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Fairfax Officials Give Themselves and VDOT Comparatively High Marks Rotary Club Casino Night Draws Crowd BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

More than 200 people donned formal outfits and braved cold winds Feb. 26 to attend Vienna Casino Night, held at Westwood Country Club by the Rotary Club of Vienna.

Attendees socialized, tried their hands at games of chance and won prizes such as gift baskets, a $125 money tree, a weeklong vacation in Vail, Colo., and a safari in South Africa.

Vienna Mayor Laurie DiRocco, who attended Casino Night with her husband, Rob, called the event a “fun-filled gathering of the community to support local non-profits, school and community organizations.”

The event raised more than $10,000, which the Rotary Club will use to support local charities, regional non-profit organizations and small-budget internationalrelief efforts.

The Rotary Club of Vienna also produces the town’s annual ViVa! Vienna! festival, held each Memorial Day weekend.

For more information about the club and its initiatives in the community, see the Web site at www.viennarotary.com.

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Above, Gerry and Katarina Hamilton visit with auctioneer Dan Sanders at Vienna Casino Night, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Vienna and held Feb. 26 at Westwood Country Club. At left, Sheila Sobczyk, Sue Richey, Linda Colbert and James Cudney enjoy the festivities during the fund-raising event.

More than 200 attendees helped to raise $10,000 at the event.

Apart from a few glitches, Fairfax County supervisors said March 1 they were well-pleased with how county agencies and the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) handled the massive snowstorm of Jan. 22 and 23.

The snow-clearing efforts were a vast improvement over those of the back-toback storms in February 2010 and far superior to the plowing efforts during the blizzard of 1996, supervisors said.

Branco Vlacich, a district maintenance engineer with VDOT, outlined the agency’s efforts at the supervisors’ “snow summit” briefing and thanked the hundreds of employees and 4,000 contractors who “basically were living out of their cars for the duration.”

For this year’s storm, VDOT mustered 4,500 pieces of equipment to tackle 30 to 40 inches of snow and cleared paths in most subdivisions within four days, Vlacich said. Plow crews came from as far away as Connecticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and VDOT redeployed staff members based in five other Virginia districts.

“It was a big event,” he said. “I’m glad it’s March.”

By contrast, it took VDOT about two weeks to clear away 38 inches of snow during the blizzard of 1996, using 960 pieces of equipment.

The agency more than doubled that total in 2010, when it used 2,200 pieces of equipment to remove 45 inches of snow from roadways in seven to 10 days,

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Women’s-Leadership Conference Revamped for ’16 BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

Accomplished speakers, more networking time, additional break-out sessions and a new award will mark The Women’s Center’s 30th Annual Leadership Conference on Saturday, April 9.

This year’s event, to be held at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner, 7920 Jones Branch Drive in Tysons, will center around the theme of “Powerful as One, Unstoppable Together.”

“It means that when we work together and collaborate, there isn’t anything we can’t do,” said Shirley Clark, the center’s executive director. “We can make positive changes.”

Event registration and a continental breakfast will be held from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., followed by opening remarks that last until 9 a.m. Ninety minutes’ worth of keynote speeches will follow, then concurrent breakout sessions will be held from 10:35 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Women’s Center officials this year increased the number of sessions to 12 and will let attendees choose three, as opposed to two at previous conferences, Clark said.

After lunch, there will be more speeches until 3:15 p.m., followed by a new networking event from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., when the conference ends.

The conference’s speakers and honor-

ees will include Martine Rothblatt, CEO of United Therapeutics Corp.; U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James; Alison Gleeson, a senior vice president at Cisco Systems; Toni Townes-Whitley, a corporate vice president with Microsoft’s World Public Sector; and U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-10th).

This year’s breakout sessions will consist of: • “Whose Brand is it Anyway? Why Your Professional Brand Matters to Your Career and Your Company,” led by Jen Dalton.

• “Ignite Your Career: Golf Your Way to The Corner Office,” led by Donna Hoffman.

• “Facing the Leadership Challenge: How to Unlock the Door to Opportunities, Influence, and Income,” led by Lisa Marie Platske.

• “The BOLD Speaker,” led by Jan Fox. • “Neuroscience of Peak Leadership Performance,” led by Wendy Swire.

• “Leadership Conversations, Relationships and Results,” led by Joan Fletcher and Vinay Kumar.

• “Is Your Grocery Cart Making You Sick, Tired and Fat?”, led by Anita Capizzi.

• “What’s RIGHT with You? Why Character Strengths Matter for Higher Performance,” led by Shannon Polly.

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About 750 people are expected to attend The Women’s Center’s 30th annual Leadership ConPHOTO BY IRENE OWSLEY ference, slated for April 9 in Tysons Corner.

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There also will be three other sessions – “Sensitivity for the Assertive/Assertiveness for the Sensitive,” “Lighting the Creative Spark” and “Powerful You: 7 Techniques to an Intentional Image” – but speaker information was not yet available.

The Women’s Center will start a new tradition at this year’s conference by bestowing a “Giving Back” Award to a member of the local business community.

Center leaders at the event will announce a new educational program, The Leadership Center, which will hold events with area corporations on topics such as improving productivity, Clark said.

Founded in 1974, The Women’s Center is based in Vienna and has an office in Washington, D.C. The organization offers career and mental-health counseling and other services to about 4,000 people each year.

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Neighbors Pupils in Ponchos Pursue Their Inner Picassos Great Falls Preschool Establishes Art Studio to Foster the Joy of Creation BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

Covered in green plastic ponchos and bursting with enthusiasm, students at St. Francis Creche Episcopal Preschool in Great Falls prepared to take on an interesting – and messy – challenge March 2 in one of Jessica Maxson’s art classes.

Seated at low tables, the students put sheets of white paper inside upturned cardboard box lids, dipped marbles in cups of brightly colored paint and Colorful, rolled-paper then rolled the artwork was created by a student in the studio. glass balls around inside the lids to create paintings.

The results were as individualistic as each student. Some pupils used their fingers to swirl the paint in the artworks, while others tilted their box lids precisely and created results evocative of calligraphy.

“They’re learning about physics and gravity, how they tilt the box to make the marble roll which way, and they’re able to see that visually from the tracking of the paint through the paper,” Maxson said.

“Kids this age learn from their senses, from movement. It’s really developmentally appropriate for them to learn this way.”

School leaders last fall added the art studio in a separate building next to the church to create a special place where students could engage in art.

The effort was prompted by the understanding how important the process of creating art is for young children, said school director Jane Ruppe Keihn.

“We believe in the process, not the product,” she said. “Art fosters confidence growth, physical growth and creative growth in any young child. We want them to love learning. We want them to be excited.”

Many of their assignments intentionally allow them to produce results that do not resemble those of other classmates, Maxson said. Students also learn life skills, such as socializing, sharing and coping when things do not turn out as expected, she said.

School officials covered walls with student artworks and proudly showed sculptures made of rolled-up pastel-colored paper that pupils glued like flowers or skyscrapers onto firm bases.

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Art teacher Jessica Maxson sponges away paint from the face of student Evelyn Sanders during a class March 2 at St. Francis Creche Episcopal PHOTOS BY BRIAN TROMPETER Preschool’s art studio. Sanders’ hair was full of ribbon in honor of “Dr. Seuss Wacky Day” at the school.

Maxson said. “It was really good for their fine-motor skills, the rolling of the paper, and they had to do some planning.”

But the educators’ main intention with the art studio was to foster the joyful, free-spirited process of creating art, not the stress-inducing competitive urge that often afflicts older students and adults, who obsess over producing acceptably attractive results.

St. Francis Creche students on some

Maxson teaches six classes that span all age groups, from 2 ½ to 5, at the 67student preschool. Younger students take her class every fortnight, while older ones do so weekly. Sessions typically run 20 to 30 minutes, given the youngsters’ short attention spans, and do not feature formal art instruction.

“I let them go with the flow,” Maxson said. “That’s how they learn best.”

The school will have an art show in Nora Allgyer (above) and Alex Thomas (left) early May during the school’s annual work hard at the St. Francis Creche Episcopal singing performance, Keihn said.

Preschool art studio.

The separate building allows school occasions have created artworks by snap- leaders to compartmentalize the messes ping paint onto paper with rubber bands that inevitably result from the students’ boisterous creativity. or attaching markers to toy cars.

Maxson gave the students water-soluFor another assignment, the young artists folded pieces of paper in half, ap- ble, non-toxic tempera paint for the marplied paint to just one side, then pressed ble assignment, in part because it’s easy to them both together, creating mirror im- clean up.

“We do projects parents wouldn’t want ages that taught them about symmetry, done at home,” Keihn said. “Would you Maxson said.

“It’s something that all of the kids can want that [paint-drenched] marble rolling be successful at,” she said of that project. across your carpet?”

Luke Gilbert, a 4-year-old student in “So nobody’s going to look at theirs and the class, said he enjoyed the art assigngo, ‘I failed’ or ‘I didn’t do it well,’ because ment with marbles and favored using red, at this age they don’t think that way.” blue and orange paints.

Once children reach age 9 or 10, they “I like all the colors,” he said. “I got often become critical of their own art, paint on my fingers.”

Maxson added.

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N.Va. Jack-and-Jill Initiative Reaches 50-Year Mark

Effort to Empower African-American Mothers and Children Began Locally in 1966 SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

The year was 1966. Government-sanctioned segregation was becoming a thing of the past, but hurdles remained substantial for the black Americans across the local region, just as they did nationally.

Into those challenging times came the Northern Virginia chapter of Jack and Jill of America, an effort to develop common bonds among African-American mothers of children ages 2 to 19, and give their sons and daughters the leadership skills necessary for success in life.

“There were many challenges that faced minority children – our children – in our community,” noted Pauline Ellison, one of the driving forces behind establishing the local Jack and Jill chapter.

Those in the community “needed the opportunity to share their experiences in a positive and nurturing environment,” Mrs. Ellison recalled in a recent interview, conducted the day before the local chapter celebrated its 50th anniversary with a golden gala held at the Tysons Corner Marriott.

Ellison was joined by Renelda Brown, also a charter member of the Northern Virginia chapter, as honored guests at the gala.

Ellison – the wife of the late Dr. Os-

car Ellison and mother of a son and two daughters – organized the local chapter and, after installation ceremonies held Dec. 3, 1966 at Walter Reed Community Center in Arlington, served as its first president. Gatherings subsequently were held at the Walter Reed center (located near the historically African-American community of Nauck) and in the homes of members.

“From the very beginning, the mothers were very enthusiastic,” Ellison recalled. “The mothers were committed.

Every mother served as a mother to every child.”

Programs were set up for the youth, ranging from college-prep coursework to learning social courtesies and niceties.

The result was a corps of well-behaved, confident children ready to take on the challenges that awaited them in society.

The mothers invited to participate in the Jack and Jill effort were the wives of professional men, and sometimes the same themselves. Mrs. Ellison would rise to become director of personnel for the

At left, Pauline Ellison was lauded at the Jack and Jill 50th-anniversary celebration by current members. Above, Arlington Circuit Court Judge William Newman Jr. was an early participant in the program with his mother, the late Mrs. Geraldine Newman. He is shown with his wife, Sheila Johnson (left) and Darnell Wise Lightbourn (center).

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and at one time was ranked as one of the nation’s 100 most influential African-Americans by Ebony magazine.

The husbands of members often were doctors, lawyers and ministers. “Children idolized these people and wanted to be like them,” Ellison said.

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Our View: Some Supervisors Too Tax-Happy

With the Arlington County government moving beyond its “tax ’em all and let God sort ’em out” approach to governance, Fairfax County officials appear to be moving to fill the void.

Fairfax’s supervisors last week advertised a 4-cent increase in the county’s real-estate tax rate, which if enacted would sock it to the average homeowner to the tune of about $300 this year.

(The Arlington County Board, by contrast, advertised no tax-rate increase, although rising assessments still would mean a modest jump in tax bills for many. Who’d have thunk we’d live to see the day where Arlington was the more fiscally conservative of the two jurisdictions?)

Some on the Fairfax board wanted to go further; new Supervisors (and recent refugees from the School Board) Dan Storck (D-Mount Vernon) and Kathy Smith (D-Sully) pushed for advertising a 6-cent rate increase.

The board majority batted that down, then narrowly killed off a call for a 5-cent advertised increase before settling on 4 cents. Maybe they think the public will get thank them for not reaching deeper into their collective pockets.

Once again, Supervisor Linda Smyth (D-Providence) proved one of the few fiscally sane members of the board, pointing out that some of her constituents are set to be hit with a double whammy: higher overall realestate taxes and a higher surcharge for living in Tysons Corner.

Supervisor John Cook (R-Braddock) also gets points for, like Smyth, voting against the 6-cent and 5-cent proposals in favor of the more realistic 4-cent option.

One group decidedly not happy with the vote? Those who want a whole lot more spending on schools, some of whom were pressing for a 10cent (!) advertised increase.

The Fairfax School Board chair-

man put out a cranky statement – that seems to be her thing lately – after the Board of Supervisors took its vote, blasting the decision not to go further than 4 cents.

(The irony: The vote by supervisors came on yet ANOTHER day Fairfax students were out of class, this time because school officials felt the little darlin’s and school staff couldn’t handle the pressure of having primary voters in the vicinity of classrooms.)

Fairfax supervisors also will be looking at putting a referendum on the November ballot to impose a meals tax in the county. Best of luck with that – voters surely will turn thumbs down, as they have before.

We noted in years past that if supervisors wanted to put such a measure on the ballot, they should have had the guts to do it the year they were up for election (2015). No surprise: Supervisors waited until that inconvenience was out of the way before bringing the proposal back up.

Fairfax County Notes PARK AUTHORITY’S INVASIVE-MANAGEMENT EFFORT REACHES MILESTONE: This year marks the 10th an-

niversary of the Fairfax County Park Authority’s national-award-winning Invasive Management Area (IMA) program.

The stewardship effort started in 2006 with 454 volunteers donating just over 1,600 hours to remove non-native invasive plants from 21 locations on parkland sites. Program growth has led to about 2,000 volunteers pitching in during each of the last four years.

Through 2015, some 13,441 volunteers have donated 43,442 hours during 2,108 workdays to remove 8,706 large bags of invasive plants from 68 park sites.

REI Inc. has donated $55,000 in grants through the Fairfax County Park Foundation over the past four years to support the program and an annual spring event called “Take Back the Forest,” which emphasizes volunteering in the spring when invasive species are readily attacked without having to fight through summer forest growth.

IMA has received multiple awards, and in 2013 the National Association of Government Communicators named Take Back the Forest one of the top com-

munications initiatives of a government agency in the nation.

ARLINGTON DIOCESE TO HOLD GAELIC MASS: The Roman Catholic Diocese

of Arlington will host a Gaelic Mass honoring St. Patrick on Monday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Thomas More Cathedral, 3901 Cathedral Lane in Arlington.

The annual event is sponsored by the Ancient Order of the Hibernians, and features liturgy and music in the Irish language. Ireland-born Father Gerard Creedon will be the celebrant, with Bishop Paul Loverde providing a homily.

The community is invited. A reception will follow the Mass.

JEWISH PLAYWRIGHTING CONTEST APPROACHES: The Jewish Community

Center of Northern Virginia will host the regional Jewish Playwrighting Contest on Sunday, March 13 at 6:45 p.m. at the center, 8900 Little River Turnpike.

The regional effort is one of nine nationwide as part of the Jewish Plays Project playwrighting competition. Local professional actors will enact scenes from bold, progressive productions by Jewish authors and with Jewish themes. Attend-

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Tickets are $18 for adults, $14 for seniors and $10 for those under 30. For information, see the Web site at www. jccnvarts.org.

CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY HOSTS GATHERING: The Old Dominion Chry-

santhemum Society will present the second in its series of “Basics of Successful Mum Growing” on Sunday, March 13 at 2:30 p.m. at the Falls Church Community Center.

The community is invited. For information, call Jim Dunne at (703) 560-8776 or see the Web site at www.odcmums.org.

ASSISTANCE LEAGUE PREPS SPRING LUNCHEON: The Assistance League of

Northern Virginia will hold a luncheon and silent auction on Friday, April 29 at International Country Club in Fairfax.

Proceeds from the event will feature Operation School Bell, and there will be a presentation on identity theft and personal safety.

The cost is $65, of which $30 is tax-deductible. For information and tickets, call (703) 424-6652 or see the Web site at www. northernvirginiaassistanceleague.org.

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Congressional Leaders Want Upgrades to Memorial Bridge Memorial Bridge, as seen in a National Park Service photo looking from the District of Columbia into Arlington.

The three members of the Northern Virginia congressional delegation have been joined by the commonwealth’s two U.S. senators in calling for action to fully fund needed repairs to Memorial Bridge.

The bridge’s condition “symbolizes the neglect of our nation’s transportation system,” said U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-8th), reacting to a report by the National Park Service suggesting the span may have to close to vehicular traffic by 2021 unless a full rehabilitation is undertaken.

Beyer’s calls for full funding were echoed by U.S. Reps. Barbara Comstock (R-10th) and Gerald Connolly (D-11th): • “We must ensure proper funding for the bridge so that this critical piece of infrastructure remains safe and usable,” Comstock said.

• “The potential closure of Memorial Bridge, a major commuter route for many Northern Virginians, will have a profound negative impact on all our regional roadways,” Connolly said.

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D) and Tim Kaine (D) also called on the federal government to address the issue.

Constructed between 1922 and 1932, Memorial Bridge not only serves as a commuter route – carrying about 68,000 vehicles per day – but was designed to serve as a symbol of national reunification in the post-Civil War period, as its siting is on a direct line between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington House, the one-time home of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The bridge’s original drawspan has been closed since 1961. In more recent years, corrosion has been detected in various parts of the bridge, leading to the closure of one lane and enforcement of weight restrictions on vehicles using the bridge.

The bridge is part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, falling under jurisdiction of the National Park Service, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Vienna Town Council member Linda Colbert missed the Council’s March 7 meeting for a good reason: She had been diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer and that day had undergone a “lumpectomy.”

“The surgery went really well,” Mayor Laurie DiRocco said in announcing the reason for Colbert’s absence at the meeting’s start. “Our thoughts and prayers are with her as she recovers.” Colbert Colbert, who first was elected to the Town Council two years ago, still will seek re-election May 3, DiRocco added.

Colbert authorized the surgery’s announcement at the meeting to dispel any rumors that might arise.

“They think they got it all,” she told the Sun Gazette March 8. “It was successful. The plan is I’ll spend this week recovering and have radiation at the end of March or in April.”

The Council member thanked the community for its support during her ordeal and urged women to conduct breast self-examinations and see their doctors if anything appears amiss.

Colbert’s parents, former Mayor M. Jane Seeman and former Council member Rodger Seeman, died of cancer in 2014 and 1996, respectively. Mayor Seeman had breast cancer at an even younger age than Colbert, but received treatment and did not suffer a recurrence, her daughter said.

Colbert undergoes mammograms annually, but caught the lump with a selfexam.

“I never felt bad,” she said of having cancer. “I wasn’t shocked, but you’re always surprised [to learn such news]. My body knows it’s 50. This happens to a lot of women. I’m certainly not asking ‘Why me?’ Why not me, given my family history?”

NEVCA President Pleads for Sidewalk on Church Street Following Child’s Injury: Vienna needs to build sidewalks from the 300 block of Church Street, N.E., to Beulah Road, North East Vienna Citizens Association (NEVCA) president Robert McCahill urged the Vienna Town Council at its March 7 meeting.

A 5-year-old boy recently was struck by a vehicle along the street on March 5 and suffered a broken leg and collarbone, as well as a jaw fractures, he said.

Mayor Laurie DiRocco said the boy has been released from the hospital and is expected to recover from his injuries.

DiRocco read an e-mail from Vienna resident Mary Ellen Larkins, who wrote that traffic on the street increased tenfold after the town installed a traffic signal at

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Church Street and Beulah Road in 1992, following a resident’s complaint about safety along Church Street.

Residents in 1993 pressed for a sidewalk along that section of Church Street and formed NEVCA in 1995 in part to convince the town to install speed humps to slow down cut-through traffic. Vienna officials initially put in one speed hump and subsequently added another, Larkins wrote.

Unfinished sidewalk sections on Church Street exist because when houses were added there, the town put those moneys into a fund that build sidewalks elsewhere in town, DiRocco said.

Town officials now prefer to build sidewalks right when the code requires them, rather than having to install them at a later date, when the price usually has gone up considerably.

Council member Howard Springsteen said the town should consider installing temporary asphalt sidewalks along two sections of Church Street, at least until curb and gutter could be built a few years hence.

Town crews could perform the work in about two weeks, he estimated.

But Vienna Public Works Director Dennis Johnson cautioned the cost might be more expensive than officials expect and that the walkways would have to be accessible to everyone.

But Springsteen continued to press his point.

“Sometimes we’ve go to use common sense,” he said. “I think we need to look at all the options.”

Completion of Follin Lane Project Still 2 Months Away: The project to lengthen a turn lane on Follin Lane, S.E., rebuild the roadway and add water-service improvements will not be finished until about mid-May, Vienna Public Works Director Dennis Johnson told Vienna Town Council March 7.

“We’re working away, making good progress,” he said.

‘Flat Stanley’ Makes Council Appearance: North East Vienna Citizens Association president Robert McCahill added a little levity to the March 7 Vienna Town Council meeting when he brought out a paper visitor: Flat Stanley.

The children’s educational figure, designed to foster literacy and friendships by having students from various parts of the county write to one another about Flat Stanley’s adventures, was making the rounds in the Washington area courtesy of McCahill’s niece’s third-grade daughter in Chicago.

“I took him to Mount Vernon to see the president’s home,” he said. “He actually met Martha [Washington] and she said she’d seen Flat Stanley before.”

McCahill propped up the gingerbread man-like character on the speaker’s podium and snapped a photo with the Council arrayed in the background.

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MCA Members Debate When Resolutions Should Be Tackled BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer

No resolutions were on the docket at the McLean Citizens Association (MCA) board of directors’ March 2 meeting, but that did not stop those items from being a prime topic of discussion.

Since becoming MCA president last year, Jeff Barnett has changed the procedural order at meetings to debate the board’s resolutions at the end under the “New Business” heading. Barnett said his intention has been to focus more intently on the essential work performed and issues covered by the board’s various committees.

But the change has brought some downsides. MCA board meetings start at 7:30 p.m. at the McLean Community Center and often last until 10 p.m. Board members often are weary near the end and of late have squabbled over minutiae as the community center was preparing to close.

MCA board member, and former president, Sally Horn suggested the board should return to its previous practice of taking up resolutions during presentations by the committees that produced them.

“More often than not, the resolutions are the culmination of discussions within the board on the issues,” Horn said. “They’re really not new business. By 9:15, we’re tired. [The resolutions] deserve our freshest minds and our freshest attention.”

MCA’s resolutions are the association’s finished products and subsequently are forwarded to elected officials and government staff members, who over the years have afforded the documents considerable

interest.

For example, the association’s persistent focus on redevelopment in Tysons – specifically, the need for developers to pay for their fair share of the needed public infrastructure and services – led the Board of Supervisors in 2010 to adopt a more taxpayer-friendly comprehensive plan for the burgeoning urban zone.

The precision of the resolutions’ language matters, Horn said.

“I’m a wordsmith,” she said. “How we phrase things can influence how officials, supervisors and School Board members perceive things.”

Several other MCA board members echoed Horn’s concerns. Former MCA president Tom Brock said that in previous years, the board would move some resolutions up to the front of the meeting if the issues had drawn large, expectant crowds.

Board member Rob Jackson, MCA’s longest-serving former president, urged that the association’s leader should be granted flexibility to alter the agenda’s order.

“We need to leave discretion to the president to move things around and do what makes sense,” he said.

Barnett said he would “bend toward” addressing MCA’s resolutions earlier in meetings and thanked Horn for bringing up the matter in a “nice, collegial way.”

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“It’s really something to see them huddled and motionless all night with snow on them an inch thick,” he said of the majestic birds of prey.

“It’s going to get better and better as those eggs hatch, which will be around March 18th to 20th.”

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The March 1 filing deadline has passed and five candidates have qualified to vie for three Vienna Town Council seats in the May 3 election, officials from the Fairfax County Office of Elections said.

Incumbents Pasha Majdi and Linda Colbert will face challengers Roy Baldwin, Douglas Noble and Craig Burns. All the candidates submitted at least 125 petition signatures from registered voters within the town to qualify for the election.

At least one seat on the Town Council will go to a newcomer, as seven-term incumbent Edythe Kelleher decided not to

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seek re-election this year.

Town voters may select up to three candidates to fill the available Council seats, but they also have the option of casting ballots only for one or two of the contenders.

The Council consists of six members, plus the mayor. Members serve at-large for two-year terms, which begin July 1 following the election. Three Council seats are up for grabs each year and the town holds mayoral elections in even-numbered years. Mayor Laurie DiRocco is seeking re-election this year and will not face an opponent on the ballot.

Voters will have the chance to evaluate the candidates in person during upcoming

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Chapter 1116, Vienna-Oakton, of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE) will hold a candidates’ forum April 12 at 1 p.m. during its chapter meeting at American Legion Post 180, 330 Center St., N. The North East Vienna Citizens Association (NEVCA) will hold a forum for the Council candidates on April 21 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the upstairs Flame Room of the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department, 400 Center St., S. NEVCA invites the public to attend, said president Robert McCahill. The organization normally holds its candidates’ forum each spring at the Vienna Commu-

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nity Center, but that facility is closed now because of renovations, he said.

That construction project also will force town voters, who normally cast ballots for the Town Council election at the community center each May, to vote this year at nearby Vienna Presbyterian Church. Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

This year’s field of candidates is fairly large for a Town Council election, but Vienna voters had even more choices in 2014, when Kelleher and then-newcomers Colbert and Majdi bested challengers Dennis Rice, Michael Cheselka and Tara Voigt. Voigt ran for Town Council again in 2015 and won.

McLean Might Benefit If Arlington Relocates Fire Station SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer

Moving Arlington’s Fire Station #8 north of its present location on Lee Highway would be a gift to Fairfax County residents at the expense of Arlington taxpayers, a retired fire official believes.

Arlington participates in mutual-aid arrangements with a number of neighboring localities, which sometimes means that the closest available fire truck or ambulance is not in the locality where the call is placed from. One example: Firefighters and EMS personnel from Arlington respond to Fairfax and vice versa.

Relocating Station #8 closer to the border with McLean, “you’re giving the citizens of Fairfax Arlington County services,” said retired Arlington County Fire Department battalion chief Dale Smith, who spent 31 years in the fire service.

“I’m not sure why anyone would want to do that,” Smith said at a recent meeting of the task force working to recommend a location for Fire Station #8, which for nearly a century has been part of the Hall’s Hill/High View Park neighborhood.

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Reed contends that fire officials have attempted to make an issue about lengthy response times to the upper northwest areas of the county in an effort to justify moving the station to a site at Old Dominion Drive and 26th Street North.

“Station #8 has not received any complaints about response times – nobody has had a problem in over 60 years,” Reed said during a presentation that ostensibly was about the history of the fire station.

Reed said it took him 4 minutes and 38 seconds to drive (within the speed limit) from the fire station to the farthest reaches of the station’s service area. That’s less than the average response time reported by fire officials.

“They’re giving you faulty data – don’t let them fool you,” he said.

Lengthier response times are due, in part, because units have to be dispatched from other stations in the county, or in neighboring McLean, if units assigned to Station #8 are on call or, in the case of ambulance service, if calls come in during off-peak times when the Station #8 medic unit is not staffed.

Arlington County Manager Mark Schwartz has proposed funding for additional firefighters in his fiscal 2017 budget, although the personnel will not necessarily be designated for Station #8. Many residents of the historically black Hall’s Hill/High View Park community have rallied around keeping the station where it

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is, as the station was founded by AfricanAmerican volunteers at a time of racial segregation throughout the South.

The station later became home to paid firefighters; most of the early ones were from the community it served, continuing the tradition. “Honor [those who served] by keeping [the station] where it’s needed,” Reed said. “This is not about sentimentality. The massive number of calls they have are right around where Station #8 is right now.”

The task force, which next meets March 10, is slated to deliver its recommendations to the County Board by May 31. Its chairman, Noah Simon, said that if consensus cannot be reached within the 12-member panel, the group may give county officials several options.

County officials have put a rough estimate of $14 million on the cost of relocating to a new four-bay fire station at the Old Dominion site, and have predicted it would be more costly to raze the existing Lee Highway station and construct a new one in its place, in part because of the need to build a temporary station during the two-year construction period.

Arlington voters are likely to be asked in November to approve some of the needed funds in a public-safety-bond referendum. Some residents of the Hall’s Hill/High View Park community have suggested they would fight to defeat the bond at the polls if it included funds for a relocated fire station.

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Public-Safety Notes POLICE PUT STOP TO MIDNIGHT ‘HORSING AROUND’ IN McLEAN: It

wasn’t your usual suspect roundup in McLean on the evening of Friday, March 4.

Fairfax County police hoofed it over to the 8600 block of Lewinsville Road at around midnight to break up a party – of horses. Officers soon busted up the gathering of friendly equines and wrangled them back home. No word on how the animals got out, police said.

ANIMAL-CONTROL OFFICERS INVESTIGATING THREE BITE CASES: Fairfax

County animal-control officers recently responded to three reports of animals that came into contact with humans.

The first incident occurred at Riverbend Park, 8700 Potomac Hills St. in Great Falls, on March 2 at around 8 a.m.

A woman was running on a trail from the nature center to the river when she encountered and was bitten by a fox, police said.

The woman self-reported to Reston Hospital Center and began undergoing preventive treatment for potential exposure to rabies, police said. Officials temporarily closed the park’s trail.

The second incident occurred at around 9 a.m. the same day in the 9100 block of Potomac Woods Lane, located near Riverbend Park. A woman went to check on her chickens and was confronted and bitten by a fox. She also self-reported to Reston Hospital Center for appropriate treatment. The fox is still at large, police said.

The third incident occurred March 3 at around 11 a.m. at a home in Clifton. A man reported he had been awakened by a raccoon in his home. He fought off the raccoon and was bitten during the struggle, police said.

The man eventually was able to place his foot on the raccoon’s throat until it stopped breathing. He bagged and transported the animal to the Fairfax County Animal Shelter and then sought medical treatment, police said.

Animal-control officials remind residents that it is unknown, at present, whether or not the fox or foxes in these cases are rabid, but aggressive tendencies such as those exhibited are a sign of rabies. Residents should keep their dogs on leashes when walking in public areas, police said.

Rabies is a disease caused by a virus that can infect both people and animals.

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mals, to Animal Control Services at (703) 691-2131.

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POLICE: SQUATTER WHO FIRED SHOTS FOUND WITH 6-FOOT PYTHON: A resi-

dent living in the 2000 block of Cherri Drive in the Pimmit Hills area told Fairfax County police on Feb. 29 at 4:12 a.m. that someone apparently had fired bullets into the residence and that the bullets appeared to have come from an adjacent home, which should have been vacant.

Officers arrived and found a 35-yearold man apparently “squatting” in the adjacent home. Following further investigation and the execution of a search warrant, police located several handguns and a 6-foot python inside the residence, police said.

Authorities arrested Michael Stride, of no fixed address, and charged him with shooting into an occupied dwelling. Animal-control officers also responded and took custody of the snake. The investigation continues, police said.

FIRE AT FAIR OAKS HOME MAY HAVE BEEN ARSON: Fairfax County police are

investigating a suspected arson case that occurred March 3 at 12:52 a.m. at a residence in the 3900 block of Royal Lytham Drive in the Fair Oaks area.

The victim heard a loud noise outside of his home and saw someone running, police said. The victim saw flames coming from outside the residence, which caused property damage.

The victim was not injured during the blaze and police have no further information about the suspect. There is no evidence this incident was a bias crime, police said.

AUTHORITIES NAB MAN WHO FLED MENTAL-HEALTH FACILITY: Authorities

on March 3 located in Loudoun County a 33-year-old man who had fled Feb. 29 from the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute, located at 3302 Gallows Road in the Falls Church area.

The suspect, Michael Marshall, is in custody and will be under the auspices of the Virginia State Police, officials said.

Officials at the mental-health facility noticed Marshall was missing at around 6 p.m. on Feb. 29. Marshall had been known to exhibit violent behavior and officials issued a detention order for his immediate apprehension and return.

PROPERTY STOLEN FROM GARAGE AT VIENNA-AREA HOME: A resident living

in the 2900 block of Chesham Street in the Vienna area told Fairfax County police on Feb. 28 at 6:10 a.m. that someone had entered the garage and taken property.

VIENNA WOMAN SAYS SOMEONE USED HER ACCOUNT TO APPLY FOR

LOAN: A woman living in the 1100 block

of Pekay Street, S.W., told Vienna police Feb. 27 that she earlier in the month had attempted to apply for a loan and found that someone else had attached his or her name to the resident’s account.

The woman told police that access to her credit report had been blocked and flagged as fraudulent. Vienna police continue to investigate this case.

LOOSE DOG AT VIENNA DOG PARK BITES WOMAN’S EAR, LIP, ATTACKS PET: A woman told Vienna police on

Feb. 26 at 3 p.m. that while she was with her dog at the Vienna Dog Park, located in the 700 block of Courthouse Road, a medium- to large-sized Labrador mix approached her dog and would not leave it alone.

The woman stated she tried to separate the two dogs when she was bit on the lip and ear. The other dog did not appear to have an owner and fled the area, she told police.

A Vienna animal-control officer informed her he would make every attempt to locate the other dog and its owner. The woman told the officer she had started post-exposure treatment for her wounds.

Vienna police still are investigating this case.

AFTER STRIKING PARKED VEHICLE, VIENNA MOTORIST FACES DRUNKDRIVING CHARGE: Vienna police dis-

patched an officer to the 500 block of Tapawingo Road, S.W., on Feb. 27 at 7:53 p.m. after receiving a report about a twovehicle crash.

Upon arriving at the scene, the officer determined the driver of the striking vehicle had been traveling eastbound on Tapawingo Road, S.W., when he struck a legally parked vehicle. After interacting with the driver, the officer determined the motorist may have been impaired.

The man failed to complete a series of field-sobriety tests, and because of the injuries he sustained in the crash, Vienna police summoned Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department personnel to evaluate his injuries.

Rescue personnel transported the driver to an area hospital for treatment of those injuries. Authorities also gave the man the opportunity to provide a sample of his blood for analysis. After the blood analysis and treatment of the driver’s injuries, authorities transported the 39-year-old Vienna man to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, where he was charged with driving while intoxicated. Authorities held the man until he was sober.

SON SAVES ELDERLY MOTHER FROM FALLING FOR PHONE SCAM: A man liv-

ing in the 100 block of Tapawingo Road, S.W., told Vienna police on Feb. 29 at 9 a.m. that his elderly mother had received a telephone call from someone who claimed her grandson had been arrested.

The caller stated the woman needed

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to purchase iTunes gift cards and call the caller back with the account numbers, in order to bail her grandson out of jail.

The woman went to a CVS drugstore and purchased the gift cards. But before contacting the caller, the woman spoke with her son, who informed her this was a scam. Vienna police still are investigating this case.

SPRINGFIELD WOMAN CHARGED WITH HIT-AND-RUN IN VIENNA: A 26-year-old

Springfield woman faces multiple charges following a hit-and-run accident that occurred Feb. 29 at 5:50 p.m. in the 400 block of Maple Avenue, W., Vienna police said.

The incident began when a motorist was exiting a parking lot onto Maple Avenue, W., and was struck by a white vehicle traveling westbound in the road’s center turn lane. The driver of the striking vehicle did not stop to exchange information, police said.

A Vienna police officer was on patrol when he observed a vehicle near Kingsley Road and Nutley Street, S.W., that matched the description of the striking vehicle. The officer conducted a traffic stop and after interacting with the female driver, he discovered she had been driving on a restricted driver’s license.

The officer also located a measurable amount of marijuana, police said.

Police transported the driver to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, where authorities charged her with marijuana possession, hit-and-run and driving after forfeiture of her driver’s license.

Authorities held her on $1,500 bond.

STICKY-FINDERED PERSON MAKES OFF WITH CASH: An employee at The

Good Feet Store, 175 Maple Ave., E., told Vienna police on March 1 at 2:21 p.m. that someone had taken an undisclosed amount of money from the cash register.

Vienna police still are investigating this case.

ALCOHOL CONTAINERS STREWN, PLAYGROUND GEAR STOLEN AT VIENNA PRESCHOOL: An employee at

Epiphany Preschool, 1014 Country Club Drive, N.E., told Vienna police that between March 1 at 5 p.m. and March 2 at 6 a.m., employees on several occasions had found empty alcohol containers on the playground and that playground equipment had been moved.

The complainant requested extra police patrols in the area.

E-CIGARETTE STORE BURGLARIZED IN VIENNA: An alarm company told Vi-

enna police on March 3 at 3:27 a.m. that an alarm had been activated at The Mad Vapery, 320 Maple Ave., E. A Vienna police officer went to the business and found a basement window open and a ceiling light on. The officer searched the business and found a display case had been opened and its contents were in disarray.

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Featuring more than 5,500 square feet of interior space, the stone-shingleand-Hardiplank property showcases total privacy (backing to Wolf Trap), while the open interior offers elegance around each corner.

The property, found on a quiet cul-desac, currently is on the market, listed at $1,299,000 by Joan Stansfield of Keller Williams Realty.

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For information on the home, contact the listing agent. For information on having a house reviewed, contact the Sun Gazette’s real estate advertising department at (703) 738-2520.

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Address: 1408 Hidden Hill Lane, Vienna (22182) Listed at: $1,299,000 by Joan Stansfield, Keller Williams Realty (703) 919-7761.

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Median U.S. Prices Higher in Metro Areas A moderating pace of sales had little impact on the trajectory of home prices during the final three months of the year, according to the latest quarterly report by the National Association of Realtors.

The median existing single-family home price increased in 81 percent of measured markets, with 145 out of 179 metropolitan statistical areas showing gains based on closings in the fourth quarter compared with the fourth quarter of 2014.

Thirty-four areas (19 percent) recorded lower median prices from a year earlier.

There were slightly fewer rising markets in the fourth quarter compared to the third quarter, when price gains were recorded in 87 percent of metro areas.

Thirty metro areas in the fourth quarter (17 percent) experienced double-digit increases, a jump from the 20 metro areas in the third quarter.

Twenty-two metro areas (12 percent) experienced double-digit increases in the fourth quarter of 2014.

For all of 2015, an average of 89 percent of measured metro areas saw increasing home prices, up from 2014 (83 percent) and 2013 (88 percent).

Total existing-home sales in the Northeast increased 1.9 percent in the fourth quarter and are 7.3 percent above the fourth quarter of 2014. The median existing single-family home price in the Northeast was $254,500 in the fourth quarter, up 3.7 percent from a year ago.

In the Midwest, existing-home sales decreased 6.9 percent in the fourth quarter but are 5.2 percent higher than a year ago. The median existing singlefamily home price in the Midwest increased 6 percent to $171,600 in the fourth quarter from the same quarter a year ago.

Existing-home sales in the South declined 4.1 percent in the fourth quarter and are 0.6 percent below the fourth quarter of 2014. The median existing single-family home price in the South was $195,400 in the fourth quarter, 6.6 percent above a year earlier.

In the West, existing-home sales fell 10.4 percent in the fourth quarter but are 2.1 percent above a year ago. The median existing single-family home price in the West increased 8.4 percent to $323,600 in the fourth quarter from the fourth quarter of 2014.

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Vienna/Oakton Notes TOWN GOVERNMENT DISSEMINATES RESIDENT SURVEY: The Vienna town

government is set to mail out a 2016 “citizen survey” to randomly-selected households.

The 100-plus-question survey provides a chance for residents to offer feedback on a variety of town programs and departments.

“We’re excited to learn what our citizens think about programs and services provided,” said Mayor Laurie DiRocco, who asked those receiving the surveys to take approximately 15 minutes and fill it out.

“The results will help us understand what we do well and identify areas where there are opportunities for growth,” DiRocco said.

Surveys can be mailed back to the Kansas-based administrator of the survey, or can be completed online. Survey results are expected to be made public in late spring.

SPRING STREET-SWEEPING SET TO START: The Vienna town government’s

spring street-sweeping program will run from late March to late May, with the town divided into eight sections.

Town residents and visitors are asked not to park on streets during the scheduled sweeping time, in order to allow work crews to do a thorough job.

As the time for each sweeping ap8403 Brookewood Ct,

proaches, signs will be placed on area streets; residents can call the Public Works Department at (703) 255-6380 or see the Web site at www.viennava.gov for specific information about when sweeping will take place.

The schedule is subject to change due to weather conditions.

EASTER EGG ROLL IS ON THE HORIZON: Historic Vienna Inc. and the Vi-

enna town government will host an OldFashioned Egg Roll on Saturday, March 19 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. on the lawn of the Freeman House, 131 Church St., N.E. The event, designed for ages 12 and younger, will include an appearance by the Easter bunny. It will be held rain or shine.

For information, see the Web site at www.viennava.gov.

OPENING CELEBRATION LOOKS AT TWO NEW HISTORICAL EXHIBITIONS:

Historic Vienna Inc. is hosting an opening reception on Sunday, March 13 from 2 to 4 p.m. for the new exhibitions “The History of Agriculture in Vienna and Northern Virginia” and “The Road to Women’s Rights.”

The reception will take place at the Freeman Store and Museum, 131 Church St., N.E. The community is invited.

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pany will present “In Living Sound” on Fridays and Saturdays, April 1-2 and 8-9, in the Flame Room of the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department, 400 Center St., S. (The location is a change from the usual Vienna Community Center, which is undergoing renovation.)

The production features snippets from popular 1940s radio shows such as “Adventures of the Thin Man: The Case of the Goofy Groom” and “The Big Story: Manhunt in Manhattan.”

Tickets for Friday performances are $14, with food and drinks available for purchase. Tickets for Saturday shows are $25 in advance, $30 at the door, and include dinner, drinks and dessert. Food service begins at 7:15 p.m. each night, with the shows starting at 8 p.m.

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

CHORAL SOCIETY OFFERS TRADITIONAL SONGS: The Vienna Choral Society

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Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for students and seniors. Youth 14 and under are admitted free with a paying adult.

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

BRAHMS’ ‘REQUIEM’ TO BE PERFORMED: The sanctuary choir of Vienna

Presbyterian Church will perform the Brahms “Requiem” on Sunday, March 20 at 7 p.m. at the church, 120 Park St., N.E. The concert will feature Metropolitan Opera soprano Danielle Talamantes and Washington Opera bass-baritone Joshua Hong, along with pianist Kristina Schenck of the Manassas Chorale.

A free-will offering will be taken.

CHANGES OVER TIME DISCUSSED AT HISTORIC VIENNA MEMBERSHIP MEETING: Historic Vienna Inc. will hold

its spring membership meeting on Tuesday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m. at Vienna Town Hall.

Following a brief business meeting, Jon Vrana will discuss the changes seen in Vienna throughout its history.

The community is invited; refreshments will be served. For information, call (703) 938-5187 or see the Web site at www. historicviennainc.org.

AUTHOR TO SPEAK AT VIETNAM VETERANS’ GATHERING: Vietnam Veter-

ans of America Chapter 227 will meet on Thursday, March 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Neighbor’s restaurant, located in the Cedar Lane Shopping Centeri n Vienna.

Nedda Thomas Davis, the author of “Hump Pilot,” will discuss the exploits of her father Ned Thomas supplying Chinese troops fighting the Japanese during World War II. The community is invited. For information, call (703) 255-0353 or see the Web site at www.vva227.org.

GARDEN CLUB TO LOOK AT PERENNIALS: The Five Hills Garden Club will

meet on Tuesday, March 15 at 10 a.m. at Vienna Presbyterian Church, 124 Park St. Plant expert Karen Rexrod will discuss “Perennial Personalities.”

‘CAPITOL STEPS’ PERFORM BENEFIT CONCERT: The Capitol Steps will

perform a satiric musical-comedy revue on Sunday, March 13 at 4 p.m. at James Madison High School in a benefit performance for the James Madison Crew Boosters.

Tickets are $30 for adults and $35 for students and seniors in advance, $40/$35 at the door.

For information and to purchase tickets, see the Web site at http://madisoncapitolsteps2016.brownpapertickets.com/.

NIGHTTIME EASTER-EGG HUNT ON HORIZON: The Vienna town government

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McLean/Great Falls Notes McLEAN YOUTH ATHLETICS SEEKS BOARD MEMBERS: Elections for the

McLean Youth Athletics (MYA) board of directors will take place in April, and the nominations committee is seeking candidates for board members including a treasurer, secretary, first vice president and at-large board members.

In addition, there are two board-member slots for high-school students, one from the McLean High School district and one from the Langley High School district.

To be eligible, a student must be a junior this year and commit to serve a term from April 2016 to April 2017.

Individuals can send a statement of interest (50 to 100 words) by March 22 to

Kathrine Quinn at keq2231@gmail.com.

Those seeking the high-school slots also should identify the high school attended, grade-point average and school activities, including involvement in sports.

For more information about MYA, see the Web site at www.myathletics. org; for information about the board of directors, see www.myathletics.org/resources/4571383917 for a link to MYA’s bylaws.

GREAT FALLS EGG HUNT APPROACHES: The annual Children’s Spring Festival

and Egg Hunt, sponsored by Adeler Jewelers for the Great Falls Optimist Club, will be held on Sunday, March 20 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Great Falls Village

Centre.

The event features rides and games, with egg hunts starting at 4:15 p.m. in four different age groups. Children will compete to find 800 gems and candy stuffed inside 8,000 plastic eggs.

The cost is $10 for each child; parents are admitted free.

Volunteers are sought for the event and to stuff eggs on Wednesday, March 16 from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Great Falls Grange. To volunteer, call Wendy at (703) 759-4076.

CHURCH CHOIR TO PRESENT ORATORIO: St. John’s Episcopal Church will

present Felix Mendelssohn’s “Christus (An Unfinished Oratorio)” on Friday,

March 25 at 7:30 p.m. at the church, 6715 Georgetown Pike in McLean.

The program begins with a brief Good Friday service. The community is invited.

For information, call (703) 356-4902 or see the Web site at www.stjohnsmclean. org.

McLEAN ART SOCIETY HOSTS MEETING: Linda Maldonado, a painter who

uses mixed media and creative collage, will be the featured artist at the Friday, March 18 meeting of the McLean Arts Society, to be held from 10 a.m. to noon at the McLean Community Center.

There also will be a sale of the artist’s materials and publications.

The community is invited.

Vienna/Oakton Notes Continued from Page 16 will host a “Family Flashlight Egg Hunt” on Friday, March 18 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Glyndon Park.

The event, which will include a visit by the Easter bunny.

Tickets are limited; the cost is $3 per family member. For information, see the Web site at www.viennava.gov.

AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY HOSTS BREAKFAST BUFFET: American Legion

Post 180 Auxiliary will host a breakfast buffet on Sunday, March 20 from 8 a.m. to noon at the post, 330 Center St., N. The menu will include scrambled eggs, omelets, blueberry pancakes, bacon and more. The cost is $9 for adults, $3 for children 12 and under.

For information, call (703) 938-6580.

MUSIC WORKSHOP FOCUSES ON MOOD IMPROVEMENT: Singer-songwrit-

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Flint Hill Earns 23 Victories

Teeing Off

The State of Girls Hoops Was Strong This Season

How about a loud shout out for the big success and improvement a number of the girls varsity high school basketball teams from the Sun Gazette’s coverage areas enjoyed this season.

Huskies Go 1-1 at State Tourney

Dave Facinoli

DAVE FACINOLI Staff Writer

The season ended for the Flint Hill Huskies last week when the No. 7 seed 1-1 in BASKETBALL finished the girls Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association’s Division I state high school basketball tournament.

Flint Hill (23-7) downed 10th seed Cape Henry, 66-56, in the first round at home, then lost on the road to No. 2 seed St. Anne’s-Belfield in Charlottesville, 54-30, in the quarterfinals.

Against Cape Henry, Lindsey Wiley scored 21 points and Tori Herman 18.

Flint Hill trailed, 16-15, at the end of the first quarter, then exploded for 28 points in the second to lead 43-27 at halftime, and was comfortably ahead the rest of the game.

Wiley’s 21 points included two threepointers, while Herman made three threes. Also for Flint Hill, Cami Lamont scored nine and made a three, Madison Jordan and Paige Rucks each had five points and Whitney Wiley scored four.

Continued on Page 24

Flint Hill School’s Lindsey Wiley and the Huskies were the No. 7 seed and finished with a 1-1 PHOTO BY DEB KOLT record in the Division I private-school state tournment last week.

Langley, Oakton Win State Tourney Openers DAVE FACINOLI Staff Writer

Thanks to first-round victories March 5, one close and the other a blowout, in girls 6A state basketball tournament action, the BASKETBALL undefeated Oakton Cougars (29-0) and Langley Saxons (25-5) were scheduled to meet in the semifinals on March 8 in Richmond.

Oakton routed the Woodbridge Vikings, 70-47, at Robinson Secondary School. Langley was on the road and downed the Landstown Eagles (23-4), 34-32, in Norfolk on a three-pointer

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by Paige Galiani with seconds left in its high school game.

Oakton and Langley previously met days earlier in the 6A North Region Tournament semifinals, with the Cougars winning, 44-41.

The winner of the state semifinals at Virginia Commonwealth University, was scheduled to play in the March 9 championship game at the same venue.

Visit www.insidenova.com/sports/fairfax for semifinal results.

In Oakton’s win over Woodbridge, the Cougars won the opening tip and were on fire shooting from the floor right away. Oakton was 8 of 11 from the field in the first quarter, while Wood-

bridge (19-8) missed its first 12 shots, and trailed 23-5 at period’s end. The game was never in doubt after that.

Oakton led 34-14 at halftime and 44-28 after three periods.

“We knew Woodbridge would want to come out and play racehorse basketball, and we didn’t want to come out timid,” Oakton coach Fred Priester said. “We were able to get the ball to the hot hand of our shooters, and we hit the early shots.”

Oakton had four players score in double figures and made eight threepointers. Junior forward Maddie Royle

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Collectively, it has been one of the best seasons in recent years.

In Arlington, three of the four teams had winning records and improved on last season’s victory totals.

The biggest jump came from the Washington-Lee Generals (11-11).

The team won just once in 2014-15.

The Wakefield Warriors (17-9) and Bishop O’Connell Knights (19-9) also upped their victories totals a bit from last winter.

In the Vienna area, the Flint Hill Huskies, Madison Warhawks and Oakton Cougars girls teams were strong, as usual.

Flint Hill made the biggest climb from a year ago, winning 23 games, its conference regular-season championship, and finishing 1-1 in the Division I private-school state tournament.

The Huskies won 19 games in 201415, but didn’t do nearly as well during the postseason.

Oakton is undefeated at 29-0 and has reached the Virginia High School League’s 6A state semifinals. The Cougars were 27-2 last season, losing in the state semis.

As has been the case for decades, Madison had another winning and solid season, with a 15-10 record.

In McLean, the Langley Saxons enjoyed their best campaign in team history, with 24 wins, a conferencetournament championship, and their first berth to the state tournament.

The McLean Highlanders finished 12-13. That was six wins more than last season. Seven of McLean’s losses were against Fairfax, Langley and Oakton, teams that all had 20-pluswin records.

The Potomac School Panthers (18 wins) improved its win total by four.

The state of girls basketball is strong in Sun Gazette coverage areas.

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High School Roundup STATE TRACK AND FIELD RESULTS: Marshall High

School sophomore Heather Holt won a race and finished third in another at the Virginia High School League’s girls 5A state track and field meet.

Holt won the 1,600-meters in 5:07.74 and was third in the 1,000 in 3:03.04.

Also for the Marshall girls, Ava D Bir was fifth in the 500, the 4x800 relay was fifth, Jenna Robbins was 11th in the 1,600, and Ashley Holt was 12th in the 3,200.

The Marshall girls were eighth in the meet.

For Marshall in the boys meet, Patrick Lynch was fifth in the 3,200, Alexander Haight was seventh in the 1,600 and the 4x800 relay was eighth. n At the Virginia High School League’s girls 6A state track and field meet, Langley’s Kelsie Hao was second in the pole vault at 10-6 and Oakton’s Kira Buttrey was second in the 1,000 in 2:58.97.

Also for the Oakton girls, who finished seventh, Casey Kendall was third in the 1,600 and 3,200, Jill Bracaglia was fifth in the 3,200, Jazmyne Williams took eighth in the 500, as did Jordan Fitzgerald in the 300.

For the McLean girls, Danielle Maynard was eighth in the high jump and Alisha Smith 10th.

For the Madison girls, Devon Williams was eighth in the 1,000.

In the 6A boys state meet, Oakton Ahmed Hassan was seventh in the 1,600.

The state meet officially ended the indoor winter season.

McLEAN RESIDENT TO PLAY LACROSSE AT VIRGINIA: McLean resident Lauren Martin has committed to

play Division I women’s college lacrosse at the University of Virginia.

Martin is a basketball and lacrosse player in high school for Georgetown Visitation. She recently was named a USA Today second-team preseason AllAmerican in girls lacrosse.

Martin played basketball and lacrosse in the McLean youth leagues.

honors, while Logan scored nine goals.

POTOMAC SCHOOL GIRLS SWIMMERS BREAK RECORDS: At the Washington Metropolitan Interscho-

lastic Swimming & Diving Championships, Potomac School’s girls 200-yard individual medley team of Annie Tuttle, Sydney Grube, Nicole Manning and Megan Sharkey broke a school record twice – once in the preliminary round and again in the finals – with a best time of 1:53.18.

Individually, Grube broke her own school record in the 100-yard breaststroke, with a time of 1:07.45.

Potomac School wrestlers Taylor Hosmer and Will Ayers with head coach Thomas Wilson, center, at the nationals.

POTOMAC SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER TO HAMILTON: Jack Repke, a senior at the Potomac School, has

committed to play Division III football for Hamilton College.

“It’s been a goal of mine to play football in college,” Repke said. “I’m very excited about this opportunity.”

At the Potomac School, Repke was captain his senior season, playing middle linebacker, defensive line and offensive line. He earned all-state honors in his final two seasons and helped the Panthers advance to the Virginia state championship during his sophomore season.

Repke will play defensive line for Hamilton.

POTOMAC SCHOOL ICE HOCKEY TEAM WINS CUP:

Potomac School’s ice hockey team (5-5) finished its season with a 2-0 win over rival Flint Hill to capture the Dominion Cup. Each year, the cup is given to the winner of the rivalry game.

Potomac School held Flint Hill scoreless thanks to strong defense and goaltending from Will Schmidt.

Jimmy Logan got Potomac School on the board in the first period with his 14th goal of the season. Later, team captain Ryan Kelly added an insurance goal.

For the season, Kelly earned all-league second-team

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Flint Hill Continued from Page 23 Against Belfield, the Huskies trailed 39-10 at halftime.

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The Potomac School’s Taylor Hosmer wrestled in the 160-pound division, while Will Ayers competed in the 145-pound weight class at the National Prep School Wrestling Championships at Lehigh University.

The national meet concluded the winter high school wrestling season.

Hosmer and Ayers qualified for nationals after finishing fourth and fifth, respectively, in their weight classes at the Virginia state championships.

Earlier in at the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament, Potomac School’s Will Duryea (106 pounds) and Harrison Morris (170) won their weight classes. Hosmer (160) earned the “Wrestler at Large” award and all-conference honors for his performance.

POTOMAC SCHOOL GIRLS SQUASH TEAM SECOND IN U.S: Led by juniors Sydney Bowen and Madeleine

Brennan, the Potomac School girls squash team finished second at the U.S. High School Squash Championships for Division III. The Panthers topped St. Mark’s School, Chapin School and Shipley School, before falling to Westminster School in the finals.

In earlier action, Brennan, Mary Kate Ausbrook, Justine Thoma and Anna Wasserman all won their individual matches as the girls team topped Episcopal High School, 4-3, to win the Episcopal Invitational Tournament.

Oakton High’s Delaney Connolly scores against Woodbridge.

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was very tough to stop. We haven’t been in a game like this yet and they have many times,” Woodbridge coach Tamika Dudley said. “It took us a while to settle in, but we played until the end.”

Woodbridge outscored Oakton 1410 in the third quarter.

Langley is playing in the state tournament for the first time, and rallied from a slight 14-13 halftime deficit in its low-scoring win.

Galiani had 17 points, Jackie Litschewski eight, Jordyn Callaghan four, Lizzy Shamloo three and Stephanie Sipple two.

Langley trailed 32-30 with 52 seconds to play, but took the lead at 33-32 on Galiani’s fourth three-pointer of the game with 37 seconds left. Langley then

added a foul shot to close out the scoring. Langley was only 2 of 8 from the line in the final moments.

Priester praised Langley for its deliberate style of play, and expects a tough game in the state semifinal.

“They do what they do very well,” he said.

NOTES: In its previous seven playoff games this season, Langley had scored in the 40s in each contest, with a high of 49 points. The Saxons have not allowed more than 44 in any of their eight playoff games, with a 7-1 record in those games . . . For the season, Galiani has made 49 three-pointers. The most she has made in a single game are four, and she has done so twice, the most recent against Landstown.

attacked the zone better, and finished.”

Flint Hill switched to a half-court match-up zone defense for the majority of the second half, and that worked out much better, according to Patrick.

For Flint Hill, the state-tournament berth is the team’s ninth in a row and 13th in the 15 seasons Jody Patrick has coached the team. The Huskies have had six 20-win seasons under Patrick, who more than 270 career victories.

n In other first-round Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association Division I state-tournament girls action, the No. 9 seed Potomac School Panthers (18-10) lost to host and No. 8 seed Episcopal, 52-28. Sara Park had 14 points in defeat and Courtlynne Caskin six. n In first-round Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association Division I state tournament boys action, the No. 11 seeded Potomac School Panthers

(11-14) lost to No. 6 seed and host Trinity Episcopal, 78-64. Potomac School trailed, 22-6, after the first quarter of that game.

Grant Robinson scored 20 points in defeat and made two three-pointers. For the season, Robinson scored 584 points and made 51 three-pointers.

His single-game season high was 32 points and he netted 31 a couple of times.

Continued from Page 23 made two first-quarter threes and finished with 21 points and eight rebounds to lead the Cougars. Junior forward Delaney Connolly made a three, scored 15 points, yanked nine rebounds and blocked to shots.

Kailyn Fee made four threes and scored 14 points, Alex Marquis scored 12 and had five assists and five rebounds, and Christin Butters had three points and five rebounds.

Asia McCants had 21 points and seven rebounds for Woodbridge.

“Oakton had a lot of chemistry and

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Schools & Military Megan Lighty of Vienna has been named to the president’s list for the fall semester at Pratt Institute.

Jacquelyn Hulett of Great Falls have been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at James Madison University.

n Camila Mecagni of McLean has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Marist College.

n Amy O’Connor of Vienna, a graduate of James Madison High School, has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at the Catholic University of America.

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n Isabel Gavurin of Vienna has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Roger Williams University. n James Preuss of Oakton has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at the Pratt Institute. n

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Continued from Page 1 Vlacich said.

VDOT’s Northern Virginia district, which includes Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun and Arlington counties, oversees 13,016 lane miles (4,800 in Fairfax County alone), which is equal to making four trips from coast to coast in the lower 48 states, Vlacich said.

VDOT crews working on interstate highways and high-volume roads, such as Routes 7 and 50, during the January blizzard first plowed to make those roadways passable, then strove to achieve bare pavement, he said.

Crews working on main roads in subdivisions first sought to make them passable (i.e., carve out a single lane 8 to 10 feet wide, large enough to accommodate emergency vehicles), then work on remaining streets and cul-de-sacs, Vlacich said.

VDOT brought in construction equipment to clear snow from highway shoulders and had to haul the heavy white stuff away in places where that offered no storage opportunities, such as high-occupancy-vehicle lanes on Interstates 95 and 395.

Such hauling operations took seven times longer than standard plowing efforts, he

Jack-and-Jill Continued from Page 5 years old, went through an informal crash course in helping children adjust to new surroundings when her husband was stationed in Germany with the U.S. Air Force. Since many of the children in military families moved frequently, “they needed a safe place where they could go” when first arriving at a new posting.

“I saw the same need here,” she said of her experience in Northern Virginia, where her husband in the 1950s became the first physician to integrate what previously had been all-white Arlington Hospital.

Her desire to help others learn the

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n Sixty-five Fairfax County Public Schools high school-students have been named to the Virginia All-State Honors Choir for 2016 and will perform as a group on Saturday, April 30 at the Sandler Center for Performing Arts in Virginia Beach.

Additionally, 39 FCPS students were named alternates to the All-State Honors Choir.

Students from the Sun Gazette coverage area selected for the 2016 Virginia AllState Honors Choir and as alternates are: Langley High School: Camila Maric, Akbari Ammad, Regan Herberg and alternates Trevor Goldhush, Matt Arrison and Paloma Ferraz (Mac Lambert, director).

James Madison High School: Ben Schwartz, Jordyn Pistilli and alternate Kate Gibson (Claire Rowan, director).

George C. Marshall High School: Sarah Koo, Conor Kelly and alternates Sammy Graceson and Alexandra Stens-

eth (Keri Staley, director).

McLean High School: alternates Daniel Thomas and Eric Juneau (Linda Martin, director).

Oakton High School: Megan Griggs, Andie Carroll, Kathryn Conley, Jack Lankenau and Jillian Tate (Tiffany Powell, director).

Virginia All-State Honors Choir is sponsored by the Virginia Choral Directors Association, an affiliated unit of the Virginia Music Educators Association.

added.

VDOT divvied up the region’s subdivisions into 650 snow maps (350 of them in Fairfax County). Drivers usually have to tackle up to five maps’ worth of roads, but this was cut back to three during this storm because of the snow volume, Vlacich said.

Transportation planners assign plow trucks to subdivisions when forecasters expect 2 or more inches of snow. VDOT did this many hours in advance for the recent storm, and allowed the truck drivers to leave their engines idling in order to stay warm.

While closures of area schools and governments, plus ample warnings to the public, kept most motorists off the road, plow crews still struggled with whiteout conditions and occasionally became stuck in the snow. They also struggled to avoid another obstacle: pedestrians in the roadways.

“I often tell folks I’m not really worried about the snow. I’m worried about the traffic and the pedestrians,” Vlacich said.

“Those present humongous challenges for us and they slow us down tremendously.”

Plow crews reported back to VDOT when they’d finished roads and staff members drove the various routes to double-check their work, he said.

David Rohrer, Fairfax County’s deputy county executive for public safety, said

officials made a good call to shut down the government during the storm.

“We recognize that we’re a service organization,” Rohrer said. “Local government has a job to do. At the same time, the safety of our staff and our volunteers is so important.”

Fairfax County Public Schools canceled classes for the entire week following the snowstorm, but still put 208 pieces of machinery into action to clear snow at 218 sites, said Jeffrey Platenberg, assistant superintendent.

“Clearing sidewalks really is an issue,” he said. “I don’t know how we’re going to skin that cat, so to speak.”

The county’s Department of Public Works and Environmental Services had 250 employees working 12-hour-plus shifts during the storm, said director James Patteson. The department spent $1.5 million on the effort – its entire snow budget, he said.

Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova (D) made her office the central recipient for public complaints and comments about the snowstorm response.

Eighty-one people, or one-third of those who contacted the office, complained it took too long for plows to reach their streets, Bulova said.

Fifty residents said the snow plowing had been incomplete, 16 complained their driveways had been blocked by snow

from passing plow crews, some lamented the difficult access in cases of medical emergencies and others said plows were going back over streets that already were cleared.

Nine percent of those who contacted Bulova’s office said plow crews did a good job.

Bulova lauded VDOT’s Automatic Vehicle Locator (AVL) system, which tracked the location of 4,000 snow-removal vehicles, but said it was cumbersome for the public to find out which streets already had been plowed.

Supervisor Linda Smyth (D-Providence) lamented that because Metrorail shut down the Silver Line during the storm, pedestrians were not able to access the overhead walkway that allows them to cross Route 123 safely in Tysons.

Supervisor John Foust (D-Dranesville) expressed concern with follow-up snowremoval efforts, which left high snow piles at some major intersections.

“You had to inch your way out and hope that someone who was coming saw you do that,” he said.

Supervisor Patrick Herrity (R-Springfield) noted Mother Nature also helped with the cleanup’s success.

“We had warm temperatures afterward,” he said. “If we’d had cold temperatures, we would have been in a whole different world of hurt.”

ropes of new surroundings wasn’t limited to children: Ellison served for 28 years on the Arlington Civil Service Commission.

When she retired from that volunteer post in 2014, one of her colleagues – attorney Beth Wolffe – praised her as “the inspiration” to new members, welcoming and getting them settled.

Her involvement also included service as national president of The Links Inc., and in 1986, Ellison was honored as Woman of the Year by the Inter-Service Club Council of Arlington.

Today, the Jack and Jill Northern Virginia chapter’s service area embraces Arlington and Fairfax counties and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church. Times are ever-changing, but Ellison is convinced that the Jack and Jill effort remains a vital constant in the lives of youth.

“The children are becoming aware of the world at a much younger age,” she said. “There are many distractions and detours.”

Those who came before, and those part of the program today, “will always be Jack and Jillers,” Ellison said.

The Jack and Jill movement traces its roots to the first chapter, established with 21 mothers in Philadelphia in 1938.

Today, there are more than 300 chapters nationally, with Tara Dunlap serving as president of the Northern Virginia chapter.

The keynote speaker at the March 5 celebration was Lt. Col. Myles Caggins III, a graduate of the local chapter who rose to become director of strategic communications for the National Security Council.

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Fairfax County Notes RUBIO, CLINTON TOP FAIRFAX VOTEGETTERS: He may not make it past the

Florida primary, but Marco Rubio will always be remembered as the Republican who won the vote in Fairfax County.

Rubio took 52,257 votes, or 40 percent of the total, in the GOP primary on March 1. Second was Donald Trump with 32,751 (25.1 percent), followed by John Kasich with 22,862 (17.5 percent) and Ted Cruz with 16,888 (12.9 percent).

A total of 13 Republicans were on the ballot, although some had dropped out by the time of the Virginia primary.

Statewide, Trump garnered 34.8 percent of the vote, followed by Rubio (32 percent), Cruz (16.7 percent) and Kasich (9.4 percent). Others trailed.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton took 86,898 votes (63 percent) to 50,217 (36.4 percent) for Bernie Sanders.

Martin O’Malley, who also was on the ballot, took home 726 votes, or 0.5 percent.

Statewide, Clinton garnered 64.3 percent of the vote to 35.2 percent for Sanders and 0.5 percent for O’Malley.

FAIRFAX EATERIES HONORED FOR FOOD SAFETY: For the second consecu-

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– including an assisted-living center, a suburban deli and an elementary school – received the second annual 14 Carrot Gold Food Safety Excellence Award as an acknowledgment of their commitment to food safety.

The awards are based on the results of inspections conducted in the previous year. Inspections are required by law and performed by environmental-health specialists with the health department.

“While every food-service facility under our jurisdiction is required to meet minimum food-safety requirements, these 16 establishments are to be commended for going above and beyond to safeguard their patrons from the risks of food-borne illness,” said Pieter Sheehan, director of the Division of Environmental Health.

“We hope the recipients prominently display their award, and we look forward to honoring more facilities in the future.”

The 2015 recipients of the Fairfax County Health Department’s 14 Carrot Gold Food Safety Excellence Award are Burke Health Care Center; Mount Daniel Elementary School, Falls Church; INOVA Sunrise of Reston; Costco Wholesale #6206, Alexandria; IHOP, Alexandria; Wendy’s, Annandale; Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Tysons; Oakton Elementary School; Perk Express McLean; Sunrise Assisted Living, Fairfax; Perfect Pita, Tysons; George’s Steak N’Things, Fairfax Station; Panda Express, Fair Oaks; KFC,

Chantilly; J J Deli, Herndon and Noodles & Company, Fairfax.

Food-service establishments can be nominated for the award by members of the food industry, the public or health inspectors. An awards team from the Health Department reviews the nominations and selects winners.

To be eligible for consideration, recipients of the Carrot Gold Awards cannot have any critical violations during inspections conducted in the last 24 months, and no more than six non-critical violations in the past year. Employees (other than the certified food manager) must be able to explain and/or demonstrate proper foodhandling procedures. The facility must also have a valid permit to operate and be in good standing with the Health Department.

“Food safety is a collaborative effort – involving industry, consumers and public health,” Sheehan said. “By achieving this honor, these recipients demonstrate their commitment to protecting the community’s health.”

The Health Department regularly inspects more than 3,800 food-service establishments, restaurants, cafeterias, grocery stores, food carts, fair/festival trailers and convenience stores each year in Fairfax County and the cities of Fairfax and Falls Church.

Local history Items taken from the archives of the Northern Virginia Sun. March 9, 1964: n Officials say two weeks of good weather is all they need to complete the entire Virginia route of the Capital Beltway, which is expected to open in April.

March 9, 1968: n Members of the General Assembly have passed a two-year, $3.127 billion state budget. n William Battle, Fred Pollard and Henry Howell are shaping up to be the contenders for the Democratic nomination for governor next year. n The Fairfax Education Association is considering ordering its members to “work to the rule” to voice displeasure with salaries. n In a meeting that lasted almost to midnight, members of the School Board heard from the public about improvements they desire for the school system. n Virginia officials want to impose a $1 “enplanement fee” on passengers departing from airports in the commonwealth, but need congressional approval first. n Northern Virginia Community College president Robert McKee will resign to join Bell & Howell. n Religious leaders from Northern Virginia are considering establishment of an ecumenical center at George Mason College.

March 13, 1976: n A federal judge has thrown out the Fairfax County government’s challenge to the plan allowing the Concorde to use Dulles Airport. County officials promise an appeal. n The House of Delegates has approved legislation that would increase the number of crimes punishable by death in Virginia. n The state Senate has voted to cut funding for the Metro system, setting up a showdown with the House of Delegates. n General Assembly members have voted themselves a 50-percent pay raise, to $8,000 annually, but it won’t take effect until 1980.

March 11, 1989: n U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-10th) spent $803,080 on his recent re-election bid, while Democratic challenger Robert Weinberg spent $242,787.

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Biz Briefs SALES-TAX RECEIPTS UP IN FAIRFAX:

Sales-tax receipts distributed by the state government to the Fairfax County government, for retail purchases made in December, totaled $18.4 million, an increase of 7.3 percent over February 2015, according to figures compiled by the Fairfax County Department of Management and Budget.

For the first seven months of Fairfax County’s fiscal year, sales-tax receipts are up 3.5 percent, county officials said.

N.VA. CHAMBER NAMES FINALISTS IN NNOVATION AWARDS: The North-

ern Virginia Chamber of Commerce has named finalists for its second annual Greater Washington Innovation Awards.

Winners will be announced at a gala to be held April 21 at the Hyatt Regency Reston.

Finalists in the various categories include: Tech Innovator of the Year: Altruista Health, CACI International, Leidos, LiveSafe, RightEye LLC, ThreatConnect.

Hospitality, Tourism and Entertainment Innovator of the Year: Airside Mobile, Marriott International, NOVA Parks, Tysons Corner Center.

Professional Service Innovator of the Year: Diamond Mind, International Business Sales and Service, The Millennial Solution, Washington Real Estate Investment Trust, Whereoware.

Health and Life Sciences Innovator of the Year: Aperiomics, Avizia, MEDEX Spot, Sisu Global Health.

Marketing and Advertising Innovator of the Year: Tysons Corner Center, Visit Fairfax, WeddingWire, WGL Holdings.

Public Sector Innovator of the Year: The ARC of Northern Virginia, Children’s Science Center, Comfort Cases, Federal Aviation Administration and Northern Virginia Community College.

The awards ceremony also will honor Steve Case as 2016 Lifetime Innovator and Tobin Moore and Adam Vitarello, co-founders of Optoro, as Emerging Innovators of the Year.

For tickets and information about the event, see the Web site at www.novachamber.org.

VIENNA SALUTES BUSINESS ANNIVERSARIES: The Vienna town government

recently saluted the following local businesses on the celebration of milestone anniversaries in the town: 35 Years: American Resources.

25 Years: Bradley and Sevilla, DMD. 20 Years: MG Painting and Tile.

15 Years: Center for Integrative Psychiatry; Turner Financial Group.

10 Years: Associate Counseling Center; Avalon Consulting; Bazin’s on Church; Church Street Pilates; Imedia Collaborative; Norman M. Descoteaux; Vienna Primary and Preventative Medicine.

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