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Virginia Hospital Center, County Government Aim for a Letter of Intent This Month SCOTT McCAFFREY

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school year and 22,142 at the start of the 2013-14 school year.

That steady growth rate is projected to continue for at least a decade; school officials anticipate ultimately needing space to house 30,000-plus students, a figure that would surpass even the height of the Baby Boom in the early 1960s.

To accommodate the additional students,

Shovels likely won’t be in the ground for at least two or three years, but Virginia Hospital Center continues laying the groundwork for its first major expansion in more than a decade.

Hospital officials and the Arlington County government aim to have a draft, non-binding letter of intent ready by Sept. 24, the next step toward a potential land swap that would give the hospital 5.5 acres of land just north of its North George Mason Drive campus.

Pointing to a rise in patient counts at the hospital in recent years, “we’re going to need this space a whole lot sooner than we thought we would,” said Adrian Stanton, a hospital vice president, during a Sept. 9 briefing that drew about 100 community members.

Hospital officials in May formally asked County Board members to consider giving them government-owned land along North Edison Street, which has housed health-related government facilities that are being relocated elsewhere in Arlington. In exchange, the hospital says it is willing to offer cash or property it owns elsewhere in the county.

The letter of intent, if adopted by the County Board, would be just the first formal step in what could be extensive negotiations.

“This is going to be a long process,” predicted Mike Halewski, an assistant to the director of the county government’s Department of Community Planning, Housing and Development. “There’s a lot of work that’s involved.”

At the Sept. 9 meeting, county officials tried to keep the horse in the barn – suggesting to residents that it may be too early to start throwing out ideas for future use of parcels that might be part of a land swap. Those parcels include a number along Lee Highway at

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For the seventh year in a row, Arlington hosted the opening ceremonies of the 2015 Northern Virginia Senior Olympics. At left, Chuck Toftoy, who served as torch-bearer, is flanked by County Board Chairman Mary Hynes and by Jennifer Collins, acting manager of the senior-adult program with the county government’s Department of Parks and Recreation, during the Sept. 12 ceremony.

The 2015 Northern Virginia Senior Olympics has set a new record for participation, with more than 800 competitors from localities across the region taking part. More than three dozen of the competitors are more than 90 years young, with two clocking in just a year short of the century mark.

See coverage on Page 18 inside.

Student Enrollment Is Expected to Post a 4.7% Spike SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Arlington school officials say the county is poised to record a 4.7-percent year-over-year growth rate in its student body – less than was seen last year but still enough to put more stress on an already crowded school system.

Arlington Public Schools’ officials last spring projected a 2015-16 enrollment of 25,678 students when the final figures are tab-

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“Projections are tracking just about where we planned – my anticipation is we’re going to be very close if not right on,” Murphy said.

The school system counted 25,307 students on the first day of school Sept. 8, up from 23,179 at the beginning of the 2014-15

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Arlington government staff will outline their proposal for the future of Fire Station #8 during a community meeting set for Thursday, Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. at Yorktown High School.

Fire officials have been studying a host of options in addition to their preferred site of Old Dominion Drive for relocation of the station, currently located along Lee Highway. Fire officials contend that location would help cut response times to areas of single-family homes in Arlington’s northernmost reaches.

Residents of the High View Park neighborhood have protested at the possibility of losing the fire station to a location farther north, while open-space advocates have voiced concern that the potential for parkland on Old Dominion Drive would be diminished if a fire station were placed there.

The staff proposal will go to the County Board for review. For information on the project, see the Web site at http://projects. arlingtonva.us/projects/fire-station-8/.

New Water Main, Reservoir Upgrades on Tap: The Arlington County government is embarking on a yearlong, $4.1 million project that will include construction of a new 24-inch water main along Williamsburg Boulevard and modification of pipes and storage tanks at the Minor Hill Reservoir.

Work will be done by a contractor.

The projects “will boost the water system’s reliability and redundancy” by providing a backup water main to the county’s largest water-storage area, county officials said in a Sept. 9 statement.

Because water will cycle through the tanks more efficiently once the project is completed, local homes and businesses should find tap water to be fresher, officials predicted.

The effort will impact traffic on Williamsburg Boulevard at North Sycamore Street (lasting until later in the fall) and between North Federick and North Harrison streets (lasting for the duration of the project).

The Minor Hill Reservoir features four underground storage tanks with a combined capacity of 24 million gallons. The oldest tank dates to 1943.

AHC Makes Repayment to County Housing Fund: Non-profit housing developer AHC Inc. recently presented the Arlington County government with a $2.5 million loan repayment to the Affordable Housing Invesment Fund – one of the organization’s largest lump-sum repayments to date.

The county government’s loan fund has helped AHC develop more than 3,000 affordable apartments for Arlington residents. To date, AHC has repaid more than $38 million, including interest, to the fund.

The loan fund “has been a critical factor in helping us bring to fruition thousands of affordable homes for hardworking Arling-

Henry Gardens, a garden-style property with 82 apartments.

AHC partnered with another organization to acquire and renovate the property in 1996-97, and now Officials from AHC Inc. recently repaid more than $2.5 million back into the Aris the 100lington County government’s Affordable Housing Investment Fund (AHIF). Among those accepting the check were County Board Chairman Mary Hynes, Vice Chair- p e r c e n t owner of man Walter Tejada and acting County Manager Mark Schwartz. the propton families,” said Walter Webdale, AHC’s erty. president and CEO. “For every dollar we Along with paying down the loans from borrow from Arlington County, we are the county government, the ownership conable to leverage $3 in private funds, which solidation also enabled AHC to pay off a is a huge help in today’s competitive mar- loan from Virginia Housing Development ketplace.”

Authority, and set aside funds for needed “Arlington’s longtime commitment to capital improvements. affordable housing is one of the things Fort Henry’s community center prothat makes our community so vibrant to- vides extensive resident services, including day,” said County Board Chairman Mary after-school, teen-tutoring and summerHynes. “One of the tools that has worked camp programs. well over the years is our Affordable HousThe Sun Gazette and its predecessors ing Investment Fund.” have been the community’s beacon AHC’s $2.5 million repayment is the for news and information for nearly result of a complex strategy begun earlier 80 years, and we’re going strong! this year to consolidate ownership of Fort

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Candidates Split, Spar Over Plan for Affordable Housing SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

County Board candidates split down the middle on support for Arlington’s affordablehousing plan during campaign season’s annual kickoff Sept. 8.

Democratic nominees Christian Dorsey and Katie Cristol backed the plan, which goes to the County Board Sept. 19, while independents Michael McMenamin and Audrey Clement attacked it as ill-conceived and a potential budget-buster.

“This is something that will bankrupt the county,” said Clement, projecting an annual cost to taxpayers of $90 million or more – about double what the county government already spends on housing, a figure already far higher, on a percentage basis, than surrounding jurisdictions.

The four candidates squared off at the annual Arlington County Civic Federation candidate forum, held at Virginia Hospital Center. They are vying to succeed Democrats Mary Hynes and Walter Tejada, who did not seek re-election.

Clement said she feared that the public had no idea what was in the wide-ranging housing proposal, or the financial costs it would entail.

The county government, she said, “wants to buy the plan first, then discuss how to pay for it. This is a land mine.”

That drew a rebuke from Dorsey, criticizing “back-of-the-envelope” cost estimates and saying that if ways can be found to lower housing costs, residents will have more cash to pump into retail purchases.

With current housing costs, “you undercut the vitality of the rest of the economy,” he said.

The County Board debate came at the tail end of a meeting that also featured those vying in contested School Board and legislative races. But it was the race between Dorsey, McMenamin and Clement – who between them collectively have made nine unsuccessful bids for local office – and newcomer Cristol that drew most attention.

McMenamin (who has the backing of the Arlington County Republican Committee) said moving forward on the affordable-hous-

How’d They Do? The four candidates for County Board squared off at a Sept. 8 Arlington County Civic Federation forum. How did they do?

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ing initiative was likely to leave other key priorities, including education and open space, without enough resources.

“The county is betting the farm on affordable housing . . . that’s just wrong,” McMenamin said. Adding more resources to housing is “not the No. 1 priority right now for me.”

Cristol acknowledged that the plan, the result of a three-year community study, did not meet her definition of perfection. But, she said, “I have seen it evolve and seen it improve” in recent weeks as County Board members have tweaked it.

Cristol, who finished first in a six-candidate Democratic County Board primary in June, said she appreciated the focus on home-ownership options contained in the plan. Without doing something, she predicted, “Arlington will end up exclusively for the ultra-wealthy.”

County Board members are likely to adopt the housing plan, but that is just the start of a process that will include changes to county ordinances and, perhaps, the need for enabling legislation from the General Assembly to give localities more tools to promote affordable housing without actually building and operating it themselves.

If the county government expects a sympathetic ear from the legislature, they probably can forget it, said state Sen. Barbara Favola (D-31st).

“I do not seeing that authority coming any time soon,” said Favola, who was stood up at her own debate when Republican challenger George Forakis did not appear.

Favola said it would be “very, very challenging” to get the legislature to devolve more authority to localities, given what she termed the “very paternalistic attitude” of many in Richmond.

Favola’s advice to County Board members, of which she used to be one? “You have to accept half a loaf, not a full loaf.”

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In-person absentee voting for the Nov. 3 election starts on Friday, Sept. 18 at 8 a.m. at the county’s elections office, located at 2100 Clarendon Blvd.

Early voting will continue through Oct. 31, running weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with additional opportunities on Saturdays, Oct. 24 and 31 (8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Polling will be extended to 7 p.m. on Thursdays, Oct. 22 and 29.

Under Virginia law, not everyone can vote absentee, but permissible reasons have been liberalized in recent years. (Information can be found on the Web site at http://vote.arlingtonva.us.)

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Katie Cristol failed to impress us when she kicked off her campaign before the Arlington County Democratic Committee early in the year, but her stump performance has improved markedly and she had a strong night before delegates to the Arlington County Civic Federation.

She did reasonably well in defending her support for the pending affordable-housing plan, and hit key points (like the need for more inclusion in decision-making) without coming off as robotic. Cristol pulled some punches, such as on Fire Station #8, which was disappointing. But she smartly toned down the “generational-shift” mantra that she had pushed too hard earlier in the campaign. Overall, a much-improved and solid performance compared to the last go-around.

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There was a fear among his supporters that Mike McMenamin’s low-key demeanor and long absence from County Board politics would leave him overshadowed at the debate, but he held his own. Support his position in opposition to the affordablehousing plan or not, he made his points strongly, and also did not pull punches on Arlington’s economicdevelopment woes – banging away at the high cost of the county’s business (BPOL) tax. He promised to be a consensus-builder, but don’t all candidates? McMenamin was the lone candidate to bring up a need to upgrade the Neighborhood Conservation program, and he termed the street-paving situation “awful” (despite progress, most would agree).

McMenamin kept himself in the game with his performance.

GRADE: B

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We have been critical for much of the year for a lack of specificity in much of Christian Dorsey’s stump remarks, and with the Democratic primary in the rear-view mirror, we look forward to less beating around the bush on topics where taking a strong stand might alienate certain constituencies. Dorsey’s opening was polished – a little too much time on the need for working together and too little setting out positions, but he redeemed himself with perhaps the strongest response to a question about the affordable-housing proposal, which he supports. Dorsey also was solid when discussing ways (limited though they are) the county government can help stem the current mess in office-vacancy rates. It was a solid night for one of the campaign’s front-runners.

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Audrey Clement has run for County AUDREY CLEMENT AUDREY CLEMENT Board multiple times, so she knew the drill at the Civic Federation. She had what we would judge the strongest opening statement of the four candidates, hitting key points that included opposition to the proposed housing plan, the need to address office-vacancy rates and the county government’s ignoring public input.

Her responses to issues like the relocation of Fire Station #8 and the western Rosslyn plan were unambiguous. She bobbled when stating she believed the commercial-property-tax surcharge on property is unconstitutional (the Virginia Supreme Court unanimously held it to be OK). Her summation was largely a regurgitation of previous points, which probably was the only thing keeping her from getting an “A”.

GRADE: B++

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It’s Time to Move Forward After a three-year study and a wide-reaching community vetting process, the Arlington County Board will vote on September 19 to adopt the draft Affordable Housing Master Plan.

Our deep appreciation to the 18-member Working Group and the County staff for their sustained, thorough, data-based, creative work—and final documents responsive to the multitude of contributions and concerns from the community.

What the Plan is . . . and what it isn’t

It is a policy document—a set of goals and objectives. It is not a commitment to specific housing sites or level of spending.

Broader goals/new tools

Together, the AHMP, and the tools described in its Implementation Framework, create a strong foundation for continued innovation in providing the needed mix of housing and its better distribution.

Supports our people at all ages and life stages

Improves neighborhoods

Strengthens our economy/ competitveness Maintains diversity

Increases transit options/ reduces commutes

Attracts patrons and workers to shops, restaurants, entertainment, businesses

Offers opportunity and stability for students

A R A N G E O F H O U S I N G O P T I O N S A FAreF O RDABLE TO ALL INCOME LEVELS housing policies to ease affordability challenges important to Arlington residents?

Wide-ranging support The draft AHMP enjoys broad public support including— Doorways for Women and Families and A-SPAN, who rely on an adequate supply of affordable units to help their clients transition from, or avoid, shelter The Commission on Aging, because innovative housing options are needed that are connected to services, enabling seniors to age in Arlington Faith communities, including VOICE, because the AHMP is essential to helping Arlington remain true to its vision of being a diverse, inclusive community The Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Commission, which recognize that a range of workforce housing is essential to attracting and retaining businesses and to the vitality of the Arlington economy

A poll conducted during the Housing Study period illustrates the importance Arlington residents (based on a scientific sample) attach to eight example housing objectives (now reflected in the AHMP).

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Help seniors age in place

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Provide affordable housing options to the county’s workforce Provide housing assistance for disabled persons with lower incomes Help moderate- and low-income families with children in Arlington schools remain here Provide shelter/housing for homeless persons

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Have diversity by ethnic and racial background

77%

Have diversity by income and occupation

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Provide financial assistance for first-time homebuyers with low/moderate income

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Source: Arlington Affordable Housing Study: Resident Poll Results, April–June 2014 (Gray = “not important”; White = "don't know" or no response)

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Our View: Endorsements for Va. State Senate Seats Republicans currently hold a tenuous 21-19 majority in the state Senate, giving neither political party much room for error headed into the Nov. 3 general election.

Arlington is split three ways – carved up into the 30th, 31st and 32nd districts – with incumbent Democrats Adam Ebbin, Barbara Favola and Janet Howell all vying for re-election and likely to cruise into new terms.

Howell, whose 32nd District includes a relative sliver of Arlington as the easternmost part of a district snaking all the way out to Reston, is a Richmond power player with a quarter-century in office and a tight relationship with Democratic Senate leader Richard Saslaw. Regardless of which party controls the Senate, Howell will remain a force to be reckoned with and need not sweat it out to Election Day – she is unopposed.

Favola (D-31st) and Ebbin (D-

30th) each came to office four years ago after succeeding Mary Margaret Whipple and Patsy Ticer.

They had paid their dues: Favola spent more than a decade on the Arlington County Board prior to her election, while Ebbin toiled amid the outnumbered Democratic caucus in the House of Delegates before winning the chance to move across the hall to the more evenly split, and congenial, upper house.

Favola has picked up an opponent in Republican George Forakis, who was unknown in political circles when he announced and did little over the summer to build name recognition, raise significant cash or get a start articulating why Favola – a known quantity to local voters – deserves to be displaced. For whatever reason, he even opted against appearing at the annual Arlington County Civic Federation debate Sept. 8.

Ebbin is being challenged by Independent Green Ron Fisher, who has run unsuccessfully for several other political offices in the past and, while pleasant enough, has added little to the political discourse.

Favola and Ebbin clearly have a mastery of the subject matter necessary to be taken seriously in Richmond even if they are, politically, somewhat left of the power-brokers of each party. And while each has a propensity for the occasional bit of grandstanding, Favola and Ebbin also have knuckled down and worked on serious legislation that has benefited all Virginians.

It would be a fool’s game to try and predict if Republicans will hold or Democrats will take the state Senate on Nov. 3. But the performances of Howell, Favola and Ebbin merit their return to Richmond, and we support all three for re-election.

Creativity Will Help Solve County Housing Crunch Editor: The proposed Affordable Housing Master Plan is an excellent example of Arlington’s thoughtful and comprehensive planning efforts – the product of a three-year public process, involving a deep analysis of our current housing resources, needs and best practices.

Our congregation learned about the need for affordable housing first-hand. In 2012, we embarked on a journey that has taken us outside our walls and out into our community, driven by the question, “For whom are our hearts breaking in our community?”

Through this discernment process, Ar-

lington Presbyterian Church committed to redeveloping our property to provide affordable housing for those in the community.

In January of this year, approximately 200 commissioners of the National Capital Presbytery gave a standing ovation and unanimous approval for the church to sell its property to the Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing (APAH) to build 173 units of affordable housing on the church site along Columbia Pike. APAH is seeking the necessary financing and landuse approvals during 2015, with hopes of closing on the property in the summer of 2016.

Only God could have imagined that mending broken hearts would mean tearing down literal walls and building something completely new. We hope our journey inspires other congregations to look at new ways of connecting with their communities.

We strongly encourage the County Board to adopt the affordable-housing plan, and join us in creating housing options for all residents of Arlington.

Susan Etherton Arlington Etherton is affordable-housing team leader for Arlington Presbyterian Church.

Editor: As a resident of Arlington for more than 25 years, I am writing to express my strong support for Arlington’s Affordable Housing Master Plan, and encourage our County Board to unanimously adopt the plan at its Sept. 19 meeting.

I have spent my professional career working on issues related to providing housing for those who can least afford it in our country.

Nationally, we are at a crisis where the high cost of housing is eroding the financial and family stability of millions of Americans, particularly the 11 million renters who devote more than half their income to housing.

Arlington is a wealthy, dynamic and growing community, but too many of our

fellow citizens are struggling with escalating housing costs.

This is not only a personal struggle for the affected families, but a broader challenge for our community severely impacting our ability to retain seniors, young families just starting out, and a diverse workforce in retail, construction, child care, medicine and education.

Arlington’s proposed plan is the culmination of three years of extensive study, analysis and consultation. Behind the plan are real people – the more than 13,000 families who had to relocate because their rent increased dramatically or their property was redeveloped. Today, a four-person family making $65,000 cannot afford the average rent ($2,114) for a two-bedroom apartment in Arlington.

Arlington is joining many American cities – such as Denver, Seattle and the District of Columbia – all of whom have identified affordable housing to be a critical element of a vibrant, local economy and who are creating new plans and resources to address their affordable housing needs.

Arlington has a moral obligation to serve all of our residents, including those who find it difficult to remain due to the growing financial strains from high housing costs.

The Affordable Housing Master Plan deserves the unanimous vote and support of the County Board.

Robert Rozen Arlington Rozen chairs the Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing.

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Editor: Over the past few weeks, the Coalition of Arlingtonians for Responsible Development, or CARD, has reviewed revisions and recommended changes to the draft Affordable Housing Master Plan before it goes up for a vote before the County Board on Sept. 19.

Committed-affordable housing should have two main priorities: (1) to provide affordable-housing opportunities to elderly residents and residents with disabilities, and (2) to provide opportunities for upward economic mobility for families and individuals living in affordable housing.

Objective and reputable data has concluded that children who grow up in middle and high-income neighborhoods have a greater chance of moving up the economic ladder than those who grow up in areas where affordable housing is clustered and economically segregated. The availability of affordable housing options throughout Arlington, especially in middle- and highincome neighborhoods, is key to the ability of working individuals and families to achieve financial security and independence.

Unfortunately, this is not a concern of all of our elected officials. While we see this as a matter of social justice, from our review of the proposed plan and conversations with some board members and staff, the goal of affordable housing is simply to provide housing. There is no objective for affordable housing to be built in prosperous communities containing the support systems that pave the way toward economic independence.

Arlington must do better. Arlington can be a community where every child has the opportunity to achieve his or her potential.

Arlington can and must provide the best that it has to offer to all of our residents through equal access to resources, services and opportunities by our own highest standards, not based off of complicated federal standards or justifications based on the efforts of neighboring jurisdictions.

Without such a vision, the affordablehousing plan will continue to be merely a way to provide a labor force for Arlington businesses, and a means to achieve meaningful diversity and social justice.

We call upon the County Board to use this plan as an opportunity to forge a new era of “smart growth” where housing is not simply a goal, but also a means to secure Arlington’s future as a truly inclusive, world-class community.

Eric Berkey, Sue Campbell, Dedra Curteman, Danielle Hallcom, Kay Langenbeck, Maura McMahon, Joye Murphy, Katherine Novello Arlington The signatories are members of the Coalition of Arlingtonians for Responsible Development steering committee.

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Bob Brink has been appointed as senior legislative adviser to the governor, joining an effort “focused on finding common ground with members of both parties,” the governor’s office announced on Sept. 4.

Brink represented the 48th District in the House of Delegates as a Democrat for 17 years before moving in July 2014 to the executive branch, where he has served as deputy commissioner for aging services in the Virginia Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services.

The 48th District includes a wide swath of central and northern Arlington and a portion of McLean. After his resignation, Brink was succeeded by Democrat Rip Sullivan.

Prior to his service in the General Assembly, Brink served as counsel to two congressional committees, and also served as deputy assistant attorney general for legislative affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice.

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NAUCK GEARS UP FOR COMMUNITY PRIDE DAY: The Nauck Civic Association

will celebrate its 88th anniversary and the 171st anniversary of the founding of Arlington’s first historically-black community with the annual Nauck Civic & Community Pride Day on Saturday, Sept. 19 from noon to 5 p.m. at Drew Model School and Community Center, 3500 23rd St. South.

The event’s theme is “Building Bridges,” and it is designed to connect longtime residents of the community with relatively new arrivals. The broader community is invited.

For information on planned activities, as well as information on volunteering and sponsorships, see the Web site at www. ncaarlington.org.

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CIVIC FEDERATION ADDS MEMBER, APPROVES NAME CHANGE FOR ANOTHER:

The Arlington County Civic Federation has added a new member association and seen another change its name.

Accepted for membership on Sept. 8 was the Shirlington Civic Association, which was founded earlier in the summer and has negotiated boundaries with neighboring civic asociation. The association includes the Village at Shirlington as well as a host of condominiums, including The Arlington, Courtbridge I, Courtbridge II, Windgate I, Windgate II, Windgate III, Heatherlea and Shirlington Villages, along with apartments in the area.

In addition, the Civic Federation approved a change from the Columbia Heights West Civic Association, which has changed its name to the Arlington Mill Civic Association and has slightly amended its boundaries to include a residential area north of Columbia Pike extending west to East Falls Church.

BIKE TOUR OF AFFORDABLE-HOUSING PROPERTIES SET: As part of Affordable

Housing Month, the Arlington County government will host an “Affordable Housing Bike Tour” on Saturday, Sept. 26 from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., beginning at Clarendon Boulevard and North Pierce Street in Rosslyn.

The event covers two miles, with tours of the Parc Rosslyn and Colonial Village apartments before ending at the Clarendon Day festival.

The event is free. Registration is not required, but R.S.V.P.s are appreciated and can be made to Eric Timar at etimar@arlingtonva.us.

AUTHOR DISCUSSES ‘FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL’: As part of National Prepared-

ness Month, the Arlington library system will present Pulitzer Prize-winner Sheri Fink discussing “Five Days at Memorial” on Monday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. at Central Library.

The book looks at life and death in a New Orleans hospital that was overwhelmed during Hurricane Katrina in September 2005.

Fink is a correspondent for the New York Times, and received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for her writing about the hospital. She also shared the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for a team effort by the Times covering the Ebola crisis in West Africa.

The community is invited.

LIBRARY HOSTS FORUM ON SHAKESPEARE’S POTENTIAL CATHOLICISM:

Peter Dickson will discuss “The Great Debate: Was Shakespeare a Secret Catholic?” on Sunday, Sept. 20 from 3 to 5 p.m. at Central Library.

The discussion, which occurs a few days before Pope Francis arrives in Washington, looks at the historic evidence suggesting that Shakespeare may have adhered to the Roman Catholic faith at a time in English history when it was dangerous to do so.

Dickson, an Arlington resident who has long studied Shakespeare, says one of the intriguing facts pointing toward Shakespeare as a secret Catholic was that the Vatican in 2011 issued a postage stamp honoring him, “siding openly with the maverick Shakespeare scholars who are convinced that the Bard lived a double life to hide his religious convictions.”

The event, which is sponsored by the Washington chapter of the Kenyon College alumni association, presumes for discussion purposes that works attributed to Shakespeare were in fact penned by the man from Avon, rather than another, such as the Earl of Oxford.

The event is free, and the community is invited.

AAUW WORKSHOP LOOKS AT EMPOWERMENT: The Arlington branch of

the American Association of University Women (AAUW) will host a panel presentation – “Give + Get: Empowering By Design” – on Monday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Woman’s Club of Arlington, 700 South Buchanan St. The event will focus on issues of leadership, diversity and mentoring among women. Panelists will include Nyambo Anuluoha of Arlington Community Federal Credit Union; Krysta Jones of the Virginia Leadership Institute; Leora Lihach, an honors student at Marymount University; and Dania Matos of Latinas Leading Tomorrow.

The program is free, but registration is required. To register, call (703) 532-3830 or see the Web site at http://goo.gl/forms/ k7LBesJBvp. For information on the Arlington branch of the AAUW, see the Web site at http://arlington-va.aauw.net/.

ROCK SPRING TO LOOK AT ISSUES OF RACE, RACISM: Rock Spring Congrega-

tional United Church of Christ is embarking on a year-long examination of issues surrounding race and racism in the U.S. The event kicks off with a sermon series

by Rev. Kathy Dwyer, using the Book of Esther to discuss imbalances of power and taking risks to effect change.

Evening sessions will be held on Sept.

20, Sept. 27 and Oct. 4 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. to explore the fundamental issues of racism, the role of race in society, and the theme of race in religion. Future programs will be announced later.

The community is invited; the church is located at 5010 Little Falls Road.

For information, call (703) 538-4886 or see the Web site at www.rockspringucc. org.

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Arlington Notes II The 18th annual Clarendon Day Festival will be held on Saturday, Sept. 26. For a complete schedule of events, see the Web site at www.clarendon.org.

MEETING TO LOOK AT DESIGN OPTIONS FOR SKATE PARK: The Arlington County

Department of Parks and Recreation will hold a community meeting to showcase preliminary designs for the Powhatan Springs Skatepark on Thursday, Sept. 17 at 7:15 p.m. at Arlington Mill Community Center, 4975 Columbia Pike.

The meeting builds on a “visioning” process conducted in May, along with feedback from skate enthusiasts and the public.

At the meeting, attendees will be able to vote for their favorite design.

FESTIVAL CELEBRATES BEST OF LATIN AMERICA: The Arlington County Depart-

ment of Parks and Recreation will host a Latin-American Festival on Sunday, Sept.

27 from 1 to 5 p.m. at Kenmore Middle School.

The event will feature live music, authentic food, local artisans, activities for children and performances from groups representing various Latin American countries.

Admission is free. For information, see the Web site at http://parks.arlingtonva.us/ latinoamerican-festival/.

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music and equipment and repair instruments, maintain uniforms, cover transportation needs throughout the year, hire professional musicians to work with students, and provide scholarships for students to participate on trips.

For information on the Yorktown band program, including its 2015-16 schedule, see the Web site at www.yorktownband. org.

WAKEFIELD BAND PROGRAM HOSTS ‘TAG DAY’ FUNDRAISER: The Wakefield

High School band program will hold its annual Tag Day fundraiser on Saturday, Sept. 19.

Band members will be out and about in the community, speaking with residents and providing information about the financial needs of the program and its upcoming 2015-16 schedule.

Contributions to the band program can be sent to Wakefield High School Music Department, 1325 South Dinwiddie St., Arlington, Va. 22206.

For information, see the Web site at www.wakefieldband.org.

CHURCH TO HOST SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE: St. Peter’s Episcopal Church will

host a service of remembrance on Sunday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. at the church, 4250 North Glebe Road in Arlington.

The interfaith event will feature readings, music, prayer and candlelight, designed to remember, honor and celebrate the lives of loved ones who have died, whether recently or in the past.

For information, call (703) 536-6606 or see the Web site at www.saint-peters.org.

Planetarium will host a number of events as part of its fund-raising weekend, to be held Sept. 18-20.

A special festival is slated for Saturday, Sept. 19 from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the planetarium, located adjacent to the Arlington Education Center on North Quincy Street.

The event will feature screenings of three shows – “Super Volcanoes,” “Exploding Universe” and “Accidental Astronauts” – as well as a visit by and talk from Sir Isaac Newton.

There also will a screening of “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” on Friday, Sept. 18 at 7 p.m., and additional programs throughout the weekend.

For information, see the Web site at www.friendsoftheplanetarium.org.

and Fellowship series at Clarendon United Methodist Church continues on Thursday, Sept. 24 with a presentation by Jane Dixon on her recent travels to the mountainous area of Haiti.

The event begins with a brief worship service with music at noon, followed by lunch ($5) and the program at 1 p.m. The community is invited.

The church is located at 606 North Irving St. For information, call (703) 5279574 or see the Web site at www.morefaith. org.

LEADERSHIP ARLINGTON PREPS WINE CELEBRATION: Leadership Arlington has

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announced plans for its annual wine-tasting event, to be held on Tuesday, Nov. 17 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Marymount University’s Main House.

The event will feature fine wines and hors d’oeuvres from Lyon Hall and camaraderie, while supporting the initiatives of Leadership Arlington.

For information and tickets, see the Web site at www.leadershiparlington.org.

Yorktown High School band program will participate in the annual Tag Day fundraiser on Saturday, Sept. 19.

Students, dressed in their uniforms and armed with information about the current Yorktown band program, will visit households, with funds raised used to purchase

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support group for patients with head and neck cancer will meet on Wednesday, Sept.

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The program is led by oncology professionals, and is free.

To register and for information on other programs, call (703) 558-6913.

CHILDREN’S AUTHOR PRESENTS PROGRAM AT LIBRARY: Children’s author Eric

Litwin – writer of “The Nuts” and “Pete the Cat” – will appear at Arlington Central Library on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 2 p.m.

As part of the interactive performance, Litwin will sing, play the guitar and harmonica, share musical stories and bring his books to life.

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With a lot size of more than 20,000 square feet (nearly a half acre) and sumptuous French-eclectic architectural detailing, this week’s late-1960s showplace offers a classic pedigree, while a major renovation in recent years opened up the property and proffers 21st-century accoutrements.

All this, and the home is set back amid serenity and privacy, with the large, creative pool and rear gardens making it a showstopper for entertaining.

The property currently is on the market, listed at $1,885,000 by Susan Joy of Long & Foster Real Estate.

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(Statepoint) A seasonal home makeover doesn’t need to cost a fortune or be difficult to execute. Quick, easy and innovative ideas can give your home the fall flair needed to celebrate the season.

“Seasonal décor updates should jive with your home’s style, while also adding something extra to the mix,” said Eric Cohler, who has been listed as a top international designer by House Beautiful and Elle Décor magazines.

“Keep it easy though, so that when the season is over, you won’t end up with a lack of motivation to refresh and a space that feels passé.”

To add autumn elements to your home without completely revamping your interior, consider these innovative ideas: Rotating Gallery: A digital photo display is the easiest way to showcase seasonally suitable photos of friends and family. In the fall, that means Halloween portraits, autumn picnics, trips to the pumpkin patch, and back-toschool photos.

Consider rotating the artwork displayed in your home to highlight seasonal colors. Whether you want to get spooky for Halloween or focus on fall’s natural hues, this task won’t take long to do and will greatly impact the look and feel of each room.

Pops of Color: “With relatively little effort, you can add bright, bold colors to your home by swapping out the knobs and handles on your cabinets, credenzas and other furniture,” Cohler said.

Seasonal sets of cabinet hardware can keep the look fresh in your home.

All you need is a screwdriver and a few hours.

From kitchens to bathrooms to bedrooms and living areas, you can make your rooms pop with bold colors. Think orange, purple and black for Halloween flair, or greens, reds and browns for a natural effect.

Curtains: Another easy way to make a quick look-and-feel change to a room is by swapping out curtains.

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‘15 N.Va. Senior Olympics Sees Record Participation SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

A record 814 competitors – 37 of them over age 90 and two clocking in just a year shy of the century mark – are participating in the 2015 Northern Virginia Senior Olympics, which runs through Sept. 25 at venues across the region.

Events kicked off Sept. 12 with Chuck Toftoy, a board member of the committee overseeing the competition, running across Thomas Jefferson Community Center in Arlington with a ceremonial torch.

Events already had started with a threemile walk. The crowd was in the spirit of the event, giving as much applause to the athlete who finished last in the walking competition as the one who finished first.

“No matter how old or how young, being active . . . is great for the mind, is great for the body, is great for the soul,” said Arlington County Board Chairman Mary Hynes, who welcomed competitors during the opening ceremonies.

When the Northern Virginia Senior Olympics debuted in 1982, it had 75 participants.

Now in its 33rd year, it continues to add new events – cornhole is among the new ones for 2015 – and has seen participation reach record levels each of the past four years. Events are spread over nearly two-dozen venues.

The goal, said committee chair Dave Jerome, is to “promote healthy fitness and psychological well-being” while also encouraging fellowship.

Competitors come from the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William and Fauquier and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church. Two other jurisdictions have expressed interest in joining, said Judy Massabny, who coordinates the competition from her post with the Arlington County Office of Senior Adult Programs.

The 2015 Senior Olympics is benefiting from the support of more than 150 volunteers

The 1600-meter run was among the first events of the annual competition.

giving their time during the nearly two-week run of the competition. “We cannot put on these games without them,” Jerome said.

Hynes said the growth in participation in Northern Virginia Senior Olympics mirrors a regional trend toward engaging the region’s expanding senior population in the full range of local life.

“What you know, the experiences you’ve had, all contribute to making great communities,” she told competitors.

Results and other information from the competition is available on the Web site at www.nvso.us.

Metro Preps for Pope Francis

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is bracing for impacts related to the Sept. 22-24 visit of Pope Francis to the Washington area.

“Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend events during the Papal visit, which will likely result in crowding and delays on trains and buses, and could produce near-Inauguration ridership levels at selected stations,” Metro officials said in a statement laying out preliminary plans to address the crowds.

The transit system will take steps to provide additional train service during non-peak hours Wednesday and Thursday during the papal visit, although it does not have the ability to add significant capacity during the traditional morning and evening rush hours.

“Riders should expect significant crowding aboard trains and at rail stations,” officials said. “Riders may need to wait extended periods of time – possibly hours – before re-entering the Metrorail system at certain stations. In addition, bus customers should expect extensive detours and service adjustments as a result of events and asso-

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Metro is continuing to plan for the Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Wednesday afternoon, which is expected to place “extraordinary ridership pressure” on the Red Line at the height of rush hour.

Brookland Station, the closest station to the event, is the smallest Red Line station, and is able to accommodate fewer than 5,000 boardings per hour during normal conditions, so Metro and the D.C. Department of Transportation are developing plans for supplemental shuttle-bus service from two adjacent Red Line stations: Fort Totten and Rhode Island Avenue.

Updates on planning will be available on the transit agency’s Web site at www. wmata.com.

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Politics Continued from Page 4

3 at 7 p.m. to be counted.

2015 is being known by some as the “54-3-2-1 election,” as Arlington voters will select five constitutional officers, four members of the House of Delegates, three state senators, two County Board members and one School Board member. Voting for the state senators and delegates will be done by district; all other races are at-large.

Oct. 13 is the deadline to register to vote for the coming general election.

School Board Contenders Straddle the Line on Use of Open Space: In their first joint appearance of campaign season, the two candidates for School Board intimated they would keep open minds and take site-by-site approaches on the contentious question of placing school facilities on open space.

“Everything is on the table,” said Reid Goldstein, who earlier this year won the Democratic endorsement in the race to succeed School Board member Abby Raphael.

“I’m all for novel ways” of addressing the school system’s capacity crunch, Goldstein said at the Sept. 8 Arlington County Civic Federation candidate forum. While avoiding specifics, he warned that options might include those that create “short-term pain for long-term gain.”

Brooklyn Kinlay, who has the endorsement of the Independent Green Party, said it would “be a tragedy” to have to use park-

land for school construction. But she didn’t rule it out.

“Sometimes you have to use an area where you played on swings as a little kid,” Kinlay said at the forum, which attracted a full house and also featured candidates for County Board and legislative offices.

School Board posts in Virginia are officially non-partisan, but political parties can “endorse” candidacies. All five incumbent board members won the Democratic endorsement before going on to generalelection victories.

Goldstein – who twice has sought a School Board seat before – expressed frustration that the school system was moving lethargically on addressing a capacity crisis that is expected to only worsen in coming years. “We’re not moving fast enough,” he said.

Arlington Public Schools this month opened a new elementary school – Discovery – to help take pressure off neighboring North Arlington elementaries. A new elementary school for the middle or southern part of the county also is in the works; although a site has not been picked, the timetable calls for the school to be open for the 2019-20 school year.

Cristol Picks Up Endorsement of Women’s Groups: County Board candidate Katie Cristol has won the endorsement of the Virginia Democratic Women’s Caucus and the Virginia chapter of the National Association for Women.

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School Board candidates Brooklyn Kinlay and Reid Goldstein squared off Sept. 8 at the Arlington County Civic Federation’s annual candidate forum.

sible,” said Marj Signer, an Arlington resident and president of Virginia NOW. Cristol, one of two Democratic nominees in the Nov. 3 election, pledged if elected to “continue to advocate for policies that enhance women’s lives.”

Candidates Invited to Share Views of Arts: OperaNova has invited candidates on the ballot in Arlington to participate in a forum on the importance of arts in the community, an effort to gauge candidate support for arts funding.

The event is slated for Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. at Glebe Elementary School. Candidates for County Board, School Board, constitutional offices and the General Assembly are being invited to participate.

It will be the second time the organization has sponsored such a panel discussion.

For information, e-mail Miriam Miller at mcdm1@verizon.net.

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Swap

Continued from Page 1 North George Mason, along with one at South Carlin Springs Road.

Acting County Manager Mark Schwartz said he already is receiving suggestions for use of swapped land, and expects a deluge of such ideas as the process moves forward.

“In Arlington, there isn’t a piece of property that you couldn’t think of a thousand uses for,” Schwartz said.

Just getting to an agreement about which parcels (if any) might be incorporated into a swap will be complicated enough, the county manager predicted.

“It’s just uncertain how long it’s going to take,” he said. “We’ve been talking in terms of years, not months.”

(One resident said his neighbors probably shouldn’t start wringing their hands over construction at the North Edison Street site, since “most of us will be long dead before we see anything of substance.”)

Any agreement between the county government and the hospital would hinge on Virginia Hospital Center’s receiving approval of its development plan by both the county and state governments.

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the county school system this month successfully opened Discovery Elementary School on time, and has added a few extra trailers at schools around the county. More

ton Employment and Education Center (SEEC) will present County Board Vice Chairman Walter Tejada with its 2015 Emily DiCicco Humanitarian Award during a celebration of the organization’s 15th anniversary.

Tejada will be honored at an event slated for Wednesday, Sept. 30 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Fairlington Villages Community Center, 3005 South Abingdon Street.

Tejada, who is retiring from the County Board at the end of the year, was the founding president of SEEC, and will be honored for his extensive work within Arlington’s immigrant community.

Suggested donation levels are $25 for individuals, $100 for hosts, $250 for sponsors. R.S.V.P.s are requested by Sept. 25.

Registration and contributions can be sent to SEEC, c/o Leni Gonzalez, 4710 31st St. South, Arlington Va. 22206, or through the Web site at www.seecjobs.org.

Civic associations representing the Waycroft-Woodlawn, Tara-Leeway and John M. Langston neighborhoods – which are closest to the hospital – have banded together to establish a task force as the planning process ramps up. Sharon Dorsey, president of the Waycroft-Woodlawn Civic Association, said she expects it to be operational for at least two years, maybe more.

Other civic associations in the vicinity will be brought into the process once the nucleus group is fully functioning.

Founded in the early 1940s and seeing its last major expansion in 2004, Virginia Hospital Center has been hit with a 20percent rise in emergency-room visits and a whopping 60-percent increase in baby deliveries over the past five years, Stanton said, and is seeing “quite an increase” in patients across nearly every department.

“We are at our limit,” he said. “We cannot go up, we cannot go out. We see [the Edison Street parcel] as the only viable option.”

The hospital is certified by state health officials to operate at a 350-bed capacity, but “on any given day, we might see upwards of 400, 450 patients wanting beds,” Stanton said.

With or without the North Edison Street property, the hospital plans to go forward with redevelopment of parts of its existing campus. new facilities are on the way.

Murphy said that despite having to squeeze in additional students, Sept. 8 proved “a wonderful start” to the school year.

It was a sentiment echoed at the meeting by School Board Chairman Emma Violand-Sanchez.

“It was exciting – a great day,” she said.

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n Jennifer Holloman of Arlington earned a master of health administration degree and master of business administration degree during summer commencement exercises at Baylor University.

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n Ten Arlington Public Schools students

have been named National Merit Semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corp.: – From Washington-Lee High School: Katherine Emanuel, Darby Haller, Catherine Hamilton, Peter Huson, David Preiss and Apollo Yong, – From Yorktown High School: Madison Ihrig and Justin Wu. – From Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology: Marcus Alder and Juliana Bain.

Approximately 16,000 high school seniors were named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists for 2016, representing just over 1 percent of the 1.5 million juniors who took the 2014 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

Three types of Merit Scholarship awards will be offered in 2016: National Merit $2,500 scholarships, corporate-sponsored scholarships, and college-sponsored scholarships. Merit Scholarship winners will be announced in spring 2016.

Kateryna Smyk, Andriy Nix, Anna Sophia Nix and Oleksiy Smyk. In the background is the historic Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv. Andriy and Anna Sophia Nix are members of Club Ukraine at Washington-Lee High School.

“inspired us to do even more to help those in need in eastern Ukraine.”

The club plans to expand its socialmedia presence during the current school year, and will host regular teleconference calls from Washington-Lee to Kyiv.

Leaders of Club Ukraine at Washington-Lee High School traveled to Kyiv, Ukraine, in August to deliver funds raised by the club to support the people of that nation.

Funds were delivered to For the Future of Ukraine, an organization aiming to assist those victimized by warfare in the eastern part of the country.

“Widows and orphans will be greatly assisted by these funds,” said Kateryna and Oleksiy Smyk, representatives of For the Future of Ukraine.

Club Ukraine president and vice president Andriy Nix and Anna Sophia Nix presented the funding.

“It was an amazing opportunity to meet with people actively assisting those in need on the war front,” said Andriy Nix. The meeting, Anna Sophia Nix said,

An information session for local students interested in participating in the upcoming Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA), sponsored by the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 5:30 p.m. at the Chamber office, 2009 14th St. North.

Attendees will meet with program manager Alex Held, who will discuss the program and answer questions from prospective students and their parents.

The application period for the coming session is still open. Students do not have to attend school in Arlington, but need to be available to attend classes held at Marymount University Wednesday from 4 to 7 p.m.

For information, call (703) 525-2400 or see the Web site at www.arlingtonchamber. org.

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n The Washington-Lee High School Best Buddies chapter has been named an overall outstanding high school chapter by Best Buddies International.

The award was presented to students by founder and president Anthony Shriver at the Best Buddies Conference in Indiana.

Best Buddies is dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Award winners were chosen based on the quality of one-to-one friendships, group outings, chapter involvement, community awareness and chapter communication, county school officials said.

“The members of the Washington-Lee High School Best Buddies have given gifts that will not end after a semester or school year,” said David Quilleon, senior vice president of the Washington-Lee chapter. “For the people whose lives have been touched by a Best Buddies friendship, these gifts will last a lifetime.”

n Marymount University ranks first for ethnic diversity among regional universities in the South, according to the 2016 edition of “Best Colleges” published by U.S. News & World Report.

Marymount tied with University of North Carolina-Pembroke for the top spot in the recent ranking. Last year, UNCPembroke narrowly edged out Marymount for the No. 1 position.

“We are pleased with this recognition and take great pride in having a diverse student body and a welcoming campus community for all,” Marymount president Matthew Shank said. “It’s all part of our ongoing commitment to creating a culture of engagement that fosters intellectual curiosity, service to others and a global perspective in our students.”

The U.S. News list identifies colleges where students are most likely to encounter undergraduates from racial or ethnic groups different from their own. Marymount’s undergraduate student body is comprised of individuals from 42 states and 66 countries.

Overall, Marymount ranks 53rd in the magazine’s Best Regional Universities in the South category. For a full list of rankings, see the Web site at http://colleges. usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges.

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UNLAWFUL BODILY INJURY: n On Sept. 10 at 5:14 p.m., a 75-year-old woman was assaulted in the 4200 block of 2nd Road North, sustaining a laceration to the back of her head as well as a broken wrist, police said.

The suspect – 26-year-old Helen Tilahun Mengesha of Arlington – was arrested, charged with unlawful bodily injury, and was held without bond.

MALICIOUS WOUNDING: n On Sept. 6 at 9:10 p.m., an argument between two men in the 2400 block of South Oakland Street left a 50-year-old male victim on the way to a local hospital after he allegedly was punched in the face.

The suspect – 32-year-old Tyrone Michael Hamilton Jr. – was arrested, charged with malicious wounding and was held without bond.

and Sept. 10 at 6:36 a.m., the laundry room of an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Eads Street was burglarized.

Money was taken from the machine. n On Sept. 10 between 8:30 a.m. and 6:19 p.m., a home in the 4200 block of 35th Street South was burglarized.

A laptop computer and iPad were taken.

ROBBERY: n On Sept. 8 at 6:35 a.m., two individuals entered a grocery store in the 3100 block of Lee Highway and attempted to steal merchandise.

When an employee confronted one of the suspects, she was punched in the face, police said.

The suspect – 18-year-old April Sade Callands of no fixed address – was arrested, charged with robbery and held on an $8,000 bond.

BURGLARY: n On Sept. 7 between 3:30 and 4:40 p.m., a home in the 2400 block of 24th Road South was burglarized. Among items taken were a diamond ring, iPad and laptop computer. n On Sept. 8 at 1 a.m., a home in the 2300 block of 25th Street South was burglarized, police said, and damage resulted.

The suspect – 26-year-old Alphonso Page of Woodbridge – was arrested, charged with burglary and domestic assault-and-battery, and was held without bond. n On Sept. 8 at 3:30 p.m., an individual was seen in a dorm room in the 2800 block of North Glebe Road going through a student’s belongings, police said.

The suspect – 43-year-old Jihad Shahaddah of Alexandria – was arrested, charged with attempted burglary and was held without bond. n Sometime between Sept. 9 at 7 p.m.

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A number of week-one high school football games had unique stories, separate from the actual action, that added to the length of the contests.

Turnovers Tilt in Favor of Patriots

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A narrative prior to this season’s Sept.

11 matchup between the Yorktown Paand visiting FOOTBALL triots Wakefield Warriors was this was finally the year Wakefield would have the best opportunity to defeat its Arlington rival after 19 straight failed attempts.

That didn’t happen. Yorktown won the high school football game, 24-7, as turnovers were costly for the Warriors.

Wakefield (0-2) turned the ball over on its first possession – an interception thrown by quarterback Tim Stroble off a batted ball – one minute into the contest.

Then the Warriors turned the ball over again on their second possession, a fumbled handoff, then on its fourth and fifth possessions.

By that time, Yorktown (1-1) was in control taking a 24-7 halftime lead.

“You can’t win if you turn the ball over,” Wakefield coach Wayne Hogwood said. “We did, and Yorktown didn’t turn it over once. It’s hard to win when the fundamentals aren’t there.”

Yorktown looked as refined in its play as Wakefield looked sloppy. Led by Continued on Page 25

Yorktown High School quarterback Stephen Glagola rolls out to throw a pass Sept. 11 in his team’s victory over the visiting Wakefield Warriors.

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O’Connell Loses on 51-Yard Field Goal to Rival DAVE FACINOLI

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Emotionally, a loss to a big rival can hard to accept.

So the Bishop O’Connell Knights are reeling a bit after suffering a 23-21 road to the FOOTBALL setback Bishop Ireton Cardinals Sept. 12 in a seesaw high school football clash in Alexandria. O’Connell fell to 0-2.

Ireton (2-0) scored the winning points on a 51-yard field goal by senior David Cooper with 49 seconds left to play. Cooper booted field goals of 49 and 45 yards earlier in the game.

The Knights lost despite outgaining the Cardinals in total yards, 351-302, but

were hurt by two turnovers. Ireton did not turn the ball over.

“It’s a tough, loss because we expected to get this one. Our players are pretty emotional,” O’Connell coach Colin Disch said. “It was a good high school game.

Their guy made some big-time kicks. We probably needed to sustain another drive or two and hold on to the ball longer another time or two.”

The 51-yard was Cooper’s longest in a game.

“The hold was great by Ryan Verducci, so was the snap by Bryce Simpson. I made good contact and followed through,” Cooper said of his winning kick. “I try 50-yarders in practice and I make about 50 percent.”

The game was tied at 14 at the end of

the first quarter when each team scored on its first two possessions, remaining 14-all at halftime.

O’Connell took a 21-17 lead with 1:33 left in the third period on a oneyard run by quarterback DeJuan Ellis (80 yards rushing and 11 of 23 passing for 163 yards and a touchdown pass). On the final play of the game, the elusive Ellis scrambled for 20 yards to the Ireton 20-yard line, where he fumbled and the Cardinals recovered.

“He [Ellis] makes you hold your breath any time the ball is in his hands,” Ireton coach Anthony Verducci said. “Our goal on defense was to keep him in front of us.”

Continued on Page 25

Intense 90-degree afternoon heat was the sideshow during the host Bishop O’Connell Knights’ Saturday afternoon season opener Aug. 29. The game was played on artificial turf, raising the field temperature considerably.

Action was stopped a few additional times than normal to give the players, and referees, extra water breaks.

A 75-minute weather delay, with lightning, thunder and heavy rain, is what stood out in addition to the action during the host Langley Saxons’ Sept. 3 season opener.

The game was less than three minutes old when lightning halted the action a little after 7 p.m. The field and stands were cleared of players and spectators, who all eventually returned when the game resumed at 8:29 p.m.

After that, the secondary story became the length of the contest, which dragged on until nearly 11 p.m.

Weather was also a bit of an issue that same night in Arlington when the host Washington-Lee Generals played their season opener. Thunder was heard a number of times during the first half, but play continued. At halftime, the stands were cleared in anticipation of an approaching storm, which never arrived. Play eventually resumed in the second half with no delays.

The secondary story of the all-Vienna Sept. 4 opener between the Madison Warhawks and host Oakton Cougars was the officiating crew. The unit seemed a bit out of sync, or certainly very rusty, when it came to figuring out and marking off penalties.

Sometimes it took well in excess of a minute to sort out, then mark off, a penalty. That’s way too long. It took that crew nearly 3 minutes to get action restarted after one ordinary secondhalf penalty.

Those delays interrupted play and were frustrating for the players and the spectators watching.

With 15 penalties called, all of that extra time added to the length of another long and nearly 3-hour game.

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Mead, 16, has been active in her chapter since 2008. She uses all the life skills that she learns during her classes at East Potomac Park Golf Course. Mead is a member of the Yorktown golf team, the vice president of her class, a member of the student advisory board and a member of the school choir.

“I am excited to meet and work with my fellow future leaders from across the country,” Mead said.

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Like the Energizer Bunny, the Yorktown Patriots’ long streak as the Arlington County golf champions keeps going, going and going.

Yorktown won the title for the 29th straight year last week with a 9-hole total of 164. The high school match was played on the back nine of the East Potomac Park blue course in Washington, D.C. The Washington-Lee Generals were second with 176 and the Wakefield Warriors third with 178.

The last team other than Yorktown to win the county title was Bishop O’Connell in 1986. O’Connell played its golf season in the fall back then, but now plays in the spring.

“We played a solid round on a course our players don’t know that well,” Yorktown coach Chris Williams said. “They were excited to win.”

Leading Yorktown were sophomores Jack Ogden with a 39 and Michael Muth with a 40. Junior Bridget Hart shot 42 and senior Alex Young-Williams 43.

The two scores not counting in the team total were a 45 by junior Zach Allen and a 49 by junior Briggs Coyle.

Washington-Lee was led by a 39 from senior Jack Doll. Senior Sean Haselby shot 43, freshman Max Clegg had a 46 and junior Michael Swingle carded a 48.

Sophomore Salvador Perez shot 49 and freshman Logan Ehrlich 54.

The Yorktown High School golf team gathers last week after winning their most recent in a long string of Arlington County golf championships.

PHOTO BY CHRIS WILLIAMS

Leading Wakefield was Matt Westrick’s 43. Marin Pena, Brody Karton and Peter Jacobson each shot 45. Jake Karton and Ishan Chatterjee both had 48s.

CROSS COUNTRY: The Bishop O’Connell

Knights finished sixth in the girls team standings Sept. 12 at the annual Monroe Parker Invitational at Burke Lake Park.

The meet was the opener of the season for many of the teams.

O’Connell had 238 points in the varsity race and was led by Isabell Baltimore’s 26th in 19:34. Madeleine Fleenor was 27th (19:36) and Briana Broccoli was 30th (19:41).

The Yorktown girls were 12th with 316 and were led by Julia Sachs’ 38th (19:58).

For the Washington-Lee girls, Jordan Grimaldi was 14th and the highest finisher from Arlington in 18:55. The W-L girls were 21st (569).

In the boys varsity race, W-L’s James Gusmer was 37th (16:39). The team placed 13th (392).

YORKTOWN JUNIOR EARNS TRIP TO DISNEY WORLD: Yorktown High School

junior Lauren Mead from The First Tee of Greater Washington, D.C. has been selected to attend Auntie Anne’s Leaders & Entrepreneurs Forum in Orlando, Fla., from Oct. 22 to 25 at the Walt Disney World Resort.

The forum will introduce participants to interactive sessions covering career development and community leadership

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W-L COACH WAS BETTER SPORTS CLUB’S FEATURED SPEAKER: Washing-

ton-Lee High School cross country coach Matt Przydzial, the Better Sports Club of Arlington’s 2014-15 high school Coach of the Year, was the featured speaker at the club’s membership meeting and dinner Sept. 9.

Pryzdzial has been a teacher and cross country coach at Washington-Lee since 2006. In 2013, he coached the W-L girls to the Liberty Conference cross country title and runner-up finishes in the region and state meets.

The W-L boys won the Liberty Conference in 2013 and 2014.

Pryzdzial recently was named a National Board Certified Teacher, a prestigious accomplishment for teachers.

“His positive influence is felt by more students than just his athletes,” Washington-Lee director of student activities Carol Callaway said.

Sports Briefs YORKTOWN STUDENT WINS TENNIS TITLE: Valerie Marshall, a 16-year-old

junior at Yorktown High School, recently won the girls 18-under singles tennis title in the Columbia Association Back to School Blast in Columbia, Md. Marshall was undefeated in the competition, and was the No. 2 seed.

She defeated the top seed, Abigail Thornton, in the championship match,

Yorktown Continued from Page 24 a strong performance from senior quarterback Stephen Giagola (18 of 25 passing for 200 yard and three touchdown), Yorktown methodically capitalized on the Warriors’ turnovers and jumped out to an early 10-0 by the end of the first quarter.

After Wakefield turned the ball over for the fourth time with 35 seconds left in the first half, Giagola eventually found senior wide receiver Thomas Richardson

Continued from Page 24 Ellis threw a 50-yard touchdown pass to Myles Hudzick (three catches, 108 yards) in the first quarter. Nick Shaw (44 yards rushing) scored on a one-yard run

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on a 14-yard touchdown pass to extend Yorktown’s lead to 24-7 at halftime.

Wakefield’s secondary struggled to cover senior wide receivers Thomas Richardson (six catches, 115 yards) and Matthew Paredes (six catches, 54 yards).

Richardson had a another touchdown catch of nine yards and Paredes’ was for four yards.

Of Giagola’s completions, 10 were longer than 10 yards.

“Wakefield left the middle of the field wide open, so we were able to make plays there,” Giagola said. “It helps having big receivers, because they’re large targets in those spaces, and I can also throw fade

routes and extend plays.”

The Warriors eventually settled down in the second half thanks to strong play from senior running back Leon Young (226 yards on 29 carries) and junior fullback Fred Bowles (37 yards and on TD on eight carries), but that was not enough to get back into the game against a resolute Yorktown defense.

“We bent, but didn’t break,” Yorktown coach Bruce Hanson said.

The scoreless second half was highlighted more by the persistent cramping that players on both teams suffered than by the play on the field. It became severe enough by the end of the third quarter

that Yorktown staffers passed around mustard bottles for players to consume on the field during an injury break.

“We played well, but now we just need some players to come back healthy over the next few weeks. It’s a numbers game right now, but we’ll continue to improve,” Hanson said.

Richardson and Stevie Picot each had 26 yards rushing to lead Yorktown. Drew Maddox caught four passes, Parker Denny two.

On defense, Paredes had an interception and recovered a fumble, and Richardson and Adrian Alvarez recovered fumbles.

later in the period when O’Connell tied the game at 14 following J.T. Mitchell’s second of three extra points.

Cooper scored Ireton’s final nine points on his field goals, the first from 49 yards in the third quarter.

Drew Bonner had five catches for 26 yards for O’Connell and Brandon Magee two for 14. Will Williams and Ethan Bell

had 27 and 25 yards rushing respectively, all in the second half.

“We ran the ball some, especially in the second half, and that was a positive thing,” Disch said. “We need to regroup now and stay together.”

O’Connell had 143 yards rushing in the second half behind an offensive line that included Rudy Holland, Jay Jay Mc-

Cargo, Wyatt O’Donnell and Zach Toth.

Nate Smith had a sack for O’Connell, Hudzick had an interception. Magee, Shaw and Toren Pride broke up passes.

O’Connell hosts Fork Union on Sept.

19 at 1 p.m.

NOTE: O’Connell routed Ireton the past three seasons, scoring 55 points in last year’s win.

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Items taken from the archives of the Northern Virginia Sun. Find out more on local history at the Web site www.arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org.

NURSERY RHYMES

7. Feathery neckwear 8. Welsh dog breed 9. Boxing action

© StatePoint Media

10. Golf club maker

ACROSS

11. Ascus, plural

1. Covered with water

12. *My dame has lost her what?

6. Fox competitor?

15. “Humble ____,” pl.

9. R&R spots

20. Beyond suburb

13. Port in Portugal

22. Unagi

14. *Turtle dove’s sound

24. Composing or writing

15. Gorilla-like

25. *Little Jack Horner’s treat

16. “Animal House” party wear

26. Religious doctrine

17. ____ of corn

27. To one side

18. Bank in Mexico

29. To furnish with a ceiling

19. *He went to Gloucester

31. J.F.K. or Dulles postings

21. *He kissed the girls and made

32. Short for University of Miami

them cry

mascot

23. Witch’s curse

33. Unforeseen obstacle

24. Like Piper of Hamelin

35. Type of cell

25. School organization

37. Curved molding

28. Clare Booth ____

39. *It ran away with the spoon

30. Bloodsucker

42. One up

34. “____ is more”

45. Little application

36. Nevada city

49. Mining product

38. Respectable and quiet

51. Dr. Seuss’ Yertle

40. Military group

54. About to explode

September 16, 1944: n Treasurer John Locke Green wants the county to ban outhouses as a health hazard. n The Arlington Rifle & Pistol Club will hold a family picnic and shooting competition tomorrow.

41. *Dog’s name-o

56. Twig of willow tree

43. Like nay-sayers

57. Come clean, with “up”

44. Jason the Argonaut’s wife

58. Cuzco valley empire

46. “In ____ of”

59. June 6, 1944

47. 1/60 of mins

60. Data Universal Numbering

September 16, 1950: n The number of state polio cases has reached 700 this year, already tying the record set in 1944. n The University of Virginia Law School has admitted its first black student.

53. Arrogant snob

September 18, 1936: n Leaders of Washington Golf & Country Club say they plan to rebuild after a fire caused major damage this week. n County police will now direct traffic at all local schools before and after classes. n Clarence Ahalt of Arlington is the state Republican presidential campaign director. n U.S. Sen. Carter Glass, D-Va., has no Republican opposition for re-election, but is opposed by candidates of the Communist, Socialist and Prohibition parties. n The Sun’s editor says that “writing headlines is one of the most annoying things about putting a newspaper together.”

48. Dancer’s beat 50. As opposed to gross 52. “Be quiet!”

55. Simon & Garfunkel, e.g.

57. *One of King Cole’s three 61. *“If wishes were ____” 64. Empower

System her curds

DOWN

61. Strikes with an axe

67. Kind of wave

1. Quick on the uptake

62. Cocoyam

69. Hardly worth mentioning

2. *Sound of Mother Hubbard’s

63. Droops

70. Haul with a hitch

pet?

66. *Tucker who sings for his

71. Pigeon’s perch

3. Mythological ship

supper

72. Simon does what?

4. Narc’s find

68. “Go Set a Watchman” author

73. Emergency helpers

5. Youth lodging option

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65. *What Little Miss Muffet did to

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6. Tree having winged fruit

September 18, 1958: n U.S. District Court Judge Albert Bryan has ordered Arlington officials to admit four black students to all-white Stratford Junior High School by next February, but has rejected bids by 26 other black students to integrate the school. n State officials say more vehicles now cross the Potomac River each day than cross the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey. n Oops: The president of the Virginia Young Democrats inadvertently sent U.S. Rep. Joel Broyhill, R-10th, a letter pledging campaign support.

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September 17, 1969: n A U.S. Senate committee held hearings on flood-control efforts along Four Mile Run.

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