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Three variance requests by Don Beyer Motors needed to construct a new motor vehicle showroom at 1119 and 1121 W. Broad were approved last week. SEE NEWS BRIEFS, PAGE 9
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Anti-semitic flyers from a branch of the Ku Klux Klan were found on the property of multiple residences along Marshall St. in the Fairfax County section of Falls Church earlier this week.
Trade War Worries Compel Project Developers to Buy Materials Early
F.C. Council Ratifies New School Contract In Unanimous Vote
BY NICHOLAS F. BENTON
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SEE STORY, PAGE 11
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The verdict on the most galling week of an outrageous presidency is in, and it shouldn’t come as the shock that it does: Republicans forgive Donald Trump his surrender to Vladimir Putin, his siding with Russia over the United States, his puppy-dog performance in Helsinki — all of it. SEE PAGE 16
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CHET DELONG, vice chair of the Mary Riley Styles Board of Trustees, presented his board’s decision to save time and money by closing the library during its renovation and expansion to the F.C. City Council this Monday. (P����: N���-P����)
Library Board OKs Closing Facility During Construction
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The Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s board of trustees voted at its meeting last week to opt for a money and time-saving option to close the library during its renovation and expansion next year, except for certain functions that will be temporarily relocated. In the F.C. City Council’s vote Monday night to go ahead with the project, two critical design issues favored by the library board remained and were the subject of a robust discussion that led one Council member to vote “No.”
The issues remain unresolved for the time being, with Council members split on their personal preferences on the two matters Monday. The issues debated were the alternative options for the location of the front entrance to the new library, on the one hand, and whether the children’s programs should be centered on the main floor, or a lower level of the new structure. Council member Letty Hardi, with three children in the City schools, was an impassioned advocate for keeping the children’s programs on the main level, and the non-binding consensus of her colleagues, along
with the recommended preference of the library board, to pursue the other choice apparently prompted her “No” vote when the roll call occurred at the end of the discussion, although she made no specific comment on her vote. There are three community information sessions that have been scheduled for next Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 1 and 2, in the library conference room (Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. and Thursday at 9:30 a.m.) at 120 N. Virginia Ave., and Saturday, Aug. 4, at the Farmer’s Market at 9:30 a.m.
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With leaders of the City of Falls Church placing heavy expectations on the realization of major economic development projects in the coming years, the impact on them by possible trade wars being kicked off by President Trump has many of them quietly worried. It has not yet risen to the level of a major concern, except that the Gilbane Building Company, chosen this month to build the new George Mason High School it wants to start by next summer, indicated to the F.C. City Council Monday that it will begin to stockpile the materials needed for the project this fall. That may be a wise approach in any case, but now the impact of a trade war on cost and availability of timber, steel and other basic building blocks of construction is increasingly looming in people’s minds. In the case of Gilbane, it has until early next year to lock in a “guaranteed maximum price” for the high school project, and that price includes, of course, the cost of materials. It’s not only the school project, but there’s also the matter of the l0-acre economic development component of that project, the 4.3acre Founder’s Row mixed-use project by Mill Creek that is due for a groundbreaking (assuming it gets Council approval for its recent modification requests), the 2.8-acre Broad and Washington mixed-use project, the envisioned development of assembled Beyer Automotive properties on W. Broad, and WMATA’s plans for
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY, FOR REVISION OF RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER GV, GREENVILLE COUNTY POWER STATION CASE NO. PUR-2018-00084
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•Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion”) has applied for approval to revise its rate adjustment clause, Rider GV. •Dominion requests a total revenue requirement of $121.362 million for its 2019 Rider GV. •A Hearing Examiner appointed by the Commission will hear the case on January 9, 2019, at 10 a.m. •Further information about this case is available on the State Corporation Commission’s website at: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. On June 1, 2018, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”), filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an annual update of the Company’s rate adjustment clause, Rider GV (“Application”). Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with the Greenville County Power Station (“Greenville County Project” or “Project”), a 1,588 megawatt nominal natural gas-fired combined-cycle electric generating facility and associated transmission interconnection facilities located in Greenville County, Virginia. In 2016, the Commission approved Dominion’s construction and operation of the Greenville County Project and also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider GV, for Dominion to recover costs associated with the Project. The Company expects the Greenville County Project to begin commercial operations by December 2018. In this proceeding, Dominion has asked the Commission to approve Rider GV for the rate year beginning April 1, 2019, and ending March 31, 2020 (“2019 Rate Year”). The three components of the proposed total revenue requirement for the 2019 Rate Year are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor, Allowance for Funds Used During Construction (“AFUDC”) Cost Recovery Factor, and the Actual Cost True-Up Factor. The Company is requesting a Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $113,280,000, an AFUDC Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $0, and an Actual Cost True-Up Factor revenue requirement of $8,082,000. Thus, the Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $121,362,000 for service rendered during the 2019 Rate Year. For purposes of calculating the Projected Cost Recovery Factor in this case, Dominion utilized a rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 9.2%, which was approved by the Commission in its Final Order in Case No. PUR-2017-00038. For purposes of calculating the Actual Cost True-Up Factor, the Company utilized an ROE of 9.6% for the months of January 2017 through March 2017, as approved by the Commission in its CPCN Order; an ROE of 9.4% for the period of April 1, 2017 through November 28, 2017, as approved by the Commission in its Order in Case No. PUE-2016-00060; and an ROE of 9.2% for the November 29, 2017 through December 31, 2017 period, as approved by the Commission in its 2017 ROE Order. If the proposed Rider GV for the 2019 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion, implementation of its proposed Rider GV on April 1, 2019, would increase the bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.90. The Company proposes a change in the methodology for the calculation of a certain allocation factor beginning in 2018 to recognize the output of certain non-utility generators to be used to allocate cost responsibility to the Virginia jurisdiction. In addition, with the exception of the removal of certain Federal and retail choice customers from the Virginia Jurisdiction, the Company indicates it has calculated the proposed Rider GV rates in accordance with the same methodology as used for rates approved by the Commission in the most recent Rider GV Update. Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for the details of these and other proposals. TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may apportion revenues among customer classes and/or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Application and supporting documents and thus may adopt rates that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Application and supporting documents. The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on January 9, 2019, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff. The public version of the Company’s Application, as well as the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, are available for public inspection during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies also may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Lisa S. Booth, Esquire, Dominion Energy Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means. Copies of the public version of the Application and other documents filed in this case also are available for interested persons to review in the Commission’s Document Control Center located on the first floor of the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, between the hours of 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. On or before January 2, 2019, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application shall file written comments on the Application with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before January 2, 2019, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00084. On or before October 5, 2018, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. Any organization, corporation, or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by Rule 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00084. On or before November 2, 2018, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission, and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. In all filings, respondents shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00084. All documents filed with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice. The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding may be obtained from the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. 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the dense mixed-use development at the West Falls Church Metro station which may get integrated with the City’s 10-acre site. The economic feasibility of all of them is a function of expectations concerning the price of raw materials, which could be disrupted mightily by a worsening international trade war. (U.S. news organizations are already mobilized against the impact of such developments on the cost of newsprint imported from Canada.) This Monday, following the announcement last week by the F.C. School Board of its selection of the design-build team of Gilbane Building with Stantec and Quinn Evans Architects — and an uproariously favorable public response to the team’s virtual tour of its preliminary design for the new school — the F.C. City Council, which controls the purse strings for the project, followed on with its own unanimous approval. The comprehensive agreement between the School Board and Gilbane was signed following the School Board vote on July 17,
and the Council approved it this week. The agreement stipulates the terms for the establishment of a “guaranteed maximum price” not to exceed $108 million for the project that will be established once the design documents have been completed and approved in the December 2018-February 2019 period. Compensation for Gilbane will be limited to $6.5 million until construction actually begins next summer. The Gilbane plans include an “acceleration” component that allows for the potential completion of the project by the December 2020-January 2021 time frame, six months prior to what the Schools requested. “Everybody thinks faster is better,” City Manager Wyatt Shields quipped. The accelerated schedule, according to Gilbane’s Jennifer Macks, the senior project executive present at Monday’s Council meeting to present the “virtual tour” there, will be made possible by her company’s experience and mastery of the construction process related this kind of project. The agreement includes Gilbane’s commitment to the
demolition of the old high school once its new one is ready. Some elements still to be determined, including provision for a middle school playground, will be addressed in the coming months. Macks told the Council that consideration has been given to future expansion needs of the facility beyond the 1,500 student capacity being planned for now. They would involve bump-outs of existing buildings, and not vertical expansion. F.C. Vice Mayor Marybeth Connelly, whose professional role with the City Schools has heightened her interest in this matter, was ecstatic in her comments just prior to the unanimous vote on Monday. She hailed the City’s “contract nerds” who worked out the details of the agreements, and noted the night’s vote followed by almost exactly one year the vote taken by the Council last summer to place the school bond referendum on the November 2017 ballot. Working the school and economic development components of the project in tandem has been “like closing up a zipper,” she said, involving a close degree of
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JENNIFER MACKS, senior project executive of Gilbane Building Company, chosen by the F.C. School Board to construct the new George Mason High School, narrated a “virtual tour” of the preliminary design for the project to the F.C. City Council Monday night. (P����: N���-P����) coordination and collaboration like both sides of a zipper aligning perfectly to make it function. “We still have a lot ahead of us,” Mayor David Tarter said. “But this is a beautiful design.” There will be three events to which the public has been invited in which elements of the school design will be engaged. The first is the Sunday, Aug. 5, town hall
at the Community Center, and there will be others on Sept. 6 and Sept. 23. There are subcommittees being set up to offer more feedback in the area of athletics, community use, fine and performing arts, parking and transportation, sustainability and environmental considerations. The public is invited to volunteer to participate on these subcommittees.
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Construction is due to begin in September 2019 and be completed by September 2021. The library board’s vice chair Chet DeLong spoke to the Council earlier in the meeting saying the board’s preference for placing the children’s programs on the lower level was endorsed by F.C. Police Chief Mary Gavin, who spoke to the board at its meeting last week and cited the greater safety and control benefits of having the children on the lower level. Gavin said that security would be better in the event of both natural and man-made crises. There would also be a significant increase in the space available (an increase of 300 percent) for the programs at the lower level. On the second issue, concerning the location of the public entrance to the new facility, the library board indicated its preference for placing the entrance at the corner of N. Virginia and Park Avenue, where access would be equally available from three sides. However, the concern by some on the Council was that there is a Dominion Power pole located nearer that entrance, which could complicate the public’s comings
and goings, and also complicate those not heading to the library, but down Virginia Avenue to businesses on W. Broad a block away. Also, the library board recommendation would move the Local History Room up from its current lower level to “become a prominent feature of the library” on the main floor. The specific issue Monday night was the Council’s vote to allocate $195,000 for “construction management at risk preconstruction services” awarded to Centennial Contractors Enterprises, Inc., which triggers specific design efforts. The total allocated by a public referendum approved by Falls Church voters in 2016 was for $8.7 million but project estimates came in way higher than the referendum amount earlier this year. Centennial was among the bidders who offered a significant reduction in the cost and time if the library was closed during construction. The library board agreed to the idea, and will look to relocate some vital services to 400 N. Washington St. which is the current temporary location for City Hall, whose renovation is currently underway. The selection of Centennial from among four pre-qualified bidders was made by a team of Jennifer
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A POSSIBLE LAYOUT of the two levels of the new Mary Riley Styles Libary. (Photo: City of Falls Church) Carroll, the library director, Michael Whitfield, the director of the City’s Department of Public Works, Kimberly Callahan, the City’s Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) manager, and consultants Akida Rouzi and Mark Manetti. Callahan and Carroll answered most of the questions from the Council, along with City Manager Wyatt Shields. Centennial’s work in the first phase begins with a kick-off meeting with the BKV Group design team and will involve cost stud-
ies, the establishment of construction schedules, staging and logistics planning, design reviews and progress meetings, resulting in “guaranteed maximum price” (GMP) documents prior to a final Council approval and the kicking off the construction work. All the variances required to construct the project, including those pertaining to impervious area coverage and front yard setbacks, will be prepared by the City staff for approval by the Council. Among other things, they call for
a bump-out onto Park Avenue of the sidewalk at the corner of N. Virginia and Park that will make it easier to cross the street to the library from Cherry Hill Park. It was stated Monday that Dominion Power will be contacted about moving the power pole further away from the new entrance at the Park/N. Virginia corner. The undergrounding of the power lines there would be prohibitively expensive, although the City is exploring a longer-term option of undergrounding the power lines along Park Avenue.
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A devastating hit to arguably the most important institution in a democracy — the exercise of a free press — occured this week with the decision by the new owners of the New York Daily News to slash 50 percent of the newsroom staff of the 99-year-old newspaper. This one was done by the paper’s new owners, something called Tronc, a news conglomerate based in Chicago operating on the ashes of the old Chicago Tribune, whose ownership includes the Baltimore Sun group which includes the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. As a publicly-traded company, Tronc is clearly concerned about one thing, its bottom line, news be damned. Under such pressure, Tronc sold the Los Angeles Times to one of its shareholders and otherwise has operated like the New York hedge fund that is decimating the Denver Post. These are the main remaining newspapers of some of the biggest cities in America. So, it is not only Donald Trump — although he’s using his bully pulpit to do as much as he can to cause news organizations like CNN, NBC, The Washington Post and New York Times to also disappear. What’s killing the news in America is not the Internet, just as it wasn’t the onset or radio and television, deemed an equal threat to a free press more than half a century ago. It’s the subordination of the news, of the public’s right to know, to the almighty dollar, and a particularly craven and hostilely indifferent crowd that now is setting the tone for Wall Street in America in recent years that has insisted that there is nothing wrong with stomping all over all their assets, including newspapers, to bleed them to meet their profit margin goals. It is not surprising that most of these cynics and nihilists also support Trump, and even glory in how he’s tearing the decorum of the presidency to shreds. It goes with his stampeding deregulation mania such that they are even willing to give him some leash while trying to temper his boundless trade war obsessions. Yes, the personality of Trump conforms perfectly with what Wall Street is doing to the democratic institution of the free press. Who needs news? Why not settle for binging on episodes of “South Park” or “Family Guy?” Why not accept Trump’s relentless gaslighting campaign to redefine truth to be what he, and not the media, says it is, even when people can see and hear with their own eyes and ears that he’s a chronic and habitual liar. There’s a method to this madness, and it is madness, but so far the American media has been unwilling to take this head-on in a meaningful or effective way. Nothing, except the hope for a true uprising led by the nation’s women and its youth, seems effective or working.
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a party-line vote, I presented it to VDOT and we are now working on an administrative solution. My biggest accomplishment for the people of the 13th District this year came from voting in favor of Medicaid expansion, which will make quality, affordable health insurance accessible for 3,800 of my uninsured constituents who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. That same vote also authorized a 3 percent pay raise for teachers throughout the commonwealth and a 2 percent pay raise for state employees while providing more money for mental health services, opioid addiction prevention and treatment and coverage for autism-related health
care for people aged 2-18 who have a state health insurance plan. I was also proud to be the chief co-patron for Del. Patrick Hope’s HB 50 that will prevent school officials for shaming students who carry school lunch debts, and I copatroned Del. Karrie Delaney’s HB 1419, which will allow localities to count recess as instructional time for elementary school students so they can have more than 15-20 minutes of recess time that we often see. I’ve now been in office for a little less than six and a half months and I’m proud to see us make progress on the top three issues I campaigned on last year. Del. Danica Roem (D-13th) Manassas
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Last week, plans for the new George Mason High School were a big focus of attention in our local news media. Key members of the winning team of Gilbane Stantec and Quinn Evans presented an overview of their proposal to the school board that included a five-story building with a modern and flexible design, an inviting interface with the commercial site and a creative offer to accelerate the scheduled delivery date. These features all contributed to a sense of solid optimism and enthusiasm for what the new high school building can be. Another very important part of Gilbane’s proposal should add to the excitement. These are the design elements that will make the building a model of sustainability for the City, and meaningfully add to students’ well being and their academic program. The Gilbane team has committed to produce a building that will achieve LEED Gold certification, utilize geothermal heating and cooling technology, and incorporate net-zero ready design elements that will minimize energy needs and set up the opportunity for the building to produce all the energy it needs from an on-site solar energy system. LEED Gold certification will guide the selection of building materials to maximize air quality inside classrooms and other interior spaces. The LEED program will also encour-
age a very high level of energy efficiency and reduced water consumption, and nudge us in the direction of adding a solar photovoltaic system to generate renewable energy. Geothermal heating and cooling is becoming a standard feature in new school
“These are the design elements that will make the building a model of sustainability for the City.” buildings both because it performs better than alternative approaches (it is quieter and requires less maintenance) and because it will reduce energy use. A study performed for us by Oak Ridge National Labs set the stage for our specifying use of a geothermal heating and cooling system. A net-zero ready design is rich with benefits. It stretches the engineering skills of the development team to design a building with a very high level of energy efficiency (valuable on its own). Lots of insulation and careful selection of window glazing has to be included in building designs. Gilbane has proposed to achieve an Energy Use Intensity (a method of measuring how much
energy a building is expected to use) of 22, which would make GMHS one of the most efficient school buildings in Virginia. The higher the level of energy efficiency, the smaller the on-site renewable energy system needed to achieve net-zero. Even still, to get to net zero will require a 1.4 Megawatt solar photovoltaic system. This is big. Fortunately, schools in Virginia have available to them a method of financing solar systems called a Power Purchase Agreement, which allows someone else (usually the solar contractor) to put their system on the roof, and sell the electricity to the school on a monthly basis. This makes paying for solar energy look like any other utility bill, and avoids having to buy the system with scarce capital dollars (think of it like renting an apartment rather than buying a condo). As exciting as these plans are, planning for sustainability is not finished and needs community input. Alongside energy use and building quality are the very important issues of tree canopy (and optimal use of open space) and stormwater. Gilbane has identified interesting possibilities for vegetation, including planting native trees throughout the campus. Keeping stormwater onsite is important so that runoff does not carry pollutants into waterways, including the Chesapeake Bay. Residents of the City will have a chance to share their thoughts on designs for sustainability (and other issues), as the school
administration has scheduled a series of meetings over the next several months with members of the Gilbane team. Task groups will be formed to solicit community input on a number of issues, including Sustainability/Environment. Sign-up is on the school’s web site. Local governments, including the school board, have the ability to plan for the long term. Committing resources up front to achieve strong sustainability goals will yield considerable benefits to many stakeholders in the City, including taxpayers, over time. The high school is primarily about the students – preparing them for lives ahead. Increasingly, that future will include coping with the challenges of a changing climate. Providing them a highly sustainable building is an important way to prepare them, along with the highly acclaimed academic and other programs of this school system, for the many challenges they will face in years to come. I encourage the school administration, the school board, city council and the public at large, to continue to include the long-term benefits of a highly sustainable building and campus as plans for the high school proceed. Tim Stevens is a member of the Falls Church Planning Commission and a member of the George Mason High School downselect committee.
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NEWS BRIEFS Beyer Automotive Wins 3 BZA Variances Three variance requests by Don Beyer Motors, Inc., needed to construct a new twostory building as a motor vehicle showroom on Beyer property at 1119 and 1121 W. Broad were approved by the Falls Church Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) last week. One allowed for the building to be located within 208 feet instead of 300 feet from the R district, one allows a front-yard setback of 20 instead of 25 feet, and one permits the use of the premises for motor vehicle sales. Beyer attorney Andrew Painter said it was the first time variance for a car use had been permitted in the City in many years. Mike Beyer said it is to set in motion a process for the comprehensive development of the assembled Beyer site.
Miller House Groundbreaking Draws Big Crowd The groundbreaking ceremony for the Miller House, completing a lengthy process of securing the site for use as a group home for five adults with intellectual disabilities, was held last Friday morning. With the backing of the City of Falls Church, the house will provide affordable and supportive housing and will be completed next year. Community Residences Inc., the developer and operator of the house, was present for the (Photo: Cindy Mester) ribbon cutting that included a strong contingent of City officials, and the Gruver Cooley Custom Home Builders, who have the contract for the renovation.
Fairfax NAACP Hailed for Work on School Name Change The Fairfax County NAACP has been named the top branch in the country by the NAACP national organization. The chapter was scheduled to receive the Thalheimer Award, given annually to the chapter with the most outstanding achievements, at this week’s NAACP’s Annual Convention in San Antonio, Texas. Kofi Annan, president of the Fairfax branch, announced the award last week. In applying for the award, the chapter cited the successful two-year “Change the Name” campaign that convinced the Fairfax County School Board to change the name of J.E.B. Stuart High School, named for a pro-slavery Confederate general. In July 2017, the school board voted that the name of J.E.B. Stuart had to go and later in the year support coalesced around the name Justice High School. The school is being revamped this summer and will officially open with its new name next month. In addition, the branch was cited for its public forums on immigration, discriminatory hiring practices in Fairfax County Public Schools, criminal justice reform initiatives, the School to Prison pipeline issue, and a candidate forum for state elections.
Bay-Friendly Mosquito Control: A Homeowner’s Guide to a Healthy Watershed Mosquitoes are a nuisance and carry and spread nasty diseases. Insecticide spray isn’t effective for mosquito control because it kills the adults, but not the eggs and larvae. Insecticides can also run off your yard and contaminate streams, rivers, and eventually the Chesapeake Bay. Luckily, there are effective alternatives that are less risky for you and the environment. 1. TIP AND TOSS standing water where the eggs can hatch and develop into larvae: fix gutters and downpipes that don’t drain well, regrade or fill the yard where puddles form, and turn over garden equipment and toys.
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U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock today announced the second annual 10th Congressional District Veterans Jobs Fair that will take place on August 24. The fair will host representatives of federal and state agencies, businesses, local Chambers of Commerce, and veterans organizations seeking to employ or assist military personnel when they transition to civilian jobs. “Today is National Hire a Veteran Day, and our servicemen and women of the armed forces have made great sacrifices in service to our nation. They have unique talents that they can now put to use in civilian jobs,” Comstock said. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Loudoun County Public School Administration Building, 21000 Education Court, Ashburn, Virginia.
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remove. The bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis is not harmful to 3. HANG BIRD FEEDERS so birds can enjoy one of their favorite foods: adult mosquitoes! 4. USE OUTDOOR FANS to keep cool and keep the bugs away. 5. IF ALL ELSE FAILS, A PERMETHRIN SPRAY WILL KILL ADULT MOSQUITOES. Consider the risks and benefits, and always follow the directions on the product label. A barrier spray at the edge of your property is most effective. Avoid flowers, herbs, and vegetables and do not apply it near
Megan Beyer Appointed by Gov. Northam Megan Beyer, spouse of U.S. Rep. Donald Beyer Jr., has been appointed to the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam this week. She had service as executive director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities under President Obama.
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A 12-FOOT-TALL metal man sits outside of Dixie Sheet Metal. The tin man was made 56 years ago by an employee of the company for a Memorial Day parade, but it is now one of the City’s landmarks. (P����: N���-P����)
Falls Church’s 12-Foot Tin Man, ‘Mr. Dixie,’ Turns 56 Years Old BY ADAM ROSENFELD
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Off the hustle and bustle of Route 7, a 12-foot-tall, 56-yearold man made of scrap metal stands out front of Dixie Sheet Metal on Gordon Road. Sculpted in 1962 by an employee at the shop, the Tin Man, better known by his nickname “Mr. Dixie,” was originally made for the Falls Church Memorial Day Parade as an advertisement for the company. “It used to be on wheels,” former owner Paul Puckett said. “They would pull it behind a pickup truck down the parade route. It didn’t cost any money because they just had to pay the young guy that worked here.” Made from pieces of sheet metal, parts of air-conditioning units and a wind turbine ventilator, the sculpture was loosely based on the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz. For 30 years Mr. Dixie would sit on top of Hazleton Laboratories, the building that would later become the Kia deal-
ership situated there today. The Tin Man pointed his arm down the block toward the shop as if to encourage residents to visit. Eventually the monument was moved to directly in front of the shop to appease the tenants of the laboratory. The wind turbine ventilator head, which spins in the wind, would make noise and aggravate the animals that they were experimenting on in their laboratory. “Sometimes the head would squeak and those animals would hear it,” Puckett said. “So the guy in charge named Dr. Hazleton knew the owner of Dixie Sheet Metal, and he said ‘You gotta move that thing!’” The statue has undergone numerous paint jobs throughout its life but only one time did his colors change. The owners decided to paint him red, white and blue following the attacks on September 11, 2001 and in response to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The red and black which currently covers his body is a copy of the original coat which was given
to him half a century ago. To this day, “Mr. Dixie” sits in front of the shop as a landmark of the Falls Church community. “Kids come to take pictures with it,” Allen Withers, one of the shop’s current owners said. “Photographers come all the time, and wait for the sun to give them the right lighting. I mean it’s a 12-foot-tall tin man, you don’t see one of those every day.” Although his head no longer spins and his body rusts, Withers said the shop will never forget about him. “We’d never get rid of him,” he said. “Every so often he needs a little maintenance, his hat might need adjusting or he might get a little rust on him so we’ll scrap him down and repaint him, but other than that he’s been pretty much unchanged since he was made.” This is the second in a series of articles by the News-Press highlighting landmarks and curiosities around the Falls Church area. Have an idea for a future article? Send your suggestions to us at fcnp@fcnp.com.
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KKK Flyers Found in F.C. Neighborhood
BY MATT DELANEY
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Racist flyers from a branch of the Ku Klux Klan containing antisemitic language were found on the property of multiple residences along Marshall St. in the Fairfax County section of Falls Church earlier this week, according to a local resident. The notices appeared to be from the Loyal White Knights KKK, a branch of the hate group based out of Richmond, and were scattered among multiple driveways and lawns in both the Greenway Downs and Jefferson Village neighborhoods located along Marshall St. before being discovered by a resident getting off work around 3 a.m. last Sunday morning, July 22. The man alerted his neighbors via the Nextdoor website, a social network for neighborhood communities, soon after and multiple neighbors confirmed over the site they had also found the notices. A resident, who asked to remain anonymous, told the News-Press she found one flyer in her yard and saw another under a neighbor’s car in a driveway. Both residents said they contacted the Fairfax County Police, one through the non-emergency line and the other via email, but neither received a follow-up from the department. “We’re unaware of any reports about this bias incident.
That’s unusual, because we obviously take something like that very seriously,” Fairfax County Police Sergeant Aaron Fife told the News-Press. “We’ll look into the origin of these flyers and if there were any circumstances that caused the distributors to come to that neighborhood.” Fife added that there was little recourse for the flyers’ distribution. Without any witnesses to the incident, the burden of proof to apprehend the distributors for a misdemeanor such as littering is too high. The lack of evidence makes it a “stretch” that any magistrate will pursue legal action, according to Fife. KKK flyers have been popping up locally throughout 2018. Earlier this month, flyers were found in Gainesville, Bristow and Warrenton. At the end of June, flyers were discovered in Covington, Virginia. They’ve also been located in Winchester, Triangle, Leesburg, Ashburn and Fredericksburg over the course of the year. Chris Barker, who’s the imperial wizard of the Loyal White Knights KKK, told the Winchester Star back in April that the flyers are distributed as a part of a recruiting effort. To avoid coming into conflict with state hate crime laws, the flyers are distributed randomly and deliberately do not make death threats in their messaging.
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Community News & Notes Long Branch Nature Center Holding Seminar On Wednesday, Aug. 1, from 1 – 3 p.m. a seminar titled “Common Landscape Pests and Diseases of Trees in Landscapes,” will be held at Long Branch Nature Center (625 S. Carlin Springs Rd., Arlington). Interested residents can learn how to manage and control garden diseases and pests affecting their trees, ornamentals and the lawn with the Virginia Cooperative Extension Agent. This will be an insightful look at the 2018 Pest Management Guide: Home Grounds and Animals. Free. For more information, call 703-228-6414 or e-mail mgarlalex@gmail.com. GUEST SPEAKER at last week’s Falls Church Chamber of Commerce luncheon was Darien Bates (left), principal of Dataleo Consultants, who spoke on the opportunities presented for small businesses in the recent revisions to the DoddFrank banking law. Bates, a former writer for the Falls Church News-Press, is shown with Sally Cole, executive director of the Chamber. (Photo: Courtesy Brenda Schrier)
Chief Rainbow Weekend Held at Arlington Chapel Interested residents are invited to the annual Chief Rainbow weekend at Arlington
SHOWING OFF CITY OF FALLS Church lapel pins presented to them at Monday’s F.C. City Council meeting in response to their participation in the meeting, including leading the Pledge of Allegiance to open the meeting, were Delaney Theiss and Jay Nesson of the Scouts BSA. (Photo: News-Press)
Metaphysical Chapel (5618 Wilson Blvd, Arlington) where they can learn about spiritual development and the world’s great religions. Reverend Brien Funk, pastor of the Arlington Metaphysical Chapel, will be leading the event which includes seminars, discussion groups, a prayer circle with the mystic White Eagle and a Sunday service. The church service is non-denominational with traditional music and all are welcome to participate. For more information contact 703-276-8738 or go to arlingtonmeta.org.
Temple Rodef Shalom Begins Summer Concert Series Temple Rodef Shalom (2100 Westmoreland St., Falls Church) is beginning its Summer Breeze concert series next Wednesday, Aug. 1. Opera & Bernstein will be the first of the series. The free concerts will be every Wednesday in August from 11 a.m. – noon. It
is open to the public and registration is not required.
Local Student Wins Military Scholarship Megan Hayes of Falls Church was recently named a recipient of a $2,000 scholarship from the Scholarships for Military Children Program. Hayes will be beginning her college career at Miami University this fall. The Scholarships for Military Children Program, which started in 2000, awards scholarships to graduating seniors or collegeenrolled students. Applicants are required to maintain a 3.0 grade point average throughout their academic career, participate in volunteer activities, demonstrate leadership and compose an essay.
Fairfax Co. Schools Team Up for a Backpack Drive In an effort to ensure that every
THE FALLS CHURCH – Annandale Lions Club President, Katie Clinton, and President Elect Peter Markham, present a $2,500 check to the 2018 Donald S. Frady Community Service Scholarship winner Ms. Hanna Tauberman from George Mason High School. (Photo: Courtesy Annandale Lions Club)
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100 HIGH POINT HIPPOS swam 117 miles and raised $10,300 for the Warrior Canine Connection at the High Point Pool on July 19. The Warrior Canine Connection “enlists recovering Warriors in a therapeutic mission of learning to train service dogs for their fellow Veterans.” Trained adult dogs are then given to veterans with disabilities. (P����: C������� H��� P���� P��� H�����) child in the school district is prepared for school, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) has again joined forces with Collect for Kids, a consortium of not-forprofit, for-profit, and government organizations promoting and coordinating school supply and backpack drives to benefit FCPS students. The drive will provide school supplies for the 2018-19 school year for students who qualify for free and reduced-price meals. Roughly 55,000 FCPS students receive free and reducedprice meals and many need help acquiring school supplies and backpacks. This year, there are two ways donors may support this effort: Monetary Donations – Contributions can be made online through the generous support of the Foundation for FCPS and their support of Collect for Kids effort.
Donations will be used to purchase school supply kits in bulk at special pricing. Backpack donations – New backpacks can be brought to a variety of locations in August, including two FCPS administration buildings, any Apple Federal Credit Union location in Fairfax County, and to some not-for-profit partners, including Britepaths, Cornerstones, and Western Fairfax Christian Ministries. Search under Get Involved on the Collect for Kids website for addresses and guidance on the types of backpacks needed. So that students have the supplies necessary to succeed on the first day of school, the majority of the Collect for Kids activities occur this summer between July 16 – Aug. 17. Monetary donations are accepted year round, and backpacks are accepted through August.
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THE DENTAL OFFICE of Robert A. Morabito successfully completed a dental mission trip to San Salvador, El Salvador. Dr. Morabito and his team provided dental treatment to over 300 children at the Children Development Center GCLA in El Guayabo. Dr. Robert Morabito (left) pictured with one of his patients (center) and team member. (P����: C������� K���� J������)
Sun & Moon Hosting Tai Chi Open House Sun & Moon Taiji One will host a tai chi open house with free trial tai chi class on Monday, July 30 from 7:55 – 8:55 p.m. The event is open to those who want to experience the range of physical and mental health benefits that the practice of tai chi promotes. The event will take place at the Falls Church location (Jhoon Rhee Tae Kwon Do, Falls Plaza Shopping Center, 1136 West Broad Street, Falls Church). RSVP is required. Call 301-512-5071 or e-mail SunAndMoonTaijiOne@gmail. com to reserve a spot.
Annual Axe Throwing Competition on Aug. 4 The 8th Annual Lizzie Borden Ax Throwing Contest will be held on Saturday, Aug. 4 at
American Legion Post 130 (400 N. Oak St., Falls Church). Sign up takes place at 11 a.m. with a practice session being held from noon – 12:45 p.m. and the contest starting at 1 p.m sharp. The contest is open to the public. Competition entry fee is $25, and includes a Lizzie Borden t-shirt and glass to go with a free drink of your choice. Food will also be available for purchase. Come and compete or just simply come to watch. If you want to learn how to throw axes, there will be tutorial at the competition for those interested. Call 703-5331945 for more information.
Tax Holiday Provides Chance for Hurricane Prep The Virginia Department of Taxation’s Sales Tax Holiday is Aug. 3-5, during which consumers can buy select items without
paying sales tax. Eligible items include school supplies, Energy Star and WaterSense products, and emergency preparedness products. Consumers can take advantage of the holiday for both in-store and online purchases. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has forecast a near- or above-normal Atlantic hurricane season, scheduled to peak this year in mid-August. Residents are encouraged to take advantage of the sales tax holiday by purchasing qualifying items that can help local households in case a hurricane, or any other disaster, strikes. The Virginia Department of Emergency Management’s emergency supply kit list contains many items that cost $60 or less and qualify for the sales tax holiday, including, batteries, flashlights, portable radios, bottled water and more.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts
News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
“Fairfax Leaders Need to Stand Against Sexual Harassment.” That was the headline in an Op-Ed piece last week in this newspaper. Take a stand? Yes, it’s easy to take a stand, just as it is easy to scatter charges and misinformation (the Board of Supervisors has no role in appointments or promotions made by the Fire Chief; likewise, filings with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC] puts the EEOC in control of the process, not the Board) without acknowledging the extraordinary efforts taken by the county’s Fire and Rescue Department (FRD) since the sad news of a female firefighter’s suicide in 2016. No one really knows what leads someone to take their own life but, regardless of the reasons, it’s always tragic – for family, for friends, and for co-workers. Out of such a tragedy, however, can come compassion, understanding, and change. It is important to move Fairfax County forward in a positive trajectory, and that’s what has been happening in the Fairfax FRD, and all of county government, since 2016. The county’s Employee Handbook sets forth the usual information about pay and benefits, workplace safety, retirement, and prohibitions in the use of technology, but it also highlights employee conduct and harassment policies. Additionally, all county staff, including FRD members, take mandatory sexual harassment and EEO training. Those trainings apply to members of the Board of Supervisors and staff, as well. I’ve recently completed most of the training modules, and am required to complete two more by the middle of August. I wonder if the Virginia General Assembly has the same requirements for its elected members. There is no question that the reputation of the Fire and Rescue Department, and its members, has been bruised, and more work to correct the identified problems needs to be completed. All members of the department take pride in their service to the community, despite ongoing media attacks, which make their already difficult jobs even more challenging. At no time has there been a question about their ability to fight fires, perform incredible rescues that save lives (including swift water rescues during
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Our Man in Arlington By Charlie Clark
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If there were an award for unearthing the shiniest gems of Arlington’s past, I would bestow in on Andrew Ratliff. The 55-year-old government contractor is familiar to denizens of the popular “I Grew Up in Arlington, VA” Facebook page (18,340 members) for his deep research and frequent postings. “Metro construction next to the Pentagon,” Ratliff noted in one photo caption. “Red Head gas station from the Yorktown [High School] ’81 yearbook.” “A 1939 Washington Post photo feature for Arlington Forest homes.” Why do all that digging? I asked him. “Obviously, there’s no money in it, and it poses challenges to work-life balance and my relationships,” he said. But his hours spent online in history and photo archives “is just one of those things that sprung up over time.” A compulsion, to some. The son of a State Department official, Ratliff actually grew up in Japan and graduated from Annandale High School in 1981. “I went to an all-boys Catholic school in Japan and was fundamentally Asian in culture,” he said. So the one-time outsider had to get culturally acclimated when he returned to the States. But he worked in Rosslyn for nine years at a language school, and lived at several addresses in Arlington, north and south, as well as Seven Corners. So he comes by his Arlington fixation authenti-
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cally. Ratliff began by joining online nostalgia groups, including ones for Annandale and Fairfax, eventually becoming a site administrator and helping create groups for Seven Corners, Bailey’s Crossroads and Alexandria. “Sometimes there’s a specific thing I’m trying to find,” he said, citing one specialty — photos of the old Hot Shoppes restaurants (eateries are popular on these sites). He went through a university’s digital collection (from the comfort of his home) and posted some that few had seen. “I got 200 likes.” Almost everything is online, at public domain places like the Library of Congress, he said, but not everything is properly labeled. For example, a photo of Arlington’s old courthouse in 1918 was labeled as “Alexandria Courthouse.” (Though Arlington then was part of Alexandria, there was another courthouse in Old Town.) Old shots of Rosslyn and the Potomac became Ratliff’s fixation. He has posted early photos of the Army Air Corps in action there early in the 20th century. Photos of the old orangepainted Putt-Putt mini-golf course in Ballston have probably run their course, he thinks. Many people have posted memories of the 1973 collapse of the Skyline Towers then under construction at Bailey’s Crossroads, which killed 14 workers. Ratliff assembled nearly 100 photos into an online album.
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Frequent posters can “run afoul of administrators,” he said, for using items that have already appeared, for vague captions, for failing to credit sources. “The more active you are, you either get the kind of recognition for what you’re giving, or people get annoyed because you’re dominating the forum.” Like many online entertainment outlets, “I Grew Up in Arlington, VA” comes with “a little bit of competition,” Ratliff said. “People get territorial.” His discoveries show up in “Back in the Day in Northern Virginia,” Pinterest and the Fairfax Underground discussion group (not always attributed). It’s hard to predict what will be a hit. But Ratliff persists: “1950s Arlington Towers postcard on eBay.” “Cherrydale Baptist [church] in 1928.” “The newly built Cherrydale firehouse in 1919.” Bring on more gems. *** Some fun Ballston history inside the American Service Center on Glebe Road. Though I don’t drive wheels in that league, I was recently shown around by new model sales manager Mark Zetlin, whose father is the son-in-law of co-founder Saul Brooks. Photos show the shop off N. Randolph as it appeared soon after opening in 1937 to sell Studebakers, Amoco gasoline and Hotpoint appliances. In 1957, the business became the first Mercedes-Benz dealer in the D.C. area, and by 1998 it was devoted solely to that brand. Mechanicsville, MD, was arrested for Assault and Batter. Hit and Run, 205 Hillwood Ave (TownePlace Suites by Marriott), between 8 PM, July 16 and 5:30 PM, July 20, a vehicle was struck by another vehicle which left the scene. Drug/Narcotic Violation, 200 blk S Cherry St, July 20, 11:25 PM, a male, 21, of Takoma Park, MD was issued a summons for Possession of Marijuana. Drunk in Public, 105 W Broad St (Irelands Four Provinces), July 21, 10:13 PM, a male, 27, of Gainesville, VA, was arrested for Drunk in Public. Drunk in Public, 132 W Broad St (Dogwood Tavern), July 22, 9:32 PM, a female, 21, of the City of Falls Church, was arrested for Drunk in Public.
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No Time for Sowing Division
If ever there has been a time when all of us, in all our glorious dissonance, need to pull together, and align with as many similar associations as possible, it is now. Donald Trump is like a prehistoric monster who has clawed its way out of an ancient tomb with his minions to menace us all with degrees of hateful prejudice the likes of which we’d hoped were forever behind us. Now suddenly we’re all again at grave risk of harm. This has been evident for some time now, and it’s in this setting that the prolific Martin Duberman’s latest book, “Has the Gay Movement Failed?” (University of California Berkeley Press, 2018), arrives in an unsettling fashion to foment not a little unhelpful discord across wide swaths of an important anti-Trump current, FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS the LGBTQ movement. Duberman trashes some of the most successful institutions that the movement has generated, labelling them “heteronormative” (imitating a hetersexual lifestyle) and, in the case of the biggest, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), conservative, hierarchical, insular, single-issue oriented, and in avoidance of criminal justice, economic inequality and workingclass issues, while it pursues singularly nondiscrimination goals. The HRC has taken heat like this for a long time, except around elections, when progressive candidates can’t thank it enough for the money and manpower it throws into their efforts. I write this not as an apologist for the HRC, but it and other entities like it are for us and not against us. I am an ally of anybody who wants to defeat Trump and all he stands for in this dark hour of our national history. There is much in Duberman’s latest book that is of historical interest and food for thought. He seeks to recall the original Gay Liberation Front (GLF) that was one of the first political currents to come out of the era of the Stonewall Riots ferment, which happened during the height of the anti-war, civil rights and women’s liberation movements. The GLF was centered on the general concept of identifying gay liberation with other struggles in the world and striving for a wider solidarity with them. I was in the middle of all that in the San Francisco Bay Area. I co-founded the Berkeley, Calif,. chapter of the GLF in 1970, wrote the editorial in the first edition of the Gay Sunshine newspaper, the nation’s first of its kind. But Duberman suffers an anti-West Coast myopia. For example, he writes in his new book that the “Effeminist” current in the movement, those organized as “gay men in the feminist revolution” (a concept still of great importance), began in New York, But its principal organizer there, my friend Steven Dansky, wrote in the book, “Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation” (City Lights Books, 2009) that founders of the current were Jim Rankin and I, who published the newspaper, The Effeminist, in Berkeley in the summer of 1971. Duberman makes no reference to the historic City Lights’ “Smash” book, published on the fortieth anniversary of Stonewall, and its wealth of information in scores of first-hand recollections of those very earliest 1969-1972 years, including by me. Is that because it came out of San Francisco, where persisting activist Tommi Avicolli Mecca edited the collection, and not New York? About a year into the post-Stonewall gay era, a fundamental split in the movement occurred which led to the formation of the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) by those who wanted the movement to be focused simply on gay issues, and not on wider social ones. Efforts, like the Effeminists, to redefine that wider social context in a way more directly relevant to the gay experience were overwhelmed by the torrent of support for gay-only issues, which drew heavy support from business owners of gay establishments. The rest is history and the roots of the HRC and like groups are important to know from that standpoint. Still, notwithstanding all that, those who, like me, might still advocate the GLF ideal must yet recognize the need to embrace all efforts now in a firm solidarity with all resisting what Trump represents, no matter how radical or “heteronormative” anyone’s chosen lifestyles.
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Donald Trump’s Relentless Tribe The verdict on the most galling week of an outrageous presidency is in, and it shouldn’t come as the shock that it does: Republicans forgive Donald Trump his surrender to Vladimir Putin, his siding with Russia over the United States, his puppy-dog performance in Helsinki — all of it. Or rather, they don’t see anything to forgive. They simply notice that their man is under attack, and they rise to defend him. Welcome to political tribalism in America in 2018. On Sunday, NBC News and The Wall Street Journal released a poll that took place mostly after Helsinki. It showed that Donald Trump’s approval rating, which usually hovers around 40 percent, had risen NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE to 45 — still bad but, bafflingly, better than before. Republicans were why. They gave him an approval rating of 88 percent, which is positively alpine and higher than the one that Democrats gave Barack Obama at the same point in his presidency eight years ago. That figure can’t be dismissed as an outlier. A poll released by SurveyMonkey and Axios late last week showed that 79 percent of Republicans regarded Trump’s meeting with Putin positively. Say what? His obsequiousness and betrayal of American interests weren’t the whispered allegations of unnamed sources (though he went ahead and dismissed such characterizations as “fake news” anyway). They were caught on camera and preserved forevermore: visible, audible, irrefutable. That so many Republicans nonetheless shook them off is about as vivid an illustration as you’ll find of the peculiar and chilling nature of partisanship today. But the picture is more complicated and fuzzier than that. For starters, when these polls were taken, it’s entirely possible that what happened in Helsinki hadn’t sunk in. Most people don’t pay nearly as much attention to the Trump melodrama as those of us lashed to it do, and as we map the confluence of his misdeeds and their moods, we routinely discount the degree to which many of them are tuned out. They have more pleasant things to do than monitor this president. Laundry, for example. Hemorrhoid surgery. On top of which, the volume and velocity of his offenses turn them into a blur, just as the alarms that we in the media sound become white noise. This was true during his campaign, it’s even truer of his presidency, and it’s one of the most unjust, infuriating aspects of his endurance. His shameless-
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ness is actually his saving grace. But not with everyone, and most notably not with some aghast Republicans who, thanks to Trump’s takeover of the party, have strayed from it. There’s a fascinating debate about how much the Republican loyalty to Trump in poll after poll is skewed by an exodus of former Republicans whom he scared off. They may not be showing up as party members in surveys, and Trump’s high marks could be coming from a winnowed, favorable sample. Brendan Nyhan examined this possibility in The Times’ Upshot section last year, describing data that suggested that “people who identify as Republican may stop doing so if they disapprove of Trump, creating a false stability in his partisan approval numbers.” If those people were factored back in, according to this analysis, Trump’s partisan approval rating could dip to 70 percent. But in a spirited exchange on Twitter with Nate Silver on Monday, Nyhan expressed doubts about the significance of that phenomenon to Trump’s rosy Republican numbers, which have at least as much to do with another dynamic. It’s what some political scientists call negative partisanship. Research shows that, increasingly, Americans on one side of the political divide don’t just disagree with those on the other. They see them as threats to the country’s well-being. Their anger at the opposing party and its leaders is more pervasive. Their disagreement with its prescriptions is strict. They’re not as keen to associate with its adherents. And their unbalanced information diets and narrow ideological enclaves insulate them from its reasoning. Forget I’m OK, you’re OK. This is: I have problems, you’re repulsive. The ethos extends to the assessment and defense of Trump’s behavior. He may be an odd fit for a tribe that includes usually judgmental religious conservatives and once exuberant free traders, but he’s now their chief, and whatever his flaws, his detractors’ are worse. If they’re agitated, they’re ipso facto overreacting. Regardless, show no weakness. Admit no wrong. I doubt that Democrats, faced with a leader like Trump, would fall this pathetically into line. Bill Clinton and his presidency foreshadowed without remotely matching this. But the impulse to filter out dissenting views, the readiness to regard all political rifts as Manichaean and the quickness to hunker down are bigger than one corrupted party and one cracked president. They bless Trump as he blusters on from Helsinki. They’ll curse all of us for some time to come.
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Business News & Notes News-Press Mixer Set for Tonight The Falls Church News-Press is hosting its annual summer party and Falls Church Chamber of Commerce Mixer on Thursday, July 26 from 5:30 – 7 p.m. The event will include live music by Huck & Friends, food catered by Anthony’s Restaurant and beverages. All are welcome to this free event. The FCNP is located at 200 Little Falls, Suite 508, in Falls Church. For more information, visit www.FallsChurchChamber.org.
Prints & Posters Auction at Quinn’s Thursday Quinn’s Auction Galleries is hosting an auction for modern prints and posters with Waverly Rare Books & Prints on Thursday, July 26 starting at 6 p.m. and ending when the last print is sold. The auction will take place at 360 S. Washington Street in Falls Church. Quinn’s also hosts a Weekly Treasure Auction every Wednesday at 6 p.m. with previews available Tuesdays from 4 – 7 p.m. and Wednesdays from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. For more information, visit www.quinnsauction.com.
OAR Collecting School Supply Donations for ‘Project Backpack’ OAR (Offender Aid & Restoration) is collecting school supply donations through the end of August for its new Project Backpack program to provide new backpacks and school supplied to children from the City of Falls Church, the City of Alexandria, or Arlington who have a parent incarcerated locally. OAR provides ongoing support for incarcerated individuals and recently released individuals to help them successfully assimilate back into society. For more information about OAR’s work, the supplies being sought, or Project Backpack, visit www.oaronline.org.
Fairfax County Parks Offering Discounts on Outerwear The Fairfax County Park Authority is offering 50 percent off of Under Armour and Footjoy outerwear, such as sweatshirts, pullovers, and full zip sweaters, while supplies last. The sale is being held at the Park Authority’s various locations, including Jefferson District Park located at 7900 Lee Highway in Falls Church. For more information about this offer or others from local businesses, visit www.FallsChurchChamber.org and click on Hot Deals.
Taste of Falls Church & Fall Festival Date Set for Sept. 15 Time is running out for restaurants and businesses to confirm their participation in Falls Church’s Annual Taste of Falls Church and Fall Festival scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 15. The event will take place from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. in the Community Center parking lot and Cherry Hill Park. The event features live entertainment, pony rides, children’s amusements, crafters, businesses and civic organizations, a beer garden, and cuisine from local restaurants. Admission is free but amusements, beverages, and food require the purchase of tickets. For more information or to register to participate, visit www.fallschurchva.gov/638/ Falls-Church-Festival.
F.C. Hilton Garden Inn Introduces Happy Hour Specials The Garden Grille + Bar at the Hilton Garden Inn Falls Church is now offering a daily happy hour with food and drink specials from 5 – 7 p.m. The Hilton Garden Inn Falls Church, a 2018 Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence Award Winner, is located at 706 W. Broad Street. The Bar + Restaurant, which offers freshly prepared American favorites, is open daily from 5 – 10 p.m. For more information, stop by the hotel or call 703-237-8700.
Homestretch Hosting Fundraising Paint Night Homestretch Paint Night, an evening of painting, music and food under the stars to raise funds for Homestretch, will take place on Friday, August 3 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Homestretch is a Falls Church-based nonprofit organization that empowers families to rebuild their lives. The fundraiser, sponsored by Pinot’s Palette and Vienna Presbyterian Church will include step by step instructions and roaming artists to help guide participants in the creation of take-home paintings. For more information or tickets, visit homestretchva.org. Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@fallschurchchamber.org.
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FALLS CHURCHCALENDAR COMMUNITYEVENTS THURSDAY, JULY 26 Concerts in the Park: Zakke. Enjoy concert music at this week’s event in Cherry Hill Park. Free concerts every Thursday through August 2. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave. Falls Church, VA) 7 – 8:30 p.m. 703-248-5077. Preschool Storytime. Stories and fun for ages 0-5. Drop-in. Free to attend. All storytimes are followed by playtime. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 10:30 – 11 a.m. 703-248-5034. Playtime with Early Literacy Center Toys. Explore educational and manipulative items (aka toys) to teach early literacy through play. Ages birth to 5 years. No registration required. Free to attend. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 11 a.m. – noon. 703-248-5034.
Teen DIY Repurposed Library. Interested residents are invited to come give old, worn books new life. Rising grades 6 – 12. Registration is requested. Free to attend. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 7 – 8 p.m.. 703-248-5034.
meat, dairy and more. City Hill Parking Lot. (300 Park Ave. Falls Church, VA) 8 a.m. – noon. 703248-5027.
Moths by Moonlight Campfire. Interested residents are invited to come learn about moths at this later than usual campfire. Participants will also visit a black light setup to see who’s flying at night. Children must be accompanied by a registered adult. $5 to attend. Registration is requested. Gulf Branch Nature Center and Park (3608 North Military Rd). 8:30 – 9:30 p.m. 703-228-3403.
Tiny Tot. Tiny Tot programs provide an opportunity to interact one-on-one with your child while discovering the wonders of nature. Each program will engage you with hands-on learning, and may include a variety of activities like songs, crafts, finger plays and mini-hikes. Tiny Tot programs are offered throughout the year at both Gulf Branch and Long Branch Nature Centers. Each program has a theme but they are not listed ahead of trime. Registration is required. $5 to attend. Ages 18 – 35 months. Long Branch Nature Center at Glencarlyn Park (625 S Carlin Springs Rd). 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. 703-228-6535.
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language. Meets every Monday at regularly scheduled time. No registration required. Free to attend. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 7 – 8 p.m. 703-248-5034.
TUESDAY, JULY 31 Paws to Read at the Library. Children can come and read with a canine companion. Readers rising grades K-6th.Registration is required. Free to attend. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 3 – 4 p.m. 703248-5034.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1 Quilted Stories. Children can come and learn about the art of quilt making. The event is sponsored by the Mount Vernon chapter of Quilters Unlimited. Open to children in rising grades K-5. Free to attend. Registration is required. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 3 – 4 p.m. 703-248-5034.
THEATER&ARTS FRIDAY, JULY 27 “A New Nation.” “A New Nation” is the latest performance piece generated through Convergence Theatre’s Guerrilla Theatre Works, a synthesis of performance art, poetry, interviews and physical theatre. “A New Nation” probes responses to the immigration crisis in the U.S. and current perceptions of the stranger, amplifying diverse voices to challenge fear and strengthen our sense of home. The journey of an unaccompanied minor, a deportation notice and everyday life in a new land are glimpses of the narratives that move beyond the boundaries of the theatre itself. Anacostia Arts Center (1231 Good Hope Road, Washington D.C.) $18. 8 p.m. anacostiaartscenter.com.
SATURDAY, JULY 28 “50 Ways to Date your Aubrey.” “50 Ways to Date your Aubrey” is an incomplete guide to dating someone who’s been looking for love in ALL the places. It’s tragicomedy about nonmonogamy. Real Love. Real Life. Mostly. Caos
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“Dave.” From a Tony and Pulitzer Prize award-winning creative team, comes the world-premiere musical comedy “Dave,” adapted from the Oscar-nominated film. “Dave” tells the story of high school teacher (and presidential lookalike) Dave Kovic, who is hired by the Secret Service as a standin for the Commander-in-Chief. When the President falls ill under less than “presidential” circumstances, Dave is thrust into the Oval Office to avoid a national scandal, and must find a way to gain the trust and love of the American people … and the First Lady. Arena Stage (1101 Sixth St., NW) $117 – $140. 8 p.m. arenastage.com.
SUNDAY, JULY 29 “Hamilton.” The American Musical is a sung- and rapped-through musical about the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda, inspired by the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by historian Ron Chernow. The National Tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway sensation finally comes to D.C. Kennedy Center (2700 F St. NW, Washington, DC) $99 – $625. 7:30 p.m. kennedy-center.org.
LIVEMUSIC THURSDAY, JULY 26 Soul Gravity. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-532-9283. Josh Allen Duo. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-241-9504. James Stevens Live and in Concert. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-237-8333. Cowboy Junkies. The Birchmere (3701 Mount Vernon Ave, Alexandria). $49.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. The 9 Songwriter Series. Union Stage (740 Water St. SW, Washington, D.C.). $12 – $15.
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Olivia Chaney. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566. Dave Chappell. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504.
FRIDAY, JULY 27 Gina Coco. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-241-9504. Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. The State Theatre (220 N Washington St., Falls Church). $15. 7 p.m. 703-2370300. Newmyer Flyer Presents A Southern Soul Tribute. Union Stage (740 Water St. SW, Washington, D.C.). $27.50 – $35. 8 p.m. 877-987-6487. Bernstein at 100: A Celebration. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $25 – $60. 8:15 p.m. 703-2551900. Jimi Smooth and the Hit Time. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703241-9504. Karl Stoll. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333.
SATURDAY, JULY 28 Jumpin Jupiter. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. Bird Talker. Union Stage (740 Water St. SW, Washington, D.C.). $12 – $15. 7:30 p.m. 877-9876487. The Legwarmers. The State Theatre (220 N Washington St., Falls Church). $18. 7:30 p.m. 703237-0300.
COWBOY JUNKIES will be at the Birchmere in Alexandria tonight. (Photo: Heather Pollock)
Dave Lange. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. BUMPPP!: Free Dance Party. Union Stage (740 Water St. SW, Washington, D.C.). 11 p.m. 877987-6487.
SUNDAY, JULY 29 Club Malbec Jazz. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 1 p.m. 703-241-9504. Jon Spears Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504.
That 70s Party. 9:30 Club (815 V St. NW, Washington D.C.) $15. 8 p.m. 202-265-0930.
No Small Children. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.
The Best of Wagner’s Ring. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $25 – $60. 8:15 p.m. 703-255-1900.
Mother’s Finest. The Birchmere (3701 Mount Vernon Ave, Alexandria). $35. 7:30 p.m. 703549-7500.
The Bullets. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504.
Yanni. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $35 – $85. 8 p.m. 703-
255-1900.
Shotgun Highway Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504.
MONDAY, JULY 30 Thomas Dolby. The Birchmere (3701 Mount Vernon Ave, Alexandria). $35. 7:30 p.m. 703549-7500. Andy Timmons + Travis Larson Band. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. Wolf Blues Jam. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504.
TUESDAY, JULY 31 WAR. The Birchmere (3701 Mount Vernon Ave, Alexandria). $59.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-5497500.
Boy Pablo. Union Stage (740 Water St. SW, Washington, D.C.). $15. 7:30 p.m. 877-9876487. Sol Roots Show. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504. Majestic: Weekly LGBTQ night with drag show, dancers. Diva Lounge (6763 Wilson Blvd., Falls Church). 10 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1 Kina Grannis. The Birchmere (3701 Mount Vernon Ave, Alexandria). $25. 7:30 p.m. 703549-7500. Preston James. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Arlington). 8:30 p.m. 703-5228340. Story District. Union Stage (740 Water St. Washington, D.C.) $20 7:30 p.m. 877-987-6487.
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Planning Commission Drops Another Roadblock in the State Theatre’s Path Defying the strong urgings of City staff and reversing a City official’s ruling, a three-member majority the Falls Church Planning Commission Monday night threw a roadblock into efforts by owners of the State Theatre here to complete their renovation of the project and to become a popular revenue-generating new business in the City by the end of September. In a replay of similar acts of obstruction against the State Theatre, the Commission blocked a final site plan approval.
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Hockenberry Back, Appointed to F.C. Planning Commission The Falls Church City Council and Planning Commission have been at loggerheads for a long time. This week, a leading Council member took the opportunity of her electoral defeat this May to hop over into the Planning Commission’s lair. By a 5-1 vote, the F.C. City Council appointed former Vice Mayor Lindy Hockenberry to the City’s Planning Commission Monday night. Hockenberry had previously been defeated in a bid for a third term on the City Council. MADISON IS a Collie/Shepherd mix and just turned 16. She’s a rescue and has been with her family since she was 4 months old. Even though she is the equivalent of a 112-year-old human, her coat still has its color (unlike human centenarians). Just because you’re not famous doesn’t mean your pet can’t be! Send in your Critter Corner submissions to crittercorner@fcnp.com.
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Moving by yourself halfway across the country to try and make it in the music business is not an ideal scenario, but Amanda Shires found her way, against all odds. Next week will mark the release of her sixth solo album, To the Sunset, a culmination of six months of songwriting, recording and editing. The work is a celebration of individuality. “It’s a toast, really,” Shires said. “To all the things that make us who we are in the present while at the same time accepting ourselves as who we were in the past. It’s also a toast to all the things we don’t know yet.” Shires, a Texas native, said she was surrounded by music from an early age and was able to pick up important aspects of the art form like melody and improvisation. Her first real introduction, though, was at age 10 when she started learning to play the fiddle. After developing a love for music, Shires moved to Nashville and began waiting tables in order to support herself. She funded her first two albums through tips, but by her third album she was able to quit and pursue her music career full-time. Not only has Shires had a fruitful solo career, but she has also worked with bands like the Texas Playboys, Thrift Store Cowboys and Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, the latter of which is her husband’s group. However, there is a distinction between the music that she produces while in a band and while she is solo. “The difference is in all the bands I’ve been in, they’ve all been led by men, and with that there comes a male perspective,” she said. “The difference with mine is perspective.” Shires describes her musical genre as “indie awesome rock n’roll kick ass as hell music” and has found inspiration in artists like John Prine, Todd Snyder, Big Star and Leonard Cohen.
AMANDA SHIRES. (�������� P����) Her creative process when producing new songs is one that mirrors both her artistic heroes and her musical upbringing. “I’ll sit down with a guitar or a violin and start messing around and finding cords, and if some kind of idea presents itself, then I start working off that,” she said. “I start making notes and then editing the work, and then I’ve got a song.” To the Sunset, which is currently in prerelease, has garnered a good reception so far, as three singles from the album have been released. Shires said this phase of the process is the most nerve-wracking because she knows that her work is about to be criticized by the public.
This fact, however, does not stifle the joy she finds in her music. With five studio albums under her belt, this album has taken Shires in a different direction than her previous works. “They’re all songs I made up,” she said. “But this one has a little bit more self-acceptance and self confidence in my place in the world. I usually am a songwriter who writes miserable, hopeless dark things, but I think this one has a lot of light in it.” Shires will be at the Birchmere on August 2 and her album To the Sunset will be available everywhere August 3.
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Adam Rosenfeld – 65 & Ingleside by Chance the Rapper
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