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Maple Ave. Zoning Plan Causing Heartburn Vienna Council Members Are Split on Viability of ‘MAC’After Community Rebellion BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

At least since a public “charrette” in 2001, Vienna’s leaders have sought to incentivize property owners in the Maple Avenue commercial area to redevelop

their properties. But the massive turnout against a proposed mixed-use redevelopment at 430, 440 and 444 Maple Ave., W., at the Vienna Town Council’s July 9 meeting showed that the town’s Maple Avenue Commercial (MAC) ordinance may not have as much

public support as previously believed. Opponents worried not only about the project’s 160 residential units, commercial space and narrow access in the rear for emergency vehicles, but also what effects that development and similarly dense ones in other locations would have on the

town’s roads, schools and infrastructure. “I don’t want us, as a town, to lose out on the opportunity to encourage Maple Avenue commuters to stop and shop in town,” said Shelley Ebert, who lives on Continued on Page 18

Above: Chesterbrook’s Emily Friedman swims the girls age 13-14 butterfly during the July 21 meet against Overlee on a rainy morning. Friedman was third in the race. At right: Chesterbrook team members cheer on their teammates during the competition. PHOTOS BY DEB KOLT

Chesterbrook Tops NVSL – Again! For the third summer in a row and 11th time in team history, the Chesterbrook Tiger Sharks are the Division 1 champions of the Northern Virginia Swimming League. Chesterbrook finished 5-0, winning the title July 21 at its home McLean pool against the second-place Overlee Flying Fish (4-1) of Arlington in the final 2018 regular-season meet for each team. The final score was 238182.

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With the win, the Tiger Sharks extended their three-season winning streak to 15. In the meet against Overlee, the score was tied at 45 after the initial freestyle races. Chesterbrook began slowing pulling away during the next three strokes, then clinched the win during the relays. See full coverage in Sports, and see a slide show of photos from the competition at www. insidenova.com/news/fairfax.

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Girl Scouts Provide Aid to Dominican Republic Youth

A contingent from the local area recently traveled to the Dominican Republic for a service trip to support underprivileged youth in the community of Cabarete.

A group of local teens (Girl Scouts and non-Scouts) and family members, led by Girl Scout Troop Leader Christiane Lourenco of McLean, traveled to the Dominican Republic recently on a service trip to support the Mariposa Center for Girls in Cabarete. The center serves over 100 underprivileged Dominican and Haitian girls between the ages of 8 and 18. Its mission is to educate and empower girls, paralleling the mission of Girl Scouts. Many of the participants completed their Gold Awards, the highest achievement in Girl Scouting, during the trip. They spent nearly two years fundraising, researching and planning curriculum for the award, which requires each girl to prepare a project proposal that addresses a need, is sustainable and has a measurable impact. The teens ran a week-long summer camp for the Mariposa Girls, including educational workshops and fun activities. Among the various events: • Alexa Jordan of McLean instructed the Mariposa Girls about the benefits of exercise and nutrition. She also donated jump ropes, elastic bands and a bilingual English/Spanish book on fruits and vegetables. • Grace Silverman of McLean provided the Mariposa Center for Girls’ partner, the 3 Mariposas Montessori (3MM) School, with a donation of school supplies, and led workshops on fingerprinting and geology. • Jenica Fichadia of McLean provided the Mariposa Girls with ukulele lessons and provided supplies for them to make their own maracas and harmonicas. • Jessica Lourenco of McLean taught

basic first-aid skills and provided each girl with a complete first-aid kit to take home. She also had the girls do a Band-Aid butterfly craft and play first-aid bingo. • Lauren Scott of Falls Church taught about the traits of acids and bases, their importance and how to determine whether something was an acid or a base using the pH scale. She provided lessons on the different types of energy, and provided each girl with her own pH test kit so that she could continue testing at home. • Riya Saran of Falls Church provided art education and worked with participants to complete a large art mural for display. She also donated sketch books, pencils and markers for each girl to take home. • Serena Aurora of McLean provided English lessons and tutoring, including having the girls make their own miniature books where they could read sentences and write their own. She also donated reading and writing workbooks to the center. • Nicole Eberly of Fairfax provided lessons on jewelry-making with donated supplies, and also provided fun and games during the Camp Olympics workshop. Other teens – Dia Aurora and Sarina Saran of McLean, Meera Naik of Vienna and Simran Ohri of Bethesda – assisted with all of the workshops as needed. The adult volunteers on the trip (Christiane Lourenco, Andra Jordan, Shilpa Fichadia, Priya Aurora, Shaila Ohri, Roopal Saran, Cristina Temboury, Meera Naik, Nima Naik and Karen Scott) assisted with the workshops, and many provided assistance to the Mariposa Center’s Upcycled Sails Project. – A Staff Report

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Bootcamp for Aspiring Entrepreneurs Lauds Creativity, Pushes Students to Focus on Goals BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

Motivation and focus often develop slowly in young people, but elementaryschool-age students who took part in the “Future Millionaires Bootcamp” at Oak Marr RECenter in Oakton recently seemed to have their goals and priorities well in hand. James Rinard, 11, of Oakton wanted to create a highly mobile, feature-bedecked chair that could climb stairs and help the blind, deaf and elderly. He was prompted to do so by seeing how his grandmother had suffered before dying at 92. “I want to work hard in life,” he said. “I took this course because I wanted to know how to invest and know about the stock market. It turned out even better than I thought.” Eleven students, ranging in age from 8 to 12, participated in the weeklong camp offered July 16 through 20 by Arlingtonbased SPARK Business Academy. “We want to empower kids with practical skills that maybe they’re not learning in schools,” said J. Chuchi Arevalo, the company’s founder and CEO. “There’s a lot of emphasis about managing money and learning about business and entrepreneurship.” The Future Millionaires Bootcamp is designed to be multidisciplinary, covering personal finance, budgeting, the creation of companies and products, leadership skills, innovation and stock-market investing. The latter can be confusing and intimidating, but Arevalo advises against the “ostrich method” of sticking one’s head in the sand to remain blissfully ignorant. “I think we wait too long to teach kids about money,” said Arevalo, who grew up in Spain near Madrid, earned his master’s in business administration from Georgetown University and spent 20 years in the financial field before forming SPARK Business Academy in 2014. “In college, even in high school, it’s way too [late],” he said. “We’re trying to introduce those concepts as early as kindergarten.” Entrepreneurship is a huge force in the economy, and the camp is designed to nurture budding innovators. Participants create Web sites for their businesses on Wix.com and, after watching the entrepreneurial show “Shark Tank” daily, make presentations before the group at week’s end. They even get to play the “sharks” who evaluate the merits of each other’s proposals. Participants are allotted a “virtual” $100,000 to invest in the stock-market and they track their gains and losses via a computer simulation. “We throw a lot of content at them, but I think a lot of it sticks,” Arevalo said. 4

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10-year-old Sarah Moore of Vienna discusses budgeting with instructor Vicky Omekam on July 19 at the Future Millionaires Bootcamp at OakMarr RECenter. PHOTOS BY BRIAN TROMPETER

Vicky Omekam works with 8-year-old Tommy Moore of Vienna (left) and 12-year-old Andy Kim of McLean (above) during the program.

“We get a lot of good feedback from the kids and parents.” Camp staffers e-mail participants’ parents daily to apprise them of the group’s activities and allow them to ask more specific questions of their children and reinforce the concepts covered. “It’s a richer discussion at the dinner

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Our View: Union’s Saber-Rattling Is Foolish Give Jackie Jeter, the handsomely compensated president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 that represents Metro workers, credit for being able to bring people together. Who else could act in such a brazen way that both The Washington Post editorial page and U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-10th), and just about everyone in between, would jump in with accusations of gross irresponsibility? To be fair, Jeter gets paid to represent the workers who pay dues to her union, but like any politician (and make no mistake, that’s a union leader’s vocation), Jeter’s top priority is to maintain herself in power. And of late, she’s been doing so by rattling sabers and threatening a major walkout of Metro personnel. Never mind that such a walkout is illegal and that the workers almost assuredly would be ordered back to work quickly by a federal judge. Never mind that any such action would decimate most of the tenuous goodwill that Metro workers have among the public. As long as her dues-paying members think she’s looking out for them, Jeter’s position is secure. Actually, one of the few places where the union’s position – that Metro general manager Paul Wiedefeld may not be the answer to all of the system’s ills – has found sup-

port since the transit chief ’s appointment has been on this very editorial page. We have wondered aloud at times if the almost universal, at times effusive to a state approaching orgasmic, support for Wiedefeld from elected officials and others has been merited by facts on the ground. Of course, the doubts about Wiedefeld espoused by the union leadership – which is 99-percent focused on its own gravy train – are not necessarily the same as ours. Strange bedfellows, indeed, but bedfellows nonetheless. Jeter’s histrionics do not emanate from a position of strength, but of weakness. She surely must be cognizant that any short-term pain that a walkout (or even threats of one) might inflict on local commuters and others who rely on regional transit likely would be countered by regional leaders, and even Congress, working to impose further restrictions on Local 689. Such restrictions might neuter the Metro union to the status of Virginia’s public-sector unions, which since the 1970s have had neither the power to strike nor the power to collectively bargain. Why anyone would voluntarily pay dues to such an ineffectual operation is an open question – and the one that could be facing the Metro union’s leadership if it carries through with its saber-rattling, grandstanding theatrics.

Wexton’s Views Too Far Out in Left Field Editor: The Democrats have picked their nominee for the 10th District race, and Nancy Pelosi has made it a top priority to win this seat so she can become Speaker again. Democratic nominee Jennifer Wexton has the standard Democrat positions – she’s made clear she wants to repeal the historic tax cuts that are boosting our growing economy, and she has supported every tax increase put forward in Virginia over the past few years. The Virginia Chamber of Commerce ranks Wexton in the bottom half of state senators who are friendly to business and entrepreneurship. She even opposes Virginia’s right to work laws. On the primary election night, Rep. Gerry Connolly announced that Jennifer Wexton would represent “the resistance” in Congress. Indeed, Jennifer Wexton has demonstrated she wants to be a voice of resistance and petty partisanship, not getting results for the 10th District. One notable example: In 2016, she joined a small group of far-left state legislators who signed a letter opposing the renaming the George Mason School of Law after a longtime Virginia resident of the 10th District and distinguished jurist – the late U.S. Supreme Court As-

sociate Justice Antonin Scalia. Wexton would have preferred George Mason lose $30 million in donations for the law school and scholarships, which have helped numerous law students, like myself, avoid crushing student loan debt. Sadly, Wexton put her extreme and petty partisanship over common sense. How out of touch was Wexton’s partisanship? The Law School faculty voted unanimously, with one abstention, to support the name change. University president Ángel Cabrera said the historic gift of a $30 million donation and renaming would “continue our goal to make Mason one of the preeminent law schools in the country.” Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg said renaming George Mason’s Law School in favor of her esteemed colleague and friend, Justice Scalia, was “a tribute altogether fitting” noting how Justice Scalia’s opinions “challenged her thinking.” Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan attended the dedication ceremony of the renamed Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University and celebrated Justice Scalia as a “remarkable judge and teacher” who will be remembered as one of the greatest justices in

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history. Speaking at a dedication ceremony marking the name change, Kagan praised Justice Scalia for transforming legal culture and challenging law students “to think harder than they’ve ever thought before.” Even The Washington Post’s editorial board noted, “The $30 million is the largest financial contribution to the law school in its history, and the good that money could do in the way of new scholarships and strengthened programs should not be sniffed at, especially at a time of shrinking public support.” Unlike Justices Ginsberg and Kagan, who embraced a diversity of views in legal thinking, Jennifer Wexton fears it, and offered “resistance” and would even forgo scholarships for many Virginia students to silence diverse views. The broad consensus across the political spectrum rejected her partisan thinking – and the law school and its students, like myself, are better for it. Kyle McCauley McLean

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Comstock Had Her Chance; It’s Now Time to Move On

Editor: I want to vote for someone who inspires me with a vision for the future, someone who believes in American democracy, in civil debate and the exchange of ideas regardless of political party, someone who demonstrates respect for everyone and is not afraid to fight for fairness and compassion for the most vulnerable. What I don’t want is someone who

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claims to be independent but has voted with Donald Trump 97 percent of the time. We need a leader with courage to bridge the divide between the all-ornothing gun mindset and establish common-sense gun laws that work toward bringing true safety for our schools and society as a whole. The 10th District does have this in our current member of Congress, Bar-

bara Comstock, who is one of the top 10 recipients of NRA funds in the U.S. House of Representatives and has been given its “A” rating. I do not want someone who remains mute about defending our intelligence community. Finally, and maybe most disturbingly, I don’t want to have anyone representing me or my community who is incapable of criticizing racist statements from members of any politi-

cal party, including their own. I do want Jennifer Wexton to represent our district. She has proven she is a leader. She listens and talks to all her constituents and has demonstrated that she knows how to work across the aisle. Barbara Comstock has had her chance, and has shown us none of this. Its time to reset and move forward. Joyce Schuman McLean

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Editor: Russian citizen Maria Butina has been arrested by the FBI and charged with conspiring as an agent of Russian intelligence infiltrating the leadership of the National Rifle Association. Given that the NRA contributed more than $30 million to elect Donald Trump and over $100,000 to support U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-10th), the question is, how much of that money is Russian laundered money? Running for re-election, Comstock would not want to be under the suspicion that, through the NRA contribution, she has been duped by the Russians, who continue to be a clear and present danger to our democracy. So that there is not one scintilla of doubt, until the issue of where the NRA money came from is resolved, she must give the money back. This is not about the Second Amendment. It is about Russian efforts to destroy America. Give it back Barbara, give it back. Fariborz Fatemi McLean

Obituary ROBIN ANN GIROUX Robin Ann Giroux, 61, of Bunker Hill, WV passed away Friday, July 13, 2018 at the Hospice of the Panhandle, Kearneysville, WV. Born May 9, 1957, in Poughkeepsie, New York, she was the daughter of Joseph A. Giroux, Sr. and Joan P. Hamilton Giroux. Robin loved the History of Harpers Ferry, Martinsburg and many historic places in West Virginia as well as spending time with family and friends in Oakton, VA. In addition to her parents she is survived by two brothers, Timothy James Giroux and Joseph A. Giroux, Jr.

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Wexton Aims to Rescind Tax Cuts

Editor: Congressional candidate Jennifer Wexton says she wants to roll back the tax cuts passed by Congress last year. What she’s really saying is she wants to take money back out of my family’s pocket. The tax cut has been good for my family. The lower rates, combined with higher standard deduction and childtax credits, all mean more money in our pocket – both as higher take-home pay and a lower overall tax bill. The results have been widespread. Most Virginia families are going to save more than $1,500 due to the tax bill. Businesses across the region and the country have been handing out bonuses, increasing wages and hiring more workers. Overall, the tax cut has been good for my family. I’m not going to let Wexton and her fearless leader, Nancy Pelosi, take it away. Mark Decker Sr. Great Falls C

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Planning Body Supports Small Subdivision in Vienna BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

The Fairfax County Planning Commission on July 19 unanimously recommended that the Board of Supervisors approve a four-home subdivision that would be built at the corner of Beulah, Trap and Old Courthouse roads north of Vienna. The developer, David McKintosh, is hoping to raze an existing 2,152-square-foot, single-family detached house, which was built in 1957, and guest house at the 1.76-acre site. Three of the new homes that would be constructed would front onto Old Courthouse Road; the fourth would be accessible via Beulah Road. The homes would be up to three stories and no taller than 35 feet, county officials said in their staff report. Each home would have a two-car garage and driveways to accommodate two cars side-by-side. Commission member John Carter (Hunter Mill District)

moved successfully for the project’s recommendation, noting that it would include extensive tree-saving efforts, plus on-site facilities for stormwater management. “The family that owns the property is going to construct their home on one of the four lots, raise their children and reserve a lot for their parents,” he said. “In short, they’re going to build a neighborhood there.” While supporting the application overall, county staff members disagreed with the applicant’s plans to not build a Map shows location of a proposed four-home subdivision at the confluence crosswalk at the site or sidewalks of Beulah, Trap and Old Courthouse roads north of Vienna. along the parcel’s frontages onto Old Courthouse and Beulah sity and there’s really no way to ing,” Britt said. “An orphaned roads. get off that property safely.” sidewalk doesn’t provide the peSome Planning Commission Ted Britt of Tri-Tek Engi- destrian public with a connectivmembers had similar concerns. neering defended the applicant’s ity for a walkway that would be “That’s an extremely busy position, saying the neighbor- purposeful.” road and the stop sign is down at hood already has a good pedesBut Commission member the intersection,” said Commis- trian network. Julie Strandlie (Mason District) sion member Mary Cortina (AtThe applicant’s view is that said she had seen sidewalks creLarge). “It’s going to be a hazard “creating a crosswalk or a side- ated in established neighborfor somebody in the future. [The walk that dead-ends so shortly hoods that previously lacked developer is] increasing the den- and isn’t continuous is mislead- them.

“There’s nothing to say those other parts of the street are not going to be getting sidewalks in the future,” she said. “When you wait [to build sidewalks], it becomes more difficult because there’s vegetation.” Britt reiterated the applicant’s preference for a more comprehensive sidewalk-building program in the neighborhood. The county’s staff report also notes there is a continuous sidewalk on the other side of Old Courthouse Road, and that the county recently completed pedestrian improvements on the other side of Beulah Road as part of the Beulah Road Walkway. The applicant has proffered $8,037 to help the county construct off-site recreational facilities in the vicinity and $24,524 to offset the impact of the estimated two additional students who likely would attend Fairfax County Public Schools. The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to take up the matter July 31.

Road and Route 50, covers 8.39 acres, but Starbucks’ application pertains to just 0.88 acres of the site. This section of the plaza now has a vacant, 3,032-squarefoot, freestanding bank building with three drive-through service windows and “stacking” space for 22 vehicles. Starbucks is proposing to renovate the building inside and out, while not increasing its height or square footage, and provide 30 parking spaces and a drivethrough lane with 12 stacking spaces (one more than county zoning requires). A canopy-cov- This aerial photo shows the location of a former bank building in Merrfieered 9-foot-tall digital order- id’s Gate House Plaza that could be turned into a drive-through Starbucks. ing screen and 5-foot-tall panel menu board would be installed move a drive-through canopy on Starbucks also would build a near the fifth stacking space in the building’s eastern side and new trash enclosure near the the drive-through line. replace it with a smaller canopy property’s southeastern corner. The company wishes to re- over the single service window. In their staff report on the

application, county planning officials expressed concern about adding another restaurant at the plaza. The county approved the previous bank because it likely would generate fewer vehicular trips, they said. Staff concluded, though, that the application “will not generate negative impacts on the surrounding businesses or community.” The Merrifield store is not the only drive-through facility Starbucks is planning to install in the local area. The Vienna Board of Zoning Appeals on April 18 approved conditional-use permits that will allow the giant coffee corporation to convert a Taco Bell at 362 Maple Ave., E., into a drive-through cafe with outdoor seating.

Starbucks Aims to Convert Merrifield Bank Into a Café BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

Fairfax County Planning Commission members on July 19 unanimously recommended the Board of Supervisors approve Starbucks Coffee Co.’s specialexception request to convert a former financial institution at Gate House Plaza in Merrifield into a drive-through restaurant. “It’s pretty straightforward,” Commission member Phillip Niedzielski-Eichner said of the application. No one from the public desired to speak about the application, so the commission waived the county staff’s briefing and applicant’s presentation. The plaza, located at the northwest corner of Gallows

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was down 2.3 percent from May 2017 figures. The decline is attributable to a 7.4-percent decrease in passengers at American Airlines, which has a market share approaching 50 percent at Reagan National. The dip at American was largely due to reduced capacity. Most other carriers serving Reagan National posted yearover-year increases, with the No. 4 carrier, United, showing a 12.3-percent boost. Southwest

and Delta, which vie for second place in the overall rankings, saw modest increases, up 0.6 percent and 1.7 percent, respectively. At Washington Dulles, the passenger count of 2,102,385 was up 4.5 percent from May 2017, helped by double-digit increases posted by Southwest, Frontier and JetBlue. United, which controls a 63percent market share at Dulles, saw a 2.5-percent boost in passenger counts, including 2.3 www.insidenova.com

percent on the domestic front and 3.1 percent on international flights. International service continues to be a bright spot at Dulles, with Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Emirates, Saudi and Ethiopian

all posting solid year-over-year gains. Combined, the two airports saw a 1-percent increase in passenger counts for May, and are up 0.7 percent for the first five months of the year, as Dulles posted a 4.5-percent increase during the five-month period that was offset by a 2.6-percent decline at Reagan National. See full data at www.mwaa. com. – A Staff Report

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Ex-Del. Brink: Count Comstock Out at Your Peril

But Retired Legislator Still Thinks Democrat Wexton Has a Solid Edge in 10th District SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

A longtime member of the General Assembly thinks Democrat Jennifer Wexton has the edge over incumbent U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-10th). But he isn’t ready to stick a fork in the race and call it done. Comstock “is a fiercely competitive politician. I would never, ever count her out,” former Del. Bob Brink said at the July 18 meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Arlington. “But if I were her, I wouldn’t place a double order of business cards.” Wexton, a state senator from Loudoun, is facing off against Comstock in what could be one of the most competitive, and costly, congressional races nationwide. The 10th District, which runs from McLean west and south to rural areas of the Shenandoah Valley, has been increasingly trending Democratic, but two years ago Comstock managed to hold her seat despite the district’s going to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Since it was created in 1952, the 10th District has been in Republican hands for

60 of 66 years, including long stints in office by Reps. Joel Broyhill (1953-74) and Frank Wolf (1981-2014). Comstock, a former aide to Wolf, succeeded him after the 2014 election after defeating Fairfax Supervisor John Foust (D-Dranesville). While suggesting Wexton had a route to victory, Brink declined to pronounce her win a sure bet. Quoting a line attributed to Yogi Berra, he said: “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Brink, a Democrat, in 1997 was elected to represent the 48th House District, which includes parts of Arlington and McLean. He held the seat until 2014, when he moved into the McAuliffe administration. He departed government service this January. When Brink took his seat in 1998, the House of Delegates was divided between political parties on an even 50-50 basis, and operated on a power-sharing arrangement. “It was a pretty productive two years,” he recalled. In ensuing years, Republicans built a huge majority in the body, only to see it evaporate in the 2017 legislative elections. The GOP now holds a slim 51-49 majority. Brink said population and demographic changes are constantly altering the po-

Former Del. Bob Brink (D-48th) opined on past and current Virginia political trends during a PHOTO BY DICK BARR speech last week at the Kiwanis Club of Arlington.

litical landscape of the Old Dominion. Twenty years from now, the commonwealth “will be barely recognizable from the Virginia we know today,” he predicted. Brink, a moderate Democrat, served

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It was a ritual as American as apple pie. Two Little League teams were set to face off in a playoff game to determine which would compete for the state championship. Except for a not so minor matter: One of the teams was white, the other black. And in the South of Jim Crow, that presented a major-league problem. The story of that 1955 game is chronicled in a new documentary – “Long Time Coming” – that also explores the lifetime’s worth of impact on the 12year-olds who played in what is likely to have been the first integrated Little League game in the South. “This was a really beautiful story that just got lost to history somehow – the players deserved to be recognized, the families and the coaches,” said Ted Haddock, the film’s producer, during a post-screening question-andanswer session held July 15 in Washington. The event was part of a soft rollout for the documentary, which is likely to see wider dis-

tribution in early 2019 after appearing in special releases and film festivals later this year. The Pensacola (Fla.) Jaycees all-star team found itself winning game after game in the 1955 Florida Little League tournament, but not because of victories on the field. Coaches of the all-white teams it was slated to face throughout the tournament refused to play a team with black players, despite directives from the national Little League leadership that they do so. The situation was difficult, but didn’t dampen the spirits of the young Pensacola players, one of them recalled. “We knew we could play ball,” said Willie V. Robinson, one of those Pensacola players who spoke at the July 15 screening. “We considered ourselves winners.” Having won the northwest Florida title by default in August 1955, the question became whether Pensacola’s first opponent in the state tournament – the Orlando Kiwanis all-stars – would take the field against them. The Orlando coach said no, storming off and leaving a trail

The story of an integrated Little League playoff game, and the impact it had on the youth who participated in it 63 years ago, is chronicled in “Long Time Coming,” a new documentary by Common Pictures and Strong Films.

of hostile statements about African-Americans. But the players and their families decided they would. “It took a lot of courage on both sides,” said Haddock, whose film notes that central Florida in the 1950s was the state’s lynching capital and the potential for problems was very real. But Robinson said the players, who took the 12-hour car trip from Pensacola to Orlando with their coaches, felt no trepidation. “There was not one iota,” he said. “We went on, did the job

and came back. We had confidence in our adults; we depended on them to make it all right.” The game itself – which drew a huge crowd that was almost all white and appears to have been generally well-mannered – was almost an anti-climax. Overwhelmed by the opposing team’s pitching, the Penscaola team lost a 5-0 shutout as Orlando moved on to the championship game. One remnant of racial division held firm on the playing field that day: There were no handshakes among the opposing teams at the end of the game,

so far as any of the participants remembers. The game receded from memory, and then time marched on. Years, decades, generations. “We wondered, year after year, what happened to those fellas,” said Stewart Hall, who played on the Orlando team and who, like Robinson, went into the military after completing schooling. Producers of “Long Time Coming” brought the surviving players together more than 60 years after the game, capturing the reunion before the cameras. “I’ve seen this film eight times, and I’ve cried eight times,” Hall said. The 90-minute documentary also highlights commentary from the likes of baseball greats Hank Aaron, Gary Sheffield and Cal Ripken Jr. and civil-rights leader Andrew Young. For Robinson, who like all the survivors of that game 63 summers ago is now in his mid-70s, the hope is that younger generations will come to appreciate not just how things have changed over time, but how in some ways they have not. “It will wake them up,” he said.

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Public-Safety Notes S.C. MAN DIES AFTER BEING FOUND UNCONSCIOUS IN VIENNA: Vienna po-

lice and rescue personnel on July 15 at 1:07 p.m. came to the aid of a man who had been found lying on the ground unconscious near Pleasant Street and Windover Avenue, N.W. Medics performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and transported the 48year-old South Carolina man to a local hospital, where he later was pronounced deceased. There were no signs of trauma, said police, who still are investigating the case. The man was not identified. VIENNA MAN CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC ASSAULT: Authorities on July 19 at

9:25 p.m. dispatched Vienna police and medical personnel to a domestic situation at a residence in the 300 block of Orchard Street, N.W. Upon arrival, officers located an injured male and elderly female, police said. After interviewing all the parties involved in the incident, police arrested a 57-year-old Vienna man and transported him to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, where authorities charged him with assault and battery of a family member. Authorities issued and served a warrant and a protective order against the man and remanded him to the custody of the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office.

WOODBRIDGE WOMAN CHARGED WITH DRUNKEN DRIVING AFTER ACCIDENT IN VIENNA: A Vienna police of-

ficer responded on July 18 at 11:45 a.m. to a parking-lot accident at 386 Maple Ave., E. While talking to the driver of the striking vehicle, the officer detected signs of intoxication, police said. After the driver failed field-sobriety tests, police arrested the 20-year-old Woodbridge woman and transported her to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, where authorities charged her with driving while intoxicated. Authorities issued and served a warrant to the woman and remanded her to the custody of the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office.

VIENNA MAN REPORTS SEVERAL FAKE BANK ACCOUNTS IN OPENED IN HIS NAME: A man living in the 200 block

of Oak Street, S.W., told Vienna police that between June 1 and July 2 someone opened several bank accounts without his consent or knowledge, using his personal information.

POLICE, RESCUE PERSONNEL AID MAN WHO HAD FALLEN: A woman went

to Vienna Police Headquarters on July 13 at 2:29 a.m. and requested assistance with her adult son. The woman told police her son had combined alcohol and other intoxicants, walked out of their home and

fallen in the driveway, striking his head. The woman also said her son had continued walking toward Glyndon Park after suffering an obvious injury in his fall. Officers and rescue personnel went to the park and located the man, who was running toward the woods in the park. The man was losing a significant amount of blood from the head injury he had suffered, police said. Rescue personnel transported the man to an area hospital for further treatment. BURGLAR FINDS GARAGE-DOOR OPENER, TAKES ITEMS FROM VIENNA HOME: A homeowner living in the 8100

block of Boss Street in the Vienna area told Fairfax County police on July 15 at 5:19 am. that someone had accessed his garage-door opener from an unlocked car and stolen multiple items out of the garage.

E-MAIL SCAMMER CONS VIENNA WOMAN: A woman living in the 100 block

of Saratoga Way, N.E., told Vienna police on July 14 at 10:46 a.m. that she had received an e-mail from an unknown person who used the e-mail header of her boss. The e-mail sender requested the woman purchase Apple iTunes gift cards as part of a court-case settlement. The resident purchased the cards and emailed the relevant card information back to the person. It was later determined the

e-mail was fraudulent, police said. ARGUMENT OVER COST OF PET FISH GETS CUSTOMERS BANNED FROM VIENNA STORE: An employee and two

customers on July 14 at 3:35 p.m. had a civil dispute over the purchase of a fish at Petco, 225 Maple Ave., E., Vienna police said. The employee asked the customers to leave the store after they became verbally abusive, but they refused to leave, police said. An officer responded and advised the customers that they were banned from the store and might be charged if they returned.

SCAMMER THREATENS TO RELEASE INFORMATION ON MAN, DEMANDS BITCOIN PAYMENT: A man living in the

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McLean/Great Falls Notes NEW INITIATIVE AIMS TO SUPPORT NON-DRIVING SENIORS IN GREAT FALLS: A new organization is being

formed to help meet the needs of nondriving seniors, overseen by the Shepherd’s Center of Great Falls. A recent survey of more than 350 residents of Great Falls confirmed the need, officials with the non-profit organization said, and more than 130 driving adults have expressed degrees of interest in supporting the initiative. The effort is slated to formally launch in the fall. Clients will first register and have a one-time screening performed by Shepherd’s Center staff, then can request rides by phone or online. Rides can be one way or round trip, and there is no charge unless there is a parking fee at the destination. More details, and a comprehensive Web site, are expected to be launched later this summer. For information and updates, e-mail thescgf@gmail.com.

CHESTERBROOK RESIDENCES SUPPORTS MEDICAL INITIATIVE: Ches-

terbrook Residences, an assisted-living community, recently organized a strollerand-car-seat drive to benefit the Virginia Hospital Center Medical Brigade. During the one-month drive, the team at Chesterbrook Residences collected 18 strollers and car seats. Donations will be shipped to Honduras and distributed during a week-long mission trip in November, where they will be reused in a unique way. “A stroller is life-changing for impoverished Honduran parents of young children with limited mobility from birth

defects, neurologic conditions or injuries,” said Dr. Barry Byer, president of the Medical Brigade. “It makes a big difference in the quality of life for the entire family, and is enormously appreciated.” “Our talented Rehab Team works miracles with strollers and car seats, turning them into valuable pediatric wheelchairs for children with disabilities,” said Mary Ellen Gannon, treasurer and director of logistics at the Virginia Hospital Center Medical Brigade. “We are very grateful for such donations and wish that all could see what it means to a family in Honduras.” As a nonprofit community established by two local churches and a synagogue, Chesterbrook Residences has ingrained the idea of serving others into its culture. Supporting the hospital’s effort is the latest of several “give-back” campaigns that the community and its residents have participated in. “Supporting this cause has been inspiring for our team, those who donated and the greater community,” said Jill Rawlins, executive director of Chesterbrook Residences. “We feel privileged to help in this way.” For information on Chesterbrook Residences, call (703) 531-0781 or see the Web site at www.chesterbrookres.org. VDOT PREPS MEETING ON PROPOSED TRAFFIC CHANGE: The Virginia Depart-

ment of Transportation has slated a community meeting on Thursday, Aug. 2 at 7 p.m. to discuss a potential pilot program that would see the northbound ramp off Georgetown Pike to the Beltway closed to all traffic weekdays from 1 to 7 p.m. The forum will be held at McLean

High School. A second community meeting will be scheduled later. “Community input is crucial to determine whether VDOT will implement the pilot,” said Supervisor John Foust (DDranesville), encouraging residents to attend the meeting. The proposal is part of a broader effort by the Virginia Department of Transportation and Fairfax County Department of Transportation to find solutions for congestion in north McLean, specifically at the intersection of Georgetown Pike and Balls Hill Road and in surrounding neighborhoods. For information on the proposal, see the Web site at www.virginiadot.org/ projects/northernvirginia/mclean_traffic_analysis.asp. RIBBON-CUTTING TO SALUTE IMPROVEMENTS AT CLEMYJONTRI PARK:

Community leaders and the public will gather at Clemyjontri Park in McLean on Saturday, July 28 at 10 a.m. for a ribboncutting ceremony saluting inauguration of a new trackless train and picnic shelter at the park. The McLean Community Foundation, Rotary Club of McLean and Friends of Clemyjontri Park will be recognized for supporting efforts of the Fairfax County Park Foundation to develop the party/ picnic area and the trackless train. Also being honored will by McLean

Project for the Arts, Wheat’s and Sue Rowell. The park is located at 6317 Georgetown Pike. The community is invited to the ceremony. ‘BRITISH INVASION’ TUNES TAKE STAGE AT McLEAN CENTRAL PARK:

The English Channel will perform British Invasion tunes of the 1960s as part of the Alden Theatre of the McLean Community Center’s Summer Sunday Concerts series on Sunday, July 29 at 5 p.m. at McLean Central Park. Upcoming concerts include Kara and Matty D (Aug. 5) and Morgan Taylor’s “Music of Gustafer Yellowgold” (Aug. 12). For information, see the Web site at www.aldentheatre.org. TRAVELING PLAYERS TO PRESENT TRIO OF PERFORMANCES: The Travel-

ing Players will present a three-play festival on Friday, Aug. 3 at Madeira School in McLean. Performances of “Ariadne’s Threat” and “The Monkey King,” a pair of myths from Greece and China, starting at 4:30 p.m., followed by a performance of “Merry Wives of Windsor” at 7 p.m. A break for dinner (picnicking is invited) is slated for 6:15 to 7 p.m. For tickets and information, see the Web site at www.travelingplayers.org.

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town government recently issued licenses for the following new businesses: Cloudrdy (consultant), 619 Welles St., S.E.; Fedex Office and Print Services (packaging and shipping), 328 Maple Ave., E.; Moon River Wellness Center (massage therapy); 386 Maple Ave., E.; and Thai Treasure (restaurant), 330 Maple Ave., W. VIENNA SALUTES MILESTONE BUSINESS ANNIVERSARIES: The Vienna

town government recently noted the following milestone anniversaries for local businesses: 30 Years: Merchants Tire and Auto Center. 25 Years: Nicholas Chimney Stove & Fireplace; Starbucks Coffee. 20 Years: George Papastergiou; Kristin Griffith. 15 Years: Daly Associates; Topix Crystal. 10 Years: Beekman Place; Mycreditabc.com; Schneider Associates; Silverkey;

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ers will present a production of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” with performances Aug. 3-12 at the Vienna Community Center. The cast and crew features students ages 8 to 18, and the show will be the final production of director Babs Dyer after 26 years at the helm. Tickets are $15 each; for information, see the Web site at www.viennava.gov. SCREENING OF END-OF-LIFE DOCUMENTARY SLATED: Shepherd’s Center

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Survey Ranks Best Locales for 1st-Timers Broken Arrow, Okla., may not be the first place anyone thinks of when considering home-ownership, but a new survey says that’s the best place for first-time buyers. With July being one of the top months for home sales and nearly 40% of 2017’s single-family home purchases made by first-time buyers, the personal-finance Web site WalletHub took an in-depth look at 2018’s best and worst cities for those making their first home purchase. WalletHub took the pulse of real estate in 300 cities of varying sizes using 27 key metrics. The data set ranges from housing affordability to real-estate tax rate to property-crime rate. Following Broken Arrow, the top five cities for first-time buyers were Tampa; Centennial, Colo.; Boise, Idaho; and Grand Rapids, Mich. Rounding out the top 10 were Thornton, Colo.; Frisco, Texas; McKinney, Texas; Carey, N.C.; and Gilbert, Ariz. Not to be rude, but where were the worst places for first-time buyers? The bottom five out of the 300 were San Mateo, Calif.; San Francisco; Flint, Mich.; Detroit; and Berkeley, Calif. Among tidbits from the study: • Akron, Ohio, has the most affordable housing (median house price divided by median annual household income), with a ratio of 1.72, which is 8.9 times cheaper than in Berkley, the city with the least affordable, with a ratio of 15.25. • Honolulu has the lowest real-estate tax rate, 0.28 percent, which is 13 times lower than in Waterbury, Conn., the city with the highest at 3.65 percent. • Shreveport, La., has the lowest average energy cost per household, $109.48, which is four times lower than in Honolulu, the city with the highest at $432.62. What should first-time buyers consider when choosing a neighborhood? They “should ask themselves what their priorities are, because they are going to have to live in it,” said James Refalo, chair of the Finance, Law & Real Estate department of California State University Los Angeles. “There’s an old adage that works from the investment perspective – ‘location, location, location’ – but that ignores many important life details, such as commute time to work, crime or school system,” Refalo said.

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Total Sales Volume Across the County Declined 4.3 Percent from a Year Before Declines both in total sales and the average sales price of single-family properties translated to a soft month in Fairfax County’s real estate market in June. With 1,878 properties going to closing during the month, total sales countywide were down 4.3 percent from June 2017, according to figures reported July 11 by RealEstate Business Intelligence, based on data from Bright MLS. The average sales price was up slightly, rising 1.4 percent to $591,537, but with differing results across the three legs of the market:

• The average price of single-family homes stood at $737,497, a decline of 1.6 percent. • The average price of attached homes, such as townhouses, rose 4.2 percent to $408,035. • The average price of condominiums stood at $305,919, up 3.5 percent. (A total of 139 properties, nearly all single-family homes, went to closing for more than $1 million.) Add up the sales and prices, and the total volume for the month across Fairfax County stood at $1.11 billion, down 3

percent from a year before. Good news for sellers: The average length of time between listing and ratified sales contract improved from 32 days in June 2017 to 25 days in June 2018, and the average sales price rose from 98.2 percent of listing price a year before to 99.1 percent in June 2018. Conventional mortgages represented the method of transacting sales in 1,233 cases, followed by VA-backed loans (275) and cash (184). Inventory remains tight, with the 2,838 properties on the market at the end of the

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will build a Chick-fil-A restaurant with a Flagship Carwash Center on the second level. A second project, Vienna Market, at 245 Maple Ave., W., was approved by the Town Council on a 5-2 vote in June 2016, but failed because a last-minute protest petition by surrounding property owners triggered a requirement for at least six affirmative votes from the Council. The Town Council later made filing requirements for protest petitions more stringent and lowered the affirmative-vote threshold in such cases to two-thirds of the Council. Vienna Market’s developer returned with a scaled-back proposal, which won Council approval earlier this year.

Opponents of the most recent MAC proposal also have filed a valid protest petition, Town Attorney Steven Briglia said at the July 9 hearing. The Council’s vote on that proposal is set for Aug. 20 unless the developer, Vienna Development Associates LLC, withdraws the application or waives the statutory deadline for Council action, which will occur on Aug. 31. Council members at the Aug. 20 meeting also will consider some changes to the MAC ordinance that would address the balance of commercial and residential uses, building appearance, maximum depth of retail space and options for solar panels and green roofs, town officials said. “Going forward, the town of Vienna community will continue to discuss this important main street and make MAC changes so Maple Avenue can be a pedestrian-friendly and vibrant commercial space,” said Mayor Laurie DiRocco, who added that Maple Avenue’s current underlying zoning dates back to the 1960s and supports strip malls. The MAC ordinance is a “living document” that encourages developers voluntarily to create pedestrian-friendly, mixeduse projects featuring commercial, office and residential uses and enhanced architectural quality, they said. “It was specifically designed to maintain and promote the town’s 21st-century small-town character and, by focusing mixed-use development in the commercial corridor, to protect the town’s single-

family neighborhoods,” officials said in a statement to the Sun Gazette. “The MAC zone is designed to support the town’s economic vitality in the face of change and competition.” Ebert agreed with that last sentiment, but recommended trimming the MAC’s maximum number of residential units. “We shouldn’t have to give away the heart of the town in exchange for attractive, successful and smart redevelopment,” she said. To conduct this difficult balancing act, town officials should seek “truly independent, outside advice on MAC from an organization very familiar with small-town, as opposed to urban, redevelopment across the country,” said Vienna resident C. John Pott. Such expertise, “no matter the price tag, will be the best-spent money by the town in the next 20 years,” he said. Council member Howard Springsteen said the massive public turnout on July 9 was “democracy in action and showed the widespread and deep concern a wide range of residents had” on the most recent MAC proposal. Springsteen worried about potential infrastructure costs of MAC redevelopments and said the town would keep only about 15 percent of new tax revenues generated, with the rest ending up in Fairfax County’s coffers. “I think the whole MAC needs a complete rework,” he said. “I think it needs to go back to the drawing board.” Council member Pasha Majdi also thought some MAC revisions were needed. “I’m concerned about the rapid increases in density without contemporaneous infrastructure solutions,” he said. “The buildings are simply way too big.” So what will happen if MAC developments do not occur? “If we, as a community, think 1960s1970s-style auto-centric strip commercial buildings [define] a wonderful small town, then the short answer is nothing,” said Council member Douglas Noble, who as a Planning Commission member helped craft the MAC ordinance. “But what does that really lead to?” Noble asked. “Stagnation, failure, loss. There are plenty of examples, and none of us want that.”

Continued from Page 1 Roland Street, S.W., near the proposed project. “What we need is smart development that highlights the creativity and unique aspects of Vienna rather than robbing us of our character.” The Council in October 2014 approved the MAC ordinance, which lets developers build denser and taller projects, provided the buildings have some architectural and pedestrian amenities sought by the town. Initial interest was slow, with the first project approved in 2016. This all-commercial venture, still under construction,

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Schools & Military n The following local students earned degrees during recent commencement exercises at the University of Alabama: Samwel Zephaniah earned a master of arts degree. Jeanne Coppola of Vienna earned a bachelor of science degree in human environmental science. Chase Klein of Great Falls earned a bachelor of arts degree in communication. Killeen Rivers of Great Falls earned a bachelor of arts degree in communication. Ellie Rubalow of Oakton earned a bachelor of science degree in human environmental science. Michael Sirh of McLean earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering. n Madelyn Torres of Vienna earned a bachelor of science degree in early-childhood/elementary education during recent commencement exercises at Frostburg State University. n Thomas Endean, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Endean of McLean and a 2014 graduate of Langley High School, earned bachelor’s degrees in Chinese and economics and Ashley Kulesza, the daughter of Wally Kulesza and Mechelle Lermond of Great Falls and a 2014 graduate of Washington Waldorf School, earned a bachelor’s degree in geology during recent commencement exercises at Bates College.

n Morgan VanGlider Maloney of Vienna and Xinyue Wang of Vienna have been named to the president’s list for the spring semester at Washington and Lee University. n Sang Eun Jeon of Dunn Loring has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at MCPHS University.

Alexander Boyd, the son of David and Deborah Boyd of McLean and a graduate of Mercersburg Academy, and John Hayden, the son of John and Belva Hayden of McLean and a graduate of George C. Marshall High School, have been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at the University of Rochester. n

n Julia Gorka of McLean, Meghan Marsh of Vienna and Bora Zaloshnja of Vienna have been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Trinity College in Hartford.

Eduardo Martinez of McLean has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Drew University. n

n Delaney Connolly of Vienna, Andrew Hilliard of McLean and Christopher Rohan of McLean have been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Loyola University Maryland.

n Sophia Dort, a recent graduate of Oakcrest School who will attend Duke University, received a $2,000 scholarship through the National Latin Exam. More than 131,000 students from 50 states and 24 foreign countries took the National Latin Exam, which is sponsored by the American Classical League. A total of 21 students received scholarships.

Erik Wagner, the son of Karl Wagner of McLean, recently graduated from Randolph-Macon Academy, and will be attending Santa Barbara City College. n

n Two additional recent Fairfax County Public Schools graduates have been named winners of college-sponsored scholarships by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Rounak Das and Ajith Kanuri of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology, who each plan to major in computer science, received a National Merit University of Maryland Scholarship. College-sponsored Merit Scholarships provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship. Nationwide, more than 7,500 students won Merit Scholarship awards in 2018. n

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Third Title in Row For Chesterbrook

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Yet another Division 1 championship, and the third in a row, has been added into the Chesterbrook Tiger Sharks’ rapidly-filling treasure chest.

SWIMMING ROUNDUP McLean’s Chesterbrook (5-0) won the Northern Virginia Swimming League’s top prize on a rainy July 21 morning with a 238-182 victory over the visiting Overlee Flying Fish (4-1) of Arlington in the final regular-season summer meet for each team. The second-place finish was the third in a row for Overlee, which has won 29 Division 1 championships in pool history, including the 2014 and 2015 titles. The Division 1 crown was the 11th for Chesterbrook, with the overall division title the team’s 16th in history counting lower levels. The Tiger Sharks have now won 15 straight meets over three seasons. The meeting marked the 12th consecutive summer that Chesterbrook and Overlee met in the final regular-season clash to decide the title. Continued on Page 24

Top: Chesterbrook swimmers cheer on their teammates from poolside aganst Overlee on July 21. Above: Chesterbrook’s Keira Gutierrez swims the girls 11-12 backstroke. PHOTOS BY DEB KOLT

McLean 270 Opens Tourney with a Victory DAVE FACINOLI Staff Writer

It was deja vu all over again for McLean Post 270 in first-round singleaction BASEBALL elimination of the American Legion District 17 baseball tourney. Fifth-seed McLean (11-14) blanked No. 4 seed Arlington Post 139 (12-13) by an 11-0 slaughter-rule score after five innings July 22 at Waters Field in Vienna. McLean moves on to the four-team double-elimination portion of the tournament with a contest against top-seed and regular-season champion Vienna

Post 180 (22-2, 24-3), which received a first-round bye. McLean also won its first-round game over Arlington in last summer’s tournament. “We’re still playing, and that’s what we want and were hoping to do,” McLean manager Keith Horenstein said. “We hit the ball well today.” McLean had 14 hits against Arlington, including a pair of 4-for-4 performances from Jabbari Smith (one double, one RBI, two stolen bases) and Brooks Beall (two doubles, four RBI). Zavyor Zenk added two doubles and two RBI, Owen Ricketts had an RBI double and Ben Weinstein had two hits, including

a double, and an RBI. One of Smith’s steals was of home on a double steal. Starting and winning pitcher Brendan Mabus had the other hit. Mabus went all five innings, throwing a two-hitter, walking one and fanning seven. He threw 57 pitches, induced five groundball outs, allowed just three base runners and only four balls hit into the outfield. Vienna enters the action led by the hot hitting of Eric Lingebach. He has set a single-season team record with eight triples and tied a mark with two in a game. He is batting .474, has five homers, 36 hits and 42 RBI. He tripled in four straight games in one stretch. See more at www.insidenova/sports/fairfax.

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Our simple and abrupt answer always goes like this: “WRONG, are you kidding?” There is no shortage of summer sports. In fact, more happens during June, July and August, really, than the rest of the year. Basically, every sport is played during the summer months in some fashion. Plus, games and events are held on Sundays, which usually isn’t the case during the school year. There are the typical summer sports of Little League, Babe Ruth, American Legion and travel baseball. That goes along with swimming, diving, softball and soccer. (Is there ever an offseason for soccer?) There is all types of basketball played, from girls and boys high school summer leagues to scads of AAU competitions. Don’t forget about lacrosse, rugby, girls and boys volleyball and various track and field events. High school touch-league football is played during these three months by the majority of teams. If we missed any sports, add them to the list, because there are more. Each sport warrants some type of coverage, with the traditional summertime games and events – like baseball and swimming – usually receiving the top priorities. Just about the time all of those summer sports wind down – with a good deal of overlapping – practices begin in early August for fall high school sports teams. High school football season begins for many teams this year on Aug. 24 and 25. Other fall prep sports start around that time. Yes, late August still counts as summer. Summer brings no rest for sports – not by a long shot.

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McLean Softball Majors Win a State-Tournament Title DAVE FACINOLI

and Makenzie Reilly had the hits. Shelby Wilcox had an RBI. McLean allowed just five runs in the tournament. “Tazewell surprised us and hit the ball all over the field in the championship game, but our defense did not let teams score,” McLean manager Brian Colder said. “It was that way all four games, and that double play to end the last game came in a really tense situa-

tion. Our hitting was timely, we pitched well and we had active and smart base running.” McLean also topped Tazewell, 3-2, in the winners’-bracket final two days earlier. In its first two games, McLean blanked and no-hit Washington County, 14-0, then routed Atlee, 13-2. Those first two wins were four-inning, slaughter-rule contests. In the 3-2 win over Tazewell, Colder

and Fae Butler each had two hits. Butler, Reilly and Willa Steeg had RBI. McLean did not make an error. Colder struck out seven on the mound. Against Atlee, McLean made one error and had 11 hits. Colder and Butler had two hits each and Ammons and Natalie Martin each had three RBI. On the mound, Mamajeck fanned three in throwing four innings. McLean had 15 hits and made no errors in the win over Washington County. Colder, Fishman and Hart each had three hits. Wilcox had four RBI and Colder had three. Colder, Ammons, Martom and Mamajek did the pitching. Other contributing players were Carey Brown, Emma Hussein, Emily Manifor and Hayley Richardson. McLean now advances to participate in the seven-team Southeastern Regional double-elimination tournament, which starts July 26 in Warner Robins, Ga. McLean plays a game against Barboursville Little League from West Virginia. McLean last won the region title in 2013.

NVSL’s Division 5 title thanks to a 218-202 July 21 showdown-for-first victory over the host Cardinal Hill Cardinals, who finished second at 4-1. Oakton last won a division crown in 2010 when it tied for first with a 4-1 mark in Division 4. A year ago, Oakton finished second at 4-1 in Division 5. Oakton has won seven division titles in pool history. Double winners for Cardinal Hill were Emma Watts, Courtney Watts, Emmett Sanderson, Evan Sanderson, Brynn Curtis and Maggie Shi. Single winners were Eryn Cox, Daniel Lychak, Reece de Kramer, Eve Henry, Caden Green, Jacob Blindenbach and Max Hollis. No other results were submitted from Oakton. n With a 5-0 record, the Kent Gardens Dolphins won the NVSL Division 7 title thanks to a 258-162 road victory over Dominion Hills on July 21. The 2018 crown gives the team four division titles in six years. The team has won 11 division crowns in pool history. Double winners for Kent Gardens were Andy Li, Mason Weinstock, Flavia Carcani, Sophie Fredericks, Clare Brady, Eile Campbell, David Sheng, James Davis and Kate Li. Single winners were Helen Shields, Kendall Ussery, John Paul Gonsalves, Aidan Mcinerney, Mason Liddell and Gabriel Hanson. Carcani lowered her team record in the 15-18 girls freestyle to 29.06. Brady set a team record in 15-18 girls fly in 31.42. n The Great Falls Rapids (4-1) defeated the Highland Park Hurricanes, 238-182, in NVSL Division action on July 21 to finish in second place. Double winners were Paige Hall, Megan Jungers, Adam Manley and Leo Song. Single winners were Isaac Bockman, Elizabeth Funkhouser, Alex Hanna, Laura Hanna, Kendall Heebink, Matthew Manley,

Dasha Minsky, Sasha Minsky, Carter Reynolds, Katelyn Rolph, Ryan Saxon and Julia Toloczko. n In other NVSL Division 1 action July 21, the third place Tuckahoe Tigers (3-2) defeating the Highlands Whomping Turtles (1-4), 254-166, and the McLean Marlins (2-3) topped the host Langley Whidthings (0-5), 265-155. For Highlands, double winners were Ben Charles and Annie O’Shaughnessy. Single winners were Grace Berik, Diego Cruzado, Jacob Daniels, Gigi Dent, Monika Gartzke, Allison Martin, Merrell Palmer, Cecelia Russell, Skye Sunderhauf and Wiktor Wyszogrodzki. For McLean, double winners were Kate Shumate, Derek Liu, Anna Laszlo, Joseph Duncan, Victoria Valko, Robert Luebke, Will Soobert and Skylar Tennant. Single winners were Till Golczyk, Veronika Walsh, Ridgely Neppl, Henry Miller, Katie Wang, Atticus Gore, Jack Forde, Olivia Tennant, Natalia Rongione and Dora Wu. For Tuckahoe, double winners were Kyle Koay, Bruno Haggard, Catherine Hughes, D.J. Leiss, Lily Flint, Evie Gieseman, Huey McFalls, Nolan Dunkel, J.T. Ewing and Josie Gieseman. Single winners were Jake Bell, Ava Soong, Charles Moore, Natalie English, Meghan Coughlin and Nicholas Zochowski. n In NVSL Division 4 action, second place Vienna Woods (4-1) downed host Hiddenbrook, 232-188, on July 21. No other information was submitted by Vienna Woods. Double winners for Vienna Woods were Sophia Brown, Anabel Huffstutler, Luke Lauretti, John McClorey, Finn McIntyre and Carly Schweers. Single winners were Andrew DenmanGrimm, Ben Denman-Grimm, Joshua Huang, Isabelle Jackson, Holly Lauer,

Natalie Lauer, Sophia Manning, Anna Miller, Kai Molter, Graham Rowan, Ben Shroeder and Kristen Womack. Vienna Woods won the Division 4 Relay Carnival and placed 12th overall at the NVSL All-Star Relay Carnival. n In NVSL Division 3 action, Hunter Mill (2-3) lost to Hunt Valley, 220-200. Double winners for Hunter Mill were Alexandra Dicks, Josephine Hau, Regan Hau and Elyse Rosade. Single winners were Hannah Carman, Ian Cobb, Sydney DeLacy, Hunter Guthrie, Sydney Guthrie, Hunter Jenks, Kieran Kalthof, Lars Langenbach, Giovanna Moriarty, Emma Riggle, Alexander Rose and George Smith. n In NVSL Division 5 action, Dunn Loring (2-3) defeated Poplar Tree, 240-180. Double Dunn Loring winners were Samuel Brewer, Lex Brucker, Michael Falzone, Hazel Gramlich, Rachael Holp, William Kindelan, Ashley Schroder, Ben Woltman and Abraham Zimmerman. Single winners were Natalie Champagne, Valerie Dirkse, Emma Doucette, Caroline Gleditsch, Emma Ismail, Vera Korff , Kate McDermott and Katherine Shatokhin. n In other NVSL July 21 action involving local teams, McLean’s Hamlet (2-3) lost to Fairfax, 227-193, in Division 2 where Vienna Aquatic Club (0-5) fell to host Dowden Terrace, 246-174; Vienna’s Lakevale Estates (1-4) fell to Ravensworth Farm, 216-204, in Division 4; and Vienna’s Shouse Village (1-4) was downed by Stratford, 222-198, in Division 12. No other information about those meets was submitted. n See a story on Riverbend Country Club’s ninth straight Dominion Country Club League division championship at www.insidenova.com/sports/fairfax and in next week’s paper.

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As they have done so often in recent years, the McLean Little League Majors all-star softball SOFTBALL girls team won its latest state tournament championship. McLean captured the 2018 crown with a 4-0 record, defeating Tazewell, 3-1, in the morning title game July 17 in Luray. The state majors title was the 12th in McLean Little League’s softball history and the 26th state softball crown overall, counting all age-group programs. In the 2018 majors state final, McLean won despite being outhit, 10-4. It made no errors. The score was tied at 1, then McLean scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning on a pair of Tazewell passed balls. On defense, McLean turned a basesloaded double play to end the game. On the mound, Gabby Colder threw four innings to get the win, striking out six. Reese Mamajeck also pitched. Kylie Ammons, Abby Hart, Dalia Fishman

Swimming Continued from Page 23 “With this team, you can’t stop the go,” Chesterbrook coach Katherine Stuver said. “The entire season they have been ready to go every meet. It’s like you open the gate and let them go.” On July 21, Chesterbrook built a quick 23-4 lead, but Overlee rallied and the meet was tied at 45 after the initial individual freestyle events. Chesterbrook began building its lead in the next three strokes, and was ahead 203-157 entering the 12 relay races. “Overlee always comes out and swims well right away in the freestyle like that,” Stuver said. “We do not let that get to us, and always focus on what we have to do.” For Chesterbrook in the win, double winners were Annabelle Francis, Colin Francis, Patricia Leonard, Luke Bernasek and Jillian Johnson. Single winners were Thomas Outlaw, Alex Wilcox, Grant DeWitt, Jack Gaskins, Quinn O’Neil, Nicolas Christofferson, Bobby Oremland, Andrew Christofferson, Arav Bhargava, Campbell Kuzmuk, Mckenzie Cory, Islay Hamilton, Ellie Leonard and Aliyah Majeed-Hall. Wins by DeWitt and Johnson pushed the Chesterbrook lead to 97-83. Johnson set a team record in butterfly(29.34). Chesterbrook warmed up for the dual meet by winning the league’s relay carnival on July 18. Chesterbrook had 691 points, with Overlee second with 556. Chesterbrook won three relay races, had four seconds and placed third in five events. Earlier this season, Chesterbrook won the divisional relays, giving the team its first league triple crown since 2010. n The Oakton Otters (5-0) won the 24

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McLean All-Stars Nipped in State Championship Game n The McLean Little League 9-11 girls softball all-star team finished second in the LITTLE LEAGUE state tournament, getting nipped by Chesterfield, 6-5, in the deciding game. McLean, which was 3-1 in the tournament, had defeated Chesterfield, 9-3, in the winners’-bracket final in its previous contest. Also, McLean routed Richlands, 11-0, and Damascus-Marion, 13-1, in its second outing. In the deciding game, McLean took a 5-0 lead behind the hitting of Charlotte Loving (RBI triple), Abby Rebhan (RBI ground out), Chelsea Engle

(sacrifice fly), McKenna Sullivan (RBI ground out) and Lauren Kim’s steal of home. No McLean batter struck out, but Chesterfield made a number of strong defensive plays. McLean catcher Emily Martin threw out two runners trying to steal and tagged another out at home. Rebhan pitched a complete game. Chesterfield scored twice in the bottom of the sixth inning to win. There was no playback game in this year’s tournament, as was the case in past tournaments, despite McLean and Chesterfield each having one loss. In McLean’s 9-3 victory, Emory

High School Roundup POTOMAC SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER COMMITS: Potomac School gradu-

ate Jake Logue has committed to play Division III football for Franklin & Marshall College this coming fall. “I’ve dreamed about this since I was a kid,” Logue said. “My father played college football, and it’s always been a goal I’ve wanted to pursue.” A three-year starter, Logue played offensive line, defensive line and linebacker at Potomac School. This past season, in addition to serving as a senior captain, he made all-conference. Potomac School finished second place in its conference and ranked fifth in the Division I private-school state poll. Logue plans to study international business or sports analytics.

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event on Friday, Aug. 24 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the school, with the team’s opening football game of the 2018 season to follow at 7 p.m. that night against visiting Fairfax. There will be food from local restaurants and food trucks, exhibitor booths and activities for all ages. Youth 12 and under receive a special prize. For information, e-mail Jeremy Hays at jlhays@fcps.edu. SUMMER BASKETBALL: The Oakton

High School boys varsity basketball team reached the semifinals of the Flint Hill Summer League, losing to South Lakes. Oakton finished the summer regular season with a 5-3 record. Flint Hill won the summer-league regular-season championship with a 7-1 record, but the team did not compete in the playoffs.

Sports Briefs OAKTON DIVERS NOW 4-0: The Oak-

ton Otters diving team (4-0) defeated Pinecrest, 48.5- 22.5, and Old Keene Mill, 42-30, in recent action. Winners for Oakton against Pincrest were Jon Anthony Montel (freshman boys), Samantha Shuster (junior girls), Brendan Doe (junior boys), Molly Estes (intermediate girls), Spencer Dearman (intermediate boys) and Sarah Gurley (senior girls). The Otters swept the freshman boys division (Ryan Shipley second and Leo Estes third); intermediate girls (Kalina Montel second and Leah Fisher third) and intermediate boys (Nicholas Shuster second and Blaise Wuest third). Other Otters who placed were Isabelle Whang (freshman girls, second), Meghan Shipley (freshman girls, third) and Liam Klopfenstein (senior boys, second). Against Old Keene Mill, Isabelle Whang won freshman girls; Jon Anthony Montel freshman boys, Gurley senior girls and Dearman senior boys.

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Langley High School graduate Andrew Shapiro, 19, will attempt to complete 10,000 pull-ups in 24 hours on Aug. 18, starting at 10 a.m. at One Life Fitness in Reston. Back in May of 2016 at age 17, Shapiro broke three world pull up records as part of a Relay for Life event with Langley High School. He raised more than $7,000 for the American Cancer Society, because his father was battling stage four colo-rectal cancer, which he beat. Shapiro is a rising sophomore at the University of New Hampshire where he is studying marine biology. He wants to break the records again, but this time smash them all and go for 10,000. DRIVING RANGE CLOSED: Driving range renovations are underway, causing closure of the Oak Marr Golf complex’s range. Instead, golfers can use ranges at Burke Lake, Laurel Hill or Twin Lakes. Renovations at the Oak Marr are expected to be completed by September.

Hadden threw a complete game. Martin, Rebhan, Engle and Madison Keelen (two hits including a triple), Hadden, Kim, Loving (triple) and E.K. Templer led the hitting. Against Richlands, Rebhan, Hadden and Templer combined for a no-hitter. First baseman Reilly O’Donnell stood out on defense. Caitlin Hohenthaner was the offensive star with a double and a run scored while Sullivan also added a single and scored a run. Against Damascus-Marion, Rebhan pitched. Kaitlyn Fado had two hits. Lexi Reddy had a single and an RBI and Kaitlyn Cole had a hit.

n The District 4 champion Vienna American 8-10 all-stars finished 2-2 in the state baseball tournament. Vienna American was 2-1 in pool play, then was nipped by Tuckahoe American, 3-2, in the quarterfinals of the playoff round. In pool play, Vienna American defeated York, 8-5, and Lynchburg, 8-2, and lost to Southwestern Youth Association, 7-5. n The McLean Little League girls major softball all-stars are also participating in state-tournament play. Visit www.insidenova.com/sports/fairfax for updates.

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ACROSS 1. Imposing house 6. ____ de deux 9. Fan’s approval 13. Cordial disposition 14. Eastern title 15. Water border 16. Wife of a raja 17. *“If ____ Give a Mouse a Cookie” 18. Cautious gambler 19. *He won a golden ticket 21. *C.S. Lewis’ fantasy realm 23. *“___’s Island” 24. *One of Three Bears 25. Disreputable vagrant 28. *“Matilda” creator 30. Nancy Drew’s focus, e.g. 35. “Put a lid ____ ____!” 37. Cheap trinket 39. Small Asian ungulate 40. Approximately 41. Florentine iris 43. Member of National Socialist German Workers’ Party 44. Type of wave 46. Per person 47. Design detail 48. Exactly right 50. Grassy land tracts 52. *“But I heard him exclaim ‘___ he drove out of sight” 53. Living quarters 55. *12-year-old tribute from District 11 57. *A boy raised by wolves 60. *”The Wind in the ____” 64. Like a haunted mansion

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Fairfax County Notes

SCHOOL BOARD NAMES LEADERSHIP TEAM FOR 2018-19: Karen Corbett

Sanders (Mount Vernon District) has been selected by her colleagues to chair the Fairfax County School Board for the 2018-19 fiscal year. “I am honored,” said Corbett Sanders. “We look forward to continuing the important work supporting our students and teachers as we implement our strategic plan [and work toward] achieving excellence in education for every student in Fairfax County.” School Board member Ilryong Moon (at-large) was selected to serve as vice chair for a one-year term.

REGISTRATION OPEN FOR SENIOR OLYMPICS: Registration is open for the

2018 Northern Virginia Senior Olympics, to be held in September at venues across the region. Registration is due by Aug. 24. For information, call (703) 228-4721 or see the Web site at www.nvso.us.

BULOVA TO PARTICIPATE IN ‘ELECTED LEADERS SUMMIT’: Fairfax County

Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova will be on the dais when the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce holds its 2018 “Northern Virginia

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years ____” 8. Finnish steam bath 9. Keep it up! 10. Mischievous Norse deity 11. S squared in a square 12. p in mph 15. Bounced 20. Idealized image 22. *Ivan in “The One and Only Ivan,” e.g. 24. Plural of more than one, linguistically speaking 25. *Puss’ footwear 26. Same as rip 27. Botch 29. *Tortoise’s opponent 31. They have their pluses and negatives 32. *“The Fox and the ____,” sing. 33. Hardwood drinking bowl 34. *Rabbit hole wonderer 36. To perfection 38. Vegas cube 42. *____ Lewis, voice of Lamb Chop 45. Tenant in a home 49. Nada 51. *Scheherazade’s listener 54. “Gimme ____ Gimme” by ABBA 56. Chosen few 57. Of higher order, prefix 58. Never written down 59. Traitor’s device 60. “The ____ and wherefores” 61. Double-reed instrument 62. Kite driving force 63. What Simon does 64. Sixth sense 66. *J.M. Barrie’s Peter

Elected Leaders Summit” on Aug. 29 at 8 a.m. at the Waddell Theater on the Loudoun campus of Northern Virginia Community College. Bulova will be joined by the board chairs of Arlington, Loudoun and Prince William counties – Katie Cristol, Phyllis Randall and Corey Stewart, respectively – at the event, which will focus on regional issues. The mayor of Alexandria also has been invited to take part. For tickets and information, see the Web site at www.novachamber.org.

Program, designed to expand opportunities for students with disabilities whose postsecondary goal is employment. The program – offered at Chantilly, South Lakes and Mount Vernon high schools – develops students’ instructional, community and employment skills, enabling them to be better prepared to transition out of school while expanding their exposure to the community in which they will live and work.

SCHOOL SYSTEM HONORED FOR WORKFORCE-READINESS INITIATIVE:

County Public Schools is one of 10 school divisions in the commonwealth to receive a high-school-innovation grant from Gov. Northam’s office for the 2018-19 school year. The grants are designed to support school divisions as they prepare highschool students for the 21st-century workforce by offering workplace training, career-planning opportunities and citizenship skills. The $50,000 stipend covers a second year of funding to support a program at Justice High School (formerly J.E.B. Stuart High School) that prepares students to succeed academically and professionally.

Fairfax County Public Schools is one of nine school divisions in Virginia to be honored with an Excellence in Workforce Readiness Award from the Virginia School Boards Association (VSBA). The awards – new this year – were created by the VSBA Task Force of Workforce Readiness to highlight exemplary programs in Virginia’s public schools that prepare students for the working world. Winning school districts were recognized at the VSBA Conference on Education. In the group of school divisions with a student population above 10,001 students, Fairfax County finished in third place for its Secondary Transition to Employment

FCPS RECEIVES INNOVATION GRANT FROM GOVERNOR’S OFFICE: Fairfax

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Local history Items taken from the archives of the Northern Virginia Sun. July 23, 1943: n Gov. Darden has complained to federal officials that their restrictions on gasoline are “intolerable.” n Gov. Darden has ordered a study of child delinquency, which is reported on the rise across Virginia. n Despite the heat wave, local homeowners are being urged to order their winter coal supplies now. July 22-23, 1960: n The $46 million new headquarters for the CIA in Langley is reportedly on schedule for completion by the end of the month. n A three-pool complex adjacent to the rear of McLean High School is set to open; memberships are still available. n The cost of living has risen nearly 30 percent in Northern Virginia since the late 1940s. n The Virginia Wildlife Foundation is calling for federal help in stemming the decline of Virginia’s ducks. July 24, 1968: n The $50 million Tysons Corner Center will open tomorrow with about 72 of its planned 100 stores ready for business. n A young bear outsmarted county police and disappeared into the woods of Tysons Corner before it could be captured. n Nearly 60 percent of the Northern Virginia delegates to the Democratic National Convention will be supporting Vice President Humphrey for president. July 25, 1972: n The Northern Virginia Builders Association says Fairfax homeowners who have not yet received occupancy permits due to county red tape should just move in, then dare the government to displace them. July 25, 1977: n Virginia’s population continues to grow at a rate higher than the national average, and now stands at more than 5 million. July 23, 1986: n Some elected officials are chastising the Fairfax County Water Authority for spending $300,000 on new furniture for its headquarters.

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