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VOLUME 37 NO. 11
NOVEMBER 5-11, 2015
G R E AT FA L L S • M c L E A N • O A K T O N • T Y S O N S • V I E N N A
MCC Renovation Plan Remains Work in Progress Construction Effort Is Still About a Year Away
Delay Doesn’t Mar the Enthusiasm at Halloween Parade
BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer
The McLean Community Center’s longawaited expansion-and-renovation project is on track, but finalizing myriad details – especially concerning stormwater management and tree preservation – will require another year before the first shovel is turned. The community center’s Governing Board on Oct. 28 approved a design-development package, which authorizes the design team to begin working on construction documents for the project. Officials hope to begin seeking bids for the project in fall 2016, with construction commencing early in the following year. The $8 million project will add a 1,008square-foot meeting room adjacent to the current large meeting area and build a 2,983square-foot structure, with multipurpose room, kitchenette, restrooms and storage space, just south of the center’s Susan B. DuVal Art Studio The project also will enclose and roof the center’s courtyard area and feature a 1,255square-foot sculpture garden in the middle, which would be exposed to the sky. This section also will have a 661-square-foot boardroom and a 703-square-foot lounge. The board’s capital-facilities committee has made several cuts. Some other possible
Just one day after being scratched because of thunderstorms, the 69th Vienna Halloween Parade took place on a lovely fall evening Oct. 29 – and even managed to draw most of its intended crowd. The crowd, thinned out somewhat by the previous day’s cancellation, still brought plenty of enthusiasm as it lined Maple Avenue, E., and Center Street, S. Politicians running in several local races made last-minute attempts to connect with local voters. U.S. Rep. Gerald Connolly (D11th), who won’t have to face voters again until November 2016, nevertheless continued his tradition of waving at the crowd from the top of a convertible. Kathy Georgen of the Vienna Business Association served as this year’s grand marshal and got to ride in style on the back of dark-gray circa-1970 Corvette. Hundreds of costumed children and their parents paraded past the grandstand. “Star Wars” outfits especially were popular this year, possibly because the next installment of that storied movie franchise is due in theaters soon. Costumes ran the gamut from characters in the Will Ferrell movie “Elf” to space aliens, a tall-winged angel and even a selection of cast members from “The Wizard of Oz.” The best costumes, floats, cars and performances will be honored in the coming weeks at a Vienna Town Council meeting.
MORE! Find additional photos from the Vienna parade inside on Page 4.
ELECTION RESULTS 5-year-old Lena Brown of Vienna pokes her head out of a shaggy-dog costume at the 69th annual Vienna Halloween Parade, held Oct. 29 along Maple Ave. The event was delayed for a day due to PHOTO BY BRIAN TROMPETER weather.
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Major renovations could be coming to athletic fields at Vienna’s Southside and Yeonas parks – and taxpayers might not be on the hook for the upgrades. Vienna Little League officials presented Vienna Town Council members at an Oct. 26 work session with a proposal to add – at the group’s own cost – synthetic-turf fields, modern lighting fixtures, playground and picnic areas, a scenic lawn, a two-story snack bar/press box and other amenities. “This is a wonderful opportunity to take a current park and leverage it up with a lot more usable recreation space,” said Aaron Georgelas, a managing partner with The Georgelas Group, a major developer in Tysons Corner. “It will really make a world-class park.” Southside Park now has a basketball court and two adult-softball fields; Yeonas Park has three Little League fields, some batting cages and a snack bar. Vienna Little League officials have proposed a two-phase project to upgrade the parks. The first phase, which would cost about $3.5 million, would involve construction of three new baseball fields with synthetic turf, plus a playground, basketball court and 100-by-300-foot rectangular field, which could be used for practice or youth sports. The second phase, which would cost about $1.1 million, would eliminate one of Yeonas Park’s three fields, plus a snack bar, and build two new diamond fields. The
Vienna Little League leaders are pressing for this plan to add athletic fields with artificial turf at Southside and Yeonas parks in southwest Vienna.
fields would have artificial turf and be outfitted with movable mounds for different levels of play. One field would be capable of setting bases 50 or 70 feet apart; the other, smaller field would be used for girls’ softball. A proposed bridge would connect the parks and cross over Bear Branch stream. A new lawn area near the bridge would be an ideal place for watching games, Georgelas said. The sports organization’s representatives said they approached town officials with the plan first before starting to raise money for the project. Georgelas expressed confidence the group could obtain the required funds.
“This is not just a pipe dream,” he said. “We can get this underwritten.” Vienna Little League would raise money to finance both phases of the project. The town will have few capital-improvement funds to spare for the next half-dozen years, as most of those moneys will be gobbled up by expansion projects at the Vienna Community Center and Vienna Police Headquarters. Southside Park originally served as a sewage-treatment plant. Town officials in the mid-1990s pushed for a skate park at the site, but eventually ended up improving just the park’s basketball facilities. Neighborhood opposition accounted for the comparatively minor improvements
at the park then, and backers of the current project must reach out and address residents’ concerns, said Council member Edythe Kelleher. “We’d need to have the community’s buy-in on that,” she said. Project proponents promised to conduct “significant outreach” and said the revamped parks would have improved drainage and lighting. The new LED lights, similar to ones installed recently on a field at Glyndon Park, would be more energyefficient and result in far less light spillover into neighborhoods, project backers said. Drainage upgrades at the site, which would be executed in conformance with stricter regulations that took effect last summer, would reduce the amount of water runoff and improve its quality, said Michael Congleton, a senior project planner with VIKA Virginia LLC, which is designing plans for the parks. The fields’ sand base would filter contaminants before releasing waters into nearby streams. “Right now, it’s uncontrolled runoff,” Congleton said. “The stream is in really rough shape.” Council members, seeking to avoid problems with surrounding neighborhoods, pressed the sports group’s representatives about parking at the sites. The project would add 35 spaces at Southside Park and approximately double parking availability to 41 spaces at Yeonas Park, Georgelas said. Town officials would work to ensure
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Opinion Our View: Higher Salaries Won’t Fix Ills in Richmond A newspaper with statewide reach recently opined in an editorial that members of the General Assembly should get higher pay. Pay ’em more, don’t pay ’em more – it matters little to us. Let’s just not pretend that offering higher paychecks is a panacea for the ills that afflict the legislative process in Richmond. The editorialists suggest that it’s the low pay – $18,000 for state senators and $17,640 for delegates, plus expenses, for part-time jobs – that leads
some into the temptation of finding more dubious means of augmenting their checking accounts. No, it’s not the pay. Politics, like any other vocation, is filled with its share of saints and sinners, and when it comes to the sinners, it won’t matter if salaries are $18,000 or $180,000 – those with sticky fingers are going to skirt the law or simply ignore it. Keeping the pay relatively paltry may, perversely, be a good thing – it requires most legislators to hold real-
world jobs and deal with real-world problems during the 10 or so months a year they are not convened. Keeps them grounded, so to speak. We rather like the idea posited by a respondent to the editorial in question – why not raise the pay of lawmakers, but take them out of the state retirement system, where they didn’t belong in the first place. Members of the General Assembly should be there to serve the public, not get a monthly stipend long after they’ve left office.
Legislature Needs to Step in, Fix Loophole on School-Bus Cameras We have watched over the past 18 months as Attorney General Mark Herring has used his office to, at times, skirt, ignore and usurp the will and authority of the General Assembly. And we have not been quiet about our unhappiness. But with the holiday season nearing, perhaps it’ll be a nice change to praise the attorney general . . . for getting it right in a recent advisory opinion related to fines for those who pass stopped school buses. A bit of background: A number of Virginia localities (though not Fairfax County) this year moved forward in hiring a contractor
to install the cameras on school buses, to catch and penalize those who recklessly pass buses that are stopped with their flashing red lights on. Seemed like a reasonable solution to us at the time. But Herring, whose office was asked to formally look into it, concluded that while the General Assembly had given permission to install the cameras, it had not authorized localities to collect revenue from tickets unless officers hand-deliver those tickets, rather than the far more sensible route of mailing them out. And under the Dillon Rule (hello, old friend), if the General Assembly doesn’t autho-
rize it, the localities can’t do it. Yes, it sounds very arcane, almost silly, and yes, we hope state legislators this coming year provide the power for local governments to reasonably enforce the tickets. But we also wish to praise the admirable amount of restraint from the attorney general in bowing to legislative supremacy. Even if it takes away a law-enforcement tool in the short term, a bigger issue was at stake, and Herring got it right. We hope the General Assembly will act appropriately in giving localities the powers they need to move forward on collecting fines.
Letter-Writer Uniquely Selective in Her Gun ‘Facts’ Editor: If the only part of Elizabeth Glassco’s Oct. 22 letter to the editor that you read was the title –“Research is Clear: More Guns Do Not Equate to More Gun Violence” – you missed some staggering lapses in logic and fact checking. According to UN statistics, Luxembourg has the same very low murder rate as Germany (0.8 per 100,000 population), not nine times higher as Ms. Glassco asserts. This is likely attributable to the similarities in cultural norms in those two countries and probably has little to do with gun laws. One should be very wary of any study that compares wildly dissimilar sample sizes; Luxembourg has a population of 543,000 and Germany’s is over 80 million. Just one American-style mass shooting per year would make Luxembourg’s murder rate exceed our own, while it would do little to impact the rate in Germany. Correlating Luxembourg’s four annual murders with the ineffectiveness of strict gun control laws is patently absurd, as it does not take into account the causes of death in those murders. Which uncited UN report claims the
United States has the highest-murder rate in the world? Gun violence and murder in general are more significant problems in the U.S. than in any other developed country, but I sincerely doubt any study has ever claimed that our murder rates exceed those in countries like Honduras, Venezuela and Brazil. Ms. Glassco states that the murder rate in the US was 28th in the world at the time of the study; I don’t know if that’s 28th best or 28th worst, but either way, it is nothing to be proud of, and we should be working together as a society to reduce violent crime. Gun-rights advocates go to great lengths to try to prove that which cannot be proven: that gun ownership makes everyone safer. It is irrefutable that if you do not have a gun you cannot commit a crime with a gun, nor can you defend yourself with that gun. When you choose to bring guns into your life, you raise the stakes in confrontations and personal problems to life-and-death when they often wouldn’t have been in the absence of firearms. Even the most fervent gun-rights advocates cannot dispute the simple fact that when a gun is brought
into the home, the risk of death or injury from gunshot skyrockets for members of that household. Gun owners apparently all think that they will be the rare exception that successfully defends their family from the very uncommon occurrence of stranger-committed violent crime in their home, but they are likely relying on their own hero complexes and not sound statistical analysis for that belief. Given the stranglehold that the National Rifle Association has on our political system, there is no meaningful gun reform on the horizon. No one is “coming for your guns,” so there is no need to respond to the next school massacre by running out to your local gun store and adding to your arsenal. Gun ownership is a personal choice in this country and will likely remain so, but that doesn’t mean it is a wise or well-informed choice for you, your family or your community. If you are looking for a statistic that challenges our priorities, this one should do the trick: In every year other than 2001, toddlers with handguns have killed more Americans than have terrorists. John Fennell McLean
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Unless something major happens between now and year’s end, Vienna’s 2016 legislative will bear a close resemblance to wish lists assembled in years past. And it will carry a familiar message: Give us more money and leave us alone. Vienna Town Council members on Oct. 26 subtracted a few items from the 2015 list, citing either irrelevance or the proverbial snowball’s chance of passage, and tacked on a few new items at the end. One of the latter was a request by town officials that the General Assembly restore cooperative-procurement language in the Virginia Procurement Act, which legislators last year struck, that allowed localities to ride construction contracts in certain cases. “We can’t ride construction contracts anymore, not even small ones,” noted Town Attorney Steven Briglia. Identical proposals carried over from the previous year’s legislative agenda include requests that: • Revenues from commercial-transportation taxes be shared between counties and towns. Vienna already receives a share of Fairfax County’s stormwater-tax revenues based upon contributions from town residents, Vienna officials said. • New sidewalk projects be eligible for funding using state transportation-tax
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revenues. Those funds typically are allotted to congestion-relief projects, but town officials argue sidewalk projects fulfill that requirement because they provide transportation options and reduce the use of motorized vehicles. • Shortfalls in state revenue not be used as a reason to reduce Northern Virginia Transportation Authority tax-revenue disbursements to localities. • State public-safety moneys to localities (aka 599 funding) be fully restored. • Localities not have their authority to collect Business, Professional and Occupational License (BPOL) taxes reduced or eliminated. • The disbursement formula for Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) road-maintenance moneys be changed from the number of lane miles to the traffic volume per lane, or that additional funding be provided to localities where traffic volumes exceed by more than 20 percent the state averages for roads of their type. Vienna officials also want urban and densely populated suburban areas to have more representation on the Commonwealth Transportation Board. • The General Assembly provide adequate funding to localities for water-quality improvements related to sewage-treatment plants, urban stormwater and sewage overflows. • State lawmakers not reduce or eliminate local land-use authority.
The Town Council struck some previous items on the legislative agenda, including requests that VDOT follow local tree-replacement policies when building a project in localities and that the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code be modified to set deadlines for completion of construction projects and issuance of occupancy permits in specific zones. The latter request has failed in recent years because the General Assembly does not wish to legislate the matter, but rather have it handled administratively, Briglia said. Mayor Laurie DiRocco consented to removing the construction-completion and occupancy-permit item, but said town officials should continue to monitor the prob-
lem. Some houses in the town have taken up to seven years to complete, aggravating neighbors, she said. The Town Council will review the draft legislative agenda with state Sen. Chap Petersen (D-34th) and Del. Mark Keam (D35th) at a Nov. 9 work session. The legislators likely will bounce ideas of their own off Council members at the work session and try to reach consensus before filing bills in the next General Assembly session. Council member Carey Sienicki said she would like to see towns have voting representation on regional transportation authorities. “Right now, we just sit there quietly,” she said. “We can listen.”
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Area residents in fiscal 2015 also donated nearly $800,000 to the Fairfax County Park Foundation, which contributed about $163,000 toward the more than $1 million in recreational scholarships FCPA awarded to families with demonstrated needs. The agency is teaming up with the National Recreation and Park Association and George Mason University to assess how much the Park Authority contributes to the local economy. Results from the study should be available early next year, said deputy director Sara Baldwin. Park Authority officials expressed satisfaction with the public’s 20-percent increase in usage of mobile apps to access the park system’s offerings. Area residents visited the Park Authority’s Web site more than 3.5 million times during the last fiscal year and completed nearly 63 percent of the nearly 163,500 class registrations online, officials said. The park system also has made internal use of technology by adopting an automated credit-card-reporting system, which obviated the need for personnel from more than 70 park facilities to deliver printed reports weekly at FCPA headquarters in Fairfax. “We could not continue to function without better use of technology, which has allowed us to absorb [budget] reductions over the years,” said spokesman Judy Pedersen. But higher technological prowess will not necessarily result in job cutbacks, she added. “We’re really in the people business,” Pedersen said. “You have naturalists, archeologists and specialists, as well as more routine jobs. We augment [staffing] with a volunteer force, but it still takes people.” Forty percent of Park Authority employees will be eligible to retire by the end of 2020 and FCPA officials are using mentorship programs and other efforts to train the agency’s next generation of leaders. The Park Authority still offers many entry-level jobs, where several directors previously began, Pedersen said. “There is still room to start at the bottom and work your way up,” she said.
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A total of 177 out of 192 Fairfax County public schools, 92 percent, have earned full accreditation for the 2015-16 school year from the Virginia Department of Education. That’s up from 90 percent of county schools receiving accreditation last year, but below the 94 percent from two years ago. All schools in the Sun Gazette coverage area are fully accredited. Statewide results were announced Oct. 28. While promising renewed efforts to have all its schools meet accreditation requirements, Fairfax officials – perhaps slightly testily – said having less than 100-percent accreditation was not a blot on the school system’s reputation. “The true measure of a school is more than a single test score,” Deputy Superintendent Steven Lockard said in a statement accompanying the results. “Schools that are close to or making progress toward accreditation should be recognized for their hard work, and not labeled as failing.” State education leaders, however, seemed energetic in their support for the ratings process. “Every school that earned full accreditation this year is another school that is better preparing its students for a lifetime of success,” Virginia Secretary of Education Anne Holton said in a statement accompanying the statewide results. Fairfax school officials did not publicize
the 15 schools that did not make the grade, but according to state officials, they were Annandale Terrace, Cameron, Crestwood, Forestdale, Herndon, Lynbrook, Mount Eagle, Mount Vernon Woods, Riverside, Rose Hill and Saratoga elementary schools; Poe, Sandburg and Whitman middle schools; and J.E.B. Stuart High School. On the plus side, Fairfax school officials could point to seven schools – Bailey’s Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences, Bucknell Elementary, Hutchison Elementary, Mount Vernon High, Washington Mill Elementary, West Potomac High and Woodlawn Elementary – that earned full accreditation this year after being accredited with warning last year. Statewide, 37 school districts out of 132 saw all their schools meet benchmark requirements based on test-score achievement, up from 22 school divisions fully accredited last year. In Northern Virginia, Arlington and Falls Church saw all their public schools accredited. For a school to earn full accreditation, students must have pass rates of 75 percent on Standards of Learning (SOL) tests in reading and writing, and a rate of at least 70 percent in mathematics, science and history tests taken toward the end of the 2014-15 school year. High schools must also meet state minimum requirements for graduation rates. Statewide, 78 percent of Virginia schools, 1,414 out of 1,823, are fully accredited in 2015-16, up from 68 percent of schools a year before and the first percentage increase since 2010, when state officials
began introducing higher performance requirements for schools. The increase, however, comes with something of an asterisk attached: The 2014-15 school year was the first in which some students (those in grades 3 to Steven Staples 8) were able to retake SOL tests in several subjects if they failed the first time around. State education officials say the ability to take what they call “expedited” retakes improved pass rates by about four points on each test. In the new rankings, 13 schools statewide were denied accreditation, while nine new schools received provisional accredita-
tion. Forty-nine schools, or 3 percent of the state total, are awaiting their final determination of accreditation status, with the remainder (338 schools) winning partial accreditation. State school officials this year are introducing a new ranking system for partiallyaccredited schools, which aims to more specifically explain how a school fell short. “The new ratings allow the state to be more precise in supporting schools,” Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven Staples said. “We are now able to differentiate schools that likely can [win full accreditation] doing what they already are doing from schools that clearly require more support from the state,” Staples said. Complete data can be found on the Web site at www.doe.virginia.gov.
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McLean/Great Falls Notes Legion Post 270 will conduct its annual Veterans Day Service on Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. at the Memorial Garden at McLean High School. Members of the post who fought in the nation’s conflicts since World War II will be in attendance, along with community leaders. The public is invited. VETERANS DAY CEREMONY SET FOR GREAT FALLS: The annual Veterans Day
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Community Center will present “Big and Tall,” featuring comedians Bruce Vilanch and Judy Gold, on Saturday, Nov. 7 at 9 p.m. The comedians will pair up for separate stand-up sets united by their gay, Jewish identities and their occasionally raunchy, sidesplitting observations. The show is for mature audiences only. Tickets are $20 for McLean residents, $35 for others. For information and tickets, call (703) 790-0123 or see the Web site at www.mcleancenter.org. MCC TO PRESENT CHILDREN’S FLEA MARKET: The McLean Community Cen-
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The McLean Antiques Show & Sale will be held on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Sunday, Nov. 15 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the McLean Community Center. Admission is $10, good for both days. For information, call (703) 790-0123 or see the Web site at www.mcleancenter.org. AUTHOR TO DISCUSS AMES CASE AT ‘McLEAN NEWCOMERS’: McLean New-
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#307 recently presented Vienna Mayor Laurie DiRocco with its Community Builders Award. The honor, presented Oct. 20, is designed to recognize and show appreciation for outstanding community-oriented achievements of exceptional people. It is the highest accolade given to a community leader by the Grand Lodge of Virginia. James Cudney, current leader of Concord Lodge, said DiRocco is very deserving of this award. “She has quickly become a pillar of the community, and has a terrific grasp on what it takes to enrich the lives of the residents, businesses and organizations that energize our town,” Cudney said. “She has the vision to ensure that the Town of Vienna will continue to evolve as a destination for residents throughout the region.” Concord Lodge #307 was founded in 1910 by several community leaders, including the owner of the Freeman Store. In 1924, Concord Lodge bought the building and parcel of land on the corner of Church and Mill streets.
e-mail John King at jking@viennava.gov. WORKSHOP LOOKS AT DEALING WITH ISSUES OF DEMENTIA: The Vienna Parks
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School’s Upper School Dessert Theatre will present “The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon” on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6-7, at 7:30 p.m. each night the school.
Two narrators and a large cast will attempt to recreate all 209 of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales in a fast-paced extravaganza, aiming to weave them into a single continuous fable. Characters will include the familiar (including Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel) and the more obscure (such as Lean Lisa and the Devil’s Grandmother). The performance is in the PG-13 category. Admission is free, and the community is invited. For information and tickets, see the Web site at www.flinthill.org/flint-hill-dessert-theater-the-brothers-grimm-spectaculathon/.
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ANNUAL FOOD DRIVE TO BENEFIT ‘CHO’: The Northeast Vienna Citizens
Association is sponsoring its annual food drive from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31 in support of the Committee for Helping Others (CHO). Non-perishable, non-expired food and sundry items will be accepted. Among items most in need are pancake mix, canned chili, spaghetti sauce, cooking oil, white rice, laundry detergent and dish soap. Items can be dropped at a number of locations around Vienna, including Town Hall, Patrick Henry Library, Evolution Fitness, Uniquities, Bikes@Vienna, Caffe Amouri, Rexall Drug Store and Vienna Arts Society. Partners in the effort include Girl Scout Cadet Troop 2684 of Kilmer Middle School and Supervisor Catherine Hudgins. For information, call (703) 938-7213. I-66 EXPANSION TOPIC OF MEETING:
The proposed expansion of Interstate 66 will be the topic of the next “Vienna at Your Service” meeting, hosted by Vienna Mayor Laurie DiRocco, on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall. The community is invited. For information, call the mayor’s office at (703) 2556311.
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which works to support burn survivors, will hold its fifth annual 5K Fun Walk on Saturday, Nov. 7 at 10 a.m. beginning at the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department, 400 Center St., S. All walkers will receive a commemorative T-shirt. For information and to register, see the Web site at www.flickerofhope.org. BOWMAN HOUSE TO HOST POTTERY SHOW: The annual Bowman House Pot-
tery Show and Sale will be held on Saturday, Nov. 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Bowman House Arts and Crafts Center, 211 Center St., S., in Vienna. The show features items made by students in the pottery program of the Vienna Department of Parks and Recreation. A portion of the proceeds will go to support the program. Admission is free. CHURCH CONCERT PUTS FOCUS ON BLUEGRASS: Oakton Church of the
Brethren will host a bluegrass night on Saturday, Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. at the church. Thoroughfare Gap will offer bluegrass covers of the Eagles, Credence Clearwater Revival, Dion, Patsy Cline, Adele and more. Admission is free; a free-will offering to support local charities will be accepted. The church is located at 10025 Court-
house Road. For information, call (703) 281-4411 or see the Web site at www.oaktonbrethren.org. AAUW PROGRAM LOOKS AT WOMEN IN TRADITIONAL CULTURES: The Vienna
branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) will present “How Can Women Bridge Modern and Traditional Cultures?” on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at Patrick Henry Library. The event will feature local authors Urmilla Khanna and Veronica Li, and is free and open to the public. VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT HOSTS BINGO: The Vienna Volunteer Fire De-
partment will host bingo on Sunday, Nov. 8 at the department, 400 Center St., S. Doors open at 4 p.m., with sales beginning at 5 p.m. and games starting at 7 p.m. For information, see the Web site at www.vvfd.org.
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teer Fire Department Auxiliary will hold its annual fall bazaar and craft show on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the firehouse, 400 Center St., S. The event will feature crafts, holiday decorations and gifts, along with a bakedgoods table and white-elephant area. Lunch will be available. Admission is free. Proceeds from the rental of table spaces Continued on Page 15
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ANNUAL ‘TURKEY TROT’ ON THE HORIZON: The 13th annual Vienna Turkey Trot
TRAIN STATION OPEN FOR VISITORS:
The historic Vienna train station and caboose will be open on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 1 to 5 p.m. The station, located at 231 Dominion Road, N.E., is operated by Northern Virginia Model Railroaders. For information, see the Web site at www.nvmr.org. ARTS SOCIETY TO HOST MEETING: The
Vienna Arts Society will meet on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 10:30 a.m. at the Vienna Art Center, 115 Pleasant St., N.W. The guest speaker will be photographer George Brown, who will explain how artists can best take photos of their paintings and artworks. The program is free, and the community is invited. For information, call (703) 319-3971 or see the Web site at www.vien-
will be held on Sunday, Nov. 22, featuring both 5K and 10K runs and a fun run. Beneficiaries of the 2015 event will be the James Madison High School Band and the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department. For additional information and registration, see the Web site at www.viennaturkeytrot.com.
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Vienna/Oakton Chapter 1116 of National Active and Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) will meet on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 1 p.m. at American Legion Post 180, 330 Center St., N. The guest speakers are Leonard Ignatowski and Jay Kalner, who will discuss Vietnam Veterans of America. The community is invited. For information, call Ralph Dantinne at (703) 9389757.
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We travel to the bucolic Thistle Ridge community outside Vienna to enjoy this week’s featured property – a sumptuous, three-level classic with modern flair, ready both for entertaining in style and the joys of daily living. Wonderful traffic flow, versatile design and upscale accoutrements are the hallmarks here, situated on a lot of nearly a full acre set amid serenity near Beulah Road. The property currently is on the market, listed at $1,850,00 by Joan Stansfield of Keller Williams Real Estate. Nearly 7,000 square feet of living space can be found in this stunning, fouryears-young property set on a quiet culde-sac. Designed by the creative team at Sekas, the home features all that firm’s trademark elegance. A soaring foyer begins our exploration, while to our left, the large and engaging living room (with fireplace) and dining room beyond have the beauty of natural light streaming in. The kitchen is designed for a serious
chef, with over-sized center island, top appliances and access to the rear deck. The kitchen opens to the large (34x19) family room, with fireplace and windows overlooking the rear yard. A study is tucked off the main traffic area, perfect for relaxation and concentration. On the second level, the master bedroom retreat occupies a prime locale, with a large bedding area with tray ceiling; separate sitting room with fireplace; a glorious bath; and two walk-in closets. Three additional bedroom suites can be found here, as well. The walk-out lower level is home to a large recreation room with wet bar; game room; exercise room; the home’s fifth bedroom; and utility space. The expansive slate patio features a fire pit. A Trex composite deck, which leads to the private oasis that is the rear yard, was
added in 2014 and rounds out a truly superb property, worthy of consideration. Articles are prepared by the Sun Gazette’s real estate advertising department on behalf of clients. For information on the home, contact the listing agent. For information on having a house reviewed, contact the Sun Gazette’s real estate advertising department at (703) 738-2520.
Facts for buyers Address: 9598 Thistle Ridge Lane, Vienna (22182). Listed at: $1,850,000 by Joan Stansfield, Keller Williams Realty (703) 919-7761. Schools: Wolftrap Elementary, Kilmer Middle, George C. Marshall High School.
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First, the good news: Steady employment and economic growth, pentup demand, affordable home prices and attractive mortgage rates will keep the housing market on a gradual upward trend in 2016. And now, the bad news: Persistent headwinds related to shortages and availability of lots and labor, along with rising materials prices are impeding a more robust recovery. That was the conclusion of a recent construction-forecast webinar sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders. While total U.S. employment of 142 million is above the previous peak set before the onset of the recession in 2008, job growth has been concentrated heavily in the service sector, which tends to pay lower wages. “This recovery is all about jobs,” said NAHB chief economist David Crowe. “If people can get good jobs that pay decent incomes, the housing market will continue to move forward.” While mortgage-interest rates are expected to rise over the near-term, averaging 4.5 percent in 2016 and 5.5 percent in 2017, Crowe said this is not expected to have an impact on the housing recovery. “As the economy gets better, job and wage growth should keep pace. So even though mortgage rates will rise, they will still be low by historical standards and very affordable.” In the Webinar, Crowe noted several factors that are hindering a more robust recovery. Citing an NAHB survey of its members, 61 percent of builders reported the cost and availability of labor was a significant problem – up from just 13 percent. Looking at home-buyer preferences, Trulia Housing Economist Ralph McLaughlin said that contrary to popular belief, Millennials prefer to own a home in the suburbs rather than rent in the cities. “Many believe that home buyers are bucking the trend of previous generations in that they want to live in urban areas and want to rent,” said McLaughlin. “What we are finding from our surveys is just the opposite.” However, an overwhelming majority of Millennials, who are still starting households and paying off college debt, say it will be at least two years before they are ready to buy. Roughly half of all Americans prefer to live in suburban areas, about a quarter prefer urban areas and just over 20 percent prefer rural areas.
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Fairfax Sees a Slight Dip in Unemployment Figures Despite fewer county residents having jobs in the civilian workforce than a month before, Fairfax County’s unemployment rate dipped slightly from August to September, according to new state figures. Fairfax’s jobless rate in September stood at 3.3 percent, down from 3.4 percent a month before and representing 600,384 county residents employed in the civilian workforce and 20,587 seeking jobs. Figures were reported Oct. 28 by the Virginia Employment Commission. Total civilian employment in the county was down about 7,000 from a month before, part of a regional and statewide trend that usually occurs as the economy transitions from mid-summer to autumn. Across Northern Virginia, there were 19,500 fewer people employed in the civilian workforce in September than August; statewide, it was 41,000, based on non-seasonally-adjusted data. Despite the fewer number of people with jobs, unemployment rates declined slightly or remained flat in several Northern Virginia jurisdictions. Like Fairfax, Loudoun County saw its jobless rate dip from 3.4 percent to 3.3 percent; Prince William County’s
rate declined from 3.9 percent to 3.8 percent. The city of Alexandria saw no change in its unemployment rate, at 3.2 percent, while the city of Falls Church slaw a small increase from 2.9 percent to 3 percent. Arlington’s unemployment rate tipped up from 2.7 percent to 2.8 percent. Across Northern Virginia as a whole, the jobless rate declined from 3.5 percent to 3.4 percent, with 1.51 million in the civilian workforce and about 53,800 looking for jobs. Statewide, the non-seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate declined from 4.3 percent to 4.1 percent. Non-farm employment decreased statewide by 200 jobs in September, the third consecutive monthly job loss, said Ann Lang, senior economist for the Economic Information Services Division of the Virginia Employment Commission. Why, then, the lower unemployment rate? State officials point to declines in the overall labor force in the commonwealth, and to revisions to preliminary August data. Preliminary August figures had reported as a 900-job gain in employment from July, but revi-
sions reversed that to a 2,600-job loss, Lang said, quoting seasonally-adjusted figures. Among various sectors of the economy, both construction and hospitality posted statewide job gains from August to September, along with boosts in the finance, manufacturing and private education/healthcare economic corridors. Total government employment at all levels was down, and there was a decline in jobs in the professional/business-services sector. Among Virginia’s 133 counties and cities, the lowest unemployment rates were turned in by Arlington, Falls Church, Highland County (3.1 percent) and the cities of Alexandria and Fairfax (3.2 percent). The highest rates were found in Buchanan County (10.5 percent), Dickenson County (8.9 percent), Petersburg (8.6 percent), Martinsville (8.3 percent) and Wise County (7.7 percent). Among Virginia’s metropolitan areas, Northern Virginia posted the lowest rate, followed by Charlottesville (3.6 percent) and Winchester (3.7 percent). The highest rates were found in Kingsport/Bristol (5.6 percent) and Hampton Roads (4.6 percent). Nationally in September, Vir-
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Unemployed 2,957 4,012 20,587 232 6,374 8,651 53,851 173,385 7,628,000
ginia ranked as 18th best employment state, nestled between Indiana and Oklahoma. The states with lowest joblessness were North Dakota (2.2 percent), Nebraska (2.6 percent), New Hampshire and South Dakota (3 percent each) and Minnesota (3.2 percent). The highest rates were found in New Mexico (6.7 percent), Nevada (6.6 percent), Arizona (6.4 percent), West Virginia (6.3 percent) and Louisiana (6.2 percent). For full data, see the Web site at www.virginialmi.com. Year-Over-Year Unemployment Declines: Year-over-year unemployment declined across the Washington region in September, part of a national trend toward
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Public-Safety Notes MAN FACES MULTIPLE CHARGES IN TYSONS SHOPLIFTING CASE; 1 SUSPECT STILL SOUGHT: Fairfax County police
officers were called to the Bloomingdale’s store in the 8100 block of Tysons Corner Center on Oct. 28 at around 8:07 p.m. after receiving a report of a shoplifting in progress. Upon being located by an officer, one of two suspects reportedly struck the officer in the face and both suspects fled on foot and entered a vehicle, police said. The suspects attempted to flee, but crashed into a parked vehicle and then took off on foot again. Authorities have charged one of the suspects, Lewis K. J. Foreman, 20, of Dover, Del., with grand larceny, larceny with intent to sell, possession of burglarious tools, assault on law enforcement, escape with force, speed to elude, felony hit-and-run and possession of marijuana. The second suspect was described as black man wearing dark clothing. Foreman did not sustain any physical injuries during the incident. The officer was treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said. MAN EXPOSES HIMSELF TO FEMALE SHOPPER IN TYSONS: A woman was
shopping in the 8300 block of Leesburg Pike in Tysons Corner on Oct. 23 at about 12:30 p.m. when a man standing next to her began to scratch his genitals and then exposed himself, Fairfax County police said. The suspect, who fled before police arrived, was described as Hispanic, between 5 feet 8 inches and 5 feet 10 inches tall, with dark hair and wearing a dark shirt and blue jeans. 2 MEN CHARGED AFTER COMMERCIAL BREAK-IN IN VIENNA AREA: Fair-
fax County police officers were called to a business in the 2900 block of Hunters Branch Road in the Vienna area on Oct. 25 at around 10:57 p.m. after a commercial
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alarm was triggered. Officers located two men and took them into custody. Authorities charged Leroy Price Alexander, 48, of Washington, D.C., with grand larceny and unlawful entry and charged Byrant C. Hewlett, 48, of Washington, D.C., with three counts of grand larceny and unlawful entry. TACO BELL CUSTOMER DISLODGES TOILET, PASSES OUT ON RESTROOM FLOOR: An employee at Taco Bell, 362
Maple Ave., E., told Vienna police on Oct. 21 that between 5 and 6 p.m. a man had gone into the men’s room and stayed for approximately half an hour. The employee then heard a loud noise and went to investigate, only to find the man had passed out on the floor and the bathroom commode had been dislodged from the floor. Authorities transported the man to an area hospital. Vienna police continue to investigate this case. VIENNA RESIDENT REPORTS WIRES CUT ON HIS DEER-DETERRENT DEVICE:
A resident living in the 400 block of Blair Road, N.W., told Vienna police that sometime between Oct 22 and 24 the wires to his “Deer Chaser,” an electric device that emits a high-pitched frequency to scare away deer, had been cut by what appeared to be wire cutters or a similar tool. The resident told police he had spoken with his neighbors and no one had any information about the damage.
HUNTERS WHO BAGGED 3 DEER TOLD CROSSBOW USAGE FORBIDDEN IN VIENNA: Vienna police dispatched an officer
The men all had obtained hunting licenses and believed they were hunting legally, police said. The officer told them they were not permitted to fire a crossbow in the town of Vienna. The three men apologized and stated it would not happen again, police said. MOTORIST CHARGED WITH DRUNK DRIVING AFTER SLEEPING IN CAR IN MIDDLE OF ROADWAY: Vienna police
dispatched an officer to the 700 block of Tapawingo Road, S.W., on Oct. 25 at 3:02 a.m. after receiving a report that a vehicle’s driver had passed out on the roadway. After searching the area, the officer located the vehicle. The driver was asleep and the vehicle was parked in the middle of the roadway, facing oncoming traffic, police said. The officer woke the driver and detected signs of possible impairment. After the driver failed to complete a series of field-sobriety tests, the officer arrested the 25-year-old Fairfax man and transported him to Vienna Police Headquarters, where he was given the opportunity to provide a sample of his breath for analysis. Following the analysis, police transported the man to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, where authorities charged him with driving while intoxicated and not having a driver’s license. Authorities held the man on $3,000 bond. CONVENIENCE-STORE CUSTOMER STRUCK IN HEAD WITH BOTTLE AFTER LINE DISPUTE: A customer at 7-Eleven,
man in his 30s, 6 feet 2 inches tall and 250 pounds. The suspect, who wore a black jacket and spoke with an African accent, was seen leaving the area in a black Nissan Altima. CHECK DISPUTE RESULTS IN THROWN DRINK AT COUNTRY CLUB; NO CHARGES FILED: A woman who belongs to West-
wood Country Club, located at 800 Maple Ave., E., told Vienna police on Oct. 25 at 9 p.m. that she and her family were having dinner when an argument erupted concerning the check. The complainant stated one of her family members cursed at her and then threw his drink at her. Although the glass did not hit her, the drink did get on her chest and clothing, she stated. Vienna police informed the complainant about the warrant process if she should decide to pursue charges. TERRARIUM HEATING LAMP CAUSES VIENNA HOUSE FIRE: Fairfax County
Fire and Rescue Department units on Oct. 26 at around 3:35 p.m. responded to a single-family house fire at located at 404 McArthur Ave., N.E., in Vienna. Firefighters upon arrival encountered smoke throughout the one-story home and conducted an aggressive fire attack, quickly extinguishing the fire in a bedroom. The homeowner detected the fire upon entering the home and immediately called 911. There were no working smoke alarms in the home. The residents have not been displaced and there were no injuries in the blaze, officials said. The fire caused about $15,000 damage, officials said. According to fire investigators, the fire was accidental and caused by a heating lamp for a terrarium located on the bedroom’s floor.
to the 300 block of Sherwood Drive, N.E., on Oct. 24 at 3:59 p.m. after a resident reported seeing a person carrying what appeared to be a deer carcass. Upon arriving, the officer located the person and two of his friends, who had shot three deer using a crossbow.
537 Maple Ave., W., told Vienna police on Oct. 25 at 1:44 p.m. that he and another customer had become involved in an argument over who was next in line. The complainant stated the customer behind him struck him in the back of the head with a bottle. The customer declined to be seen by rescue personnel, police said. The assailant was described as a black
Girls teams, were not affected adversely by the projects, said Vienna Parks and Recreation Director Leslie Herman. Little League officials assuaged some Council members’ fears about toxic materials in the synthetic turf. Manufacturers of such surfaces are moving away from using
ground-up automobile tires and because of the fields’ filtration measures, water draining from the sites is “better than when it fell from the sky,” said Georgelas, who hopes construction on the project can begin next summer. Town Attorney Steven Briglia in up-
coming weeks will draft an extensive memorandum of understanding between the town and Vienna Little League regarding the renovations. The project then would have to pass site-plan review by the Vienna Planning Commission and receive Town Council approval.
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control water runoff at the site, center officials said. The plan’s latest incarnation will necessitate the removal of half as many trees as previously estimated. “While no one wants to remove trees, MCC has to meet stormwater-management requirements, and we have found what seems to be the least amount [of] tree loss to get us there,” they said in a statement to the Sun Gazette. County stormwater staff members are trying to enhance those measures to reduce the impact of the community center’s water runoff on properties downstream, including adjacent McLean Central Park, officials said. Other challenges remain for center officials as the project approaches, said executive director George Sachs. Key among those details includes where to relocate many of the center’s programs during construction, he said.
Sachs plans to discuss his situation with Vienna Parks and Recreation Director Leslie Herman, who is overseeing the current expansion and renovation of the Vienna Community Center. Vienna officials have moved that facility’s administrative offices to rented space at the Cedar Lane Shopping Center and will close the community center for about 18 months while the renovations are built. The McLean Community Center will have one advantage over its Vienna counterpart: The Alden Theatre already has received new seats, curtains and other improvements and will remain open while the rest of the center is renovated, Sachs said. This will avoid the situation faced by the Vienna Theatre Company, which now is performing some smaller productions at Vienna Baptist Church while its usual venue, the Vienna Community Center’s auditorium, receives its upgrades.
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With key victories last week, the Flint Hill Huskies and Langley Saxons clinched No. 1 seeds in girls volleyball conference tournament action that starts this week. Langley (18-4, 7-0) earned the top seed in the Liberty Conference by defeating the McLean VOLLEYBALL visiting Highlanders, 30, in an Oct. 29 showdown for first place. Langley won 25-17, 25-17, 25-13 for its eighth straight victory. Earlier last week, Langley downed the host and defending Liberty tournament champion Madison Warhawks, 3-0, in another key match. McLean (20-6, 5-2) also defeated Madison (15-5, 5-2) in a recent match. Madison ended its regular season with a 3-0 win over Hayfield. n Thanks to a 6-0 league record, defending champion Flint Hill (15-7 overall) enters the Independent School League AA Division Tournament as the top seed. The competition begins for the Huskies on Nov. 6 with a semifinal match. Flint Hill receives a first-round bye beTop: Langley’s Elena Shklyar and Raya Mufti block a shot by McLean’s Leona Ng. Above: McLean’s
Continued on Page 24 Autumn Brenner and Sierra Spraker successfully block a shot.
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ciolo had two catches each. Madison intercepted a pass in the final two minutes to clinch the win. Paul Gerdon had three interceptions and Sam Kidd one. The Warhawks had three sacks. Nathan Chaput kicked three extra points. n In non-conference action, Oakton (4-5) had little trouble with the visiting Falls Church Jaguars, winning 41-7. n In other Oct. 30 games, the Langley Saxons (2-7, 2-4) defeated the visiting Yorktown Patriots, 48-23, in Liberty Conference action; the McLean Highlanders (1-8, 1-5) downed the host Fairfax Rebels, 27-14, in a Liberty contest, and the Marshall Statesmen (5-4, 3-1) routed the host Stuart Raiders, 39-19, in a Capitol Conference game.
Marshall remained in second place in the conference. For Langley, Jack Anderson ran for 163 yards and two touchdowns and Aaron Feldman had two scoring runs and 42 yards on the ground. Langley rushed for 264 yards. Anderson was 7 for 14 passing and threw two TD passes. Daniel Salamone had four catches for 99 yards and a score. Noah Clemente had a touchdown catch and Josh Barrientos returned an interception for a score. For McLean, David Kagan had 113 yards rushing and two touchdowns on runs of 18 and 38 yards, and Patrick Dolan caught a 44-yard touchdown pass from Carter Govan and he ran for 51 Continued on Page 24
So it was like the old times, of really not that very long ago, at a high school football game in Oakton a couple of weekends ago. That’s when the contest was actually played on a good old-fashioned natural-grass field, with divots of dirt and grass flying about, not an artificial surface, with crumb rubber pellets bouncing around. Yes, football on real grass, where uniforms actually were getting dirty with soil and grass stains, the smell of mowed grass lingered, and the many lines on the field weren’t all perfectly straight, even fading a bit in some spots. There were also a few brown and uneven spots. The private-school game was between the Potomac School Panthers and host Flint Hill Huskies, who chose to play the homecoming clash on its grass field. (The school also has an artificial surface, but that was being used for soccer games that afternoon.) “Look at that, real grass,” said an excited Potomac School boys athletic director Rob Lee, as he bent down, picked a few blades, tossed them into the air and watched which direction they blew off in the wind. That simple experiment can’t be done with the fake stuff. Spectators forget that it’s a little hard to see where the ball is spotted on a grass field. The football tends to sink into the grass and surface. It sits up high, easy to pick out, on fake grass. Flint Hill and Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology are two of the few schools in Northern Virginia that still have grass fields. Jefferson is supposed to switch over to synthetic this coming summer. All four high schools in Arlington, including Bishop O’Connell, have artificial fields. So does T.C. Williams in Alexandria, along with the city’s three private schools. The transformation has happened fast. Five years ago,many of the schools still had grass fields. So for one afternoon, it was great to see football the old fashioned way.
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For the first time this season, the five local public high school football teams all won on the same night, including the first of the 2015 FOOTBALL win campaign for the McLean Highlanders and the eighth in a row by the Madison Warhawks. n On Oct. 30, Madison (8-1, 6-0) downed the host Washington-Lee Generals, 21-13, in Liberty Conference action. Leading Madison was the passing of quarterback Jason Gastrock, who was 11 of 23 for 116 yards and ran for 29 more and a touchdown. Casey Koshuta had 77 yards rushing for Madison and a touchdown. Nick Conforti had four catches for 41 yards and Jordan Ebersole and John Descis-
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6. Frasier made three saves. She has eight shutouts this season. “We started passing better as the game went on and that always opens things up for us. That’s what we have to do,” Carroll said. Marshall junior Thando Muchemenyi played in the tournament final for the first time in a few games after suffering a facial injury. “Thando has scored about 11 goals, so it was nice to have her back,” Carroll said. Other contributors for Marshall are Katie Herbolsheimer with six goals, Elise Dirkse with five and Clark with three. Ariana Wheeler-Lafuente is a key de-
fender along with Van Winkle. “Both are coming up with crucial saves and tackles and are very poised under pressure,” Carroll said of WheelerLafuente and Van Winkle. “Ariana can distribute the ball extremely well and has really stepped it up in the second- half of the season. Audrey is a super smart player – not too flashy but really solid and reliable back there.” Next for Marshall was the 5A North Region Tournament. The Statesmen hosted the Massaponax Panthers (106) from Fredericksburg in a first-round match Nov. 2. Marshall finished second in the region last year, losing to Mountain View in the final. Mountain View (17-2) will be a favorite again this year. NOTES: Of Marshall’s five losses this fall, three were in overtime and another was by one goal . . . Carroll, who has coached Marshall for 17 season, has 155 career wins, earning No. 150 on Sept. 21 when the Statesmen defeated Wakefield . . . Marshall defeated Jefferson (7-8) 1-0 during the regular season . . . Making first team all-conference for Marshall were Novak, Clark, Maynard, Muchemenyi, Wheeler-Lafuente and Frasier. Secondteam were Van Winkle, Chelsea Taylor, Katie Heerbolsheimer and Elise Dirkse. Honorable mentions were Scheinman and Sydney Jones. Carroll was Coach of the Year.
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The Marshall Statesmen were determined they would not be denied another championship. So the top seed became even more focused after falling behind, 1-0, then rallied to defeat the visiting and third-seed efferson FIELD HOCKEY JColonials, 32, in the Oct. 27 title match of the Capitol Conference girls field hockey tournament. The tourney crown was the second straight for Marshall (13-5), which was 2-0 in the high school competition and has won 13 straight against conference opponents this season and last. “We really wanted another banner. That was our goal,” said Marshall senior Victoria Novak, who scored two goals in the final and has 11 this season. “When they scored first, we didn’t get rattled, but we knew we needed to score a goal quickly.” Jefferson scored in the first 10 minutes. Novak answered to tie the score at 1, which stood at halftime. “The big key was getting that goal back, then getting ahead,” Novak said. She put Marshall ahead 2-1 off a corner in the second half. Her shots on the goals came near the top of the circle. “Victoria has a very good, direct shot
The Marshall Statesmen gather with the championship banner and trophy after winning the PHOTO BY DAVE FACINOLI Capitol Conference Tournament girls field hockey title.
on goal that is like a bullet, and is hard to stop,” Marshall coach Christina Carroll said. Marshall sophomore Audra Scheinman scored to give Marshall a 3-1 lead with 10:22 to play. It was her second goal of the tournament; she scored her first in a 1-0 overtime semifinal victory over No. 4 seed Lee. Marshall goalie Emma Frasier then stopped a breakaway seconds later, before Jefferson drew within 3-2 by scoring with 7:25 left. With Addie Clark, a key leader in the midfield, Alyssa Maynard and Audrey Van Winkle helping lead the way, the Statesmen outshot Jefferson 12-3 and had the advantage in penalty corners, 10-
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at Burke Lake Park. On the same day and place, the Oakton High girls won the Concorde Conference crown. n The Virginia High School League’s Girls State Open golf tournament was played in Virginia Beach last week. Oakton’s Caroline DeLoach and Madison’s Amber Liu and Siena Ferrick had strong showings. n In boys soccer, the Flint Hill Huskies
won the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference regular season champion and will be the top seed in this week’s tournament. n In girls tennis, the Flint Hill Huskies won the Independent School League’s A Division regular season and tournament championships, and now advance to state tournament play. n In girls volleyball, the Flint Hill Huskies won the Independent School League’s AA Division regular-season
crown and are the top seed in this week’s tournament. Flint Hill is also ranked No. 2 in the state at the Division I level. n In the 6A North Region girls field hockey tournament, all local teams were eliminated, with the Madison Warhawks losing in the second round to Westfield. Again, visit www.insidenova.com/ sports/fairfax for stories and information about those teams and championships.
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with Solomon Onyejekwe; and Dolan had an interception. In his five games since returning to action from a shoulder injury, Kagan has six touchdowns and 500 yards rushing. See the Web site at www.insidenova. com/sports/fairfax for a game story about the Langley and McLean victories. n The Flint Hill Huskies (6-2, 3-0) defeated the host Maret Frogs, 14-7, in
Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference action Oct. 31 for their third straight win. Next, the Huskies play the defending champion and host Sidwell Friends Quakers (5-3, 30) on Saturday, Nov. 7 at 2 p.m. in a game that will decide the MAC champion. Flint Hill won the title in 2013. Flint Hill defeated Maret by playing tough defense, holding the high-scoring Frogs (6-2, 1-2) to their fewest points in a
single game this season. “It was a very tough, physical game and we were happy to win,” Flint Hill coach Tom Verbanic said. “We missed some opportunities to score more points, but we found ways to hang in there. Our defense followed the game plan very well and was very much so a reason we won.” See an expanded story about the win at www.insidenova.com/sports/fairfax,
The Huskies enter all of that competition playing well, according to head coach Carrol DeNure. “We have played a difficult schedule and the girls are gaining more self confidence all the time,” DeNure said. “In our losses, we had chances to win each, so we have taken good things from those matches. As a team we feel we are capable of defending our state title.” Recent wins for Flint Hill were against Sidwell Friends, 3-0, and Good Counsel, 3-0. Good Counsel is a WCAC team with a 13-3 record. “Good Counsel was a quality win for us,” DeNure said. “We played good defense.” The coach said her team has been
concentrating on defense since a recent 3-0 loss to Paul VI, when all three games were close. “I just didn’t feel we played well in that match,” DeNure said. Flint Hill is led by senior hitter Morgan McKnight and senior Lauren Simons along with freshman setter Krissy O’Malley and sophomore hitter Hana Lee, who had 12 kills against Sidwell. Simons, who has played on three straight Flint Hill state championship teams, is out of the lineup with an injury and her return is in question. “I think all season we have had maybe one match with all of our starters, because we have had injuries,” said DeNure, who praised O’Malley. “As a freshman
setter, she has been all we have asked.” O’Malley had 31 assists, six digs and one kill against Good Counsel. Also in that match, McKnight had 15 kills and 16 digs; Lee had seven kills and a block; senior Kendyll Hicks had 11 digs and two assists; junior Jordyn Park had five kills; junior Sierra Coley had two blocks; sophomore Aubree Phillips had 10 digs; and freshman Lika Nkenchor had two kills and two blocks. NOTE: Flint Hill has not lost to an ISL opponent on either the AA or A levels in any type of competition since the 2011 season. The Huskies have won 34 straight matches against ISL teams entering their 2015 regular-season final match against Episcopal.
ries and updates on the Web site at www. insidenova.com/sports/fairfax regarding championships won by various teams in the previous days. A list of what can be found on the Web site follows. n The Madison and Marshall high school boys and girls cross country teams won Liberty and Capitol conference championships, respectively, on Oct. 29
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cause it is the regular-season champion, then begins a busy time in coming days. Regardless of what happens in the ISL Tournament, Flint Hill hosts the annual city championship match on Monday, Nov. 9 against the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference Tournament winner. The next day, Flint Hill hosts a firstround match in the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association’s Division I state tournament. Flint Hill is ranked No. 2 in Division I, behind Paul VI Catholic, and is the defending champion.
Schools & Military n Anne Ryland of Great Falls has been named a member of the board of SPUD (Student Programming at the University of Dallas). The organization, a branch of the student government, organizes events for the student body. Ryland will serve as associate director.
Six Fairfax County Public Schools students have been named regional finalists in the 2015 Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology. Daniel Chae, Kelly Cho, Harriet Khang, Christina Oh and Michael You of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology were named finalists, as was Edward Oh of South County High School. They are part of a group of 97 regional finalists who will compete in one of six regional events in November. In addition to the six who qualified as finalists, 24 Fairfax County Public Schools students were named semifinalists in the 2015 Siemens competition. They included Shruti Anant, Soo Min Bae, Jesse Cai, Kevin Geng, Dhruv Gupta, Christopher Hoang, May Kyaw, Eric Liu, Mihir Patel, Srjith Poduval, Siona Prasad, Neeraj Prasad, Suhas Sastry, Aadith Vittala, Eric Wang, Lawrence Wang, Jason Wei, Ethan Wu, William Xu, Stella Yang and n
Adam Yee of Thomas Jefferson; Daniel Kim and Alexander Yang of Langley High School; and Yuanpei Wang of McLean High School. The Siemens Competition is the nation’s premier research competition for high-school students, and is administered by Discovery Education. At each regional competition, one $3,000 prize will be awarded to an individual, and one $6,000 prize will be awarded to a team. Winners of the regional events advance to the national finals at George Washington University in December. More than 1,800 projects were submitted to the 2015 Siemens Competition. n A team of students from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science &Technology has been awarded a LemelsonMassachusetts Institute of Technology “InvenTeam” grant of $10,000 to support creation of an automatic tourniquet for emergency use. The Thomas Jefferson team is one of 14 nationwide – and the only team in Virginia – selected as an InvenTeam this year. Team members are Junyoung Hwang, Gabriel Margolis, Bijal Rajput, Lavanya Shukla, Dhriti Vij, Bill Zhang and Jonathan Zheng. The device will be designed to be more affordable, precise and user-friendly than emergency tourniquets currently in use by health-care professionals, county school officials said.
The team plans to work on the device both in and out of school, and is working on obtaining a patent. They will travel to MIT next June to present their project. n Five Fairfax County public schools, including three from the Sun Gazette coverage area, received the Green Flag award as part of the Eco-Schools program of the National Wildlife Federation during an Oct. 27 ceremony. The five schools being recognized have instituted individualized plans. From the Sun Gazette coverage area, they include: – Chesterbrook Elementary School: Under the guidance of a parent volunteer, several environmental projects were coordinated. Students conducted surveys, sponsored a “Turn Out the Lights” poster contest, worked on raised beds, collected bottle caps, reported on their progress on the morning news show, and encouraged everyone to recycle. The school now has an active composting program, a weed-fighting program, and a coordinated group of activists who will continue the work, even as student leaders move on to middle school. – Franklin Sherman Elementary School: Green Team members calculate $15,000 in energy savings due to new initiatives. A new outdoor classroom offers opportunities for outdoor learning and instruction for all students, and raised beds for each grade level are used to grow vegetables and learn about plant life-cycles. The school is focusing on three path-
ways: consumption/waste, school grounds and energy. Some Green Team members went to George Mason University in the spring to participate in the fourth annual School Environmental Action Showcase, where they shared their initiatives and learned how other local schools are developing solutions to tackle environmental challenges. – Haycock Elementary School: Green Team members established waste stations for recycling, upcycling, composting and compacting trash in the cafeteria, and to recover thousands of pounds of food each year that is donated to a local food pantry. Tables are cleaned with re-usable wipes, sanitized by a first-grade team as part of their community-service initiative. Students use an outdoor classroom in the woods, plant and harvest vegetables, and observe activity in a pollinator garden, as well as raise and release monarch butterflies, brook trout and shad. Daniels Run Elementary School and Rocky Run Middle School also received awards. Fairfax County Public Schools developed the Get2Green initiative with the goal of graduating environmental stewards and helping schools implement environmentalstewardship projects, county school officials said.
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Items taken from the archives of the Northern Virginia Sun. November 7, 1941: n The Sun’s editor notes that Northern Virginia just went through “possibly the quietest general election” in its history. n Fairfax County’s Community Chest effort has exceeded its $17,000 goal. n Annual Virginia highway fatalities are expected to top 1,000 for the first time this year. n A&P has coffee on sale for 19 cents per pound. November 6, 1958: n The Board of Supervisors plans to set aside 10 acres of land on the Fairfax Hospital campus for a mental-health facility. November 7, 1962: n A Sun editorial expresses “grave misgivings” about the decision of the Board of Supervisors to fire School Board members who refused to allow the supervisors to take control of school construction. n U.S. Rep. Joel Broyhill, R-10th, trounced Democrat Augustus Johnson. n A total of five African-Americans have been elected to Congress, the highest total since 1874. n Marshall’s football team romped over Loudoun Valley for its eighth victory of the year. November 5, 1969: n Linwood Holton has been elected Virginia’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction. n Republicans swept to victory in many of Fairfax County’s House of Delegates races. n The Washington Ski Show is slated to open tomorrow at the D.C. Armory. November 8, 1978: n In state election news, Republican John Warner is holding onto a narrow lead over Democrat Andrew Miller in the race for U.S. Senate. n In more news from yesterday’s election, incumbent U.S. Rep. Joseph Fisher, D-10th, defeated Republican Frank Wolf. n Incumbent U.S. Rep. Herb Harris, D-8th, defeated Republican Jack Herrity. November 5, 1986: n U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-10th, defeated Democrat John Milliken. n Fairfax voters have approved a school bond referendum.
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