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Looking Back on Year Crowded with News
From Arrival of Silver Line to Departure of Politicians, 2014 Was Busy Across Local Area BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer
2014 saw the end of two storied congressional careers, milestone anniversaries for key community groups, the start of passenger service on Metrorail’s Silver Line and significant turnover within the Vienna town government’s ranks. U.S. Reps. Wolf, Moran Retire; Comstock, Beyer to Take Their Places: 2014 saw the retirements of two long-serving members of the U.S. House of Representatives. U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-10th), first elected in 1980, decided not to seek re-election and will be succeeded by his former aide, Del. Barbara Comstock (R-34th), who defeated Supervisor John Foust (D-Dranesville) in the Nov. 4 election. Comstock’s departure will necessitate a special election Jan. 6 to fill the remainder of her term. Republican Craig Parisot and Democrat Kathleen Murphy will have to marshal their supporters quickly before that election. U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-8th) decided to step down after 24 years in the House. Democrat Don Beyer, a former Virginia lieutenant governor and U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, defeated Republican nominee Micah Edmond and three other challengers Nov. 4 to succeed Moran. Departures, Deaths Mark Tumultuous Year for Vienna Government: The town of Vienna’s government underwent astounding changes in 2014. The community mourned following Mayor M. Jane Seeman’s death Feb. 23 at age 76. Seeman first had served on the Vienna Town Council before being elected mayor in 2000. Her funeral service drew hundreds of mourners, including local, state and federal officials.
The Council in April appointed member Laurie DiRocco to serve the remaining months of the late mayor’s term. DiRocco was the sole candidate to run for mayor in May and her two-year term commenced July 1.
Vienna Administrative Services Director Nancy McMahon retired in April after nearly 30 years’ service to the town’s government. McMahon departed with no fanfare and was succeeded in October by Magali “Mag-
gie” Kain, who became director of the town’s newly renamed Department of Human Resources. Continued on Page 3
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MCA, Women’s Center, Franklin Sherman Elementary Mark Major Anniversaries: The McLean Citizens Association on Nov. 20 celebrated 100 years of advocacy and community building. Begun in 1914 as School and Civic League of McLean, the group founded
Silver Line Begins Service, But Proposed Columbia Pike Streetcar Bites the Dust: Mass-transit advocates had reasons this year both to cheer exuberantly and gasp in dismay. The first phase of Metrorail’s longawaited Silver Line finally began carrying passengers July 26. The line, which extends 11.7 miles between East Falls Church and Wiehle Avenue in Reston, features five new stations, including four in Tysons Corner. Construction already has begun on the Silver Line’s second phase, which will stretch 11.4 miles west between Reston and Continued on Page 5
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Vienna Public Information Officer Kirstyn Barr stepped down in April to become town manager in Occoquan. Barr, who four years ago took over after longtime Vienna spokesman Marie Kisner retired, was succeeded in July by Ken Kroski. Besides gaining a new mayor, the Vienna Town Council obtained three other new members. Two of those positions became open after Council members Laurie Cole and Michael Polychrones did not seek reelection. In addition to electing DiRocco mayor, voters on May 6 re-elected Council member Edythe Kelleher and chose Seeman’s daughter, Linda Colbert, and Pasha Majdi to fill the two vacant Council positions. Three other candidates also participated in the unusually crowded field. Majdi took office early when the Council in June appointed him to fill the remaining two weeks of Polychrones’ term. Polychrones had moved to North Carolina in May. The Council on May 19 appointed former Vienna Planning Commission member Emil Attanasi to serve the remaining year of DiRocco’s Council term. Vienna’s government was devastated following the Sept. 6 suicide of Vienna Planning and Zoning Director Greg Hembree. A 27-year veteran employee, Hembree was just three years from retirement. Many admired Hembree for his mastery of the town code and his encyclopedic knowledge of Vienna’s zoning cases. Town Manager Mercury Payton subsequently appointed Hembree’s deputy, Matthew Flis, to serve as the department’s director.
the annual McLean Day celebration, supported the creation of a campus that now is home to Dolley Madison Library and the McLean Community Center, and continues to represent the community’s interests on issues such as education, land-use, Tysons Corner’s redevelopment and the county’s budget. The Women’s Center in Vienna celebrated its 40th anniversary with a Nov. 8 gala. Founded in 1974, the organization offers counseling and resources for the career, financial, legal and psychological needs of men, women and families. The Women’s Center also holds a well-attended leadership conference each spring. The center’s board of directors in July retained Shirley Clark as the organization’s executive director. Clark had served as interim director since the December 2013 departure of Carol Loftur-Thun. Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean celebrated its centennial with an Oct. 26 homecoming event. Named after Civil War captain, Fairfax County sheriff and entomologist Franklin Sherman, the institution was Fairfax County’s first consolidated school. Franklin Sherman Elementary, which moved to its current location in 1952, two years later became the first site for poliovaccination trials.
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Northern Virginia legislators will introduce dozens of bills during the upcoming General Assembly session, including ones to make redistricting non-partisan, tighten ethics rules, allow people to cast absentee ballots more easily and force people to surrender firearms if restrained by protective orders. In interviews with the Sun Gazette, local legislators outlined the legislation they plan to submit. State Sen. Chap Petersen (D34th) said his main effort will be an ethics-reform bill that would ban legislators from accepting any gifts – tangible or intangible – worth more than $100 unless received from friends and family members. On the environmental front, Petersen will introduce a bill stipulating a 5-cent-per-bag fee on plastic bags used by grocery and convenience stores. While other legislators have tried unsuccessfully to pass such legislation in the past, “I think the time is right in Virginia,” Petersen said. “We’ve got to get off the plastic-bag train, especially for those of us who live in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.” Petersen also will submit a bill to allow non-profits and charities to conduct electronic poker games as well as bingo. “I may make the scope wider for other card games,” he said. “This would allow fraternal organizations to have games of chance to raise money for charities.” Petersen also will introduce a “homeowner bill of rights” to ensure people whose properties are part of homeowners associations receive proper notice and due process if fined or sanctioned by those groups. The bill also would give property owners more recourse regarding the spending of homeowner groups’ revenues, he said. Petersen also is considering legislation to tighten up background checks for people performing substance-abuse and mental-health counseling. “I’ve had issues in Fairfax County with clients in a substanceabuse setting where counselors had inappropriate relationships,” he said. “There’s no appropriate screening mechanism, and that needs to change.”
Petersen predicted vital issues would force the 2015 session to go beyond its allotted six weeks. State Sen. Janet Howell (D32nd), one of the General Assembly’s budget conferees, said she will spend most of the session looking for ways to make up for anticipated budgetary shortfalls. “My main emphasis will be to protect education, both public and higher-ed, and hopefully improve our human-services programs, especially ones for the mentally ill,” she said. “We made some progress last year and I don’t want to lose it because of the budget shortfall.” Howell also will submit a bill calling for a constitutional amendment to set up a non-partisan redistricting commission. Her other election-related bills will aim to allow no-excuse, in-person absentee voting and prohibit election officers from asking an absentee voter’s religion, if that is the reason given for voting absentee. Howell also will seek to curb illegal tobacco trafficking in Virginia. The commonwealth charges only a 30-cent tax per pack of cigarettes, while New York’s tax is nearly $6 per pack. That strong profit motive has brought organized-crime groups – including some with ties to terrorist organizations – to Virginia, Howell said. The senator would like the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to spearhead those enforcement efforts. “Right now it’s splintered,” she said. “No individual law-enforcement agency has the capacity to deal with the whole issue. It’s all fragmented.” Howell, who is entering her 24th year as a state senator, said if she wins re-election in November and Democrats take control of the Senate, she will become chairman of the Finance Committee. Del. Mark Keam (D-35th), who first was elected to the House of Delegates in 2009, said he likely will introduce about a dozen bills in the next session. One of his bills would require restaurants to comply at the state level with federal regulations pertaining to food-allergy training standards. Another of Keam’s bills would force child-care centers to notify all parents at the school when one
of the schools’ students is missing. Keam also will submit legislation to raise the income ceiling from $15,000 to the federal poverty level of $23,850 for senior citizens to become eligible to take Virginia college courses free of charge. Vienna officials also have asked Keam to support bills to mandate one agreed-upon appraiser in eminent-domain cases and require counties to share commercial-and-industrial-tax revenues and courthouse fees for local traffic violations with towns located within their jurisdictions. Keam predicted the upcoming session would be “interesting” because Virginia has collected fewer revenues, in large part because of federal-government sequestration. Legislators will wrangle over budget issues and the need to increase and diversify the tax base, he said. In addition, General Assembly members will focus on redistricting. A federal court has asked state legislators to redraw boundary lines for the 3rd U.S. House District, located in the Hampton Roads area, Keam said. “It’s like a water balloon,” he said of the boundaries. “You can’t just deal with one side of it.” State Sen. Barbara Favola (D-31st) has introduced legislation that will give localities the option of raising minimum wages within their jurisdictions, if voters approve the idea in local referendums. “I think my referendum approach has the potential of bringing some moderate Republicans to the table on the minimumwage issue,” Favola told the Sun Gazette. Under the proposal, which will be considered by the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, local elected bodies would be allowed to hold voter referendums on the proposal and, if the electorate approves, impose their own minimum wages for workers within their jurisdictions. Favola’s proposal calls for minimum wages of not less than $8.25 per hour in the first year after a locality adopts such a measure, rising to a minimum of $9.25 and $10.50 per hour in the succeeding two years. Also on Favola’s legislative agenda are proposals to fund pilot programs related to men-
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tal-health issues; a measure to require those convicted of misdemeanor stalking, sexual assault and sexual assault-and-battery of a household member to give up firearms for five years; to enable individuals 75 years or older to go to the head of the voting line on Election Day; and the inclusion of gender, gender identity and sexual orientation in the current state hate-crimes statute. Favola’s Senate district includes Great Falls, parts of McLean and Arlington, as well as a few precincts in Loudoun County. She was first elected in 2011. Del. Marcus Simon (D-53rd), who is entering his second session after being elected to the House of Delegates in 2013, has filed a bill to repeal Virginia’s statutory ban on same-sex marriages. Simon also will submit legislation to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15.15 per hour. To promote the legislation further, Simon hopes it will receive the number 1515. “A higher minimum wage would be good for the economy and give people more money in their pockets to spend at restaurants and retailers,” he said. “I think it’s a good jobs and economic-growth bill.” Simon also will introduce a bill to prevent people who have been convicted of domestic-violence misdemeanors, such as assault and battery of a family member, from transporting, purchasing or possessing firearms. Those rights could be restored after a length of time; those convicted of felonies, however, would lose the rights permanently, he noted. Simon also will submit bills to prohibit corporations from contributing money directly to candi-
dates and prevent candidates from using campaign contributions for personal purposes. Continuing a quest started years ago by his predecessor, Del. James Scott, Simon hopes to prevent discrimination during real estate sales or rentals on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Del. Rip Sullivan (D-48th), who in August last year defeated Republican David Foster to serve the unexpired term of former Del. Bob Brink (D-48th), is the Northern Virginia delegation’s newest member. One of Sullivan’s planned bills would require firearm owners who are the subject of protective orders to relinquish their weapons for the duration of those restrictions. “We know that getting the guns out of the hands of someone who’s shown violent propensities could avoid another, more tragic, violent episode,” Sullivan said. Like Howell, Sullivan will submit bills advocating for non-partisan redistricting and no-excuse early absentee voting. Sullivan also will introduce legislation to allow Virginia students attending out-of-state universities to use photo-identification cards from those schools to vote in Virginia elections. Current law accepts photo IDs from instate universities only as means of verifying voters’ identities. “People do forget that not everyone has a driver’s license,” Sullivan said. Another of Sullivan’s bills would create a mandatory energy-efficiency resource standard, which would require utility companies to increase their own efficiency and help customers consume less energy. The delegate also will submit a bill requiring hospitals to inform patients whether they have been admitted at those facilities or merely are under observation. The difference between those terms has “huge financial ramifications,” especially for patients seeking reimbursement from Medicare, Sullivan said. Other Sullivan bills would give more voting weight on the Commonwealth Transportation Board to members representing highly populated urban areas and add sexual orientation to the list Continued on Page 8
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Loudoun County. This phase will have six new stations, including one sought for decades at Washington Dulles International Airport. Transit advocates were shocked Nov. 18 when Arlington County Board Chairman Jay Fisette announced he and board member Mary Hynes were withdrawing their support from the county’s proposed Columbia Pike and Crystal City streetcar projects and that spending on the projects must stop. Fisette and Hynes sided with the County Board’s other two streetcar opponents, Libby Garvey and John Vihstadt, leaving only Walter Tejada in favor of the projects. Fairfax County officials expressed dismay at the decision, which they deemed “short-sighted.” County officials had pledged to pay for about 20 percent of the Columbia Pike streetcar project, the western end of which would have traversed Fairfax County’s Baileys Crossroads area. Officials had hoped the streetcar line would spur economic development in that area. Area Mourns Deaths of Longtime Public Servants Callahan and Packard: Northern Virginia in 2014 mourned the loss of two former leaders who served the region for decades. Former Del. Vincent Callahan (R), who represented the 34th District for 40 years and retired in 2007, died Sept. 20 at age 82.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors in 2014 honored a former chairman, Jean Packard, for her service to the county and to the region. Packard died in October at age 91.
A retired U.S. Marine, Callahan said his greatest legislative accomplishments included supporting George Mason University, Northern Virginia Community College and other higher-education institutions; securing $500 million to help clean up the Chesapeake Bay; and bolstering mental-health services around the commonwealth.
Former Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jean Packard (D) died Oct. 21 at age 91. Packard won a 1972 special election to serve as board chairman, but was defeated in 1975 by Supervisor Jack Herrity (RSpringfield), who would go on to chair the board for three terms. Packard remained active in public life,
serving on the boards of the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority and Soil and Water Conservation District and as president of the Fairfax County Federation of Citizens Associations. She attended the Sept. 27 groundbreaking ceremony for the future Jean R. Packard Occoquan Center at Occoquan Regional Park.
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Democrats hoping to claw their way back into relevance in Richmond apparently have settled on using the issue of the minimum wage to bring voters out in legislative elections come November. It’s an iffy strategy at best – most voters in off-year Virginia elections likely either aren’t interested in a minimum-wage increase or are hostile to it – but there are a few potentially close races, particularly in Northern Virginia, where it could be a wedge issue. Any number of legislators either already have put proposals in the hop-
per, or are planning to do so. Locally, Del. Marcus Simon (D53rd) tells the Sun Gazette he’s prepping a measure to increase the mandated minimum wage to $15.15 per hour. He might as well make it $115.15 an hour, since neither figure has a chance of success. State Sen. Barbara Favola (D-31st) has dropped in a measure that would give local governments the ability to raise the minimum wages in their own borders, but only after voters approve the idea in local referendums. It’s an intriguing idea, but we suspect
those who rule the roost in Richmond will smother it – if there’s anything Republicans despise, it’s the idea of handing localities any more power than the limited amount they now have. Watch carefully: It will be interesting to see if Democrats are actually serious about increasing Virginia’s minimum wage, or are simply posturing and pandering. If it’s the former, they will work quietly to find allies among the majority Republicans. If it’s the latter, we’ll be hearing a whole lot of public bleating about how mean and regressive Republicans are.
We are not grinches. We did not have a problem with government workers – at the federal, state or local levels – getting off the Friday after Christmas to make it a four-day holiday. But we do wonder why the leaders of local governments, including Fairfax County, felt the need to also give
municipal workers off Jan. 2, rather than have those who wanted another four-day break to use one of their plentiful vacation days to attain it. We guess it’s easy to play Santa when you’re doing it with the taxpayers’ money. Mark our words and give it a little
time: To embellish what they like to call (without a sense of irony, apparently) their “world-class” bona-fides, we’re betting that it won’t be long before local governments in Northern Virginia give their workers off the entire week between Christmas and New Year’s, and maybe more.
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Legislators to Battle Over In-State Tuition JONATHAN HUNLEY Northern Virginia Media Services
Two Loudoun County legislators have introduced General Assembly bills that would bar immigrant students with temporary resident status from receiving in-state college tuition rates. The moves by Del. David Ramadan (R87th) of South Riding and state Sen. Dick Black (R-13th) of Leesburg potentially set up a showdown of sorts with another elected official with Loudoun County roots: Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring. Herring in April sent a letter to the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia, the presidents of Virginia’s colleges and universities, and the chancellor of the Virginia Community College System advising that state students lawfully present in the country under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program qualify for in-state tuition, provided they meet domicile requirements. DACA provides temporary government protection from deportation for immigrants brought to the U.S. before they turned 16. “DACA students are lawfully present under approval that is renewable, permitting them to remain in the United States and to form a subjective intent to remain in Virginia indefinitely,” Herring wrote. But Ramadan argues that immigrants granted resident status under DACA or given temporary protected status by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
shouldn’t be classified as if they will remain in Virginia permanently. Their immigration status is just as it seems, he said: temporary. So “absent congressional intent to the contrary,” this group of immigrants shouldn’t be allowed to pay the less expensive rate for higher education, his bill reads. Black’s legislation is similar, although it also would prevent immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Parental Accountability program, which shields parents of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents from deportation, from receiving restrict from in-state tuition. Ramadan noted Friday that DACA was begun by President Barack Obama’s administration and expanded in November by an executive order. He criticized that method of implementing regulations as well as Herring’s action, which he called a “directive” that the state’s top lawyer shouldn’t have issued. The lawmaker said that Herring, a Democrat, was a “centrist” when serving in the state Senate but has gone “far left” since being elected to statewide office. Herring spokesman Michael Kelly, however, said that the attorney general could find no state or federal law that prohibited immigrants granted DACA status from establishing domicile. And, Kelly noted, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services added a line to its DACA website a few weeks after Herring’s
action that seems to confirm the Virginia decision. It says: “Individuals granted deferred action are not precluded by federal law from establishing domicile in the U.S.” “State law says those with temporary or student visas are ineligible, but students approved for deferred action do not have a student or temporary visa,” Kelly wrote in an email. “If these young immigrants can meet the criteria in the law to establish domicile, they are eligible for in-state tuition. This is the exact same conclusion then-Attorney General [Bob] McDonnell reached regarding immigrants with temporary protected status.” Ramadan said he was forced to act to protect legal Virginia residents and those who have immigrated through traditional federal government means. That’s what he did when he came to America in 1989 from Lebanon, he said. And of those who would criticize his stance, considering he’s an immigrant himself? Ramadan said one reason foreign residents want to live in the U.S. is because of the rule of law. He said he may feel sympathy for immigrants brought here when they were children. However, he said, “That does not mean I will forgo the law.” Ramadan’s bill also could run afoul of another delegate who represents part of Loudoun. That’s Thomas Davis Rust (R86), of Herndon.
He was not necessarily a surprising patron since, for his first 12 years in Congress, Wolf’s district included both airports. It took five years of legislative prodding, but in 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation to form the
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A desire to improve the region’s transportation infrastructure is what prompted a lawyer from Vienna to run for public office. It was 1978, and the 10th Congressional District was home to a shiny new Metro system that dead-ended at one end of the district (in Arlington) and a sleepy airport in the middle of a Loudoun County cornfield. “I told people in my campaign I wanted to work on transportation, especially the airports,” Rep. Frank Wolf said. Wolf lost that first race in 1978 to incumbent Democrat Joseph Fisher, but rebounded with a 1980 victory in the rematch. Shortly after he was sworn in in 1981, Wolf attended a black-tie event, put on by the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, in the main terminal of Dulles International Airport. “That’s how small the airport was then, that they could just close down half of it for an event like that,” Wolf said. “It was the white elephant of airports – people laughed at it.” The first legislation he filed was aimed at transferring operation (though not ownership) of National and Dulles airports from the federal government to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
authority. “The transfer had been tried a number of different times, and Frank, along with Gov. [Linwood] Holton and Secretary ]of Transportation Elizabeth] Dole, really saw that the way to make these two airports take off and support this region was to make them private,” said Keith Meurlin, manager of Washington Dulles International Airport at the time and now president of Washington Airports Task Force. That cleared the way for the authority to issue bonds to rebuild much of National Airport and expand Dulles Airport, and heralded the growth that subsequently occurred – combined, the two airports drew 16.5 million passengers in 1981, compared to 42.4 million in 2013. “I thought if you could make that airport viable, it would be the economic engine that the region needed to attract business,” Wolf said of Dulles. “And it has. Now you
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can fly from Dulles to every major capital in the world.” Unlike politicians who start a project and then walk away from it once a little progress has been made, Meurlin said, Wolf remained engaged “If Dulles had a godfather on the Hill, it was Frank Wolf. This was his baby, and he understood very clearly that if he could do all he could to support Dulles, it would then support Loudoun County, Fairfax County, Prince William County and the entire region,” Meurlin said.
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but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
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8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.
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• Jan. 10: The entire Fairfax delegation will hold a hearing starting at 9 a.m. at the Fairfax County Government Center. • Jan. 17: Legislators representing McLean and North Arlington will hold a public hearing at 2:30 p.m. at the McLean Community Center. The Sun Gazette’s readership area also contains part of the 34th House District, which extends northwest from McLean into eastern Loudoun County. Voters on Jan. 6 were slated to choose between Democrat Kathleen Murphy and Republican Craig Parisot in a special election to fill the unexpired term of Del. Barbara Comstock (R-34th), who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November.
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Outgoing U.S. Reps. Jim Moran (D8th) and Frank POLITICAL Wolf (R-10th) POTPOURRI were awarded honorary doctor of humane letters degrees during winter commencement exercises at George Mason University. Moran delivered remarks to 2,313 undergraduate students during a morning ceremony held Dec. 18 at the GMU Patriot Center. “You now have a front-row seat to the world stage – get out of those seats and run onto the playing field,” Moran told students in remarks quoted by the university’s news service. That afternoon, Wolf offered remarks to graduate students, including 1,259 receiving master’s degrees, 121 earning doctorates and 19 garnering law degrees. “Don’t be afraid to take on tough issues,” Wolf was quoted as saying. “At the end of your life and all is said and done, will you have lived for what really matters?” Wolf was first elected to Congress in 1980, Moran in 1990. Patriot Republican Women Honor Comstock: Members of the Patriot Republican Women’s Club gathered in McLean Dec. 13 to present the 2014 “Character
Does Count” award to incoming U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-10th). It was a homecoming of sorts: In 1997, Comstock presented the club’s inaugural Character Does Count award to Ed Meese. At the time, Comstock was serving as president of the club. Comstock “embodies the ultimate mission of the state and national Federation of Republican Women: to encourage Republican women to run for public office,” the organization said in announcing the award. “Barbara has done that, and because of her tireless work ethic, personal appeal and, of course, her sterling character, she has had a consistently successful political career that now brings her to the halls of the U.S. Capitol.” Also honored at the event was Sally Burns, Comstock’s mother. “Anyone who knows Sally Burns can see how this kind, faithful and positively spirited woman has had a major hand in molding the remarkable woman we know as Barbara Comstock,” the organization said. Favola Measure Seeks to Aid Seniors at Polling Places: State Sen. Barbara Favola (D-31st) plans to patron legislation during the 2015 General Assembly session that would enable individuals age 75 and older to go to the head of the line on Election Day. The bill, which as of Jan. 3 had not yet
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MCA, MPC, MCF, MPA, MRC and MCC. Got all that? An alphabet soup of groups with similar-sounding acronyms adds value to life in McLean. With thanks to the contributors, here is a breakdown of these organizations and what they provide to the community: McLean Citizens Association (MCA): Contact: Sally Horn, president, (703) 442-6601, s-horn@verizon.net. Scope: MCA is the unofficial town council for 31,000-plus households in McLean, which has no formal governing body of its own. It provides a forum in which McLean residents can discuss ways to resolve community problems and countywide issues. History: MCA was founded Nov. 2, 1914, as the School and Civic League of McLean. Its purpose was to advance the civic, educational, environmental, recreational and social interests of McLean. Its membership area roughly corresponds to McLean Small Tax District 1-A. The non-profit, non-partisan organization is governed by a 40-member board of directors, which does much of its work through standing and ad-hoc committees and liaisons. MCA hosts forums and meetings open to the public on timely topics of interest and sponsors the annual Teen Character Awards. Accomplishments: The organization’s annual McLean Day celebration began in 1915 and continues to the present day. MCA, which switched to its current name in 1953, during the 1950s and ’60s contributed land and money toward establishment of a campus that now includes Dolley Madison Library, McLean Green and the McLean Community Center. The group in the 1970s persuaded county officials to buy land for Scotts Run Nature Preserve and Lewinsville Park. In recent years, MCA advocated to contain growth planned for Tysons Corner; ensure that Tysons has sufficient parks, schools and other public amenities; and protect taxpayers from paying too much for Tysons infrastructure improvements and Metrorail’s Silver Line. McLean Planning Committee (MPC): Contact: Mary Baker, president, (703) 356-5214, mqbaker@gmail.com. Leadership: MPC’s Executive Committee includes Mary Baker, president; Winifred Pizzano, vice president; James Turner, secretary; and Mari Pierce, treasurer. MPC, a 501 (C) (6) organization, has a board of 16 volunteer directors, including four each from the McLean Citizens’ Association, surrounding citizens’ associations, Greater McLean Chamber of Commerce and McLean Commercial Landowners Association. Each group also may appoint a maximum of four alternate directors. Mission: MPC was founded to develop a plan and redefine a community vision by creating the comprehensive plan for the McLean Community Business Center
(CBC), adopted in 1998. MPC currently reviews land-use proposals within downtown McLean and promotes and facilitates the CBC’s revitalization. Working closely with the Dranesville District supervisor, MPC takes positions or makes recommendations to support, or not support, building projects. MPC’s recommendations are forwarded to other Fairfax County agencies that may have review authority for the projects in question. MPC also reviews design standards of the CBC’s comprehensive plan to provide a clear framework for maintaining architectural integrity, quality, consistency and continuity. McLean Community Foundation (MCF): Contact: Amee Burgoyne, board of trustees president, (703) 848-2939, www. mcleancommunityfoundation.org, mcleancommunityfoundation@gmail.com. Leadership: The all-volunteer MCF is led by a nine-member board of trustees. Mission: Founded in 1981 by the McLean Citizens Association, MCF’s advances the civic, educational, environmental, recreational and social interests of the McLean area. Projects eligible for MCF funding must benefit McLean Planning District residents. Since its inception, MCF has awarded more than $1 million to projects that benefit McLean residents. MCF grants have included everything from a fire truck, playgrounds and hospice beds to the arts and more. “There cannot be a family in McLean that has not been touched in some way by an MCF grant,” Burgoyne said. MCF’s board is dedicated to responsible stewardship and looks for ways to leverage resources and get even more benefits for the community. MCF works closely with other community groups to identify needs, find creative solutions to challenges often faced by non-profit organizations and foster a philanthropic spirit in McLean. MCF trustees review grant applications three times annually. Funding requests should be for projects with significant or long-term benefits to the McLean community. Filing deadlines are Feb. 1, June 1 and Oct. 1. McLean Community Center (MCC): Contact: George Sachs, executive director, (703) 790-0123, george.sachs@fairfaxcounty.gov. Leadership: MCC’s Governing Board consists of 11 members, all of whom are elected by McLean Tax District residents and appointed by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. The Governing Board oversees MCC’s budget and operations. Executive Director George Sachs reports to the Governing Board. The center also has a staff of approximately 30 fulltime employees, plus numerous volunteers. History and Funding Sources: MCC was built by McLean residents for their use through a real-estate tax surcharge, the reContinued on Page 12
‘14 Goes Down as Relatively Soft Year in N.Va. Real Estate During that period, the average sales price rose 160 percent, from $209,391 in 1993 to $540,034 in 2013. RealEstate Business Intelligence is expected to release December sales figures on Jan. 10. Falls Church Has Priciest Sales Across Region: Falls Church has been the price leader for most of 2014 across Northern Virginia’s inner and outer suburbs, according to new real-estate data. The median sales price for homes in that city for the first 11 months of the year gone by was $722,500, highest among the 10 cities and counties that make up the Northern Virginia area, according to figures from Real Estate Business Intelligence. Not only is Falls Church priciest, it also has had the highest rate of growth compared to a year before. The median sales price was up 12.9 percent from the first 11 months of 2013. Among other localities in the region, the median sales price for the first 11 months was $530,000 in Arlington (up 1 percent), $475,000 in the city of Fairfax (up 8.1 percent), also $475,000 in Alexandria (down 2.1 percent), $460,000 in Fairfax County (up 1.1 percent), $430,000 in Loudoun County (up 3.6 percent), $330,000 in Fauquier County (up 1.5 percent), $315,000 in Prince William County (up 3.3 percent), $364,684 in Manassas (up 5.9 percent) and $239,000 in Manassas Park (up 5.3 percent).
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Organizations Assist in McLean’s Development Continued from Page 10 sult of a 1970 bond referendum (Small District 1A-Dranesville). MCC also receives funding from fees charged to members who participate in programs, classes and special events. It also relies on volunteers, gifts and donations from the community, which help maintain strong class offerings and quality programs. Annual Budget: $6.2 million for fiscal year 2015 (July 1, 2014-June 30, 2015). Mission: MCC provides a sense of community by undertaking programs; assisting other community organizations; and furnishing facilities for civic, cultural, educational, recreational and social activities apportioned fairly to all tax-district residents. MCC offers a continuing program of activities for adults, teens and children. Diverse offerings include a wide range of high-quality classes, lectures, community outings, camps, art exhibits, theater performances, special events and specialty shows. The center also sponsors major annual community events such as McLean Day in May and the Fourth of July fireworks presentation. Accomplishments and Future Projects: MCC has expanded its outreach to seniors with classes such as “Lifetime Learning” and “Be Fit McLean,” which focus on subjects of interest to residents 55 or older. MCC’s Professional Artist Series has brought high-quality performers to the Alden Theatre. MCC’s Old Firehouse Teen Center has grown in popularity after expansion of its after-school program to include clubs such as nature, photography, art, cooking, horsemanship and writing. The teen center also has increased the amount of physical activities offered, such as indoor hockey, active video games, pingpong, air hockey and indoor soccer. Outings provided during school breaks are popular with both teens and parents. McLean Revitalization Corporation (MRC): Contact: info@mcleanvision.org. Leadership: MRC is run by an eightmember volunteer board of directors. Elizabeth Morton currently is president. All funds received go directly to projects. MRC’s directors are drawn from four constituent groups: MCA, the Greater McLean Chamber of Commerce, surrounding citizens associations and the McLean Landowners Association. Several years ago, MRC also absorbed the Pedestrian Task Force, set up in 2009 by the office of Supervisor John Foust (D-Dranesville). MRC works to promote implementation of task force’s recommendations. History: MRC was formed in 1998 as a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization. It was established to encourage the physical development and redevelopment of the McLean Community Business Center (CBC), improve the economic vitality of downtown McLean and make McLean a more attractive and safer place for pedestrians.
McLean Project for the Arts hosts exhibitions of the works of local and regional artists throughout the year.
Accomplishments: MRC worked with the Dranesville District supervisor’s office, county officials, utility companies and private landowners to complete utility undergrounding in the blocks around McLean’s main downtown intersection at Old Dominion Drive and Chain Bridge Road. New mast arms at this intersection were installed this fall. MRC helped plan the streetscape-demonstration project along Chain Bridge Road west of the CBC. In the next two years, similar new sidewalks, decorative light fixtures, benches and landscaping will be installed in downtown McLean. MRC obtained a $200,000 federal Transportation Enhancement Grant for additional aesthetic and safety improvements for the area around “Listrani’s peninsula” and is securing another $120,000 federal grant for a landscaped-median project near “Balducci’s Plaza,” which should be finished this coming spring. The group also will install gateway signs at key entrances to the CBC in coming months, alerting drivers of the need to share the road with bikers and pedestrians. McLean Project for the Arts (MPA): Contact: MPA currently is seeking an executive director. Its telephone number is (703) 790-1953 and Web site is www. mpaart.org. History: Located in the McLean Community Center, MPA is a critically acclaimed, non-profit, contemporary visualarts center. Founded in 1962 to exhibit the work of emerging and established regional artists, MPA meets the needs of the community though its exhibition and education programs and three galleries. The 2,000-square-foot Emerson Gallery provides one of the few spaces available in the metropolitan region for large sculptures and installations. Mission: MPA enriches a community hungry for high-quality visual arts by providing museum-quality exhibitions and creating a cultural destination. In addition to its program of professionally curated art exhibitions, MPA offers art classes for children and adults taught by professional art instructors. MPA also presents the ArtReach program for area schools, gallery talks and day trips to area museums and galleries. MPA also has partnerships with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Fairfax County Public Schools.
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Fairfax Jobless Rate Ticks Down in November Fairfax County’s jobless rate ticked down from October to November, part of improving – if still not particularly robust – economic conditions across Northern Virginia. With 607,503 county residents employed in the civilian workforce and 22,371 looking for jobs, the November unemployment rate of 3.6 percent was down from 3.9 percent a month before, according to figures reported Dec. 30 by the Virginia Employment Commission. Across Northern Virginia, the October-to-November trend was for slightly improved employment pictures: The jobless rate fell from 3.5 percent to state-best 3 percent in Falls Church; from 3.3 percent to 3.1 percent in Arlington; from 3.9 percent to 3.6 percent in Loudoun County; and from 4.4 percent to 4.1 percent in Prince William County. The jobless rate in Alexandria was unchanged at 3.6 percent. Accross Northern Virginia as a whole, the jobless rate of 3.7 percent was down from 4 percent a month before, representing just under 1.5 million in the civilian workforce and about 57,800 looking for jobs. Statewide, the jobless rate fell from 4.8 pecent in October to 4.5 percent in November, with 4.046
million with jobs and 192,600 without – the lowest unemployment rate since April. But Virginia remains unable to surpass its pre-recession jobs peak, set in April 2008; in November, it remained 7,100 short. Ann Lang, senior economist for the Employment Information Services Division of the Virginia Employment Commission, said November’s figures represent an increase of nearly 12,000 nonfarm jobs (seasonally adjusted) after declines the preceding three months. Most of the net new jobs (11,500) came in the private sector. Lang noted that while the unemployment rate declined, the underlying figures were not exactly robust. “In November, the number of those seeking work declined by 13,680, or 6 percent, while household employment increased by 7,272, or 0.2 percent,” she said. Among Virginia cities and counties, the lowest jobless rates were found in Falls Church, Arlington, Madison County (3.4 percent) and the city of Fairfax and Fluvanna County (3.5 percent each). The highest rates could be found in Martinsville (9.9 percent), Dickenson County (9.5 percent), Petersurg (8.5 percent), Buchanan County (8.4 per-
UNEMPLOYMENT RATES, NOVEMBER Data from Virginia Employment Commission, showing non-seasonally-adjusted civilian employment for November. “Previous” is rate for October.
Jurisdiction Alexandria Arlington Fairfax County Falls Church Loudoun Prince William Northern Va. Virginia United States
Employed 88,103 134,301 607,503 7,524 186,933 225,504 1,499,610 4,045,904 147,666,000
Unemployed 3,313 4,349 22,371 236 6,954 9,540 57,826 192,636 8,630,000
cent) and Brunswick County (8 percent). Among metropolitan areas, the Washington region tied with Charlottesville for lowest unemployment at 3.7 percent, followed by Harrisonburg and Winchester (4.1 percent each). The highest metro-area rates were found in Danville (6.4 percent) and Kingsport/Bristol (5.4 percent). Nationally, Virginia tied with Ohio for 16th-best jobs picture in November. Topping the list were North Dakota (2.4 percent), Nebraska (2.5 percent) and Minnesota, South Dakota and Utah (3.2 percent each). The highest jobless rates were found in California (7.1 percent), Nevada (6.9 percent), Arizona (6.8 percent) and Oregon and Georgia (6.7 percent each).
Pct. 3.6% 3.1% 3.6% 3.0% 3.6% 4.1% 3.7% 4.5% 5.5%
Previous 3.6% 3.3% 3.9% 3.5% 3.9% 4.4% 4.0% 4.8% 5.5%
All figures are preliminary. For complete data, see the Web site at www.virginialmi.com. Year-Over-Year Unemployment Down in Region: Year-overyear jobless rates were lower in the Washington region and 340 of the nation’s 371 other metropolitan areas in November, according to new federal figures. The Washington area’s unemployment rate of 4.5 percent in November was down from 4.9 percent a year before, according to preliminary data released Dec. 30 by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The jobless rate represents 3.21 million Washington residents in the civilian workforce, with 144,800 looking for jobs. Nationally, year-over-year unemployment rates declined in 341
metro areas, were higher in 27 areas and were unchanged in four, according to federal figures. Among all metro areas, the lowest unemployment rate in November was reported in Lincoln, Neb., at 2.1 percent, followed by Fargo, N.D., and Mankato, Minn., at 2.2 percent each. The highest rates were found in Yuma, Ariz., and El Centro, Calif., at 23.1 percent and 22.6 percent, respectively. Among the nation’s 49 metro areas with populations of 1 million or more, the lowest unemployment rate in November was Minneapolis-St. Paul, at 3 percent, with the highest in Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., at 8 percent. November’s national unemployment rate was 5.5 percent. November’s year-over-year unemployment was down in all of Virginia’s metro areas outside the Washington region. It stood at 3.7 percent in Charlottesville, 4.1 percent in Harrisonburg, 4.2 percent in Winchester, 4.5 percent in Blacksburg/Christianburg/Radford, 4.7 percent in Roanoke, 4.8 percent in Richmond, 5.1 percent in Lynchburg and 6.4 percent in Danville. Statewide, the November unemployment rate of 4.5 percent was down from 5 percent a year before.
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FAIRFAX FIRMS LAUDED FOR COMMITMENT TO COMMUTERS: Nine Fairfax
County businesses and organizations have received the “Best Workplaces for Commuters” designation from the Board of Supervisors. The awards program, a collaborative effort of the Fairfax County government and
the University of South Florida’s Center for Urban Transportation Research, acknowledges employers that have excelled at providing transportation options for workers and have reduced the number of singleoccupant vehicles on the road. The 2014 honorees include AFCEA International, Alzheimer’s Association, Northrop Grumman, Volume Integration, Innovative Workflow/Virpack, Russ Reid, Interstate Moving/Relocation/Logistics, XLA and Navy Federal Credit Union. Since 2010, 47 Fairfax County employers have been honored with the Best Workplaces designation. The newest group was honored at the Dec. 2 Board of Supervisors’ meeting. NOMINEES SOUGHT FOR VIENNA BUSINESS AWARD: The Vienna Town/Business
Liaison Committee is seeking nominations of businesses and business owners for the 2015 Carole Wolfand Community Service Award. The award is presented each year in recognition of outstanding contributions to the community life and spirit of Vienna.
Nominations are due by March 6, and must include the business name, its owner, address, phone number and a 200-word-orless description of the contributions of the business or owner. It also must include the name, address and phone number of the nominator. Nominations can be sent to the Town/ Business Liaison Committee, c/o Stephanie Baynes, Vienna Town Hall, 127 Center St., S., Vienna, Va. 22180. They also can be e-mailed to sbaynes@viennava.gov with “TBLC Award” in the subject line. VIENNA FIRMS RECEIVE BUSINESS LICENSES: The following businesses re-
ceived business licenses from the Vienna town government during November: Charles’ Barber Shop (barber shop); All Technologies (services to federal government); Big Chicken Peruvian (restaurant); and Black, White and Zebra (sales). YOUR COMMUNITY NEWS ALWAYS SOUGHT: The Sun Gazette welcomes your
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approach to economic competitiveness, expansion of Virginia’s participation in the federal Medicaid program, full funding for K-12 education, funding for a regional veterans-care center, allowing Virginia’s governors to serve consecutive terms, retention of the Dillon Rule, opposition to a higher minimum wage and opposition to expansion of unemployment-compensation coverage to part-time workers are all part of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce’s 2015 legislative package. The policy statement was developed by the Chamber’s “NovaBizPac” political-action committee, chaired by Scott McGeary of Washington Gas. The Fairfax Chamber of Commerce “supports a pro-growth and pro-jobs legislative agenda that will elevate Virginia’s economy and ensure the commonwealth remains an attractive place to start and grow a business,” Jim Corcoran, the organization’s president and CEO, said in a letter to the nine state senators and 17 members of the House of Delegates who
comprise Fairfax’s legislative delegation in Richmond. “Even in a challenging budget environment, the commonwealth needs to continue to attract and retain businesses and top talent in an increasingly competitive global economy,” Corcoran wrote. “The Fairfax Chamber and its member companies stand ready to work with you to develop fiscally sound policies and innovative solutions to ensure the region and the commonwealth remain one of the best places in the nation to do business.” The Fairfax Chamber represents nearly 650 businesses and 500,000 jobs across Northern Virginia. For information on the 2015 legislative package, see the Web site at www.fairfaxchamber.org.
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Schools & Military n Fahad Al-Mulla of Vienna, Charlotte DeMocker of McLean, Ramana Pavan Dronamraju of Vienna, Darika Fuhrmann of Oakton, Marin Fuhrmann of Oakton and Kelsey Young of McLean earned degrees during recent commencement exercises at Arizona State University, according to the university. n Katie Kerrigan of Oakton, a graduate of James Madison High School, has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at the Ohio State University.
n Nicholas Moheyeldien of McLean has been selected as one of six “Cadets of the Quarter” in the Air Force Junior ROTC program at Randolph-Macon Academy. n David Imansuangbon, the son of Kenneth and Kate Imansuangbon of Great Falls, and Ethiene Mbakassy, the son of Antonio Mosquito and Eduard Mbakassy of McLean, were elected to the homecoming court at Randolph-Macon Academy’s homecoming football game.
When Madelyn Kellen was growing up, her family always performed community service together during the holiday season. When she went off to Marymount University, the Ashburn native decided to continue the tradition with a dozen of her new friends, who made 22 fleece-tie blankets for a local crisis-pregnancy shelter. n
Gabriela Della Corna of McLean, Ryan Hill of McLean, Andrew Leaton of Vienna, Kathryn Rice of Vienna, Samuel Robison of McLean, Louisa Stanwich of Oakton, Michael Turk of McLean and Terry Waters of McLean have been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Arizona State University. n
T h i s year, the project really took off. At a resident assistant service party on Dec. 5, more than 60 Marym o u n t students made 141 blankets for Hope in
said. “It was really a wonderful way for us to get into the holiday spirit.” Eight other RAs helped organize the event: senior J.C. Hoellich, sophomore Robert Hoffman, senior Juna Luzi; senior Chesney Rhodes, senior Kate Schmidt, junior Rosemary O’Connor, sophomore Taylor Rivera-Silva and graduate student Elizabeth Beaulieu. “I decided to become a resident assistant because I had a really great RA myself,” Kellen said, praising Luzi, who is now a close friend. “I’ve only been doing it for a semester but already feel that I’ve learned so much and grown from the experience.” Kellen chose Marymount because of its Catholic identity and commitment to service. “When I visited I really liked how the school was on the smaller side yet so close to Washington, D.C.,” she said. “I could tell immediately that it felt like a family.”
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Northern Virginia. The effort was led by Kellen, a resident assistant (RA) in Rowley Hall. “Now that I’m an RA, I was able to expand the project and get other people involved,” the sophomore business major
Fairfax County Notes COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD OFFICES BEING RELOCATED: The Fairfax
County government is relocating more than 400 members of the staff of the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board, consolidating operations at a new headquarters in Merrifield. For most of the programs that are relocating, the move will take three business days, and in most cases services will close on a Thursday and resume at the Merri-
field office the next week. During the transition, emergency services offered by the Community Services Board will be available 24 hours a day at (703) 573-5679. A complete list of projected dates that individual programs will move is available on the county government’s Web site at www.fairfaxcounty.gov. LITERACY COUNCIL SEEKING VOLUN-
Virginia is seeking new volunteers to help immigrants and others learn to speak and write English. The next volunteer session is slated for Saturday, Jan. 10 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the James Lee Community Center, 2855 Annandale Road in Falls Church. For information, call (703) 237-0866, ext. 116, or see the Web site at www.lcnv. org.
Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia will hold the winter session of its Adult Learning Institute from Jan. 12 to March 25. The series is designed for adults of all ages; there are no grades or tests, according to organizers. For information and registration, see the Web site at www.jccnv.org.
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McLean/G. Falls Notes The Great Falls Citizens Association will hold its January town-hall meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Great Falls Library. The community’s first survey on deer issues will be released, including residents’ experiences with deer/vehicle collisions, Lyme disease, the impact of rising deer herds on local forests, and residents’ views on steps to manage deer in the area. Two local residents who have developed deer-control measures through bow hunting will discuss the impact on their neighborhoods and ways in which other residents can be involved. The community is invited. ARTS FOUNDATION TO DEBUT NEW LECTURE SERIES: The Arts of Great
Falls (formerly the Great Falls Foundation for the Arts) has announced plans for a new lecture series in 2015. The inaugural program will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Great Falls School of Art, 1144 Walker Road, Suite D. It has been rescheduled from the previously announced Jan. 12. The forum will feature John Francis McCabe discussing “The Art of Portraiture,” covering the period from the late Renaissance to the 19th century. “The talk will present and discuss examples of paintings you will find both exhilarating and brilliant, from Da Vinci to Holbein to John Singer Sargent,” McCabe said. “The talk will cover the most interesting aspects of their origin, history and impact.” Lectures will be presented quarterly, and will be open to the public with no admission charge. For information, see the Web site at www.greatfallsart.org. AAUW PROGRAM LOOKS AT SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME, VIOLENCE:
The McLean branch of the American Association of University Women will meet on Saturday, Jan. 17 at 10 a.m. at the
McLean Community Center. Guest speaker Karen Bune will discuss how crime victims deal with the press and the legal system. Bune is a nationally recognized expert counselor for victims of traumatic stress and domestic violence. The community is invited. For information, see the Web site at http://mcleanva.aauw.net. McLEAN PLAYS HOST TO KING COMMEMORATION: Theatre IV will present a
tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday, Jan. 18 at 2 p.m. at the Alden Theatre of the McLean Community Center. The cost is $10 for McLean residents, $15 for others. For information, see the Web site at www.mcleancenter.org.
Vienna town officials have announced that a celebration of the community’s 125th birthday will be held on Feb. 28. Events, still in the planning stage, are expected to include a re-enactment of the town’s 1890 incorporation, a bonfire, period music and other events. More details will be released in coming weeks, town officials said. VIENNA TOWN GOVERNMENT TO PICK UP CHRISTMAS TREES: Vienna town
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will host “Winter Wonderland,” a party for students in fifth and sixth grades, on Friday, Jan. 9 from 7 to 9 p.m. The cost is $25 for McLean residents, $35 for others. For information, see the Web site at www.mcleancenter.org. MCC TO PRESENT BINGO NIGHT:
“Family Fun Bingo” will be offered at the McLean Community Center on Friday, Jan. 16 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The cost is $5 for McLean residents, $10 for others; children up to age 3 are admitted free. For information, see the Web site at www.mcleancenter.org. FREE TAI CHI PRACTICE AVAILABLE:
Free tai chi practice is offered indoors Saturdays from 8 to 9 a.m. at St. Luke’s Catholic Church, 7005 Georgetown Pike in McLean. The group has met weekly for more than 20 years. Indoor practice is offered from November to March each year. For information, call (703) 759-9141 or see the Web site at www.freetaichi.org.
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cently remodeled Oakton home will benefit the Northern Virginia Therapeutic Riding Program (NVTRP), a 30-year-old non-profit that provides health-enhancing horseback riding experiences to disabled children and adults. The tour and networking event will be held on Saturday, Jan. 10 from noon to 4 p.m. at the home of Bill and Ginny Craig. The open house is sponsored by Sun Design Remodeling, a full-service design build remodeling firm that has been actively supporting community-interest causes. “We’ve been doing tours of newly remodeled homes for about 10 years,” said Bob Gallagher, Sun Design’s president. Continued on Page 19
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Winter? Some love it, and for the rest of us, just consider it a prelude to the glorious springtime. But why wait for spring? This week’s featured property offers the opportunity to beat the buying rush and own a stylish, appealing and energy-efficient Georgian, totaling more than 6,000 square feet of living space, set on nearly 2.5 acres amid verdant foliage in Great Falls. Dramatic touches abound, from floorto-ceiling windows to the 360-degree view of the woods. And as a bonus, the lower level would work as a separate inlaw residence, with a self-contained bedroom, kitchen and laundry. Designed both for high-quality living and for entertaining in style, the property features marvelous aesthetics and visual surprises throughout – there is no cookie-cutter design here. The property currently is on the market, listed at $1,700,000 by Joan Stansfield of Keller Williams Realty. Our tour begins up the curved driveway as we are ushered into the soaring foyer, which sets the tone of ebullience and elegance for all that will follow. A creative staircase is just the first of many visual treats to be found along our tour of three levels. To our right is the formal living room and to our left the formal dining room; each showcases plentiful space and warmhearted appeal. Ceiling sizes are ample (more than 9 feet) but also pay attention to energy-efficient design. The kitchen is a visual standout as well as providing workhorse space for the se-
rious chefs among us. A curved center island and plentiful eat-in space adds to the package. The soaring, sophisticated family room highlights the rear of the home, with a showstopper fireplace and views of the domains. Adjacent is a screened-in porch that provides walk-down access to the rear yard. Another delight. Tucked away off the main traffic flow is the main-level study, with views of the side and rear yards and access to a halfbath. The master retreat occupies one wing of the second level, with lovely views, two walk-in closets and a sumptuous bath. It’s a perfect spot for rest and relaxation. Three additional bedrooms are found on this level, each amply proportioned. One is en-suite; the others share a bath. From the main level, you’ll find grand views over the foyer and the recreation room below. Further enchantment awaits on the lower level, highlighted by an expansive recreation room with fireplace. Adjacent
to it is the lower level of the screened-in porch, with walk-out access to the expansive rear yard. Two additional bedrooms can be found on this level, one with full bath and large walk-in closet. There also is a separate kitchen on this level, perfect for entertaining or for conversion into the aforementioned private suite. A work room rounds out the lower level. Glorious views are found in this private locale, and the energy-efficient design (bills average less than $200 a month) mean you can live in comfort while also promoting sustainability. 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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Realtors Want Congress to Tackle Needs of 1st-Time Buyers Congress and the Obama Administration must address key policy issues in order to facilitate a healthy real estate market that serves current and future homeowners and drives the national economy forward, said the National Association of Realtors in testimony before the U.S. Senate Banking Subcommittee on Housing in December. “The housing market hasn’t been this unwelcoming to first-time buyers since 1987,” said 2014 NAR conventional finance and lending committee chair Mabel Guzman, a broker for ATProperties in Chicago. “Tight credit, high fees and low inventory have combined to make it prohibitively expensive for millions of responsible, creditworthy prospective buyers to own a home.” If this is the direction that the housing market is taking, we’re headed down the wrong path,” Guzman told lawmakers. While home prices and sales, as well as household wealth, are all up from a year ago, constrained access to mortgage credit for minorities, young buyers, and low-and moderate-income earners remains a serious problem. Restrictive pricing policies at the Federal Housing Administration and the Federal Housing Finance Agency continue to disparately impact individuals with shorter credit histories and lower down payments, making it harder for them to buy a home, Realtor leaders contend. NAR estimates that in 2013, nearly 400,000 creditworthy borrowers were priced out of the housing market because of high FHA insurance premiums. By lowering its fees, FHA could provide greater access to homeownership for historically underserved groups. Realtors also want action to help those who were caught up in the impact of the recession. “Congress should take action to help all of the distressed homeowners who completed short sales in 2014 by passing the Mortgage Forgiveness Tax Relief Act. This bipartisan legislation will extend an expired provision that has helped millions of distressed American families by allowing tax relief for homeowners when lenders forgive some portion of the mortgage debt they owe,” said Guzman. “If this provision is not extended, hundreds of thousands of American families who did the right thing by short selling their home will have to pay income tax on ‘phantom income.’”
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Public-Safety Notes MERRIFIELD BUSINESS BURGLARIZED:
An employee of a business in the 2900 block of Gallows Road in Merrifield told Fairfax County police Dec. 25 that someone had entered the business and taken property. 2 McLEAN HOME BURGLARIES REPORTED: Fairfax County police respond-
ed to a pair of McLean home burglaries Dec. 26. Residents in the 6700 block of Pine Creek Court and 1700 block of Briar Ridge Road reported that someone had entered their residences and taken property. VIENNA POLICE SEARCH FOR MEN WHO USED FAKE $50 BILLS AT CAFE: An em-
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ployee at Al Nakheel Lebanese Cafe, 340 Maple Ave., W., told Vienna police on Dec. 17 at 6:31 p.m. that two men had entered the restaurant and one of them purchased an item with what was later determined to be a counterfeit $50 bill. The employee stated the second man attempted to make a purchase with another $50 bill, but the employee tested the bill and discovered it was counterfeit. The man grabbed his counterfeit bill back and left the store, police said. The first man was described as black, 6 feet to 6 feet 2 inches tall, with facial hair and wearing dark jeans, a dark sweatshirt and dark vest. The second man was described as black, 6 feet to 6 feet 2 inches tall, and wearing a dark jacket and dark beanie hat with the University of Mary-
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land logo on them. Vienna police continue to investigate this case. VIENNA MAN REPORTS STOLEN PACKAGE: A resident living in the 300 block of
Blair Court, N.W., told Vienna police that on Dec. 18 between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. a package, which had been confirmed delivered to his residence, had been taken from his front step. ENGRAVED COPPER PLAQUES STOLEN FROM VIENNA PARK: A town of Vienna
employee told Vienna police that between Dec. 24 and 29 someone had stolen two engraved copper plaques from brick columns at the entrance to Sarah Walker Mercer Park, 247 Nutley St., N.W. Vienna police continue to investigate this case. CHECK FOR ONLINE PURCHASE PROVES NOT TO BE VALID: A resident living in the
500 block of Kingsley Road, S.W., told Vienna police on Dec. 26 at 10:58 a.m. that she had listed an item of property for sale on Craigslist. The resident stated she was contacted by a person in Texas who sent her a check for more than the agreed-upon price for the item. When she attempted to deposit the check, however, her bank informed her that the check was not valid, said Vienna police, who continue to investigate this case. TAILGATE STOLEN FROM VIENNA MAN’S TRUCK: A resident living in the
100 block of Casmar Street, S.E., told Vi-
enna police that sometime between Dec. 27 and 29 someone stole the tailgate from his legally parked pickup truck. Vienna police continue to investigate this case. VIENNA POLICE: DRUNKEN MAN TRIED TO TAKE OFF CLOTHES IN RESTAURANT: An employee at Subway restaurant,
262 Cedar Lane, S.E., told Vienna police on Dec. 28 at 2:40 p.m. that a man had entered the restaurant, become upset and begun taking his clothes off. The man left the restaurant before police arrived. A Vienna police officer located a man who matched the description of the suspect who had been in the restaurant. After interacting with the suspect, the officer determined the man was intoxicated. Police arrested the 53-year-old Vienna man on the charge of being drunk in public and transported him to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, where he was held until sober. VIENNA WOMAN REPORTS UNAUTHORIZED CREDIT-CARD CHARGES: A wom-
an living in the 900 block of Country Club Drive, N.E., told Vienna police on Dec. 28 at 5:34 p.m. that after reviewing her Macy’s credit-card account, she discovered someone had made charges to the account without her knowledge. Vienna police continue to investigate this case. VIENNA POLICE CITE MOTORIST WHO HIT SEVERAL OBJECTS WITH VEHICLE:
A motorist was attempting to enter a park-
ing lot in the 200 block of Maple Avenue, E., on Dec. 26 at 10:39 p.m. when he lost control of his vehicle, drove up onto the sidewalk, struck a light pole, severed a small water line and struck a brick wall before traveling back onto the sidewalk and coming to rest on a tree that he had also struck, Vienna police said. Police issued the driver a summons for reckless driving. VIENNA POLICE SEARCH FOR TRUCK THAT KNOCKED DOWN LIGHT POLE:
A local resident on Dec. 30 at 5:28 p.m. reported witnessing a truck strike a town of Vienna light pole on Maple Avenue, E., near Glyndon Street, causing the pole to fall across a sidewalk, Vienna police said. The witness stated she believed the truck had the lettering “Global Trading” on its side. Police tried to locate the truck, but were unsuccessful, authorities said. MAN CHARGED WITH SHOPLIFTING, ASSAULTING OFFICER IN PRE-CHRISTMAS EPISODE: A suspect was in the pro-
cess of being arrested for shoplifting at Tysons Corner Center on Dec. 21 at 12:02 a.m. when, police say, he resisted arrest and assaulted an officer. The suspect, 40-year-old Jonah Smith of Falls Church, was charged with assault on a police officer, grand larceny and resisting arrest. The officer was treated on the scene for Continued on Page 22
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17 at 6:25 p.m., an employee at the Social Burger at 350 Maple Ave., W., reported to police that a man paid for a meal with a counterfeit $50 bill. The employee states that she was not aware the bill was counterfeit until she was contacted be her bank. MARIJUANA, LICENSE CHARGES STEM FROM TRAFFIC STOP: A Vienna police
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A Holiday Crown for the Saxons
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Sports Wish List Details Hopes for the New Year
Christmas and the new year have come and gone, but there is still time to look ahead.
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Teams Stands 8-1 With Latest Wins DAVE FACINOLI Staff Writer
In a convincing fashion, the Langley Saxons enjoyed a happy holiday season by winning the girls Joe Cascio Tournament at Falls Church High School. Langley (8-1) was 3-0 in the high school basketball competition, with lopvictories BASKETBALL sided in its final two games, including a 50-29 win over the Wakefield Warriors in the Dec. 30 championship game. The Saxons, winners of five in a row, routed Washington-Lee, 53-19, in the semifinals and topped Tuscarora, 56-48, in the first round. “We saw a lot of different defenses in these three games and our girls did a good job of adjusting on the fly to those different looks,” Langley coach Amanda Baker said. Junior guard/forward Paige Galiani was Langley’s leading scorer in the tournament with 52 points and 11 threepointers. She was chosen to the all-tournament team. Against Wakefield, Galiani was double teamed much of the game, but still scored 17 points on five three-pointers and two Continued on Page 25
Langley High School’s Elizabeth Shamloo helped the Saxons win the Joe Cascio Holiday Tournament at Falls Church High School with a perfect 3-0 record. PHOTO BY DEB KOLT
Madison, Oakton Win Tourneys With 3-0 Marks DAVE FACINOLI
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The Madison Warhawks (7-3) and Oakton Cougars (10-1) won different holiday BASKETBALL girls basketball tournaments in recent days with 3-0 records. Madison won the Bulldog Bash at Westfield High School. Oakton won the Maroon & Gold Classic at Broad Run High. Madison defeated the Fairfax Rebels, 51-46, in overtime in the championship game. Tournament Most Valuable Player Kelly Koshuta had 34 points, Alexis Hermes scored 10 and Morgan Simpson five. Madison’s Aidan McWeeney and Simpson were chosen to the all-tourna-
ment team. Koshuta was 10 for 10 from the foul line in the fourth period and made the go-ahead basket in overtime. Madison defeated Marietta, 78-35, and South County, 54-31, in its other two games. Koshuta had 16 points, McWeeney 11, and Hermes and Megan Miskell nine each against Marietta. Against South County, Koshuta scored 30, Simpson six, and Jana Tremba and Katy Sharon five each. At Broad Run, Oakton defeated host Broad Run, 66-45, in the championship game as all-tourney selection Alex Marquis scored 19, Most Valuable Plyaer Lindsey Abed 17, Delaney Connolly 10 and Hayley Russell eight. Oakton defeated George Mason, 65-25, in the first round as Marquis had 14 points. Connolly scored 11, Maddie
Royle nine and Kailyn Fee eight. In the semifinal, Oakton routed Sherando, 70-35. Abed had 17 points, Fee 15, Connolly 11 and Marquis eight. “Lindsey and Alex are playing very well, we are getting great things out of Delaney, and we are pretty balanced,” Oakton coach Fred Priester said. “The kids are sharing the ball and they are shooting well. We’re getting good minutes from a lot of different people who are contributing in a lot of different spots. This team has good chemistry.” Priester said senior guard/forward Karlie Cronin could return to action by the end of the month. She has missed most of the season while recovering from a knee injury. Continued on Page 25
With that in mind, below is a local sports wish list regarding things that would be nice to have occur in 2015. n Teams that qualify for the Virginia High School League’s region and state football playoffs must have at least a .500 record to be eligible. Teams with losing records will no longer qualify. n After coming close so many times, the Flint Hill School girls basketball team, and its longtime head coach Jody Patrick, breaks through and at last wins a state high school championship. n The annual boys high school basketball rivalry between the Madison Warhawks and Marshall Statesmen, always an intense and often a fan-favorite clash, continues despite the realignment of district and conferences. n High schools update their athletic Web sites with scores and results of games and events in a much more timely fashion, like minutes after a competition ends, not every few days, as is often the case now. n The girls high school softball teams from Bishop O’Connell and Madison resume their springtime Saturday-night rivalry in Vienna. n Vienna Post 180 gets to host the summertime American Legion state baseball tournament at Waters Field, then wins the competition. n On the topic of local American Legion baseball, Falls Church Post 130 wins the District 17 Tournament, rewarding Ray Zdancewicz for his many years of dedication to the team as both its manager and as an assistant coach. Also, McLean Post 270, once a District 17 powerhouse but no longer in the league, once again fields a competitive and legitimate team. n With a smaller field of only four teams now making up the competition, all of the Virginia High School League’s state baseball tournaments become double-elimination events. n The girls high school tennis season on the public-school level in Virginia is moved back to the fall campaign where the sport once was, away from the springtime that has become far too oversaturated with sports.
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Continued from Page 24 foul shots. She helped break the game open by making four three-pointers, on as many attempts, during a short period of the second half. “Paige found the openings in the defense in the second half,” Baker said. Also for Langley against Wakefield, Ariana Aulisi had 10 points and seven rebounds; Lizzy Shamloo had 10 points and three boards; point guard Jordyn Callaghan had two points, six assists and two steals; Lindsey Van Houten had four points and a rebound; Ellie Buckley had three points and two assists; and Jackie Litschewski had two points and two rebounds.
The Langley Saxons gather with the championship trophy on Dec. 30 after the team won the Joe Cascio Holiday Tournament at Falls Church High School on Dec. 30. PHOTO FROM LANGLEY
Langley led from the start, thanks to an 8-0 run to start the game, and was ahead by at least four points the
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Oakton’s Lindsey Abed, middle, and Madison’s Alexis Hermes, left, and Aidan McWeeney helped PHOTO BY DEB KOLT their teams win holiday tournaments with 3-0 records.
Lakes. Monique Ford had seven against Woodgrove. n In boys action, the Madison Warhawks (3-6) finished 1-2 and fifth at the KSA Holiday Tournament in Orlando. Madison defeated West Milford, N.J., 76-70, in first-round as Sekai Walker had 20 points, Taiga Walker 18 and Kyle Karp 16 for Madison. Karp made four free throws in the final minute. In the semifinals, Madison fell to Cardinal Newman, 74-47, then lost to Colts Neck, N.J. 74-71, in its final game. Against Colts Neck, Madison trailed by 26 points in the third quarter, then put together a furious fourth-quarter rally by scoring 38 points in the period and having a chance to tie and win the game, but missed shots in those possessions. The Warhawks made 10 three-pointers in the second half, when they scored 54 points. “We played two-and-a-half-quarters of uninspired basketball, then 12 minutes of playing as hard as we could possibly play,” Madison coach Kevin Roller said. Sekai Walker had 15 points, Taiga Walker 14, Karp and Daniel Ungerleider 13 each and Brett Wellde 11. n The Langley Saxons (3-5) finished 2-1 and in fifth place at the boys Glory Days Sports Holiday Tournament at Lake Braddock Secondary School. Langley lost to the Herndon Hornets, 49-47, in overtime in the first round. Langley rallied to outscore Herndon, 216, in the fourth period to force overtime
with the score tied at 45. Aaron Kim led Langley with 11 points. Daniel Salamone scored nine and Chris Miner and Blake Mintz six each. Langley Saxons used a 10-0 advantage to start the game and led the entire way en route to a 43-32 victory over the Woodbridge Vikings in the second round. Junior forward Nate Shafer led the Saxons with nine points, 13 rebounds, four blocked shots, five assists and one steal. Miner scored 12 points and had four rebounds, Mintz had 10 points and six rebounds and Kim had eight points and two assists. Langley began the third and fourth quarters with 6-0 runs to stay well ahead, and won despite 21 turnovers. In its final game, Langley downed Mills Godwin, 52-45. Kim scored 12, Miner and Mintz nine each and Shafer added eight. Also at the Glory Days Sports tournament, the McLean Highlanders (2-8) when 0-3. Their closest game was a 44-36 first-round loss to Chantilly, when the Chargers rallied in the second half. McLean led, 19-6, at halftime as the Chargers shot miserably from the floor in the first half – just eight percent (2 of 24). Chantilly heated considerably in the second half, shooting 63 percent and the Chargers made 14 of 18 fourth-quarter foul shots as they rallied to win and improve to 4-3. Chantilly was helped by 13 secondhalf turnovers by McLean. The Chargers took the lead for good thanks to a 9-0
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n The Flint Hill Huskies (6-4) finished fifth at the girls Bulldog Bash at Westfield High School with a 2-1 record. Flint Hill lost its first game to Fairfax, 49-40, then defeated Martinsburg, 47-39, and Westfield, 46-33. Flint Hill’s Marissa Magnani scored 13 points and made three three-pointers against Westfield and was chosen to the all-tournament team. Lauren Foley scored 16 against Fairfax, Magnani added eight and Lindsey Wiley seven. Against Martinsburg, Lindsey Wiley had 14 points, Magnani 12, Taryn Corey eight and Foley seven. On Jan. 3 in a Independent School League A Division game, Flint Hill lost to undefeated National Cathedral School, 61-46. Corey and Katie Corrigan each scored 12 points and Magnani had 10. n The Marshall Statesmen (3-7) finished fourth with a 1-2 record at the girls Maroon & Gold Classic at Broad Run High. Marshall rallied to defeat Stuart, 43-31, in the first round, lost to Broad Run, 53-32, in the semifinals, then fell to Sherando, 63-19, in the consolation game. Marshall sophomore guard Kristen Tillman was chosen as the Statesmen’s Most Valuable Player of the tournament. She was Marshall’s top scorer in the three games alone with sophomore guard Olivia Barrand. Tillman averaged eight points per game during the tournament and had 14 in the win over Stuart. Against Stuart, Marshall trailed by eight points in the third period, then rallied, thanks to a full-court press in the fourth period. “Going forward we learned a lot from that tournament,” Marshall coach Chad Scott said. “The press against Stuart made the difference and gave the girls confidence.” n The defending champion McLean Highlanders (2-8) finsihed 0-3 at the Pohanka Tourament at Chantilly High School. In order, McLean lost to Battlefield, 46-38, South Lakes, 51-28, and Woodgrove, 46-34. In the three games, Jess Monroe totalled 39 points for McLean, including 21 against Battlefield and 11 against South
fourth-quarter run. Jack Ferguson led McLean with 15 points and five rebounds, Logan Legg had 10 points and five boards. Evan Rapson had six points and three rebounds, and Jordan Cole had three points and six boards. Nick Wright led McLean with 10 points in a 63-40 second-round loss to Mills Godwin. In its final game, McLean fell to Woodbridge, 59-47. Patrick Dolan scored 10 for McLean and Ferguson had eight. n The Potomac School Panthers finished 1-2 at the boys Wells Fargo Holiday Classic, defeating Carolina Day of N.C., 52-43, in their final game of the three-day competition. They lost their other games by 57-54 and 70-54 scores. The Panthers (4-4) then participated in the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference versus the Interstate Athletic Conference Challenge on Jan. 3, as Potomac School hosted the second-annual six-game boys event. The Panthers played Georgetown Prep in their game and lost 61-56. Matt Lazris scored 25 points, Grant Robinson 11 and Phil Newsome 10 for Potomac School. The Challenge consisted of six games, all of which were close contests. The IAC won four games. Potomac School boys athletic director Rob Lee said the school wanted to host the Challenge in the school’s small gym, with the venue rotating between MAC and IAC schools every year. “It is a lot of fun hosting this,” Lee said. “There’s a lot of good basketball to see.” The Flint Hill Huskies (6-6) of the MAC played one of those games and nipped St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes, 52-51, in the closest contest, thanks to a steal in the final two seconds by Flint Hill senior forward Sam Worman. Worman had 13 points and Tyler Femi 17 in the win for Flint Hill. For a story about that game visit www.insidenova. com/sports/fairfax or see page 26. n At the boys Mount Vernon Holiday Classic, the Oakton Cougars (1-8) went 1-2, losing 65-48 in the first round to Christ Chapel, falling in the second round to Mount Vernon, 46-38, then defeating Grace Brethren, 61-44, in their final game. For Oakton, Joe Briggs had 14 points, Josiah Walker 11, Logan Jones nine and Jarrett Bacon eight against Christ Chapel. Walker had 17 and Bacon nine against Mount Vernon.
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entire contest. Langley was in front, 27-18, at halftime and 38-22 after three quarters. Galiani scored 25 against Tuscarora, with four threepointers, and had 10 points against W-L. Callaghan and Shamloo had eight points each in the semifinal and Van Houten scored seven. Callaghan and Aulisi each scored 11 in the tourney opener. “Playing three games in three days gave us a taste of what tournament play could be like at the end of the season,” Baker said. “We played well overall.” Prior to the Joe Cascio Tournament, Langley defeated Chantilly, 46-43, and South County, 50-19, in nonconference games. Galiani had 21 points and four three-pointers against Chantilly, Aulisi scored eight and Callaghan seven. In the win over South County, Galiani had 13, Shamloo nine and Aulisi and Litschewski eight each.
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Flint Hill Evens Record With Two Tough Road Wins DAVE FACINOLI Staff Writer
With a couple of close and physical non-conference road victories by a combined four points Jan. 2 and 3, the Flint HusBASKETBALL Hill kies gained confidence that they can continue winning boys high school basketball games in that manner for the rest of the season. The wins evened Flint Hill’s record at 6-6. The Huskies built a big lead then hung on to defeat John Paul the Great, 69-66, on Jan. 2. The next afternoon, they nipped the St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes Saints, 52-51, at the Potomac School in a Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference vs. Interstate Athletic Conference Challenge contest. “These wins have definitely turned the ship in the right direction and they can propel us,” Flint Hill coach Rico Reed said. “Our new motto is ‘do what we need’ and the guys are buying into that. We want to get stops, rebounds and get on the floor for loose balls.” In the win over Stephen’s & St. Agnes, senior Sam Worman (13 points, four rebounds) intercepted a cross-court pass near the Saints’ basket with two seconds left to preserve the win. “I could see the pass coming and I was where I was supposed to be on defense,” Worman said. “We defended the post well.” In a game that produced seven ties and 12 lead changes, Flint Hill took the lead
Flint Hill’s Tyler Femi led his team with 17 points against St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes.
Flint Hill coach Rico Reed huddles with his team during a timeout against St. Stephen’s & St. AgPHOTOS BY DAVE FACINOLI nes at a Jan. 3 basketball game at the Potomac School.
for good at 51-49 with 2:09 to play on two free throws by Worman, then went ahead 52-49 on one foul shot by senior guard Tyler Femi (17 points, five assists, three steals). The Saints cut the lead to 52-51 on two foul shots with 56 seconds left. After that, Flint Hill’s Austin Jones (five points, four rebounds) got a key offensive rebound, then Femi missed two foul shots, giving Stephen’s & St. Agnes one
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last possession. Worman then got the clinching steal. “We just kept fighting and fighting,” Femi said. “We were a little tired from the night before, but we knew we had to that to win.” Senior center Aron Petros had nine points and five rebounds for Flint Hill and junior guard Kory Jones had six points (two three-pointers) off the bench. Senior starting guard Greg Harris
blocked two shots and had two assists. “They were a taller team, but we played hard and we have to keep doing that,” Reed said. Against John Paul the Great, Worman scored 25 and Femi and Patros had 12 each. Harris scored six. Prior to that win, Flint Hill defeated Severna Park, 69-48, so the Huskies were 3-0 over the holidays and have won four of their last five games. In games this week, Flint Hill was scheduled to host Georgetown Day at 6 p.m. on Jan. 6, then plays at the Potomac School on Friday, Jan. 9 at 7:15 p.m. in a big neighborhood rivalry game against the Panthers. Both are conference contests.
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High school basketball teams return to action with a full slate of games this week after having a few days off last week. Above: Marshall’s Mark LeDuc, No. 31, and Jordan James try to block a shot by Madison’s Taiga Walker during an earlier game. PHOTO BY DEB KOLT
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Items taken from the archives of the Northern Virginia Sun. January 8, 1937: n Fairfax police officers will be getting a pay raise of $120 this year. n Alcohol sales in Virginia’s state ABC stores were up this Christmas season over last year. n Lt. Gov. Price is expected to face no major hurdles in his quest for the Democratic nomination for governor. n About 6,500 homes are expected to be built in Virginia this year. n At the movies: “The Great Ziegeld” is playing at the State Theatre. January 9, 1952: n Fairfax officials are seeking $150,000 in state funds to purchase right-of-way for the George Washington Memorial Parkway. January 9, 1967: n Ethel Kennedy is standing trial in Fairfax County on allegations she stole a horse from a neighbor’s property in McLean. Kennedy claims the horse was emaciated and was in need of immediate attention. January 10, 1973: n Tomorrow’s opening of the General Assembly will mark the first time a session has been held on an odd-numbered year. n McLean’s boys basketball team fell to Herndon, 77-62. n The Sun is looking for boys, ages 1316, to deliver the paper. January 8, 1982: n The Vienna Town Council has waived its policy requiring employees to retire at age 70 on behalf of parts clerk Clark Munn, who wants to keep working. n John Milliken and Warren Stambaugh each say they will not challenge U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-10th, this year, leaving Ira Lechner as the lone prospect. n Northern Virginia Community College officials want the state to fund 12.5percent pay increases for teachers. n C&P begins delivering its new phone books this week. January 8, 1993: n The Clintons are debating where to send daughter Chelsea to school. In a Sun “man on the street” interview, three respondents said it should be a private school, one said it should be a public school and two said it was none of their business.
BROADWAY SONGS © StatePoint Media ACROSS 1. A minority people of New Zealand 6. Dr. Frankenstein’s workplace 9. *“____ Enchanted Evening” 13. Straight _____, e.g. 14. _ __ king 15. *Exclamatory song from the Buddy Holly Musical 16. Narcotics agent 17. Under the weather 18. Hal-9000’s chess opponent 19. *Fantine: “I _______ a dream in time gone by...” 21. Type of canned tomato 23. ___ talk of encouragement 24. *”Who’s Got The ____?” from “Damned Yankees” 25. Pick up, as in a criminal 28. Hit song by Katy Perry 30. *Desirée: “Quick, send in the ____” 35. Footnote word 37. Horsefly 39. Search helper 40. Mongolian desert 41. Greek ruler of the underworld 43. Ripped 44. Edward Teller’s creation 46. Iranian coin 47. *Song title from “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Wiz” 48. Conical dwellings 50. Gunk 52. Pavlova’s step 53. Dirty money 55. Singer-songwriter Stewart 57. *Peggy Sawyer: “...I am taking you to forty-____ street.”
60. Like a light and confident step 64. Hammerin’ Hank 65. “____ la la!” 67. Food safety threat 68. Summer romance, e.g. 69. Genetic info carrier 70. Clean a spill 71. Change for a twenty 72. Make a seam
73. Agenda entries
DOWN 1. Fix, especially by sewing 2. Month of Purim 3. Fictional giant 4. Summary 5. Chemical compound 6. “Best ____ plans”
7. *”____ That Jazz” from “Chicago” 8. Model-building wood 9. *”There’s no business like ____ business...” 10. Symphony member 11. Dehumidifier’s foe 12. Needle hole 15. In an open way 20. Historical period 22. Clinical twitching 24. What meteorologists do 25. *Phantom: “Help me make the music of the ____” 26. PDF reader 27. Jazz style 29. Winglike 31. Often taken with help of a bible 32. Celebrate or “_____ it up!” 33. Marilyn Monroe’s original name 34. Sound units 36. Play charades 38. Toothy wheel 42. Impolite dinner sound 45. Be in the right place 49. Duke of Cambridge to Prince of Wales, e.g. 51. *“Sound of Music” song 54. Emitted from frankincense or myrrh, pl. 56. Monocot’s alternative 57. *Cole Porter’s “Love for ____” 58. Julia Roberts’ character Brockovich 59. Flipside of pros 60. Playwright George Bernard 61. Uh-uh 62. Dour 63. Puppy sounds 64. Away from the bow 66. *“___ singular sensation...”
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McLean
$1,799,000
Palisades
$1,695,000
McLean
$1,474,000
Bethesda
$1,435,000
D L
McLean
$1,295,000
Dupont Circle
McLean
$1,095,000
Bethesda
McLean
$899,000
Vienna
Arlington
$795,000
Annandale
Falls Church
McLean
$1,795,000
McLean
McLean
$1,425,000
$1,295,000
FallsChurch
$1,280,000
$1,095,000
Falls Church
$995,000
Central DC
$995,000
McLean
$985,000
Alexandria
$949,000
McLean
$920,000
$899,000
McLean
$899,000
Bethesda
$859,000
Vienna
$849,000
Falls Church
$825,000
Fairfax
$799,000
Arlington
$720,000
Vienna
$719,000
Falls Church
$710,000
Vienna
$669,000
Columbia Heights
$650,000
Alexandria
$650,000
$645,000
Fairfax
$625,000
Arlington
$579,900
Alexandria
$579,000
Falls Church
$485,000
Falls Church
$469,000
Kalorama
$449,900
$445,000
Columbia Heights
$435,000
Alexandria
$439,000
Falls Church
$375,000
Alexandria
$369,900
Arlington
$335,000
Fairfax
$335,000
O S
$1,695,000
$1,525,000
Chevy Chase, MD $1,499,000
Arlington
Chevy Chase, MD $1,399,000
Chevy Chase, MD $1,375,000
Chevy Chase, DC $1,340,000
Chevy Chase, MD $1,310,000
Falls Church
Arlington
McLean
Vienna
$1,250,000
Spring Valley
$1,249,000
$1,195,000
$1,495,000
$1,179,000
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