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West End Project Pushes

Forward Amidst Pandemic F.C. Council To Vote On Site Plan Monday

BY NICHOLAS F. BENTON

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With the Falls Church City Council’s first in-depth public look at the detailed special exception site plan for the 9.77-acre megaWest End development project Monday night, an undertone arising from the Covid-19 pandemic’s “unbelievable headwinds” suddenly facing it in these extraordinary times was in the background for the three-hour discussion. As Robin Bettarel of Hoffman, a lead member of the development team, said, the concerns are particularly strong for the future of retail and hotels in all development plans globally going forward. But when Bettaral and EYA’s Evan Goldman aired their concerns in a follow-on presentation to the City’s Economic Development Authority (EDA) Tuesday, the

EDA chair Bob Young exclaimed, “I believe that if anyone can get this project done, it will be this team.” Young cited the extensive process that the City engaged in to retain the development team, and Goldman followed Young’s remarks with words of confidence that the effort would go forward and succeed according to plan. The two presentations of the project followed the official submission of its detailed Special Exception Site Plan, available now in full on the City’s website, that include some changes introduced since the team’s last submission earlier this year, none of which are major. The Council is slated to vote to accept the site plan at its meeting this coming Monday. The EDA

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A DIGITAL RENDERING of what the team of EYA, PN Hoffman and Regency envision for the completed West End development that will stretch nearly 10 acres from the new site of the rebuilt high school to the West Falls Church Metro Station. (S��: N��-P��)

New Parking Study Shows F.C. Not Hur�ng for Space BY NICHOLAS F. BENTON

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After years of endless studies, complaining, calls for one or more public structured garages and predatory towing practices, it turns out that actual parking shortages in the downtown (Broad at

Washington intersection) of Falls Church are not so severe, according to a welcome new study by Walker Consultants and presented at Tuesday’s meeting of the F.C. Economic Development Authority (EDA). Bernard Lee of the Bethesdabased Walker team presented the

results of the downtown parking study covering 23 largely commercial blocks it was commissioned to undertake following an EDA initiative that began last September. The summary result was that aside from periodic “hot spots,” there is not really a pressing park-

ing problem in that area, and there are available low cost solutions for the troubled areas that could alleviate the parking issues there. Ed Saltzberg of the EDA, who led the effort to set the study in motion last year, said there are certainly more workable solutions than the construction of a parking garage downtown somewhere which would come at the cost of $10,000 to $20,000 per parking

space. Options laid out by the Walker team include better use of existing spaces through signage and making them more visible to the public and the addition of some new on-street parking. For example, Lee said, there could be eight on-street parking spaces added on Little Falls Street

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Toy Nest and Harbor Freight Tools are two new Falls Church businesses weathering Covid-19 with the same gusto after their grand openings, but both had to traverse different paths due to how they’re judged as essential and non-essential businesses.

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Editorial............................................... 6 Letters................................................. 6 News & Notes............................10–11 Comment ............................... 7,12–13 Crime Report .................................... 12 Calendar ........................................... 14 Business News ................................. 15 Classified Ads ................................... 16 Comics, Sudoku & Crossword ......... 17 Critter Corner.................................... 18

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Essential Vs. Non-Essential Business Openings in Covid-19 Era

by Patricia leslie

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Toy Nest and Harbor Freight Tools are two new Falls Church businesses weathering the Covid19 tempest with the same gusto after they held their grand openings last month, but both had to traverse different paths due to how they’re judged as essential and non-essential businesses. Harbor Freight Tools was able to keep its doors open at all 28 of its Virginia locations, but not so for the Toy Nest, which many parents and caregivers would dispute. “It was perfect timing with the quarantine,” Mollie Morneau said, a customer at Toy Nest who has three children ages five, eight and nine, said. “We started renting first week so we could swap out some of our toys while we were home.” The toy shop on North Washington Street is a library, open to borrowers looking for a place to play and take toys home. The neatly arranged shelves are filled with games, puzzles, makebelieve, science, fantasy and more for all ages from infants on up to 10 and beyond. Lisa Bourven is the owner and founder whose idea for the “toybrary” began on a family trip to visit her parents in Texas. At their grandparents’, her two children, now ages 5 and 8, didn’t have any toys to play with. “We went to a Goodwill and the only thing we could find was a Big Wheel” in poor condition, she said. Wouldn’t it be nice, Bourven wondered, to find a place to borrow toys temporarily? Toys that wouldn’t consume a lot of space? Necessity forced this mother’s invention, and after she discussed her idea with hundreds of friends and moms and conducted lots of research, Bourven fast-forwarded her dream to make it happen in Falls Church. But it turns out, a toy library was not a new idea: They’ve been around since the Great Depression, Bourven explained on a tour of her shop. But the closest one was in Philadelphia. She researched and spent hours gathering toys, entering data in her online catalog, and building with her husband and cousin. Harbor Freight Tools conducts lots of research, too, before it settles on a spot, said spokesman Craig Hoffman in a phone interview. Falls Church has been on

A TALE OF TWO BUSINESSES. While Harbor Freight Tools has been labeled an essential business for the entirety of the Covid19 pandemic, the Toy Nest wasn’t lucky enough to receive that designation. It was unfortunate for the new toy library since it officially opened at the end of March, but adapted by putting its extensive catalog online and allowing for pick ups. Harbor Freight, meanwhile, has thrived, with its Bailey’s Crossroads store being one of 26 opened nationwide since the onset of the pandemic. (Photos: Patricia Leslie) Harbor Freight’s radar for a couple of years, and the company is still looking to fill 35 positions at the store. Basically, it’s business as usual for Harbor Freight, which has opened over 25 new locations nationwide during the pandemic. “People need access to tools,” Hoffman said. “When the pandemic started to really spread and governments and cities started lockdown orders, there was an exemption for essential businesses, one of them being hardware businesses.” Both Hoffman and Bourven emphasized their stores’ practices of safeguarding against the novel coronavirus, requiring face coverings and social distancing. The company “immediately made some accommodation adjustments” like limiting the number of customers per store. Hoffman said Harbor Freight stepped up its cleaning protocols and instituted daily temperature checks for employees. The hardware store even shortened its hours to build in more time to restock and give its associates time to attend to their own personal needs. Bourven sanitizes toys when they are returned and has a dish-

washer on site to wash them. For bigger toys, she uses a bleach wipe. She encourages everyone to use hand sanitizers in plentiful supply at her front desk. In the age of Covid-19 pandemic, the Toy Nest’s online catalog is a luxury which parents use to reserve toys and they may pick them up curbside at the shop or come in — a big hit with customers. “I wasn’t prepared for how much they love it,” said Kristin Wajert, another shopper at the Toy Nest who was referencing her five-year-old daughter and six-year-old son’s interest in the store. “I’ve been letting them pick out toys from the catalog. There are giant vehicles that go up and down and make noise, things we’d never buy. We keep them a couple of weeks until we’re ready to bring them back and get something new.” Appointments are encouraged so no one has to wait outside, Bourven said. The store can accommodate two families at a time. Anyone can check out the toys usually on bi-weekly basis, if they are available. About 15 to 20 percent are checked out at any one

time which the catalog lists. Bouvren touts the library’s membership as an incredible value, but membership is not required to shop and borrow. Drop-in rates start at $10 per child, and with borrowing privileges, $15. Monthly memberships start at $25. For every annual membership sold, a scholarship is awarded to a family in need, and right now, Bourven has several to give away. The Toy Nest is bigger than it looks. The “pretend section” has lots of costumes (heads up, Halloween outfitters) , trains, and construction “equipment.” Water guns, board games and riding toys are arranged by category on shelves. Harbor Freight Tools has plenty of equipment, too. Compared to “big box” retailers, the company prides itself on its smaller size which shortens shopping and store walking time to make faster purchases. Its prices “are usually much lower than the competition,” Hoffman said. The company recently donated its entire supply of nitrile gloves, N-95 masks and face shields to hospitals and it awards $1 million

a year to high school skilled trade teachers and programs. Meanwhile, Bourven’s customers, mothers of children ages two to nine who were interviewed by phone, enthusiastically endorsed the Toy Nest’s concept. Morneau, the mother of three, said her daughter learned to ride a bike using the Toy Nest’s balance bicycle. Her children “went wild” over the animal figurines and wooden blocks which they used to build forts and make pens for animals in battles of rhinos, dinosaurs, and bison. “It was hysterical,” their mom said. Wajert won a raffle and gets a free party whenever the public health crisis subsides. Bourven’s party room allows hosts to bring their own treats and use the play area with all 1,000 plus toys and the kitchen. Amy Wilson’s husband helped Bourven and her husband build the Toy Nest. “It’s a brilliant idea because there are so many toys,” said Wilson, the mother of a two-yearold. As every parent knows, per Wilson, “Some toys last about a week, and then they lose interest.”

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Biggest Commercial Development in F.C. History Facing Virus-Weakened Economy Continued from Page 1

will not weigh in formally until its next meeting in August, but the Planning Commission and other City boards and commissions will be taking positions in the coming weeks, as well. Meanwhile, the team leaders are meeting weekly now with Falls Church City Manager Wyatt Shields to remain as current as possible on what impact the new “headwinds” might have, even as work on the project, by far the biggest in the history of Falls Church, is not slated to commence until January 2021 at the earliest. The work then would involve the demolition of the existing George Mason High School footprint, where the new project will go, as the new high school will be completed for occupancy this December. The developers have decided to call the project “West Falls,” saying among other things the name will work best for integrat-

ing with adjacent development plans, as they hope and are planning it will. Putting their best foot forward in a overview of the project and how it will be positioned in the development-exploding Northern Virginia landscape, Goldman and Bettarel talked about how the centerpiece of the project, a boulevard that will cut through the center of the project from the south at Route 7 with a wide public commons area in the middle, will be extended into adjacent projects — now in active planning stages by Virginia Tech and Metro — all the way to the West Falls Church Metro station. The boulevard will grow to almost three times its length through the West Falls project as it will extend up to the Metro station, and as such will be a major new regional landmark. Goldman said the West Falls portion will be highlighted by retail on either side, while it will undergo as far more academic look as it proceeds through the Virginia Tech prop-

erty, for example. Goldman said he hopes the West Falls will also become integrated with whatever plans Federal Realty (owners of the current Giant and Staples strip shopping malls) and Beyer Automotive may develop. Federal Realty has been recently showing interest in how the West Falls may enable it to develop its property, and Beyer Automotive recently announced it had completed the consolidation of over 20 lots on the other side of Route 7 from the West Falls that are now susceptible to dense development. One of the recent changes in the West Falls special exception site plan (SESP) involves how the central boulevard will line up with Chestnut Street on the other side of Route 7. Earlier, opposition from Chestnut Street neighborhood residents led to a plan for no alignment at all, and a new version sought by VDOT did align the two, although at a disadvantage to the West Falls plans. Now, a new plan allows for

crosswalks and signal lights linking the two but a slightly unorthodox reconfiguration on the Chestnut Street side that will deter cut through traffic there and allow left turns both in and out of the West Falls boulevard. Some of the other changes were made last December when the development team dug deeper into the rising construction costs of elements of the plan. “Given what’s happened since, we’re mighty pleased we did that then,” Goldman said. They consolidated the originally planned two apartment buildings down to one that will combine regular and “micro” units. The condominium building is now on Block C of the plan, closer to the high school but with an extraordinary architectural design that includes a ratcheting down on its height on the school side of it to allow more overall sunlight. What had been called “Street A” connecting Haycock Road with the boulevard has been broken into two segments in the new design to better accommodate the 20 feet elevation differential between the lower Haycock point of entry and the boulevard above. There will now be a stairway connecting the two portions, both of

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which will feed into a structured parking garage there. There is now a “civic space” planned along Route 7 under one of the two office buildings there, and one of those office buildings will face more squarely onto Route 7, imposing somewhat on the surface parking lot that is intended to be shared with the schools. Retail space along Haycock will be dedicated to a 10,000 square foot daycare center and overall architectural designs for the project have been significantly modified since an original presentation to the community last December was met with a lukewarm response. The new architectural designs are much more modern, Goldman said, though tending to be more traditional. A redesign of the senior housing building is now underway, including less of a central meeting space in favor of smaller spaces on each floor for a better deterring of the virus spread. Becky Witsman of the City’s Office of Economic Development said that an updated fiscal impact study is expected to be completed by the end of this week in time for next Monday’s City Council vote.

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‘Hangman’s Tree’ Plaque Must Go

The issue has been engaged in the City of Falls Church and the City’s School Board is now tasked with leading the effort on whether or not the names of two of the City’s schools — George Mason and Thomas Jefferson — should undergo name changes because those for whom they are currently named owned slaves. However, almost all the accelerated efforts to change school names in the region and elsewhere now are focused on removing Confederate names, especially as recent awareness has served to correct the wholly-false revisionism that sought to establish a moral equivalency between the Union and the Confederacy in the Civil War. In reality, the treasonous Confederacy was a genocidal insurgency against our democratic nation instigated by those seeking to perpetuate the cruel practice of slavery. They are deserving of nothing but the greatest moral and political condemnation. Many schools in the region and nationally were given Confederate names in an angry white supremacist reaction against the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision to integrate the nation’s public schools. Student activists at the nearby formerly-named J.E.B. Stuart High School in the Seven Corners area of Fairfax County were a few years ahead of the latest surge in corrective racial equality activity arising from the high-profile late-May murder of George Floyd. Stuart has been renamed Justice High, and moves are underway to strip the name of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from schools Arlington and Fairfax. There will be more. There are reportedly over 190 schools, mostly in the south, named for Confederates, including 23 in Virginia. But there are streets and highways, too, such as the Jefferson Davis Highway (Route 1) in Alexandria. In Falls Church, on matters of the Confederate legacy, there are two institutions that the News-Press is hereby calling to end: 1. The “Hangman’s Tree” plaque on the southeast corner of W. Broad and N. Virginia Avenues. Legend has it that it was once the site of an old oak tree which, as the plaque signifies, was “Used by the (Confederate) Col. Mosby to hang Union spies,” until it died and was removed about 25 years ago. The plaque, provided by the Falls Church Historical Society, erroneously claims the tree was removed in 1968. It was much more recent. The “Hangman’s Tree” plaque constitutes a monument to the Confederacy and shows that even a legend deserves rememberance in Falls Church. It serves as an ongoing taunt, akin to displaying a noose, to African-Americans and anyone dedicated to defending their inalienable human rights (like the Union soldiers who were strung up there). That plaque, a veritable noose, needs to be removed. 2. The annual tradition of Falls Church’s “Civil War Day,” set for May this year before it was canceled due to the pandemic, has a sad history of claiming a false equivalency between North and South. It must be fundamentally reimagined, if retained at all, with a thoroughgoing focus on the horrors of slavery and the abject genocidal immorality of the Confederate insurgency against the U.S.

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F.C. Schools Not Considering Covid-19 Effects on Families Editor, As an immune compromised parent of a student in FCCPS, I am not satisfied that FCCPS is fully considering the needs of students who may be vulnerable to poor Covid-19 outcomes and families who have vulnerable members, including those who are elderly or immune compromised. It was disappointing to find before the close of the survey sent last month by FCCPS, results are

published and conclusions drawn. How can this survey offer valid results when this is the case? I urge FCCPS to base decisions on science, create multiple plans for differing scenarios, and allow a vibrant discussion that includes considering the real danger of asymptomatic spread among vulnerable people active in FCCPS. Judy Moore Falls Church

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Virginia Needs To Tread Carefully During Reopening Editor, As circumstances surrounding the novel coronavirus pandemic continue to change, state officials have begun to gradually lift restrictions on businesses, travel, and, in general, social activity. However, in some states this reopening process seems to have backfired, as several states have begun reimposing previously lifted restrictions due to a recent spike in

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Achieving Racial Equity in F.C. Starts with Housing B� M�� A��

Last year, Falls Church updated its vision statement, declaring: “In the year 2040, the City of Falls Church is a welcoming and inclusive community.” In the midst of a national reckoning with systemic racism, it is clear that, despite our aspirations, this vision is far from our reality. Research shows that the Washington, D.C. area is one of the least racially equitable and economically inclusive in the country. Within this region, Falls Church has the smallest share of black residents, and the second-lowest share of residents who are foreign-born. Conversely, Falls Church has the highest incomes and the highest share of white residents in the region. How did this happen? And what can we do to work towards a more inclusive Little City? How can we channel the energy of our Black Lives Matter signs, our petitions, and our protest marches to learn from and redress the effects of past racist decisions here at home? We don’t have all the answers. But we are publicly committing, as private citizens and as individual members of several elected and appointed boards and civic organizations, to doing this work. Since the City’s inception, political and racial gerrymandering, as well as a set of entrenched policies, programs, and planning have excluded minority and low-income households. Take housing and land use. About two-thirds of the City of Falls Church is zoned for single family residential housing. After the Supreme Court deemed race-based

zoning unconstitutional in 1917, this type of zoning emerged as one of several tools used by white communities to effectively enforce segregation. Visit the Tinner Hill Historic Site to learn how this

“Within this region, Falls Church has the smallest share of black residents, and the second-lowest share of residents who are foreign-born. ”

played out locally. Single family zoning excludes those who have not accumulated enough wealth to buy into these neighborhoods. Due to generations of structural racism, people of color are far less likely than white Americans to have accrued the wealth necessary to live in places like Falls Church. Nationally, in 2016 white households had a median net worth 10 times that of Black households and eight times that of Hispanic households. Falls Church housing remains the most expensive in the region. Through our current practices, we have lost workforce housing or homes that are affordable to families that are not in the highest income brackets. Other cities are

experimenting with granny flats, duplexes, tiny houses, and other forms of missing middle housing in place of single family homes. In contrast, Falls Church has the highest share of “very low intensity” developed land in the region. We have also failed to provide low income affordable housing, a key opportunity for historically marginalized people. Due to market rate increases and the expiration of committed affordable units, Falls Church lost most of its affordable housing stock over the past decade, with more on the chopping block if nothing is done. The Fields of Falls Church, a largely Hispanic community, is the City’s last affordable housing property, with subsidies slated to expire in 2026. That’s 96 families with nowhere else to go in the City. But we can change this together. Ask City Council to charter a new Racial Justice Commission. It should be charged with identifying systemic barriers to racial equity across the City--from housing to transportation to more Black and Brown authors at the library-and advising leadership on how to root out those barriers. Get involved with grass-roots organizations working on racial justice issues locally, such as the Social Justice Committee of Falls Church or Welcoming Falls Church. Consider what you are willing to change to achieve a racially diverse community, because the status quo will not get us there. Changes in housing policy will require real trade-offs, with impacts on property taxes, services, and neighborhoods. In a resource-constrained world, how would you advise City Council to fund affordable

housing? Could you imagine the next tear-down on your street being replaced with 4,000 square feet for two families instead of 4,000 square feet for one? Urge City Council to expand our stock of truly affordable and workforce housing. Ask them to 1) allocate funds in the annual budget for affordable housing (currently $0 each year), 2) request a larger share of affordable units in new mixed-use developments, 3) support zoning changes that allow for alternatives to single family homes, such as granny flats or duplexes, and 4) thoroughly examine the City’s housing, building, and zoning codes to remove barriers to our vision of being an inclusive community. Show up. Participate. Listen. Volunteer. Vote. We know that where children grow up has a profound impact on their health, education levels, and job prospects. Falls Church is a wealthy and privileged community. Let’s open our doors. That’s what it means to be welcoming and inclusive. Andrea Caumont, Citizens Advisory Committee on Transportation Chair; Letty Hardi, Councilmember; Erik Pelton, Economic Development Authority Vice Chair; Robert Puentes, Planning Commissioner; Joshua Shokoor, Housing Commission Member; Kathleen Tysse, Library Board of Trustees Member and 2019-2020 Elementary PTA President; Cory Weiss, Planning Commissioner and Andrew Young, Environmental Sustainability Council Chair

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WHO’S THE BEST?

The News-Press BEST OF FALLS CHURCH reader vote is back and it’s time to cast your ballot for your Falls Church-area favorites! Our 9th annual contest features a host of all new categories — now 35 in all — for readers to vote on the best eating, drinking, shopping and more in and around the Little City . Winners will be featured in a special BEST OF FALLS CHURCH edition of the News-Press on August 27!

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NEWS BRIEFS F.C. Library Goes Fine Free Falls Church’s Mary Riley Styles Public Library no longer charges fines for overdue books and other materials. All previously assessed fines for overdue materials will also be forgiven. “We are excited to offer this to the community with the support of the Library Board of Trustees and City Council.” said Library Director Jenny Carroll. “Library overdue fines disproportionately affect those that need the library the most, serving as a barrier to library use. Ending overdue fines supports our mission; the library is open and accessible to all members of our community.” Lost, missing, or damaged materials will remain on patron accounts until those materials are returned or the replacement fee for the material is paid depending on condition. Materials that are 30 days overdue are automatically billed to the patron account. If those materials are returned in good condition, the billed fee will be removed from the account.

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F.C. Mulls Opening Public Spaces for Business Uses At Tuesday’s virtual meeting of the Falls Church Economic Development Authority, a proposal was made by City Council member Letty Hardi that the City make some of its public spaces, such as parks and tennis courts, available to small businesses and nonprofits struggling to improve their bottom lines during the current Covid 19 pandemic. The suggestion was met with favor by the EDA and Chair Bob Young offered to draft a letter to City Hall to get the OK for that. The City’s Creative Cauldron nonprofit theatre teaching and entertaining troupe has indicated an interest in doing socially-distanced outdoor theater performances on one of the City’s tennis courts, Hardi noted, and fitness businesses may also be interested. “The City’s public spaces are some of its best assets, and we should see if they can be put to helping our local economy in this time,” she said.

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A poster offered to qualified local businesses in Falls Church proclaiming to patrons, “We Have Opened Responsibly,” is being circulated by the Falls Church Economic Development Authority this week. It can be delivered or taken off the EDA’s website. The poster includes affirmations of safety policies like “Masks required for staff and customers while indoors,” “Hand sanitizers available for customers,” “Social distancing required when possible,” “Staff wash hands and disinfect high-touch surfaces frequently,” “Business has closed common areas when feasible,” “Sick staff told to stay home,” “Occupancy limits enforced,” and “Business follows all other industry-specific guidance.” The EDA is also offering “The Safe Little City” logo banners and has acquired three public hand sanitizer stations to place in the downtown (Broad at Washington) area which should be in place by the end of this week.

Commonwealth Institute Talks Special Session Virginia’s Commonwealth Institute issued a statement this week in advance of what is tentatively being scheduled as a special session of the Virginia legislature in early August. The institute, which focuses on issues of economic and social justice, has stated, “In the wake of a national conversation about racism, policing, and criminal justice reform, the time has come for changes to a system that has disproportionately targeted and incarcerated communities of color. This summer’s special session will be the next opportunity for Virginia’s lawmakers to advance necessary reforms, including new “fair chance” policies that remove counterproductive barriers including in areas of employment, housing, and education and allow people with criminal records to build a more secure economic future.”

SCOTUS Birth Control Ruling Assailed Tom Perez, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, and DNC Women’s Caucus Chair Lottie Shackelford released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers can deny birth control coverage yesterday: “Reproductive care is not a luxury — it is a necessity. That’s why President Obama and Vice President Biden fought to pass the ACA and its contraception guarantee in 2010. And since then, more than 55 million Americans have gained access to birth control with no co-pay through the Affordable Care Act. This decision is an egregious attack on the rights of women and those seeking reproductive care, especially in communities of color. Democrats will keep fighting to make sure everyone has the right to make decisions about their own body, their own family, and their own future. Make no mistake: reproductive health care is on the ballot in 2020. And the American people are ready to elect a president they can trust to protect it.”

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BARB CRAM'S VINTAGE RIBBON STASH SALE Saturday, July 11, 10:30 am to 1pm The Cram home - 425 N. Cherry Street, Falls Church, VA (Covid-19 precautions observed: masks, social distancing required)

All proceeds from this fundraiser will be donated to Falls Church Arts. Thanks to arrangements made by Barb's family, you will be able to purchase many of the items Barb sold at her Greenscape Design Studio, such as her prized collection of decorative vintage French and Italian ribbon, many high-end Christmas decorations, and select Department 56 Villages pieces. This event is a fundraiser and not a yard sale, so we encourage you to be very generous with your donations. Barb’s legacy lives on in this next act of service to the Falls Church community. For more information – please contact: Keith Thurston Marcia Stewart keith.thurston@gmail.com Marcia.stewart9@verizon.net 202-277-0006 202-302-4921

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ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, over 1,700 families received food and household goods during the second onsite distribution hosted at The Falls Church Anglican. As a result of the partnership between F.C. Anglican, Comunidad and the Chinese Christian Church, Maralee Gutierrez and her “Powerhouse Team” of seven women, supported by 120 volunteers, turned the generosity of many into this significant event. Thanks to them over 49,300 pounds of food and basic hygiene products were distributed to families who came from across the DMV area. (Photos: Courtesy Steve Johnson)

F.C. Kiwanis Registration Open for Fall Season Falls Church Little League is preparing to play this fall. Registration is open for boys and girls, ages 4-12, through July 24. FAQs and return-to-play info at fckll.org, register at register.fckll. org. Scholarships available!

Nominations for Dar Al-Hijrah Board Now Live The Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center announced that it opened nominations for its board of directors for the 2020-2024 term. The current board has formed

an election committee to take care of the election process, Abdirahi Abdi, Hiba Abutaa, and Bushra Soltan. Due to Covid-19, nominations this year will be based on selfnomination. Those who would like to be nominated for the election should fill out the form. Those who would like for someone else to be nominated should ask that individual to nominate themselves. The nomination form will be sent to those who meet the eligibility criteria. To be eligible to serve on the board, candidates must: Be 21 years old or older; be registered members with an approved mem-

bership form in good standing for at least two years; be up to date with their membership dues; be a lawful resident and not be a staff member at the Islamic Center

Wildlife Photo Contest Still Open For Submissions Wildlife Rescue League (WRL) is hosting a photo contest titled “Wild Neighbors” to celebrate Northern Virginia’s wildlife. Those who enter the photo contest will not only get a chance to showcase their own work but also contribute to promoting responsible stewardship of wildlife by helping WRL to further its mis-

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sion. Open to anyone, the contest asks shutterbugs to submit any number of photos that capture local wildlife (wild, undomesticated animal species) taken in Northern Virginia and surrounding areas. Entries will be judged by the board members of WRL, and the winning photos will be featured in the organization’s monthly newsletter, social media channels and website. Photo entries are accepted through July 15, and the winner will be announced at the end of July. Those interested in entering the contest should post their photos on Facebook or Instagram. Tag Wildlife Rescue League (@ wildliferescueleague on Facebook and @wildliferescueleagueva on Instagram) and include #wildneighbors. Afterwards, contestants should email their original photos to wrl@wildliferescueleague.org and include their name, the category they are entering (junior or adult), the type of animal in the photo and location (optional). For full details, visit wildliferescueleague. org/wild-neighbors.

Homestretch Requests Donation Items for Clients Homestretch, a nonprofit organization that helps families achieve self-sufficiency and permanent housing, put out a wish list of items that it is asking for in the form of community donations to support its clients during the Covid-19 pandemic. Homestretch needs the following items for its families: Toilet tissue; laundry detergent; hand sanitizer; deodorant for women; shampoo for women; body soap; kitchen and bathroom trash cans; new vacuum cleaners as well as gift cards to Aldi, Giant, Safeway

and Target. Items can be dropped off at the Homestretch offices (303 S Maple Ave, Falls Church). Contact info@ homestretchva.org to arrange for a drop-off. Also, interested donors are encouraged to check out Homestretch’s Amazon Wish List to purchase items it needs for our families and Kidstretch. Also, if anyone is thinking about buying a new car, Homestretch is asking them to consider donating their old car to the nonprofit. Donating a car to Homestretch will help provide a Homestretch adult the ability to get to work and put them on the path to self-sufficiency. If a donated car is given to one of the nonprofit’s families, the donor may be able to write off the entire blue book value of the car. If Homestretch auctions a car due to high mileage or poor condition the donor may be able to write off the auction value of the car. (Be sure to check with your tax advisor).

behind the resource Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic at mgnv.org/plant. Free. RSVP at mgnv.org/events to receive a link to participate.

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Many of the shrubs used in typical foundation plantings, such as euonymus, cherry laurel, and Asian azaleas have been overused in the local landscape. Others, such as privet, nandina, and burning bush are considered invasive in Northern Virginia. Interested participants can learn how to broaden their plant choices from a palette of alternative native shrubs that can add beauty and diversity to their home garden while providing nectar, pollen, and fruit for local insects and birds on Friday, July 10 from 10 – 11:30 a.m. The speaker is Elaine Mills, an experienced Extension Master Gardener and a creative force

The Arlington Public Library system eliminated overdue library fines to make the library’s collections more accessible to all residents. The library system’s stated goal is to increase access for marginalized populations to use the library, particularly for youth and low-income patrons, which data shows are disproportionately impacted by overdue fines and stop using the library as a result.

Seminar on Safe Election Practices Held On Sunday The League of Women Voters of Falls Church invites the community to attend a virtual seminar on Sunday, July 12 at 3:30 p.m. about “Saving the 2020 Election” and discuss what are the steps the nation and local communities need to take now to ensure a safe, effective and inclusive election, despite the pandemic. The featured guest speaker will be Nathaniel Persily, who is the James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and co-director of the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project. For more information and to obtain a Zoom link to the meeting, contact Barbara Lipsky at blipsky@cox.net.

The elimination of fines will reduce the library fine budget by an expected $155,000 in anticipated revenue to $10,000 in FY 2021. The $10,000 remains in the budget due to the continuation of replacement fees for lost items.

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FALLS CHURCH RESIDENT Sally Englander was among 36 students from four countries, eight states, and the District of Columbia to graduate from Foxcroft School on May 29, 2020. Englander is a recipient of Foxcroft’s Spanish Prize and Advancement Award. (P��: C�� F�� S��)

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A Penny for Your Thoughts

News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross

It’s July; it’s hot; and Covid-19 continues to be the primary focus of most conversations. Traditional Independence Day celebrations were curtailed, although the Lee Boulevard Heights neighborhood, near Seven Corners, did hold its decades-old annual parade through the neighborhood on Saturday morning. In normal years, the parade has lots of marchers and cyclists on the street, with fewer people watching from their front yards. This year, that was reversed: fewer marchers, all properly masked, and more people, also properly masked, watching from the comfort of their front yards. Fire apparatus from Station 28 brought up the rear, and entertained the children with arching spray from a firehose in lieu of the usual picnic at parade’s end. It was hard to tell who was having a better time – the splashing children or the firefighters controlling the hose! As the crackle and pop of fireworks, legal and illegal, faded, work began on a request by the Board of Supervisors for an inventory of public places named for individuals who held military or governmental responsibilities under the authority of the Confederate States of America between 1861 and 1865, including monuments, street names, parks and recreation centers, county buildings, and other county properties. The Board asked for input from the History Commission, the Park Authority, and the Architectural Review Board, as well as county agencies. The Board asked for the inventory to be completed by the end of this year, after which a community outreach process for further discussion and potential action would be developed. The 2020 Census data will be available next spring, leading to redistricting of congressional, state, and local districts, which may provide an opportune time to make related name changes. A quick look at a county atlas reveals many familiar, and some unfamiliar, street names that may have a connection to the Confederacy. I note “may”

since deeper investigation is needed into when and why they were so named. Lee has 19 entries, not including Leesburg Pike (Route 7), Jackson has 10, and Pender, or some variation, has nine. Then there’s Van Dorn, Chambliss, Beauregard, Pickett (they all were Confederate generals) and John Marr (he was reputed to be the first Confederate soldier to die in battle in Fairfax County). The effort to identify places named for Confederates who took up arms against the United States (such efforts to overthrow the government can be prosecuted as treason) has prompted some residents to suggest that anything named for Lord Fairfax or George Mason be changed as well. Cooler heads must prevail. Despite some calls for immediate changes, these decisions must be approached thoughtfully. Ours is a very diverse community, with lots of differing opinions that deserve discussion and respect. A street name change sounds rather simple: just find a new name, put up a new sign, and you’re done. It’s not that easy. People who reside on the renamed street also would have to update their addresses on driver’s licenses and identification cards; do the same with utility companies, postal service, credit card accounts, and would be responsible for updating all legal documents, including deeds, plats, surveys, mortgages, loans, trusts, wills, and so on. Business owners on a street would have even more changes: local and state business licenses, procurements with retail and/or wholesale companies, advertisement listings, and mappings, not to mention reprinting all business materials with the new address. It would be akin to moving to a new home, without having to pack a single box. More to come…. Stay safe, healthy, and cool.  Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.

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CRIME REPORT Week of June 29- July 5, 2020 Driving Under the Influence, 700 blk E Broad St. June 29, 1:09 AM, a male, 42, of Gaithersburg, MD, was arrested for driving under the influence.

Attempted Fraud, 300 blk N Washington St. June 29, an unknown suspect attempted to fraudulently convince an individual to purchase gift cards and email a photo of the back of the cards to the suspect.

Urinating in Public, 100 blk E Fairfax St. June 29, 8:51 PM, a female, 28, of Falls Church, VA, was issued a citation for urinating in public.

Trespass & Destruction of Property, 7100 blk Leesburg Pike. Sometime during the overnight hours of June 29 into June 30, unknown suspect(s) trespassed onto a construction site and damaged a construction vehicle.

Destruction of Property, 600 blk Laura Dr. Between June 29 and June 30, unknown suspect(s) applied spray paint on two vehicles, the roadway, and on a child alert sign.

Driving Under the Influence, 700 blk E Broad St. July 1, 2:06 AM, a male, 25, of Alexandria, VA, was arrested for driving under the influence.

Identity Theft, 400 blk S Washington St. July 1, 5:05 PM, unknown suspect(s) fraudulently used an individual’s personally identifiable information to open a line of credit. Commercial Burglary, 100 blk W. Broad St.. July 2, 12:38 AM, unknown suspect(s) unlawfully entered a business and took items of value. Motor Vehicle Theft, 400 blk S Washington St. July 2, 4:09 PM, a male, 58, of Owings Mill, MD, was arrested for grand larceny of a motor vehicle. Driving Under the Influence, 7100 blk Leesburg Pike. July 2, 9:11 PM, a male., 32, of Fairfax, VA, was arrested for driving under the influence. Bicycle Larceny, 200 blk Grove Ave. July 3, 5:55 PM, a suspect was observed taking a bicycle from the front yard of a residence.

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From the Front Row: Kaye Kory’s

Richmond Report In these unsettling and crisisdriven times, we struggle to hear the divergent opinions and voices raised. The press of absorbing the moment-to-moment changes can be exhausting without even attending to the troubling subject matter: a lethal pandemic, an economic crash, black lives matter and ‘defund’ the police. How to respond? We need immediate economic assistance and immediate intervention to calm the police brutality being protested across the nation. We also need to make systemic changes to even begin to eliminate the racism embedded in so much of guidelines of daily life in our Commonwealth. The coronaivirus pandemic demands change and resources as well. Can we respond quickly and effectively to these intertwined and mutually exacerbating multiple crisis? Can we build economic stability, protect the health and livelihood of our families, friends and communities, while rooting out systemic discrimination and ‘reopening’? The answer is “I don’t know, but we have to try and try now!” Like many of your elected representatives at all levels, I am developing proposed legislation and regulations in all these areas. Also like all your elected representatives, I want to hear your recommendations for ways to begin the attack and create a foundation for a vastly better future. To this end, I am hosting a Zoom townhall on June 18th at 7PM. I have invited guests representing many points of view and experiences to join me. We will all be responding to your questions, both those submitted ahead of time through the link on my facebook page and in my newsletter, as well as those asked during the townhall. The conversation will not be limited to one or two topics. The only limit will be the time available: 45 minutes. Please join me on the 18th. If you cannot enter the meeting, email the questions you would like asked. Right now, I am evaluating the police reform instituted in Camden, NJ, working with stakeholders to protect students with special needs as our schools reopen, considering what should be protected and expanded in our budget as preparation for the special session in early August, and advocating for your needs through the frustrating

and confusing unemployment and CARES Act mire. We have a lot of work to do today and tomorrow and tomorrow. I count on your support to represent you well. As we know you are aware, many Virginians are supporting a nationwide call to rethink, suspend or eliminate the School Resource Officer program. We agree that the School Resource Officer programs as we know them today must be scrutinized now with the goal of suspension or elimination. Data from school systems and universities across the country show that student suspensions, disciplinary actions and arrests have decreased by as much as 77 percent in schools with substantially limited SRO programs, such as the Suspending Kids to School program in Waco, Texas. Or that The Denver Public Schools limited and reoriented their SRO program using restorative justice strategies. Since instituting this approach, discipline referrals of African-American students fell to a 10 year low, Latino student referrals dropped by nearly 75 percent, and referrals of white students also decreased. The suspension rate decreased by 33 percent and the drop-out rate fell dramatically. These results are only a few examples of recent changes made in many school systems. We can begin to fund those counselors by repurposing the SRO funding in HB30, our new biennial budget. For example, Budget Item 406 F1 approves $4,700,000 the first year and $4,700,000 the second year from the General Fund for the School Resource Officer Incentive Grants Fund. This money should be used to increase the improved, but still inadequate, school counselors staffing ratio in the state budget. The Covid19 health crisis and accompanying economic crisis have offered us a unique and timely opportunity to act. Our schools have been closed for months and will not be completely open for months to come. SROs have had no place in our shuttered schools and likely will have no place in our gradual, partial reopening. Now is the time for a hiatus in the law enforcement presence in our schools and to make thoughtful changes for re-introducing or eliminating SROs in the future.

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Niece: Trump is Clinically Insane

It’s been a one-two punch of John Bolton’s blockbuster tell-all book released last week highlighting incredible stories about Donald Trump’s ineptitude and crazed handling of internal policy matters now combined with the release to the media this week of niece Mary Trump’s even more damning account of life growing up around her deranged and cruel uncle. These have been highlighted by Trump’s angry, strident defense of the Confederacy’s pro-slavery insurgency against the United States and even more stunning defense of the deadly Covid-19 coronavirus that, due to his insanity, has cost the lives of over 130,000 U.S. citizens under his watch. FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been right calling Trump a “co-conspirator” with the virus in its surging assault on the U.S. population far exceeding anything happening elsewhere in the world. Trump’s lunatic insistence that the virus be ignored in favor of restarting the economy is not only foolish on its face (the more the virus spreads, the less likely anyone will be inclined to step out to fuel a recovery), but conspires with the virus to kill and maim Americans by the hundreds of thousands. The concept of hell was developed for people like Donald Trump. His self-obsessed cruelty and indifference to the suffering of those under his non-care will assure, if there is any justice in this universe (and there most certainly is), the worst of outcomes for this tortured soul. Since he apparently doesn’t sleep like the rest of us, he doesn’t have the benefit of the ghastly ghosts from Dickens’ Christmas Carol to stun him into repentance, either. His only hope is to never die elst his wailing soul be trapped in a most horrid place to grievously suffer forever. Tens of thousands of copies of niece Mary Trump’s book, “Too Much — Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” were overnighted to journalists across America this week. The best reporters among them, like Rachel Maddow of MSNBC, having read it from cover to cover before devoting her onehour show to its contents Tuesday, have already painted a landscape of horror for millions of us concerning the matters that took place in the Trump home in Queens, New York, known as The House, where the author grew up with the sorry current President. Sad to say that far too much of the reporting about this book, crafted as it was with the help of top-drawer New York Times reporters and the author herself being a trained and certified expert in matters psychological, has already been pigeonholed into discrete facts, like Trump’s getting someone else to take his SATs for him and patterns of cheating on real estate deals and the undervaluation of his father’s estate. This kind of reporting misses by so much the giant proverbial “elephant in the room,” and can be blamed a lot for how Trump got elected in the first place, how the Mueller Report was buried, and how Trump could get re-elected. It throws out discrete foils that Trump can then elevate and tamp down one by one, reducing the entire thing into a useless and frustrating “Yes you did,” “No I didn’t” debate. The big picture on this is the entirety of the book taken as a whole, inclusive of its author and settings. That picture speaks to the fact that this man is totally insane. He is stark raving mad not in a political or partisan sense, but clinically. He should be locked away in an insane asylum, if such things still exist, in a padded cell. Works like Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” have denigrated the value of protecting society from the truly insane in this postmodern, post-truth age, and we see it in the repudiation of science and truth that’s contributed so much to the current state of affairs. Trump is a clinically-ill sociopath. His condition is described in detail in the professional psychiatric literature, and it is a frightening diagnosis. There is very little chance for a cure, the literature shows. Such persons who lie, cheat, hurt others and totally lack empathy can only be contained, not cured.

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Our Man in Arlington By Charlie Clark

Nextdoor, the online community bulletin board, usually serves up earnest tips on good plumbers and warnings about neighborhood car break-ins. But last month, amid coronavirus divisions in the Trump era, the north Arlington slice of Nextdoor traffic erupted into the insult-trading, debates-among-strangers you expect around the 700th comment on an ArlNow story. It started June 29, with Steven Newman of the Old Glebe neighborhood: “This morning around 9:30 a.m. at Tuckahoe Park there was a baseball game [with] two teams of children dressed in [league] uniforms. The game was being umpired…lots of adults and children watching. I didn’t see a single person, adult or children, wearing a mask….The adults and children watching were not practicing social distancing. The players were not practicing social distancing in the bleachers. I am concerned about the health of all involved and the health of all that may come in contact with individuals at the game. The adults are also not teaching children the need for everyone to wear a mask and practice social distancing.” Held days before Gov. Ralph Northam’s plan for Phase 3 reopening (and just before the surge in COVID-19 cases in southern and western states), the game took place near a Parks and Recreation sign: “Fields Are Open!” But the

fine print: “When possible, only play with family members or those in your household… Fields are not open for instruction, leagues, organized activities or special events.” The 269 comments broke down rapidly. “This should be satire but seems not to be,” came one from Old Glebe. “Glad to hear that kids are out playing and enjoying the summer as they should and glad to hear that some parents are smart enough to understand the healthy benefits to such activity instead of being trapped inside doing `virtual’ crap.” Stop the “sanctimonious virtue signaling.” From Arlington East Falls Church came a defense of the original: “What do you think people are in ICU’s for, the fun of it? You people are ridiculous.” Came a riposte from Yorktown: “You’d definitely be more comfortable without hearing viewpoints counter to your own.” From Old Dominion: Those conducting the game “were obviously fine with such a minimal risk instead of being paralyzed by extreme fear. Good for them.” Another from Old Glebe: “Since you have no fear, I hope you have been volunteering at the hospital with Covid-19 patients, without PPE if possible, to demonstrate your great bravery.” From Leeway Overlee: “If everyone could be happy that kids can actually play outside again and if you don’t like it...just move on. No one is breaking any laws,

and the world can’t stop anymore.” From High View Park: “Whether you like it or not, Virginia is reopening again, and Gov. Northam specifically highlighted baseball and softball as probably the two safest team sports.” Then spoke Shirley Brothwell, “Chair of the Sports Commission, which advises the County Board. Before everyone gets too upset about this event, I would like to assure the community that the diamond field leagues, run by volunteers, have been working diligently to develop safety protocols and educate coaches, umpires, and families on how to implement and abide by them. This post and the issues have been shared with the league and teams and further discussed by others. This is a learning process for everyone, and I would ask for a bit of patience as folks adapt to this new normal.” *** Lost to cancer, on May 26, Richard “Hal” Crawford, 68, a stalwart at Arlington Cultural Affairs as director of facilities and technical services. Hal was a classmate of mine at Yorktown High. He was admired for his work on plays and concerts at his beloved Lubber Run amphitheater, where I sought him out to praise that treasure in the woods. A Boy Scout counselor, he had retired just last December. Hal is survived by his wife of 45 years, Sandy, whom he had met at Lubber Run.

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FALLS CHURCHCALENDAR In response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic affecting the globe and policies enacted to avoid social gatherings, the News-Press will publish a list of virtual events weekly in lieu of its regular listings. If you have a virtual event you’d like to see listed, please email calendar@fcnp.com. Deadline is 5 p.m. Monday weekly.

CITYEVENTS SATURDAY, JULY 11 Falls Church Farmers Market To Go. The Falls Church Farmers Market has converted to a preorder, to-go event. All orders must be placed in advance of Saturday’s market which will be open from 8 a.m. – noon for pre-order pickup only in front of City Hall (300 Park Ave.). A list of participating

vendors and information on preordering can be found at fallschurchva.gov/547/Farmers-MarketTo-Go.

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Organized by Henderson Middle School students. Interested attendees are encouraged to wear masks, bring candles, flowers and messages. Community Center Tenns Courts (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church) 8:30 p.m.

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Flop Ball Workshop with Flow Circus (online). Interested participants can learn cool flop ball skills and a new “Flop-osophy” with Flow Circus! Pick up your own flop ball (a small bean bag) from the library and join the staff on Zoom. The group will learn some new tricks and maybe build a little resilience along the way. Email circ@fallschurchva.gov for more information or to register and get your flop ball. 3 – 4 p.m.

Didgeridoo Down Under (Online). Didgeridoo Down Under is a high-energy, Australia-themed show that combines music, culture, comedy, character building, and storytelling. Join Rob for a morning of music and discovery. Rob Thomas is a true didgeridoo pioneer in the U.S. He has played and made didges for 20-plus years; has performed throughout the country; has recorded several CDs; and has produced music for numerous films. Best for ages 4 and up, video of performance will be available for a week following the air date. 11

FRIDAY, JULY 10 Black Lives Matter Memorial.

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MONDAY, JULY 13 City Council Meeting (Virtual). The City Council meets the second and fourth Monday of the month, with the exception of August and December when only one meeting is held. The public is welcome to address the City Council on any topic during the public comment period. Public comments will be accepted at cityclerk@fallschurchva.gov, until the end of the meeting’s public hearing time, or by voicemail at (703) 248-5014 until 3 p.m. on the day of the meeting. The virtual meeting will be held pursuant to and in compliance with the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, Section 2.2-3708.2 and state and local legislation adopted to allow for continued government operation during the Covid19 emergency. 7:30 – 11 p.m.

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THURSDAY, JULY 9 Moonshine Society — Virtual Concerts in the Park, presented by Village Improvement Society. 7 p.m. Concert is viewable at VPIS.org.

FRIDAY, JULY 10 Josh Allen Band — 40-seat patio; first come, first serve. Falls Church Distillers (442 S. Washington Street, Ste A Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-858-9186.

SATURDAY, JULY 11 SWELL — 40-seat patio; first come, first serve. Falls Church Distillers (442 S. Washington Street, Ste A Falls Church). 5 p.m. 703-858-9186.

SUNDAY, JUNE 12 Grateful Jams at The Still — 40-seat patio; first come, first serve. Falls Church Distillers (442 S. Washington Street, Ste A Falls Church). 5 p.m. 703-858-9186.

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B�� N�� N�� Supercuts Falls Church Closes Supercuts Falls Church has closed. According to a notice on the door from Woodmont Properties, the landlord has taken possession of the space and changed the locks. The Falls Church Supercuts opened its no-appointment necessary hair services in Falls Church in 2015 and then expanded to offer a Supercuts Training Center to support stylists in 2016. This is the second closing in The Shops at Spectrum since Covid-19 impacted local businesses. The same notice has been posted on the space occupied by Beadazzled, which made its closure known in June. The Shops at Spectrum is located at 444 W. Broad Street, where Solace Outpost recently opened. For information regarding the notices, call 301-652-2303.

Ffx County EDA and NOVA Pro Bono Law Center Offering Free Legal The Fairfax County Economic Development Authority is partnering with the Northern Virginia Pro Bono Law Center and Start Small Think Big on the Covid19 Pro Bono Collaborative, an initiative to provide free legal assistance to small businesses in Northern Virginia during the Covid-19 pandemic, including help with federal assistance, grant and loan programs, leases and employment issues. Consisting of a network of trusted top-tier law firms, corporations and other legal service providers, the Covid-19 Pro Bono Collaborative provides a highly coordinated, emergency response to help small businesses and nonprofit organizations survive the economic impact of Covid-19. This collaborative is providing remote legal and financial clinics and one-on-one sessions on the Covid-19 stimulus package and similar programs as well as Covid-19 related legal issues. Interested small businesses can complete a form to request a consultation with a volunteer attorney or financial professional. These consultations will be conducted via phone or video. For more information, visit https://covid19.startsmallthinkbig.org/request.

Falls Church Arts is Hosting Online classes Falls Church Arts is hosting Seeds of Design: Mandalas, Garlands, Fractals and Mist, an on-line class on Tuesdays through July from 7 to 8 pm. Led by Margie Jervis, set and costume designer at Creative Cauldron, attendees will discover the building blocks of nature’s pattern design. This is a hands-on, no experience required class using white paper, colored markers, pens, and pencils. For more information about this class and other virtual programs, visit www.FallsChurchArts.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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Deadline Passes on Va. Power Offer To Underground Broad St. Utilities

High Drama as New F.C. Council Sworn In: Baroukh Gets Mayor, Webb Pulls Out

Virginia Power’s offer to the City of Falls Church for the renewal of its electric franchise here included undergrounding the utility lines in the Village Section of West Broad Street at the company’s expense, but the offer was pulled off the table when the City did not respond by the July 1 deadline.

It was a foreboding start to a new Falls Church City Council. On the eve of the swearing in of four new Council members last week, moments after the lights were turned out in the News-Press office marking the completion of last week’s edition, an ominous missive lit up the News-Press’ e-mail inbox.

Parking Study Continued from Page 1

in front of City Hall. He also proposed the prospect of 15 diagonal parking spaces in the 100 block of West Broad that would close one of the westbound lanes on weekends in the evenings. There is also an existing City surface parking lot with 13 spaces on Maple Avenue that is hidden, due to excess foliage, from the public and that could be enhanced, including by evening lighting for visibility and safety purposes. He said there could be passenger loading zones for Uber and Lyft users that would decrease the demand for parking, and increased efforts like that which the City has negotiated with Kaiser Permanente and its structured garage in the 100 block of Park Avenue. “You need only marginal increases in parking in that area,” he said. “There is not a huge problem, so you shouldn’t need to spend a lot of money on it.” He said that the area’s existing parking is “very infrequently at 100 percent.” In the future, he added, there will be “less not more of a parking problem,” as the age of the single family car is rapidly passing. They also proposed the use of inexpensive stationary cameras in selected lots that could identify open parking and relay the information on a regular basis to a parking or wayfinding app on a smartphone. He suggested the City parking spaces behind Mr. Brown’s Park in the 100 block of W. Broad be used as an experiment for the program, which is far less expensive, he said, than one might think. The technology will also allow better, directed parking enforce-

ment, alerting the police to cars that are overstaying the allotted times and saving the City money by reducing dependence on parking enforcement manpower. Council member Letty Hardi said she preferred the use of magnetometers for use efforts as they are less likely to infringe on public rights to privacy. Hardi was one of seven who were selected and interviewed by the Walker group in preparing the study. Others included Joel Dinkins, a downtown property manager, EDA chair Bob Young, also a property owner and developer, Joe Wetzel, a real estate developer, Sally Cole, executive director of the F.C. Chamber of Commerce, Treena Rinaldi, real estate agent, and Jeff Jeffrey, a downtown property owner. The team also met with Sonja Richardson of the police department, and held a roundtable including members of the police department and the offices of the Commissioner of the Revenue and Treasurer. The public parking spaces inventory studied included the spaces always available to the public in three lots — the 60 spaces in the lot behind Clare and Don’s Beach Shack, 13 spaces in the lot adjacent to N. Maple Ave., and 48 spaces in the lot near Mr. Brown’s Park. It was noted that the 60 spaces behind Clare and Don’s may be incorporated in the Insight development project garage. It was also noted that there are 160 spaces in the City Hall Lot and 145 in the lower level of the George Mason Square garage that become available to the public on weeknights and weekends. The Kaiser Permanente garage is only available on Friday nights and weekends. But a big key addressing the ongoing problem can involve better work at shared parking

arrangements, including the use of incentives to work together. On the issue of parking meters and fines, the EDA’s Mike Novotny proposed “monetizing public street parking,” but Saltzberg stressed that parking policies going forward should not be seen as an “economic generator.” “Our goal is that we want to encourage people to park here,” he said. The EDA’s Brian Williams stressed the need to provide for bicycles and electric scooters that relieve the need for vehicle parking spaces and congestion on the roads. Council member Phil Duncan noted that while the downtown area may be manageable, the situation around the intersection of West and W. Broad where the Founder’s Row project is now going may be less so. At least citizens in that area are perceiving that to be the case now, he said. EDA chair Young said that moves should be made to go for the “low hanging fruit” available to alleviate parking issues now, such as the eight spaces on Little Falls in front of City Hall.

THERE’S NOTHING LIKE the prime of your life, and the McMillen’s three-year-old yellow lab Colton is a testament to that. This young adult pup is finally ready to make the big decisions, like should he walk around the neighborhood or the park, whether or not to drink water before drinking and maybe realizing that chasing that squirrel just isn’t worth it. 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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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY D/B/A DOMINION ENERGY VIRGINIA FOR APPROVAL OF A RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE RIDER GV, GREENSVILLE COUNTY POWER STATION CASE NO. PUR-2020-00100 •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’s request represents an increase of $153,650,000 million annually, which would increase the bill of a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by $0.25. •A Hearing Examiner appointed by the State Corporation Commission will hold a hearing in this case on November 10, 2020. •Further information about this case is available on the SCC website at: https://scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information. On June 1, 2020, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”), filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an annual update of the Company’s rate adjustment clause, Rider GV (“Application”). Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with the Greensville County Power Station (“Greensville County Project” or “Project”), a 1,588 megawatt nominal natural gas-fired combined-cycle electric generating facility in Greensville County, Virginia, and 500 kilovolt transmission lines, a new switching station, and associated transmission interconnection facilities located in Brunswick and Greensville Counties, Virginia. In Case No. PUE-2015-00075, the Commission approved Dominion’s construction and operation of the Greensville County Project and also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider GV, for Dominion to recover costs associated with the development of the Project. The Greensville County Project began commercial operations in December 2018. In this proceeding, Dominion has asked the Commission to approve Rider GV for the rate year beginning April 1, 2021, and ending March 31, 2022 (“2021 Rate Year”). The two components of the proposed total revenue requirement for the 2021 Rate Year are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor and the Actual Cost True Up Factor. The Company is requesting a Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $133,981,000 and an Actual Cost True Up Factor revenue requirement of $19,669,000. Thus, the Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $153,650,000 for service rendered during the 2021 Rate Year. For purposes of calculating the revenue requirement in this case, Dominion utilized a rate of return on common equity of 9.2%, approved by the Commission in Case Nos. PUR-2017-00038 and PUR-2019-00050. If the proposed Rider GV for the 2021 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion, implementation of its proposed Rider GV on April 1, 2021, would increase the bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.25. 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 proceeding, Case No. PUR-2019-00086, with the exception that in this case the Company did not remove federal customers’ and retail choice customers’ load and usage for the purpose of designing rates. This Application is one of six filings Dominion made on or about June 1, 2020, for recovery of funds related to capital projects. If the revenue requirements in these filings are approved as proposed, the cumulative impact would be a monthly increase of approximately $0.96 for a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month. Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for the details of these and other proposals. TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may apportion revenues among customer classes and/or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Application and supporting documents and thus may adopt rates that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Application and supporting documents. A public hearing on the Application shall be convened on November 10, 2020, at 10 a.m., to receive the testimony of public witnesses and the evidence of the Company, any respondents, and the Staff. Further details on the hearing will be provided by subsequent Commission Order or Hearing Examiner’s Ruling. The Commission has taken judicial notice of the ongoing public health emergency related to the spread of the coronavirus, or COVID-19, and the declarations of emergency issued at both the state and federal levels. In accordance therewith, all pleadings, briefs, or other documents required to be served in this matter should be submitted electronically to the extent authorized by 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”). Confidential and Extraordinarily Sensitive information shall not be submitted electronically and should comply with 5 VAC 5-20-170, Confidential information, of the Rules of Practice. For the duration of the COVID-19 emergency, any person seeking to hand deliver and physically file or submit any pleading or other document shall contact the Clerk’s Office Document Control Center at (804) 3719838 to arrange the delivery. Pursuant to 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, the Commission has directed that service on parties and the Commission’s Staff in this matter shall be accomplished by electronic means. Please refer to the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing for further instructions concerning Confidential or Extraordinarily Sensitive Information. An electronic copy of the Company’s Application may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Lisa R. Crabtree, Esquire, McGuireWoods LLP, Gateway Plaza, 800 East Canal Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, or LCrabtree@mcguirewoods.com. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: https://scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information. On or before November 10, 2020, any interested person may file comments on the Application by following the instructions found on the Commission’s website: https://scc.virginia.gov/casecomments/Submit-Public-Comments. All comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2020-00100. On or before September 1, 2020, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation. Such notice of participation shall include the email addresses of such parties or their counsel. The respondent simultaneously shall serve a copy of the notice of participation on counsel to the Company. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. Any organization, corporation, or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by Rule 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2020-00100. On or before September 29, 2020, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission and serve on the Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. In all filings, respondents shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2020-00100. Any documents filed in paper form with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, except as modified by the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice. The Company’s Application, the Commission’s Rules of Practice, the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, and its Order Nunc Pro Tunc may be viewed at: https://scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information. VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY d/b/a DOMINION ENERGY VIRGINIA

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Top Left- FOR SALE 7307 Allan Ave, Falls Church Top Right- COMING SOON (pic attached) 7800 Antiopi Street, Annandale -4 Bedrooms -3.5 Bathrooms -Large Fenced-in Yard w/Deck -2-Car Garage Stock # 12420B MSRP $59,790 $4528 due at signing plus taxes, tag, title, acquisition, dealer processing fee of $799.No security deposit. Price includes all available incentives. Offer Expires 3/31/2019

Bottom Left- SOLD - pic attached 317 Lincoln Ave, Falls Church City -5 Bedrooms -4.5 Bathrooms -1-Car Garage -FCC Schools

We are grateful to everyone in our FCCPS for their time, creative solutions and continued support! Great job! Bottom Right - Buyers Wanted Square Attached

Ballston-Walk to Metro!

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7800 Antiopi Street, Annandale 2-Car Garage Large Fenced-in Yard w/Deck

4 Bed 3.5 Baths

Elegant living in the heart of Ballston! Gorgeous townhome has been gilded with luxurious touches -- sparkling new light fixtures, SMART home features like Nest thermostats and keyless door locks, new hardwood floors on the loft level and garage finishes for the car lover, including a beautifully coated floor and Tesla charging station. Open plan with high ceilings is great for entertaining. All bedrooms have en suite baths and the master has 2 Elfa-organized, walk-in closets. Top floor has potential to be a master suite with sunny balcony. Enjoy plenty of flexible space and the convenience of city-life with Metro and tons of shops and restaurants within walking distance. Easy access to DC and 66. Priced at $1,175,000.

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154 Haycock Rd, #B-3, Falls Church City 2 Bed 1 Bath

Steps to METRO Renovated Kitchen & Bath

308 Poplar Drive, Falls Church City 6-7 Bed 6.5 Baths REALTOR®

Expansive Corner Lot Custom Home w/ the finest architectural features

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