PAGE 20 | AUGUST 19 - 25, 2021 LEGAL NOTICE Invitation For Bids (IFB) IFB 0913-21-WMI South Washington & South Maple Improvements Project City of Falls Church PASSWORD-PROTECTED ELECTRONIC BIDS (SEALED) will be accepted by the City of Falls Church via electronic submission to the Purchasing Agent, James Wise, jwise@fallschurchva.gov (email) for the S Washington & S Maple Improvements Project. Due date for the electronic submission of Bids is September 13, 2021 @ 11:00 AM. A Non-Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams on August 31, 2021 @ 1:30 PM (see IFB for details). The IFB including all details and requirements may be downloaded from the City’s procurement website: www.fallschurchva.gov/Bids. Notice of the IFB may also be accessed via eVA, the Commonwealth of Virginia’s electronic procurement portal for registered vendors/suppliers, www.eva.virginia.gov. For more information and/or questions regarding this IFB contact the Purchasing Agent; (703) 248-5007; jwise@fallschurchva.gov. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, call (703) 248-5007 (TTY 711). PUBLIC AUCTION In accordance with the Virginia SelfStorage Act, section 55-419 F, notice is hereby given that the contents of the following rental storage spaces located at Fort Knox Self-Storage will be offered for sale:820-John Hunter & 946-Manager’s Unit. Sale will be held online at LockerFox. com. Pictures can be viewed at that site. Bidding will begin at 9:00am on August 20th and will conclude at 9:00am on August 25th winning bidder will be required to pay a $100.00 per unit refundable clean-out deposit (cash). Other Payments by Credit Card Only To: City of Falls Church City Council & Social Justice Advocates Dear Friends, To fill out the picture of civil rights achievements at all levels in the City of Falls Church, I submit the following to represent the LGBTQ aspirations and achievements here by way of one of our LGBT champions, Nicholas Benton: LGBTQ Representation In 1985, a founding pioneer in the modern LGBTQ movement, Nicholas Benton, moved into Falls Church and within five years founded and has run a progressive-oriented general interest weekly newspaper, the Falls Church News-Press, that has continued to serve as a binding force in the F.C. community for over 30 years, including spearheading many causes and interests promoting civil rights for all, in addition to the LGBTQ movement in particular. Some of those issues include: 1. In only its second year, in 1992, Benton and his newspaper sided editorially with students of “The Lasso” local high school newspaper in defense of their decision to run a display ad from a gay youth advocacy organization, SMYAL, in what was very heated issue in the City, 2. Benton’s newspaper editorially routinely advocated for equal rights for all in its weekly editions that have been distributed to every household in the City
C L AS S I F I E DS for 30 years.. 3. Benton founded the Diversity Affirmation Education Fund as a component of the Falls Church Education Foundation with two large contributions. The fund’s resources were used to bring diversityaffirmation education programs to the local high school and middle school. 4. Benton sponsored a forum at a local coffee shop in 2003 that featured legendary gay pioneers Frank Kameny and Lili Vincenz. 5. Benton gave over a space weekly for a decade in his newspaper for a column, “Anything But Straight,” written by LGBTQ advocate Wayne Besen. 6. Benton gave over space weekly for over a year in his newspaper to a column by LGBTQ-advocate Johnny Weir. 7. In 2019, Benton and his newspaper co-hosted a seminar in the City in conjunction with the Social Justice Committee of Falls Church, an arm of the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots that featured a series of important speeches that will soon be published by Benton in the form of a book. 8. Benton has published best selling books on LGBTQ themes, including, “Extraordinary Hearts, Reclaiming Gay Sensibility’s Central Role in the Progress of Civilization” (2013), “Gay Men in the Feminist Revolution” (2019) and “The Education of a Gay Soul” (2021). 9. In 2019, Benton officially founded LGBT Falls Church as an educational and advocacy organization on behalf of LGBT people. The organization looks to engage the Falls Church community as much as the pandemic allows. 10. Benton has been honored by Equality Virginia as an “OUTstanding Virginian” in 2012 and by the D.C. Pride organization as a “Capital Pride Hero” in 2014. For these reasons and more, I propose that annals of civil rights achievements in the City of Falls Church include recognition of Mr. Benton and these achievements. Best,
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