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Sandy Newton of the Woman’s Club of Arlington and Joe Lott of the Arlington Rotary Club were named Woman of the Year and Man of the Year, respectively, by the Inter-Service Club Council of Arlington. They are shown with council president Elizabeth Schindler and Kim Durand.
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Service Club Council of Arlington presented its Man and Woman of the Year awards, continuing a tradition that dates back to 1958. Joe Lott of the Arlngton
Rotary Club was named Man of the Year, and Sandy Newton of the Woman’s Club of Arlington was named Woman of the Year. Full coverage: Page 3.
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A week after the stunning announcement that the Columbia Pike and Crystal City streetcar projects would be scrapped – at least for now – there are still more questions than answers. Was the decision based on economics? Politics? The County Board’s desire to move the streetcar controversy off the plate to deal ‘We have lost with other issues? The transit turnabout came a consensus on Nov. 18, when County Board on how to Chairman Jay Fisette and Vice move forward Chairman Mary Hynes effecin these very tively switched sides, joining unsettled with board members Libby times. We Garvey and John Vihstadt in have to find directing County Manager Barbara Donnellan to halt all work the way to on the projects and start the put our process of cancelling contracts community related to them. Their move was met with back dismay and anger by a host [together].’ of transit advocates, including – County Board County Board member WalVice Chairman Mary Hynes ter Tejada. Also mad: Fairfax County supervisors, who were counting on the streetcar project to help them with revitalization of Baileys Crossroads. Two prevailing theories behind the switch by Fisette and Hynes: • They saw Vihstadt’s victory on Nov. 4 as a referendum on the streetcar, and worried that Democrats could be swept away in 2015 by voter discontent. • They are fearful that rising student enrollment will bust the government’s budget, and had to find ways to economize.
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The Inter-Service Club Council of Arlington’s 2014 Man and Woman of the Year Awards put the spotlight on individuals who can be counted on, no matter the task, to get the job done. Joe Lott of the Arlington Rotary Club was named Man of the Year and Sandy Newton of the Woman’s Club of Arlington was anointed Woman of the Year during a Dec. 19 luncheon celebrating the contributions of service organizations to the community well-being across the county. “It was a total surprise,” exclaimed Newton, whose role in her club has included vice president, contributions chair and Web-page coordinator. She also has supervised the renting-out of the Women’s Club’s clubhouse to other groups and for special events.. Like most recipients in the award program’s history, Newton’s efforts do not stop at just one organization. She has planted gardens for the Arlington Food Assistance Center; volunteered at Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial; and been active with St. Charles Borromeo Church and Borromeo Housing. “What really strikes me is she does everything in a quiet, modest and unassuming manner,” said Brig Pari, the 2013 Woman of the Year. “If she sees something that needs doing, fixing or improving, she takes it upon herself and just does it.” The same is true for Lott, who joined the Rotary Club in 2007 after being invited to attend its lunches by a neighbor. “The club has benefited from his strong sense of commitment, his innovative ideas and his willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done,” said Bankhead Thornton Davies, the 2013 Man of the Year. Lott has served as club treasurer; has chaired and served as treasurer of the Rotary Club’s foundation; manages its scholarship program for high-school students; and supports Rotary efforts from blood drives to Salvation Army bell-ringing. “Absolutely a surprise” is how Lott explained his reaction to winning Man of the Year. Why is he involved in the Arlington Rotary Club? “Giving back to the community means you do the best you can,” Lott said, noting that the efforts of the Arlington Rotary (the oldest existing service club in the county) touch those in need in the local, national and international level.
The Inter-Service Club Council was established in 1940 to serve as a clearinghouse among the various service organizations in the county. “And they thought we wouldn’t last!” chuckled Elizabeth Schindler of the Arlington Host Lions Club, who has served the past two years as president. She’ll be handing the gavel to Lott in 2015. Service clubs nationally and locally have seen challenging times, as the postWorld War II generation departs the scene and clubs try to adapt to younger residents’ expectations. Yet despite some declining membership, those participating in Arlington service clubs each year give more than 100,000 hours in volunteer service and provide thousands of dollars in grants and support to support initiatives across the community. The Inter-Service Club Council had a good year, Schindler said, seeing the Salvation Army rejoin after an absence, and being on the precipice of obtaining several new members. “None of us is resting on our laurels,” she told the 80 luncheon guests at the Knights of Columbus, putting in a plug for volunteers. “Please come and join us – we need your help.” Man and Woman of the Year Awards have been presented since 1958. It’s a difficult task to choose recipients, Schindler said. “We’ve had members who have been serving [the community] for years and years,” she said. Newton is the second representative of the Woman’s Club of Arlington to be named Woman of the Year; Patricia Fisher was so honored in 2010. Lott also is the second from his club; Rotarian James Hemingway was named Man of the Year in 1981. The keynote speaker for the event was U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-8th), who is retiring at the end of the year. To honor Moran, a contribution in his name was made to the Leadership Arlington Youth Program; next summer, students participating in the program will tour local non-profit organizations, selecting one to receive the $1,000 in grant funding. The annual luncheon also continued a relatively new tradition, bringing in students from Marymount University to give them an idea of the reach of service clubs in Arlington. For information on the organization, see the Web site at http://arlingtoniscc.com.
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Arlington resident Stephen Grant will discuss his book, “Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger” during a program at Central Library on Monday, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. The book details the lives of the couple, who shortly after their marriage in 1885 began buying, cataloging and storing a vast array of materials related to the Bard. Funds from their purchases came from wealth accumulated during Henry Folger’s stint as president of Standard Oil of New York and a trusted confidant of John D. Rockefeller, yet the couple lived modestly and shared a long and fruitful marriage. Grant is a senior fellow at the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training in Arlington. The Sun Gazette asked him about the experience of researching and writing the book. What led you to conceive of doing this book, how long did the process take, and what was the experience like? Henry Clay Folger is a legend at Amherst College, from which institution I graduated, 84 years after he did. In 2007, following a career in the Foreign Service, I took a curator’s tour of the Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill. Erin Blake showed us Henry and Emily Folger’s oil portraits and his marble bust, and described their shared passion for Shakespeareana, anything to do with Shakespeare. I learned that this one couple, childless, had constituted the largest Shakespeare collection in the world. At the end of the tour I asked eagerly, “Do you have a biography of the Folgers in your gift shop?” Her answer floored me. “No one has written one yet.” I was a published biographer (“Peter Strickland”) and a collector (vintage picture postcards). The Folger leadership allowed me, an independent scholar, to take on the project, offering me a fellowship to launch what became a six-year endeavor taking me to 35 archives in the U.S. and
U.K. I was not prepared for the sheer amount of archival material preserved among the Folgers’ personal papers in the Folger underground vault: 424 linear feet. That is more than the length of a football field. How did Mr. Folger make his money, and why did he turn to collecting Shakespeare? Henry Folger worked 49 years for the Standard Oil Co., starting as a statistical clerk in 1879 and ending as chairman of the board of SOCONY, the Standard Oil Co. of New York, that later became the Mobil Oil. Henry’s uncle James founded Folgers Coffee in San Francisco. They are two distinct fortunes. Henry was born in the 1850s, when many American family libraries possessed only two books: the Bible and Shakespeare. He grew up deeply imbued with the language and aura of both. He received as a gift his first Collected Works of Shakespeare as a college freshman. He was smitten. There were no “Shakespeare courses” back then, but he joined a Shakespeare reading group at Amherst College. As a senior, Henry heard the aged orator, Ralph Waldo Emerson, speak at Amherst. Exposure to the poet’s eloquence sent Henry to read Emerson’s writing on Shakespeare, and to read Shakespeare itself in a new light. Who was Folger’s main competition in accumulating Shakespeare material, and how would you describe their rivalry? Henry Folger’s main rival was another Henry, Henry E. Huntington, who with his wife, Arabella, created the Huntington Library, Museum and Gardens in San Marino, Calif. Folger and Huntington were acquaintances, not close friends. They belonged to the same Hobby Club in New York. I devote an entire chapter in “Collecting Shakespeare” to the Henrys’ similarities and differences. It was a cordial, Victorian rivalry. An erudite and astute book-
Stephen Grant of Arlington is the author of “Collecting Shakespeare: The PHOTO BY DEB KOLT Story of Henry and Emily Folger.
seller, Abraham Rosenbach of Philadelphia, successfully played one Henry off the other, never losing their confidence and trust. Bibliophiles around the world gravitate to the Folger and Huntington Libraries to study the choicest antiquarian books. Was there any specific item Folger truly coveted but never obtained? Dealers were incessantly dangling before Folger what they claimed were genuine Shakespeare signatures. He purchased some of them. Folger did not claim he had acquired a genuine signature of the Bard. He became an excellent judge of forgeries. The Folgers looked unsuccessfully for a volume of Shakespeare that had belonged to Ralph Waldo Emerson. On the other hand, Folger did acquire unique volumes of Shakespeare plays that Henry Huntington did not have in his collection. The relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Folger seems to have been a fruitful one. What was the secret to their success? What role did Mrs. Folger play in the collection, both before and after Mr. Folger’s death?
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The Folgers were a childless couple. They could devote themselves single-mindedly to collecting. I cannot imagine a more perfect collecting team. Emily was the Shakespeare scholar, having earned a master’s degree from Vassar College in Shakespeare Studies. When Henry arrived home after his lucrative day job, Emily had gone through reams of book-auction catalogs, marking in pencil in the margins the items she perceived they needed for their collection. Henry stayed up half the night calculating how much he would bid on each. When the items they won came in the mail, Emily entered their detailed characteristics in a card catalog. By the age of 50, she had developed painful writer’s cramp. \Her husband died before he had seen the collection transported from New York to Washington, and without having seen one stone of the white-marble Folger Shakespeare Library only two blocks from the U.S. Capitol. Emily took over as the principal decision-maker concerning many of the details leading up to the dedication of the library
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on Shakespeare’s 368th birthday, April 23, 1932, in presence of President and Mrs. Hoover. How did Washington win out in the selection process for the library? Nothing predestined Washington, D.C., to house the unique Folger collection. The Folgers considered Nantucket, “home” to Folgers since the 1660s. Manhattan was in the running until Henry found real estate prices prohibitive. American universities tried to lure the Folgers to bequeath the collection to them. Exerting the most pressure was Stratford-upon-Avon. They wanted all the literary treasures back on home soil! Henry confessed, “I did think of placing the Shakespeare library at Stratford, near the bones of the great man himself, but I finally concluded I would give it to Washington; for I am an American.” Related to his patriotism, Folger thought that American scholars should have their own Shakespeare learning center, without having to travel to England. The authorship of Shakespeare’s works remains hotly debated. Do you have an opinion on the subject? Personally, I don’t have a horse in that race. But allow me to make three points. The Folgers believed profoundly that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. Secondly, despite that belief they acquired all the books and articles they could about the authorship controversy. Their goal was to assemble as complete a Shakespeare collection as possible, to be of increased usefulness to the researchers, scholars and professors. The same goes for Shakespeare forgeries, that Henry became very astute in recognizing. Thirdly, when people have asked the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library his opinion on the authorship controversy, Michael Witmore has responded, “The Folger does not have opinions. It has collections.”
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H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program, the Stratford Program and a pre-kindergarten program would leave their longtime homes on Vacation Lane and move to the site of the Wilson School in western Rosslyn, while a new middle school would be built on the Vacation Lane parcel, under the proposal to increase secondary capacity forwarded to School Board members by Superintendent Patrick Murphy. Murphy’s recommendation, made last week, follows a six-month process that saw multiple sites proposed for new facilities, and at times saw communities pitted against one another. “We’ve listened, we’ve engaged, we’ve collected ideas, we’ve gathered information,� Murphy told School Board members. “Sounds like ‘the Arlington Way’ to me.� If adopted by School Board members in December, the plan would result in a new, 1,000-student middle school on the Vacation Lane parcel, plus a 900-seat new facility on the Wilson site. School officials are hopeful they can add the seats for about $114.5 million, below the roughly $130 million limit imposed by School Board members. “This is one of the most cost-effective options,� Murphy told School Board mem-
bers. The new facilities are slated to be in place by 2019. More than a dozen speakers weighed in on the proposal at the Nov. 18 meeting, with more expected to come to a special public hearing set for Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the school system’s headquarters. Kristen Colston, who heads the capacity committee of the H-B Woodlawn Parent Advisory Committee, said her group has come to an acceptance of the proposal. “We are relieved we now know what direction the board is heading,� said Colston. “We look forward to working with the architect and [Arlington Public Schools] to design our new home.� But the idea of moving the Woodlawn program out of its current location in what once was Stratford Junior High School was not a favorite of many students and parents. Colston told School Board members they could help the process by making sure the program remains small and continues to be co-located with the Stratford and prekindergarten programs. A week before Murphy delivered his recommendation, School Board members took off the table an option to move secondary students to the Reed School facility in Westover. Residents there had been vocal and nearly united in their opposition to the move, preferring to see the Reed building turned into an elementary school.
Superintendent Patrick Murphy speaks to School Board members on Nov. 18. Behind him is John Chadwick, who heads the Arlington school system’s construction efforts.
A proposal to build a vertical, urbanstyle middle school on the Wilson site in Rosslyn also drew criticism, with opponents saying it was in the wrong place and would choke the region with traffic. School Board members anticipate taking a final vote on Dec. 18. “I am confident that we will reach the best decision that we have,� board chairman James Lander said. County voters in November approved a school bond that will help the school system address rising capacity, but even with
all the projects currently in the planning stage, the school system is likely to find itself overwhelmed by the enrollment. School officials predict the existing student body of about 24,500 will rise to more than 30,000 by 2021, and may continue to keep growing. The current population surge is even larger than during the Baby Boom of the 1950s and 1960s. School officials may formally ask their County Board counterparts to share bonding capacity with them, allowing school projects to go to voters before projects of the county government, to beat the clock. That would be one way to get more construction moving while keeping the county government’s debt levels low enough that Arlington’s AAA/AAA/Aaa bond ratings would not be jeopardized. But the County Board has its own capital-spending priorities and budget issues to contend with; the board’s decision to scrap the Columbia Pike streetcar appears based, at least in part, over concerns that the costs associated with rising student enrollment – about $19,000 per student per year, highest in the commonwealth – will require an ever-increasing share of government revenue, as is the case in many Northern Virginia jurisdictions. School officials also are grappling with the ongoing question of where to put the increasing number of elementary-school students.
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Our View: Aftermath of the Streetcar Decision
Someday, the full story behind the change of heart on the Columbia Pike and Crystal City streetcar projects by County Board members Jay Fisette and Mary Hynes may come to light. We’re not suggesting that Fisette and Hynes were being untruthful in explaining last week’s stunning turnabout. They explained their decisions as an attempt at ending community discord and moving forward in what clearly has become a new political and economic environment across the county. But we doubt Arlington has been told the FULL story. Was this decision a knee-jerk reaction to John Vihstadt’s election victory earlier in November? Did it come about because Fisette and Hynes have seen financial projections – for the streetcar project or for the county government as a whole – that scared them so much they decided to drop the project? Those who know aren’t talking, and those who are talking, well, they likely don’t know. The decision ended one contro-
versy but started another, as boosters of the streetcar projects felt betrayed by the action. We fully understand and sympathize with the chagrin and even outrage of those like County Board member Walter Tejada, transit advocates, the McAuliffe administration, Fairfax County officials, Alexandria officials, developers and residents of the Columbia Pike and Crystal City corridors, who feel they had been promised a streetcar network and see the change in policy as a dagger through the heart. They all have a right to be angry. But public policy is never stagnant; times change, situations evolve. The action by Fisette and Hynes was a reflection of those changes, and we have no cause to doubt their action was taken in what they view as the public interest. It was Ronald Reagan who famously said of arms-control: Trust, but verify. Many of those in the groups listed above had put their faith in a transit project that was still only in the planning stage, ignoring the many warning
signs over the past year or more that it was in trouble. There are no guarantees in life, as the streetcar situation proves. One thing that surprised us over the past week is how many people began conversations on the topic this way: “Were you surprised this decision was made so quickly [after the election]?” Think about that: It suggests that those making the inquiry believed that the streetcar eventually was going to be scrapped, that it was just a matter of time. If that indeed was the case – and we don’t know – then Fisette and Hynes may have done the community a favor by ending this sooner than later. Perhaps there is no more to this story than that which was reflected in the statements of Fisette and Hynes last week. But if there is more to it – if they know something the rest of us don’t – we’d suggest they have an obligation not simply to give Arlington the truth and nothing but the truth, but also the whole, unvarnished truth.
Decision to Scrap Streetcar Is Fundamentally Flawed Editor: You mean it’s OK to build more lanes for more buses and cars, but not OK to build streetcars? It’s OK to build more parking spaces and parking garages and service stations, but not streetcars? It’s OK to build bus-rapid transit through Crystal City, but not streetcars? It’s OK to widen streets and build new roads, but not to build streetcars? It’s OK to need more police to patrol the roads and highways and issue tick-
ets and use cameras, but not OK to build streetcars? It’s OK for all kinds of motor vehicles to surround the Pentagon, but not OK for streetcars on a defined track? It’s OK for the County Board to use their private cars and tell those “other people” to take the bus and not the streetcar? It’s OK to continue polluting the neighborhood with dirty carbon emissions, but not OK to travel with a green clean streetcar? It’s OK to continue paving, paving, paving, but not OK for streetcar rails? It’s OK
to be ignorant, blind, deaf and dumb and play in old dirty sandbox while ignoring the benefit of a clean, reliable, attractive streetcar? It’s OK to vote against the Keystone XL for environmental reasons, yet it’s OK to vote against the streetcar? Let’s give the County Board a double twitch and three Bronx cheers for its horrible judgment. George Barsky Arlington
Editor: Did the Big Three on the County Board change their mind on the streetcar because it was the correct decision, or are they more concerned with job security? I suspect it’s the latter.
The streetcar was only part of the bad decisions and management they have shown in recent years – millions of taxpayer dollars wasted on studies, contracts and surveys. I’m sure they’re hoping it will all fade
away, but they still need to be held accountable for poor leadership. I hope Arlingtonians will remember this in the 2015 elections. Carolyn Clemente Arlington
Editor: I consider myself an almost native of Arlington County, since I’ve lived here since I was 6 months old. I’ve been reading in the Sun Gazette about pros and cons on the proposed trolley and the proposed super-swimming complex at Long Bridge Park. I’d like to enter my 2 cents’ worth on better use of these funds: 1. Bury utility wires underground, particularly in residential neighborhoods.
2. Build indoor pools in both North Arlington and South Arlington that can be used AT ALL TIMES and where residents would not be kicked out for school activities. 3. Repair/resurface the county’s roads. In the future, demand all developers who must have a street dug up (to build their McMansions) pay for resurfacing the roads and doing the job correctly; i.e., without causing large potholes due to poor-quality resurfacing (and this applies to the county
workers, also). Many of my friends who are native Arlingtonians or near natives have seen throughout our lives the many transients who arrive here, demanding services and facilities and then moving away after a few years, sticking us with the bill. I think it’s time that we natives and near-natives make our wants known. Bernadette Quirk Maurer Arlington
Streetcar May Be Gone, But Voters Will Not Forget
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Streetcar Battle Showed Ugly Divide Among Different Regions of Arlington just their own neighborhood. The uproar and eventual cancellation of the streetcar have shaken my confidence that Arlington is the place that I thought it was. I am disappointed in the County Board’s cancellation of the project. Growing up, I heard talk about the divide between North Arlington and South Arlington, but it wasn’t until the streetcar uproar that I clearly saw it. The situation became abundantly clear to me: affluent North Arlington voters had no interest in a street car because it wouldn’t directly help them. I cannot express my disappointment in this thinking; increased public transportation helps lower-income and working-class families immensely, and I would think that Arlington as progressive as it is, would embrace this idea. I was shocked to see such hostility and talk about “fiscal responsibility” that seemed ripped right from the Tea Party playbook. County Board members are supposed to look out for ALL of Arlington, not just the affluent part. The streetcar argument follows a national trend of Democrats succumbing to public pressure and walking back on their beliefs. I regret to say that I cannot support any County Board member who voted to cancel the streetcar. I am also disappointed in seeing obvious favoritism toward the richer voters in our county; that’s not what democracy is about and that’s not what Arlington is about. The Arlington that I know and love is the Arlington where you can lose your wallet three times and have it returned to you. Unfortunately, that spirit did not transcend into the streetcar debate. Grant Maloney Arlington
November 27, 2014
Editor: I want to start this letter off with a story. A few weeks ago, when the weather was nice, I went to shoot some hoops at a park near my house. While I was making shots, I took my wallet out and left it on the side of the basketball court. I left forgetting about my wallet until two hours later, when I promptly rushed back to the park. It was nowhere to be found, and I walked home upset with myself for the obvious mistake, as this wasn’t the first time I had misplaced my wallet. It was actually the third, and both previous times it had been returned to me. Thinking it over, I went to my mailbox not sure what to expect. To my amazement, it was there! Some Good Samaritan had found my wallet, looked at my license, and realized I lived close enough to drop it off for me. As I placed my wallet safely back in my pocket, I thought to myself how lucky I am to live in such a special place. I am 25 years old, a lifelong Arlington resident and a precinct captain for the Arlington County Democratic Committee. Arlington has shaped my upbringing in so many positive ways, the biggest being my exposure to diversity. I attended Washington-Lee High School, which has students from all parts of the world and where I had friends of all different backgrounds. Diversity is extremely important; it expands your horizons and broadens your worldview, and growing up in such diversity was a priceless asset in my development as a young man. Arlington has always come off to me as unique, progressive little county where people looked out for everyone else, not
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Changing Voting Rules Will Bring More Accountability to Arlington Governance the five candidates with the largest vote counts are elected. What makes this system work is that the voter can distribute her/his votes however he/she sees fit – anything from giving one vote to each of the voter’s five favorite candidates to giving all five votes to a single candidate. This would ensure that any organized minority comprised of at least 20 percent of the voters would get a seat on the County Board. There are of course less extreme measures that could be taken – for example, next year when Hynes’s and Tejada’s seats are up for election, rather than voters having two votes (one for each seat) they would have only one, and the highest two vote-getters each get one of the seats. Enough possibilities exist that Arlington, which prides itself on its innovative approach to local government, should consider changing its election rules so County Board membership more closely reflects the diversity of the county. Paul Johnson Arlington Find more letters to the editor at www.insidenova.com/news/ arlington (click on “Opinion”).
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Editor: After years of discussion, planning and investment, Arlington’s streetcar projects have been brought to a screeching halt by Vihstadt’s victory. I do not know if this is the right decision. However, I do know that there should have been some way to detect the extent of voters’ opposition to these projects earlier in the process. There is much talk about the Arlington Way and how it allows the community to have input to the County Board’s decisions. Yet at the end of the day, final decisions are made by board members who are beholden only to their base constituents. In the case of Arlington, this generally has been those voters who identify with the Democratic Party. I think it’s time for Arlington’s residents to consider changing the “rules of the game” so that candidates representing minority interests are more regularly elected to the County Board. There are many ways to do this. One method that is used in various localities across the country is “cumulative voting.” In Arlington it could work like this: all five County Board seats are voted for at the same time, each voter gets five votes, and
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November 27, 2014
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Republicans Celebrate at Annual Awards Dinner The Arlington County Republican Committee doesn’t always get to bask in good news. But with the victory of John Vihstadt and the cancellation of the streetcar project, plus the success of the party at the national level, the local committee had more reasons than usual to celebrate at its annual awards dinner. Helen and Morton Blackwell were honored with the DelyannisFinta Award for Distinguished Community Involvement at the awards program, held Nov. 19 at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association conference center in Ballston. The Blackwells were lauded for their service to the Republican cause at the local, state and national levels. They provide “such a strong voice” for conservative principles, said Matthew Hurtt,
who heads the Arlington Young Republicans. Morton Blackwell, who serves on the Republican National Committee and has a long history with the party, founded the Leadership Institute, a Clarendon-based organization that works to train up-and-coming generations of conservative activists. Since its creation in 1979, the organization has worked with more than 155,000 participants. It currently has a staff of 60 and budget of nearly $12 million, according to the organization’s Web site. Morton Blackwell’s roots in national politics date back to 1964, when the was the youngest elected convention delegate for Barry Goldwater. He and Helen Blackwell have been active locally as precinct captains for the GOP,
and Helen Blackwell long provided the invocation at Arlington County Republican Committee meetings.
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and, elected this summer to succeed Brink in the 48th District, Rip Sullivan. Based both on seniority and personality, Brink had managed to maintain good relations with the Republican leadership in the House of Delegates, where the GOP outnumbers Democrats by a more than 2-to-1 margin. He had, by far, the best committee assignments of Arlington members of the House of Delegates. While Brink’s departure means there are “going to be some big shoes to fill,” Hope – now the most senior of the Arlington delegates – said he believed they would be up to the task. “We have a really good team,” Hope said. In addition to Howell, the Senate delegation includes state Sens. Barbara Favola (D-31st) and Adam Ebbin (D-30th). The all-Democratic delegation faces tough sledding in a legislature that in 2015 will be dominated by Republicans. “You have to pick and choose your battles and your priorities,” County Board Chairman Jay Fisette said at the board’s annual meeting with legislators on Nov. 17. Vihstadt Campaign Manager Wins Plaudits: A bid five years ago for political office didn’t pan out, but it appears Eric Brescia may have found his calling as a behind-the-scenes guru in local politics.
Brescia was lauded at the Nov. 19 Arlington County Republican Committee meeting for serving as campaign manager for both of independent John Vihstadt’s successful runs for County Board this year. “A lot of people said we couldn’t do that. The only reason we won was because of Eric – John had the will to run, but didn’t have the way,” said Mary Vihstadt, John Vihstadt’s wife and a community activist. Brescia “was the one who put it all together,” said Vihstadt, filling in for her husband at the GOP’s annual awards dinner. Brescia signed on to support Vihstadt last December, when Chris Zimmerman announced he planned to resign from the County Board, setting up a special election. Unlike Democrat Alan Howze, who paid a campaign manager during the never-ending, two-election campaign season of 2014, Brescia volunteered his efforts. Republicans did not formally nominate Vihstadt either for the April special election or the November general election, but endorsed his candidacy, as did the Arlington Green Party. Vihstadt ran as what he termed a “fusion candidate,” seeking support from all parts of the political spectrum. Matt Wavro, who chairs the Arlington County Republican Committee, called it “purple people power,” based on
Arlington County Republican Committee chairman Matt Wavro, center, is flkaned by award recipients Charlie Keller and Randall Judd.
Morton Blackwell was away on travel, so the couple were unable to accept the award in person, but asked Hurtt to express
their thanks. Receiving the Alice SayreCommonwealth Club Award for support of the Republican committee and candidates was Charlie Keller, who serves as finance chair of the Arlington County Republican Committee and helped to organize fund-raising events during the 2014 campaign season. Presented with the Hilda Griffith Award for outstanding service to the local Republican committee was Randall Judd, for his support of the David Foster campaign in the summertime special election to fill the seat of Del. Bob Brink (D-48th). “He was a newcomer and just jumped in,” said Arlington County Republican Committee chairman Matt Wavro. – Scott McCaffrey
Arlington Legislative Delegation to Be ‘Dean’-Less
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The Arlington delegation to the General Assembly will be dean-less this year. The departure of long-serving Del. Bob Brink (D-48th) from the legisPOLITICAL l at u r e POTPOURRI to the McAuliffe administration in June left the delegation without its most senior member, although that designation comes with an asterisk, explained below. Brink in recent years had been known as the “dean of the delegation,” following a long tradition: Previous holders of that informal titled included former Dels. James Almand and, before him, Mary Marshall. (The asterisk: Brink, who served for 16 years, was not, technically, the most senior member of the delegation, a title that goes to state Sen. Janet Howell, D-32nd, a 23-year veteran of the legislature. But Howell’s district has included precincts in Arlington for only part of that time, and she lives in Reston, so Brink got the title.) With Brink’s departure, the four-member Arlington delegation to the House of Delegates is composed of relatively junior legislators: Dels. Patrick Hope (D-47th), Alfonso Lopez (D49th), Rob Krupicka (D-45th)
Bob Brink was dean of the Arlington delegation to the General Assembly until his departure earlier in 2015.
the mix of blue and red that Vihstadt adopted as his campaign color. Wavro praised Brescia, an economist who has served as policy director for the Arlington County Republican Committee, for his attention to detail. “We work with a lot of campaigns at all levels,” Wavro said. “The Vihstadt campaign was Aplus all the way.” Mary Vihstadt said one of Brescia’s general-election initiatives was a campaign commercial – if not the first, certainly among the first for an Arlington election. “John and I were like, ‘What are you talking about?’” when the idea was broached, Mary Vihstadt said. But the commercial
“was really a game-changer,” she said. “It really captured the campaign perfectly,” she said. Brescia first came to attention on the local political scene as a 24-year-old in 2009, when he was the Republican nominee for the open 47th House District seat. Given the demographics of the district, the result was a foregone conclusion – Brescia garnered just 32 percent of the vote against Democrat Patrick Hope in a race that also featured Green Party candidate Josh Ruebner. But Brescia picked up the surprise endorsement of The Washington Post, which called him “an independent-minded thinker who has fresh and specific ideas for how to save money in health care and make government work better.” What future political adventures await Brescia? He may need to put things on hold, briefly, as earlier this year he became engaged to be married. New Delegate Has New Job: Del. Rip Sullivan (D-48th) has a new day job. Sullivan has joined the Arlington law firm Bean, Kinney & Korman as a shareholder. He previously was affiliated with Reed Smith. “We could not be more pleased to have Rip with us,” said Jim Korman, president of the law firm. “He is a stellar lawyer and an outstanding community leader. He is certain to be an asset.”
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For Fisette and Hynes, Dropping Their Support for Streetcar Proved a Painful But Necessary Decision SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer
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The mood was funereal as Arlington County Board members gathered at 3 p.m. on Nov. 18 to formally bury – at least for now – the Columbia Pike and Crystal City streetcar projects. The fatal blow had been struck earlier in the day, when County Board Chairman Jay Fisette announced he and Vice Chairman Mary Hynes were switching sides, turning what had been a 3-2 pro-streetcar board majority into 4-1 opposition. Neither was happy with the decision, which represents “a signal to the region that Arlington’s vision for the future has withered,” Hynes said in somber remarks from the dais. Then why the remarkable turnabout? Hynes, who is all but assured of succeeding Fisette as board chairman in 2015, said the contentious streetcar debate was “coloring every discussion we have.” “We have lost a consensus on how to move forward in these very unsettled times,” she said. “We have to find the way to put our community back [together].” (Hynes may have reason to be doubly pained by her decision, as she represents Arlington on the board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and will have to explain it to her colleagues on that body.)
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Fisette acknowledged that his decision to join Hynes in switching to the antistreetcar position advocated by board members Libby Garvey and John Vihstadt was a reflection of the mood of the Arlington public. “We cannot ignore the political realities,” said Fisette, acknowledging that Vihstadt’s big victory over Alan Howze – the second thumping taken by county Democrats in eight months – was as much a referendum on county-government priorities as anything else. “This was a powerful message to the board,” Fisette said at a noon press conference. The switch left board member Walter Tejada as the lone advocate for the streetcar on the dais. He blasted the decision as “a dramatic step backwards.” “We have always prided ourselves here in Arlington in planning for the future,” Tejada said during lengthy comments on the dais. “Will we now become a timid and stagnant community?” Tejada, who professed himself “incredibly and profoundly disappointed,” has viewed the streetcar project as the driver of economic development along Columbia Pike, allowing developers the incentives they need to preserve thousands of units of affordable housing. He took a not-so-veiled shot at the change of heart of Fisette and Hynes: “I
County Board Vice Chairman Mary Hynes joined Jay Fisette in switching sides on the Columbia Pike and Crystal City streetcar projects.
do not raise my thumb to see where the potential winds are blowing,” Tejada said. The decision also angered Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova, who said her county was “saddened and disappointed” by the decision. Arlington and Fairfax had been partnering on the Columbia Pike streetcar project, which had been slated to run five miles from Pentagon City west to Skyline. Bulova called the Arlington decision “shortsighted.” Fairfax had hoped to use the streetcar project as a way to jump-start redevelopment of Baileys Crossroads. Fisette said Arlington officials would wrap up existing contracts on the streetcar project “very quickly.” Fisette said supporters of the streetcar project had been “caught flatfooted” by the opposition. “We did not effectively make the case to our community,” he said. But for Garvey, who had made eradication of the streetcar a single-minded focus since being elected in 2012, the change of heart by her colleagues represented “a victory for democracy.” “We have to listen to the people we serve,” said Garvey, who on Nov. 18 vowed to press for a regional network of robust, upgraded bus service that would be a “game-changer” on transportation. Fisette said abandonment of the streetcar projects did not mean abandonment of the residents living, and businesses operating, along the proposed routes. “We remain committed to the vision of Crystal City, Pentagon City and Columbia Pike,” he said. “There is more exciting work to do.” And while Hynes acknowledged ending the streetcar effort was likely to have a negative impact on the county’s economy, Fisette had a more rosy view. “We will continue to thrive,” he said. In the planning stage for more than a decade, the Columbia Pike streetcar project only became controversial in recent years, as the timetable slipped, costs ballooned and opposition forces – who pushed for a cheaper alternative using modern buses – gathered momentum. The project lost its key County Board supporter when Chris Zimmerman departed for a job in the private sector in February. His resignation triggered the special election that swept Vihstadt into office as
a “fusion” candidate who had backing of Republicans, Greens and disaffected Democrats, including Garvey. The county’s Democratic leadership, which is on record supporting the streetcar project, dismissed Vihstadt’s victory in an April special election as a fluke caused by low turnout. But Vihstadt manhandled Howze in their rematch earlier this month, winning three-quarters of the precincts countywide. Vihstadt kept his Nov. 18 public remarks to a minimum, but said voters clearly saw the streetcar as a “misplaced investment.” He said he remained committed to upgrading Columbia Pike/Crystal City/Pentagon City transit options through means other than the streetcar. With Hynes and Tejada on the ballot next year, the decision to scrap the project may have been an act of self-preservation; had voters dumped the pair at the polls, Democrats would have lost the board majority they have held uninterrupted since the early 1980s. The rumor mill has suggested of late that Hynes, who has served on the County Board for seven years after a dozen on the School Board, may not seek re-election. Tejada has been on the board since 2003, but some within the Democratic ranks already are working to make sure he is not renominated. The tipping point against the streetcar’s fortunes may have come when Arlington and Fairfax officials opted to apply for federal funds, only to be turned down when the Federal Transit Administration determined – correctly, as it turned out – that the project’s cost would exceed the $250 million cap and wouldn’t be eligible for the pot of money local officials were seeking. The delay during that period allowed anti-streetcar forces to mobilize, while neither county officials nor pro-streetcar forces could mount a successful counteroffensive. “We clearly did not fulfill our obligation to substantiate this investment,” Tejada said. Streetcar advocates pointed to countycommissioned studies predicting a windfall in growth and tax revenue if the transit line materialized. Critics scoffed at the estimates, and the project may have received its fatal blow with the county government’s handling of what became known as the “million-dollar bus stop” at Columbia Pike and South Walter Reed Drive. The excessive cost of that prototype generated national and even international attention – and embarrassment – for the county. The difficult rollout of the District of Columbia’s planned streetcar network probably did not help. Local officials also may have missed an opportunity in not sending the project to a referendum five or 10 years ago, when there was little organized opposition. While Arlington does not have the power to send advisory referendums to voters, the matter could have been sent to the electorate if tied to a bond referendum. Present-day budget implications also Continued on Page 11
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Their days of hand-to-hand combat over the future of streetcars apparently behind them, County Board members Jay Fisette and Libby Garvey used a Nov. 19 forum on the future of Columbia Pike to try and calm the waters and reduce anger of those who felt betrayed by the board’s decision to scrap the transit proposal. At a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Arlington – an event that had been scheduled long before the most recent shoe dropped in the streetcar saga – the arrival of Fisette and Garvey added tension to the room, but also may have helped start the process of community healing. It came just a day after Fisette, the County Board chairman, and Vice Chairman Mary Hynes switched from their long-held support of the streetcar project and voted with Garvey and John Vihstadt to scrap it. Fisette and Hynes cited ongoing community discord and the potential for the streetcar debate to crowd out discussion on other issues as their reasons for switching. At the League of Women Voters’ forum, Fisette said that “organized opposition from opponents over the last year . . . made it very hard to see a way through.” “The recent election was really a wakeup call,” Fisette said, pointing to the reelection of independent Vihstadt by a
significant margin over pro-streetcar Democrat Alan Howze. Fisette indirectly acknowledged a key political undercurrent of the contentious debate: The potential that pro-streetcar forces could lose the seats of Hynes and Walter Tejada (who continues to support the project) in the 2015 election. If the Vihstadt-Howze race served as a de-facto referendum on the streetcar, as some suggest, the result was a mixed message. Howze won 53 percent of the vote in the 10 precincts – representing about 20 percent of the County – in the Columbia Pike corridor. But Vihstadt won a number of those precincts, and largely crushed Howze in other areas of the county. Garvey, who since election to the County Board in 2012 has been a steadfast streetcar critic, supporting a bus-based alternative, praised Fisette’s change of direction. “It was a very hard decision for him, but I’m glad he made it because I think it’s the right one,” she told the assemblage. For Lloyd Wolf, who has spent decades chronicling the Columbia Pike corridor in photographs and has seen its evolution, the decision to scrap the streetcar brought about a bittersweet reaction. “I hope we can all move on now” he said. “I hope we can go forward together – finally.” But the decision to cancel the streetcar project will have ramifications up and down Columbia Pike, panelists at the fo-
Decision Apparently Viewed as Painful But Still Necessary Continued from Page 10
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appeared to play a role in the decision to scrap the projects. Rising student enrollment in Arlington threatens to crowd out other spending, both Fisette and Hynes said. While dollars that will be saved by eliminating the streetcar can’t be transferred into education, parks or other non-transportation uses, they will be freed up for transit and road projects. And the county will not have to pick up the cost of subsidizing operational expenses of the streetcar, although expanded bus service will require subsidies. With the Nov. 18 decision rendered, supporters of the streetcar were left to fume and regroup. The Coalition for Smarter Growth, which backed the project, trained its anger not so much on Fisette and Hynes as on “the deeply negative, and frequently inaccurate, campaign” by opponents. “Failure to invest in modern, high-capacity transit will mean more traffic and less economic development,” the group said in a statement. Fairfax officials, who were set to pay about 20 percent of the local cost of the project, had been apprised of the Arlington decision before it was publicly announced. Bulova, whose words did not mask what appeared to be irritation at the decision, was out with a statement as the Fisette press conference was going on.
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demise of the streetcar plan, and the economic development that had been anticipated with its arrival, could cause a crushing blow to efforts to retain affordable housing in the Columbia Pike corridor. Arlington officials are aiming to retain the net 6,200 units of affordable housing on the Pike, largely through incentives to developers to provide additional affordable units in place of those that are sure to be razed. Rouleau said she “doesn’t see how these goals can be met” without the economic growth a streetcar would bring. Takis Karantonis, who heads the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization, said the corridor needed to entice people to see it as a go-to destination for shopping, dining and entertainment. If Columbia Pike is not developed to facilitate all parts of life, it will create a “very, very unpleasant mode of living,” he said. Civic activist Monique O’Grady focused on overcrowding in elementary schools expected to be brought on by rising population along Columbia Pike as well as gaps in arts, International Baccalaureate, STEM and immersion programs. South Arlington schools are already overcrowded, but in the next 10 years several will near or surpass 1,000 students. O’Grady also addressed instructional gaps that need to be filled, and suggested that the Washington Lee International Baccalaureate program be expanded to include Wakefield High School.
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Region Reagan National Could Possibly Hit New Record A solid end to the year could propel Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to a new record in passenger activity. For the first nine months of the year, the airport was running 0.1 percent ahead of the same point in 2013 with 15.5 million passengers coming and going through its gates, according to figures reported Nov. 10 by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. At Washington Dulles International Airport, year-to-date passenger totals were running 2.2 percent below a year before at 16.3 million. Add both airports together, and the 31.8 million passengers from January to September was down 1.1 percent from a year before. To beat its all-time record, Reagan National will have to top the 20.4 million passengers of 2013 – the third year in a row that airport set a record and the first time in its nearly 75-year history that more than 20 million passengers traveled through it. At Washington Dulles, the passenger count of 21.9 million in 2013 was down 2.7 percent from the year before, as dominant carrier United Airlines scaled down operations and some other carriers moved flights to closer-in National. The all-time passenger record at Dulles was recorded in 2005, when competition between United and now-defunct Independence Air saw a total of more than 27 million passengers. September 2014 proved a good month at both airports, with Reagan National seeing its year-over-year passenger total for the month up 5.9 percent to 1.68 million and Dulles posting a 1.5-percent increase to 1.8 million. Combined, air travel was up 3.6 percent compared to a year before.
The merger of American Airlines and US Airways is having an impact at Reagan National, as the combined carrier was forced to divest itself from some take-off and landing slots in order to win federal approval of the merger. As a result, the market share of those two airlines (still flying under different brands but likely to be folded together in 2015) and their regional carriers was down from 58.5 percent in September 2013 to 54.2 percent in September 2014 at Reagan National. Delta had the second biggest market share, up slightly to 15.6 percent, followed by United (8.8 percent, down slightly) and Southwest/AirTran supplanting JetBlue in the No. 4 position with an 80-percent growth at the airport in the past year. At Dulles, United’s market share of 62.9 percent was down from 66.6 percent a year before, due largely to contraction of the airline’s operations. American/US Airways had a market share of 4.3 percent for the month, followed by Delta (4.1 percent), Frontier (3.5 percent) and Lufthansa (2.6 percent). At Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, operated by the Maryland state government, the passenger count of 1.81 million in September was up 3.3 percent from a year before. At BWI, Southwest/AirTran increased its market share from 69.1 percent in September 2013 to 70.8 percent in September 2014, followed by Delta (9.1 percent), American/US Airways (8.9 percent) and United (4.7 percent). Passenger Growth Expected at Reagan National, Declines Likely at Dulles: Signif-
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icantly higher passenger totals at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport but declining numbers at Washington Dulles International Airport in the coming year are being projected by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. The authority, which operates the two airports under contract to the federal government, is estimating that 11.35 million passengers will enplane at Reagan National next year, up 9.2 percent from the anticipated 10.39 million in 2014. At Dulles, however, enplanements are expected to drop 2.8 percent to 10.36 million. Combined, a total of 21.7 million passengers are expected to enplane at the two airports up 3.1 percent from this year. The figures are contained in a preliminary budget for the two airports. If the projections for Reagan National play out, the airport would set a new passenger record in 2015. In the budget, officials are anticipating $265.4 million in operating revenues at Reagan National in 2015, up 7.9 percent from this year, and $535.7 million at Dulles, up 7.7 percent.
Part of the growth will come from concession revenue due to the increasing passenger count at Reagan National and additional duty-free revenue at Dulles. The estimated 2015 average cost-perenplanement (total airline costs divided by the number of enplaned passengers) is expected to run $14.68 at Reagan National and $25.48 at Dulles. Alaska Airlines Returns to Dulles: It went away for a while, but Alaska Airlines is coming back to Washington Dulles International Airport. Officials at the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority announced Nov. 13 that the carrier will resume operations at Dulles with a daily, nonstop flight beginning next spring. Using Boeing 737 aircraft, flights will depart Dulles at 6:20 p.m. daily, arriving in Seattle at 9:15 p.m. local time. The Dullesbound flight departs Seattle at 9:20 a.m., arriving at 5:20 p.m. “We are delighted to welcome Alaska Airlines back,” said Chris Brown, manager of Dulles. With the return, the airline will now serve all three Washington-area airports.
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Arlington on Nov. 11 served as the backdrop for both national and local commemorations of Veterans Day. Vice President Joe Biden laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, saying in remarks that an unbroken line of veterans has kept the U.S. and its freedoms safe since the founding of the republic. About 2,000 veterans attended the Veterans Day ceremony, held at the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater. “Every single generation of veterans throughout our history has been the best that this country has had to offer,” the vice president said. “It is as true today as it was 200 years ago when a generation of warriors held the ramparts at Fort McHenry against the full might of the British navy in the Battle of Baltimore.”
The local commemoration of Veterans Day brought about 100 people to the Arlington War Memorial in Clarendon. Originally called Armistice Day, the commemoration of Veterans Day marks the day in 1918 when the guns fell silent at the end of what later became known as World War I. Nearly a century later, “the guns are not silent – thousands of our brave men and women in uniform are fighting wars in the Middle East and other countries in the war on terror,” said Bob Romano, commander of American Legion Post 139, who presided over the ceremony. Romano said it was not simply service members who were in his thoughts. “Let us not forget the loved ones left behind when our men and women go off,” he said. “It is our duty . . . to help in any way
possible.” County Board Chairman Jay Fisette and Vice Chairman Mary Hynes were on hand, and representatives from Post 139, Veterans of Foreign Wars John Lyon Post 3150, American Legion Gen. Billy Mitchell Post 85 and American Legion Dorie Miller Post 194 and their auxiliaries laid wreaths at the memorial, which honors Arlington’s war dead dating to World War I. Among those whose names are inscribed on the memorial was Arlington native John Lyon, a University of Virginia graduate and associate editor of Field and Stream magazine who saw significant action in France with the Alexandria Light Infantry, a part of the U.S. Army’s 29th Division. Lyon was killed in action Oct. 15, 1918, less than a month before the end of the war. He posthumously was awarded the Distin-
Vice President Joe Biden lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns during Veterans Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery on Nov. 11. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PHOTO
guished Service Cross, for giving his life in an effort to save a fellow officer in the face of enemy fire.
– Scott McCaffrey, Sun Gazette and Jim Garamone, Department of Defense News
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days or any time. The kitchen is a creative delight, with crisp white cabinetry, granite countertops, high-end appliances and a farm sink, along with a breakfast area that adds space and opens to the porch. Any list of favorite spaces wouldn’t be complete without a long stop exploring the family room. A stone fireplace, coffered ceiling and French doors out to the deck all work to charm the senses. Up to the second level we go, stopping briefly on the gracious landing. From here, we being to explore the three bedrooms (each en-suite) that bid us to enter. The master retreat is the centerpiece, a warm and welcoming spot with walk-in closet and a luxury bath featuring a soaking tub, oversized shower and separate vanity. It’s picture-perfect. The covered porch off the master bedroom harkens back to a time when homes in Southern locales had “sleeping porches” for family comfort. The second bedroom of this level features builts-ins, another reminder that exceptional care was lavished on the design. There is a second upper level sitting at the top of the home, a wonderful bonus that contains the fourth bedroom, a nice bath and a large sitting area that would work effectively as a den, play space, artist’s retreat or home office. You make the call.
On the lower level, the highlight is the large recreation room, with built-ins, providing versatile informal living space. There also is the home’s fifth bedroom and fourth bath on this level, and you have access to the two-car garage and even a dumbwaiter to bring packages up to the kitchen. It is a time of year we set aside to give thanks for our blessings, chief among them hearth and home to keep us warm and provide a setting for family enjoyment. This week’s featured property offers an exceptional opportunity to enjoy a home that is both classic in its details and modern-day in its amenities. Well worthy of consideration. Articles are prepared by the Sun Gazette’s real estate advertising department on behalf of clients. For information on the home, contact the listing agent. For information on having a house reviewed, contact the Sun Gazette’s real estate advertising department at (703) 738-2520.
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In surveying the options for a home to highlight on this week of giving thanks, one of those that came to the fore was a fiveyear-old, four-level home that, we were promised, combined “New England character with Virginia grace.” And yes, that’s exactly what one will find in exploring this Shirley Woods delight, located in a bucolic setting near Little Falls Road north of Yorktown Boulevard. Exceptional curb appeal that hints of the past, with a glorious wrap-around porch, leads us to an exploration of living spaces that are designed to be comfortable and charismatic, perfect for entertaining during the upcoming holidays or just relaxation at home while waiting on Mother Nature to brink a blanket of snow to add a picturesque touch. The property currently is on the market, listed at $1,795,000 by Betsy Twigg of McEnearney Associates. With a quarter-acre of land whose vistas change with the seasons, there is always something new as you approach this home. Constructed in 2009, it successfully and seamlessly combines all that was good about American farmhouse architecture with a forward-thinking personality when it comes to use of space. Our exploration of interior spaces begins with a welcome in the expansive and gracious foyer. As we move from floor to floor, enjoy the high ceilings, extensive mouldings and wood flooring, along with the abundance of natural sunlight. The formal living room was designed with versatility in mind. Accessed from the foyer by French doors, you will find plentiful space, along with the option to turn this space into a main-level bedroom (it is plumbed for a bath). The dining room was conceived for those who wish to entertain in style. Gather the family and friends for the holi-
Realtors from across the country gathered in early November to discuss the effects of changing home-buyer demographics on the housing market during the Realtor University Richard J. Rosenthal Center for Real Estate Studies forum at the 2014 Realtors’ Conference & Expo. “Among primary-residence home buyers, the demographics have shifted dramatically, especially among firsttime home buyers, whose share of the market has dropped to its lowest level in decades,” said Jessica Lautz, director of member-and-consumer-survey research for the National Association of Realtors. “We have also seen an increase in the median age and income of the average buyer, as well as in multi-generational household formations, as adult children and elderly family members move back in with their families.” Adult Millennials, those aged 18 to 33, were a popular topic of discussion for the panel. In 2014, Millennials saw 60-percent better job growth than the nation overall, and saw a drop in their unemployment to 6 percent. This growth, along with improved economic opportunities, should encourage Millennials to form households and buy homes in the coming years, leaders at the conference said. “Millennials are the largest generation of people in the U.S. and represent 60 percent of first-time home buyers,” said Jonathan Smoke, chief economist for Realtor.com. “They also are more likely than any other group to purchase a home in the next year.” Tightened inventory, difficulty receiving credit and lower than average salaries have kept many of these buyers out of the market, but most economists see that as a temporary setback. “It’s not that young people don’t want to purchase homes, it’s that they are delaying the purchase,” said Lisa Sturtevant, vice president of research for the National Housing Conference. “Get ready for the Millennial wave to drive the housing market for decades,” she said. Another group that will be competing with Millennials for dominance in the housing market is baby boomers. Sturtevant said, “With Millennials searching for new homes, baby boomers downsizing, and groups with historically lower incomes all entering the market, an increased demand for smaller, less expensive homes will begin to emerge.”
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Officials Map Strategy to Get Back Hotel Surtax County Board members hope the General Assembly will put aside past grievances with Arlington and return local authority to enact a tax surcharge on hotel stays in support of tourism promotion. “There are lots of good arguments” for return of the taxing authority, which was stripped three years ago by state lawmakers furious with the County Board for suing state and federal officials over high-occupancy-toll (HOT) lanes. Getting the taxing authority back was one of the major topics of discussion when the five-member County Board sat down Nov. 17 with six of the seven members of the Arlington delegation to the General Assembly to go over priorities for the coming year. (The seventh member, state Sen. Janet Howell, was in Texas attending a conference on mental health.) Before the General Assembly removed Arlington’s right to levy the 0.25-percent surtax atop the 5-percent tax on hotel and motel stays, the county government received nearly $1 million a year, which was used to promote Arlington as a destination for tourists and business travelers. In the years since the tax’s abolition, the County Board has provided some funding to make up the lost revenue, but did not fully replace it. As a result, Arlington’s tourism-promotion budget is about half what it was before. In 2013, county officials worked with the business community in an effort to bring back the taxing authority, and believed
they had achieved success when the measure passed both houses of the legislature (albeit by an ever-so-slim margin in the House of Delegates). But Gov. McDonnell vetoed the bill, voicing concern that higher taxes on hotel stays would make Northern Virginia uncompetitive with the District of Columbia. Legislators did not attempt to override the veto, and the measure was not brought up for consideration in the 2014 session. Howell (D-32nd), the most senior member of the Arlington delegation, is expected to patron the measure in the Senate. The patron in the House of Delegates is not yet determined; previously, Del. Bob Brink (D-48th), had shepherded it through the lower house, but Brink decamped for the McAuliffe administration in June. Acknowledging that many members of the General Assembly don’t have a warm-and-fuzzy feeling toward the commonwealth’s local governments, and often have a more visceral reaction to Arlington specifically, county officials plan to try and stay under the radar, allowing the Arlington Chamber of Commerce to carry the ball in Richmond. “This is a team effort – we are supporting the business community,” County Board member Walter Tejada said. State Sen. Barbara Favola (D31st), the lone member of the legislative delegation to have served on the County Board, said that strategy was the best, perhaps only, way to achieve success.
“The business community really, really has to carry the water,” she said. “This has to be seen as a ‘business ask.’” That was fine with County Board Chairman Jay Fisette. “We support their effort,” he said of the business community. The Arlington Chamber of Commerce has not completed its 2015 legislative-priorities package, but support for the tax-surcharge measure is expected to be included. Even if they garner support of the Republican leadership in both houses of the legislature, passage of the measure is not assured. Because the measure is classed as a new tax, it requires a supermajority to win passage, and could be derailed by virulently anti-tax legislators. Supporters of the measure may want to avoid using the “tword” altogether, given the generally anti-tax view of Republicans in the House of Delegates. “I don’t see any tax coming forward that will be approved,” Favola said. “There is just no appetite.” Even if they do approve it, lawmakers are likely to again tack on a sunset clause, requiring the county government to come back in a number of years for reauthorization. The General Assembly likes to do that to localities to keep the leash tight. Arlington generates more tourism and business-travel spending than any jurisdiction in the commonwealth, although its lead over Fairfax County has been shrinking in recent years.
‘SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY’ ON THE HORIZON: The third
ton Small Business Day, from 10 to 11 a.m. at Rhythm in Motion Dance Center, 5161 Lee Highway, and at a “Local with Hot Cocoa” event for home/online-based businesses at 2413 Columbia Pike, the former location of Society Fair. The Clarendon Alliance will also turn on the holiday lights in Clarendon Central Park and the Ballston Business Improvement District will turn on the holiday lights on Wilson Boulevard outside Ballston Common Mall in support of the small businesses participating in the day’s events. For more information, see the Web sites at www.arlingtonsmallbusinessday.org and www. yoppapp.com.
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the best community in the nation for young entrepreneurs, according to a new survey. The Web site Nerdwallet.com looked at a host of criteria to come up with its top communities. “An entrepreneur, especially a young one, needs more than just a great idea to get a business off the ground,” the site noted. “Funding, mentorship, networking opportunities and a city’s affordability all play pivotal roles in the success of a new small business.” Factors used to rank communities included access to funds;
State Sen. Janet Howell (D-32nd) is likely to patron the measure to restore Arlington’s ability to levy a surcharge on hotel taxes.
Since the elimination of the taxing authority, hotel occupancy has declined, county officials said – but they have not explained why they won’t pump more local tax dollars into tourism promotion. Future of BPOL Tax Remains a Worry: What keeps Arlington elected officials up at night? For one thing, the prospect that the state legislature might abolish the ability of localities to levy “BPOL” (business, professional and occupational license) taxes. It’s a proposal that never quite seems to make it through the halls of the General Assembly, but returns repeatedly as a possibility. “Attacks on the BPOL tax arise every year,” sighed Commissioner of Revenue Ingrid Morroy, whose office administers the tax. Were that taxing authority rescinded, the Arlington government would be in a pickle to the
percentage of the 25-to-34 age group; educational attainment; the local economy; and affordability. Arlington made it to the top of the list due to “a high percentage of educated young people, the highest per-capita income in the nation and access to businesses in the Washington, D.C., area,” noted Nerdwallet.com. (Despite the offbeat name of the site, “I assume they have some credibility,” County Board Chairman Jay Fisette said in highlighting the ranking at a recent board meeting.) Also in the top 10: Madison, Wisc.; Lincoln, Neb.; Minneapolis; Denver; Seattle; Austin; Okla-
tune of more than $60 million a year, or about 5 percent of the local government’s budget. “It would require a significant increase in the real estate tax rate,” Morroy said. At a work session with members of the local legislative delegation, County Board Chairman Jay Fisette complained that decisions affecting Virginia’s counties, cities and towns were made in Richmond “often by those who have never worked in local government.” And because of Virginia’s status as a Dillon-rule state, localities have precious few inherent powers – they can only do what the legislature allows them to do, and if legislators want to abolish the tax, they can do so. Gov. McAuliffe has suggested he would be open to elimination of the tax, but only if localities received other ways to raise revenues to make up the difference. BPOL taxes are levied on all businesses in Arlington, including home-based businesses, but generally only impact larger operations. According to the commissioner of revenue’s office, tax rates are: • Businesses having less than $10,000 in gross receipts owe no tax. • Businesses grossing between $10,001 and $50,000 pay a flat fee of $30. • Businesses grossing between $50,001 and $100,000 pay a flat fee of $50. • Businesses with gross receipts in excess of $100,000 are taxed at rates that depend on the type of service they provide.
homa City; Plano, Texas; and Omaha. The second 10 included Lubbock, Texas; Raleigh, N.C.; Pittsburgh; the District of Columbia; Portland, Ore.; Atlanta; Tulsa; Durham, N.C.; Nashville; and Orlando. Not found on the list were communities in California. Researchers said a variety of factors were to blame, noting that the top Golden State city on the ranking was San Francisco, at No. 23. Of the top 20, the percentage of the population in the 25-to34 age group ranged from 13.3 percent in Plano to Arlington’s Continued on Page 19
Arlington Notes ment offices will be closed on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 27-28, in observance of Thanksgiving. For more information on what is open and what is closed in the local government, see the Web site at www.arlingtonva.us. BLANKET-COLLECTION EFFORT TOPS 600 TO SUPPORT REFUGEES: The Ar-
lington community donated more than 600 blankets as part of a regional effort to support Syrian refugees now in Turkey. The Arlington County government set up collection boxes at its headquarters and the Department of Human Services to collect the blankets during a three-week collection effort in November. County officials suggest that anyone who missed the deadline to donate blankets can instead donate them to the Arlington Street People’s Assistance Network. OPERANOVA SEEKS MUSICAL DONATIONS: OperaNova is seeking donations
of musical instruments of any kind as part of an initiative to support music programs in local classrooms. “Schools in this area need instruments for their students to learn to play and perform on,” the organization said. “In the past, we have received requests for charangos, mandolins, trombones, violins and flutes among many other instruments.” “Please get that instrument out of the attic and start its life all over again,” the organization said.
For information, contact Miriam Miller at (703) 536-7557 or e-mail mcdm1@verizon.net. OPTIMIST CLUB GEARS UP FOR TREE SALE: The Optimist Club of Arlington
is gearing up for a nearly 70-year tradition: Its annual Christmas-tree sale, to be held Nov. 30 to Dec. 24 (or until items are sold out) in the parking lot of Wells Fargo Bank, 2213 Glebe Road. Trees, roping and wreaths will be among the items available for sale, with proceeds benefiting local and international charitable initiatives. For information about the club, see the Web site at www.oiarlington.org. HOST LIONS CLUB TO SELL CITRUS:
The Arlington Host Lions Club will host its annual sale of sweet citrus from Thursday, Dec. 4 to Sunday, Dec. 7 at the Wells Fargo Bank parking lot, located at the corner of Lee Highway and North Glebe Road. Grapefruit, oranges, tangerines, syrup, pecans, cashews and Virginia peanuts will be among the items for sale. Proceeds will benefit community-outreach efforts. For information, call Liz Schindler at (703) 598-8266 or see the Web site at www. arlingtonhostlions.org. WASHINGTON-LEE HOLIDAY BAZAAR ON HORIZON: More than 70 local artisans
will display and sell quality handcrafted and other items during the annual Washington-Lee High School Holiday Bazaar, to be held on Saturday, Dec. 6 from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. at the school. Sponsored by the senior class, the event also will feature Washington-Lee clubs and sports teams selling poinsettias, holiday greens, citrus, nuts and other items. There also will be homemade, multi-ethnic foods and baked holiday treats, as well as performances by the Magrigals and other musical groups from the school. ENCORE LEARNING PROGRAM LOOKS AT MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS: Encore
Learning’s “Meet the Speaker” series continues on Monday, Dec. 1 at 2:30 p.m. at Central Library. Jean Moore will give a presentation on “The Trial of Mary Queen of Scots,” appearing in costume as the queen, who was executed after conspiring against Elizabeth I of England. The program is sponsored jointly by Encore Learning and the county library system. For information, call (703) 2282144. CHORAL OUTING TO PRESENT CLASSICS, FOLK SONGS FROM UKRAINE:
The Washington Group Cultural Fund will host a concert on Saturday, Nov. 29 at 3 p.m. at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 915 North Oakland St. Works by Vivaldi, Mozart, Bellini, Dvorak, Rossini and other composers will be featured, and there will be Ukrainian folk songs. The concert features soprano Sofia Soloviy and pianist Oksana Skidan. The suggested donation is $20 for adults; students are admitted free.
For information on the Washington Group Cultural Fund, see the Web site at http://twgculturalfund.org. CHURCH TO HOST CHRISTMAS-THEMED MUSICAL COMEDY: Memorial Baptist
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Church will present “The Christmas Post,” a musical comedy, with performances Dec. 4, 5, 13 and 14 at 7 p.m. at the church, 3444 North Glebe Road. Admission is free. For tickets, call (703) 538-7000 or see the Web site at www.memorialbaptistchurch.org. WAKEFIELD DRAMA STUDENTS TO PRESENT ‘THE GREAT GATSBY’: Wake-
field High School’s drama department will present an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” with peformances on Dec. 4, 5, 6 and 12 at 7 p.m. each night at the high school. For information, call (703) 228-6700 or e-mail gillespie.chris@apsva.us. CLARIFICATION: An article in last week’s
edition inadvertently cut off the name of the chairman of the Arlington Community Foundation’s annual William T. Newman Jr. Spirit of Community awards luncheon. The luncheon was chaired for the third year by local real-estate professional Libby Ross, who “has topped herself every year,” said foundation executive director Wanda Pierce. The Sun Gazette welcomes your submission of items for inclusion in the newspaper. Contact information is found on Page 6.
Business Briefcase Continued from Page 18 chart-topping 27.8 percent. The percentage of the population over age 25 with at least a bachelor’s degree ranged from 27.3 percent in Oklahoma City to 74.3 percent in Arlington. On the cost-of-living ranking, Arlington didn’t fare so well; it costs more than 50 percent more to live in the county than in Tulsa, nearly 40 percent more than Orlando and about 5 percent more than Seattle. Add it all up, and Arlington scored 72.76 on the ranking (available at www. nerdwallet.com). The only other locality to top 70 was Madison, at 70.98. GOVERNMENT’S RETAIL PLAN TO GET FACELIFT: County Board members in De-
‘TECHNOLOGY ZONES’ TO EXPAND COUNTYWIDE: County Board members
next month are expected to tweak rules surrounding Arlington’s “technology zones,” including allowing qualifying businesses to receive benefits no matter where they are located in the community. Technology zones were established in 2001. Currently, they are in four areas: Rosslyn-Ballston, Columbia Pike, Jefferson Davis Highway and Shirlington. Under the original rules, qualifying technology businesses had their business, professional and occupational license (BPOL) taxes reduced anywhere from 50 to nearly 75 percent, depending on the number of employees. Earlier this year, the County Board adopted amendments that expanded the
types of eligible businesses and set standard eligibility criteria and uniform BPOL rates. The changes “are considered successful and have largely met the intended purposes,” county staff said in a memo to board members. The proposed changes would scrap individual zones and take the initiative countywide. Officials with Arlington Economic Development said that while the change would amount to an addition of just 750,000 square feet (2 percent of total county inventory), it would include areas that would be attractive to new or growing tech companies, and would address the issue of rising office-vacancy rates in the county. The second change is a technical adjustment to how firms can calculate employment growth. Arlington receives about $60 million a year in BPOL taxes countywide. Staff said the proposed changes would not produce a significant decline in tax revenue. The proposed changes go to the County Board Dec. 13. HOSPITAL CHIEF TAPPED TO LEAD STATEWIDE BODY: James Cole, president
and CEO of Virginia Hospital Center, was elected chairman of the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association at the organization’s annual membership meeting, held Nov. 5-7 at The Homestead. Cole succeeds John L. Fitzgerald, CEO, Inova Fair Oaks Hospital, Fairfax, who re-
mains on the board of directors as immediate past chairman. “The commonwealth has no shortage of bright people – people who want to do the right thing,” Cole said in remarks to the membership. “Together, we can envision, advocate for and work for a health-care delivery system in Virginia that: achieves zero harm to all patients; always provides an optimal patient and family experience; adopts the concept of high reliability in health care; implements health-care work processes driven by evidence-based best practices; and provides top-tier quality at the lowest cost. Virginia’s hospitals and health systems must work with our elected officials to promote policies that unite the commonwealth for the good of all Virginians.” Under Cole’s two-decade tenure, Virginia Hospital Center has grown into a regional leader, and has been named one of “America’s 100 Top Hospitals” and one of the nation’s “50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals” by Truven Health Analytics, which measures quality, safety and financial metrics for hospitals across the country. In 2013, the Washington Business Journal named Cole one of the area’s 50 Most Admired CEOs, and this year, he was elected to the Arlington Business Hall of Fame. The Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association has 36 member health systems and hospitals, representing 110 hospitals throughout the commonwealth.
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cember plan to consider an update to the local government’s retail plan, designed to make Arlington more attractive both for small local businesses and those of regional and national chains. The proposal’s genesis dates back to work done by the Economic Development Commission, which in 2008 established the Arlington Retail Task Force in consultation with the Arlington Chamber of Commerce. A meeting with County Board members in 2010 led to county staff’s being directed to review its practices related to small businesses and retailers. Some of the recommendations have been implemented; the retail plan is designed to update a similar plan adopted in
2001. Future updates are slated to be considered in 10-year intervals. The plan calls for the expansion of uses permitted on the ground floor of mixeduse buildings; allows for “creative design” of that retail space; and encourages that interiors of ground-floor-retail spaces be designed to accommodate a variety of users over time. The plan calls for more on-street parking opportunities near ground-floor retail, and says public art should be “a prominent component” of mixed-use areas. The package is designed for Planning Commission review on Dec. 1, followed by a County Board public hearing and expected action on Dec. 13.
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Program Has Come to Life With New Coach in Charge Could it be that after years of hibernation, a potential sleeping giant has been awakened in high school football?
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When their finest season in years ended with a second-round loss in the region playoffs, the Wakefield Warriors were more in a reflecFOOTBALL tive mood regarding what they accomplished during the 2014 football campaign than overly disappointed about the defeat. Wakefield (8-4), the No. 8 seed, lost Nov. 21 in Leesburg by a 42-14 score to the top seeded and undefeated Tuscarora Huskies (12-0) in the 5A North Region high school playoffs. The Warriors finished 1-1 in the postseason. “We matched up against a real tough team and they kind of outmatched us on defense. But getting to this game was more of a celebration of what we did this year,” Wakefield senior quarterback Riley Wilson said. “We won a playoff game for the first time and we had a winning season.” The winning campaign was Wakefield’s first season since 1983, with the playoff berth its first since 1986 and only its second in school history. Wakefield’s Nov. 14 first-round playoff triumph over Potomac Falls by a 25-18 score was the Warriors’ first in the postseason. “We got to experience a lot this season. We saw a real good team in the playoffs tonight and what it’s like to play at this level,” Wakefield coach Wayne Hogwood said. “These kids are hungry at Wakefield. We’ll be back here [in the playoffs].” In the loss to Tuscarora, Wakefield scored the game’s first and last touchdown. Tuscarora, which outgained the Warriors in total yards, 426-207, tallied 42 unanswered points between Wakefield’s TDs. “Wakefield made some plays against us with their first drive, and their defense made it hard for us to hit big plays,” Tuscarora coach Michael Burnett said. “We had to grind it out. Then we responded well, particularly on defense. They didn’t get much after that first drive.” Wakefield took the game’s opening kickoff and drove 65 yards on 11 plays to score when Wilson (7 of 15 passing for 67 yards) threw five yards to Justin Moore.
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Wakefield High School senior quarterback Riley Wilson and the Warriors lost to the top-seed Tuscarora Huskies in a second-round 5A North Region playoff game Nov. 21. FILE PHOTO BY DEB KOLT
Then Ben Kline booted the extra point for a 7-0 lead with 6:22 left in the first period. The scoring drive included a 36yard leaping catch at the Huskies’ 4-yard line by Marqua Walton. Tuscarora scored the next 42 points (six straight touchdowns), and the outcome had been decided. The Huskies led 28-7 at halftime. “Their first touchdown got us going and got our attention,” Tuscarora senior running back Noah Reimers said. Reimers scored four touchdowns and rushed for 127 yards. Wakefield running back Leon Young (90 yards rushing) scored the game’s final touchdown with 25 seconds to play in the game and Kline converted. Tuscarora impressed Hogwood.
“I think they have the best offensive line since those good Stone Bridge teams out here,” Hogwood said. “Their running backs are very patient and they are well coached. You can’t make mistakes against them, and we did.” Wakefield turned the ball over twice, as did Tuscarora. Bemnet Seyoum had 22 yards rushing for Wakefield, Wilson had 17 and Kareem Hall 11. Walton had three catches for 42 yards and Young two for 18. Antoine Juste had 52 yards in kickoff returns and he had an interception. NOTE: Wakefield came within one victory of a single-season school record. The last time the Warriors had nine victories in a season was when they finished 9-1 in 1964.
The results posted by the Wakefield Warriors this season and last suggest that could indeed be the case. Coaching changes were made, but still, for years on end, Wakefield had one losing record after another, despite what some believed were teams that had enough talent to win and or certainly be more competitive. Yet, some seasons Wakefield didn’t win a game. Following a winless 2012 campaign, former Wakefield quarterback Wayne Hogwood was hired as the Warriors’ latest head coach, and things began to immediately change. Hogwood was a little different. He knew the school, the neighborhood, the type of players, the various issues they faced and, most importantly, the possible solution. Plus, Hogwood knew the game, pretty well – and on both sides of the ball. He was a winning quarterback in college at Shenandoah University. Then he became a successful high school defensive coordinator for a number of years under head coach Bruce Hanson’s winning Yorktown Patriots’ program. Basically, Hogwood was the perfect fit as Wakefield’s football coach, and Hanson predicted as much right from the day he was hired. Hanson was confident Hogwood would quickly turn the program around. In time, he believes Wakefield can challenge for championships under Hogwood. The turnaround began in 2013 when Wakefield finished 3-7. Even greater improvement was vast this fall. Wakefield was 8-4 overall, including its first winning season since 1983, its first playoff berth since 1986, and its initial postseason region playoff triumph in the school’s history. Wakefield is now defeating those weaker and so-so opponents the team used to regularly lose to in recent seasons. At the same time, the Warriors are much more competitive against traditionally better squads like Arlington rivals Washington-Lee and Yorktown. Yes, it seems that a dormant program, if not already awakened, has significantly risen from its long slumber.
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Two of Arlington’s NFL Flag Football teams dominated the Washington Redskins Regional Tournament in Leesburg recently to win the championships. The tournament drew teams from seven states, all vyfor a chance to comFLAG FOOTBALL ing pete in the NFL Flag Championships during Super Bowl Week in Phoenix. Arlington’s 10-under coed and 14-under girls teams won the regionals and will travel to Phoenix during Super Bowl week. The teams will be guests of the NFL for the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl Media Day. The Arlington teams are the first from the league to win regionals and advance to nationals. The 10-under team compiled a 5-1 record and outscored opponents, 131-19. The team won 20-0 in the championship game. The players were Trevor Wilson, Danny Brien, Will Green, Mason Cunningham, Quinn Brennan, James Tallon, Mac Marsh, Andrew Burd, Will Hock, Alan Peck. (Back row) Coaches Kiel Green, Russ Burd and Pete Brien The 14-under girls started their championship day with back-to-back wins against two national-championship programs from Youngstown, Ohio, and Harris-
Arlington’s 10-under coed team won a regional championship.
Arlington’s 14-under girls team is headed to nationals.
burg, Pa. to finish 4-0 in pool play. Arlington then defeated Harrisburg, 27-6, in the championship game. The players were Senam Adedze, Sara Park, Carly Rivera, Kendra Metcalfe, Liz Shean, Michelle Emery, Azzi Fudd, McKay Evans, Kate Vietmeyer and Thora Gibbs. The coaches were Bart Gray and Mike Rivera. Arlington had four other teams advance from pool play but then lost in the single-elimination playoff
bracket. One of the other Arlington 10-under teams lost to the Arlington regional winners in the semifinals, 7-6, resulting in its only loss of the day. The 14-under boys team dominated pool play before losing in the championship game to Leesburg. NFL Flag Football is a national non-contact flag program. Arlington has one of the top 20 biggest leagues in the U.S. with more than 810 youth participating.
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Marymount Volleyball Team Sets Single-Season Record for Wins By finishing second with a 2-1 in the recent Eastern College Athletic ConferDivision VOLLEYBALL ence III Southeast Region Tournament, the Marymount University Saints set a team record for most single-season victories with 28. Marymount (28-11) broke the old mark of 26 wins. The No. 3 seed Saints lost in the championship match to top-seeded Lebanon Valley, 3-1, in Annville, Pa. Despite jumping out to early leads in both the first and second sets, the Saints
could not solve the Lebanon Valley attack. Junior hitter Morgan McAlpin had 11 kills to lead Marymount. Marymount defeated No. 6 seed Arcadia, 3-0, in a first-round match in Arlington. Then in the semifinals in Annville, the Saints downed second-seed Swarthmore, 3-1. Against Swarthmore, McAlpin had 18 kills, sophomore Emileigh Rettig connected with 17, senior Erin Allison issued 13, freshman Ashley Cabrera had 37 assists and freshman Rebecca Bateman had
20. In the win over Arcadia for Marymount, McAlpin had 11 kills, two aces and four blocks, Rettig had seven kills, freshman Margaret McAlpin had six kills and four blocks, Cabrera had 16 assists, Bateman had nine, and senior Cassidie Watson had 14 digs. Prior to the ECAC tournament, Marymount lost to Salisbury, 3-1, in first-round action of the Capital Athletic Conference Tournament. Morgan McAlpin was chosen to the all-CAC first team and Rettig made sec-
ond team. McAlpin proved a dynamic force for the Saints over the 2014 season, even after missing 10 games because of a midseason injury. In CAC action, the junior led the Saints in multiple categories. McAlpin was a repeat performer for the Saints, having collected all-CAC firstteam honors in 2013. NOTES: Allison and Watson were the only two seniors on Marymount’s team this fall . . . The 28 wins this season gives longtime Marymount coach Beth Ann Wilson 373 for her career.
Sports Briefs ers as well as those with a bit more experience. Online registration for both programs is at https://registration. arlingtonva.us. For more information, contact Marta Cahill at mcahill@arlingtonva.us (703) 228-1818.
SAMBA RED SOCCER TEAM SECOND: The Arlington
Samba Red under-13 girls soccer team finished second in the Richmond Strikers Fall Classic. Samba Red lost to the FC Richmond Mystx, 2-0, in the championship match. Samba Red defeated Virginia Rush Elite, 1-0, in the semifinals. Members of the team were Aida Anderson, Camille Ashe, Lucy Colaccino, Caitlin Cunningham, Lauren Flynn, Carlee Gaboury, Jeanie Laybourn, Alexandra Matechak, Margot Matheson, Camilla Regalia, Sarah Roberts, Lucy Robinson, Taylor Sieverling, Karina Solorzano, Maddie Winer and Kate Witherell. Nicci Wright was the head coach for the Samba Red team. ARLINGTON SPORTS HALL OF FAME NOMINATIONS:
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Club’s 2015 traveling league is recruiting new players. For information, contact Terry Townshead at artistic_ dimensions@msn.com or call Jennifer Collins at (703) 228-4745.
The Arlington Samba Red girls soccer team finished second in a fall classic tournament in Richmond. MARYMOUNT BASEBALL CAMPS: Marymount Uni-
versity is holding a holiday baseball camp on Saturday, Dec. 20 from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. The camp is inside in the Lee Center on Marymount’s main campus. The cost is $125. For questions and more information, e-mail baseball@marymount.edu, call (703) 284-5966 or visit: http://collegebaseballcamps.com/saints. ARLINGTON PICKUP SOCCER: Arlington’s pickup soc-
cer programs offer a chance to play informally for 90 minutes each week through November. There are no set teams, score recording or standings. Beginners and Intermediates play Tuesday nights at Long Bridge Park and advanced players play Thursday nights at Yorktown High School. The cost is $75 for Arlington residents and $105 for non-residents ($55/$80 for Tuesday Intermediate). The Beginner program welcomes total novice play-
travel softball teams will be conducting tryouts for their 2014-15 seasons. Information about tryouts is available at www.arlingtonsage.com/home.html. The Sage play a spring, summer and fall schedule at various age groups. The program has won tournament championships at those levels. GAME OFFICIALS NEEDED: Northern Virginia Baseball
Umpires is in need of officials for baseball, softball and volleyball. Officials are needed in all communities across the metropolitan area for youth recreational leagues, men’s leagues, high schools and colleges. Experience is helpful but not required. Formal classroom and on-the-job training will be provided to applicants. For more information, visit www.umpires.org or call John Porter at (703) 978-3601. SOFTBALL UMPIRE TRAINING: The Northern Virginia
Softball Umpire Association has started its fall training for softball umpires. The association officiates fastpitch softball in local area public and private high school leagues and at all levels of recreational softball throughout Northern Virginia. For more information and to register please contact Bob Angeli at: president@nvsua.
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The Arlington Sports Hall of Fame, established in 1958, is accepting nominations for induction in 2015. Candidates may be living or deceased. The deadline to enter nominations is Dec. 1. People interested in nominating an athlete, coach, contest official or other sports-related person can obtain a nomination form by writing: Executive Director, Arlington Sports Hall of Fame, P.O. Box 101321, Arlington, Va. 22210, or by downloading an official nomination form at www.arlsportshof.org.
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High School Roundup receiver for Yorktown. Tiene did not play football his junior year. “He picked up the plays quickly and by the end of the four days of practice we had put everything in,” Yorktown coach Bruce Hanson said. “He’d picked up about 70 percent after two days.”
MANY O’CONNELL FOOTBALL PLAYERS MAKE WCAC:
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For Charlie Tiene, the Yorktown Patriots’ replacement quarterback late in the football season, the senior’s high school varsity career as a signal caller lasted two games,
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O’Connell quarterback Michael Galvan, right, and running back Anthony Howard were both all-Washington Catholic Athletic PHOTO BY DEB KOLT Conference selections this fall.
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Items taken from the archives of the Northern Virginia Sun. For information on local history, see the Web site at www. arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org. November 26, 1944: n Arlingtonians who want to own a rehabilitated war dog must produce a character witness testifying they will be good owners. November 27, 1958: n A total of 9,000 spectators are expected as Washington-Lee hosts George Washington High School in the annual Old Oaken Bucket football game. n While Capital Airways is flying this Thanksgiving holiday weekend, TWA and Eastern are on the ground due to a strike by mechanics. n Santa himself will be the guest of honor at the annual Clarendon Parade tomorrow. n Today’s paper marks the largest, by far, in the Sun’s history n A full-page ad is asking Northern Virginians to consider purchasing land in the new Florida community of Cape Coral. November 28, 1966: n The Arlington Cultural Heritage Alliance is seeking state funds for construction of a cultural center and the reconstruction of an Indian village that once stood on the Potomac Palisades. n After-tax earnings of county residents have grown 22.8 percent since 1960, higher than that in Fairfax County. n The North Vietnamese government has announced plans for 48-hour ceasefires during Christmas. n The Washington Redskins’ 7241 victory over the New York Giants smashed two NFL records: most points by a winning team and most combined total points. November 27, 1974: n Arlington police have created a 20member task force to address the growing number of robberies in the county. n Activist Sherman Pratt plans to take his lawsuit demanding single-member County Board districts to the state Supreme Court. n President Ford has signed legislation that will help pump new funding into the Metro system. November 29, 1991: n County Board member Al Eisenberg is backing a proposal to require midsized restaurants to set aside non-smoking areas. Bigger restaurants already are required to provide them.
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