Nargis.”

All proceeds will go to the international non-profit aid organization “Save the Children.” Myanmar is ruled by a strict xenophobic military junta that has responded slowly to the crisis and has not permitted any significant level of foreign aid to enter the country. However, “Save the Children” is fortunate enough to be one of the few aid organizations currently permitted to work in Myanmar.

Donations and corporate contributions are also being accepted.

For information contact Suzanne Planas at (703) 248-3039 or email her at planass@fccps.org.

School content published in The Weekly Focus is written and edited by the Falls Church City Public Schools. For more information, contact the Falls Church City Public Schools Communications Office. Phone: (703) 248-5699 Fax: (703) 248-5613.

now-6/6 AP & IB Testing (GM) 6/6

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June 5 7:00 p.m. Spring Band & Jazz Concert (MEH) 7

9:00 a.m. Community Yard Sale – Myanmar Relief (GM)

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3:00 p.m. Senior Baccalaureate (GM)

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7:30 p.m. 5th Grade Band & String Ensemble Concert (MEH) 7:30 p.m. Gifted and Talented Advisory Committee (GM)

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6:30 p.m. School Board Work Session (City Hall) 7:30 p.m. School Board Regular Meeting (City Hall) 7:00 p.m. GMHS Graduation (DAR Constitution Hall)

Utilizing the financial attractions of yard sales, sports pools and auctions, the Falls Church Public Schools community of teams is adding more than half of the city’s total contribution of over $80,000 to the American Cancer Society in advance of last weekend’s annual Relay for Life.

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5:00 p.m. 7th Grade Moving Up Program (MEH)

Despite the threat of rain Saturday night and overnight into Sunday, 40 teams – 450 individuals – gave up a portion of their weekend to celebrate survivorship and raise money for cancer research and programs.

Through its various fund raising activities from January through May, FCCPS teams raised more than $46,000, led by the “Hippo Hopefuls” made up of staff members from Mount Daniel School who raised more than $5,800.

The event began Saturday at 6 p.m. at Moore Cadillac Field at George Mason High School. For 13 consecutive hours, participants took turns walking or running laps with each team trying to keep at least one of its members on the track.

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School involvement: Helped raised more than $1,500 for PTA and Falls Church Education Foundation events by donating watercolor portraits of homes, pets and people for raffle prizes and silent auction items.

Why Bill is a BIE partner: “Living, working and raising a family in Falls Church, I have a strong commitment to this community. As a Falls Church City school crossing guard, I see the kids every day and feel fortunate to live in a town that places such a high emphasis on the quality of their education. While following my heart as a painter, I’m so glad I found a way to donate my talents for the benefit of our fine schools.”

View Bill’s artwork: Eighteen paintings currently on display at the University of Virginia’s School of Continuing Education & Professional Studies, Northern Virginia Center on Haycock Road. Also visit Bill’s website: www.WhereArtHappens.com For more information about sharing your expertise through the BIE Partnership, visit www.fccps.org or contact Marybeth Connelly at connellym@fccps.org.

SCHOOL CALENDAR

FCCPS Raises 46K for Relay for Life

• Wednesdays at 1:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m. • Saturdays at 5:00 p.m. • Sundays at 10:00 a.m.

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Moore Cadillac Field was transformed into a tent city last weekend for the annual Relay for Life to benefit the American Cancer Society.

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7:30 p.m. GMHS Band Booster Meeting (GM)

(MD) Mt. Daniel Elementary (TJ) Thomas Jefferson Elementary (MEH) Mary Ellen Henderson Middle (GM) George Mason High Check the FCCPS Web site for more calendar information. www.fccps.org

Summer School Dates Announced

Mark your calendar! The Falls Church City Public Schools summer sessions have been scheduled for the following dates and times: Mount Daniel School • July 7 - July 31 (M-TH); 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon Thomas jefferson Elementary School • July 7 - August 1 (M-F); 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Mary Ellen henderson Middle School • July 7 - August 1 (M-F); 7:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. george Mason high School • July 7 - July 25 (M-F); 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Virginia Day at Tj There is nothing quite as exciting as placing your head and arms through the holes of a stockade (right) or “Ye Olde Gaol” as Virginians used to call it. Or at least one would think so from the long lines of 3rd graders who wanted to try it out during last week’s Virginia Day at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. The annual event features 4th grade classes donning historical attire and setting up booths showcasing various aspects of Virginia life during the early 1800’s.

Skills such as quilt making, (above) ship building, blacksmithing and leatherworking were also on display during the event.

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‘Food Drive Maintains Momentum Around City’ “Donations of food are continuing to pour into designated sites around the City of Falls Church as the Greater City of Falls Church Chamber of Commerce and News-Press co-sponsored food drive entered its second week.”

“After an initial strong outpouring of support from citizens at the Memorial Day Parade...”

Bob Herbert Continued from Page 10

Obama campaign, and it hasn’t fully recovered yet.

I made a crack in a column last week that Clinton, who had no discernible route to her party’s nomination, was waiting for a Wright on steroids to burst into view.

Within days, we had the astounding video of the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a Catholic priest who put on a grotesque performance in the church that could hardly have been more racially offensive toward white people or more personally offensive toward Clinton.

His rant, cheered by the audience, was one of the worst I’ve seen in many years. Obama announced on Saturday that he had quit the church.

This was supposed to have been the Democrats’ year. But instead of marching to victory, the party has been at war with itself in some of the ugliest ways imaginable. There was a time, not that long ago, when Democratic voters were crowing about how

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‘Snyder Wants Mabry Vice-Mayor’ “Falls Church Vice-Mayor David Snyder, re-elected last month with the highest vote total of all candidates and shoe-in to be named the City’s new mayor next month, tipped his hand in support of fellow Councilman Sam Mabry to be named Vice-Mayor in comments to fellow Council members this week. Snyder confirmed his support for Mabry in comments to the NewsPress late yesterday.”

happy they were with all (or almost all) of the potential nominees.

But the Clinton and Obama partisans spent months fighting bitterly on the toxic terrain of misogyny, racism and religion. It can only make you wonder about the vaunted Democratic claims of moral superiority when it comes to tolerance.

This should have been the year when the Democrats just hammered the Republicans over the economy, the war, energy policy, health care, appointments to the Supreme Court, the failure to rebuild New Orleans, and so on.

The list of important issues on which the Republicans are vulnerable is endless.

Instead of running for cover, the GOP is growing ever more confident that it will be tossing inaugural balls for John and Cindy McCain come January.

There is no end of blame to be apportioned among the Democrats.

The Clintons have behaved execrably. But weak-willed party leaders showed neither the courage nor the inclination to stop them from fracturing the party along gender and ethnic lines.

As for Obama, he’s been mired

in a series of problems of his own -- problems that have done serious damage to the very idea that brought him to national prominence in the first place: that he was a new breed of political leader, a unifying candidate who could begin to narrow the partisan divides of race, class and even, to some extent, political persuasion.

Can the Democrats still get their act together?

Only if they hurry. The party will have to exhibit extraordinary unity, coming together quickly to heal the wounds of this long and bitter primary. Obama will have to develop (again, quickly) an exceptionally compelling economic program while trying to strengthen his appeal across ethnic and class lines.

The Democrats have done far more damage to themselves than the GOP could ever have inflicted.

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